Wikipedia:Wiki Loves Pride/2017/Minnesota

The Wiki Loves Pride Edit-a-thon will be held on Saturday, July 1, 11:00 am – 5:00 pm at the Minneapolis Central Library.

Details

 * Date: Saturday, July 1, 2017
 * Time: 11 am – 5 pm
 * Location: Minneapolis Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN 55401. Second floor, Doty Board Room (N-280) and N-270.
 * Train: Blue Line or Green Line to Nicollet Mall Station & Platform; stop is a 2–3 block walk away from the library.
 * Bus: 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 14, 17, 18, 25, 59, 61, 141, 568 buses
 * Hashtag: #WikimediaLGBT

Please bring your laptop, power cord, ideas, and enthusiasm! We will provide refreshments, tutorials, and lots of help. The library has a few laptops to loan; please indicate on the sign up sheet if you will need one.

The Minneapolis Central Library is part of the Hennepin County Library system. All Hennepin County public libraries are committed to providing safe space for LGBTIQ individuals. Gender neutral bathrooms are available on site.

Definitely going

 * Ben the Bos
 * RachelWex
 * Shaded0
 * paul2520
 * radlibrarianmama
 * capricella
 * Add your name here!
 * Margitaw (talk) 17:08, 1 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Kybrarian01 (talk) 18:45, 1 July 2017 (UTC)

Possible attendees

 * User:QLibrarianK I'll be there after my library shift!

Regrets
Can't participate in person? Participate remotely!

Tasks

 * Please see this page for ideas about articles to edit or add to Wikipedia: Wiki Loves Pride/Tasks.
 * See this page for more information about how to participate in the photography aspect of Wiki Loves Pride, and upload your photos to Wikimedia Commons: Wiki Loves Pride/HowTo

Here are some Minnesota-specific LGBTIQ topics that need articles or edits:


 * Allan Spear
 * Andrea Jenkins
 * Brian Coyle
 * Category:Defunct LGBT bars and clubs in Minnesota
 * Category:LGBT culture in Minnesota
 * Category:LGBT history in Minnesota
 * Clement Haupers
 * The Gay House (first LGBT community center in Minnesota)
 * GLC Voice (LGBT newspaper)
 * James Chalgren
 * James Michael McConnell
 * Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies
 * Ladyslipper
 * Richard LaFortune
 * Lavender (magazine)
 * Lesbian Resource Center (Minneapolis)
 * LGBT rights in Minnesota
 * Loring Park
 * Lucy "La Roi" Lobdell
 * Minnesota Freedom Band
 * Minnesota Leather Pride
 * The North Star Gay Rodeo
 * OutFront Minnesota
 * Ozaawindib
 * Phillipe Cunningham
 * Quatrefoil Library
 * Sources: minnpost, lavendermagazine, southsidepride, History of the Quatrefoil Library


 * Steve Lenius
 * Twin Cities Gay Men's Chorus
 * Twin Cities Pride
 * William Williams (murderer)

Here are other LGBTIQ topics that need articles or edits: Check out the WikiProject LGBT Studies cleanup listing for articles that need work, or Women in Red's LBT Women's redlist or List of LGBT Jews, as well as these:


 * Aaron Devor
 * Andrew "Wik" Wikholm
 * Anthony D'Augelli
 * Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Special Collections ALMS Conference 2006 Minneapolis, New York, Los Angeles, Amsterdam, London
 * Beautiful as I Want to Be
 * Bharat Mehra
 * Bianca Del Rio
 * Category:Songs about HIV/AIDS
 * Chad Michaels
 * Commune
 * Curve Magazine
 * Detox
 * Diane DiMassa
 * Ellen Greenblatt
 * Emily Aviva Kapor
 * Gaycation (Television series)
 * Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table
 * Gay pornography
 * Genderqueer
 * God-Des and She
 * Gimme Sugar
 * God-Des and She
 * Gran Fury
 * Hermaphrodites with Attitude
 * Homosexual behavior in animals
 * Hothead Paisan
 * IHLIA LGBT Heritage
 * Imogen Binnie
 * International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association
 * Israel David Fishman
 * Jackie Beat
 * James V. Carmichael, Jr.
 * Jane Rule
 * Jinkx Monsoon
 * Joel Simkhai
 * Judy Dlugacz
 * Latrice Royale
 * Lesbian and Gay Band Association
 * Lesbian folk music
 * Lesbian pulp fiction
 * LGBT culture in Berlin
 * LGBT hip hop
 * LGBT symbols
 * LGBT tourism
 * List of LGBT bookstores
 * List of LGBT events
 * National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce
 * Oh, Pit Crew!
 * Olivia Records
 * Olivia Travel
 * Operation: Vacation
 * OutHistory
 * Pandora Boxx
 * Pete Burns
 * Pride flag
 * Rick Bébout
 * Reed Erickson
 * Ronnie Woo
 * Shiri Eisner
 * Surat Shaan Rathgeber Knan
 * The Transexual Menace
 * This Way Out (The International LGBT Radio Magazine)
 * Transgender Oral History Project
 * U.S. of ANT
 * Vivienne Cass
 * William Belli
 * Yolanda Retter

Resources

 * New York Public Library Gay and Lesbian Collections – AIDS/HIV Collections
 * Rainbow History Project
 * Washington Post Historical Database
 * OutHistory founded by Jonathan Ned Katz and John D'Emilio

Editing Wikipedia resources
N.B. Also located on the Resources page referenced above under Editor Resources
 * St Cloud State University Wikipedia Subject Guide (created by RachelWex)
 * Beginners’ Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
 * Five Pillars of Wikipedia (philosophical guidelines and best practices for Wikipedia editing)
 * Tutorial
 * How to Edit a Page
 * Wiki Markup Quick Reference (PDF version of printed handout)
 * Guide to Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing by Susan H. Rodger (applicable to any biography)
 * Article Development
 * Your First Article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
 * Manual of Style
 * Citation templates
 * Infobox templates
 * Bookshelf (additional "getting started" resources)

Tools and templates

 * Cheatsheet for editing Wikipedia
 * Infobox template - person
 * Biographies of living persons
 * Writing an article
 * About the Sandbox

Attendees

 * Ben the Bos
 * paul2520
 * RachelWex
 * radlibrarianmama
 * huladavid
 * margitaw
 * shaded0
 * Cmstkates
 * spschultz
 * capricella
 * Kybrarian01
 * QLibrarianK
 * BoogaLouie

New accounts created

 * radlibrarianmama
 * capricella
 * Kybrarian01
 * spschultz

Articles improved

 * Ruth Bernhard
 * Lavender (magazine)
 * OutFront Minnesota
 * Twin Cities Pride
 * Genderqueer
 * Richard LaFortune
 * Ozaawindib
 * Commune
 * LGBT rights in Minnesota
 * Peppermint (drag queen)
 * Twin Cities Gay Men's Chorus
 * Alyssa Wong
 * Brian Coyle
 * St. Sukie de la Croix
 * Hothead Paisan

New articles created

 * Joel Simkhai
 * Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A.
 * Draft:A Wider Bridge
 * Tim Campbell (activist)
 * Quatrefoil: A Modern Novel
 * Draft: Božo Vrećo (submitted as sandbox of RachelWex)

Goal
As part of the global Wiki Loves Pride campaign, the Minneapolis Central Library is hosting a Wiki Loves Pride edit-a-thon, located in Nicollet Mall in Minneapolis. Space is limited so please RSVP on this page. All others are encouraged to participate remotely through this wiki-page.

Wiki Loves Pride aims to increase the number of people and perspectives contributing to LGBT information on Wikipedia, as well as encouraging institutions to add their authority information, research and images to the public domain. Contributions to information about LGBT topics in politics and policy, medicine, topics in identity sexuality, and society, rights and attitudes, history, culture, and institutions will vastly affect the ways in which these topics are researched and understood internationally. In the past, Wikipedia articles on these topics have been riddled with a lack of scholarly sources and lack of perspectives, skewing public perceptions and affecting research and decisions in public policy, science and medical practice, and community acceptance.