Wikipedia:Meetup/Kansas City/KC African American Artists

The third annual WIKI Edit-A-Thon: Kansas City’s African American Artists will take place Saturday, February 23, 2019, at the [1]'s Rockhill Room

WIKI Edit- A- Thon: Documenting Kansas City’s African American Artists

Spencer Art Reference Library Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
When and Where
Time:	11:00am-4:00pm
City, State	Kansas City, Missouri

Details

• Event listing: https://www.nelson-atkins.org/events/wiki-edit-thon-documenting-kansas-citys-african-american-artists/
• Date: Saturday, February 23
• Time: 11:00am-4:00pm
• 11 - 11:30: Powerpoint presentation introducing Wikipedia and how to begin editing
• 11:30-4: time for you to edit, we'll be here to help answer your research and Wikipedia questions
• (Can't make the whole event, drop-in for an hour or two and get started)
• Location:The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art [[2]], Rockhill Room
• Address: 4525 Oak Street, Kansas City, MO 64111
• Cost: Free, reserve your free ticket today [[3]]
• What to Bring: Some laptops will be available but please bring a laptop and a power cord if you are able to.
• Participants: Join us as we celebrate Black History month by hosting a Wiki Edit-A-Thon! In this interactive session you’ll learn about Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, the anatomy of a Wiki article and how to contribute to this free online encyclopedia. In this Wikipedia edit-a-thon we’ll focus on documenting the rich artistic heritage of Kansas City’s African American Artists by creating, editing and improving Wikipedia articles on this topic. To participate in this session you don’t need specialized knowledge of Kansas City’s African American artists or of Wikipedia. Please create an account before the event if you're able.

Event Description

With over 500 million visitors a month and over 18 billion pages of content Wikipedia is consistently one of the top ten websites on the internet. It is the go-to source of information for many users wanting to learn about topics as diverse as black holes to the Sistine Chapel. In this Wikipedia edit-a-thon we’ll focus on documenting the rich artistic heritage of Kansas City’s African American Artists by creating, editing and improving Wikipedia articles on this topic. To participate in this session you don’t need specialized knowledge of Kansas City’s African American artists or of Wikipedia. In this interactive session you’ll learn about Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, the anatomy of a Wiki article and why it’s so important to foster diversify in the editors who add and improve content in Wikipedia. In the second part of the session you’ll create an account and be given step-by-step instructions on how to improve and create articles to Wikipedia.

Aims

In this Wikipedia edit-a-thon we’ll focus on documenting the rich artistic heritage of Kansas City’s African American Artists by creating, editing and improving Wikipedia articles on this topic. Select from the artists listed below, or write another artist.

Suggested articles to edit

Artists in need of a Wikipedia entry

• John Henry Adams, Jr
• Leroy Beasley
• Michelle Beasley
• Chales Bibbs
• Michael Brantley (artist)
• Najee Dorsey
• Clifford Doyle
• Shane Evans (artist)
• Diallo Javonne French (artist)
• Ben Mercer
• J.E. Miller
• Jason Piggie
• Sonie Joi Thompson-Ruffin
• Anthony High

Articles in need of improvement

• Aaron Douglas
• Ed Dwight
• Dean Mitchell
• Leroy Allen

Wikipedia editing resources

• Beginners’ Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
• How to Edit a Page
• Help:Cheatsheet
• "Welcome to Wikipedia" (PDF). Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved 24 February 2017.

Attendees 2019

NAlibrarian (talk)

Artshadows (talk) 20:13, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

bhgross144 (talk) 20:13, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

KCMemorykeeper (talk) 18:13, 23 February 2019 (UTC)

AG Kansas City (talk) 18:13, 23 February 2019 (UTC)

Rebeccaswanson (talk) 18:13, 23 February 2019 (UTC)

MONARCH816 (talk) 16:54, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

BG0129 (talk) 17:39, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

Attendees 2018

Artshadows (talk) 21:28, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

NAlibrarian (talk) 22:17, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

ArtLibrarian1741 (talk) 21:07, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

Artdocent48 (talk) 18:07, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

RenfrewZets (talk) 18:17, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

Rebeccaswanson (talk) 18:17, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

Edwardmentee (talk) 18:56, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

LizLemon30 (talk) 19:07, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

Attendees 2017

• User:Artshadows (talk)
• User:NAlibrarian (talk)
• ExcellArt (talk) 17:16, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
• ArtLibrarian1741 (talk) 18:36, 17 February 2017 (UTC)
• Trapuntoquilt (talk) 17:16, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
• User:Ellagabalus (talk)

KwanzaH (talk) 16:58, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

• Kufavs (talk) 17:05, 25 February 2017 (UTC)
• User:StacyGriffith (talk)

KathKCKS (talk) 17:11, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

• Historygirl67 (talk) 17:16, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
• User:RineAd

Arthistoryedits (talk) 17:36, 25 February 2017 (UTC) Tcshaw427 (talk) 18:52, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

News coverage

• Craig, Daniel (March 18, 2015). "Editing African American Art history into Wikipedia". Philly Voice. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
• Allum, Cynthis (February 29, 2016). "Women leading movements to champion equality on Wikipedia". The New York Times. Retrieved December 6, 2016.
• Cunniffe, Eileen (March 27, 2015). "One Wikipedia Approach to Ensuring Diversity in Volunteer Editors". Nonprofit Quarterly. Retrieved December 6, 2016.