Wikipedia:Meetup/Wikipedia APA/Loft

2015 Smithsonian APA
(Asian Pacific American)
Wikipedia Edit-a-thons
When and Where
When:	October 2015
Where:	United States (multiple cities); Parallel campaign in Asia
	A national edit-a-thon for cultural presence, to expand Asian American topics on Wikipedia.

This Meetup page is for the Minneapolis event at The Loft Literary Center held Thursday, October 1, 2015, from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm - Main Event Page is here

The Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center invites you to attend the 2nd annual Wikipedia APA, an editathon for cultural presence, which will be held during 2015.

We are thrilled to invite you to Wikipedia APA, an editing event for improving and increasing the presence of cultural, historic, and artistic information on Wikipedia pertaining to Asian Pacific American ("APA") experiences. The second Wikipedia editathon dedicated to APA content, this project will occur as physical events during 2015 in New York City, Washington DC, and Los Angeles, as well as remotely, with participants taking part from all throughout the world.

(Parallel to this campaign, a number of Wikimedia Asia Project countries are participating in editathons covering national heritage topics, including as an extension of the photo contest Wiki Loves Mounuments.)

While there is a respectable amount of information currently in the encyclopedia for commonly-known APA topics such as the Chinese Exclusion Act, the Japanese American Internment, and the Model Minority Myth, less information exists online about communities and experiences that have been historically marginalized. As presence on resources like Wikipedia becomes not only a tool for learning, but also a signal of cultural significance, the time is right for us to advocate for a more complete APA narrative.

With the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center’s recent exhibitions, the Museum of Modern Art's exhibition Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960–1971, and SAAM's exhibition The Artistic Journey of Yasuo Kuniyoshi, we are underlining a commitment to explore stories that have traditionally been left untold—particularly around Americans whose identities include South Asian, Southeast Asian, Pacific Islander, multi-heritage, women, and LGBTQ. Incidentally, these vital APA narratives are dispersed and incomplete on Wikipedia.

Let’s change that.

Event information[edit]

Main campaign page: Smithsonian APA Wiki
Who should attend: Everyone of all ages is welcome to attend, regardless of experience. We are happy to teach you the basics of editing Wikipedia! The public is welcome to this event
Hashtag: #WikiAPA

Attendees[edit]

Please add your name. If you are registered, type four tildes

List of articles to edit[edit]

Wiki APA Tumblr
Check out the WikiAPA: stARTer kit!

Wikipedia statuses:

Looking good = examples of artists who have Wikipedia articles that are thorough and updated

Needs update/expansion = have articles that lack information or sources, or are outdated

Needs article created = lacks presence on Wikipedia

Missing articles[edit]

Minnesota

Katie Ka Vang, performance artist, playwright, and poet[1][2][3]
Katie Hae Leo, poet, playwright, and essayist[4]
Kathy Mouacheupao [5][6][7]
Iris Shiraishi, taiko drummer[8][9][10]
Wing Young Huie, photographer[11]
Cheng-Khee Chee, Chinese American watercolorist, University of Minnesota Duluth professor[12][13]
Little Laos on the Prairie, [14][15]
Refuge of the InvisibLao, art exhibition
New article name

US

Ken Chu (artist) (朱肯, b. 1953), installation artist
Y. David Chung, German-born visual artist and filmmaker
Marlon Fuentes, Filipino American filmmaker
Yun Gee (1906–1963), Chinese American Modern artist
Yeung Ha (b. 1952), Korean American printmaker and mixed media artist
Sabro Hasegawa (1906–1957), Japanese American painter and scholar
Hui Ka-kwong/Hui Ka Kwong (1922–2003), ceramist
Lori Kay, sculptor and mixed media artist
Jin Soo Kim (artist) (b. 1950), Korean American sculptor and installation artist[16]
Valeriano Montante Laigo/Val Laigo/Valeriano Emerenciano Montante Laigo (1930–1992), Filipino American painter[17][18]
Yary Livan, Cambodian ceramist[19][20]
Vi Ly [21]
Yong Soon Min, Korean American multimedia artist, scholar, and curator[22][23]
Johsel Namkung (1919–2013), Korean American photographer[24]
Keiko Nelson, Japanese American artist[25]
Long Nguyen, Vietnamese American artist[26]
Toshio Odate, Japanese American woodworker[27][28]
Hanh Thi Pham, Vietnamese photographer[29]
Sheng-mei Ma professor of English literature at Michigan State University; specializes in Asian Diaspora/Asian American studies and East-West comparative studies
Valerie Soe, writer and experimental videomaker[30]
Indigo Som, visual artist and poet[31]
Masaru Takiguchi (b. 1941), Japanese American sculptor
Gayle Tanaka, visual artist[32]
Lynne Yamamoto, Japanese American multimedia artist[33]
Samnang Yong, Cambodian poet and painter
Baochi Zhang (b. 1956), Chinese American artist
Hanh Thi Pham, Vietnamese photographer[34]
Yong Soon Min, Korean American multimedia artist, scholar, and curator[35][36]
Kosal Khiev
Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai/Kelly Tsai
Kirun Kapur
Lo Kwa Mei-en
Asian American Literary Review

Articles to improve[edit]

Mu Performing Arts - needs references
May Lee Yang - needs references
Bryan Thao Worra - needs inline references
Ka Vang - needs references
History of the Hmong in Minneapolis–Saint Paul - could be fleshed out
David Mura
Wang Ping (author) - needs references
Chanida Phaengdara Potter - needs references
Nor Sanavongsay - needs references

Non-artists[edit]

Choua Lee, Hmong St. Paul Board of Education member[37]
Hmong American Partnership

To Do[edit]

see List of articles to edit on Main Page

List of articles to create[edit]

see List of articles to create on Main Page

List of new articles created[edit]

List of articles improved[edit]

Miss Saigon

Information resources[edit]

Websites, library catalogs, databases

Editing Wikipedia resources[edit]

Listed here for quick reference.
N.B. Also located on the Resources page referenced above under Editor Resources See Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism/Resources