Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/AfroCROWD/NYU Soul of Reason

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When and Where
Date	Date: Saturday, May 8, 2021
Time	1:00 pm -3:30 pm EST
Address	Zoom (register for link info)

The NYU Soul of Reason Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: Celebrating Black culture

Event Description: AfroCROWD, NYU Libraries, and the NYU Institute of African American Affairs & Center for Black Visual Culture are coming together to bring attention to Black culture and the African diaspora on Wikimedia platforms. Inspired by the 1970s radio show Soul of Reason, this event will train you to contribute to Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons.

Details

• Date: Saturday, May 8, 2021
• Time: 1-3:30 pm EST
• Location: Zoom (register to recieve link)

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(L-R) Tuskegee Airmen Roscoe C. Brown, Marcellus G. Smith, and Benjamin O. Davis

Dr. Roscoe C. Brown Jr. speaks at a ceremony in honor of the March 23, 2012, MTA New York City Transit renaming of the 100th Street Bus Depot as The Tuskegee Airmen Bus Depot.

Schedule:

• 1:00 - 1:30 pm EST: Opening remarks and speakers
• 1:30 - 1:45 pm EST: Brief training/orientation
• 1:45 - 3:30 pm EST: Open editing in breakout rooms with Wiki coaches: beginner room, collaboratively write Soul of Reason Wikipedia article, Wikipedia editing, Wikidata editing, Wikimedia Commons
• 3:00 - 3:30 pm EST: wrap up

All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC’s Code of Conduct.

Partners

• NYU
• Wikimedia New York City volunteers

How to prepare

• Register to get the link to the event on Zoom?: the entire event will take place online on Zoom.
• Have your laptop or tablet ready: Editing Wikipedia is easier with a keyboard.
• Have a published source to cite: Google is handy, but we will also have the fortune of a Schomburg librarian joining us who can help if you are interested in anything in their collections. If you like, bring an academic paper or other reliable source of information to cite, to support your addition to Wikipedia. You will use Wikipedia to distribute information from this source. Try to bring the highest quality most reputable source you can find for the information.
• Create a Wikipedia account, if you do not have one already.
• Social Media: Tweet, like, comment or follow us on social media. Our hashtags for today are #AfroCBLackWikiHistory and #AfroCROWD. Our Twitter handle is @AfroCROWDit and on Instagram and Facebook are @AfroCROWD.

Also: You can hit the ground running by trying these ahead of the event:

• If you wish, take Wikipedia's own 30-minute online training and tour at The Wikipedia Adventure.
• You can access our Wikipedia tutorials on YouTube by clicking here.

What is Wikipedia?

Wikipedia is the fifth most visited website on earth (World Economic Forum), and the most-used encyclopedia ever. A couple million people have written bits of it, but most of Wikipedia is written by tens of thousands of volunteers around the world.^[7] (See the statistics page for more information.) We start with a few improvements, learn, and build up from there. You, can, too!

Our mission for today

Thanks for coming today and helping make history with the #AfroCROWD initiative improving awareness and engagement of people of African Descent on Wikipedia and the open internet.

Today's mission: Add at least one sentence or other contribution to Wikipedia about a notable person of African descent or a place or cultural item associated with the the African Diaspora.

Let’s begin:

Get your account/ create a username: Please don’t use your real name. It should be 6-8 characters. If you need help, please ask a Wikimedia coach

1. Add your user name to the Dashboard
2. Listen to the training or if you are editing from home or online head here for the basics overview. Head here for a simplified tutorial.
3. Browse Editing Ideas below and choose a topic to edit (or if you already have one skip to the next step)
4. Edit: in short - (1) click edit (2) add a sentence (3) provide a citation (4) repeat
5. Ask for help: Don’t worry about perfection, the Wiki Coaches are here to help you.

Editing contribution types for new Wikipedia editors:

Is this your very first time? Try this:

• Add a biographical sentence: Start with a name, a birthday, an occupation or title,  what they famously did,  and (very importantly) a citation to verify your information from a credible source(s).

How to make a citation (bibliographical reference):

1) First, click on the pencil icon on the right to begin using "Visual Editor". Visual editor makes editing easier - like writing a school paper.

2) In Visual Editor, click on the area you want to add the citation. Then click cite. If you have a website as a source, add the website to the blank area.

If you do not have a website source, click manual and follow the prompts. Then click publish. If you have questions, ask a Wikimedia coach or go to Wikipedia:Tutorial/Citing sources.

3) Then click publish.

Two editors work out an improvement

Editing Ideas: These have lists of potential articles to create/edit

• AfroCrowd task list
• Wikipedia:Requested articles
• Wikipedia:WikiProject African diaspora

Others? please share below Editing lists

New York History

• Category:African-American history in New York City
• Category:Harlem
• Intersection of People from New York City and American people of African descent

• Bios with shorter articles

Relevant videos and other media

• Introduction to the AfroCROWD Wikimedia Initiative
• Introduction to Wikipedia Editing
• Creating and Editing Wikipedia Articles
• Adding Citations to Wikipedia

Optional:

• Introduction to adding images to Wikipedia via Wiki Commons

More useful resources

Learning tools

• Wikidata Game
• Citation Hunt

Attendance

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Successes

Did you achieve today's goal? Tell a wiki coach in the chat, and we can help check your edit(s) for you.

• Rachad sanoussi (talk) 11:00, 28 April 2021 (UTC)