Wikipedia:Meetup/AfroCROWD/Juneteenth2020

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Your Invitation

Join us Saturday, June 20th, 2020 4:46 PM EDT at on Zoom to learn to edit Wikipedia on topics related to the pursuit of freedom and civil rights in the Black Community.

Then return Saturday, June 20th between 8:46 AM EDT and 8:46 PM EDT for Wikipedia coaching and guidance from our partners in the Wikimedia Movement.

Event information

• Date: Saturday, June 20, 2020
• Location: on Zoom.
• Keynote presentation 4:46 PM EDT on Zoom by Alexandria Lockett PhD, Assistant Professor of English, Spelman College.
• NEW: Wiki Coaches will help train newcomers and growing editors throughout the day Friday June 19 and Saturday June 20 in our Zoom Room will be open 8:46 AM - 8:46 PM EDT. Please register.

Language Interpretation:

Do you speak Hausa?

• Sign in June 20th to the 2:46 PM EDT Wiki coaching on Zoom or the keynote presentation at 4:46 pm on Zoom,
• Mute your screen.
• Then open a separate window
• Copy this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84458995295 and paste is in the second window's browser.
• Keep both windows open to hear the event in your language.

• During the question and answer portion only. If you have a question, please type it in the chat section of the main screen (not the interpretation screen) in either Hausa or English with your email address, and someone will respond. See you soon!

Thanks to an interpreter who is volunteering her time all the way from Nigeria, we can accomodate participants who speak this language!

Editing Sessions/ Wiki Coaching Times.

These will take place in the same Zoom room.

Friday 6/19

• 8:46 pm PST/ 11:46 PM EDT
• 11:46 Pm PST/ 2:46 AM EDT

Keynote presentation and online gathering is at June 19, 4:46 PM EDT-6:46 PM EDT (1:46 pm PST-3:46 pm PST)

Saturday 6/20

• 8:46 pm PST / 11:46 pm EDT

Coaches Available: JaneNova (talk) 17:41, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

• 12:46 am PST / 3:46 pm EDT
• 12:46 am PST / 3:46 pm EDT
• 6:46 pm PST / 9:46 pm EDT
• 6:46 pm PST / 9:46 pm EDT

Details

Juneteenth is Friday, June 19th. Also known as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day, it is an American holiday that commemorates June 19, 1865. On this day, after almost two and half years since the implementation of the Emancipation Proclamation, enslaved African Americans were informed of their liberation from the slavery.

This event highlights the pursuit of civil rights and emancipation for people of African descent.

In light of recent events that highlight generations of similar struggles, this event welcomes all who are interested to improve knowledge about the struggle for civil rights.

We also invite you to add reference material, images and other entries to Wikimedia projects on the subject.

All are welcome.

Our Speaker

Dr. Alexandria Lockett is an Assistant Professor of English at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. She specializes in professional writing and technical communication with an emphasis on access and equity. Lockett is committed to expanding Wikipedia engagement among culturally diverse editors. For at least a decade, she has taught college writing with Wikipedia and conducted faculty development workshops at various institutions about integrating Wikipedia editing with writing and research across the disciplines. Her professional service includes a major focus on Wikipedia, as well. She serves on the CCCC special executive committee on Wikipedia (2018-current). Additionally, she is a consultant and technical writer for the Wiki Education Foundation (2015-current).

Lockett’s interest in Wikipedia is reflected in her overall research agenda, which focuses on the history and technological politics of race, information, and digital labor. Her work has appeared in Composition Studies, Enculturation, and Praxis, as well as several book chapters in edited collections such as Wikipedia@20: An Incomplete Revolution (Eds. Joseph Reagle and Jackie Koerner), Humans at Work in the Digital Age (Eds. Andrew Pilsch and Shawna Ross), Black Perspectives in Writing Program Administration (Eds. Staci Perryman-Clark and Collin Craig). Out in the Center: Public Controversies and Private Struggles (Eds. Harry Denny, Anna Sicari, et al), and Bad Ideas about Writing(Eds. Cheryl Ball and Drew Loewe). She also co-edited the book Learning from the Lived Experience of Graduate Student Writers (Eds. Shannon Madden, Michele Eodice, and Kirsten Edwards).

An extended biography and a more detailed list of publications is available via her portfolio or her CV here.

Tools and templates

• AfroCROWD Wikimedia Tutorials: Learn to edit with us!
• Cheatsheet for editing Wikipedia
• Wikipedia Template:Infobox person
• Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons
• Writing an article
• About the Sandbox
• Adding images to your entry, a tutorial ; video here; AfroCROWD tutorial on addimg images to Wikipedia

External links

Languages other than English

• You can also contribute in Wikipedia language editions in Spanish, French, Haitian Creole, Yoruba, Garifuna and other languages!
• We plan to have a Hausa translator during the Friday gathering.

Task list

• Improve Juneteenth Wikidata item Juneteenth (Q6312521)
  • Add image
  • Add descriptions for other languages
  • Add more external identifiers
• Create Wikidata item for "General Order No. 3"
• Create Wikisource item for "General Order No. 3"
• Juneteenth English Wikipedia article
  • Image for infobox
  • Add this image in some way where this text is: "The following day, standing on the balcony of Galveston's Ashton Villa, Granger read aloud the contents of "General Order No. 3", announcing the total emancipation of those held as slaves" - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ashton_Villa_Galveston_Texas.jpg
• Make a simple English article?
  • simple:Juneteenth
• Commons gallery and category
  • Classification of more images to Juneteenth
• Books and other media about Juneteenth
  • Add to Wikidata and Wikipedia
  • https://www.worldcat.org/title/juneteenth/oclc/1014012241
• Improve Wikidata content around abolition and Emancipation
  • abolition (Q322732)
  • abolition of slavery (Q15974670)
• Improve Tulsa_race_massacre which occurred on Juneteenth

For further inspiration

See also:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject African diaspora
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Black Lives Matter
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Civil Rights Movement
• Civil Rights Movements Page
• Montgomery Bus Boycott
• Albany Movement
• Birmingham Campaign
• March on Washington
• Bloody Sunday
• Chicago Freedom Movement
• Poor People's Campaign
• Cincinnati riots of 2001
• 2014 Ferguson unrest
• Mass racial violence in the United States
• George Floyd protests
• Lucean Arthur Headen - https://www.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/amazing-mr-headen-180974887/
• Tougaloo Nine

Resources

These resources are from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, with whom we partnered for our Black Life Matters editathon previously.

• Digital Schomburg: Links and Resources
• Digital Schomburg: Online Books
• Digital Schomburg: Images & Illustrations
• Digital Schomburg: Africana Heritage Newsletters

Partners / Supporters

• 
  Wikimedians of the Caribbean User Group
• 
  Women in Red
• 
  PREZENS for Charity: Caring for the underprivileged, Nigeria
• 
  WhoseKnowledge?
• 
  WikiProject Black Lives Matter