Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Africa Collection Editathon

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1. Djembayz
2. Harej
3. Duckduckstop
4. Sarasays
5. Geraldshields11 (talk) 22:51, 23 March 2014 (UTC)and I have an LOC reader card already
6. groupuscule (talk) 23:15, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
7. friend of Smokey the Bear
8. Mr. M.
9. Leafyleafleaf
10. Katherine Maher
11. Mr. H.
12. Mme. P.
13. Friend of Smokey the Bear
14. Edsu
15. econterms (talk)

1. Mr. A.
2. Mr. T.
3. Fuzheado | Talk 02:05, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

1. Sadly, but thanks for thinking of me! SarahStierch (talk) 23:55, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
2. Sorry I can't be there; looking forward to report on how things went! Uncommon fritillary (talk) 14:15, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
3. Found out just a little too late. :( Zell Faze (talk) 11:46, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

{{Commonscat|1978 in Nigeria}}

{{Commonscat|1978 in Liberia}}

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*United States presidential visits to Sub-Saharan Africa

• Jimmy Carter Presidential Visit to Africa, 1978 {{Cite web

|no-tracking=yes| title = Jimmy Carter, Lagos, Nigeria, Remarks of the President and Lt. Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo at the Welcoming Ceremony.

| work = The American Presidency Project

| accessdate = 2014-04-11

| date = 1978-04-01

| url = http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=30602

}}{{Cite web

|no-tracking=yes| title = Jimmy Carter, Lagos, Nigeria, Remarks at the National Arts Theatre.

| work = The American Presidency Project

| accessdate = 2014-04-11

| date = 1978-04-01

| url = http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=30603

}}{{Cite web

|no-tracking=yes| title = Jimmy Carter: Lagos, Nigeria Toasts at the State Dinner.

| work = The American Presidency Project

| date = April 2, 1978

| accessdate = 2014-04-11

| url = http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=30605

}}{{Cite web

|no-tracking=yes| title = Jimmy Carter: Lagos, Nigeria Remarks on Signing the Joint Communique.

| work = The American Presidency Project

| date = April 2, 1978

| accessdate = 2014-04-11

| url = http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=30606&st=carter&st1=nigeria

}}{{Cite web

|no-tracking=yes| title = Jimmy Carter: Lagos, Nigeria Joint Communique Issued at the Conclusion of Meetings Between the President and General Obasanjo.

| work = The American Presidency Project

| date = April 2, 1978

| accessdate = 2014-04-11

| url = http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=30607&st=carter&st1=nigeria

}}{{Cite web

|no-tracking=yes| title = Jimmy Carter: Monrovia, Liberia Remarks of President Carter and President William R. Tolbert, Jr., at the Welcoming Ceremony.

| work = The American Presidency Project

| date = April 2, 1978

| accessdate = 2014-04-11

| url = http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=30609&st=carter&st1=nigeria

}}{{Cite book

|no-tracking=yes| publisher = United States Government Printing Office

| last = Carter

| first = Jimmy

| authorlink = Jimmy Carter

| title = Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States. Jimmy Carter, 1978 (in two books)

| location = Washington, D.C.

| accessdate = 2014-04-11

| date = 1979

| url = https://archive.org/details/4732133.1978.001.umich.edu

}}{{Cite web

|no-tracking=yes| title = CBS Evening News: Carter / Foreign Trip / Nigeria

| work = Vanderbilt Television News Archive

| accessdate = 2014-04-11

| date = 1978-04-02

| url = http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/program.pl?ID=257436

}}{{Cite web

|no-tracking=yes| title = NBC Evening News: Carter / Foreign Trip / Nigeria / Rhodesia Meeting

| work = Vanderbilt Television News Archive

| accessdate = 2014-04-11

| date = 1978-04-02

| url = http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/program.pl?ID=498423

}}{{Cite web

|no-tracking=yes| title = ABC Evening News: Carter / Foreign Trip / Nigeria and Liberia

| work = Vanderbilt Television News Archive

| accessdate = 2014-04-11

| date = 1978-04-03

| url = http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/program.pl?ID=53659

}}{{Cite web

|no-tracking=yes| title = NBC Evening News: Carter / For. Trip / Nigeria and Liberia / Rhodesia and South Africa

| work = Vanderbilt Television News Archive

| accessdate = 2014-04-11

| date = 1978-04-03

| url = http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/program.pl?ID=498580

}}{{Cite web

|no-tracking=yes| title = CBS Evening News: Carter / Foreign Trip / Nigeria

| work = Vanderbilt Television News Archive

| accessdate = 2014-04-11

| date = 1978-04-02

| url = http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/program.pl?ID=257436

}}

*Wikipedia:List of missing Africa topics

*List of wanted articles about Africa

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/Articles to be written or improved'''
  
• List of missing African Poetry articles
• List of missing African Cinema articles

{{Reflist}}

• [https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%8B%8B%E1%88%BA%E1%8A%95%E1%8C%8D%E1%89%B0%E1%8A%95_%E1%8B%B2%E1%88%B2 ዋሺንግተን ዲሲ]
• [https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%89%B6%E1%88%9B%E1%88%B5_%E1%8C%84%E1%8D%88%E1%88%AD%E1%88%B0%E1%8A%95 ቶማስ ጄፈርሰን]
• [https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%8B%A8%E1%8B%93%E1%88%88%E1%88%9D_%E1%8B%8B%E1%8A%95%E1%8C%AB የዓለም ዋንጫ]
• [https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%8A%94%E1%88%8D%E1%88%B0%E1%8A%95_%E1%88%9B%E1%8A%95%E1%8B%B4%E1%88%8B ኔልሰን ማንዴላ]
• [https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%8A%AD%E1%8B%8B%E1%88%9C_%E1%8A%95%E1%8A%AD%E1%88%A9%E1%88%9B%E1%88%85 ክዋሜ ንክሩማህ] (add photo)
• [https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D8%AC%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86 توماس جفرسون]
• [https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%AB%D9%8A%D9%82%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%82%D9%88%D9%82_%D9%81%D9%8A_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%AF%D8%A9 وثيقة الحقوق في الولايات المتحدة]
• [https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%B3%D8%B3%D8%A9_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AB%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86 مؤسسة سميثسونيان]
• [https://so.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koobka_Adduunka Koobka Adduunka]
• [https://so.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suugaan Suugaan]
• [https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson Thomas Jefferson] (Afrikans)
• [https://rw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson Thomas Jefferson] (Kinyarwanda)
• [https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson Thomas Jefferson] (Swahili)
• [https://yo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson Thomas Jefferson] (Yoruba)
• [https://xh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela Nelson Mandela] (Xhosa)
• [https://wo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela Nelson Mandela] (Wolof)
• [https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela Nelson Mandela] (Swahili)

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• [http://www.slideshare.net/sosarasays/getting-startedwikipediaapril2014 Getting Started with Wikipedia], presentation
• [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/NARA/New_editors New editors guide from NARA]
• [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse Wikipedia Teahouse] for questions

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{{Commonscat|Reference books about Africa}}

• [http://www.loc.gov/rr/amed/guide/afrillguide.html Africana Collections, Library of Congress Illustrated Guide]
• [http://www.blackpast.org/ Black Past.org] - African American history reference
• [http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/continent_africa.html Africa Country Studies - Federal Research Division, Library of Congress]
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa
• Wikipedia:WikiProject African diaspora

• Reference books about Africa

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The citations below are ready to cut and paste.

• [citation goes here]
  

Just add the title of your encyclopedia article to the citation, and it's good to go.

template for works of DRCongo at commons:

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• {{Cite encyclopedia

|no-tracking=yes| edition = 2nd

| publisher = Oxford University Press

| isbn = 9780195170559

| others = Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis Gates (eds.)

| title =

| encyclopedia = Africana: the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience

| location = Oxford ; New York

| date = 2005

}}

• {{Cite encyclopedia

|no-tracking=yes| publisher = ABC-CLIO

| isbn = 9781851094417

| others = Richard M. Juang, Noelle Anne Morrissette (eds.)

| title =

| encyclopedia = Africa and the Americas: culture, politics, and history: a multidisciplinary encyclopedia

| location = Santa Barbara, Calif

| series = Transatlantic relations series

| date = 2008

}}

• {{Cite encyclopedia

|no-tracking=yes| publisher = Cambridge University Press

| isbn = 0521230969

| others = Roland Anthony Oliver, Michael Crowder (eds.)

| title =

| encyclopedia = The Cambridge encyclopedia of Africa

| location = Cambridge [Eng.] ; New York

| date = 1981

}}

• {{Cite encyclopedia

|no-tracking=yes| publisher = C. Scribner's Sons

| isbn = 0684804662

| others = John Middleton (ed.)

| title =

| encyclopedia = Encyclopedia of Africa south of the Sahara

| location = New York

| date = 1997

}}

• {{Cite encyclopedia

|no-tracking=yes| publisher = Facts on File; Diagram Group

| isbn = 0816045682

| editor-last = Lye

| editor-first = Keith

| title =

| encyclopedia = Encyclopedia of African Nations and Civilization

| location = New York

| series = Facts on File library of world history

| date = 2002

| page = 189

}}

• {{Cite encyclopedia

|no-tracking=yes| edition = 2nd

| publisher = Macmillan Reference USA

| isbn = 0028657691

| others = Philip Mattar (ed.)

| title =

| encyclopedia = Encyclopedia of the modern Middle East & North Africa

| location = Detroit, Mich

| date = 2004

}}

• {{Cite encyclopedia

|no-tracking=yes| publisher = NASOU

| title =

| encyclopedia = Standard encyclopaedia of Southern Africa

| location = Cape Town

| date = 1970

| url =

}}

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• {{Cite encyclopedia

|no-tracking=yes| publisher = Berkshire Pub. Group

| isbn = 9780977015993

| others = William Hardy McNeill (ed.)

| title =

| encyclopedia = Africa in world history

| location = Great Barrington, Mass

| date = 2011

}}

• {{Cite encyclopedia

|no-tracking=yes| publisher = Fitzroy Dearborn

| isbn = 1579582451

| others = Kevin Shillington (ed.)

| title =

| encyclopedia = Encyclopedia of African History

| location = New York

| date = 2005

}}

• {{Cite encyclopedia

|no-tracking=yes| publisher = Routledge

| isbn = 0415234794

| others = Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, Dickson Eyoh (eds.)

| title =

| encyclopedia = Encyclopedia of twentieth-century African history

| location = London ; New York

| date = 2003

}}

• {{Cite encyclopedia

|no-tracking=yes| publisher = Scarecrow Press

| isbn = 0810836335

| last = Arnold

| first = Guy

| authorlink = Guy Arnold

| title =

| encyclopedia = Historical dictionary of civil wars in Africa

| location = Lanham, MD

| series = Historical dictionaries of war, revolution, and civil unrest

| date = 1999

}}

• {{Cite encyclopedia

|no-tracking=yes| publisher = Routledge

| isbn = 041593933X

| others = Philip M. Peek, Kwesi Yankah (eds.)

| title =

| encyclopedia = African folklore: an encyclopedia

| location = New York

| date = 2004

}}

• {{Cite encyclopedia

|no-tracking=yes| publisher = ABC-CLIO

| isbn = 1576079198

| others = Michael Dumper, Bruce E. Stanley (eds.)

| title =

| encyclopedia = Cities of the Middle East and North Africa: a historical encyclopedia

| location = Santa Barbara, Calif

| date = 2007

}}

• {{Cite encyclopedia

|no-tracking=yes| publisher = SAGE

| isbn = 9781412936361

| others = Molefi K. Asante, Ama Mazama (eds.)

| title =

| encyclopedia = Encyclopedia of African religion

| location = Thousand Oaks, Calif

| date = 2009

}}

• {{Cite encyclopedia

|no-tracking=yes| publisher = Greenwood Press

| isbn = 9780313334801

| others = Toyin Falola, Amanda Warnock (eds.)

| title =

| encyclopedia = Encyclopedia of the middle passage

| location = Westport, Conn

| series = Greenwood milestones in African American history

| date = 2007

}}

• {{Cite encyclopedia

|no-tracking=yes| edition = New

| publisher = Eco-Logic Pub

| isbn = 0620318937

| others = David Parry-Davies (ed.)

| title =

| encyclopedia = The enviropaedia: environmental encyclopaedia & networking directory for southern Africa

| location = Simonstown, W. Cape

| date = 2004

}}

• {{Cite encyclopedia

|no-tracking=yes| publisher = Thomson/Gale

| isbn = 9780684314549

| others = John Middleton, Joseph Calder Miller (eds.)

| title =

| encyclopedia = New encyclopedia of Africa

| location = Detroit

| date = 2008

}}

• {{Cite encyclopedia

|no-tracking=yes| publisher = Oxford University Press

| isbn = 9780195334739

| others = Abiola Irele, Biodun Jeyifo (eds.)

| title =

| encyclopedia = The Oxford encyclopedia of African thought

| location = New York

| date = 2010

}}

• {{Cite encyclopedia

|no-tracking=yes| publisher = Longman Current Affairs

| isbn = 0582209951

| last = Arnold

| first = Guy

| authorlink = Guy Arnold

| title =

| encyclopedia = Political and economic encyclopaedia of Africa

| location = Harlow

| date = 1993

}}

• {{Cite encyclopedia

|no-tracking=yes| publisher = Gressner & Schramm

| last = Heichen

| first = Paul

| title =

| encyclopedia = Afrika Hand-Lexikon

| location = Leipzig

| accessdate = 2014-04-03

| date = 1885

| url = https://archive.org/details/afrikahandlexiko01heic

}} ([https://archive.org/details/afrikahandlexiko02heic volume 2], [https://archive.org/details/afrikahandlexiko02heic volume 3], Internet Archive)

• {{Cite encyclopedia

|no-tracking=yes| publisher = Peter Lang

| isbn = 9783631595688

| others = Wolfgang Gieler (ed.)

| title =

| encyclopedia = Afrika-Lexikon: Geographie, Geschichte, Kultur, Politik und Wirtschaft

| location = Frankfurt am Main ; New York

| date = 2010

}}

• {{cite book|no-tracking=yes|last=Gunn|first=Harold D|title=Pagan Peoples of the Central Area of Northern Nigeria (The Butawa, Warjawa, etc. of the Bauchi-Kano borderland. The Kurama etc., the Katab Group, the Kadara, etc. of Zaria Province)| date=1956 | publisher=International African Institute|location=London|series=Ethnographic Survey of Africa. Western Africa, Part XII}}
• {{cite book|no-tracking=yes|last1=Gunn|first1=Harold D|last2=Conant|first2=F.P.|title=Peoples of the Middle Niger Region of Northern Nigeria | date=1960 | publisher=International African Institute|location=London| series=Ethnographic Survey of Africa. Western Africa, Part XV}}
• {{cite book|no-tracking=yes|last1=Gunn|first1=Harold D|title=Peoples of the Plateau Area of Northern Nigeria | date=1953 | publisher=International African Institute|location=London| series=Ethnographic Survey of Africa. Western Africa, Part VII}}

• {{cite book|no-tracking=yes|last1=Udo|first1=R K| last2 = Mamman | first2 = A B | title = Nigeria, Giant in the Tropics. Volume 2, State Surveys| date=1994| publisher=Gabumo Publishing Co. Ltd | location=Lagos, Nigeria | isbn = 9780101683 }}

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A list of articles we have improved at this event

1. Verne Harris, head archivist of Nelson Mandela's papers
2. Jallouli Fares, parliamentary speaker of Tunisia's parliament at time of its independence (added later)

1. Arthur Nortje
2. Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville) -- added photo of 1964 constitution. <3 groupuscule (talk) 17:13, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
3. Namibia -- added wikilinks and copyedits -- econterms (talk)
4. Cinema of Africa -- added citation Djembayz (talk) 19:30, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
5. Disinvestment from South Africa -- added image Djembayz (talk) 13:14, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
6. Fulbert Youlou add 2 refs
7. Jacques Opangault add infobox; refs; photo
8. Pierre Goura add infobox; refs; photo

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• :
• uploaded Republic of Congo posters and cropped headshots

• walked through the stacks of the Africa Collection
• trained an LC staffer to edit
• updated Meetup, Facebook, Wiki Commons with photographs by Geraldshields11 (talk) 01:55, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
• got our LC Readers' Cards!

• photographed more posters
• assessed Zambian pamphlet collection
• tried out the scanner for .pdfs
• added links to scans of LC material by the Lubuto Library Project to articles about Zambian languages
• Bemba language
• Ila language
• Kaonde language
• Lenje language
• Lozi language
• Lunda language
• Luvale language
• Tonga language
• Created {{Cite web

|no-tracking=yes| title = Library of Congress, African Section, pamphlet collection - a set on Flickr

| url = https://secure.flickr.com/photos/pohick2/sets/72157644200924229/

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• Flikr links added to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Library_of_Congress_Africa_Collection_related Library of Congress Africa Collection related articles]

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