Wikipedia:Meetup/Kansas City/Jazz Edit-a-thon

Event information

  • Event Title: Kansas City Jazz Edit-a-thon
  • Date: Monday, March 5, 2018
  • Time: 3:00pm — 7:00pm CST
  • Location: Atrium at the American Jazz Museum; 1616 East 18th Street, Kansas City, MO 64108
  • Host institutions: Kansas City Public Library, American Jazz Museum, Kansas City Jazz Orchestra
  • Edit-A-Thon organizing team Members: Kim Gile, Sara Escandon, Stacey Mitchell, Kelly Mahon, Jason Roe, Jeremy Drouin, and w/ OCLC Wikipedian-in-Residence to assist Monika Sengul-Jones.
  • Event pages: [https://www.facebook.com/events/190368851557836/| Facebook event], [http://www.kclibrary.org/library-locations/offsite-location/adults-event/jazz-wikipedia-edit-thon?delta=0| The Kansas City Public Library calendar listing]
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Details

Celebrate Kansas City’s rich jazz heritage by joining us for a Wikipedia edit-a-thon and jam session! You will learn about Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, the anatomy of a Wiki article, and how to contribute to this free online encyclopedia.

We will focus on creating and developing articles that preserve our history from local jazz musicians, to the historic jazz clubs throughout the 18th & Vine and 12th & Vine districts, to the community leaders whose legacies continue to live on.

What to bring:

- limited laptops will be available but please bring a laptop and a power cord if you are able.

- your instrument if you are a musician and would like to jam

No Wikipedia experience necessary; training session at 3:30 and 5:30pm. To participate you don’t need specialized knowledge of these topics or of Wikipedia. Please create a free user account on wikipedia.org before the event. There will be plenty of reference material and a limited number of laptops available.

Register

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Participants

And if you already have a Wikipedia account, you may add your Wikipedia username to this section (signatures are created by saving four tildes [~] in a row, add your username and talk page by using three tildes):

Work list

= Articles to improve =

Below is a list of articles that would benefit from edits and expansion during the edit-a-thon:

= Articles to create =

Note: Editors must have accounts that "autoconfirmed" (four days old and have made more than ten edits) in order to create a page. During the edit-a-thon, editors brandnew to Wikipedia are encouraged to expand existing articles to develop Wikipedia know-how. Those interested in working on a new article for Wikipedia can prepare the article in a sandbox draft space.

Resources

=== Library resources to use to expand articles ===

  • [https://kclibrary.bibliocommons.com/list/share/707698308_kimg_kcmo/809782687_kansas_city_jazz_wide_open Kansas City Jazz: Wide Open Town] library web catalog list

= Resources to learn about editing Wikipedia =

Results

[https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Kansas_City_Public_Library/Kansas_City_Jazz_Edit-A-Thon Dashboard]

Category:Wikipedia meetups in March 2018

Category:Wikipedia meetups in Kansas City