Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/AfroCrowd/10-2015-DAWN-BPL

Please join us for the next gathering of AfroCROWD and [http://dawners.org/ DAWN (Diaspora African Women's Network)] @ Brooklyn Public Library!

• Co-Sponsor: [http://dawners.org/ DAWN (Diaspora African Women's Network)]

• Date: Sunday, October 25, 2015
• Time: 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
• Location: Brooklyn Public Library, Central Library, Info Commons Room
• Address: 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 11238 {{Coord|40.672359|-73.968146|display=inline}}
• Subway:
• {{NYCS Lenox|time=bullets}} to Grand Army Plaza
• Bus: {{NYC bus link|B41|B69}} buses
• Details:
• Help write her digital history!
• Join AfroCROWD and DAWN (Diaspora African Women's Network) to receive free training on becoming a Wikipedia editor.
• The event will encourage editing entries about notable black women, including black women in the African Diaspora dedicated to African affairs.
• Afro Free Culture Crowdsourcing Wikimedia (AfroCROWD) is a new initiative which seeks to increase the number of people of African Descent actively editing Wikipedia. Become a part of the Wikimedia and free knowledge, culture and software movements and help close the multicultural and gender gaps in Wikipedia.
• We have held monthly editathons in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens since February 2015.
• Beginners welcome.
• All languages welcome including English, Spanish, Haitian Creole, French, Yoruba, Twi, Woloff and other languages spoken in the African Diaspora. Wikipedia comes in 285 languages and you are welcome to edit it in any of them or translate from one language to another.
• AfroCROWD will also provide FREE CHILDCARE during this special event.
• Light Refreshments will be available.

Please add your Wikipedia username to the appropriate section below.

1. Pharos (talk) 20:18, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
2. rumayor1 (rumayor1)
3. Aliceba (talk) 15:05, 13 October 2015 (UTC) (talk) 15:04, 13 October 2015 (UTC);
4. Shanluan (talk) 15:45, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
5. Gek333 (talk) 17:22, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
6. Sdbhatresearch (talk) 18:34, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
7. Mariana Santibañez (talk) 18:36, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
8. Phototek (talk) 19:43, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
9. Rhodamacboadan (talk) 19:57, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
10. GregoryBenjamin (talk) 20:40, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
11. {{User0|WowJones}}
12. {{User0|Thebriggs}}
13. {{User0|Bettyd}}
14. {{User0|BrklynScholar}}
15. {{User0|jeremyb}}

1. Jim.henderson (talk) 12:07, 22 October 2015 (UTC) All day at Tour de Bronx

1. {{User0|BrillLyle}} -- will try to work on Garifuna pages

alphabetical

1. Dionisia Amaya -- {{User0|WowJones}}
2. Otto Neals -- African-American Artist -- {{User0|Bettyd}}
3.  
4.  

alphabetical

1. Dionisia Amaya -- {{User0|Pharos}}, {{User0|BrillLyle}}
2. José Campeche -- {{User0|GregoryBenjamin}}
3. Aurelio Martinez -- {{User0|WowJones}}, {{User0|BrillLyle}}
4. Denmark Vesey -- {{User0|Sdbhatresearch}}
5. Fort Greene, Brooklyn -- {{User0|BrklynScholar}}
6. Gaspar Yanga -- {{User0|Mariana Santibañez}}
7. Happy Land Fire
8. Music of the Dominican Republic -- {{User0|Thebriggs}}
9. Nottoway County, Virginia -- {{User0|Thebriggs}}
10. Weeksville, Brooklyn -- {{User0|Bettyd}}

:List of articles

See Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism/Resources

If you are unfamiliar with Wikipedia, you might try this training module which will help explain a lot of things, including how to add your signature.

Listed here for quick reference.

N.B. Also located on the Resources page referenced above under Editor Resources

• [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/BeginnersGuide Beginners’ Guide to Wikipedia] (account creation, article editing)
• [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars Five Pillars of Wikipedia] (philosophical guidelines and best practices for Wikipedia editing)
• [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial Tutorial]
• [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page How to Edit a Page]
• [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/Wiki_markup_cheatsheet_EN.pdf Wiki Markup Quick Reference] (PDF version of printed handout)
• [http://www.cs.duke.edu/csed/wikipedia/index.html Guide to Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing] by Susan H. Rodger (applicable to any biography)
• [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_development Article Development]
• [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Your_first_article Your First Article] (using the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_wizard2.0 Article Wizard] if you wish)
• [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style Manual of Style]
• [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation_templates Citation templates]
• [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Infobox_templates Infobox templates]
• [http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bookshelf/ Bookshelf] (additional "getting started" resources)
• [http://art.plusfeminism.org/edit-a-thons/training/ Art+Feminism - Video training]
• Art+Feminism - Training Lesson Plan

• Cheatsheet for editing Wikipedia
• Infobox template - person
• Biographies of living persons
• Writing an article
• About the Sandbox

{{commons category|2015 AfroCROWD and DAWN BPL}}

• [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/AfroCrowd/Kickoff AfroCROWD] (main page)
• [https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paj_Prensipal Wikipedia] - Haitian Creole
• [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/AfroCrowd AfroCROWD Meetup - NYC] (main events page)
• [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/AfroCrowd/HaitiCROWD HaitiCROWD Meetup - NYC]
• [http://www.afrocrowd.org/ AfroCROWD] (official website)
• [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC Wikipedia Meetup - NYC] (main events page)
• [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_New_York_City Wikimedia New York City]

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