Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/AfroCrowd/AfroCROWD/Sept 2015

Help write your digital world history! Join AfroCROWD @ Queens Library on Sunday, September 20th at 12:30 pm at the Queens Library's Central Branch and get free training on becoming a Wikipedia editor.

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. Visit us at [http://www.afrocrowd.org AfroCROWD] to find out more.

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• Date: Sunday, September 20, 2015
• Time: 12:30 pm – 5:00 pm
• Location: Queens Library, Central Branch, Computer Training Room
• Address: 89-11 Merrick Boulevard, Jamaica, NY 11432 {{Coord|40|42|28|N|073|47|42|W|type:landmark_region:US-NY|display=inline}}
• Subway:
• {{NYCS Queens Hillside local|time=bullets}} to 169th St.
• RSVP: [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/afrocrowd-wikipedia-editathon-comes-to-queens-tickets-18485854689 Eventbrite]
• Details:
• We have held monthly editathons in Brooklyn and Manhattan since February 2015 but this will be our first in Queens. Please spread the word to your friends and family there who may be interested.
• Beginners welcome.
• All languages welcome including English, Spanish, Haitian Creole, French, Yoruba and others. 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.
• We have about 30 laptops available. So we don't run out, bring your own if you can or are driving. This is not a requirement.

• Co-sponsor:
• Haitian Creole Language Institute of New York which is offering a Haitian Creole class at the Queens Public Library this fall. See PDF, "[https://www.queenslibrary.org/sites/default/files/lamps_pdf/000459-07-15_459_flyer.pdf Haitian Creole for Beginners]."

Please add your Wikipedia username to the appropriate section below.

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1. Aliceba (talk) 21:55, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
2. Pharos (talk) 16:33, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
3. Jim.henderson (talk) 12:39, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
4. Hafece (talk) 17:40, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
5. Harobe (talk) 17:59, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
6. Monteatrikers (talk) 18:57, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
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8. {{User0|Quuens4Truth}}
9. {{User0|Ronald Sexton}}
10. {{User0|Batraville}}
11. {{User0|Byronrobinson}}
12. {{User0|Hugues saint-fort}}
13. {{User0|Dissensa}}
14. {{User0|Sankhara63}}
15. [https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itilizat%C3%A8:Rolbens_Desir Rolbens Desir] ([https://ht.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Diskisyon Diskite])

1. {{User0|BrillLyle}}

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1. Millinery Center Synagogue

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1. Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program -- {{User0|Ronald Sexton}}
2. Factoring (finance) -- {{User0|Byronrobinson}}
3. :ht:Karl Marx - corrected grammar in Haitian -- {{User0|Hafece}}
4. Tahir Hemphill - cleanup of citations, adding content -- {{User0|BrillLyle}}
5. Taraji P. Henson - changed photo -- Pgermaine (talk) 20:07, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
6. :ht:Modèl:Definisyon - corrected grammar in Haitian -- {{User0|Hugues saint-fort}}
7. Nemours Jean-Baptiste -- {{User0|Monteatrikers}}
8. Chaka Khan - added album to discography -- Pgermaine (talk) 20:03, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
9. Misogyny in hip hop culture -- {{User0|Quuens4Truth}}

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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

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• [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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