Wikipedia:Meetup/Nebraska/2016 02 Black History Month

• Date: Saturday, February 20, 2016
• Time: 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm CST
• Location: [http://www.dospace.org Do Space]. 7205 Dodge Street (72nd & Dodge), Meeting Room 1, Omaha, NE 68114 {{Coord|41|15|32.3|N|96|1|28.8|W}}
• Who should attend: Everyone with an interest in African American history and expanding the diversity of knowledge on Wikipedia, and regardless of experience. We are happy to teach you the basics of editing Wikipedia. The public is welcome to this event.
• Twitter: [https://twitter.com/dospaceomaha Do Space]
• Hashtag: [https://twitter.com/search?q=dospace #DoSpace] [https://twitter.com/search?q=dowiki #DOwiki]
• Registration link: [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wikipedia-edit-a-thon-black-history-month-tickets-20930259971 African American History Month Edit-a-thon @ Do Space]
• Etherpad: [https://etherpad.net/p/DoSpaceBHM2016 DoSpaceBHM2016]

Please add your Wikipedia username to the appropriate section below (signatures are created by saving four tildes [~] in a row). If you haven't edited Wikipedia before, we will help you register for a new Wikipedia editing account on the day of.

Example: Copy these symbols ~~~~ into a new bullet below and Wikipedia will automatically add your user name and talk page

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• Nebraska State Historical Society -- [http://www.nebraskahistory.org/lib-arch/services/refrence/la_pubs/african-american.htm Links to Finding Aids] to archival collections related to African-Americans

alpha order by last name

• Bob Boozer -- particularly his post-athletic career life in Omaha
• Alfonza W. Davis
• Dan Desdunes
• Rowena Moore
• George Wells Parker
• Red Perkins
• Millard F. Singleton

alpha order

• DePorres Club
• Dreamland Ballroom
• Hamitic League of the World
• Native Omaha Days
• Omaha Blues, Jazz, & Gospel Festival
• Lizzie Robinson House
• Omaha Black Music Hall of Fame
• Peony Park
• Zion Baptist Church (Omaha, Nebraska)

alpha order by last name

• Patricia "Big Mama" Barron
• Will Brown -- currently redirects to another page
• Edward Danner [http://www.nebraskahistory.org/lib-arch/research/manuscripts/politics/edward-danner.htm]
• Lucy Gambol -- Article exists at Lucy Gamble. Last name is Gambol in two WPA documents, but Gamble in contemporary to her life newspaper articles, 1880, and 1900 US census. Recent newspaper articles use Gambol based on the WPA work (particularly Negroes of Nebraska). My guess is that Gamble is more accurate, but I don't know.
• Gene Haynes
• Dorothy Eure
• Lerlean Johnson
• Catherine Grace Pope
• Lizzie Robinson -- currently redirects to another page
• Thomas Warren (Police Chief)
• Charles B. Washington

alpha order

• Afro-American Sentinel
• Goodwin's Spencer Street Barbershop
• Druid Hall
• Omaha Monitor''
• Omaha Rockets
• Royal Circle (Social Club)

• Ernie Chambers

alpha order by last name

1. Edward Danner -- {{User0|PapertigerOmaha}}
2. Gene Haynes -- {{User0|Llamasloth}}
3. Red Perkins (country singer) -- {{User0|BrillLyle}}
4. Charles B. Washington -- {{User0|Cjenkins523}}, {{User0|Bsarnacki}}

alpha order

1. Do Space -- {{User0|BrillLyle}}
2. Metropolitan Community College -- {{User0|BrillLyle}}
3. Omaha Rockets -- {{User0|Daclausen}}

alpha order by last name

1. Mildred Brown -- added NSHS papers link, further reading (book) -- {{User0|BrillLyle}}
2. Gene Collins -- {{User0|Daclausen}}
3. Alfonza W. Davis -- {{User0|RCJEANPI}}
4. Danai Gurira -- added PBS citation -- {{User0|BrillLyle}}
5. Gene Haynes -- {{User0|Llamasloth}}
6. Rowena Moore -- {{User0|Bstenger3}}, {{User0|PapertigerOmaha}}
7. Red Perkins -- {{User0|Aforss}}, {{User0|Bsarnacki}}, {{User0|BrillLyle}}

alpha order

1. African-American Civil Rights Movement in Omaha, Nebraska -- corrected Danners -- {{User0|BrillLyle}}
2. DeWitty, Nebraska -- added NSHS papers link -- {{User0|BrillLyle}}
3. Omaha North High School -- {{User0|Llamasloth}}

1. Do Space logo (no text)
2. Do Space logo (text)
3. Metropolitan Community College logo
4. The Dixie Ramblers

• [http://www.unomaha.edu/legendarywomen/ Legendary Women of UNO] - Chancellor's Commission on the Status of Women (CCSW)
• [http://wap.lib.unomaha.edu/ UNO Women's Archive Project] - Department of English
• [http://digital.olivesoftware.com/Olive/APA/UNOmaha/ Gateway Newspaper Archive] - University of Nebraska at Omaha's (UNO) student newspaper
• [http://libguides.unomaha.edu/az.php Criss Library A-Z Databases List] - Most available only to UNO or on-campus users (UNO subscription required)
• [http://libguides.unomaha.edu/ArchivesSpecialCollections Criss Library Archives & Special Collections]
• [http://unomaha.contentdm.oclc.org/ Criss Library Digital Collections]

• [http://libraries.unl.edu/archives-special-collections UNL Library - Archives & Special Collections]
• [http://contentdm.unl.edu/cdm/ UNL Library - Image & Multimedia Collections]
• [http://contentdm.unl.edu/cdm/collections UNL Library - Collections]
• [http://historyharvest.unl.edu/ History Harvest]

• [http://www.omahalibrary.org/books-and-resources/digital-collections Omaha Public Library - Digital Collections]
• [http://www.omahalibrary.org/resource-center Omaha Pubic Library - Databases] -- most accessible from home using OPL Library card

• [http://infoweb.newsbank.com/signin/OmahaPublicLibrary Omaha World-Herald online archives 1878-1983] (OPL library card required for access)

• [http://nebraskahistory.org/index.shtml Nebraska State Historical Society] - includes [http://nebraskahistory.org/databases/index.shtml Collections / Databases], [http://nebraskahistory.org/exhibits/index.shtml Exhibits], [http://www.nebraskahistory.org/lib-arch/research/index.htm Research Materials]
• Nebraska Library Commission - [http://memories.nebraska.gov/ Nebraska Memories]
• [http://cudigital.cdmhost.com/index.php Creighton University - Digital Collections]
• [http://invisiblehistory.ops.org/ Omaha Public Schools - Making Invisible Histories Visible]
• [http://northomaha.blogspot.com/ North Omaha History Blog]

• [http://dp.la/ Digital Public Library of America]
• [https://books.google.com/ Google Books]
• [https://scholar.google.com/ Google Scholar]
• OCLC's WorldCat -- [https://www.worldcat.org/ WorldCat global catalog] (also [https://www.worldcat.org/advancedsearch Advanced Search])

:Example usage:

:* Subject search: [https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=black+omaha&qt=results_page Black Omaha] -- [https://www.worldcat.org/title/upstream-metropolis-an-urban-biography-of-omaha-and-council-bluffs/oclc/140762450 Larsen, Lawrence H. Upstream Metropolis An Urban Biography of Omaha and Council Bluffs.]

:* Worldcat Viewport often shows more than Google Books and has super clean interface:

:: − [https://www.worldcat.org/title/upstream-metropolis-an-urban-biography-of-omaha-and-council-bluffs/oclc/140762450/viewport Upstream Metropolis An Urban Biography of Omaha and Council Bluffs]

:the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit

• English Wikipedia
• [https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paj_Prensipal Haitian Wikipedia]
• [https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Portada Spanish Wikipedia]
• [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipédia:Accueil_principal French Wikipedia]
• [https://tw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Twi Wikipedia]
• [https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ihü_Mbu Igbo Wikipedia]
• [https://yo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ojúewé_Àkọ́kọ́ Yoruba Wikipedia]
• [https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/cab/Belú Garifuna Wikipedia]

:a multilingual, web-based project to create a free content dictionary of all words in all languages

• [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Main_Page English Wiktionary]
• [https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wt/ht Haitian Wiktionary on Incubator]
• [https://es.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wikcionario:Portada Spanish Wiktionary]
• [https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionnaire:Page_d’accueil French Wiktionary]
• [https://tw.wiktionary.org/wiki/Main_Page Twi Wiktionary] ([https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wt/tw Twi on Incubator])
• [https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wt/ig?goto=mainpage Igbo Wiktionary on Incubator]
• [https://yo.wiktionary.org/wiki/Ojúewé_Àkọ́kọ́ Yoruba Wiktionary] ([https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wt/yo Yoruba on Incubator])
• [https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wt/cab Garifuna Wiktionary on Incubator]

• AfroCROWD
• WikiAfrica
• WikiProject African Diaspora
• [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afripédia Afripédia] (French)
• WikiProject Haiti
• [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haïti Haïti Portail] (French)

• [http://www.worldafropedia.com/afropedia/Main_Page World Afropedia]
• [http://www.afropedea.org/ Afropedea]

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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]
• [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources| Citation guide]
• [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Adding_image| Adding Photos]
• [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Infobox_templates Infobox templates]
• [http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bookshelf/ Bookshelf] (additional "getting started" resources)
• Formatting shortcuts:

:* [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikitext_examples#Basic_text_formatting Text Formatting]

:* [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikitext_examples#Organizing_your_writing Section Headers, Indents, and Lists]

:* [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikitext_examples#Links Links]

• Images and photos:

:* Uploading Images -- tutorial, general overview

:* Image Use Policy -- rights, licenses, is it okay to use the image

:* Picture Tutorial -- technical details of getting image uploaded and displaying in a way that looks good

• [http://archiparlour.org/wikid-guides-to-wikipedia-editing/ wikiD Guides for Wikipedia Editing]:

: [http://archiparlour.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/WikiD-Guides-1_version11.pdf Introduction and Guide 1: Getting Started!] – Why Edit Wikipedia?, Using the WikiD Guides and Getting Started.

: [http://archiparlour.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/WikiD-Guides-2_version1.pdf Guide 2: Selecting and Researching a Topic/Subject] – Choosing a Subject, References and Sources and Images.

: [http://archiparlour.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/WikiD-Guides-3_Version1.pdf Guide 3: Writing an Entry] – Tone and Style, Content and Structure, Building an Argument, Precedents and Article Titles.

: [http://archiparlour.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/WikiD-Guides-4_version1.pdf Guide 4: Navigating the Wikipedia Interface] – Editing Interfaces, Creating a New Article, Editing Existing Pages and Disambiguation

: [http://archiparlour.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/WikiD-Guides-5_Version11.pdf Guide 5: Troubleshooting] – Deleted Pages, Flagged Pages and Talk Pages

• Cheatsheet for editing Wikipedia
• Infobox template - person
• Biographies of living persons
• Writing an article
• About the Sandbox
• Determining Notability of Creative Professionals
• Conflict of Interest in Wikipedia Editing
• Verifying Reliable Sources

• N.B. There is an IRC channel if online participants need help:

:: Wikipedia:IRC/wikipedia-en-help

::* {{IRC|wikipedia-en-help}}

• UNO Women's History Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon @ University of Nebraska Omaha's Criss Library - March 31, 2015

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• Black WikiHistory Month
• [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Nebraska Wikipedia Meetup - Nebraska] (main events page)
• [http://calendar.dospace.org/event/2303816 Event page] @ Do Space
• [http://www.dospace.org/ Do Space]

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