Wikipedia:Meetup/San Francisco/LGBTQIA Editathon, San Francisco Public Library

Are you an experienced Wikipedia editor wanting to make a local connection? Want to learn how to edit Wikipedia? Do you treasure the San Francisco Public Library's James C. Hormel LGBTQIA collection and are looking for opportunities that makes a real impact on the way in which information is created? Please join the San Francisco Public Library to encourage diverse editorship and improve coverage of local LGBTQIA topics on Wikipedia. Together we can work towards a goal of creating one new entry and expanding at least five existing entries to share with the world!

Date and venue

Date Sunday June 10th 2018
Time 1 pm - 4 pm
Location San Francisco Public Library Computer Training Center - 5th Floor, 100 Larkin St. San Francisco, 94102
Event An editathon focusing on improving articles related to San Francisco's LGBT history in honor of Pride month with an emphasis on where library related collections can make a difference.

Activities and Editing Subjects

Schedule

1-2 pm welcome, introductions and orientation to library resources, goals for the day
2-3 pm introduction to editing on Wikipedia
3-4 pm continue editing wrap up and share results

Below are some suggestions, but ultimately participants should decide what they'd like to learn or edit, so add to this section as you see fit.

Articles to create

To find more suggestions: Wikipedia:Wiki Loves Pride/Tasks, Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/LBT Women.

GLBT Historical Society exhibit: Making a Case for Community History

David Iris Cameron

Valencia Rose 1980-1986 later Josie's Cabaret and Juice Joint 1990-2000

Brian Freeman (actor) co-founder of Pomo Afro Homos

Black Lesbian Newspaper/ ONYX Black Lesbian Newsletter Records on Online Archive of California

OUT/LOOK Magazine, 1988-1992, San Francisco queer quarterly that brought the academic, the creative, the visual, and the controversial together between two covers.

Jacqueline Goldsby author and academic.

Articles to improve

To find more articles to read and improve: Category:Stub-Class LGBT articles , Preserving LGBT Historic Sites in California, GLBT Museum exhibits

Stub-Class articles to improve

Queer Cultural Center originally founded as: the San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Center for Art and Culture (may help to search for this), also add category Bay Area Arts Organization (see Galeria de la Raza) for example. Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

National Queer Arts Festival Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

San Francisco Bay Times expand this stub! This article could also use an image.

Bob Ross (publisher) publisher of the Bay Area Reporter, oldest continuously published Gay newspaper, founded in 1971. BAR Archives are available online through the GLBT Historical Society. Not OCR but page by page and uncorrected so hard to search, organized by Date and Volume/issue number.

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Skill requirements

Everyone is welcome

What to bring

Bring a laptop and charger if you want your own, we will also have laptops available for public use (we'll supply power and Wifi)
Ideas for topics or articles that you want to work on.
We'll have the library's resources at our disposal, but if you have a special resource, bring it.
Would-be-editor friends.

Yes

(Edit and leave your name, or just add ~~~~ below)

Fifthcoastbobcat (talk) 03:32, 10 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Mathglot (talk) 01:03, 7 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Trojan editor(talk) 3:20, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
ryankrucker(talk) 10:06, 9 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Generalmeow (talk) 21:01, 10 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
EagleTail
SfplFAN699 (talk) 15:39, 10 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
JMatazzoni (WMF) (talk) 22:46, 12 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Attendees

Please add the names or accounts of the other actual attendees .

Generalmeow (talk) 21:05, 10 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Fifthcoastbobcat (talk) 03:32, 10 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Mathglot (talk) 01:03, 7 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Trojan editor(talk) 3:20, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
ryankrucker(talk) 10:06, 9 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Generalmeow (talk) 21:01, 10 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
SfplFAN699 (talk) 15:39, 10 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Outcomes

New accounts created

1. EagleTail

Articles improved

San Francisco Bay Times improved formatting and added sections

Queer Cultural Center added category for Bay Area Arts Organization

References