Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Color History with the Smithsonian!

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Color History with the Smithsonian!

#ColorOurHistory - a Wikipedia edit-a-thon to increase Wikipedia articles about notable minority women, and train minority editors! All are welcome, lunch and coffee provided.

• Check out this to-do list of article suggestions, handpicked by Smithsonian staff.
• Resources from the Smithsonian will be utilized, offline and online.
• Contribute to existing articles or write new articles in whatever language.
• Help your fellow contributors out - lend a hand when needed and help out new editors!
• Even if you don't feel like writing about someone on our to-do list, we welcome you to come.
• Participants must be in good standing in the Wikimedia community.
• Check out our Etherpad

when

Saturday, March 19, 2016, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.

where

'National Museum of American Indian

Fourth Street & Independence Ave., S.W., 4th Floor, Room 4018, Washington, DC 20560

L’Enfant Plaza (Blue/Orange/Green/Yellow lines), exit Maryland Avenue/Smithsonian Museums

your hosts

Coordinated by the Smithsonian Institution Archives with the Asian Pacific American Center, Latino Center, National Museum of African American History and Culture, National Museum of American Indian

Sign up!

I'll be there in person!

35 person limit. Please note your skill level at Wikipedia editing.

1. Elpeanoh (beginner skill)
2. Kirill Lokshin (talk)
3. Baasil Wilder (beginner skill)
4. Nona Martin (beginner skill)
5. Uncommon fritillary (talk) 15:04, 8 March 2016 (UTC) Moderately skilled at editing
6. Distancerunner1 (talk) 16:00, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
7. Ambrosia10 (talk) 05:06, 12 March 2016 (UTC) Moderately skilled at editing
8. Digitaleffie (talk) 20:56, 13 March 2016 (UTC)
9. Geraldshields11 (talk) 14:05, 15 March 2016 (UTC) Moderately skilled at editing and will take photographs of event
10. bluelikechagall (beginner skill)
11. Noah Maruyama (beginner)
12. Meghaninmotion (talk) 21:02, 16 March 2016 (UTC) (beginner/moderate skill)
13. Cushcush02 (beginner skill) will arrive at 11:00a.m.
14. James Neal (beginner skill)
15. Duckduckstop (talk) but will have to leave after lunch
16. Judy Edelhoff (beginne skill); can you provide s spare laptop or desktop?
17. Lauren Friedman (beginner skill)
18. Jill Earl (beginner skill)
19. Beth Zeitler (intermediate); well arrive after 11am
20. Hillary Brady (beginner)
21. Ravon Ruffin (beginner)
22. Jacky de la Torre (beginner)
23. Jarekt (talk) 15:56, 19 March 2016 (UTC) (will help with images)
24. Lspruce (beginner)

I'll be there online and in spirit!

Please sign up here if you will join us remotely. Unfortunately we have experienced technical difficulties with our broadcast. Please follow along on Twitter using the hashtag #ColorOurHistory

• Penny Richards (talk) 16:17, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
• [[User:Nora Lockshin}|Nora Lockshin]] (talk)

Schedule

• 10:00am-10:15am: Coffee/Ice Breaker
• 10:30am-11:30am: Lightning round presentations:
  • Shauna Collier, Librarian, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
  • Netisha Currie, Archivist, National Archives Rediscovering Black History
  • Ja-Zette Marshburn, Archivist, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
  • Jennifer Morris, Archivist, Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum
• 11:30am-12:15pm: Wikipedia Introduction + Training
• 12:15pm-12:45pm: Lunch break
• 12:45pm-3pm: Write/edit Wikipedia articles (via etherpad)

What to bring

• A laptop
• A government issued ID
• You're welcome to bring your camera and take pictures
• A Wikipedia user name and login (don't worry, we'll tell you how to get one)

Articles to work on

Check out our growing to-do list here!

Research resources

Smithsonian websites, library catalogs, & databases

• Asian Pacific American Center
• African American Collections of the Smithsonian
• Flickr Commons, Smithsonian Institution - http://www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/
• Smithsonian Native American collections
• National Archives Rediscovering Black History Project
• Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Museum
• Smithsonian National Museum of American Indian collections
• Smithsonian Institution Archives Website - http://siarchives.si.edu/collections
• Smithsonian Latino Center
• Smithsonian Libraries catalog portal Tools for the Researcher
• Smithsonian Libraries free databases and collections
• Smithsonian Libraries article indexes and databases (some accessible only from terminals located in the library)
• Smithsonian Collections Search Center
• Smithsonian Archives Images on Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Smithsonian_Institution_Archives

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Wikipedia Resources

• Wikipedia editing basics video tutorials- This is mainly for after you leave as there will be plenty of people around you to help out!
• Excellent ideas for getting started with editing Wikipedia articles about women, by history professor, Michelle Moravec.
• Article category suggestions for women scientists
• Listing of cleanup needed for Wikipedia articles on women scientists
• Training slides: Media:Intro_to_Wikipedia_-_American_Art.pdf, [1]

Outcomes

• Uploaded, under category:2016 Color History with the Smithsonian) to Wiki Commons 69 photographs to document the event to fight systemic bias. Geraldshields11 (talk) 16:41, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
• Added citation to Gladys Bentley, Joyce Bryant & Ida Cox. Ambrosia10 (talk) 17:01, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
• Added four citations and a few sentences to Elise Johnson McDougald.Penny Richards (talk) 17:03, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
• Added citations to Kao Kalia Yang. Uncommon fritillary (talk) 17:23, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
• Added information and citations to Louise Daniel Hutchinson. Lafried (talk) 18:02, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
• Added citations to Sugar Pie DeSanto and Geneva Smitherman. Lafried (talk) 18:04, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
• Added info box to Maggie Gee article and external links to videos of interviews Ambrosia10 (talk) 18:10, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
• Vaino Spencer (new article).Penny Richards (talk) 18:11, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
• Added detail and citation to Althea Gibson. DocSoutherland, 19 March 2016
• Added citations and some details to Betye Saar. Bluelikechagall (talk) 18:59, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
• Added citation to Clotilde Arias. Baasilt (talk) 21:39, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
• Created Claudine K. Brown. noranoodle (talk) 21:39, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
• Created Edith T. Martin. Chembeth (talk) 23:36, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
• Created Grace Lincoln Temple. HBrady1221 (talk) 16:40, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

Resources for after the event

• Wikipedia:Teahouse, a friendly place to help new editors get started
• Wikipedia editing basics video tutorials- This is mainly for after you leave as there will be plenty of people around you to help out!
• Excellent ideas for getting started with editing Wikipedia articles about women, by history professor, Michelle Moravec.
• Article category suggestions for women scientists
• Listing of cleanup needed for Wikipedia articles on women scientists
• Training slides: Media:Intro_to_Wikipedia_-_American_Art.pdf, [2]