Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Black History Month First Edit at NPR

RSVPing is required for all non-NPR-employees; there is limited room for guests. Include your name, so we can let security know you're coming.

NPR employees, please create a Wikipedia account before coming to the event.

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This event will take place in Seminar North at NPR Headquarters.

If you are an experienced editor from outside NPR, please arrive by 12:15 pm so you can move through security.

Time	Activity
12:30pm	Welcome to the Edit-a-thon!
12:35pm	Intro to Wikipedia
12:45pm	Library Resources Overview
1:00pm	Let's edit!

Where is the event?

We'll be in Seminar North at NPR Headquarters. If you're a guest, tell security you're here to help with the Wikipedia tutorial, and they'll help you sign in.

What should I bring?

* A laptop, especially if you're a not an NPR employee

* An interest in black history and editing Wikipedia!

Do I have to register to attend, or can I just arrive on the day?

If you are NOT an NPR employee, you'll need to sign up above with your Wikipedia username and your real name. If you don't feel comfortable listing your real name above, just send Veronica a note with it. It will be on your security badge, but we don't mind you wearing that backwards. :)

NPR employees are encouraged to RSVP above, but can just show up.

You didn't answer my question!

Feel free to ask on this project's talk page. We welcome suggestions on the development and progress of this meetup.

• Three things to know about editing Wikipedia
• Intro to Wikipedia Slides
• More: Cheatsheet, Wikipedia:Featured Articles, Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines, Help:Getting started, Wikipedia:Starting an article
• Orphaned articles by WikiProject -- Listings of quick and easy or more extensive cleanup projects, by topic. Quickest: Add wikilinks to articles.
• The perfect editing music: Listen to Wikipedia edits

If you're new to Wikipedia, you'll want to work items from the first lists. If you have some experience, feel free to dive into the intermediate and advanced items.

These articles need to be more clearly linked to reliable sources that provide the information. Check out the Wikipedia article on Citing Sources for help with citations.

• American Beach, Florida
• Apollo Theater
• Berbice Slave Uprising
• Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site
• Dunbar High School (Washington, D.C.)
• Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
• Levi Coffin House
• Seneca Village
• Shaw University, North Carolina, specifically this section

The format for this citation needs to be tidied up.

• International Civil Rights Center and Museum, specifically this one

Write more about this subject, and make sure your sources are cited.

• Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial
  • Consider including mention and link to McLeod's school: Bethune-Cookman University

It's possible that someone affiliated with the subject wrote the article.

• Howard University Hospital

These articles need less obvious improvements. Review the article carefully and find places where the subject could be better explained or better cited.

• Allensworth, California
• Nicodemus, Kansas
• Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
• Greyhound Bus Station (Montgomery, Alabama)
• March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom at the Lincoln Memorial

Before starting to write, make sure that the subject meets Wikipedia's notability requirements!

• Hampton House Motel http://www.historichamptonhouse.com/
• History of the African Americans in Baltimore, to parallel existing articles:
  • Czechs, French, Germans, Greeks, Hispanics and Latinos, Italians, Jews, Koreans, Lithuanians, Native Americans, Poles, Russians, Ukrainians

As an NPR employee, you have access to lots of:

• Databases through the NPR RAD team. (You'll need to sign in with your @npr.org email account.)
  • Britannica Academic
  • Facts on File
  • Columbia Gazetteer

As a DC library cardholder, you also have access to lots of:

• Databases through the DC Library. (You'll need to sign in with your library card number.)
• Suggested databases:
  • African American Experience
  • African American Studies Center
  • Black Studies Center

When looking on the public internet, you might also check out:

• Google Books, which allows full-text search. (It's open to all!)

If you notice that edits you made have already been listed below, please feel free to "claim" them by putting three tildas at the end of the line.

1. Corrected two references in International Civil Rights Center and Museum -- Dgorsline (talk) 17:57, 12 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
2. Documented event to fight systemic bias under Category:Black History Month First Edit at NPR 2016. Geraldshields11 (talk) 20:12, 13 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
3. Updated tags for American Beach, Florida
4. Removed some promotional wording and added citations to Howard University Hospital —Verbistheword (talk)
5. Added content, a citation, and an external link to Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial
6. Minor copy edit to Apollo Theater
7. Minor copy edit and tag revision for Berbice Slave Uprising
8. Added citations to Levi Coffin House
9. Added citations and merged materials into American Beach, Florida

• N.B. There is an IRC channel if online participants need help during, before, or after the event:

Wikipedia:IRC/wikipedia-en-help

• #wikipedia-en-help ^connect

• NPR
• Black WikiHistory Month