Wikipedia:Meetup/Kansas City/KC Black History April 2019
Event information
[edit]- Event Title: Kansas City Black History Edit-a-thon
- Date: Saturday, April 6 2019
- Time: 1:00pm — 3:00pm CST
- Location: Bruce R. Watkins Cultural Center; 3700 Blue Parkway, Kansas City, MO 64130
- Host institutions: Kansas City Public Library, American Jazz Museum
- Edit-A-Thon Organizer:Kim Gile.
- Event pages: Facebook event, The Kansas City Public Library calendar listing
- Free with registration. To register, reserve tickets online.
Details
[edit]Celebrate Kansas City’s rich black heritage by joining us for a Wikipedia edit-a-thon! You will learn about Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, the anatomy of a Wiki article, and how to contribute to this free online encyclopedia.
We will focus on creating and developing articles that preserve our local history.
What to bring: - limited laptops will be available but please bring a laptop and a power cord if you are able.
No Wikipedia experience necessary; training session at 1:30pm. To participate you don’t need specialized knowledge of these topics or of Wikipedia. Please create a free user account on wikipedia.org before the event. There will be plenty of reference material and a limited number of laptops available.
Register
[edit]Free with registration. To register, reserve tickets online.
Participants
[edit]And if you already have a Wikipedia account, you may add your Wikipedia username to this section (signatures are created by saving four tildes [~] in a row, add your username and talk page by using three tildes):
- Kclibrarian
- Your name here
- Your name here
- Your name here
Work list
[edit]Articles to improve
[edit]Below is a list of articles that would benefit from edits and expansion during the edit-a-thon:
- 18th and Vine – Downtown East, Kansas City
- Arthur Bryant (restaurateur)
- Arthur Bryant's
- Bruce R. Watkins
- Elston Howard
- Fredericka Douglass Sprague Perry
- Gates Bar-B-Q
- Oliver Todd
- Carmell Jones
- Harold Ashby
- Harold L. Holliday
- Henry Perry (restaurateur)
- Hiram Rhodes Revels
- Jay McShann
- Junius George Groves
- Kansas City Cowboys (National League)
- Lincoln College Preparatory Academy
- Lucile Bluford
- Mary Groves Bland
- Municipal Stadium (Kansas City, Missouri)
- Mutual Musicians Foundation
- Nathaniel Clark Smith
- Prospect Avenue (Kansas City, Missouri)
- Rube Foster
- Sarah Rector
- The Call (Kansas City)
- Tom Bass (horse trainer)
- Troost Avenue
Articles to create
[edit]Note: Editors must have accounts that "autoconfirmed" (four days old and have made more than ten edits) in order to create a page. During the edit-a-thon, editors brandnew to Wikipedia are encouraged to expand existing articles to develop Wikipedia know-how. Those interested in working on a new article for Wikipedia can prepare the article in a sandbox draft space.
- The GEM Theater
- The Blue Room
- Joelouis Mattox
- R.T. Coles
- Lafayette Tillman
- Church Hill Street Settlement
- The Negro Protective League of Kansas City
- The Niles Home for Negro Children
- Sam Easton of Kansas City
- Association of Negro Women of KC
- Mamie Hughes
- Chester Arthur Franklin
- Horace M. Peterson III
- Hotel Street
- Reuben Street
- Irene Whitley Marcus
- Corinthian Clay Nutter
- Gertrude Keith
- William L. Fambrough
- Hazel Browne Williams
- John F. Ramos, Jr
- Lena Rivers Smith
- Dr. Earl D. Thomas
- Wayne Miner
- John Edward Perry
- Leona Pouncey Thurman
- The Rector House of Kansas City
- St. Paul AME Church
- Wheatley Provident Hospital
- Hell's Half Acre
- Rosie Mason
Resources
[edit]Library resources to use to expand articles
[edit]- Kansas City Jazz: Wide Open Town library web catalog list
Resources to learn about editing Wikipedia
[edit]Results
[edit]Dashboard [1]