Wikipedia:Meetup/Wikimedia Nigeria/Black History Month

Black History Month is celebrated annually in the United States in February, to commemorate the history of the African diaspora. For this occasion, AfroCROWD in partnership with Oregon State University and her sister University in Nigeria, Federal University Of Agriculture Of Abeokuta in conjunction with Wikimedia User Group Nigeria present a editathon for the improvement of existing contents about the subject matters and also improve citation in related contents.

Activities will include new editor orientation and training, citation process organized with the Wikimedia User Group Nigeria (WUGN). Its a closed event with specific target audience in mind. Refreshments generously supplied by management of the Nimbe Adedipe Library of the Federal University Of Agriculture, Abeokuta.

THANK YOU!

A giant thank you to all the participants that are joining us for this event. Keep editing |

Black History Month in Nigeria 2019

Goals

To introduce Nigerian Librarians to digital inclusion and data

analysis through the use of Wikipedia, the world largest online encyclopedia. .

To Identify and create Wikipedia articles for the identified and

notable African Americans who do not have Wikipedia articles .

To Identify African and Americans’ articles on Wikipedia that

need improvement.

Black History Month in Nigeria Partners

AfroCROWD
African Women on Board
Wikimedia User Group Nigeria

Participation details

When: February, 2021; 12:00pm

Who: Journalists; Volunteers; No advanced technical skills required – those with experience will help

What to bring: PC and internet will be provided; If you’ve been part of the data-gathering exercise leading up to the edit-a-thon, bring your files and photos; If you have not been part of the preparatory research work, there will be an ambitious task list for you to work on.

Where: TBD

RSVP: Sign up directly below or olaniyanshol15@gmail.com; This event is free of charge but we need an advance count of attendees.

If you don’t need the tutorials, you can just start/keep editing!

Wikipedia Editing Resources

Attendees

Please add your name below

Online attendees

List of Tasks

List of Nigerian Americans

List of Nigerian Americans

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List of images or data that is missing

Notable Names to be profiled

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Edit-a-Thon Results

New pages

Improved pages

Citation improved

Photos added to Wikimedia Commons

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