Oregon State University Black History Month Wikipedia Edit-a-thon with AfroCROWD, Wikimedia Nigeria and Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta: Writing Black History into Wikipedia [edit]

An international Black History Month Wikipedia edit-a-thon with partners Oregon State University, Wikimedia Nigeria, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta and AfroCROWD

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Further Black History Month Editing with AfroCROWD:

Schomburg Center Black History Month Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: Black New York History. Saturday, February 16, 2019

OSU Black History Month Edit-a-thon:[edit]

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How to prepare[edit]

Bring your laptop: Editing Wikipedia is easier with a keyboard.
Bring a published source to cite: Suggested books and papers will be available at the event. If you like, bring an academic paper or other reliable source of information to cite, to support your addition to Wikipedia. You will use Wikipedia to distribute information from this source. Try to bring the highest quality most reputable source you can find for the information.
Create a Wikipedia account, if you do not have one already.
If you wish, take Wikipedia's own 30-minute online training and tour at The Wikipedia Adventure.
Social Media: Tweet, like, comment or follow us on social media. Our hashtags for today are #OSUWikiBHM and #AfroCROWD. Our Twitter handle is @AfroCROWDit and on Instagram and Facebook @AfroCROWD.

Event Agenda[edit]

We will open the area for registration at 1:30 PM, with introductions and the primary training session to start at 2:05 PM. We will have a brief time take a group photo at 3:30PM and time to share at 4:15PM. The program will end at 5:00 PM with wrap up to begin 30 minutes before that.

Welcome to the Edit-a-thon![edit]

Please ask the event organizer for the Wifi Information.

What is Wikipedia?[edit]

Wikipedia is the fifth most visited website on earth (World Economic Forum), and the English language Wikipedia contains nearly 5.5 million articles, more than 40 million worldwide on 265 separate language sites, resulting in 16 billion page views per month.^[7] (See the statistics page for more information.)

Our mission for today[edit]

	The AfroCROWD User Group AfroCROWD
When and Where
Date	February 8, 2019
Time	2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Address	Autzen Classroom, Second floor of the Oregon State University Valley Library ;

Thanks for coming today and helping make history with the #AfroCROWD initiative to help close the Wikipedia diversity gap on notable people of African Descent. Today's mission: Add at least once sentence or other contribution to Wikipedia about a notable person of African descent or a place or cultural item associated with the the African Diaspora.

Did you achieve today's goal? Tell a wiki coach, and we can help check your edit(s) for you

Let’s begin:[edit]

Get your account/ create a username: Please don’t use your real name. It should be 6-8 characters. If you need help, please ask a Wikimedia coach
Add your user name to the Dashboard
Listen to the training or if you are editing from home or online head here for the basics overview. Head here for a simplified tutorial.
Browse Editing Ideas below and choose a topic to edit (or if you already have one skip to the next step)
Edit: in short - (1) click edit (2) add a sentence (3) provide a citation (4) repeat
Ask for help: Don’t worry about perfection, the Wiki Coaches are here to help you.

Editing contribution types for new Wikipedia editors:[edit]

Is this your very first time? Try this:

Add a biographical sentence: Start with a name, a birthday, an occupation or title, what they famously did, and (very importantly) a citation to verify your information from a credible source(s).

How to make a citation (bibliographical reference):[edit]

1) First, click on the pencil icon on the right to begin using "Visual Editor". Visual editor makes editing easier - like writing a school paper.

2) In Visual Editor, click on the area you want to add the citation. Then click cite. If you have a website as a source, add the website to the blank area.

If you do not have a website source, click manual and follow the prompts. Then click publish. If you have questions, ask a Wikimedia coach or go to Wikipedia:Tutorial/Citing sources.

3) Then click publish.

Editing Ideas: These have lists of potential articles to create/edit[edit]

Short articles to improve about the Pacific Northwest[edit]

Link	Description
Susie Revels Cayton	Writer, editor, activist, and leader in the black community in Seattle at the start of the 20th century
Robin Holmes	Holmes v. Ford
24th Infantry Regiment	African American unit of soldiers. Add information about their service in the Vancouver area at the turn of the century
Beatrice Morrow Cannady	Oregon Civil Rights Advocate
James D. Saules	Sailor shipwrecked off the coast of Oregon in 1841
Avel Gordly	First African American woman elected to Oregon State Senate
DeNorval Unthank	Oregon Civil Rights Advocate
Vanport Flood	Flood in the Portland area effecting the predominantly African American community
Robert E. Lee Folkes	Wrongly convicted of murder and executed in 1945
Urban League of Portland	Established in 1945, the Urban League of Portland is one of the oldest African American service, civil rights and advocacy organizations in the area.
Albina District	Add information about African American History. Wikipedia page on Albina city.
Albina riot of 1967	The 1967 Albina Riot occurred in Portland, Oregon during a year when other cities were experiences similar civil right demonstrations and urban unrest.
Jacob Vanderpool	Victim of Oregon's 19th century black exclusion laws
Lizzie Weeks	Activist and first African American female social worker in Multnomah County.