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South-Central Minnesota History Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon
When and Where
DateSaturday, July 23, 2022
Time11–4 pm CDT
LocationBlue Earth County History Center and Museum. Operated by the Blue Earth County Historical Society.
Address424 Warren Street
City, StateMankato, Minnesota 56001
Websitehttps://blueearthcountyhistory.com/
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Help improve local history on Wikipedia.

Join us in creating or enhancing Wikipedia articles on South-Central Minnesota history. This event is a great way to make new friends, have fun, and learn something new while adding knowledge about Central Minnesota to Wikipedia. No Wikipedia experience necessary, training will be provided. This event is part of a series of eight Local History Wikipedia Edit-a-Thons and is put on by Minnesota Historical Society's Local History Services and hosted by the Blue Earth County Historical Society and the South Central History Collaborative.

Event information[edit]

  • Event Title: South-Central Minnesota History Edit-a-thon
  • Date: Saturday, July 23, 2022
  • Time: 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. CDT
  • Location: Blue Earth County History Center and Museum, Blue Earth County Historical Society, 424 Warren St, Mankato, Minnesota 56001
  • Cost: Free
  • Facilitator/s: Joe Hoover
  • Limited to eight participants

Counties in South-Central Minnesota History Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon[edit]

Counties in the South Central History Collaborative

Details[edit]

While laptops are provided, we encourage you to bring your own laptop, power cord and ideas for entries that need updating or creation. For the editing-averse, we urge you to stop by to show your support.

Attendees are asked to register beforehand and to bring any books, journals, magazines or newspaper articles relevant to pages they're interested in to use for sources for research.

No Wikipedia experience necessary; Social hour with light refreshments begins at 11 a.m., edit-a-thon at noon. Brief training session at 12:20 p.m. for newcomers. Library resources will be on hand for researching, however, consider bring books and news articles on your own community's or museum's history.

Attendees[edit]

Free but registration required.

If you have a Wikipedia user account please sign up on the events Dashboard.

Add your Wikipedia username to the list below if you have one. Tip; you can just type asterisk-space-three tildes (* ~~~)

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Preparation[edit]

If you're coming, try to create a Wikipedia account beforehand: don't wait until the day to do it! Here's a form you can use. Creating an account makes editing much easier (more info). You'll need to pick a "handle" for your username; you could use your real name, but it's nicer to have the option to be a bit anonymous if you want. Joe's username is Myotus.

Read up on Wikipedia: there are lots of tutorials, please check out the ones provided at the bottom of the page.

Have a think about topics you'd like to work on. Check out their pages and see if there are obvious mistakes or problems. Maybe even do a little research first so you're prepared. Bring along references for the information you want to add. If the topic you're interested in doesn't have a Wikipedia page, we could even create one. If you're stuck, there are lots of pages that need work: here are some suggestions.

List of articles[edit]

These are suggestions for articles and edits but the edit-a-thon is not limited to them.

Many of these pages history sections need expansion or creation:[edit]

List of articles[edit]

These are categories that may contain useful photos to use for your pages.

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