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The Asheville Edit-a-thon & Record-a-thon at the 121st Baird Family Reunion is Saturday September 1, 1-5pm.

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The 1st ever WNC Record-a-thon & Edit-a-thon

When:	Saturday, 1 September 2018
Time:	01:00pm - 05:00pm
Address:	Habitat Tavern & Commons, 174 Broadway Street, Asheville, North Carolina 28801

The first ever Western North Carolina Wikipedia Record-and-Edit-a-Thon

Hosted by the 121st Baird Family Reunion, UNC-Asheville, AfroCrowd, the Asheville African-American Heritage Commission, and the Color of Asheville.

What

• Share the diverse stories of Western North Carolina, your -and your families’- history and stories, and other cultural knowledge with the world by participating in the first ever WNC Wikipedia Record-a-Thon and Edit-a-Thon!

• Bring artifacts and cultural stories to share and photograph. Volunteers will be on hand to teach you how to record oral histories and edit Wikipedia.

• Use hashtag #WikiAsheville to share and follow along on social media.

When

• Saturday, September 1st, 2018; from 1pm - 5pm

Where

• Habitat Tavern & Commons, 174 Broadway Street, Asheville, North Carolina 28801

Who

• YOU, your friends, families, colleagues!

• For more information, contact:
  • Darold Cuba, darold.cubacolumbia.edu, 347-385-3415
  • Ami Worthen, amiworthengmail.com, 828-231-6290
  • Rachel Cuba, rachelcuba11gmail.com, 804-832-5970,
  • Kasey Baker, kayzbaker911gmail.com, 828-484-1589,

Why

"Wikipedia Record-and-Edit-a-thons are happening all over the US in an effort to write marginalized people into the 6th most used url in the world. By one study, 8.5% of wiki writers are female and only 1% are transgender, with the majority of entries coming from Europe and North America. This is an opportunity to include the individuals and institutions from WNC with a wider experience by gender, race, ethnicity, and more."- Deborah Miles, Director of the UNC Asheville's Center for Diversity Education, sponsor.

Event participants will leave with the following:

• Perspective and the ability to discuss Wikipedia's place in the media
• Live publication of information in Wikipedia and instructions for seeing how many people read it
• Experience of having edited Wikipedia a few times in the typical way and recorded oral knowledge histories for Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and the AfroCROWD Wiki Oral Knowledge and History Project
• Opportunity to meet with others interested in oral knowledge and history and the tie with technology and the Wiki and open source community.

This free event is being hosted by the Baird Family's 121st Reunion (the oldest black family reunion in the country) with AfroCrowd, the African American Heritage Commission of Asheville and Buncombe County, and UNC Asheville’s Center for Diversity Education.

All are welcome. Please bring a laptop or tablet if you have one. There will be extra laptops available for those who need them

Agenda

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• Welcome and introductions
  • Sasha Mitchell, African American Heritage Commission
  • Add others who wish to speak and in what capacity
• How to edit Wikipedia and use the Wiki tools
• How to record oral knowledge for Wiki tools
• How to upload files to Wiki Commons
• Edit-A-Thon & Record-A-Thon
• Group photo
• Share-A-thon: share what you've learned and like, and plan to continue to do, and what could be improved

Topics to edit/add/share & pages to create

Add an item to be edited and/or created as an article

1. Create page for the historic Stephens-Lee High School
2. Create page for ASCORE
3. Create page for James "Bo" Ferguson
4. Add to the YMI stub
5. Create a page for the #People Not Property — Slave Deeds of North Carolina project which originated in WNC's very own Asheville, and the organizations, institutions and people involved,
6. Create a page for the historic communities of African descent in WNC, as well as individual pages for each community
   1. Rock Hill, Asheville, North Carolina
   2. Petersburg, Asheville, North Carolina
   3. Brooklyn, Asheville, North Carolina
   4. Old Shiloh, Asheville, North Carolina
   5. [New] Shiloh, Asheville, North Carolina
7. Create a page for "Black" family reunions, and feature the oldest ones
   1. Baird Reunion, est. 1897 (Asheville, North Carolina)
   2. Flack-Council-Coleman Reunion, est. 1917 (Asheville, North Carolina)
   3. Quander family reunion, est. 1926 (Northern Virginia)
8. Create a ”Black” Appalachia/Highlanders, and establish pages for regions
   1. Buncombe County, North Carolina
      1. Asheville
      2. Weaverville
9. Create a page for Slavery in Appalachia and individual pages for the different regions, families and individuals
   1. Buncombe County, North Carolina
      1. Asheville
         1. Vance family
         2. Baird family
         3. Weaver family
         4. Swain family
         5. Davidson family
         6. Patton family
         7. Woodfin family
10. Create a page for the “black” history of Biltmore Estate
11. Add to the Freedom Colonies draft article
12. Expand the African Americans in North Carolina article
    1. Create a section heading for "black businesses" in the Western North Carolina section
13. Add and expand artices using Category:African-American history of North Carolina

Wikipedia Resources and Advanced Support

Uploading to Wikimedia Commons:

• Click here for advice on how to upload to Wiki Commons
• Examples of Audio Files on Wikimedia Commons
• How to re-use Wiki Commons files in other wikis
• Wiki Commons Basics, uploading files (video)

Translations: The best way to get started at this event is to talk in person with one of the trainers at the event. As advanced preparation, anyone might select a Wikipedia article which interests them and which they might like to translate at the event. The best way to learn about oral knowledge and history collection in this context is to come to the event, listen to the presentation, then ask for assistance at your computer if you need it.

If you want to read technical documentation on your own then click "show" to the right and read the following guides.

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A note on languages: We will be capturing oral knowledge is different languages as well. If you would like to write articles in different languages, check this out: How to find the list of articles in which a Wikipedia article already exists Suppose that one has a Wikipedia article in one language, and wants to see the other languages in which that Wikipedia article exists. Here is the process: Go to any Wikipedia article in any language In almost all cases, if the article exists in another language, the name of that language will be on the left side of the screen Click the name of the language to see the translation of the article in that language Ask for assistance if you go further than this, because a person with experience will be able to quickly confirm what any new user finds On the left side of the screen there is a menu. Look for "Wikidata item" or a translation of that phrase If there is no statement "Wikidata item", then go to Wikidata and search for the article's name in any language If there is still no result, that article has not been translated. Start a translation! After publishing a translation create a Wikidata item for the concept. List the original article there and your translation so that they will be interconnected. Ask for assistance with this if Wikidata looks confusing. If you find a Wikidata item for a concept, then the Wikidata item will list all language Wikipedia articles covering that concept. Use the Wikidata item to get the link to other languages for that item How to find articles that need translation These are the most common methods: 1. Use Wikipedia Gap Finder (you can customize your search): http://recommend.wmflabs.org/#Recommend 2. Using the English Wikipedia, find an article that interests you. Then, look to the left of the page, in the gray bar beneath the Wikipedia globe. At the tail end of that list of links, you'll see "Languages," and links to all of the languages that also have that article. Languages are spelled in that language's alphabet or phonemes. For example, you won't see "Japanese" or "French," you'll see "日本語" and "Français". Is the language you're studying listed? If so, click the language to see the same article in that language. You can compare the two articles to get a sense of what one has that the other does not. If not, that means there's no corresponding article in that language. 3. Head to the Wikipedia in the language you are studying. In the search bar, type: WP:GA (this will also work with Wikipedias using non-Roman alphabets). You'll be taken to a list of "Good Articles" on that language's Wikipedia, the best articles it has to offer. (You may need to find the page that lists them, if it's separate). Find a Good Article on your target language's Wikipedia. Check the bar on the side to see if there is a corresponding article in English. If there isn't, great! You can translate the article into English, and contribute it to the English Wikipedia. Sometimes, the article exists, but is very short. That's OK, too. However, if both languages have well-developed pages on the topic, you will want to find another article. It can be very challenging to add content to an already-developed article. Try the tool You can access the tool from Special:ContentTranslation from Wikipedia in any language. Accessing it for the first time will also enable the tool for that wiki. Content translation is available [[<tvar|beta>Special:MyLanguage/Beta Features</>|as a beta feature]] in all Wikipedias for logged-in users. Once it is enabled, you will see additional entry points to easily start a translation from your "contributions" page or from the list of languages of Wikipedia articles when they are missing in your language. <translate> Screencast showing how to use Content Translation</translate>

Keyboard Localization

For best practices when it comes to working with Latin-Extended and non-Latin character sets, see our Keyboard Optimization Guide.

Press & Media

1. WNC Wikipedia Record-and-Edit-a-Thon, by Ami Worthen's Community Action
2. Baird family reunion to host Wikipedia Record-and-Edit-a-Thon on Sept. 1, by Mountain Xpress
3. Purpose, by Amy Worthen's Community Action

Thanks to our partners, sponsors, patrons and supporters

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• LumaNatic (talk) 20:36, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

• Visiting on behalf of the North Carolina Triangle Wikipedians Group Kayz911 (talk) 16:36, 29 August 2018 (UTC)

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• Tinybaird (talk) 12:04, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

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• Sashafaith (talk) 04:59, 1 September 2018 (UTC)