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AfroLatinoCROWD II @ Schomburg

Library building
When and Where
DateFriday, July 8, 2016
Time9:30 am – 12:30 pm
AddressSchomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
New York Public Library
515 Malcolm X Blvd
City, StateNew York City, New York 10037
Lecture

AfroCROWD hosts AfroLatino Festival's Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Seminar @ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture on Friday, July 8, 2016 from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm.

The Wikipedia training and Edit-a-thon will take place in the Aaron Douglas Reading Room of the Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division with a following reception in the Langston Hughes lobby on the first floor of the building.

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Event details

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If you have a laptop, please bring it with you!

  • Details:
    • Afro Free Culture Crowdsourcing Wikimedia (AfroCROWD) is a new initiative which seeks to increase the number of people of African Descent actively editing Wikipedia. Become a part of the Wikimedia and free knowledge, culture and software movements and help close the multicultural and gender gaps in Wikipedia.
    • We have held monthly editathons in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens since February 2015.
    • Beginners welcome.
    • All languages welcome including English, Spanish, Haitian Creole, French, Yoruba, Twi, Woloff and other languages spoken in the African Diaspora. Wikipedia comes in 285 languages and you are welcome to edit it in any of them or translate from one language to another.

Speakers

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AFROLATIN@CROWD Part II, Presented by AfroCROWD.org
  • Featured speakers
    • Cassandre Theano, Esq Open Society Foundation
    • Carl Liscombe, Policy Director, Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI)
    • Mirtha Colón, Casa Yurumein
  • Moderator: Thanu Yakupitiyage, New York Immigration Coalition

Outcomes

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Pages updated

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Alphabetical by first letter

  1. Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute -- Aliceba (talk), Pharos (talk), BrillLyle (talk)
  2. Charles Hyatt -- BrillLyle (talk)
  3. Marta Moreno Vega -- BrillLyle (talk)
  4. Michael Hyatt -- BrillLyle (talk)
  5. Molefe Pheto -- Newzygurl (talk)

Pages created

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Alphabetical by first letter

  1. Charlotte Emerson Brown -- Yocheeyo (talk)
  2. John Jasper -- VegasCasinoKid (talk)
  3. Molefe Pheto -- VegasCasinoKid (talk)
  4. The Ford Center at The Star -- VegasCasinoKid (talk)
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Articles to edit or improve

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Below is a list of articles that would benefit from edits and expansion during the edit-a-thon.

Need to be created

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Biographies

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Organizations

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  • Harlem bookstores
  • Schomburg Honor Roll, 1939-1947
See also pages relating to the Harlem Renaissance

Other lists with articles that need to be created

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Stubs!

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"Stubs" - very short articles in need of expansion:

Resources

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Editing Wikipedia resources

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Tools and templates

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  • N.B. There is an IRC channel if online participants need help:
Wikipedia:IRC/wikipedia-en-help
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to 2016 AfroLatino @ Schomburg.

Sign up

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Please sign up at Eventbrite.
PLEASE NOTE: Eventbrite tickets are sold out but @SchomburgCenter retweeted that there is a standby lineup that begins at 8:00 am

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Regrets

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  1. Mozucat (talk) 19:02, 7 July 2016 (UTC) (will try my best to make it) out sick :([reply]

Remote

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  1. BrillLyle (talk) 13:44, 8 July 2016 (UTC) will try...[reply]

Attendees

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  1. VegasCasinoKid (talk) 01:48, 6 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Jim.henderson (talk) 18:00, 7 July 2016 (UTC) Probably arrive late[reply]
  3. Pharos (talk) 23:03, 7 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Newzygurl (talk) 15:00, 8 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Thus the wise win before they fight While the ignorant fight to win (talk) 15:01, 8 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Chumaosse (talk) 15:33, 8 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Yocheeyo (talk) 15:37, 8 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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