AfroCROWD
Wikipedia Edit-a-thons

When & Where
Date	Sunday, September 20, 2015
Time	12:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Address	Queens Library Central Branch Computer Training Room 89-11 Merrick Boulevard
City, State	Jamaica, Queens, NY 11432

Help write your digital world history! Join AfroCROWD @ Queens Library on Sunday, September 20th at 12:30 pm at the Queens Library's Central Branch and get free training on becoming a Wikipedia editor.

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. Visit us at AfroCROWD to find out more.

• Date: Sunday, September 20, 2015
• Time: 12:30 pm – 5:00 pm
• Location: Queens Library, Central Branch, Computer Training Room
• Address: 89-11 Merrick Boulevard, Jamaica, NY 11432 40°42′28″N 073°47′42″W / 40.70778°N 73.79500°W / 40.70778; -73.79500
• Subway:
  • to 169th St.
• RSVP: Eventbrite
• Details:
  • We have held monthly editathons in Brooklyn and Manhattan since February 2015 but this will be our first in Queens. Please spread the word to your friends and family there who may be interested.
  • Beginners welcome.
  • All languages welcome including English, Spanish, Haitian Creole, French, Yoruba and others. Wikipedia comes in 285 languages and you are welcome to edit it in any of them or translate from one language to another.
  • AfroCROWD will also provide FREE CHILDCARE during this special event.
  • Light refreshments will be available.
  • We have about 30 laptops available. So we don't run out, bring your own if you can or are driving. This is not a requirement.

• Co-sponsor:
  • Haitian Creole Language Institute of New York which is offering a Haitian Creole class at the Queens Public Library this fall. See PDF, " Haitian Creole for Beginners."

Please add your Wikipedia username to the appropriate section below.

1. Aliceba ( talk) 21:55, 16 September 2015 (UTC) reply
2. Pharos ( talk) 16:33, 17 September 2015 (UTC) reply
3. Jim.henderson ( talk) 12:39, 20 September 2015 (UTC) reply
4. Hafece ( talk) 17:40, 20 September 2015 (UTC) reply
5. Harobe ( talk) 17:59, 20 September 2015 (UTC) reply
6. Monteatrikers ( talk) 18:57, 20 September 2015 (UTC) reply
7. Pgermaine ( talk)
8. Quuens4Truth ( talk)
9. Ronald Sexton ( talk)
10. Batraville ( talk)
11. Byronrobinson ( talk)
12. Hugues saint-fort ( talk)
13. Dissensa ( talk)
14. Sankhara63 ( talk)
15. Rolbens Desir ( Diskite)

1. BrillLyle ( talk)

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1. Millinery Center Synagogue

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1. Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program -- Ronald Sexton ( talk)
2. Factoring (finance) -- Byronrobinson ( talk)
3. ht:Karl Marx - corrected grammar in Haitian -- Hafece ( talk)
4. Tahir Hemphill - cleanup of citations, adding content -- BrillLyle ( talk)
5. Taraji P. Henson - changed photo -- Pgermaine ( talk) 20:07, 20 September 2015 (UTC) reply
6. ht:Modèl:Definisyon - corrected grammar in Haitian -- Hugues saint-fort ( talk)
7. Nemours Jean-Baptiste -- Monteatrikers ( talk)
8. Chaka Khan - added album to discography -- Pgermaine ( talk) 20:03, 20 September 2015 (UTC) reply
9. Misogyny in hip hop culture -- Quuens4Truth ( talk)

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Permanent link to NYPL catalog: NYPL  b10013443

List of articles

See Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism/Resources
If you are unfamiliar with Wikipedia, you might try this training module which will help explain a lot of things, including how to add your signature.

Listed here for quick reference.
N.B. Also located on the Resources page referenced above under Editor Resources

• Beginners’ Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
• Five Pillars of Wikipedia (philosophical guidelines and best practices for Wikipedia editing)
• Tutorial
• How to Edit a Page
• Wiki Markup Quick Reference (PDF version of printed handout)
• Guide to Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing by Susan H. Rodger (applicable to any biography)
• Article Development
• Your First Article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
• Manual of Style
• Citation templates
• Infobox templates
• Bookshelf (additional "getting started" resources)
• Art+Feminism - Video training
• Art+Feminism - Training Lesson Plan

• Cheatsheet for editing Wikipedia
• Infobox template - person
• Biographies of living persons
• Writing an article
• About the Sandbox

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• Wikipedia - Haitian Creole
• AfroCROWD Meetup - NYC (main events page)
• HaitiCROWD Meetup - NYC
• AfroCROWD (official website)
• Wikipedia Meetup - NYC (main events page)
• Wikimedia New York City