Welcome! The Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center and the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association are sponsoring a Wikipedia edit-a-thon.

When: Saturday, May 10, 2014, 10am-4pm Where: Junipero Serra Branch of LAPL (4607 S. Main St, 90037) What to bring: Your laptop, power adapter, and any reference materials you'd like to work from or share. Focus: The Asian Pacific American experience, particularly in Southern California. As always, you do not need to be an experienced Wikipedia editor in order to attend. Website: smithsonianapa.org/wiki ♦ Hashtag: #WikiAPA ♦ Facebook: event page

The Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center is organizing Wikipedia APA, an editing event for improving and increasing the presence of cultural, historic, and artistic information on Wikipedia pertaining to Asian Pacific American (APA) experiences. The first Wikipedia edit-a-thon dedicated to APA content, this project will occur as physical events on May 10, 2014 in New York City, Washington DC, and Los Angeles, as well as online.

Attending

Please add your name if you plan to attend:

• Calliopejen1 ( talk) - possibly! will try to make it
• Penny Richards( talk) - coming from the South Bay if anyone's looking to carpool
• Shadow symbol ( talk) - interested. I'll try to make it to this

Regrets

• RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) -Unfortunately I have work until 1600 that day in Sorrento Valley, San Diego and will be unable to attend.

Discrete task ideas

• Asian Americans in California - really inadequate article, could be modeled after Asian American
• Little Seoul - expand using materials in further reading and elsewhere
• Little India, Artesia [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] - write missing article using these or other references
• Hsi Lai Temple - add references, revise accordingly (currently very poorly referenced)
• Mako Idemitsu - Tokyo-born artist, lived in Southern California before 1974 ^{[1] [2]}
• Historic Filipinotown, Los Angeles - add references, revise accordingly (marked as needing more references since 2009)
• Thai Town, Los Angeles - expand, add references (marked as needing more references since 2008)
• Little Tokyo, Los Angeles - add references, revise accordingly (marked as needing more references since 2006!)
• Akira (Roy) Shimatsu (1919-1945), Torrance WWII casualty, posthumously awarded Bronze Star ^[3]

Other articles to check out

Articles with banners at the top noting problems are good candidates for improvement!

• Film: Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, Lang Van, Vietnamese International Film Festival, Noor Iranian Film Festival, Silent River Film Festival, San Diego Asian Film Festival, James Hong, Haing S. Ngor
• News and radio: KAHZ, KAZN, KMPC, KALI-FM, KVNR, Rafu Shimpo, The Little Saigon News, Nguoi Viet Daily News, Vien Dong Daily News, Shalimar Radio, KFOX (AM), KGBN, The Korea Times (Los Angeles), KYPA, Mandalay Gazette, International Daily News, Pacific Citizen, Quami Ekta, Hindustan Ghadar, Hokubei Mainichi Newspaper, Nichi Bei Times, Lok News
• Other media: Cedar Grove Productions, Korean Music Festival, Saigon Broadcasting Television Network, Andisheh TV, Lian Ensemble, Love Is in the Heir, National Iranian Television (US), Persian Broadcasting Company, Shahs of Sunset, Yolk magazine, Tyrus Wong, Anime Expo, Hyphen (magazine), Disgrasian, KoreAm, Center for Asian American Media, Giant Robot (magazine), Journal of Asian American Studies, Amerasia Journal, Kaya Press
• Neighborhoods: Historic Filipinotown, Los Angeles, Koreatown, Los Angeles, Thai Town, Los Angeles, Chinatown, Los Angeles, Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, Cambodia Town, Long Beach, California, Little Bangladesh [11], Little Gaza, Tehrangeles, Chinese enclaves in the San Gabriel Valley ( Alhambra, California, Arcadia, California, Rosemead, California, San Marino, California, San Gabriel, California, Temple City, Diamond Bar, Rowland Heights, Walnut, California), Asian Pacific Thematic Historic District, Little Saigon, Orange County, Sawtelle Boulevard, Little Seoul
• Religion: Thien Hau Temple, Los Angeles, Koyasan Buddhist Temple, St. Louis Jain temple, Zen Center of Los Angeles, Deer Park Monastery, Sarang Community Church of Southern California, Jain Center of Southern California, St. Peter Chaldean Catholic Cathedral (El Cajon, California), Seminary of Mar Abba the Great, First Chinese Baptist Church of Fountain Valley, Malibu Hindu Temple, Japanese Union Church of Los Angeles, Los Angeles Hompa Hongwanji Buddhist Temple
• Museums and cultural centers: Chinese American Museum, Bowers Museum, Japanese American National Museum, Pavilion for Japanese Art, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, USC Pacific Asia Museum
• Arts (Theatre, Comedy, Music and Dance: Cedar Grove OnStage, Grateful Crane Ensemble, Lodestone Theatre Ensemble, TeAda Productions, Cold Tofu, Room to Improv, Kaba Modern, Tuesday Night Project, Asian-American jazz, KCON (music festival), Korean Music Festival, Mista Cookie Jar
• Gardens and monuments: National Japanese American Veterans Memorial Court, Korean Bell of Friendship, Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden, Go for Broke Monument, Hannah Carter Japanese Garden, Japanese Friendship Garden (Balboa Park), Storrier-Stearns Japanese Garden, The Japanese Garden, Aoyama Tree
• Other places: Asahi Gakuen, International Bilingual School, Wilshire Private School, Chinese Cemetery of Los Angeles, Chinese Consulate-General, Los Angeles, Harada House, Chung King Road, Valley Boulevard
• History: History of the Korean Americans in Los Angeles, History of the Chinese Americans in Los Angeles, Chinese massacre of 1871, History of the Japanese in Los Angeles, California Alien Land Law of 1913, Anti-Coolie Act, You Chung Hong, 40 Families Project ^{[4] [5]}, Filipino American History Month, Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
• People: Angry Asian Man, Yuri Kochiyama, The Fung Brothers, AJ Rafael, Roy Choi, Frank Buckley (journalist), Parvesh Cheena, Warren Furutani, Mark Takano, Sammy Lee (diver), Grace Lee Boggs, Karin Higa, Shizu Saldamando, Ed Lin, Awkwafina, Mike Gin, Ted Lieu, Al Muratsuchi
• Organizations: Union of Vietnamese Student Associations of Southern California, Black Dragons (gang), Chinese Historical Society of Southern California, Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance, Southern California Korean College Students Association, Philippine American Women Writers and Artists, California Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander Affairs, Taiwanese American Foundation of San Diego, Visual Communications (non-profit organization), Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation, Asian American Journalists Association, Association for Asian American Studies
• Chinese-American banks: Cathay Bank, Preferred Bank, American Continental Bank, American Premier Bank, East West Bank, EverTrust Bank, First General Bank, Golden Security Bank, Los Angeles National Bank, Omni Bank (California), Tomato Bank, Universal Bank
• Food: Sam Woo Restaurant, 99 Ranch Market, Kogi Korean BBQ, Los Angeles Tofu Festival, Shun Fat Supermarket, Korean taco, Mikawaya, Mitsuwa Marketplace, Hong Kong Supermarket, Marukai Corporation U.S.A., Nijiya Market, 626 Night Market, King's Hawaiian, Yogurtland, Korean-Mexican fusion, Lee's Sandwiches, Huy Fong Foods, Sriracha sauce (Huy Fong Foods), Lollicup Coffee & Tea, Beard Papa's, L&L Hawaiian Barbecue

• New entries

  40 Families Project

  Chizuko Judy Sugita de Queiroz

  Little India, Artesia

• Wikipedia Markup Cheatsheet
• Basic tutorial
• More detailed tutorial
• Wikipedia Adventure - a silly but easy and effective tutorial!
• Citing sources video tutorials (about two minutes each, very helpful) ------------>