Wikipedia:Meetup/Kansas City/Wiki Edit-a-Thon: Missouri Artists

Event information edit

Event Title: Wiki Edit-a-Thon: Missouri Artists
Date: Thursday, September 23, 2021
Time: 11:00am – 1:00pm CDT
Location: Virtual via Zoom
Host institutions: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City Art Institute, St. Louis Public Library, Kansas City Public Library
Event pages: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art calendar listing, Kansas City Public Library calendar listing, St. Louis Public Library calendar listing
Free with registration. To register, reserve tickets online at https://cart.nelson-atkins.org/29001/31909.

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Do you know the sculptor who created the Court of Penguins on Kansas City’s Country Club Plaza or that one of the first commercially successful African American cartoonists was from Missouri? If not, you’re not alone! Help us share these discoveries, and much more, from the newly launched research portal, Missouri Remembers: Artists in Missouri through 1951, in this Wiki edit-a-thon. Wikipedia is visited by billions of people a year and so by improving, correcting and creating new articles on Missouri artists we can share the important role of Missouri in the arts. Featured speaker Alexis Carr will share her insights on the importance of representation in art and Wikipedia.

This edit-a-thon is collaboratively hosted by the Missouri Remembers project team, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City Art Institute, and The St. Louis Public Library, and the Kansas City Public Library.

No Wikipedia experience necessary. To participate you don’t need specialized knowledge of these topics or of Wikipedia. Please create a free user account on wikipedia.org before the event.

Register edit

Free with registration. To register, [1].

Participants edit

And if you already have a Wikipedia account, you may add your Wikipedia username to this section (signatures are created by saving four tildes [~] in a row):

Chrysanthemum123
Artshadows
SedgesHaveEdges524
Libraria7
Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 15:58, 23 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Missourimistletoe
runningwolf62301
Fineartivist (talk) 17:16, 23 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Fridarosa (talk) 17:29, 23 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Snickers153 (talk) 17:31, 23 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
SuperRabbitBoi (talk) 17:32, 23 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Work list edit

Articles to improve edit

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

Articles to create edit

Note: Editors must have accounts that "autoconfirmed" (four days old and have made more than ten edits) in order to create a page. During the edit-a-thon, editors brandnew to Wikipedia are encouraged to expand existing articles to develop Wikipedia know-how. Those interested in working on a new article for Wikipedia can prepare the article in a sandbox draft space.

Resources edit

Library resources to use to expand articles edit

Missouri Remembers Artist Database

Resources to learn about editing Wikipedia edit

Introduction
Art+Feminism's QuickGuides for Editing in English, Spanish, Portuguese and French [[2]]
Adding Images to Wikimedia Commons: Dos & Don'ts [[3]]

Additional Worklists edit

Results edit

Dashboard [4]