Wikipedia:Meetup/Columbus/OSU Center for Ethnic Studies Edit-a-thon 2023

Ethnic Studies Edit-a-thon 2023 at the Ohio State University

When and Where
Date	March 31, 2023
Time	12:00PM - 4:00PM
Place	Barnett Center Collaboratory Space, Sullivant Hall Ground Floor
OSU Event Page	https://ethnicstudies.osu.edu/events/wikipedia-edit-thon

Ohio State's Center for Ethnic Studies and The Humanities Institute is sponsoring an edit-a-thon on March 31, 2023, with support from the Ohio Wikimedians! Participants will have a chance to dive in and contribute to Wikipedia, especially in topics related to Asian American Studies, American Indian Studies, and Latinx Studies, as well as other articles pertaining to ethnicity. No prior Wikipedia editing experience is necessary.

If you plan to attend, please RSVP here. Also see the OSU event page for more details.

Pizza and refreshments will be served. Please bring a laptop with you.

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Participants

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• SuperHamster (talk · contribs)
• CarCai (talk · contribs)
• Mirtillodidriscoll (talk · contribs)
• Dona pipoca (talk · contribs)
• Hoffmark (talk · contribs)
• Legnod826 (talk · contribs)
• Caesarologia (talk · contribs)

Articles to Improve

Please see below the articles that can be improved or created during this Edit-a-thon. Feel free to add more to the list!

If you'd like to work on a draft copy before publishing it live, you can prepend "Draft:" to the title (e.g. to create a draft for Aline Mello, create Draft:Aline Mello).

We recommend saving often as you edit so you don't lose any work!

Individuals

• Gina Osterloh
• Jennifer Lin (filmmaker) (filmmaker) Sources: [1][2]
• Aline Mello (Brazilian American writer/poet) --Dona pipoca (talk) 17:03, 31 March 2023 (UTC)
• Gabriella Burnham (Brazilian-American novelist, author of It is Wood, It is Stone)
• Elijah Forbes (Odawa Two-Spirited comic artist and community organizer)
• Jason Reblando (photographer; Filipino diaspora)
• Kellen Hatanaka
• Awilda Rodríguez Lora (performance choreographer and cultural entrepreneur)
• Josh Inocéncio (queer Latinx playwright) -- Hoffmark
• Alvaro Saar Rios (Mexican-American playwright) - ‪Errigalmissouri
• Wilfredo Ramos Jr. (Puerto Rican playwright)
• YZ Chin (Malaysian American writer)
• Frances Cha (Asian American writer)
• Brandon Hobson (writer, citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma)
• Jake Skeets (writer, Diné (of the Navajo people) from New Mexico) Mirtillodidriscoll working on
• Dennis E. Staples (Ojibwe writer from Bemidji, Minnesota)
• Jacinta Kerketta (indigenous poet of India)
• Kellen Hatanaka (Toronto-based artist and designer)
• Ina Sugihara (activist & co-founding the Congress of Racial Equality’s (CORE) New York chapter) Sources: [3][4][5][6][7][8]Wikidata Item (CarCai is working on)
• Mia Mingus (community activist and scholar) Sources: [9]
• Minn Matsuda (Asian American Activist and one of the founding members of Asian Americans for Action) Sources:[10][11][12][13][14][15]Wikidata Property
• Madonna Thunder Hawk (Indigenous Activist and cofounder of Women of All Red Nations)

Breaking folks:

• Victor Kidglyde Alicea (president of Dynamic Rockers, breaking crew from NYC)
• Grace “B-Girl Sunny” Choi
• Kid Break
• B-Boy Phil Wizard
• Antonio Castillo (breakdancing teacher and coach) Source: [16] [17] [18]
• B-Boy Venum (Jamie Burgos)

Places

• Rendville, OH (old Black mining town in Southeast Appalachian OH; add history and its overall impact on Ohio coal labor. It’s where the first Black mayor in Ohio was elected)

Works

• Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, by Cathy Park Hong
• Ponciá Vicêncio, by Conceição Evaristo