Introduction
editThis page is a meetup for the edit-a-thon on February 15th at West Virginia University Libraries, in partnership with the WVU Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. This event is great for all levels of Wikipedia knowledge. We will help explain the basics of editing Wikipedia and talk together about the importance of doing so.
Event information
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- Date: Wednesday, February 15, 2017
- Time: 6:00pm EST
- Location: Downtown Campus Library - Room 136
Register (optional)
edit(You can register by signing your name with four tildes)
- KellyDoyle (talk) 14:07, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
Articles to edit
editMost of the articles listed below, are either stub or start class articles and are fairly incomplete.
Texts
edit- Up From Slavery
- Black Reconstruction
- Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery
- But there was no peace : the role of violence in the politics of Reconstruction - no article
- The Souls of Black Folk
- The Wretched of the Earth
- The Fire Next Time
- The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
- Quicksand, Nella Larsen - no article
- Black Boy
- Go Tell It on the Mountain
- Gorilla, My Love - no article
- You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down - no article
- Devil in a Blue Dress
- Lost in the City
- The Darker Face of the Earth
- The Between
- Cane River (novel)
- The Known World
- A Mercy
- Some Sing, Some Cry - no article
- Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self - no article
- If Sons, Then Heirs - no article
- Men We Reaped - no article
Authors
edit- Hortense Powdermaker
- Leon Litwack
- George C. Rable
- Frantz Fanon
- Ernest J. Gaines
- Toni Cade Bambara
- Edward P. Jones
- Tananarive Due
- Rita Dove
- Lalita Tademy - no article
- Jesmyn Ward
- Danielle Valore Evans
- Lorene Cary
- Lucille Clifton
- Vievee Francis - no article
- Robert Hayden
- Claudia Rankine
- Natasha Tretheway
- Kevin Young (poet)
Articles Edited and/or Created During this Edit-a-thon
editArticles Edited
editArticles Created
editTop Training Resources
edit- Wikipedia Markup Cheatsheet (Web version)
- Wiki Markup Quick Reference (PDF version of printed handout)
- Wikipedia:FAQ
- WikimediaFoundation Youtube channel
- GLAM-Wiki initiative ("galleries, libraries, archives, and museums") Beginners Guide
- Tutorial
- How to Edit a Page
- Institutional Partnerships with Wikipedia / Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums, Wikipedia Info Booklet
- This guide has directions on the various Wikipedia projects, and includes a guide for beginners, guides to Wikipedia markup, adding references, and other tasks