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AfroCROWD Training the Trainers
Intensive Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
@ Brooklyn Public Library
When & Where
DateSunday, May 22, 2016
Time1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
AddressBrooklyn Public Library
Central Library
Info Commons Room
10 Grand Army Plaza
City, StateBrooklyn, NY 11238
AfroCROWD at the Black Life Matters Wikipedia Edit-a-thon in Harlem, New York City, on February 6, 2016

Training the Trainers Intensive Wikipedia Edit-a-thon @ Brooklyn Public Library edit

Please join us for the next gathering of AfroCROWD @ Brooklyn Public Library!

Event information edit

  • Date: Sunday, May 22, 2016
  • Time: 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
  • RSVP: Eventbrite
  • Location: Brooklyn Public Library, Central Library, Info Commons Room
  • Address: 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 11238 40°40′20″N 73°58′05″W / 40.672359°N 73.968146°W / 40.672359; -73.968146
  • Subway:
  • Bus: B41, B69 buses
  • Hashtag: #AfroCROWD, #WomenInRed
  • Twitter: #AfroCROWD
  • Details:
    • Help write her digital history!
    • Join AfroCROWD to receive free training on becoming a Wikipedia editor.
    • The event will encourage editing entries about people in the African Diaspora dedicated to African affairs.
    • 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.
    • We have held monthly editathons in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens since February 2015.
    • Beginners welcome.
    • All languages welcome including English, Spanish, Haitian Creole, French, Yoruba, Twi, Woloff and other languages spoken in the African Diaspora. Wikipedia comes in 290 languages and you are welcome to edit it in any of them or translate from one language to another.
    • Please contact alice@afrocrowd.org if you need a babysitter on premises
    • Light Refreshments will be available.
    • Presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qGG2fNRFrmpjunyp7U8TEXGv89oIqgyNDn52MMa1Z6I/edit?usp=sharing

Attendees edit

Editors at end of session

Please RSVP at Eventbrite!
Please also add your Wikipedia username to the appropriate section below.

Confirmed edit

  1. Pharos (talk) 14:58, 6 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Shanluan (talk)
  3. Jim.henderson (talk) 11:30, 16 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Ashainbrooklyn (talk) 17:32, 22 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Gjone1 (talk) 18:26, 22 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  6. sheridanford 18:30, 22 May 2016 (UTC) (talk) 18:29, 22 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  7. BKDancer (talk) 18:15, 22 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Lwilcken (talk) 18:23, 22 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  9. HKelleyB (talk) 18:25, 22 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  10. Kalakuti (talk) 18:26, 22 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  11. Aliceba (talk) 18:28, 22 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  12. Adjoajo (talk) 18:32, 22 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  13. Bernscott (talk) 18:33, 22 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  14. 209.2.60.77 (talk) 18:43, 22 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  15. Tshirttraffic (talk) 18:58, 22 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  16. Sabimenow (talk) 19:07, 22 May 2016 (UTC) - also editing in ht.wikipedia[reply]
  17. Mimidayiti (talk) 19:11, 22 May 2016 (UTC) - also editing in ht.wikipedia[reply]
  18. Pgermaine (talk) 19:25, 22 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  19. BrillLyle (talk) 20:03, 22 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  20. Mrb4nyc (talk) 20:06, 22 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  21. VictorColor (talk) 20:18, 22 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  22. Mimidayiti (talk) 20:24, 22 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  23. Dr Winston Smith (talk) 20:50, 22 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Tentative edit

  1. Kalakuti (talk) 21:54, 20 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  2. DGG ( talk ) 05:40, 22 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Participating online edit

  1. Eartha78 (talk)

Outcomes edit

New page creations edit

Alphabetical by first letter

  1. African Civilization Society -- Gjone1 (talk)
  2. Bouki nan Paradi -- Mimidayiti (talk) -- in Wikipedya Kreyòl Ayisyen
  3. Community Archives -- Bernscott (talk)
  4. Jessica B. Harris -- BKDancer (talk)
  5. Robert Curvin -- Bernscott (talk)
Drafts & Sandboxes
  1. Chuck Davis -- Kalakuti (talk)
  2. Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI) -- Mrb4nyc (talk)

Contributions edit

Alphabetical by first letter

  1. Angela Bassett -- Pgermaine (talk)
  2. Celigny Ardouin -- Sabimenow (talk) -- in Wikipedya Kreyòl Ayisyen
  3. Charles Burnett (director) -- Kalakuti (talk)
  4. DJ Jubilee -- Kyraocity (talk)
  5. Ifá -- Kalakuti (talk)
  6. Lalah Hathaway discography - Pgermaine (talk)
  7. Sandungueo -- Kyraocity (talk)
  8. Ti Roro -- Lwilcken (talk)
  9. Twerking -- Kyraocity (talk)

Possible articles to edit edit

List of articles

Resources edit

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Editing Wikipedia resources edit

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Tools and templates edit

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