Wikipedia:Meetup/SFPL-LGBT/2016

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Are you an experienced Wikipedia editor wanting to make a local connection? Want to learn how to edit Wikipedia? Do you treasure the San Francisco Public Library's LGBTQIA collection and looking for opportunities that makes a real impact on the way in which information is created? Please join the San Francisco Public Library to encourage diverse editorship and improve coverage of local LGBTQIA topics on Wikipedia. Together we can work towards a goal of creating one new entry and expanding at least five existing entries to share with the world!

Date and venue

  • Date Saturday June 11 2016
  • Time 1 pm - 5 pm
  • Location San Francisco Public Library Learning Studio - 5th Floor, 100 Larkin St. San Francisco, 94102
  • Event An editathon focusing on improving articles related to San Francisco's LGBT history in honor of Pride month with an emphasis on where library related collections can make a difference.
  • Registration on wiki or EventBrite

Activities and Editing Subjects

You could copyedit Esta Noche (gay bar)
You could add more details to Rainbow Motorcycle Club
You could find more photos to add to San Francisco LGBT Community Center

Schedule

  • 1-2 pm welcome, introductions and orientation to library resources, goals for the day
  • 2-3 pm introduction to editing on Wikipedia
  • 3-5 pm continue editing
  • 5 pm wrap up and share results

Below are some suggestions, but ultimately participants should decide what they'd like to learn or edit, so add to this section as you see fit.

Articles to create

  • Melanie Hofmann — LGBT+ Berkeley, California based award winning textile/digital artist, photographer, healer, rape and Hep-C survivor, and California College of the Arts alumni. She is a woman in red. Potential references to use (edit this page to copy-and-paste): [1][2][3][4]
  • Consider writing an article on a notable bathhouse.
  • Lawrence Berner — the homosexual school teacher who brought the legal suit for defamation of character against California State Senator John Briggs (politician). Briggs had sponsored Proposition 6 / Briggs Initiative which would have prevented gay and lesbian teachers from teaching in California. Potential references to use (edit this page to copy-and-paste): [5][6][7][8][9][10] (Consider whether to start this as a separate article or to start by adding material about him to Briggs Initiative.)

To find more suggestions: Wikipedia:Wiki Loves Pride/Tasks, Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/LBT Women.

Articles to improve

To find more articles to read and improve: Category:LGBT culture in San Francisco, California, Category:LGBT history in San Francisco, California, Preserving LGBT Historic Sites in California, GLBT Museum exhibits, FoundSF articles, LGBT Studies articles tagged for cleanup, new articles that may need review.

Skill requirements

Everyone is welcome

What to bring

  • Bring a laptop and charger if you'll need one (we'll supply power and Wifi)
  • Ideas for topics or articles that you want to work on.
  • We'll have the library's resources at our disposal, but if you have a special resource, bring it.
  • Would-be-editor friends.

Sign-up

Yes

(Edit and leave your name, or just add ~~~~ below)

  1. Dreamyshade (talk) 03:32, 10 May 2016 (UTC)
  2. Ford MF (talk) 21:57, 12 May 2016 (UTC)
  3. wikfr (wikfr) 21:57, 12 May 2016 (UTC)
  4. Mathglot (talk) 07:52, 11 June 2016 (UTC)
  5. Sfphotoarchivist (talk) 09:30, 11 June 2016 (UTC)
  6. Info enabler (talk) 10:00, 11 June 2016 (UTC)

Maybe

Attendees

  • Please add the names or accounts of the other actual attendees .

Outcomes

New accounts created

Articles improved

New articles created

See also

References

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