Wikipedia:Meetup/Minnesota/Loft Literary Center

Wikipedia and Marginalized Artists edit-a-thon
When and Where
Date	Thursday, February 11, 2016
Time	6:00–8:00pm
Location	The Loft Literary Center, Room 203
Address	1011 S Washington Ave
City, State	Minneapolis, Minnesota
Event page	Loft Literary Center

Please join us for a Wikipedia edit-a-thon focusing on artists from marginalized communities. Everyone of all ages is welcome to attend, regardless of experience. We are happy to teach you the basics of editing Wikipedia! The public is welcome to this event.

Event information

Date: Thursday, February 11, 2016
Time: 6:00–8:00pm
Location: The Loft Literary Center, Room 203, 1011 S Washington Avenue
Hosts: The Loft Literary Center

Please bring a laptop with you!

Attendees

Please add your Wikipedia username to the appropriate section below (signatures are created by saving four tildes [~] in a row). If you haven't edited Wikipedia before, we will help you register for a new Wikipedia editing account on the day-of.

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List of articles to edit

Below is a list of articles that would benefit from edits and expansion during the edit-a-thon, but you are welcome to work on anything you like.
Please note: This is a crowdsourced list. You can help us by adding to it!

Ta-coumba Aiken, St. Paul painter and muralist[1]
Louis Alemayehu, spoken word artist[2]
All My Relations Gallery [3][4]
Maurice Carlton (artist), sculptor
Seitu Jones [5]
Oskar Ly [6]
Pao Houa Her, photographer[7]
Dyani White Hawk Polk [8]
Shades of Yellow, Hmong LGBTQ organization[9]
Maria Cristina Tavera, painter, printmaker, curator
Diane Wilson (author), a Minnesota Native American author [10][11][12]

Articles from the previous edit-a-thon

Minnesota

Kathy Mouacheupao [13][14][15]
Iris Shiraishi, taiko drummer[16][17][18]
Cheng-Khee Chee, Chinese American watercolorist, University of Minnesota Duluth professor[19][20]
Little Laos on the Prairie, [21][22]
Refuge of the InvisibLao, art exhibition
Saymoukda Vongsay
New article name

US

Ken Chu (artist) (朱肯, b. 1953), installation artist
Y. David Chung, German-born visual artist and filmmaker
Marlon Fuentes, Filipino American filmmaker
Yun Gee (1906–1963), Chinese American Modern artist
Yeung Ha (b. 1952), Korean American printmaker and mixed media artist
Sabro Hasegawa (1906–1957), Japanese American painter and scholar
Hui Ka-kwong/Hui Ka Kwong (1922–2003), ceramist
Lori Kay, sculptor and mixed media artist
Jin Soo Kim (artist) (b. 1950), Korean American sculptor and installation artist[23]
Valeriano Montante Laigo/Val Laigo/Valeriano Emerenciano Montante Laigo (1930–1992), Filipino American painter[24][25]
Yary Livan, Cambodian ceramist[26][27]
Vi Ly [28]
Yong Soon Min, Korean American multimedia artist, scholar, and curator[29][30]
Johsel Namkung (1919–2013), Korean American photographer[31]
Keiko Nelson, Japanese American artist[32]
Long Nguyen, Vietnamese American artist[33]
Toshio Odate, Japanese American woodworker[34][35]
Hanh Thi Pham, Vietnamese photographer[36]
Sheng-mei Ma professor of English literature at Michigan State University; specializes in Asian Diaspora/Asian American studies and East-West comparative studies
Valerie Soe, writer and experimental videomaker[37]
Indigo Som, visual artist and poet[38]
Masaru Takiguchi (b. 1941), Japanese American sculptor
Gayle Tanaka, visual artist[39]
Lynne Yamamoto, Japanese American multimedia artist[40]
Samnang Yong, Cambodian poet and painter
Baochi Zhang (b. 1956), Chinese American artist
Hanh Thi Pham, Vietnamese photographer[41]
Yong Soon Min, Korean American multimedia artist, scholar, and curator[42][43]
Kosal Khiev
Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai/Kelly Tsai
Kirun Kapur
Lo Kwa Mei-en
Asian American Literary Review

Articles to improve

Mu Performing Arts – needs references
May Lee Yang – needs references
Bryan Thao Worra – needs inline references
Ka Vang – needs references
History of the Hmong in Minneapolis–Saint Paul – could be fleshed out
David Mura
Wang Ping (author) – needs references
Chanida Phaengdara Potter – needs references
Nor Sanavongsay – needs references

Non-artists

Choua Lee, Hmong St. Paul Board of Education member[44]
Hmong American Partnership

List of new articles created

List of articles improved

Editing Wikipedia resources

Listed here for quick reference.

Tutorial: Getting Started Guide (Presentation in DC)
Beginners’ Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
Five Pillars of Wikipedia (philosophical guidelines and best practices for Wikipedia editing)
Tutorial
How to Edit a Page
Wiki Markup Quick Reference (PDF version of printed handout)
Guide to Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing by Susan H. Rodger (applicable to any biography)
Article Development
Your First Article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
Manual of Style
Citation templates
Infobox templates
Bookshelf (additional "getting started" resources)

Tools and templates

N.B. There is an IRC channel if online participants need help:
- Wikipedia:IRC/wikipedia-en-help
- #wikipedia-en-help ^connect

External links

Wikipedia:Meetup/Wikipedia APA/Loft – previous event at the Loft Literary Center held in October 2015
Loft Literary Center event page

Fahrer / Team für die Suche eingeben: