Celebrate Kansas City’s rich black heritage by joining us for a Wikipedia edit-a-thon! You will learn about Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, the anatomy of a Wiki article, and how to contribute to this free online encyclopedia.
We will focus on creating and developing articles that preserve our local history.
What to bring: - limited laptops will be available but please bring a laptop and a power cord if you are able.
No Wikipedia experience necessary; training session at 1:30pm. To participate you don’t need specialized knowledge of these topics or of Wikipedia. Please create a free user account on wikipedia.org before the event. There will be plenty of reference material and a limited number of laptops available.
Free with registration. To register, reserve tickets online.
And if you already have a Wikipedia account, you may add your Wikipedia username to this section (signatures are created by saving four tildes [~] in a row, add your username and talk page by using three tildes):
Below is a list of articles that would benefit from edits and expansion during the edit-a-thon:
Note: Editors must have accounts that "autoconfirmed" (four days old and have made more than ten edits) in order to create a page. During the edit-a-thon, editors brandnew to Wikipedia are encouraged to expand existing articles to develop Wikipedia know-how. Those interested in working on a new article for Wikipedia can prepare the article in a sandbox draft space.
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