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The Asheville Edit-a-thon & Record-a-thon at the 121st Baird Family Reunion is Saturday September 1, 1-5pm.
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When: | Saturday, 1 September 2018 |
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Time: | 01:00pm - 05:00pm |
Address: | Habitat Tavern & Commons, 174 Broadway Street, Asheville, North Carolina 28801 |
The first ever Western North Carolina Wikipedia Record-and-Edit-a-Thon
- Hosted by the 121st Baird Family Reunion, UNC-Asheville, AfroCrowd, the Asheville African-American Heritage Commission, and the Color of Asheville.
What
- Share the diverse stories of Western North Carolina, your -and your families’- history and stories, and other cultural knowledge with the world by participating in the first ever WNC Wikipedia Record-a-Thon and Edit-a-Thon!
- Bring artifacts and cultural stories to share and photograph. Volunteers will be on hand to teach you how to record oral histories and edit Wikipedia.
- Use hashtag #WikiAsheville to share and follow along on social media.
When
- Saturday, September 1st, 2018; from 1pm - 5pm
Where
- Habitat Tavern & Commons, 174 Broadway Street, Asheville, North Carolina 28801
Who
- YOU, your friends, families, colleagues!
- For more information, contact:
- Darold Cuba, darold.cuba
columbia.edu, 347-385-3415
- Ami Worthen, amiworthen
gmail.com, 828-231-6290
- Rachel Cuba, rachelcuba11
gmail.com, 804-832-5970,
- Kasey Baker, kayzbaker911
gmail.com, 828-484-1589,
- Darold Cuba, darold.cuba
Why
- "Wikipedia Record-and-Edit-a-thons are happening all over the US in an effort to write marginalized people into the 6th most used url in the world. By one study, 8.5% of wiki writers are female and only 1% are transgender, with the majority of entries coming from Europe and North America. This is an opportunity to include the individuals and institutions from WNC with a wider experience by gender, race, ethnicity, and more."- Deborah Miles, Director of the UNC Asheville's Center for Diversity Education, sponsor.
Event participants will leave with the following:
- Perspective and the ability to discuss Wikipedia's place in the media
- Live publication of information in Wikipedia and instructions for seeing how many people read it
- Experience of having edited Wikipedia a few times in the typical way and recorded oral knowledge histories for Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and the AfroCROWD Wiki Oral Knowledge and History Project
- Opportunity to meet with others interested in oral knowledge and history and the tie with technology and the Wiki and open source community.
This free event is being hosted by the Baird Family's 121st Reunion (the oldest black family reunion in the country) with AfroCrowd, the African American Heritage Commission of Asheville and Buncombe County, and UNC Asheville’s Center for Diversity Education.
All are welcome. Please bring a laptop or tablet if you have one. There will be extra laptops available for those who need them
Agenda
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- Welcome and introductions
- Sasha Mitchell, African American Heritage Commission
- Add others who wish to speak and in what capacity
- How to edit Wikipedia and use the Wiki tools
- How to record oral knowledge for Wiki tools
- How to upload files to Wiki Commons
- Edit-A-Thon & Record-A-Thon
- Group photo
- Share-A-thon: share what you've learned and like, and plan to continue to do, and what could be improved
Topics to edit/add/share & pages to create
editAdd an item to be edited and/or created as an article
- Create page for the historic Stephens-Lee High School
- Create page for ASCORE
- Create page for James "Bo" Ferguson
- Add to the YMI stub
- Create a page for the #People Not Property — Slave Deeds of North Carolina project which originated in WNC's very own Asheville, and the organizations, institutions and people involved[1], [2]
- Create a page for the historic communities of African descent in WNC, as well as individual pages for each community
- Create a page for "Black" family reunions, and feature the oldest ones
- Baird Reunion, est. 1897 (Asheville, North Carolina)
- Flack-Council-Coleman Reunion, est. 1917 (Asheville, North Carolina)
- Quander family reunion, est. 1926 (Northern Virginia)
- Create a ”Black” Appalachia/Highlanders, and establish pages for regions
- Create a page for Slavery in Appalachia[8] and individual pages for the different regions, families and individuals
- Create a page for the “black” history of Biltmore Estate[11]
- Add to the Freedom Colonies draft article
- Expand the African Americans in North Carolina article
- Create a section heading for "black businesses" in the Western North Carolina section[12]
- Add and expand artices using Category:African-American history of North Carolina
Wikipedia Resources and Advanced Support
editUploading to Wikimedia Commons:
- Click here for advice on how to upload to Wiki Commons
- Examples of Audio Files on Wikimedia Commons
- How to re-use Wiki Commons files in other wikis
- Wiki Commons Basics, uploading files (video)
Translations: The best way to get started at this event is to talk in person with one of the trainers at the event. As advanced preparation, anyone might select a Wikipedia article which interests them and which they might like to translate at the event. The best way to learn about oral knowledge and history collection in this context is to come to the event, listen to the presentation, then ask for assistance at your computer if you need it.
If you want to read technical documentation on your own then click "show" to the right and read the following guides.
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A note on languages: We will be capturing oral knowledge is different languages as well. If you would like to write articles in different languages, check this out: How to find the list of articles in which a Wikipedia article already exists Suppose that one has a Wikipedia article in one language, and wants to see the other languages in which that Wikipedia article exists. Here is the process:
These are the most common methods: 1. Use Wikipedia Gap Finder (you can customize your search): http://recommend.wmflabs.org/#Recommend 2. Using the English Wikipedia, find an article that interests you. Then, look to the left of the page, in the gray bar beneath the Wikipedia globe. At the tail end of that list of links, you'll see "Languages," and links to all of the languages that also have that article. Languages are spelled in that language's alphabet or phonemes. For example, you won't see "Japanese" or "French," you'll see "日本語" and "Français". Is the language you're studying listed? If so, click the language to see the same article in that language. You can compare the two articles to get a sense of what one has that the other does not. If not, that means there's no corresponding article in that language. 3. Head to the Wikipedia in the language you are studying. In the search bar, type: WP:GA (this will also work with Wikipedias using non-Roman alphabets). You'll be taken to a list of "Good Articles" on that language's Wikipedia, the best articles it has to offer. (You may need to find the page that lists them, if it's separate). Find a Good Article on your target language's Wikipedia. Check the bar on the side to see if there is a corresponding article in English. If there isn't, great! You can translate the article into English, and contribute it to the English Wikipedia. Sometimes, the article exists, but is very short. That's OK, too. However, if both languages have well-developed pages on the topic, you will want to find another article. It can be very challenging to add content to an already-developed article.
You can access the tool from Special:ContentTranslation from Wikipedia in any language. Accessing it for the first time will also enable the tool for that wiki.
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Keyboard Localization
editFor best practices when it comes to working with Latin-Extended and non-Latin character sets, see our Keyboard Optimization Guide.
Press & Media
edit- WNC Wikipedia Record-and-Edit-a-Thon, by Ami Worthen's Community Action[13]
- Baird family reunion to host Wikipedia Record-and-Edit-a-Thon on Sept. 1, by Mountain Xpress[14]
- Purpose, by Amy Worthen's Community Action[15]
Thanks to our partners, sponsors, patrons and supporters
editReferences
edit- ^ "Grant backs project to digitally preserve slave deeds across North Carolina". citizen-times.com.
- ^ "Buncombe records unearth slave data, expansion planned". citizen-times.com.
- ^ a b "History". Shiloh Community Association. Retrieved 2018-08-05.
- ^ "More Than Biltmore | endeavors". endeavors.unc.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-05.
- ^ "History of Cemetery". South Asheville Cemetery Association. Retrieved 2018-08-05.
- ^ a b "Carolina Digital Repository - Life Beneath The Veneer: The Black Community in Asheville, North Carolina from 1793 to 1900". cdr.lib.unc.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-05.
- ^ "Learning about the African American Community in Asheville". MelibeeGlobal. 2014-10-29. Retrieved 2018-08-05.
- ^ "New conference examines African-American history in WNC". Mountain Xpress. Retrieved 2018-08-05.
- ^ "Retrospective I: A Primer on the Sad Truths of Slavery in Asheville, Buncombe County and Western North Carolina". Asheville Junction: A Blog by David E. Whisnant. 2015-08-29. Retrieved 2018-08-05.
- ^ "Vance Monument and the honoring of African American history". thereadonwnc.ning.com. Retrieved 2018-08-05.
- ^ Long, Liz (2012-09-13). "The History Channel Club Makes Note of Biltmore Estate". BlueRidgeCountry.com. Retrieved 2018-08-05.
- ^ Mitchell, Sasha. "Color of Asheville's Black-Owned Business & Community Directory". ColorOfAsheville.net.
- ^ "WNC Wikipedia Record-and-Edit-a-Thon". Amy Worthen: Community Action. Retrieved 2018-08-30.
- ^ "Baird family reunion to host Wikipedia Record-and-Edit-a-Thon on Sept. 1". Mountain Xpress. Retrieved 2018-08-27.
- ^ "Purpose". Amy Worthen: Community Action. Retrieved 2018-08-30.
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- Visiting on behalf of the North Carolina Triangle Wikipedians Group Kayz911 (talk) 16:36, 29 August 2018 (UTC)