Wikipedia:Meetup/Kansas City/History of the WBA: Wiki Edit-a-Thon

Event information

Event Title: History of the WBA: Wiki Edit-a-Thon
Date: Saturday, August 28th, 2021
Time: 10:00am – 1:00pm CDT
Location: The event will be virtual with a hub for participation at The Black Archives of Mid-America for participants who need access to laptops or Wi-Fi; 1722 E 17th Terrace, Kansas City, MO 64108
Host institutions: The Black Archives of Mid-America, Kansas City Public Library
Free with registration. To register, reserve tickets online.

Details

Join the Black Archives of Mid-America and the Kansas City Public Library to celebrate the history of Kansas City Women’s Basketball and the WBA with the History of the WBA: Wiki Edit-a-Thon. We will focus on improving and creating Wikipedia articles on the rich history of the WBA using resources from The Black Archives of Mid-America’s collection. Lightning Mitchell, founder of the WBA and author of The Untold Story of the WBA, will be a featured speaker.

We recommend that participants create Wikipedia accounts before the event begins through this link. There will be training provided for new editors, as well as space for questions. The event will be virtual with a hub for participation at The Black Archives of Mid-America for participants who need access to wifi and laptops.

No Wikipedia experience necessary.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.

Schedule

10:00 AM – 10:20 AM – Talk with Lightning Mitchell

10:20 AM – 10:30 AM – Questions for Lightning Mitchell

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM – Wikipedia Training with Miranda Pratt, Wikipedian in Residence at the Kansas City Public Library

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM – Wikipedia Editing and room for questions

Register

Free with registration. To register, reserve tickets online.

Get started

Create a Wikipedia account
Sign up below
Find an article to edit!
Ask questions in the Zoom chat

Participants

Chrysanthemum123 (talk · contribs)
Wil540 art (talk · contribs)
Ipigott (talk · contribs) (happy to assist with drafting, mentoring, etc.)
Pharos (talk · contribs)
Jim.henderson (talk · contribs)

Work list

Articles to improve

Below is a list of articles that would benefit from edits and expansion during the edit-a-thon:

Articles to create

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.

Women's Basketball Worklists

WikiProject: Women in Red: Basketball [[9]]
Women's Basketball Hall of Fame (list of inductees)
List of current NCAA Division I women's basketball coaches

Resources

Resources to use to expand articles

APBR: History of Women's Professional Basketball [[10]]
History of Women's Basketball in America Timeline [[11]]

Kansas City Public Library Databases to use to expand articles

Newsbank [[12]]
Newspaper Source [[13]]
KC History [[14]]

Getting a KCPL card: [[15]]

Mid-Continent Public Library Databases to use to expand articles

Kansas City Star [[16]]
Newspapers.com [[17]]

Getting a MCPL card: [[18]]

Resources to learn about editing Wikipedia

Introduction
Art+Feminism's QuickGuides for Editing in English, Spanish, Portuguese and French [[19]]
Adding Images to Wikimedia Commons: Dos & Don'ts [[20]]
Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's sport/Help
Wikipedia: WikiProject Basketball

Results

Dashboard [21]