- Event Title: Kansas City Philanthropists Edit-a-thon
- Date: Monday, July 15, 2019
- Time: 4:00pm – 7:00pm CDT
- Location: Kansas City Public Library's Central Library, Helzberg Auditorium, 14 W. 10th St; Kansas City, MO 64105
- Host institutions: Kansas City Public Library
- Edit-A-Thon Organizer: Kim Gile.
- Event pages: Facebook event, The Kansas City Public Library calendar listing
- Free with registration. To register, reserve tickets online.
Celebrate Kansas City’s culture of philanthropy 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 4:30pm. 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.
Please RSVP to our facebook event page so we can have enough food and wine, here.
- Kclibrarian ( talk · contribs)
- KCMOKnowledge ( talk · contribs)
Articles to improve
Below is a list of articles that would benefit from edits and expansion during the edit-a-thon:
- Kenneth A. Spencer
- William Volker
- Thomas H. Swope
- William Rockhill Nelson
- R. Crosby Kemper, Sr.
- Ewing Kauffman
- Muriel Kauffman
- Henry W. Bloch
- Richard Bloch
- Donald J. Hall, Sr.
- Robert A. Long
- August Meyer
- Howard Vanderslice
- Edward F. Swinney
- James E. Stowers
- Landon H. Rowland
- Arthur Mag
- Herman A. Johnson
- Lucile Bluford
- Andrew "Rube" Foster
- Marjorie Powell Allen
- Jacob and Ella Loose
- Mary McAfee Atkins
- Morton Sosland
- George Sheidley
- John Taylor, Kansas City
- Hector Barreto, Sr.
- John and Parker B. Francis