AfroCROWD
Wikipedia Edit-a-thons

When & Where
Date	Sunday, December 13, 2015
Time	1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Address	Brooklyn Public Library Central Library Info Commons Room 10 Grand Army Plaza
City, State	Brooklyn, NY 11238

December 2015 gathering of AfroCROWD @ Brooklyn Public Library!

• Co-sponsor: Creatively Speaking
• Date: Sunday, December 13, 2015
• Time: 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
• Location: Brooklyn Public Library, Central Library, Info Commons Room
• Address: 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 11238 40°40′20″N 73°58′05″W / 40.672359°N 73.968146°W / 40.672359; -73.968146
• Subway:
  • ​ to Grand Army Plaza
• Bus: B41, B69 buses
• Meetup link: WikimediaNYC @ Meetup
• Details:
  • Afro Free Culture Crowdsourcing Wikimedia (AfroCROWD) is a new initiative which seeks to increase the number of people of African Descent actively editing Wikipedia. Become a part of the Wikimedia and free knowledge, culture and software movements and help close the multicultural and gender gaps in Wikipedia.
  • We have held monthly editathons in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens since February 2015.
  • Beginners welcome.
  • All languages welcome including English, Spanish, Haitian Creole, French, Yoruba, Twi, Woloff and other languages spoken in the African Diaspora. Wikipedia comes in 285 languages and you are welcome to edit it in any of them or translate from one language to another.
  • Light Refreshments will be available.

Please add your Wikipedia username to the appropriate section below.

You can also RSVP at our Meetup.com page and/or on Eventbrite!

Confirmed

1. Pharos ( talk) 12:47, 30 November 2015 (UTC) reply
2. Shanluan ( talk)
3. DGG ( talk ) 23:44, 5 December 2015 (UTC) ; reply
4. Aliceba ( talk) 16:00, 9 December 2015 (UTC) reply
5. Theredproject ( talk) 00:17, 10 December 2015 (UTC) reply
6. Failedprojects ( talk) 19:03, 13 December 2015 (UTC) reply
7. Siankevans ( talk) 19:10, 13 December 2015 (UTC) reply
8. CCJmedia ( talk) 20:13, 13 December 2015 (UTC) reply
9. JejCommun ( talk) 20:17, 13 December 2015 (UTC) reply
10. Roadrunnernyc ( talk)
11. Jamila Allston ( talk) 20:25, 13 December 2015 (UTC) reply
12. Monteatrikers ( talk) 20:37, 13 December 2015 (UTC) reply
13. Gjone1 ( talk) 20:41, 13 December 2015 (UTC) reply
14. Devolutionproductions ( talk) 20:43, 13 December 2015 (UTC) reply
15. DarioMohr Art ( talk) 20:45, 13 December 2015 (UTC) reply
16. Nolad1973 ( talk) 20:49, 13 December 2015 (UTC) reply
17. Mamalicious ( talk) 20:52, 13 December 2015 (UTC) reply
18. Rotca 77 ( talk) 20:54, 13 December 2015 (UTC) reply
19. Michellematerre ( talk) 20:56, 13 December 2015 (UTC) reply
20. DR. LUV JA ( talk) 21:17, 13 December 2015 (UTC) reply
21. Cclay684 ( talk) 21:30, 13 December 2015 (UTC) reply
22. 74.64.8.15 ( talk)

Regrets

Participating online

1. BrillLyle ( talk) -- sorry I'll be in Nebraska this weekend but will try to participate remotely

Alphabetical by last name

Alphabetical by last name

• WikiAfrica Cinema Films List
• AfroCROWD - List of articles

• Category:Film directors from Africa
• Category:Film directors by language
• Category:African film director stubs
• Category:Senegalese film directors, etc.

New page creations

alphabetical

1. Pearl Bowser -- Gjone1 ( talk)

Pages improved

alphabetical

1. ARRAY -- added infobox, logo -- BrillLyle ( talk)
2. Neema Barnette -- Theredproject ( talk), Jamila Allston ( talk), Mamalicious ( talk), Michellematerre ( talk), Cclay684 ( talk)
3. Manthia Diawara -- CCJmedia ( talk)
4. Django Unchained -- DarioMohr Art ( talk)
5. Byron Hurt -- CCJmedia ( talk)
6. Nemours Jean-Baptiste -- Monteatrikers ( talk)
7. Stan Lathan -- Roadrunnernyc ( talk)
8. Spike Lee -- Rotca 77 ( talk)
9. Raoul Peck -- Aliceba ( talk)
10. Dee Rees -- Nolad1973 ( talk)
11. Michèle Stephenson -- added citations and a few details about her work -- Siankevans ( talk), JejCommun ( talk)

Images added to Wikimedia Commons

1. ARRAY logo.jpg - ARRAY Now Film Distribution logo for Ava DuVernay's distribution company -- BrillLyle ( talk)

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See Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism/Resources
If you are unfamiliar with Wikipedia, you might try this training module which will help explain a lot of things, including how to add your signature.

Editing Wikipedia resources

Listed here for quick reference.
N.B. Also located on the Resources page referenced above under Editor Resources

• 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)
• Art+Feminism - Video training
• Art+Feminism - Training Lesson Plan

Tools and templates

• Cheatsheet for editing Wikipedia
• Infobox template - person
• Biographies of living persons
• Writing an article
• About the Sandbox

• N.B. There is an IRC channel if online participants need help:

Wikipedia:IRC/wikipedia-en-help

• #wikipedia-en-help ^connect

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 2015 Black Film BPL.

• AfroCROWD (main page)
• Wikipedia - Haitian Creole
• AfroCROWD Meetup - NYC (main events page)
• HaitiCROWD Meetup - NYC
• AfroCROWD (official website)
• Wikipedia Meetup - NYC (main events page)
• Wikimedia New York City