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When: | September 2015 |
Where: | United States (multiple cities) Parallel campaign in Asia |
A national edit-a-thon for cultural presence, to expand Asian American topics on Wikipedia. |
WikiAPA 2015: Wikipedia ♥ Asian Pacific American Art
The Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center invites you to attend the 2nd annual Wikipedia APA, an editathon for cultural presence, which will be held during the month of September 2015.
We are thrilled to invite you to Wikipedia APA, an editing event for improving and increasing the presence of cultural, historic, and artistic information on Wikipedia pertaining to Asian Pacific American ("APA") experiences. The second Wikipedia editathon dedicated to APA content, this project will occur as physical events during September 2015 in New York City, Washington DC, and Los Angeles, as well as remotely, with participants taking part from all throughout the world.
(Parallel to this campaign, a number of Wikimedia Asia Project countries are participating in editathons covering national heritage topics, including as an extension of the photo contest Wiki Loves Mounuments.)
While there is a respectable amount of information currently in the encyclopedia for commonly-known APA topics such as the Chinese Exclusion Act, the Japanese American Internment, and the Model Minority Myth, less information exists online about communities and experiences that have been historically marginalized. As presence on resources like Wikipedia becomes not only a tool for learning, but also a signal of cultural significance, the time is right for us to advocate for a more complete APA narrative.
With the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center’s recent exhibitions, the Museum of Modern Art's exhibition Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960–1971, and SAAM's exhibition The Artistic Journey of Yasuo Kuniyoshi, we are underlining a commitment to explore stories that have traditionally been left untold—particularly around Americans whose identities include South Asian, Southeast Asian, Pacific Islander, multi-heritage, women, and LGBTQ. Incidentally, these vital APA narratives are dispersed and incomplete on Wikipedia.
Let’s change that.
Events will be held during the month of September 2015 in various locations, with the main events in Washington DC, New York, and Los Angeles.
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London 203 | April 14, 2024 |
Oxford 99 | April 21, 2024 |
San Diego 110 | April 22, 2024 |
North Carolina Earth Day | April 23, 2024 |
Edinburgh 15 | April 27, 2024 |
BLT Office Hours | April 28, 2024 |
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Auckland 22 | May 4, 2024 |
Leeds 6 | May 4, 2024 |
Exeter | May 5, 2024 |
London 204 | May 12, 2024 |
US Mountain West online | May 14, 2024 |
Bay Area WikiSalon | May 16, 2024 |
San Diego 111 | May 20, 2024 |
BLT Office Hours | May 26, 2024 |
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Join us for #WikiAPA, a social evening of Wikipedia editing, dedicated to creating, updating, and improving articles about Asian Pacific American art and artists. Hosted at The Museum of Modern Art in collaboration with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center and Wikimedia NYC, this meetup will focus on unearthing information about a creatively-rich community that has historically been overlooked.
The event kicks off a month-long series of #WikiAPA meetups across the U.S. For more information about the #WikiAPA series, please visit Smithsonian APA - Wiki or follow #WikiAPA on Twitter.
This event is part of a month-long series of #WikiAPA meetups across the U.S. For more information about the #WikiAPA events, visit Smithsonian APA - Wiki or follow #WikiAPA on Twitter.
Please RSVP, thanks!
At Wikipedia Town in Toyama, we will be writing/editing articles with the help of librarians from the Toyama City Public Library on the following topics. (Topics are subject to change depending on the holdings of the library.)
With more than 25 people in attendance, partcipants edited the following five articles on the Japanese Wikipedia.
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Issues
History
Japanese War Relocation Centers
Asian American media
Cultural sites
Asian American academics
Journalists
Biographies
Popular culture
History
Biographies
Created by participants in the Women in Red Virtual APA editathon (September 4-6):
Created by WikiAPA Hong Kong event, 22 September 2015:
Created by WikiAPA San Diego/UCSD event, 30 September 2015:
Created by WikiAPA Minneapolis/Loft event, 1 October 2015:
Websites, library catalogs, databases
Listed here for quick reference.
N.B. Also located on the Resources page referenced above under
Editor Resources
See
Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism/Resources