Wikipedia:Meetup/LA/EOB/Unforgetting 6
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Welcome! East of Borneo and L.A. as Subject are hosting an "Unforgetting L.A." edit-a-thon. Join us at the 9th Annual Los Angeles Archives Bazaar at USC Doheny Memorial Library on October 25. |
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 What: Unforgetting L.A. Meetup #6 When: Saturday, October 25, 2014, 9am - 5pm Where: USC Doheny Memorial Library, 3550 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90089 (map) Beginners welcome! We'll provide training for new editors. Orientations are offered every hour on the hour. What to bring: Your laptop, power adapter, and any reference materials you'd like to work from or share. Focus: Meetup with online magazine East of Borneo for an edit-a-thon to build a more diverse and accurate history of art in Southern California. This next meetup in their Unforgetting L.A. series will begin a one-year partnership with L.A. as Subject—a local alliance of libraries, museums, and other cultural organizations dedicated to improving access to the archival material of Los Angeles history—and will be hosted at their 9th Annual Los Angeles Archives Bazaar. We're primarily interested in art and culture, but you are welcome to work on anything you like. As Always, you do not need to be an experienced Wikipedia editor in order to attend. But if you are, please consider volunteering your expertise to this or any future Unforgetting L.A. meetup by contacting StaceyEOB(talk) Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/859340107432910 Website: eastofborneo.org/unforgetting Twitter: @unforgettingLA ♦ @eastofborneo |
Background
Since July 2013, Unforgetting LA is a series of Wikipedia edit-a-thons to build a better online history of art in Southern California. We meet throughout the year at local galleries, museums, and nonprofit art spaces. Previous hosts include the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and the MAK Center for Art and Architecture. Unforgetting L.A. is organized by East of Borneo, an online magazine of contemporary art and its history as considered from Los Angeles.
RSVP
Please add your name if you plan to attend:
- StaceyEOB (talk) 18:42, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
- Chris Troutman (talk)
- Penny Richards (talk)
- Calliopejen1 (talk) 19:10, 17 October 2014 (UTC)
- Rambling River I'll be manning a booth at the Bazaar but I'll stop in and say hi to everyone. It is a spectacular event.
- Pbjamesphoto (talk) 20:18, 20 October 2014 (UTC) I'll be glad to see you at the alma mater!
- Lucas(CA) (talk) 18:18, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
- --Cosmicphantom (talk) 22:20, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
To-Do
For a full list of potential articles to create or improve during this edit-a-thon, see Wikipedia:Meetup/LA/EOB#Worklist.
Results (in progress)
Resources
Please start here:
Create a New Article / Templates:
- Unforgetting L.A.: New article template: Artist (copy and paste!)
- Unforgetting L.A.: New article template: Gallery/Organization (copy and paste!)
- Unforgetting L.A.: Infobox templates
When in doubt:
- Notability Guidelines for Artists & Creative Professionals
- Notability Guidelines for Organizations
- Conflict of Interest policy
- Image Use Policy
- Article Naming & Disambiguation
Additional Tutorials:
- Basic tutorial
- More detailed tutorial
- Wikipedia Adventure - a silly but easy and effective tutorial!
- Citing sources video tutorials (about two minutes each, very helpful) ------------>