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Wikipedia:Meetup/Kansas City/KC Philanthropists July 2019

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Event information

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Details

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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.

Register

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Please RSVP to our facebook event page so we can have enough food and wine, here.

Participants

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Work list

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Articles to improve

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

Resources

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Library resources to use to expand articles

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Resources to learn about editing Wikipedia

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Results

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