Wikipedia:Meetup/Minnesota/Chisholm/Northland Minnesota History Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon

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Northland Minnesota History Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon
When and Where
DateSunday, August 21, 2022
Time11–4 pm CDT
LocationMinnesota Discovery Center.
Address1005 Discovery Drive
City, StateChisholm, Minnesota 55719
Websitehttps://www.mndiscoverycenter.com/
Maphttps://goo.gl/maps/4aFBueyyT9QVDzsH6
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Help improve your local history on Wikipedia.

Join us in creating or enhancing Wikipedia articles on Northeast Minnesota history. This event is a great way to make new friends, have fun, and learn something new while adding knowledge about Northeast Minnesota to Wikipedia. No Wikipedia experience necessary, training will be provided. This event is part of a series of eight Local History Wikipedia Edit-a-Thons and is put on by Minnesota Historical Society's Local History Services and hosted by Minnesota Discovery Center and Northland Minnesota.

Event information

  • Event Title: Northland Minnesota History Edit-a-thon
  • Date: Sunday, August 21, 2022
  • Time: 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
    CDT
  • Location: Minnesota Discovery Center, 1005 Discovery Drive Chisholm, Minnesota 55719
  • Cost: Free
  • Facilitator/s: Joe Hoover
  • Limited to eight participants

Counties in Northland Minnesota

Details

While laptops are provided, we encourage you to bring your own laptop, power cord and ideas for entries that need updating or creation. For the editing-averse, we urge you to stop by to show your support.

Attendees are asked to register beforehand and to bring any books, journals, magazines or newspaper articles relevant to pages they're interested in to use for sources for research.

No Wikipedia experience necessary; Social hour with light refreshments begins at 11 a.m., edit-a-thon at noon. Brief training session at 12:20 p.m. for newcomers. Library resources will be on hand for researching, however, consider bring books and news articles on your own community's or museum's history.

Attendees

Free, but Registration required.

If you have a Wikipedia user account please sign up on the events Dashboard.

Add your Wikipedia username to the list below if you have one. Tip; you can just type asterisk-space-three tildes (* ~~~)

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Preparation

If you're coming, try to create a Wikipedia account beforehand: don't wait until the day to do it! Here's a form you can use. Creating an account makes editing much easier (more info). You'll need to pick a "handle" for your username; you could use your real name, but it's nicer to have the option to be a bit anonymous if you want. Joe's username is Myotus.

Read up on Wikipedia: there are lots of tutorials, please check out the ones provided at the bottom of the page.

Have a think about topics you'd like to work on. Check out their pages and see if there are obvious mistakes or problems. Maybe even do a little research first so you're prepared. Bring along references for the information you want to add. If the topic you're interested in doesn't have a Wikipedia page, we could even create one. If you're stuck, there are lots of pages that need work: here are some suggestions.

List of articles

These are suggestions for articles and edits but the edit-a-thon is not limited to them.

Many of these pages history sections need expansion or creation:

Wikipedia resources

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