Wikipedia:Meetup/Minnesota/Fergus Falls/Park Region Minnesota History Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon

Park Region Minnesota History Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon
When and Where
Date	Saturday, November 12, 2022
Time	11–4 pm CDT
Location	Otter Tail County Historical Museum; Operated by the Otter Tail County Historical Society.
Address	1110 W Lincoln Avenue
City, State	Fergus Falls, Minnesota 56537
Website	https://otchs.org/home.html
Map	Map
Enroll	Event Dashboard
Register	Register

Help improve your local history on Wikipedia.

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

Event information

Event Title: Park Region Minnesota History Edit-a-thon
Date: Saturday, November 12, 2022
Time: 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. CDT
Location: Otter Tail County Historical Museum, Otter Tail Historical Society, 110 W Lincoln Avenue Fergus Falls, Minnesota 56537
Cost: Free
Facilitator/s: Joe Hoover
Limited to ten participants

Counties in Park Region History Coalition

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 (* ~~~)

Myotus (organiser)
Myotus (talk) 18:05, 12 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Myotus (talk)
MissFergus (talk) 18:07, 12 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
PattyB56531 (talk) 18:08, 12 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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:

PLACES
(Cities, Former Places, Unincorporated communities, Landforms, Protected areas, etc...)

COUNTY SEATS

National Register Database and Research

PEOPLE/THINGS

MUSEUMS

List of museums in Minnesota