Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Truth-a-Thon

[[Category:Wikipedia meetups in February 2018]

Truth-a-Thon
@ Nathan Cummings Foundation

When and Where
Date	Saturday, February 3, 2018
Time	12:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Address	Nathan Cummings Foundation 475 Tenth Ave. 14th Floor
City, State	New York City, New York 10018

The Truth-a-Thon is an edit-a-thon being held on Saturday February 3, 2018 at Nathan Cummings Foundation in Manhattan, as part of the exhibition Hold These Truths.

Please bring a laptop!

See possible list of articles to work on.

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Event information

• Date: Saturday February 3, 2018
• Time: 12:00-6:00pm
• Location: Nathan Cummings Foundation, 475 Tenth Ave (14th Floor), Manhattan, New York, NY 10018
• Subway: to 34th Street–Hudson Yards
• Bus:
• External link: Hold These Truths (exhibition)

Event Description

Artists Heather Hart from Black Lunch Table (BLT), Sara Clugage from Art+Feminism and members of Wikimedia NYC will host a "Truth-a-Thon" as part of the Truth Be Told program series for the exhibition Hold These Truths with No Longer Empty. Workshop leaders will lead a training and will be available throughout the event to guide participants on the editing process for articles of their choosing. Come learn about the work of these collectives and how to transform public discourse in real time! Bring your laptop and a friend.

Agenda

Early session of truth-a-thon

Preparation

• Bring your laptop: Editing Wikipedia is easier with a keyboard.
• Bring a published source to cite: Suggested books and papers will be available at the event. If you like, bring an academic paper or other reliable source of information to cite, to support your addition to Wikipedia. You will use Wikipedia to distribute information from this source. Try to bring the highest quality most reputable source you can find for the information.
• Create a Wikipedia account, if you do not have one already.
• If you wish, take Wikipedia's own 30-minute online training and tour at The Wikipedia Adventure.

With all this, you can take maximum advantage.

List of articles to create/edit

• Women in Red
• Wikipedia:Requested articles
• Black Lunch Table task list

Articles created

1. Kwame_Brathwaite - Jskarlin
2. Dr. Charles Smith - Heathart

Articles improved

1. Kevin Sampson (artist) - Aude (talk) 20:48, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
2. Lola Flash - Hannah Silverman (talk) 20:53, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
3. Cecilia Vicuña
4. Kimberly Drew
5. Janet Henry
6. Womanhouse
7. Ebony Patterson
8. Africa's Out!
9. Joseph Betesh
10. Jacci Gresham
11. "Polish death camp" controversy
12. Diva TV (video collective)
13. Evacuation Day (New York)
14. Svalbard in fiction
15. L. J. Roberts
16. Noah Purifoy
17. Ivan Monforte
18. National Entrepreneurs' Day
19. Siamak Taghaddos
20. Honor Club
21. Elaine Reichek
22. United States presidential pets
23. Boa Technology
24. Elombe Brath
25. Clara de Hirsch
26. Miss South Carolina Teen 2012
27. Miss America's Outstanding teen 2011
28. Miss America's Outstanding Teen 2012
29. Miss America's Outstanding Teen 2019
30. Brooklyn Museum
31. Chronology (video game)
32. Miss Alabama's Outstanding Teen
33. Miss Arizona's Outstanding Teen
34. Miss Alaska's Outstanding Teen
35. Crimmigration
36. Tinglev case
37. Alan Marshall
38. Miriam Schapiro
39. Wikidata
40. Disston Saw Works
41. Neutral powers during World War II
42. Substellar object
43. Wangechi Mutu
44. Stephanie Pogue
45. Google Photos
46. Mohammed Mahtabur Rahman
47. Leesa Sleep
48. Amendment to the Act on the Institute of National Remembrance
49. First engagement of neutral United States in World War II before the attack on Pearl Harbor
50. River pirate
51. Springfield Splendor
52. List of Connecticut state prisons
53. Ger C. Bout
54. 2000s commodities boom
55. Alan Marshall (historian)
56. The Holocaust in Poland
57. Ashwani Mahajan
58. The Amazing Race 5 (Latin America)
59. List of companies of Spain
60. Sonic Vista Studios
61. Ushuaïa Ibiza Beach Hotel
62. John Munch
63. Airline product
64. Open Humanities Press
65. Sid Lee
66. Pepperdine University School of Law
67. Alfred Lee Loomis
68. Electric bicycle laws
69. Ajuan Mance
70. Discovery and exploration of the Solar System
71. Food & Water Watch

Sign up

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Remote attendees

• --PatienceFortitude (talk) 16:05, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

Possible attendees

• Napplicable (talk) 16:08, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

Likely attendees

• Pharos (talk) 19:31, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

• Heathart (talk) 17:02, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

• Nwhysel (talk) 01:47, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

• Dilettante Army (talk) 19:49, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

• DGG ( talk ) 11:15, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

• ohmyerica (talk) 17:53, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

• Mozucat (talk) 19:16, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

• Aude (talk) 02:34, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
• Hannah Silverman (talk) 17:10, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

• Jim.henderson (talk) 19:58, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

• Louize5 (talk) 18:27, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

• Greensubmarine (talk) 18:27, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

• Jordegern (talk) 18:27, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

• Rdeanda (talk) 18:27, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

• Micalejohn (talk) 18:27, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

• Feministkilljoy (talk) 18:27, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

• Jeremyb (talk) 18:28, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

• Carolefranceslung (talk) 18:28, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

• Armchaired (talk) 18:28, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

• Ronald Sexton (talk)

• Jskarlin (talk) 21:29, 3 February 2018 (UTC)