An Edit-a-Thon at the Library of Congress
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This joint effort of the Library of Congress African and Middle East Reading Room and Wikimedia DC welcomes participants to an edit-a-thon on Africa. Activities include new editor orientation and a behind-the-scenes tour of the Library of Congress. Coffee and cookies generously provided courtesy of Wikimedia DC.
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After the event, we will repair to the Madison Cafe for lunch.
Those who wish to continue their explorations of the Library of Congress after lunch are welcome to use their new Library of Congress Reader's Card to expand Wikipedia with the innumerable reliable sources onsite.
- When
- Friday, April 11, 2014
- 9:00am - 1:00pm
- Please arrive at 9:00 am to get your Library of Congress Readers' Card!
- Meetup location: Madison Building Information Desk, 9 AM
- Editathon: African and Middle Eastern Reading Room, Jefferson Building, 10 AM
Bring:
- Laptop and identification
Prior reservations are made on this site; event is limited to 20-25 attendees.
The event is also announced at Meetup.com but this wiki article page is the mandatory prior reservation site.
Attending
edit- Djembayz
- Harej
- Duckduckstop
- Sarasays
- Geraldshields11 (talk) 22:51, 23 March 2014 (UTC)and I have an LOC reader card already
- groupuscule (talk) 23:15, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
- friend of Smokey the Bear
- Mr. M.
- Leafyleafleaf
- Katherine Maher
- Mr. H.
- Mme. P.
- Friend of Smokey the Bear
- Edsu
- econterms (talk)
Maybe
edit- Mr. A.
- Mr. T.
- Fuzheado | Talk 02:05, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
Regrets
edit- Sadly, but thanks for thinking of me! SarahStierch (talk) 23:55, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
- Sorry I can't be there; looking forward to report on how things went! Uncommon fritillary (talk) 14:15, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
- Found out just a little too late. :( Zell Faze (talk) 11:46, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
Articles to create and expand
edit*United States presidential visits to Sub-Saharan Africa
*Wikipedia:List of missing Africa topics
*List of wanted articles about Africa
References
edit- ^ "Jimmy Carter, Lagos, Nigeria, Remarks of the President and Lt. Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo at the Welcoming Ceremony". The American Presidency Project. 1978-04-01. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
- ^ "Jimmy Carter, Lagos, Nigeria, Remarks at the National Arts Theatre". The American Presidency Project. 1978-04-01. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
- ^ "Jimmy Carter: Lagos, Nigeria Toasts at the State Dinner". The American Presidency Project. April 2, 1978. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
- ^ "Jimmy Carter: Lagos, Nigeria Remarks on Signing the Joint Communique". The American Presidency Project. April 2, 1978. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
- ^ "Jimmy Carter: Lagos, Nigeria Joint Communique Issued at the Conclusion of Meetings Between the President and General Obasanjo". The American Presidency Project. April 2, 1978. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
- ^ "Jimmy Carter: Monrovia, Liberia Remarks of President Carter and President William R. Tolbert, Jr., at the Welcoming Ceremony". The American Presidency Project. April 2, 1978. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
- ^ Carter, Jimmy (1979). Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States. Jimmy Carter, 1978 (in two books). Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
- ^ "CBS Evening News: Carter / Foreign Trip / Nigeria". Vanderbilt Television News Archive. 1978-04-02. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
- ^ "NBC Evening News: Carter / Foreign Trip / Nigeria / Rhodesia Meeting". Vanderbilt Television News Archive. 1978-04-02. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
- ^ "ABC Evening News: Carter / Foreign Trip / Nigeria and Liberia". Vanderbilt Television News Archive. 1978-04-03. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
- ^ "NBC Evening News: Carter / For. Trip / Nigeria and Liberia / Rhodesia and South Africa". Vanderbilt Television News Archive. 1978-04-03. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
- ^ "CBS Evening News: Carter / Foreign Trip / Nigeria". Vanderbilt Television News Archive. 1978-04-02. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
Articles to expand in African languages
edit- ዋሺንግተን ዲሲ
- ቶማስ ጄፈርሰን
- የዓለም ዋንጫ
- ኔልሰን ማንዴላ
- ክዋሜ ንክሩማህ (add photo)
- توماس جفرسون
- وثيقة الحقوق في الولايات المتحدة
- مؤسسة سميثسونيان
- Koobka Adduunka
- Suugaan
- Thomas Jefferson (Afrikans)
- Thomas Jefferson (Kinyarwanda)
- Thomas Jefferson (Swahili)
- Thomas Jefferson (Yoruba)
- Nelson Mandela (Xhosa)
- Nelson Mandela (Wolof)
- Nelson Mandela (Swahili)
Wikipedia for new editors
edit- Getting Started with Wikipedia, presentation
- New editors guide from NARA
- Wikipedia Teahouse for questions
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It's a great feeling
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Picking a user name
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Creating an account
Resources
edit- Africana Collections, Library of Congress Illustrated Guide
- Black Past.org - African American history reference
- Africa Country Studies - Federal Research Division, Library of Congress
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa
- Wikipedia:WikiProject African diaspora
Reference books about Africa
editEncyclopedia citations to cut and paste
editThe citations below are ready to cut and paste.
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Just add the title of your encyclopedia article to the citation, and it's good to go.
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Encyclopedia Africana
edit- Africana: the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience. Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis Gates (eds.) (2nd ed.). Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press. 2005. ISBN 9780195170559.
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General
edit- Africa and the Americas: culture, politics, and history: a multidisciplinary encyclopedia. Transatlantic relations series. Richard M. Juang, Noelle Anne Morrissette (eds.). Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO. 2008. ISBN 9781851094417.
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(help)CS1 maint: others (link) - The Cambridge encyclopedia of Africa. Roland Anthony Oliver, Michael Crowder (eds.). Cambridge [Eng.] ; New York: Cambridge University Press. 1981. ISBN 0521230969.
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(help)CS1 maint: others (link) - Encyclopedia of Africa south of the Sahara. John Middleton (ed.). New York: C. Scribner's Sons. 1997. ISBN 0684804662.
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(help)CS1 maint: others (link) - Lye, Keith, ed. (2002). Encyclopedia of African Nations and Civilization. Facts on File library of world history. New York: Facts on File; Diagram Group. p. 189. ISBN 0816045682.
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(help) - Encyclopedia of the modern Middle East & North Africa. Philip Mattar (ed.) (2nd ed.). Detroit, Mich: Macmillan Reference USA. 2004. ISBN 0028657691.
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(help)CS1 maint: others (link) - Standard encyclopaedia of Southern Africa. Cape Town: NASOU. 1970.
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History
edit- Africa in world history. William Hardy McNeill (ed.). Great Barrington, Mass: Berkshire Pub. Group. 2011. ISBN 9780977015993.
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(help)CS1 maint: others (link) - Encyclopedia of African History. Kevin Shillington (ed.). New York: Fitzroy Dearborn. 2005. ISBN 1579582451.
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(help)CS1 maint: others (link) - Encyclopedia of twentieth-century African history. Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, Dickson Eyoh (eds.). London ; New York: Routledge. 2003. ISBN 0415234794.
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(help)CS1 maint: others (link) - Arnold, Guy (1999). Historical dictionary of civil wars in Africa. Historical dictionaries of war, revolution, and civil unrest. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0810836335.
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Topical
edit- African folklore: an encyclopedia. Philip M. Peek, Kwesi Yankah (eds.). New York: Routledge. 2004. ISBN 041593933X.
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(help)CS1 maint: others (link) - Cities of the Middle East and North Africa: a historical encyclopedia. Michael Dumper, Bruce E. Stanley (eds.). Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO. 2007. ISBN 1576079198.
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(help)CS1 maint: others (link) - Encyclopedia of African religion. Molefi K. Asante, Ama Mazama (eds.). Thousand Oaks, Calif: SAGE. 2009. ISBN 9781412936361.
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(help)CS1 maint: others (link) - Encyclopedia of the middle passage. Greenwood milestones in African American history. Toyin Falola, Amanda Warnock (eds.). Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press. 2007. ISBN 9780313334801.
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(help)CS1 maint: others (link) - The enviropaedia: environmental encyclopaedia & networking directory for southern Africa. David Parry-Davies (ed.) (New ed.). Simonstown, W. Cape: Eco-Logic Pub. 2004. ISBN 0620318937.
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(help)CS1 maint: others (link) - New encyclopedia of Africa. John Middleton, Joseph Calder Miller (eds.). Detroit: Thomson/Gale. 2008. ISBN 9780684314549.
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(help)CS1 maint: others (link) - The Oxford encyclopedia of African thought. Abiola Irele, Biodun Jeyifo (eds.). New York: Oxford University Press. 2010. ISBN 9780195334739.
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(help)CS1 maint: others (link) - Arnold, Guy (1993). Political and economic encyclopaedia of Africa. Harlow: Longman Current Affairs. ISBN 0582209951.
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German language
edit- Heichen, Paul (1885). Afrika Hand-Lexikon. Leipzig: Gressner & Schramm https://archive.org/details/afrikahandlexiko01heic. Retrieved 2014-04-03.
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(help) (volume 2, volume 3, Internet Archive) - Afrika-Lexikon: Geographie, Geschichte, Kultur, Politik und Wirtschaft. Wolfgang Gieler (ed.). Frankfurt am Main ; New York: Peter Lang. 2010. ISBN 9783631595688.
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Nigeria
edit- Gunn, Harold D (1956). Pagan Peoples of the Central Area of Northern Nigeria (The Butawa, Warjawa, etc. of the Bauchi-Kano borderland. The Kurama etc., the Katab Group, the Kadara, etc. of Zaria Province). Ethnographic Survey of Africa. Western Africa, Part XII. London: International African Institute.
- Gunn, Harold D; Conant, F.P. (1960). Peoples of the Middle Niger Region of Northern Nigeria. Ethnographic Survey of Africa. Western Africa, Part XV. London: International African Institute.
- Gunn, Harold D (1953). Peoples of the Plateau Area of Northern Nigeria. Ethnographic Survey of Africa. Western Africa, Part VII. London: International African Institute.
- Udo, R K; Mamman, A B (1994). Nigeria, Giant in the Tropics. Volume 2, State Surveys. Lagos, Nigeria: Gabumo Publishing Co. Ltd. ISBN 9780101683.
Outcomes
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A list of articles we have improved at this event
Articles created
edit- Verne Harris, head archivist of Nelson Mandela's papers
- Jallouli Fares, parliamentary speaker of Tunisia's parliament at time of its independence (added later)
Articles expanded
edit- Arthur Nortje
- Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville) -- added photo of 1964 constitution. <3 groupuscule (talk) 17:13, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
- Namibia -- added wikilinks and copyedits -- econterms (talk)
- Cinema of Africa -- added citation Djembayz (talk) 19:30, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
- Disinvestment from South Africa -- added image Djembayz (talk) 13:14, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
- Fulbert Youlou add 2 refs
- Jacques Opangault add infobox; refs; photo
- Pierre Goura add infobox; refs; photo
Files uploaded
edit- uploaded Republic of Congo posters and cropped headshots
... and ...
edit- walked through the stacks of the Africa Collection
- trained an LC staffer to edit
- updated Meetup, Facebook, Wiki Commons with photographs by Geraldshields11 (talk) 01:55, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
- got our LC Readers' Cards!
Followup visit, May 3
edit- photographed more posters
- assessed Zambian pamphlet collection
- tried out the scanner for .pdfs
- added links to scans of LC material by the Lubuto Library Project to articles about Zambian languages
- Created "Library of Congress, African Section, pamphlet collection - a set on Flickr".
- Flikr links added to Library of Congress Africa Collection related articles