Hi Talia, this sounds like a great goal and first step.
Something to address on your end - if you'd like images included in the Wikipedia
articles, they would need to have open licenses associated with them. For example, this
marvelous image of Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters marching in
parade<https://calisphere.org/item/ark:/13030/c8z60r5m/> would need to have a
suitable Creative Commons or similar license associated with it.
Best,
Merrilee
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Guzman-Gonzalez, Talia
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Subject: [External] Re: [Wikimedia-SF] Hosting Black History Month Edit-a-Thon at the
African American Museum and Library at Oakland
Hello Britta and all,
I am amazed (although I shouldn't be) at the responses I've received to my
inquiry. The SF Wikimedia community is strong!!
I thought I would offer some context about our collections and content for we are
planning. Maybe this will help us find the right fit.
The African American Museum and Library at Oakland houses a unique archival collection on
the history of African Americans in Northern California and the Bay Area. The archives
includes over 160 collections documenting prominent families, pioneers, churches, social
and political organizations. Finding aids are available in the Online Archive of
California
<http://www.oac.cdlib.org/institutions/Oakland+Public+Library::African+American+Museum+and+Library+at+Oakland>
and digitized items in
Calisphere<https://calisphere.org/institution/147/collections/>s/>. My goal with the
edit-a-thon is to link items from the AAMLO archive that available online to existing
Wikipedia articles. Of course, it doesn't need to be restricted to that alone and
people would be welcome to expand on stubs, etc.
It would be great to have a wikimedian do a general intro to Wikipedia, and walk
participants through the process of adding images and/or links to bibliographies, editing
information, etc. Staff from AAMLO would work beforehand in identifying resources people
could work on during the event and we can also do a short presentation about our
institution and collections.
If this sounds interesting to you, let's work together! And, of course, we do not need
to limit ourselves to one month...
More information about our archives:
Archives
AAMLO's archival collection is a unique resource on the history of African Americans
in Northern California and the Bay Area. The archives includes over 160 collections
documenting prominent families, pioneers, churches, social and political organizations.
Finding aids are available in the Online Archive of California
<http://www.oac.cdlib.org/institutions/Oakland+Public+Library::African+American+Museum+and+Library+at+Oakland>
and digitized items in
Calisphere<https://calisphere.org/institution/147/collections/>s/>. Freedom's
Journal, the Liberator, California Voice, Sun Reporter, Muhammed Speakers, and the Black
Panther newspapers are available on microfilm.
Using AAMLO's oral history collection, researchers can listen to interviews with local
civil rights activists, educators, writers, and musicians. AAMLO is home to the Eternal
Voices video library containing more than 80 years of African American East Bay history
and Susheel Bibb's Meet Mary Pleasant DVD (scholarly interviews, key issues and
documents).
The microfilm collection includes primary research information on African American
enslavement, military service, California census records 1910-1930, Marcus Garvey's
Universal Negro Improvement Association, W.E.B. Dubois, Benjamin Banneker, Mary Church
Terrell, Paul Robeson and others. The archives department is open from 12-4. To make an
appointment call (510) 637-0198.
Talía Guzmán-González, Ph.D.
Branch Manager
African American Museum and Library at
Oakland<https://oaklandlibrary.org/locations/african-american-museum-lib…
659 14th St., Oakland, CA 94612
TGuzman-Gonzalez@oaklandlibrary.org<mailto:TGuzman-Gonzalez@oaklandlibrary.org>
Pronouns: she/her
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Wonderful! I also live in Oakland and would be excited to help. I've supported a bunch
of local in-person editing workshops in a range of ways, and I'm up for seeing how I
can help with virtual events as well.
In case it's interesting to look at, this was a local Black History Month event last
year:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco/Black_History_…
Thank you,
Britta
On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 12:28 PM David Edelson
<fordmadoxfraud@gmail.com<mailto:fordmadoxfraud@gmail.com>> wrote:
I'd love to help any way I can! :)
On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 10:42 AM Guzman-Gonzalez, Talia
<TGuzman-Gonzalez@oaklandlibrary.org<mailto:TGuzman-Gonzalez@oaklandlibrary.org>>
wrote:
Hello,
I am the Branch Manager at the African American Museum and Library at Oakland and I am
interested in hosting a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon as part of our Black History Month series of
events. In the past I have hosted similar events at the Library of Congress and worked
with Ariel Cetrone (Institutional Partnerships Manager at Wikimedia District of Columbia).
I am new to the Bay Area Wikimedia community and would appreciate any assistance from
local wikimedians to make this event (the first one for the Oakland Public Library
system!) happen.
Your time and guidance is greatly appreciated!
Best,
Talia
Talía Guzmán-González, Ph.D.
Branch Manager
African American Museum and Library at
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