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 Oaklandhttps://oaklandlibrary.org/locations/african-american-museum-library-oakland 659 14th St., Oakland, CA 94612 TGuzman-Gonzalez@oaklandlibrary.org Pronouns: she/her
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Hi Talia! I live in Oakland and would love to help you with this (not like it matters where we live, these days). The Main Branch hosted an editing event a few years ago, but that was just as community space - it would be great to get some of the awesome OPL librarians involved. I've been curious about your branch and collections for a long time so I would really welcome this as an opportunity.
From: Wikimedia-SF wikimedia-sf-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org On Behalf Of Guzman-Gonzalez, Talia Sent: Thursday, December 3, 2020 10:42 AM To: wikimedia-sf@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [External] [Wikimedia-SF] Hosting Black History Month Edit-a-Thon at the African American Museum and Library at Oakland
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 Oaklandhttps://oaklandlibrary.org/locations/african-american-museum-library-oakland 659 14th St., Oakland, CA 94612 TGuzman-Gonzalez@oaklandlibrary.orgmailto:TGuzman-Gonzalez@oaklandlibrary.org Pronouns: she/her
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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> 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 Oakland https://oaklandlibrary.org/locations/african-american-museum-library-oakland 659 14th St., Oakland, CA 94612 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_M...
Thank you, Britta
On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 12:28 PM David Edelson 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> 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 Oakland https://oaklandlibrary.org/locations/african-american-museum-library-oakland 659 14th St., Oakland, CA 94612 TGuzman-Gonzalez@oaklandlibrary.org Pronouns: she/her
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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 Calispherehttps://calisphere.org/institution/147/collections/. 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 Calispherehttps://calisphere.org/institution/147/collections/. 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 Oaklandhttps://oaklandlibrary.org/locations/african-american-museum-library-oakland 659 14th St., Oakland, CA 94612 TGuzman-Gonzalez@oaklandlibrary.org Pronouns: she/her
Subscribe to the AAMLO newsletterhttps://mailchi.mp/oaklandlibrary/aamlo!
________________________________ From: Britta Gustafson brittag@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, December 3, 2020 9:05 PM To: San Francisco Bay Area Wikimedians wikimedia-sf@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Guzman-Gonzalez, Talia TGuzman-Gonzalez@oaklandlibrary.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-SF] Hosting Black History Month Edit-a-Thon at the African American Museum and Library at Oakland
[EXTERNAL] This email originated outside of the City of Oakland. Please do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and expect the message. ________________________________ 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_M...https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_Wikipedia-3AMeetup_San-5FFrancisco_Black-5FHistory-5FMonth-5FWiki-2Da-2Dthon-5Fat-5FPrelinger-5FLibrary&d=DwMFaQ&c=6ZboKdJzR8nZOqwBjhPnCw&r=-snhWBgxZ6sAtfA5mm34wBe5skVKEGWe-vkBD8whOFsI9plPb4_gRQ3Gg1QNJWdS&m=UmM5QfszWA-wxn7jG_CGWBAKtxxm5JqvggnEHbdZZXg&s=0LZpuf3hRuo9qo6h-iviCWqBQOqSYbr8kM22vQAn6_U&e=
Thank you, Britta
On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 12:28 PM David Edelson <fordmadoxfraud@gmail.commailto: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.orgmailto: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 Oaklandhttps://oaklandlibrary.org/locations/african-american-museum-library-oakland 659 14th St., Oakland, CA 94612 TGuzman-Gonzalez@oaklandlibrary.orgmailto:TGuzman-Gonzalez@oaklandlibrary.org Pronouns: she/her
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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 paradehttps://calisphere.org/item/ark:/13030/c8z60r5m/ would need to have a suitable Creative Commons or similar license associated with it.
Best,
Merrilee
From: Wikimedia-SF wikimedia-sf-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org On Behalf Of Guzman-Gonzalez, Talia Sent: Friday, December 4, 2020 11:23 AM To: Britta Gustafson brittag@gmail.com; San Francisco Bay Area Wikimedians wikimedia-sf@lists.wikimedia.org 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 Calispherehttps://calisphere.org/institution/147/collections/. 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 Calispherehttps://calisphere.org/institution/147/collections/. 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 Oaklandhttps://oaklandlibrary.org/locations/african-american-museum-library-oakland 659 14th St., Oakland, CA 94612 TGuzman-Gonzalez@oaklandlibrary.orgmailto:TGuzman-Gonzalez@oaklandlibrary.org Pronouns: she/her
Subscribe to the AAMLO newsletterhttps://mailchi.mp/oaklandlibrary/aamlo!
________________________________ From: Britta Gustafson <brittag@gmail.commailto:brittag@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, December 3, 2020 9:05 PM To: San Francisco Bay Area Wikimedians <wikimedia-sf@lists.wikimedia.orgmailto:wikimedia-sf@lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: Guzman-Gonzalez, Talia <TGuzman-Gonzalez@oaklandlibrary.orgmailto:TGuzman-Gonzalez@oaklandlibrary.org> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-SF] Hosting Black History Month Edit-a-Thon at the African American Museum and Library at Oakland
[EXTERNAL] This email originated outside of the City of Oakland. Please do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and expect the message. ________________________________ 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_M...https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_Wikipedia-3AMeetup_San-5FFrancisco_Black-5FHistory-5FMonth-5FWiki-2Da-2Dthon-5Fat-5FPrelinger-5FLibrary&d=DwMFaQ&c=6ZboKdJzR8nZOqwBjhPnCw&r=-snhWBgxZ6sAtfA5mm34wBe5skVKEGWe-vkBD8whOFsI9plPb4_gRQ3Gg1QNJWdS&m=UmM5QfszWA-wxn7jG_CGWBAKtxxm5JqvggnEHbdZZXg&s=0LZpuf3hRuo9qo6h-iviCWqBQOqSYbr8kM22vQAn6_U&e=
Thank you, Britta
On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 12:28 PM David Edelson <fordmadoxfraud@gmail.commailto: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.orgmailto: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 Oaklandhttps://oaklandlibrary.org/locations/african-american-museum-library-oakland 659 14th St., Oakland, CA 94612 TGuzman-Gonzalez@oaklandlibrary.orgmailto:TGuzman-Gonzalez@oaklandlibrary.org Pronouns: she/her
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