Wikipedia:Meetup/NCL/Headsandtales 2019/Newcastle Upon Tyne City Library

Newcastle Upon Tyne
Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon

When and Where
Date:	Friday Jan 11th, 18th, 25th 2019
Time:	11:00 am – 4:00 pm
Address:	City Library 33 New Bridge Street West IT Suite
City/State:	Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8AX United Kingdom

The Wikipedia training and Edit-a-thon will take place in Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK.

About the event

January Friday 11th, 18th & 25th! Take part and learn how to edit and add a page to Wikipedia. Help us create pages for North East mental health support centres, organisations, groups and people! In doing so, this will help to increase the chance of people accessing mental health support & pathways online.

About the wider project: HEADS & TALES is a 2 year project to create a new heritage archive for the North East exploring, rebalancing and celebrating the voice of adults experiencing mental health conditions. This project is shaped and led by participants, volunteers and staff who are directly or indirectly affected by mental health issues. Led by Chilli Studios, a Mental Health Focused Art Studio, and Funded by Heritage Lottery Fund.

Past events

• January 11th 2019

Upcoming events

• January 18th 11:00 am – 4:00 pm @ Newcastle City Library.
• January 25th 11:00 am – 4:00 pm @ Newcastle City Library.

Event information

• Date: Friday January 11th, 18th & 25th 2019
• Time: 11:00 am – 4:00 pm
• Location: Newcastle Upon Tyne, City Library, 33 New Bridge Street West, IT Suite, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8AX United Kingdom

Please bring a laptop with you but we will also have the computers there if you do not have one!

List of articles to edit

Below is a list of articles that would benefit from edits and expansion during the edit-a-thon.

Mental Health Charities, communities, support & activism

• Chilli Studios Charity, Byker Newcastle
• North Tyne Side Art Studios
• ReCoCo (Recovery College Collective Limited), Central Newcastle
• MAD Studies North East Collective
• Peer Talk
• Altering Images of Mentality (AIM)

• Heads & Tales project
• RT projects, Durham
• Launch Pad
• North East Art Studio Partnership (Mental Health focused art studios)
• Ground collective, Hull …………………….We are welcome for more page ideas and information on Mental Health charities, groups, communities, events and activism!!!

See also: Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism/Tasks

Notability Guidelines for: Authors, editors, journalists, filmmakers, photographers, artists, architects, and other creative professionals: Wikipedia:Notability (people)#Creative professionals

More information here on seeking reliable sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#What_counts_as_a_reliable_source

NOTE: There is possibility of a page not being accepted through Wikipedia. However, The Heads & Tales Project will accept all entries for their digital online Archive.

Resources for editing

• Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism/Resources
• Cheat sheet
• Gender gap resources.
• Notability Guidelines for: Authors, editors, journalists, filmmakers, photographers, artists, architects, and other creative professionals:

Wikipedia:Notability (people)#Creative professionals

• More information here on seeking reliable sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#What_counts_as_a_reliable_source

Outcomes

Articles that can be worked on

Articles improved

Alphabetical by first letter

• St Nicholas Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne
• Web archiving

Articles created

In DRAFT:

• User:JoCeppy/North Tyneside Art Studio
• Draft:Chilli Studios
• User:JoCeppy/Altering Images of Mentality (Charity)
• User:Riuji27/sandbox - Heads & Tales project
• Recovery College Collective Limited (ReCoCo)

Images added

• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Self-arrest,_Danny_Crossley,.jpg
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chilli_Studios_main_room.jpg
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Northern_Correspondence_2016.jpg
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:I_am_a_person.jpg
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Screen_printing_at_NTAS.jpg

External links

• Newcastle Upon Tyne City Library [1]
• Art+Feminism Meetup page Art+Feminism Meetup page
• Art+Feminism Art+Feminism
• Heads and Tales, Mental health heritage project [2]
• Heads and Tales, Mental health heritage project Facebook [3]

Participants - Sign Up Here!

Sign here to help us learn more about how users interact with Wikipedia! If you sign up, we can observe how your username uses the Wikimedia projects during and after this event. This will help us to better measure the effectiveness of this event and similar programs. This means that your publicly available activity and the information you share with us during this event may be processed by the Wikimedia Foundation, Art+Feminism, and the organizers of the local event, and may be transferred to or from the US and other countries that may not have the same level of privacy regulation that your country does. However, we will not share your information with third parties or publicly unless it's in aggregated or anonymized form. Prior to the event:

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Don't worry! If you haven't edited Wikipedia before and don't have a Wikipedia User Name yet, we will help you on the day of the event! And remember to have fun!

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• JoCeppy (talk) 15:23, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
• Riuji27 (talk) 14:09, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
• Danny Crossley (talk) 16:14, 18 January 2019 (UTC)
• Winefride47

MaxJoe54 (talk) 13:27, 25 January 2019 (UTC) SianPatt93 (talk) 13:19, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

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