Wikipedia:Meetup/Portland/Wiki Loves Libraries/2012

Wiki Loves Libraries 2012:
Multnomah County Edit-athon
	Central Library in downtown Portland in 2008
When and Where
Date	Saturday, October 27, 2012
Time	2:00-4:00pm
Address	801 SW 10th Avenue
City, State	Portland, Oregon (97205)

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In conjunction with Wiki Loves Libraries (WLL), an initiative for improved Wikimedia engagement with libraries and archives, the Multnomah County Library will be hosting an edit-athon on Saturday, October 27, 2012 from 2:00-4:00pm at the Central Library in downtown Portland.

Details can be found at the following links:

For more information, call (503) 988-5123. You may also post questions or comments on the talk page.

Goals

To write, edit and improve Wikipedia's entries (specifically stubs) relating to Multnomah County, past and present
To teach inexperienced editors how to contribute to Wikipedia
To show community members the resources available through the Multnomah County Library system

Suggested articles

Multnomah County Library staff selected stub articles for Wikipedia Loves Libraries 2012, considering two main factors in the process. First, they listed the stub articles marked as top and high importance by WikiProject Oregon. Most of these pertain to the whole state of Oregon and are listed in the first section below. Second, they selected stubs relevant to Multnomah County (and environs, in some cases), considering the Multnomah County Library resources that might be useful in adding information to the articles. These are listed in the second section below, broken down into topics.

List of Oregon stubs marked top or high importance (click "show" to display extended content)
Politics of Oregon: TOP importance! Land use in Oregon: high importance Lenn Hannon: high importance Oregon Department of Education: high importance Oregon Department of Justice: high importance Oregon Department of Revenue: high importance Oregon Progress Board: high importance Oregon State Penitentiary: high importance Albert Starr: high importance

List of Oregon stubs related to Multnomah County (click "show" to display extended content)

Architecture, buildings, landmarks

Bridges and tunnels
Abernethy Bridge Bridge of the Gods (modern structure) The Dalles Bridge Lewis and Clark Bridge (Columbia River) Mitchell Point Tunnel Sam Hill Memorial Bridge

Companies
Bess Kaiser Hospital Graphic Arts Center Publishing Hair of the Dog Brewing Company Hot Lips Pizza Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation Portland Chamber Orchestra Portland Indians Portland Railway, Light and Power Company Portland Storm Rose City Rollers Sprouse-Reitz

Government
Executive Committee (Oregon Country) Gresham Police Department (Oregon) Ancer L. Haggerty Justice courts (Oregon) Port of Portland Police Department (Oregon) Portland Development Commission Portland Parks & Recreation Oregon Blue Book Oregon circuit courts

Organizations

People: Artists
Hilda Grossman Morris

People: Authors/playwrights/screenwriters
Diana Abu-Jaber Jerome Alden Debby Applegate Rick Attig Doug Baldwin (writer) Stephen Dow Beckham Irene Bennett Brown Bill Cameron (mystery author) Monica Drake Ralph Friedman James A. Gibbs Molly Gloss Lauren Kessler Les McClaine Kim Stafford

People: Business and architecture
Carl Gerlinger George T. Gerlinger Louis Gerlinger, Sr. Lawrence & Holford Frederick Leadbetter Ion Lewis Robert W. Lundeen Robert B. Pamplin, Jr. Mary F. Sammons Dan Wieden Whidden and Lewis William M. Whidden Frederick Manson White

People: Crime
Jim Elkins (Oregon criminal) Stephen A. Douglas Puter

People: Educators
Benjamin Lee Arnold John M. Bloss Fred D. Fagg III Lewis Goldberg

People: Entertainment (actors, musicians, etc.)
Blanche Bates Mel Brown (drummer) James Cassidy (musician) Larry Crane (recording engineer) Rusty Nails Blake Nelson

People: Explorers
Martin d'Aguilar

People: Historical figures (before 1900)
William Barlow (pioneer) William Overton (Portland founder) John Burnett (judge) Chief Comcomly Hartwell B. Compson Gabriel Franchère William H. Gray (Oregon politician) John Wesley Hillman Chauncey Hosford W. Price Hunt William Keil George LeBreton Daniel H. Lownsdale Chauncy Nye William W. Page John B. Preston Osborne Russell

People: Science and medicine
Luther Cressman Esther Pohl Lovejoy

People: Sports
Bill Borcher Dyrol Burleson Curt Coleman Mike Forrester Chris Miller (American football)

News media
The Asian Reporter (newspaper) The Outlook (Gresham)

Invitation

<font=3>WIKIPEDIA LOVES LIBRARIES: MULTNOMAH COUNTY EDIT-ATHON!
You're invited to participate in Wikipedia Loves Libraries 2012, an edit-athon hosted by Multnomah County Library for the purpose of improving stubs relating to Multnomah County. The event will take place on Saturday, October 27, 2012 from 2:00-4:00pm at the Central Library in downtown Portland. You can view details about this Wiki Loves Libraries event here. Be sure to RSVP and share the results of your work HERE. Click here for more information about meetups in Portland!

Participants

--Another Believer _(Talk) 20:41, 12 September 2012 (UTC): feel free to contact me directly for additional information
Blue Rasberry (talk) 13:04, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
—EncMstr (talk) 18:17, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
Blurpeace 23:48, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
--Lingeringlion (talk) 00:42, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
--Susan Walling (talk) 21:27, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi everyone !! Thanks for being here :) ∴ here…♠ 21:43, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
--Diane3459 (talk) 23:13, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
--Savetz (talk) 23:14, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
Paularzt (talk) 00:47, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

Report

September 22: User:Another Believer arranged a private, "behind-the-scenes" tour of the Central Library, partly to photograph the building's interior and exterior and partly to begin collaborating with the Multnomah County Library system as part of WLL; more than 170 photographs were uploaded to Commons as part of Wikipedia Takes Portland 2012 and Wiki Loves Monuments 2012!

October 24: The edit-athon was mentioned in Willamette Week...

This event has been mentioned by a media organization:

Cizmar, Martin (2012-10-24). "Headout: (citation needed)". Willamette Week. Retrieved 2012-10-24. Wikipedia is, for better or worse, "the largest collection of shared knowledge in human history." No library can compete; the Multnomah County Library isn't trying. On Saturday, Oct. 27, the Central Library stages an Edit-athon where you are encouraged to "write, edit and improve" entries related to Multnomah County. "Occasionally, Wikipedia gets stuff wrong, or an important topic doesn't appear in its millions of virtual pages," the library says. "You can help to change this!"

Wiki Loves Libraries 2012

October 27: Community members, ranging from newly-registered users to experienced Wikipedians, and library staff resulted in a group more than a dozen strong. Questions were answered, advice was shared, and library staff provided access to literature and other resources to allow participants to work on Multnomah County-related articles. Thanks to everyone for making the event a success, and THANK YOU to Multnomah County Library for hosting! I look forward to the next Portland meetup! --Another Believer _(Talk) 03:22, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

Goals

Suggested articles

Invitation

Participants

Report

See also