Wikipedia:University of Leeds/Events and Workshops/Anti-slavery activism in Leeds
Thursday 24th October 2024
This event is aimed at anyone who is interested in learning how to edit Wikipedia and helping to improve or create articles related to the history of anti-slavery activism, especially in Leeds. All welcome. No experience necessary.
There will be two session starting at 09:30 and 13:30 but we can get you started at any time!
- 09:30 - 10:45 - Introduction to editing
- 11:00 - 12:30 - First edit session
- 12:30 - 13:30 - Lunch break
- 13:30 - 14:45 - Introduction to editing
- 15:00 - 17:00 - Second edit session
Booking
[edit]Please book your place via Libcal: https://leeds.libcal.com/calendar/private_events/anti-slavery_activism
What is an editathon?
[edit]An editathon is an event where people come together to improve a specific Wikipedia topic. They are a great way to contribute your knowledge to the global commons or to learn about a new topic.
Don't worry if you've never edited Wikipedia before, we'll show you how with a session covering the basic principles of editing.
Wikipedia editing can be easy to pick up as this 5 minute walkthrough from the University of Edinburgh demonstrates.
The editing will focus on creating and improving the quality of articles related to the history of anti-slavery activism in Leeds using some of the resources listed below.
Getting started
[edit]- Please create an account on Wikipedia if you have not done so as yet (having problems? see below) and join the dashboard page for the workshop.
- Have a look at the suggested tasks and our worklist of pages to create/improve below and decide what you want to work on. Once you have decided who to work on Add your chosen page here.
The Wikipedia training
[edit]- Please visit My personal sandbox page
- Copy the text
- Click on your username link at the top of the screen.
- Click the Create tab to open your userpage up in Visual Editor mode if your link is in red. This is next to the search bar on Wikipedia. Please click the Edit tab if your page is in blue.
- Once into your userpage and the dropdown menus are available, paste the copied text into your userpage.
- Then click the blue Publish page button to save the page with an edit summary of added text to my user page.
Worklist of articles to create and improve
[edit]Histropedia timeline of abolitionists. Can be filtered on country of citizenship. It is driven by Wikidata which may contain errors, inconsistencies and omissions. There are three variants of country for the UK for example with a total of 37 abolitionists, whereas the Wikipedia category for English Wikipedia includes 145 pages:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:English_abolitionists
This means that the Wikidata items for those pages must be missing key data and is an easy edit activity to get started with Wikidata. I'll show you how!
Wilson Armistead (B)
Leeds Anti-Slavery Association (C)
Paul Cuffe (B)
William Allen (English Quaker)
James W. C. Pennington (C) [red links]
Henri Grégoire (B) [citations needed]
Pablo Fanque (C)
Pablo Fanque (C)
Olaudah Equiano (B)
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (C)
James Cropper (abolitionist) (B) [layout needs work]
George Thompson (abolitionist) (C)
Leeds Library (Start)
Samuel Richard Brew Attoh Ahuma
Resources
[edit]https://www.thoresby.org.uk/content/people/people.php
https://www.mylearning.org/stories/abolition-and-anti-slavery-movements-in-leeds/1351?
https://secretlibraryleeds.net/2022/06/30/slavery-in-yorkshire/