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Wikipedias

the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit

• English Wikipedia
• Haitian Wikipedia
• Spanish Wikipedia
• French Wikipedia
• Twi Wikipedia
• Igbo Wikipedia
• Yoruba Wikipedia
• Garifuna Wikipedia

Wiktionaries

a multilingual, web-based project to create a free content dictionary of all words in all languages

• English Wiktionary
• Haitian Wiktionary on Incubator
• Spanish Wiktionary
• French Wiktionary
• Twi Wiktionary (Twi on Incubator)
• Igbo Wiktionary on Incubator
• Yoruba Wiktionary (Yoruba on Incubator)
• Garifuna Wiktionary on Incubator

General resources

• Sankofa Archives - African and afrodescendant history, culture, images
• Afrolatin@ Project - Includes various reports on Afrolatinos and Afrodescendants
• Afridiaspora - Website on African writers and book festivals
• Port Académie - Online platform for Haitian Studies and Research
• Île en île - CUNY Project. Great resource -- in French -- on Caribbean authors who write in French
• Haitian Creole Language Institute of NY
• John Carter Brown Library - Haiti Collection - The John Carter Brown Library holds one of the world's great collections relating to Haiti.
• Swain, Liz. "Garifuna Americans." Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America. Ed. Jeffrey Lehman. 2nd ed. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 2000. 686-697. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 20 June 2015. - Includes list of notable persons who could use entries.

Projects

WikiProjects

• WikiAfrica
• WikiProject African Diaspora
• Afripédia (French)
• WikiProject Haiti
• Haïti Portail (French)

Other initiatives

• World Afropedia
• Afropedea

Categories

Spanish Wikipedia

• Categoría:Afrocubanos
• Categoría:Cubanos de ascendencia española
• Anexo:Escritores de Cuba

Editing Wikipedia resources

If you are unfamiliar with Wikipedia, you might try this training module which will help explain a lot of things, including how to add your signature.
N.B. Also located on the Resources page referenced above under Editor Resources See Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism/Resources

• Tutorial: Getting Started Guide (Presentation in DC)
• Beginners’ Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
• Five Pillars of Wikipedia (philosophical guidelines and best practices for Wikipedia editing)
• Tutorial
• How to Edit a Page
• Wiki Markup Quick Reference (PDF version of printed handout)
• Guide to Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing by Susan H. Rodger (applicable to any biography)
• Article Development
• Your First Article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
• Manual of Style
• Citation templates
• Infobox templates
• Bookshelf (additional "getting started" resources)
• Art+Feminism - Video training
• Art+Feminism - Training Lesson Plan

Tools and templates

• Cheatsheet for editing Wikipedia
• Infobox template - person
• Biographies of living persons
• Writing an article
• About the Sandbox

• Want to go at your own pace? Self guided introduction
• N.B. There is an IRC channel if online participants need help:

Wikipedia:IRC/wikipedia-en-help

• #wikipedia-en-help ^connect

Editing Wikipedia resources – Spanish

• Qué significa Wiki
  • Wikipedia:Los cinco pilares
  • Wikipedia:Relevancia enciclopédica
    • Wikipedia:Artículos sin relevancia aparente
• Ayuda:Cómo empezar una página
  • Wikipedia:Asistente para la creación de artículos/Temáticos (artistas)
  • Wikicódigo Ayuda:Referencia rápida
  • Ayuda:Cómo se edita una página (Zona de Pruebas)
  • Wikipedia:Convenciones de títulos
• por temática
  • Categoría:Wikipedia:Fichas de personas Daysi Rubiera
  • Plantilla:Ficha de libro
  • Wikipedia:Referencias – Citas de páginas web, Llamadas de nota
• Wikipedia:Categorización

• N.B. There is an IRC channel if online participants need help:

Wikipedia:IRC/wikipedia-es-help

• #wikipedia-es ^connect

External links

• AfroCROWD (main page)
• Wikipedia - Haitian Creole
• AfroCROWD Meetup - NYC (main events page)
• HaitiCROWD Meetup - NYC
• AfroCROWD (official website)
• Wikipedia Meetup - NYC (main events page)
• Wikimedia New York City