Wikipedia:Meetup/JMM2023/2023-Meetup-for-Black-Mathematicians
| Date | Wednesday, January 4, 2023 |
|---|---|
| Time | 8:00am -1:00pm |
| Address | Clarendon Room on the 3rd Floor of the Sheraton Boston Hotel |
| City, State | Boston, Massachusetts |
At this 2023 Joint Mathematics Meeting, there will be a 5-hour session to provide space and training for students and faculty alike to (1) add biographies of Black mathematicians on Wikipedia, and (2) add biographies of Black mathematicians in the MAD Pages Database. This will take place on Wednesday January 4 from 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM in Clarendon Room on the 3rd Floor of the Sheraton Boston. You have the option to join us in person in Boston or to participant online. Please fill out the form on the right to sign up.
To sign up for this event, click here.
Getting Started[edit]
(Taken from PDF and this Meet-Up Site:) Go to http://en.wikipedia.org and click on “Create an account” in the righthand upper navigation area. This isn’t mandatory but Wikipedia encourages you to do so. Take care in choosing a “Username” since this name will be displayed on your “User page” and on the “History” page of every article that you create or edit.
After logging in to your Wikipedia account, you will see a link to your “Sandbox” in the top navigation area. You can work on a draft of a page in your “Sandbox.” If an editor wants to work on two articles at the same time, she can create a second “Sandbox” by creating a page entitled “User:YourUsername/sandbox2.”
Pages to Edit[edit]
We plan on editing the following Wikipedia pages at the Meet-up:
- National Association of Mathematicians
- Nate Dean
- Leona Harris
- List of African-American mathematicians
- Conference for African Americans in the Mathematical Sciences (CAARMS)
- Leon Woodson
- Dudley Weldon Woodard
- Gloria Conyers Hewitt
- James A. Donaldson
- MAD Pages
We also plan on editing the following MAD Pages: