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Register Now! (for Dr. Lockett's keynote AND/OR the editathon afterward)
Date: Friday, February 26, 2021
Time: 1 pm - 5 pm (PST)
Location: Hosted online by Oregon State University Libraries and Press
To view the complete agenda for the day, visit the Wiki Meetup Page.
A special thanks to our hosting co-sponsors: AfroCROWD and the OSU Educational Opportunity Program.
Thanks to a grant from the Wikimedia Foundation, we will be offering small prizes for the top three contributors!
First prize: The book A Black Women's History of the United States and a Wikipedia water bottle.
Second and third prize: The book A Black Women's History of the United States.
(Note: In support of independent bookstores, these books were purchased from Underground Books, in Sacramento, California).
Rules: Your username must be registered on the event dashboard so that we can track your contributions. You must live in the US or Canada (due to the costs of delivery). We will track contributions for a 24 hour period starting at noon on February 26 and ending at noon February 27 (Pacific Standard Time).
Illustration by Autumn Paris
Dr. Alexandria Lockett is an Assistant Professor of English at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. She specializes in professional writing and technical communication with an emphasis on access and knowledge equity. Lockett is committed to expanding Wikipedia engagement among culturally diverse editors. For at least a decade, she has taught college writing with Wikipedia and conducted faculty development workshops at various institutions about integrating Wikipedia editing with writing and research across the disciplines. Her professional service includes a major focus on Wikipedia, as well. She serves on the CCCC special executive committee on Wikipedia (2018-current). Additionally, she has served as a consultant and technical writer for the Wiki Education Foundation (2015-2019). She is co-editor of the book Learning From the Lived Experiences of Graduate Student Writers (Utah State University Press, May 2020). She also publishes about the technological politics of race, surveillance, and access in articles that appeared in Composition Studies, Enculturation, and Praxis, as well as chapters featured in Wikipedia @ 20: An Incomplete Revolution (MIT Press), Humans at Work in the Digital Age (Routledge), Out in the Center (Utah State University Press), and Black Perspectives on Writing Program Administration: From the Margins to the Center (SWR Press).
An extended biography is available via her portfolio at: www.alexandrialockett.com
This will be our third annual editathon focused on Black history of the Pacific Northwest. In the past we have hosted the event at the Valley Library on the Oregon State University campus. However, this year we will be hosting the event, live, on Zoom. So, things will look a little different than in years past. First, we will have a keynote speaker, Dr. Alexendria Lockett. Then, we will transition into an online editathon that includes training and breakout rooms, along with a slack channel to ask questions of the trainers or other participants. After you register, you will receive a Zoom link to the event approximately one hour beforehand, at noon, on February 26, 2021.
If you have any questions, please contact Laurie Bridges, Laurie.Bridges@Oregonstate.edu.
121 The Valley Library
Corvallis OR 97331–4501
Phone: 541-737-3331