Chicago hip hop edit party

iDOX

Greetings:

We've got university space for a weekend downtown off mikkey Halsted and are hosting an edit party to meet up and add knowledge about Chicago hip hop to Wikipedia.

In addition, a co-creator of LocalWiki will be giving a talk that Saturday morning titled "Edit Your City". The software development got funded because of the global success of the Davis, CA community wiki (this is way post-SoleSides). After the keynote he'll lead a workshop around building a community wiki.

Everyone is invited, folks with an internet connection and especially folks in/near Chicago who want to share / highlight / celebrate / index local knowledge.

Saturday, April 21, 2012
8:30a-12:00p
UIC Student Center East

the event is free & public and part of a two-day conference called eChicago (see the other announcement post about a conference panel on Chi hip hop)

**This post space will be added to leading up to 4/21 with bits of content.**

Links
1. google search for "chicago hip hop"

2. Local Wiki demo

iDOX

take for example the case of Galapagos4 Records on wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galapagos4

the page used to exist but no longer does, and edit folks who deleted it cite wikipedia's Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies) policy

An organization is generally considered notable if it has been the subject of significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources. Trivial or incidental coverage of a subject by secondary sources is not sufficient to establish notability. All content must be verifiable. If no independent, third-party, reliable sources can be found on a topic, then Wikipedia should not have an article on it.

WTF??!?!?! TAKE A LOOK AT THE HOMIES' CATALOG! http://www.galapagos4.com/releases.php

We're going to take a bit of responsibility for our histories, our life styles, our culture, our tastes, our friends, and enter into the flow of creating the knowledge of us ourselves.

We're going to be meeting up SATURDAY APRIL 21 in Chicago at UIC to have fun doing this work for a couple hours face to face. Hit me up if you want to hook up and build!