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Octavia E. Butler's Patternist Series Editathon at Spelman College

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Please join the members of the The Octavia E. Butler Society at Spelman College for an upcoming editathon of Octavia E. Butler's Patternist novels (Patternmaster, Mind of My Mind, Survivor, Wild Seed, and Clay's Ark). This editathon is part of the LaGuardia WikiProject Octavia E. Butler and the Octavia E. Butler Conference 2016: Celebrating Letters, Life, and Legacy at Spelman College.

Octavia E. Butler's Patternist Series
Editathon at Spelman College
When and Where
Date:Saturday, February 27, 2016
Time:3:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Address:Spelman College
350 Spelman Ln SW
City/State:Atlanta, GA 30314

Event information

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  • Host: The Octavia E. Butler Society and Spelman College
  • Date: Saturday, February 27, 2016
  • Time: 3:30 pm – 6:30 pm
  • Location: Spelman College, 350 Spelman Ln SW, Atlanta, GA 30314
  • Registration: To register, please sign up by adding your Wikipedia username to the Participants sign-up below
  • Participants: The event is open to anyone who wishes to help expand on the entries for Octavia E. Butler's work. As needed throughout the event, tutoring will be provided for Wikipedia newcomers.
  • Organizers: Dr. Ximena Gallardo C. - DrX (talk) / Ann Matsuuchi - Mozucat (talk)
  • What to Bring: Attendees should bring their own laptops and power cords.
  • Hashtags: #octaviabutlerwiki #OEBSC #OctaviaButler
  • Twitter: @SpelmanMedia, @wikimedianyc

Etherpad link - live doc to keep track of what we are all working on

Tasks

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Create articles

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Photo from Octavia E. Butler Society conference/Wikipedia editathon at Spelman College on 2016 February 27.
  • Plot
  • Characters
  • Reception
  • Further reading
  • Themes
  • Quotes
  • Categories
  • Mind of My Mind
    • Lead
    • Plot
    • Characters
    • Reception
    • Further reading
    • Themes
    • Quotes
    • Categories
  • Clay’s Ark
    • Lead
    • Plot
    • Characters
    • Reception
    • Further reading
    • Themes
    • Quotes
    • Categories

Improve articles

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  • Patternist series
    Note: Summaries can be found/copied from Butler’s biography under the "Writing career" section of Butler's Wikipedia entry
    • Brief summary of Patternmaster
    • Brief summary of Mind of My Mind
    • Brief summary of Survivor
    • Brief summary of Wild Seed
    • Move “Reception” comment to the article on Patternmaster
    • Revise the language of the lead to reflect that this is an article on the series, not Patternmaster
  • Survivor
    Revision of this article may require some discussion and suggestions on the article’s Talk page located here
    • Revise language/copyedit
    • If anyone has a copy of the book, maybe add some quotes
  • Wild Seed
    • Move unreferenced sections to the article’s talk page or tag them with the Citation Needed template {{cn}}
    • Revise language/copyedit
  • Edits needed outside the Patternist Series
    • Revise language/copyedit Fledgling (especially the Characters section)

Resources

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Outcomes

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New pages

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Alpha order

  1. Clay’s Ark -- BollinLa (talk)
  2. Mind of My Mind -- Highlytexturedlibrarian (talk), AJSutto98 (talk)
  3. Patternmaster -- kkey3 (talk)

Improved pages

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Alpha order

  1. Clay’s Ark -- Baxtes (talk), Swarren19 (talk), Blythwood (talk), Doctorxgc (talk)
  2. Fledgling -- Satw97 (talk), Treblemaker19 (talk), Amcdon13 (talk)
  3. Mind of My Mind -- AJSutto98 (talk), Hunter900 (talk), Mmulli-edit (talk), Aminahanderson (talk)
  4. Patternmaster -- Bonadea (talk), BollinLa (talk), Doctorxgc (talk), Tee22 (talk),
  5. Wild Seed -- Mozucat (talk), BollinLa (talk), Ajoseph9 (talk), Choxie1 (talk), Jrobin67 (talk), Joecharl12 (talk)
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  1. Mozucat (talk) 14:40, 26 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  2. BrillLyle (talk) 18:53, 27 February 2016 (UTC) -- remote support[reply]
  3. TheGreySpark (talk) 21:21, 27 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Highlytexturedlibrarian (talk) 21:21, 27 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  5. ChristinaLNeal (talk) 21:22, 27 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Amcdon13 (talk) 21:22, 27 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Achaza21 (talk) 21:22, 27 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Kkey3 (talk) 21:22, 27 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  9. AJSutto98 (talk) 21:22, 27 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  10. Joecharl12 (talk) 21:22, 27 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  11. Choxie1 (talk) 21:23, 27 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  12. Aminahanderson (talk) 21:23, 27 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  13. Ajoseph9 (talk) 21:23, 27 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  14. Swarren19 (talk) 21:23, 27 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  15. Treblemaker19 (talk) 21:23, 27 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  16. Satw97 (talk) 21:23, 27 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  17. CastorRadiance (talk) 21:23, 27 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  18. Baxtes (talk) 21:24, 27 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  19. Tee22 (talk) 21:25, 27 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  20. Beautyisilliyah (talk) 21:27, 27 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  21. Hunter900 (talk) 21:37, 27 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  22. ParisM.Stewart (talk) 21:41, 27 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  23. 12.13.176.132 (talk) 21:43, 27 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  24. Mmulli-edit (talk) 22:19, 27 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  25. BollinLa (talk) 22:58, 27 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  26. Jrobin67 (talk)
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