KeyWiki:WikiProject Occupy Wall Street
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The purpose of this project is to create and suggest:
- Templates
- Categories
- Ideas for articles
The following are suggestions for first steps.
Templates
- {{kwows}}: This would serve as the general talk page template
- {{owsvnt}}: This would be the template to go at the bottom of any page associated with Occupy Wall Street. Appropriate structure and breakdown can be conceived as the actual pages begin to evolve.
Categories
Top category:
People to build profiles
OWS leaders from google group Legal Insurrection link. We will want to build profiles.
- Justin Wedes
- Alexa D. O'Brien
- Lucas Vazquez
- Gail Zawacki
- Joshua van Praag
- Marisa Holmes
- Lorenzo Serna
- Matthew Presto
- Richard Singer writing about contacting IWW and other unions
- Nathan Schneider, Editor, Waging Nonviolence
Organizers of the protests
- Category:Occupy Wall Street organizer
- Category:Occupy Wall Street protestor
- Category:Organization which participated in OWS
Local city categories
Ideas for articles
The main article should be titled:
have moved to Occupy Movement making OWS page a subsidiary - thoughts? - Donnie 15:59, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
- That makes sense. TeaParty 16:09, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
There could be secondary articles and spin-offs such as:
- Leaders of the Occupy Wall Street Protests of 2011
- Occupy Wall Street timeline
- Organizations which have supported Occupy Wall Street
- Articles about specific events
- Elected officials responses to Occupy Wall Street
- A simple bulleted list of quotes and opinions from elected officials. Such as done here
Research links
Biased journalists
- New video reveals New York Times reporter Natasha Lennard is #OWS activist
- How the mainstream media formulates headlines describing OWS
- Another NPR occupier fired from job
Violence/crimes
- NYPD threatens to sue occupiers who initiate violence
- Wall Street occupier threatens to stab reporter
- New Hampshire pimp incident
- Rape in Glascow
- Banker hung in effigy
- Missoula occupiers gets 12-year-old drunk
Motivations
Key personnel
- Meet Kalle Lasn, the man behind the Occupier Movement
- ACORN playing behind scenes role
- The 99%: Official list of Occupy Wall Street’s supporters, sponsors and sympathizers
Sanitation/public safety
- Madison occupiers lose permit due to public masturbation
- Urine, feces, graffiti, needles, and trash in Oakland
Number of
Criticisms of
What politicians have to say
Quotes
Interactions with police
- Police arrest 30 Portland occupiers
- Denver occupiers assault police
- San Diego occupiers threaten police
- Rochester NY occupiers arrested
- Boston police probe threats
- Dozens of Nashville occupiers arrested
- Staged arrests by Cleveland occupiers
- Riots in Albuquerque
How viewed by public
Financial cost to occupied communities
Other ideas
- Photographs need to be added. Wikimedia Commons has an abundance of pictures.
- pictures to be given the category: Occupy Movement images
