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The Berkeley Center for New Media is hosting Sarah Stierch as the Susan B. Miller Fellow. As part of Stierch's programming, she is hosting Wikipedia workshops and edit-a-thons. These events aim to educate the public, students, and especially women on the importance of contributing to Wikipedia. Females comprise approximately 10-20% of editors on the world's 5th biggest website (on any given day).

Event details
This event carries forward the momentum gained from WikiWomen's History Month. This event is one of many around the world that aims to engage more women to edit Wikipedia, and to improve coverage about women's history on Wikipedia. This event will be facilitated by User:SarahStierch.

We will open with a brief introduction to Wikipedia policies, and then dive into editing. Participants will be encouraged to either write new articles about subjects that interest them, or to expand articles that interest them. All participants will have "edits that stick" by 5 PM.


 * Date: Saturday, April 5, 2014
 * Time: 1–5pm
 * Venue: 2nd Floor, CITRIS, Sutardja Dai Hall,  University of California, Berkeley campus, Berkeley, California
 * Cost: Free, of course!
 * Twitter hashtag: #wikiwomen
 * Facebook event page is here
 * Participants: This event is open to anyone interested in improving women's history coverage on Wikipedia. No wiki editing experience is necessary, support will be on hand to help you out! Female editors are specifically encouraged to attend. Can't be there the whole time? No problem, join us as long as you can.
 * Details: Participants should bring their own laptop and power cords. Light food and drinks will be provided.
 * Registration: Please RSVP below

Event attendees

 * 1) SarahStierch (talk) 15:23, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
 * 2) Jooojay (talk) 21:48, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
 * 3) Tmcqu33n (talk) 23:34, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
 * 4) Taliah Mirmalek 1:39, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
 * 5) Rosiestep (talk) 02:05, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
 * 6) HarZim (talk) 05:01, 14 March 2014 (UTC) (Ann Harlow) (talk) 04:59, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
 * 7) ParkerHiggins  ( talk contribs ) 06:17, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
 * 8) → 量  (talk·contribs) 15:41, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
 * 9) SPattalk 16:14, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
 * 10) I'll be attending, and can probably also set up on-campus wifi access for anyone in attendance if Sarah can't, though I'll have to poke at it first. Kevin Gorman (talk) 22:41, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
 * 11) Hgrosser (talk) 03:05, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
 * 12) EmilyAnnRamos (talk) 01:13, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
 * 13) Maximilianklein (talk) 05:39, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
 * 14) Carillonista (talk) 22:04, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
 * 15) Bonnie Ruberg
 * 16) Well Appointed (talk) 23:43, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
 * 17) Ironholds (talk) 18:16, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
 * 18) Dreamyshade (talk) 04:53, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
 * 19) Julia\talk
 * 20) Angela Hom
 * 21) Alexsaum (talk) 16:22, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
 * 22)  Cullen 328  Let's discuss it  21:45, 3 April 2014 (UTC)


 * 1) CiaMaria (talk) 18:44, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
 * 2) Jgirl1307 (talk) 04:03, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
 * 3) alex cruse 11:22, 3 April 2014
 * 4) Sippinonaslurpee (talk) 20:00, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
 * 5) User: ChesPal -- I will be expanding article on Arequipa Pottery.
 * 6) Anne Schreiter
 * 7) Victor.starostenko (talk) 18:28, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

Online participants
If you cannot make it to the University of California, Berkeley in person, but would still like to participate, you are more than welcome to do so remotely. Sign up below, and please add any outcomes below. Be sure to use the Twitter hashtag #Wikiwomen and share your work.


 * Lizzard (talk) 22:45, 13 March 2014 (UTC) I am planning to work on entries for various African-American women suffrage activists.
 * Becky Beucher
 * iFaqeer. I will try to follow the hashtag and join online, especially for the last hour or so. I am tempted to start discussions or start off on some of the ideas on the Facebook page...but we should leave that for training exercises? &mdash; (talk to or email me) 01:50, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Hi, feel free to use the Facebook page. I know many of the people listed here aren't necessarily listed on Facebook. I won't be updating Facebook during the event much, so it's up to the community to guide conversation there! Thanks for your efforts! SarahStierch (talk) 15:22, 3 April 2014 (UTC)


 * SilverChuckle (talk) 06:24, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Megarappstar
 * I'm working my regular employment today, but if there's a lull maybe I can dig in and help. Binksternet (talk) 17:19, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Duckduckstop (talk) added some infoboxes, images

Suggested content for improvement
Please add your suggestions here! Women focused subjects from around the world, please!


 * Also see Missing women of the Dictionary of National Biography
 * Also see The Smithsonian's Women in Science; may include some interesting subjects to write about
 * Also see User:Gobonobo's Gender Gap red list


 * Elizabeth A. Sackler, arts patron, founder of the Sackler Center for Feminist Art
 * Amber Case
 * Violet Virginia "Pinky" Smith, first woman jockey to race against men (Portland Meadows, 1969)
 * Eslanda Cordoza Goode Robeson, chemist, author, activist
 * Dolores Margaret Richard Spikes, mathematician and university president
 * Julie Green, artist with exhibition at JSMA
 * Rae Selling Berry (1881-1976), see Berry Botanic Garden (redirect?)
 * Beatrice Morrow Cannady, still needs expansion
 * Ella E. McBride, photographer, centenarian, potential DYK
 * Barbara Fealy, landscape architect
 * Dorothy Anne Hobson, need to add her and Valsetz Star to Valsetz article
 * Julia Christianson Hoffman (1856-1934) of the Oregon College of Art & Craft, and daughter Margery Hoffman Smith
 * Denmo Ibrahim, playwright
 * Jennifer Owen, ecologist
 * Myoung Sook Kim, artist
 * Lucia Mathews, Tonalist artist—the link is currently a redirect to her husband's biography
 * Alice Kahn, Berkeley writer who coined the phrase Gourmet Ghetto
 * Emmy Lou Packard, fresco and print artist, social activist
 * Alva Harvey, long-lived air pioneer, first circumnavigation flight
 * Amy Swerdlow, American anti-war activist—the link is a redirect to an organization
 * National Assembly of Women Religious (1970–197?) and National Assembly of Religious Women (1978–1995), Catholic organizations advocating for women to be priests
 * Kittie Knox, mixed-race seamstress famous as a pioneer bicyclist, controversial member of the League of American Wheelmen
 * Hester Vaughan, famous 19th century infanticide court case

Results

 * Christine Peterson - created --Jayready (talk) 23:55, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Maria Aurèlia Capmany -- started --Rosiestep (talk) 23:56, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Paula Contreras Márquez-- started --Rosiestep (talk) 23:56, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Teresa González de Fanning-- started --Rosiestep (talk) 23:56, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Anna Murià-- started --Rosiestep (talk) 23:56, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Maria Antònia Oliver Cabrer-- started --Rosiestep (talk) 23:56, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Maria del Pilar Maspons i Labrós-- started --Rosiestep (talk) 23:56, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Dolores Richard Spikes (article needs some love though...) SPattalk
 * Arequipa Pottery - expanded article. ChesPal
 * Jessica Wilson - though it could always use some more secondary sources! Kevin Gorman (talk) 22:57, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Martha Edelheit - translated from Swedish WP Jooojay (talk) 23:05, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Mindi Dickstein — created —  Julia\talk  04:15, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Draft:Kintsugi - Still in draft, but expanded significantly Jared Zimmerman (talk) 23:17, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Anne Brigman - expansion  Cullen 328  Let's discuss it  23:25, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Judy Dater - expansion  Cullen 328  Let's discuss it  23:25, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
 * E. Charlton Fortune - edited by HarZim (talk) 00:08, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Alyce Frank - new article  Cullen 328  Let's discuss it  23:25, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Chien-Shiung Wu - clean up → 量 (talk·contribs) 23:27, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Carlos Villa- draft
 * Sasaki Rui
 * Feminist metaphysics - created - Maximilianklein (talk) 00:00, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Imogen and Twinka at Yosemite. It took some work, but I started on it at the Edit-a-thon.  Cullen 328  Let's discuss it  01:25, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

Links

 * WikiProject Feminism, a project which addresses articles related to feminism and maintains the Feminism Portal
 * WikiProject California, a project dedicated to improving California-related topics on Wikipedia
 * WikiProject Women artists, a project dedicated to coverage of biographies of women artists
 * WikiProject Women's History, a project dedicated to improving coverage of women's history