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Celebrating Influential Latinas: A Library of Congress Wikipedia Edit-a-thon



Join us in the Hispanic Reading Room at the Library of Congress on March 16 from 10:00AM-1:00PM to honor influential Latin American, Caribbean, Spanish, Portuguese, and Latinx women by editing or adding content and quality references to already existing Wikipedia entries. Offered as part of Women’s History Month, this Wikipedia Edit-a-thon includes training for first time editors and lunch.

Laptops are required. Please bring your own. Wikimedia DC has two laptops to loan. Reserve one by emailing info@wikimediadc.org.

When


 * Saturday, March 16, 2019 10:00AM-1PM

Where


 * Library of Congress Hispanic Reading Room
 * 101 Independence Avenue Southeast
 * Jefferson Building, LJ-240
 * Washington, DC 20540

Register
 * Register here with'' Eventbrite '

Coordination

 * TO AVOIDING EDITING THE SAME ARTICLES AS OTHER ATTENDEES, please use the Etherpad link below to share what you are currently editing. Remember to type 'Done' or 'Finished' when you are through making changes. REMEMBER TO PUBLISH (SAVE) OFTEN.'''

https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Celebrating_Influential_Latinas_LOC_2019

Please sign in

 * This is for use on the day of the event.
 * 1) Select 'Sign in'
 * 2) Scroll down on the page that follows and click 'Publish changes' or 'Save changes'.


 * Your username will automatically be added to the list of attendees.



Wikimedia Projects
• Wikimedia movement

• Wikipedia, a web-based encyclopedia

• Wikimedia Commons, a data repository of media (images, videos and sounds). (See * Wikiproject Wikimedia Commons:GLAM Wikiproject)

• Wikidata, a common source of data, also accessible by the other projects

• Wiktionary, a dictionary

• Wikibooks, educational textbooks

• Wikinews, news articles

• Wikiquote, a collection of quotations

• Wikisource, a library of source texts and documents

• Wikiversity, educational material

• Wikivoyage, a travel guide

• Wikispecies, a taxonomic catalogue of species

Wikipedia Policies
• Five pillars

• Core content policies

• General notability guideline

• Verifiability

• Conflict of interest

• Identifying reliable sources

• No original research (Examples of Original Research)

• Citing sources

• Identifying and using primary sources

Quick Editing Tips
• Help:Getting started

• Your first article

• Help:Referencing for beginners

• Creating Redirects with Visual Editor

• Creating Redirector with Source Editor

• Using categories

• Cheatsheet for Wiki markup

Tools, Resources and WikiProjects
• Track Wikipedia Page Views

• Wikimedia Statistics

• Wiki Education Foundation

• Wiki Ed Foundation's online training modules

• Internet Archive Wayback Machine

• WikiProject Women in Red

Coordination

 * TO AVOIDING EDITING THE SAME ARTICLES AS OTHER ATTENDEES, please use the Etherpad link below to share what you are currently editing. Remember to type 'Done' or 'Finished' when you are through making changes. REMEMBER TO PUBLISH (SAVE) OFTEN.'''

https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Celebrating_Influential_Latinas_LOC_2019

About the Article Assessment Quality Scale

For Creation
 * Karen Villeda
 * Raquel Ilombé
 * Josephine Serrano Collier, Los Angeles Police Department (Has citations, ready for a writer)

Stubs • Marie-Thérèse Colimon-Hall

• Clara Pinto Correia

• Clementina Arderiu

• Zilia Sánchez Domínguez

Start • Amanda Berenguer

• Yolanda Bedregal

• Marta Lynch

• Zee Edgell

• Valeria Luiselli

• Gloria Guardia

• Nélida Piñon

• Marta Traba

• Eunice Odio

• Josefina Pla

• Ida Vitale

• Manuela Solis Sager

• Paloma del Sol

• Henrietta Yurchenco

C • Maryse Condé

• Carmen Boullosa

• Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen

• Griselda Gambaro

• Argentina Díaz Lozano

• Adriana Lisboa

• María Luisa Mendoza

• Gabriela Mistral

• Ana María Matute

• Rosario Ferré

• Winétt de Rokha

• Luisa Valenzuela

• Laura Restrepo

• Esmeralda Santiago

• Dolores Huerta

• Feliza Bursztyn

• Lygia Pape

• La India

• Míriam Colón

• Rosalba Rolón

• Celia Cruz

• Victoria Santa Cruz

• Pola Weiss Álvarez

• Emma Tenayuca

• Lucille Roybal-Allard

• Loretta Sanchez

• Antonia Novello

• Xochitl Torres Small

• Clara Campoamor

B
 * Isabel Allende
 * Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

GA • Julia Alvarez

• Cristina Rivera Garza

• Victoria Ocampo

• Lygia Fagundes Telles

• Marielle Franco

• Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

• Linda Sánchez

• Nydia Velázquez

• Ellen Ochoa

FA
 * Hilda Solis
 * Sonia Sotomayor

Potential Sources
AHLOT Online (Various) • Haitian poet Marie-Thérèse Colimon Hall reading from her work

• French Guadeloupe writer Maryse Condé reading from her work in the Recording Laboratory, Sept. 24, 1999

• Hispanic-American author Julia Álvarez reading from her work

• Portuguese writer Clara Pinto Correia reading from her work

• Spanish poet Clementina Arderíu reading from her work

• Uruguayan poet Amanda Berenguer reading from her work

• Bolivian poet Yolanda Bedregal reading from her work

• Chilean writer Isabel Allende reading from her work and interviewed by Georgette M. Dorn

• Mexican poet and author Carmen Boullosa reading from her work

• Portuguese poet Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen reading from her work

• Argentine playwright Griselda Gámbaro reading from her work

• Honduras-born writer Argentína Díaz Lozano reading from her work

• Argentine writer Marta Lynch reading from her work

• Belizean writer Zee Edgell reading from her work

• Mexican author Valeria Luiselli reading from her work

• Brazilian author and poet Adriana Lisboa reading from her work

• Panamanian writer Gloria Guardia reads from her work and is interviewed by Georgette M. Dorn

• Mexican writer María Luisa Mendoza reading from her work

• Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral reading from her work

• Spanish writer Ana María Matute reading from Algunos muchachos

• Puerto Rican writer Rosario Ferré reading from her prose and poetry

• Brazilian writer Nélida Piñon reading from her work

• Argentine writer and art critic Marta Traba reading from her work

• Chilean poet Winétt de Rokha reading from her work

• Argentine writer Luisa Valenzuela reading from her prose

• Colombian author Laura Restrepo reading from her work

• Costa Rican poet Eunice Odio reading from her work

• Mexican poet Karen Villeda reading from her work

• Mexican author Cristina Rivera Garza reading from her work

• Puerto Rican author Esmeralda Santiago reading from her work

• Argentine essayist Victoria Ocampo reading from her series, Testimonios

• Paraguayan poet and writer Josefina Plá reading from her work

• Brazilian writer Lygia Fagundes Telles reading from her work

• Uruguayan poet Ida Vitale reads from her work

Other Sources
 * Contemporary Women's Issues (Database)
 * Hammer Museum Digital Archive Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985
 * Arte Público: Hispanic Historical Collection
 * Chicano Database
 * Handbook of Latin American Studies
 * World Scholar: Latin American & the Caribbean
 * Colección Puertorriqueña: Universidad de Puerto Rico
 * Congress.gov
 * La quinceañera (coming of age ritual. Norma Candú)

Participants

 * Martastrach (talk) 14:13, 16 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Ecchant (talk) 14:13, 16 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Cramire3 (talk) 14:13, 16 March 2019 (UTC)


 * SpicyMofongo (talk) 14:14, 16 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Gilma32 (talk) 14:14, 16 March 2019 (UTC)


 * 56richard (talk) 14:14, 16 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Theconch (talk) 14:16, 16 March 2019 (UTC)


 * 140.147.236.152 (talk) 14:17, 16 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Ryanawoman (talk) 14:23, 16 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Cguerrer1 (talk) 14:26, 16 March 2019 (UTC)


 * econterms (talk) 14:40, 16 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Taliahisplc (talk) 14:47, 16 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Avast48 (talk) 15:00, 16 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Eram1313 (talk) 15:16, 16 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Rlong12 (talk) 15:27, 16 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Lolor1201 (talk) 15:27, 16 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Ariel Cetrone (WMDC) (talk) 15:27, 16 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Marlenn03 (talk) 15:28, 16 March 2019 (UTC)


 * AfricaN2019 (talk) 15:42, 16 March 2019 (UTC)

Outcomes

 * Wikis: *.wikipedia, commons.wikimedia, en.wikipedia
 * Start date: 2019-03-16 10:00 (America/New York)
 * End date: 2019-03-16 13:30