Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/TSU USF Women's History Month Wikipedia Edit-a-thon



Women's History Month Wikipedia Edit-a-thon presented with support from Wikimedia DC

When
 * March 21, 2023

Registration
 * Private

Event Dashboard
 * Dashboard

Safe Space Policy

 * Safe Space Policy

Create Wikipedia username and login to the Outreach Dashboard
Step 1: Go to the Dashboard

Step 2:
 * Have a Wikipedia username? Select 'Log-in with Wikipedia'.
 * Don't have a username? Select 'Sign-up with Wikipedia'

Usernames are public. You do not have to use your real name or expose any personal details.

Note: This will allow you to create a username and sign up to participate in the this event in one simple step. You can also create a username at the top right of this event page or from any Wikipedia page.

Articles work list

 * Red drafts = New drafts articles that can be created
 * Blue = Existing articles
 * Blue drafts = Draft articles that have been created, but need more content before moving to Wikipedia 'mainspace'.

Instructions


 * 1) Use this Google sheet to reserve the article you plan to edit or create
 * 2) In the sheet, reserve the article you'd like to work on by adding your name or username next to the article
 * 3) Return here to the event page and select your article's red or blue link. Red links will open blank pages.
 * 4) Select 'Create' (for new articles), and 'Edit' for exisiting articles
 * 5) For new articles, start by adding a 'References' header at the bottom. Return to the top and start writing.

Article drafts to expand or create
 * Draft:Ali Guarneros Luna - Senior NASA aerospace engineer
 * Draft:Anne Merriman Peck - Artist
 * Draft:Elizabeth DeLong (educator)
 * Draft:Tennessee Vocational School for Colored Girls
 * Draft:Myra Finsterwald Dreifus - Activist, humanitarian
 * Draft:Lena Angevine Warner - Nurse
 * Draft:Lillette Jenkins Wisner - Jazz pianist
 * Draft:Vanessa Braxton, first African American to hold the title of Master Distiller
 * Draft: Catherine Clow- Brooklyn's first African American Principal
 * Draft:Elizabeth Sturz
 * Draft:Norma Shirley- Chef
 * Draft:Lily Chin - Activist, mother of Vincent Chin
 * Draft:Ann Bray (military intelligence) - Major, United States Army, intelligence expert
 * Draft:Mila Racine - French Anti-Nazi resistance fighter, smuggled children to Switzerland during WWII (See Marianne Cohn for similar article)
 * Draft:Isabella Aiukli Cornell - Indigenous activist
 * Draft:Jean M. Bennett (military intelligence)
 * Draft:Ida Gray Hampton - Educator and first Black woman to graduate from Gallaudet University
 * Draft:Nathie Marbury - Instructor, linguist, and researcher in American Sign Language
 * '''Draft:Joyce Wellman - Artist
 * Draft:Dorothy Bruce - WWII codebreaker (Code Girls)
 * Draft:Doreen Gehry Nelson
 * Draft:Eva Lowery Bowman - Business leader, civil rights activist
 * Draft:Mary Bell Jewett - FOunded Woman's Club of Winter Haven, gifted land for a Rosenwald School
 * Draft:Lynn Amowitz - Doctor, researcher, refugee advocate
 * Draft:Marika Gidali - Dancer, Holocaust survivor

Existing articles to expand
 * Turning Point Suffragist Memorial
 * Ulali - Indigenous women's a cappella group. To do: Add citation where they are missing.
 * '''Woman's Club of Winter Haven

Outcomes
New articles
 * Esperanza Bravo de Varona - Librarian, co-founder of Cuban heritage collection
 * Zena Dreier - First Woman to vote in Southern United States
 * Virginia Laydon - First English child born is what is now Virginia
 * Evelyn Terry (artist) - Artist
 * Annie Cook

Article ratings
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Wikimedia
• 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
• Username policy

• 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

Wikimedia Affiliates

 * Wikimedia movement affiliates model


 * Chapters
 * Wikimedia chapters are independent organizations founded to support and promote the Wikimedia projects in a specified geographical region (in most cases, a country). Like the Wikimedia Foundation, they aim to "empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally". There are currently 39 chapters, with at least one on every inhabited continent., i.e. Wikimedia DC


 * Wikimedia thematic organizations
 * Thematic organizations are incorporated independent non-profits representing the Wikimedia movement and supporting work focused on a specific theme, topic, subject or issue within or across countries and regions. i.e., Wikimedia Medicine.


 * User groups
 * Wikimedia user groups are intended to be simple and flexible affiliates that are an alternative to chapters and thematic organizations - which require more formal requirements. User groups are highly valued as equal players in the Wikimedia movement, i.e., Art+Feminism

WikiProjects

 * Search all WikiProjects


 * WikiProject Women in Red
 * WikiProject Science
 * '''WikiProject Medicine

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

• Manual of Style

Tools, Resources
• Track Wikipedia Page Views

• Wikimedia Statistics

• Wiki Education Foundation

• Wiki Ed Foundation's online training modules

• Internet Archive Wayback Machine

• Presentation "Nine WikiSteps" by Mike Dickison

For Wikimedia DC Use

 * User rights management
 * Special username creation