Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon for Lesbian History and Culture



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Lesbian History Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

Do you know all the words to 'Fast Car?' Have you read every Sarah Waters novel? Have you cracked Anne Lister's secret code? Then the Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon for Lesbian Culture and History needs YOUR help! No Wikipedia experience necessary - we train everyone beforehand!

The Edit-a-Thon will be held on October 8, 2020 - International Lesbian Day! - from 11.30 AM to 1.30 PM EST. To comply with Stay-At-Home guidelines, you'll join Wikimedia DC and the other volunteers digitally over Zoom. An Edit-A-Thon is exactly what it says on the box: a group of volunteers who sit down to edit, create and clarify Wikipedia articles. It's totally free ( you just need to register for your ticket ) and training is provided.

For International Lesbian Day and LGBT History Month, we're looking at articles on lesbian history and culture. Think Anne Lister, High Art, butch / femme, Dykes on Bikes, Emily Dickinson and Gertrude Stein.

Join Wikimedia DC in the Edit-A-Thon for Lesbian History and Culture and before you know it, you'll be writing and editing faster than Nan Astley fell for Kitty Butler. ( Though hopefully without the tears or the pining. ) Whether you're a Tegan-sider or a Sara-sider, a buzzcut gay or a mullet gay, Doc Martens or Blundstones, we'd love to have all of you!

Event Schedule

11:30pm - 12:30pm: Welcome and Wikipedia Training

12:30pm - 1:30pm: Assisted editing

When


 * Thursday, October 8 and Wednesday, October 28, 2020 11:30am-1:30pm EDT

Where
 * Remote. You will receive the link needed to participate after registration.

Register
 *  Eventbrite 

Please sign in

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 * 1) Click 'Sign in' here.
 * 2) Scroll down on the page that follows and click 'Save changes'. Your username will then be added to the list of attendees.



Safe Space Policy

 * Safe Space Policy

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

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 * Wikimedia movement affiliates model


 * Chapters
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 * 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

Sample conflict of interest statement for GLAM professionals (if applicable)
GLAM professionals and WIkipedians-in-residence may improve Wikipedia using their organizations' resources while still complying with Wikipedia's policy on paid editing. COI-GLAM states that,


 * Museum curators, librarians, archivists, and similar are encouraged to help improve Wikipedia, or to share their information in the form of links to their resources. If a link cannot be used as a reliable source, it may be placed under further reading or external links if it complies with the external links guideline.

You must include a conflict of interest statement on your user page if planning to edit as part of your professional duties

Sample statement

About Me

I am a paid employee of XYZ museum/organization. We are working to make our resources more accessible to the public by working directly with Wikipedia.

Conflict of interest statement

I am editing Wikipedia as part of my official duties at the XYZ Museum. I will abide by Wikipedia's accepted practices on conflicts of interest, neutrality, and notability. Because the mission of the National Museum of Women in the Arts is in line with Wikipedia's mission to disseminate knowledge, I will not make edits that I do not believe are in accordance with Wikipedia's practices and procedures. If you believe I have made an error or violated Wikipedia’s norms, please let me know.

WikiProjects

 * Search all WikiProjects


 * WikiProject Women in Red

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

For Wikimedia DC Use

 * User rights management
 * Special username creation

Etherpad
[https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Si_AWHI_Women_in_Finance_Edit-a-thon Please use this Etherpad to share what you are currently editing. This will help to avoid cross editing (two or more editors working on the same article simultaneously). Cross editing will cause you to lose your edits.]

Remember to remove the article from the Etherpad list when you are finished.

Goals and tasks
Improve Wikipedia's coverage related to Lesbian history and culture
 * Adding/editing existing articles
 * Creating new articles
 * Uploading to Wikimedia Commons

Suggested Article Work List
About the Article Assessment Quality Scale

You may edit or create articles not included here.

For creation
 * Ffiona Morgan
 * The Suppressed Histories Archive
 * Lesbian fashion
 * Lesbians in the Second Republic Period
 * Provincetown Women's Week
 * Daughters of the Moon Publishing
 * Buffalo Star
 * Donna McBride
 * Stone femme -  Currently redirects to Stone butch, but needs it's own article
 * Ladies of Llangolen

Stub
 * Sophie Huber
 * Helen Bennett
 * Le Corps Lesbien
 * Radicalesbians

Start
 * Jennie Lea Knight
 * Spinsters Ink
 * Velvetpark: Dyke Culture In Bloom
 * Soft butch
 * Lesbians Against Pit Closures
 * Stone butch
 * Dyke
 * Kitty Tsui
 * Kiss and Tell collective
 * Bi-National Lesbian Conference
 * Mountain Moving Coffeehouse
 * Lota de Macedo Soares
 * Fiona Shaw (novelist)
 * Kate Rushin
 * Naomi Littlebear Morena
 * Sewing circle
 * The Children's Hour
 * Dorothy Wilde
 * Bella Books
 * Phase 1 (bar)

C
 * Sinister Wisdom
 * Mathilde de Morny
 * Fannie Flagg
 * Violet Trefusis
 * Liane de Pougy
 * Alix Dobkin
 * Dyke March
 * Naiad Press
 * Claude Cahun
 * Ann Walker (landowner)
 * If These Walls Could Talk 2
 * Radclyffe Hall
 * Elana Dykewomon
 * Chavela Vargas
 * Barbara Grier
 * The Furies Collective
 * Joan E. Biren
 * Tee Corinne
 * Jeanette Winterson
 * Gay Women's Alternative
 * Carmilla
 * Thalia Zedek
 * Sheila Jeffreys
 * Margo Okazawa-Rey
 * Maggi Hambling
 * Ethel Smyth
 * Lesbian Art Project
 * Lesbian Avengers
 * Julia Penelope
 * Salsa Soul Sisters
 * Cherry Jones
 * Fiona Shaw
 * Sylvia Beach
 * Chrystos
 * Dorothy Arzner
 * Eva Le Gallienne
 * Mercedes de Acosta
 * Maude Fealy
 * The Color Purple
 * Lavender Menace
 * Motherpeace Tarot
 * Michigan Womyn's Music Festival
 * Cheryl Clarke
 * Vita Sackville-West
 * Sister Spit
 * Boston marriage
 * Angelina Weld Grimké
 * Cloud 9 (play)
 * Renée Vivien
 * k.d. lang
 * Cherríe Moraga
 * Bloodroot (restaurant)

B
 * Lesbians in Francoist Spain
 * Daughters of Bilitis
 * Annie Leibovitz
 * Agnes Martin
 * Combahee River Collective
 * Lesbian feminism
 * Lesbian pulp fiction
 * Lesbian literature
 * Lavender scare
 * Sarah Marshall (American stage actress)
 * Gloria E. Anzaldúa

GA
 * Fran Lebowitz
 * Audre Lorde
 * Ali Smith
 * Alice Walker
 * Lisa Ben
 * Lorraine Hansberry
 * Elizabeth Bishop
 * Lesbian bar

FA
 * Natalie Clifford Barney
 * The Well of Loneliness
 * Romaine Brooks
 * Emily Dickinson
 * Tipping the Velvet

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 * Ariel Cetrone (WMDC) (talk) 16:03, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

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Attendees

 * Ariel Cetrone (WMDC) (talk) 16:03, 8 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Litvacant (talk) 16:03, 8 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Madkat617 (talk) 23:27, 28 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Garden.womn (talk) 23:27, 28 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Groundofpossibility (talk) 23:30, 28 October 2020 (UTC)