Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Women's History Month Editing Workshop: Arlington Women in History

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Arlington Women in History Editing Workshop



Only 17% of biographies on Wikipedia are about women. Help us change that! Join Wikimedia DC and the Arlington Central Library for a Women's History Month editing workshop. Edit Wikipedia and help to improve or create articles about historical women of Arlington. New editors are welcome. Training will be provided.

This event is free and open to the public. Please bring a laptop and photo ID. Registration is required. Lunch will be provided.

When


 * Saturday, March 10, 2018 11:00AM-4:00PM

Where


 * Arlington Central Library
 * 1015 North Quincy Street
 * Arlington, VA 22201

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Available at Arlington Central Library
 * Adult Nonfiction 323.1196 FREED 
 * Adult Nonfiction - 920.0755 DICTI v.1, 920.0755 DICTI v.2 & 920.0755 DICTI v.3
 * Adult Nonfiction - 975.5295 MCELY
 * Adult Nonfiction - 795.1 ORBAN
 * Kids Biography - JB MULHOLL J

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 * econterms (talk) 20:32, 11 March 2018 (UTC) (I was there!)

Articles edited
Drafts created but not yet published
 * Mary Randolph
 * Shelley Mann
 * Emily Howland
 * The Migration Series
 * Joan Trumpauer Mulholland
 * Freedom Riders
 * Sybil Ludington
 * Agnes Meyer Driscoll
 * Elizebeth Smith Friedman
 * Anne Hill Carter Lee
 * Jennie Dean
 * Manassas Industrial School for Colored Youth
 * Lizzie Magie
 * George Washington Parke Custis
 * Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis
 * William Henry Fitzhugh
 * Anne Hill Carter Lee
 * Emily Howland
 * Ellen M. Bozman
 * Equal Suffrage League of Virginia
 * Kate Waller Barrett
 * Lila Meade Valentine
 * Equal Suffrage League
 * Freedman's Village
 * Selina Norris Gray

Articles created

 * Draft:Selina Norris Gray
 * Equal Suffrage League of Virginia