Wikipedia:Meetup/Guelph, Ontario/Re-situating Women 2018

Event details

 * Location: THINC Lab, 2nd Floor, McLaughlin Library University of Guelph
 * Date: Thursday March 8th, 2018
 * Time: 9am - 4 pm

Join us in THINC Lab for a Feminist Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, with a focus on women's histories, inspired by Art+Feminism, a "do-it-yourself and do-it-with others campaign"!

Edit women into Wikipedia: update or create entries on women — broadly conceived — across disciplines. Possible topics include visual artists, poets, scientists, activists, philosophers, and more — draw on your passion and expertise!

Stop by THINC Lab to edit, research, read, or lend support to others helping to re-situate women in Wikipedia. We'll have tutorials for those new to editing at 9 am and 1pm, as well as reference materials, refreshments (including caffeine!)and stickers! Bring your laptop, power cord, and ideas for entries that need updating or creation.

We invite people of all gender identities and expressions to participate. This event is free and open to the public.

What to bring
Please bring your laptop, power cord, and ideas for articles that need updating or creation. For the editing-averse, we urge you to stop by to show your support and learn about Wikipedia. If you do not already have a Wikipedia user account, please create one before you arrive (you can do so here). Please also take a moment to familiarize yourself with the Safe Space Policy.

Schedule
9am: Event starts. Training for those new to editing Wikipedia is available.

10am-1pm: Independent editing with floating mentors

1pm: Caffeine and snack refresh, repeat of editing instructions for new arrivals!

2pm-4pm: Independent editing with floating mentors!

Participants – Sign Up Here!
If you have a Wikipedia account, sign your name by editing this section and typing four tildes ("~~~~") in the list below. If you don't have an account, just write your name below (though it is recommended that you create a user account in advance of the event - create one here!).

Iacius
 * Antimony27 (talk) 02:32, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Ennistymon (talk) 03:08, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Lemlemma (talk) 03:08, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Pracagad (talk) 14:19, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
 * AmayesingAutumn (talk) 14:54, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Archaeomap (talk) 15:16, 8 March 2018 (UTC)Archaeomap
 * Shockingbadhats (talk) 15:17, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Margot.irvine (talk) 18:26, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
 * CCoulter11 (talk) 18:28, 8 March 2018 (UTC)CCoulter11
 * SamFranco (talk) 18:30, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
 * EmilyFrazer (talk) 18:32, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Iacius (talk) 18:34, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

General Wikipedia, how to edit resources

 * Wikipedia cheatsheet - quick guide to Wiki markup for text formatting, etc. and various templates!
 * Beginners’ Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
 * Five Pillars of Wikipedia
 * Tutorial
 * How to Edit a Page
 * How to add images to an article
 * Article Development
 * Your First Article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
 * Manual of Style
 * Bookshelf

Editing ideas
There are lots of ideas on WikiProject_Women_in_Red which could be interesting.

Bite sized tasks for new editors

 * Add a citation! Citation Hunt
 * Fix a spelling or grammatical error!

Whose Knowledge Project
https://whoseknowledge.org/

Women in Red
WikiProject Women in Red is a project for creating new articles about women. Please see: Ten simple rules for creating women's biographies for reference.

Crowd-sourced lists on:
 * women activists
 * writers
 * historians
 * librarians
 * Canadian women.