Wikipedia:Meetup/LA/Angel City FC WoSo Edit-a-thon 2024

Event details
Angel City FC and the Los Angeles Public Library are co-hosting this Wikipedia edit-a-thon, focusing on athletes, teams, clubs, and other topics within women's soccer. Our goal is to help close the information gap between men's and women's sports. Fans of all skill and experience levels with Wikipedia are encouraged to join! We will introduce you to the basics of editing Wikipedia before moving to an open editing session. We have identified suggested articles to edit, as well as suggested sources, but we encourage you to edit pages that interest you!

About us
Angel City FC is LA's professional women's soccer club. Founded in 2020, the team began play in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) in 2022.

The last ten years have seen a rapid grown in interest and investment in women's soccer, both in the US and around the world, but our game still lags behind that of our male counterparts in many respects. One of those is the information gap between men's and women's soccer; look at the roster section of any top-flight women's club's Wikipedia page and you'll find players who don't have pages on the site. Pages for all but the best-known and most-successful players and clubs tend to be shorter and less well-cited than their male counterparts, and are sometimes years out of date. With better media coverage and bigger investments in things like data collection in recent years, reliable information on the women's game is becoming more and more available—it just needs to be collected and added to the world's biggest reference work.

The goals of this event are as follows:


 * Improve the breadth and depth of women's soccer-related pages on Wikipedia.
 * Train interested soccer fans on how to improve and update these pages.
 * Bring Angel City fans and the broader soccer community in LA together.

Schedule
If possible, create a Wikipedia username ahead of time. If you can't, no problem. We will help you!


 * 1:00 pm – 1:10 pm: Welcome
 * 1:10 pm – 1:30 pm: Intro to editing Wikipedia
 * 1:30 pm – 4:00 pm: Open editing

FAQ

 * Should I bring a laptop? Yes!
 * Will there be food? Refreshments will be provided.

Participants

 * 1) Kabest
 * 2) I’m an experienced editor and would be happy to help! Just let me know Blervis (talk) 01:47, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
 * 3) UltraRat5000 Currently working on List of Puerto Rico women's international footballers
 * 4) mjm115 Adding pages for NWSL 2024 draftees. Currently working on: Brecken Mozingo
 * 5) jzrosario Did Croix Soto, now Ally Schlegel
 * 6) Akkifokkusu (talk) 20:22, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
 * 7) Egud899 currently checking appearances/caps for all angel city players
 * 8) Mwgulley (talk) 21:13, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
 * 9) Nacho129 Katty Martinez
 * 10) sdolivia - Created drafts for Madelyn Desiano and Jyllissa Harris
 * 11) Naimanpugs - Rocky Rodriguez
 * 1) Naimanpugs - Rocky Rodriguez

How to participate
 On the day of the event, add your Wikipedia username to the list of attendees above. Don't have a username yet? It's easy to create one.

 Choose an article to list on this page. Want to work on an article that's not on the list? You're welcome to choose any player, team, league, or other topic within the sport!

 Have questions during the event? Ask one of the facilitators!

Editing your first article!

 * 1) Pick an article to edit!
 * 2) Find some reliable sources that can support that article.
 * 3) Learn more about citing sources.
 * 4) Make your edits, or begin your article via the Article wizard

Clubs

 * Atlas FC
 * Atlético San Luis
 * Cruz Azul
 * CD Guadalajara
 * FC Juárez
 * Club León
 * Mazatlán FC
 * Club Necaxa
 * Club Puebla
 * Querétaro
 * Santos Laguna
 * Club Tijuana
 * Deportivo Toluca F.C.
 * Club Universidad Nacional
 * Granada CF
 * Madrid CFF
 * Real Betis Féminas
 * Real Sociedad Femenino
 * Sevilla FC
 * Sporting de Huelva
 * UD Tenerife
 * Valencia CF Femenino
 * Villarreal CF (stub)
 * FC Girondins de Bordeaux (stub)
 * Dijon FCO (stub)
 * FC Fleury 91
 * En Avant Guingamp
 * Lille OSC
 * AS Saint-Étienne

Players

 * Maricarmen Reyes
 * Katty Martínez
 * Charlyn Corral
 * Evelina Duljan
 * Madison Curry mwgulley working on it
 * Maya Doms
 * Jamie Shepherd
 * Caroline Conti
 * Jordan Brewster
 * Joelle Anderson
 * Chardonnay Curran
 * Sami Feller
 * Ally Schlegel Working on this now -Jzrosario (talk) 22:38, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Hanna Anderson
 * Madelyn Desiano
 * Ryan Gareis
 * Jylissa Harris
 * Croix Soto Created on this article.--Jzrosario (talk) 21:10, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

Other Links/More Tasks

 * Women in Red - Footballers
 * Wikiproject Women's Soccer

Other

 * Angel City technical staff Edited by mwgulley

Examples of Player Entries
Below are some examples of shorter entries which can be used as models for new player pages.


 * Megan Reid
 * Elexa Bahr
 * Lily Woodham
 * Melissa Johnson

Suggested sources

 * | NWSL Website and other league websites
 * | US Soccer and other federation websites
 * | The Athletic
 * | Just Women's Sports
 * | Pro Soccer Wire
 * | LA Times and other daily newspapers
 * | Soccerway
 * | Keeper Notes, a database maintained by longtime NWSL stats collector Jen Cooper

Wikipedia's standards

 * What Wikipedia is not
 * Reliable sources
 * Five pillars

Wikipedia's organization and markup

 * Wikipedia tutorial
 * Markup cheatsheet
 * Citation guide
 * Wiki markup quick reference

Outcomes

 * We will track number of edits, articles edited, etc. during our event. To have your contributions included in our outcomes, add your name to the list of participants above and sign in on our dashboard.

Resources

 * Hooked on editing Wikipedia? Attend another Wikipedia Edit-a-thon! Drop by the Wikimedians of Los Angeles meta page to learn about more events in the LA area!