Wikipedia:Meetup/LA/LMU 2017

Join us for the William H. Hannon Library's first-ever edit-a-thon at Loyola Marymount University on Friday, April 7th, 2017. In collaboration with a Women's and Gender Studies class, we will focus on editing articles relating to gender, race, and sexuality in contemporary culture.

Event information

 * Date: Friday, April 7th, 2017
 * Time: 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
 * Location: William H. Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University (Von der Ahe Suite on Level 3), 1 LMU Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90045
 * Hosts: The William H. Hannon Library and the LMU Department of Women's and Gender Studies.

'Please bring a laptop with you! We will have a limited number of laptops on hand.'

Directions and parking information

 * Directions to LMU
 * LMU Parking Information

Worklist
These articles would benefit from edits and expansion during the edit-a-thon, but you are welcome to work on anything you like. Feel free to add to this list!

To create

 * leg fetishism
 * Las hermanas/Las Hermanas - Catholic feminist nun's movement within the Chicano movement
 * lived experience
 * Tenderloin Hotel
 * Sapiosexuality
 * Novosexuality
 * Transgender lesbian

To improve

 * Racial fetishism
 * Asian fetish
 * Racism in association football
 * Romantic racism
 * Women of color
 * Discrimination towards non-binary gender persons
 * Misogyny in rap music
 * Stereotypes of Hispanic and Latino Americans in the United States
 * Transgender inequality
 * Mass incarceration
 * Sexual victimization of native American women

Finding to-dos

 * Category:LGBT_stubs
 * Portal:African_American/Things_you_can_do
 * WikiProject_Asian_Americans/to_do
 * WikiProject_Mexican-Americans/Todo
 * WikiProject_United_States/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans_task_force
 * Category:Indigenous_peoples_of_North_America_stubs

Resources for editing

 * Beginners’ Guide to Wikipedia -- account creation, article editing
 * Five Pillars of Wikipedia -- philosophical guidelines and best practices for Wikipedia editing
 * Wikipedia Tutorial -- genera overview of Wikipedia style guidelines, policies, and community information
 * How to Edit a Page

Articles improved

 * Age of consent - B4I8pizza (talk) 19:08, 7 April 2017 (UTC) added 1 source, my very 1st edit!
 * women of color
 * women's sports
 * Living_My_Life
 * Dr. Dog
 * strategic essentialism
 * misogyny in rap music
 * Kin Yamei, new article
 * Diana E. H. Russell, added more information
 * Social Criticism, fixed grammar mistakes, sentence fluency errors
 * Race in the United States criminal justice system, added citation and improved grammar
 * Melissa Gira Grant
 * Women of color
 * Intersectionality
 * Misogyny in rap music
 * Youth incarceration in the United States
 * Chicana feminism
 * Two-Spirit
 * Michael Sadleir
 * Francis Birrell
 * Mary Berenson

Participants

 * John Jackson (talk) 18:03, 6 April 2017 (UTC)
 * User:B4I8pizza
 * User:aconner3
 * User:Susanarcham
 * User:Alasdairdubh
 * Penny Richards (talk) 00:32, 6 April 2017 (UTC)