Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Baruch/Equality Archive Edit-a-thon

Sign up via Outreach Dashboard The 2017 Equality Archive Women's History Wikipedia Edit-a-thon is hosted by Baruch College in New York City.

Join us as we work with EqualityArchive.com for a Wikipedia-edit- a-thon in which members of the Baruch College community contribute content related to women’s history on Wikipedia, the largest and most popular general reference resource on the internet. In this Women’s History Month session you will learn how to create knowledge by writing and editing Wikipedia entries about the people, issues, and events that inform women’s history. Wikipedia editing skills are not required. A limited number of computers will be available to use, please bring a laptop if you have one.

Event Information

 * Date: Thursday, March 9, 2017
 * Time: 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
 * Location: Baruch College, Great Works Resource Room, VC 7-205, Baruch College
 * Hashtag: #wikiwomenshistory #equalityarchiveeditathon
 * Who can attend: Open to all CUNY Students, Staff, and Faculty: Open to the public with rsvp.
 * What to bring: Please bring your laptop, but there will be a limited number of computers available.
 * Create an account: If you haven't created a Wikipedia Account, please do so follow our Instructions

Why both students and faculty should participate
Women are missing from history on Wikipedia. In 2015, only 16% of the biographies on Wikipedia were about women and less than 10% of contributors to Wikipedia identify as female. We, women and men, have the potential to make a difference in very little time.

The Equality Archive Women's History Edit-a-thon will help you develop the skills to edit and create articles on Wikipedia, to refine your ability to reliably document knowledge, and to help increase the visibility of women in history. Most college and university professors warn students NOT to use Wikipedia. But creating and editing articles leads students to do all the things academics value most -- citing credible sources and learning to paraphrase work well. A professor at Baruch, Dr. Kyra Gaunt, was recently acknowledged in the WIkiEdu inaugural newsletter for improving representations of articles related to social inequality: "The concept of toxic masculinity has attracted a lot of interest in recent years, but the Wikipedia article was just a three-sentence stub when a student in Kyra Gaunt’s Social Inequality class (SOC3156 Winter_2017) started work on the article. In the course of expanding it, the student added sections addressing the subject in the contexts of sports, violence, and sexuality. Other students in the class expanded articles on a variety of topics including housing inequality, social inequality and women’s sports." Read more on WikiEdu and knowledge creation at Baruch, at other CUNY colleges here.

Attendees
Sign up via Outreach Dashboard during the event!
 * We will help you register for a new Wikipedia editing account the day of the event if needed.
 * If you are able, please also add your Wikipedia username to the appropriate section below (signatures are created by saving four tildes [~] in a row).
 * 1) Laurhur (talk) 22:22, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
 * 2) sheridanford (talk) 18:25, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
 * 3) Mozucat (talk) 18:20, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
 * 4) Pseudoymn (talk) 18:21, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
 * 5) Baleksandra (talk) 18:22, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
 * 6) Csmithmo (talk) 18:46, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
 * 7) Jahre-Leigh (talk) 19:22, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
 * 8) Jeremyb (talk) 20:16, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Relevant links

 * Equality Archive
 * WikiProject Women's History
 * Keep up on future events by checking out the Wikimedia NYC Chapter meetup page.