Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Studio@Butler March 2014

The Edit-a-Thon Will take place March 18th, 2014, in Columbia University Butler Library's new Studio@Butler space, which opened in September, 2013.



What is the #GWWI Global Women Write-In?
The Global Women's Wikipedia Write-In is one of several annual, national campaigns to close the inequality of male-to-female editors on Wikipedia, and the site's reported tendency to feature more male historical figures than female. As the recent international Art + Feminism Edit-a-Thons have argued:

"...Wikipedia’s gender trouble is well documented: in a 2010 survey, Wikimedia found that less than 13% of its contributors are female. The reasons for the gender gap are up for debate: suggestions include leisure inequality, how gender socialization shapes public comportment, and the contentious nature of Wikipedia’s talk pages. The practical effect of this disparity, however, is not. Content is skewed by the lack of female participation. Many articles on notable women in history and art are absent on Wikipedia. This represents an alarming aporia in an increasingly important repository of shared knowledge..."

See also: Blog post: "Spring Wikipedia Activities in New York.

Details

 * Event listing: https://studio.cul.columbia.edu/ai1ec_event/global-women-wikipedia-write-in/?instance_id=5609
 * Date: March 18th, 2014
 * Time: 11am-1pm
 * Location: Columbia University Libraries's Butler Library's Studio@Butler (208 Butler Library)
 * Address: 535 W 114th St, New York, NY 10027
 * Cost: Free
 * Endorsements: Metropolitan New York Library Council, Wikimedia New York City
 * What to Bring: Some laptops will be available but please bring a laptop if you are able to.
 * Twitter Hashtag: #GWWI
 * Participants: Open to the public. If you are a member of the general public and would like to attend, please send your name to Leyla Williams, Communications Coordinator at the Center for Digital Research and Scholarship, at lwilliams@columbia.edu
 * Other contacts: Megan Wacha (mwacha@barnard.edu), Dorothy Howard (dhoward@metro.org)

Confirmed NYC attendees

 * OR drohowa (talk) 21:36, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Pharos (talk) 21:34, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Lwillm
 * Alexandra Dolan-Mescal
 *  DGG ( talk ) 00:34, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Virtual Participants

 * Bibliosaurusrex (talk) 18:04, 17 March 2014 (UTC) I would like to attend in person, but if I can't make it I will attend virtually.
 * Lange.lea (talk) 15:38, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Suggested Topics to Edit
The following are pulled from the Meetup/globalwomen page:
 * See: The very long list of suggested topics from Eyebeam's Art + Feminism event for female artists and feminist artist articles that need work.
 * See: WikiProject Women's History/Ada_Lovelace Day 2012 for a list of women scientists that need creating/editing
 * See: Global Women of Color Wikipedia Write-In for a list of articles that need improvement.
 * Red link lists of articles needing creation or expansion:
 * WikiProject Dictionary of National Biography/Missing women
 * User:T. Anthony/Women in Red
 * User:Magnus Manske/Women in science
 * User:Dsp13/Redlinks/Women
 * User:Rcamilled/Redlinks/Women in history
 * See the task lists from these related WikiProjects: WikiProject Feminisim, WikiProject Jewish Women, and WikiProject Women's History
 * A very long list of women around the world
 * A redlink and stub list for articles of indigenous women from around the world

Articles Needing Creation and Editing
The following are pulled from the Wikipedia:Meetup/globalwomen page:
 * Mary Fabilli poet associated with the Beat generation
 * Mary Norbert Korte See: http://www.lib.rochester.edu/index.cfm?page=4729
 * Joanna Mcclure, artist, poet
 * Sabine Deitmer - German crime fiction writer. de:Sabine Deitmer ar:سابينه دايتمر no:Sabine Deitmer sv:Sabine Deitmer
 * Meira Delmar - Colombian poet es:Meira Delmar nl:Meira Delmar
 * Claire Démar - Early French feminist. fr:Claire Démar it:Claire Démar sv:Claire Démar
 * Wivina Demeester - Former Belgian government minister and a Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams politician. . d:q2454521
 * Laura Devetach - Argentine writer, Spanish Wiki good article. es:Laura Devetach
 * Lauren Cornell - current curator at the New Museum
 * Oyeronke Oyewumi
 * Judith Lowry, Native American painter (not to be confused with the actress)
 * Ziba Mir-Hosseini, an Iranian anthropologist and advocate of Islamic feminism.

Categories

 * South African women writers
 * Indian women writers
 * Women writers by nationality
 * Mexican and South American women writers

Articles Needing Expansion/Clean-Up
Taken from 'Women of the Beat Generation list
 * Helen Adam, poet, writer
 * Hettie Jones, poet, writer
 * Elise Cowen, poet, writer
 * Diane di Prima, poet, writer
 * Lenore Kandel, poet, writer
 * Joanne Kyger, poet
 * Josephine Miles, poet and literary critic
 * Janine Pommy Vega, poet
 * Lauren Berlant, writer, theories - needs citation
 * Carolyn Christov-Bakargievcurator - needs citation
 * Thelma Golden curator at the Studio Museum, Harlem - needs citation
 * Roselee Goldberg writer, critic, curator at Performa - needs citation, added content

The following are pulled from the Meetup/globalwomen page:


 * 1929 Aba Women's Riots
 * Tsitsi Dangarembga
 * Domitila Chúngara
 * Pacita Abad, Filipina artist
 * Janet Chance British abortion reformer
 * Sara Ahmed
 * Suzy Lake - contemporary Canadian-American artist
 * Vandana Shiva
 * Gloria E. Anzaldúa
 * bell hooks
 * Rey Chow
 * Chandra Talpade Mohanty
 * Shirley Kaneda
 * Beth Kelly
 * Frieda Ekotto
 * Angkatan Wanita Sedar(“Force of Awakened Women”), historical women's group in Malaysia
 * Mona Hatoum
 * Faith Ringgold
 * Nikki S. Lee
 * Tania Bruguera
 * Shigeko Kubota
 * Shobana Jeyasingh - contemporary choreographer born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
 * Lila Abu-Lughod - anthropologist
 * Victoria Mxenge
 * Barbara Brandon-Croft, the first female African-American comic strip artist to be nationally syndicated
 * Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki, Japanese-Canadian graphic novelists
 * Karen Lord, World Fantasy Award-nominated author
 * Raeda Saadeh, Palestinian photographer
 * Rawiya, a collective of women photographers from Egypt, Palestine, Tunisia, Iran, and Jordan
 * Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
 * Rosario Castellanos

Editing Wikipedia Resources

 * Help:Cheatsheet
 * Wikipedia for Libraries Archives Museums

Related Projects

 * Meetup event page for the Global Women Write In:Meetup/globalwomen
 * Global Women Wikipedia Write-in
 * February 1st virtual Art + Feminism Edit-a-Thons at over 30 locations.
 * Women in Science Edit-a-Thon at Smithsonian Institution Archives
 * WikiProject Women's History Ada Lovelace Day
 * Women in Jewish History Editathon May 4th, 2014

Other #GWWI Projects

 * March 18th 2014: #GWWI Wikithon at Emory University, in Atlanta, Georgia.

Results
How will the event be quantified? New articles created Articles expanded, improved, cleaned up Wiki-Metrics used to trace User participation
 * Dea Loher (German playwright)
 * Minor edits to Charlotte Szlovak
 * Works expanded and citations added to Gisèle Halimi