Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/UN Women



United Nations Women Edit-a-thon is a global project and Edit-a-Thon that will be held on 2016 International Youth Day on Friday, August 12, 2016. This event is organized by the Wikipedia community, supported by United Nations Women and joined by UN Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth. The main event will be held in United Nations Headquarters in New York City, and many local events, as well virtual Edit-a-Thons, which aim to promote Wikipedia content that will help close the gender gap.

Knowledge is both a resource and an investment, and like all other forms of wealth, it is often differentially distributed throughout a social system. In many areas, information simply does not exist, and where it does exist, it is often sexist. Gender knowledge gaps and biases reinforce the harmful stereotypes and practices, and often misrepresent women and girls, and undercut or undervalue their contributions locally and globally. It is 2016, and we cannot tolerate leaving women and girls behind anymore.

As Wikipedia compiles what represents close to the sum of all human knowledge, women should be recognized as part of that sum. Empower Women by UN Women, the UN Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth, the UN Inter-agency Network on Youth Development's Working Group on Youth and Gender Equality, and a group of volunteer champions are working on enhancing and increasing the content on Wikipedia related to women and gender equality to raise awareness, close the gender knowledge gap, and start changing and editing the future. If you believe in the notion of online collaboration for the greater good and gender equality and have been impacted by an inspiring woman in your lifetime, join our campaign and make them more visible to inspire millions. Help us celebrate HerStory edit-a-thons to close the gender knowledge gap on International Youth Day on August 12, 2016.

Join HerStory edit-a-thons to contribute, promote, and celebrate women of the world. Make sure you going to be an agent of this herstorical change.

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Event information
A series of HerStory edit-a-thons will be held on Friday, August 12, 2016, which is International Youth Day in many cities around the globe and online. At the UN Headquarters in New York, the HerStory edit-a-thon will be convening 600 participants to edit and write for Wikipedia. The day-long event will include an opening, a Wikipedia 101 brief tutorial, a full day of writing and editing, featured speakers from our partners, breaks for coffee and networking, and a closing speech.
 * Date: Friday, August 12, 2016
 * Time: 9:30 am – 5:00 pm EST
 * Location: United Nations Headquarters (46th Street & 1st Avenue), Trusteeship Council Conference Room, New York, NY 10017 40.74944°N, -73.96806°W
 * Participants should arrive at the security entrance at 8:30 am
 * All participants must go through the security tent of the UN visitors centre, located on 46th and 1st Avenue to gain access to the UN
 * United Nations Headquarters map
 * UN Dining Services map


 * Subway: UN directions recommend taking the 4, 5, 6, 7, or S trains to Grand Central Station; walk east on 42nd Street to 1st Avenue -- or transfer to M42 Bus
 * to 42nd St. (exit at Grand Central 42nd Street and Park Avenue)
 * to 42nd St. (exit at 42nd Street and Bryant Park (5th/6th Avenue)
 * to 42nd St. (exit at 42nd Street and Broadway/7th Avenue)
 * to 42nd St. (exit at 42nd Street and 7th Avenue)
 * to Grand Central (exit at Grand Central 42nd Street and Park Avenue)
 * to 42nd St. (exit at 42nd Street and 8th Avenue) and take M42 bus
 * NYCT Bus: ,
 * M42 Bus Schedule, MTA Bus Time for M42 Bus
 * MTA Bus:
 * BSicon BAHN.svg Metro-North: Harlem, Hudson, and New Haven Lines (at Grand Central Terminal)
 * Car: Private parking garages are available from East 45th Street to East 49th Streets, between 1st and 2nd Avenues


 * Hashtag: #HerStory
 * Sponsors:
 * Empower Women by UN Women
 * UN Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth
 * UN Inter-agency Network on Youth Development's Working Group on Youth and Gender Equality
 * May Hachem aka, WikiProject Women founder in MENA and Wikipedia Education Program leader in Egypt, with the UN Women Regional Office in Cairo and EmpowerWomen.org
 * [mailto:emad.karim@unwomen.org?subject=HerStoryEdit-a-thon Emad Karim @ UN Women]
 * Wikimedia Foundation
 * Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight aka from Women in Red
 * Wikimedia New York City

What you can do
You can contribute to closing the gender gap on Wikipedia by:
 * Writing new articles about accomplished women who deserve a Wikipedia page and fall under Wikipedia's notability guidelines
 * Editing existing articles about women to add information and make them more gender sensitive
 * Translate existing articles into other languages to increase each page's visibility and usability


 * Resources


 * Query Wikidata for female scientists with most number of articles in other Wikipedias, excluding English (query)

What to bring
See Eventbrite event description for frequently asked questions Please sign up for a Wikipedia account before you come to the event
 * Please note that security restricts food and drinks being brought into the building. Food options are linked to above under Event information
 * Your laptop and power cords (we cannot provide computers for participants; tablets will be difficult to work on for this event)
 * Valid photo ID
 * Printout of event registration

RSVP
Registration is required to attend this event
 * Eventbrite Eventbrite Logo.png

Task list
Stubs are short articles that can be improved and expanded upon
 * United Nations stubs
 * United Nations biography stubs
 * Women activist stubs
 * Women history stubs
 * Women scientists stubs
 * Feminism stubs
 * WikiProject Women articles stubs
 * Indigenous peoples of North America stubs

Focus on STEM: links to missing articles • Anthropologists

• Archaeologists

• Biology

• Botany (plant sciences)

• Chemistry

• Computers

• Ecologists

• Geographers

• Mathematics

• Medicine

• Nurses

• Paleontologists

• Physics

• Psychology

• Science

• Social science

• Space science

• Technology

• Zoologists

Links to other missing articles • Women in Red – Tasks

• AfroCROWD – Tasks

• Academics

• Activists

• Architecture

• Art

• Aviation

• Business

• Education

• Engineering

• Entertainment

• Feminists

• Food and drink

• Jewish women

• Journalists

• Labor activists

• Leadership

• LGBTQ

• Librarians

• Military

• Music

• Novelists

• ODNB

• Photography

• Playwrights

• Poets

• Politics

• Religion

• Social work

• Sports

• Spies

• TED Speakers

• Travelers

• Video games

• Writers

• Writers (via WikiData)

• Youth literature writers

• Miscellaneous by focus area

• Argentina

• Australia

• Bolivia

• Brazil

• Canada

• Chile

• Colombia

• Cuba

• Ecuador

• El Salvador

• France

• Germany

• Greece

• Guatemala

• Honduras

• Iceland

• Italy

• Ivory Coast

• Japan

• Kenya

• Mexico

• New Zealand

• Nicaragua

• Panama

• Paraguay

• Peru

• Poland

• Portugal

• Russia

• Spain

• Switzerland

• United States

• Uruguay

• Venezuela

• Miscellaneous by nationality

• Africa

• Asia/Pacific Islands

• Black history

• Indigenous women

• Polar women

• Texas women

• Virginia women

• Wisconsin women

• Before 1850

• 1850-1899

• 1900-1909

• 1910-1919

• 1920-1929

• 1930-1939

• 1940-1949

• 1950-1959

• 1960-1969

• Awards & conferences

• Books by women

• Fictional women

• Halls of Fame

• Organizations

Articles improved
Alphabetical by first letter
 * 1) Ahmad Alhendawi --, , ,
 * 2) Amina J. Mohammed --
 * 3) Antonio Pedro Monteiro Lima --
 * 4) Barbara Clayton --
 * 5) Barbara Vann --
 * 6) Bettina Tucci Bartsiotas --
 * 7) Black Press --
 * 8) Bonnie Watson Coleman --
 * 9) Canadian Catholic Aboriginal Council --
 * 10) Carine Verbauwen --
 * 11) Carole Wainaina --
 * 12) Cheikh Anta Diop University --
 * 13) Christine Quinn --
 * 14) Eduardo Ulibarri --
 * 15) Female entrepreneur --
 * 16) Florence Garvin --
 * 17) French language --
 * 18) Gender & History --
 * 19) Gender equality --
 * 20) Gladys Aylward --
 * 21) Gloria Naylor --
 * 22) Guillermo Rishchynski --
 * 23) Hardeep Singh Puri --
 * 24) HeForShe --
 * 25) Inuit doll --
 * 26) Judy Dearing --
 * 27) Julia A. J. Foote --
 * 28) Julie F. Barcelona --
 * 29) Kate Austin --
 * 30) Katharine Jefferts Schori --
 * 31) Kirsti Lintonen --
 * 32) List of Muslim astronomers --
 * 33) Maria do Valle Ribeiro --
 * 34) María Eugenia Casar --
 * 35) Maria Grant --
 * 36) Mariam al-Asturlabi --
 * 37) Marlene Moses --
 * 38) Mattie Griffith Browne --
 * 39) Model United Nations --
 * 40) Myriam Merlet -- ,
 * 41) Nancy Roman --
 * 42) NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal --  ‎
 * 43) Nathalie du Pasquier --
 * 44) Nawal al-Hawsawi --
 * 45) Paul P. --
 * 46) Peggy Phelan --
 * 47) Piotr Uklański --
 * 48) Pontifical Xavierian University --
 * 49) Sara Ahmed --
 * 50) Simona Miculescu --
 * 51) Susana Malcorra --
 * 52) The New School --
 * 53) Tulcingo --  -- translation from Tulcingo in Spanish Wikipedia
 * 54) UN Women --
 * 55) Undoing Gender --
 * 56) United Nations Holocaust Memorial --
 * 57) United Nations Korean Reconstruction Agency --
 * 58) UNRocks --
 * 59) Women in Morocco --
 * 60) Women in New Zealand --
 * 61) Yishay Garbasz --
 * Multi-language Wikipedias
 * Dolores Correa y Zapata --
 * Frente Único Pro Derechos de la Mujer (FUPDM) --
 * Josefa Molera -- -- in Spanish Wikipedia
 * Josefa Molera -- -- in Catalan Wikipedia
 * Juana Belem Gutiérrez de Mendoza --
 * Margaret Chase Smith -- -- in Spanish Wikipedia
 * Môtiers -- -- in French Wikipedia

Articles created
Alphabetical by first letter
 * 1) Barbara Vann --
 * 2) Carmen Garza T. Junco --MelinaGonzalezAlanis (talk) 04:36, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 3) Consuelo Mayendía --
 * 4) Doaa Elghobashy --
 * 5) Mariam al-Asturlabi --
 * 6) Nathalie du Pasquier --
 * 7) UNRocks --


 * AfD moved to Sandbox
 * 1) Lisa Amati --

Wikidata items improved
Alphabetical by first letter
 * 1) Consuelo Mayendía (Q5784851) --
 * 2) Doaa el-Ghobashy (Q26207574) --
 * 3) Mariam al-Asturlabi (Q12242407) --  -- merged Q19976762 with Q12242407 (duplicate items for Mariam al-Asturlabi)
 * 4) Rosario Soler (Q20898806) --
 * 5) UN Women Her Story (Q26257619) --

Wikidata items created
Alphabetical by first letter
 * 1) UN Women Her Story (Q26257619) --

Wikimedia Commons
Alphabetical by first letter
 * 2016 UN Women 01 to 2016 UN Women 27 (27 photos) --
 * Ahmad Alhendawi at the UN --
 * Mujeres del Frente Único Pro Derechos de la Mujer --
 * UN HerStory editathon 2016 photosphere - high --
 * UN HerStory editathon 2016 photosphere - low --
 * UN HerStory editathon 2016 photosphere - medium --
 * WikiConference North America 2016 logo --

Resources

 * Help pages
 * Wikipedia policies and guidelines
 * IRC help chat channel for attendees - great for help during or after editathon
 * IRC/wikipedia-en-help


 * Specific language IRC channels (i.e, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Chinese, Sindhi)

Virtual editathons
See also: Virtual Edit-a-Thons at Wikipedia and UN Women Project
 * Celebrating the Wikipedia and United Nations Women Project virtual editathon from Women in Red: July 12-August 12, 2016
 * Celebrando el proyecto Wikipedia y ONU Mujeres virtual editathon: August 1-15, 2016

Other events

 * International Youth Day 2016 Event @ United Nations, Friday, August 12, 2016 – International Youth Day. Economic and Social Council ECOSOC Chamber, United Nations Headquarters, New York from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM (EDT) Eventbrite listing has information Eventbrite Logo.png
 * Event Programme
 * Biographies of Presenters
 * International Youth Day 2016: Youth Leading Sustainability
 * Message of the UN Secretary-General on International Youth Day 2016

Friendly space policy

 * See Friendly space policy

Participants
Please also add your Wikipedia username below

WikiFacilitators from WM NYC, WiR, WM DC

 * 1) AbhiSuryawanshi (talk) 00:16, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 2) Aude (talk) 01:33, 5 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 3) Aweav94 (talk) 09:04, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 4)   Blue Rasberry   (talk)  14:24, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 5) BrillLyle (talk) 03:49, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 6) Dalton D. Hird 15:27, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 7)  DGG ( talk ) 17:16, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 8) Dilettante Army (talk) 18:44, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 9) DrX (talk) 15:22, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 10) Fuzheado &#124; Talk 17:19, 7 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 11) Lange.lea (talk) 14:40, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 12) Levendowski (talk) 14:32, 8 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 13) Megs (talk) 13:15, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 14) Mozucat (talk) 19:22, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 15) Napplicable (talk) 11:57, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 16) Nwhysel (talk) 22:18, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 17) Pharos (talk) 23:35, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 18) Roman Spinner (talk) 15:33, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 19) Rosiestep (talk) 23:56, 31 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 20) Shanluan (talk) 03:30, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

Train the Trainers 10 August 2016

 * 1) Ana Espinosa (talk) 02:40, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 2) Jeremyb (talk) 20:50, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 3) LéonJunior (talk) 21:01, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 4) Monlerith (talk) 21:10, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
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 * 6) Sasassou (talk) 20:51, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 7) STEAMFuturistas (talk) 21:24, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 8) SteeveGuillod (talk) 20:35, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

Event attendees @ UNHQ and Beyond!

 * 1) Amg940728 (talk) 18:11, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 2) Amyevasquez (talk) 15:25, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 3) Ankunda 2016 (talk) 03:16, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 4) Ardra22 (talk) 15:23, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 5) Arispool (talk) 14:41, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 6) Arleneuv (talk) 15:26, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 7) Aura020891 (talk) 18:53, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 8) Badrabahaar (talk) 15:24, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 9) Bnc5006 (talk) 15:25, 12 August 2016 (UTC) Starting my wikipedia page #her story
 * 10) ChangeWithUs (talk) 15:22, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 11) Chlosophia64 (talk) 15:23, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 12) Chrismacrae (talk) 15:21, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 13) Constance Soledad (talk) 14:24, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 14) DCLivers (talk) 15:52, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 15) Dee1595 (talk) 15:24, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 16) Dkingsmill (talk) 14:23, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 17) Eddy.vegag (talk) 18:11, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 18) Empwrgirls (talk) 14:19, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
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 * 26) KarlaUrriola (talk) 17:07, 12 August 2016 (UTC) Karla Urriola
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 * 31) Marseamermaid (talk) 15:37, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
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 * 33) MelinaGonzalezAlanis (talk) 16:27, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
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