Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/WikiWomen's Edit-a-thon at Queens College (2017)

This Women’s History Month, join us for the Wiki-Women’s edit-a-thon! We will be editing and creating articles on women, women of color, and particularly women in dance, literature, visual arts and music. The edit-a-thon is open to the entire Queens College community. Come and go as your schedule allows.

Co-sponsored by Queens College's Center for Teaching and Learning, Department of Drama, Theatre and Dance, Godwin-Ternback Museum, Queens College Music Library, Rosenthal Library, and Writing at Queens College, as well as Wikimedia NYC.



Details

 * Hosts: Queens College
 * Participants: This event is open to all Queens College students, faculty, and staff.
 * Date: Wednesday, March 29, 2017
 * Time: 12:00PM - 5:00PM (Drop by at any time!)
 * Location: Rosenthal Library, Tanenbaum Room (300i), Directions
 * RSVP: RSVP here

Articles to edit

 * Anne Boyer (poet and visual artist)
 * Blondell Cummings (choreographer)(resources)
 * Thea Musgrave (composer)
 * Gabrielle Lamb (choreographer) (resources)
 * Mary Leader (poet)
 * Layli Long Soldier (poet)
 * Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi (novelist and short story writer)
 * Annie-B Parson (choreographer)(resources)
 * Marcy Rosen (cellist)
 * Igiaba Scego (writer)
 * Isabel Quintanilla (visual artist)
 * Sophie Ristelhueber (photographer)
 * Audrey McMahon (arts administrator)
 * Amelia E. Johnson (novelist and short story writer)
 * Abigail Mott (abolitionist, women's rights advocate, and novelist)
 * Lucas Malet (novelist)
 * Marianne Farningham (poet and hymn writer)
 * Margaret Harkness (journalist)
 * Mary Louisa Molesworth (children's writer)
 * Catherine Hubback (novelist)
 * Emma Marshall (children's writer)
 * Olive Schreiner (novelist)
 * Mary Augusta Ward (novelist)

Articles to create

 * Amaranth Borsuk (poet specializing in augmented reality)
 * DawN Crandell (choreographer)(resources)
 * Maureen Cummins (book artist/visual artist)
 * Yasmine El Rashidi (author)
 * Tonya Foster (poet)
 * Jan Freeman (poet and founder of Paris Press)
 * Marguerite Hemmings (choreographer) (resources)
 * Nia Love (choreographer) (resources)
 * Judith Mendenhall (flautist)
 * Jennifer Montgomery (filmmaker)
 * Joya Powell (choreographer) (resources)
 * Morey Ritt (pianist)
 * Jill Sigman (choreographer) (resources)
 * Anya Silver (poet)
 * Larissa Velez-Jackson (choreographer) (resources)
 * Ni’Ja Whitson (choreographer) (resources)
 * Frances Gray Godwin (art historian)
 * Lily Harmon (visual artist)
 * Helen Balfour Morrison (visual artist)
 * Debra Priestly (visual artist)
 * Sin-ying Ho (visual artist)
 * Jane Chaplin Dunbar (writer of children's songs)
 * Chloë Bass (conceptual artist and writer)

Resources
Editing Wikipedia
 * Wiki Markup Cheatsheet
 * Wikipedia Manual of Style (WP:MOS)
 * WP:Notability (people)
 * How to create Wikipedia entries that will stick

Wikipedia's Principles
 * Five Pillars
 * Assume Good Faith
 * Be Bold

Teaching with Wikipedia
 * Sample Assignments

Sign-up
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