Wikipedia:Meetup/New Orleans/WomeninLibraryHistory

The American Library Association is hosting two publicly promoted Wikipedia edit-a-thons during its annual ALA Conference and Exhibition in New Orleans, Louisiana. One will take place at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, and the other will take place at the Milton H. Latter Memorial Library. The theme of our edit-a-thon will be Women in Library History. All are all invited to come and try their hand at adding sources and editing Wikipedia.

To get started, please create an account and Wikipedia username, then RSVP in.

Please bring a laptop if you can.

Event Information
The American Library Association's Feminist Task Force, Social Responsibility Task Force, and ACRL's Women and Gender Studies Section have organized two edit-a-thon opportunities during the annual conference:

Saturday, June 23: Women of Library History Wikipedia Edit-a-thon I and II , 9:00-11:30am, MCC Room 264

Sunday, June 24: Women of Library History Wikipedia Edit-a-thon III: Working Party , 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm, Milton H. Latter Memorial Library, 5120 Saint Charles, 504-596-2625, http://nolalibrary.org/branch/10/milton-h-latter-memorial-library

Directions to the Milton H. Latter Memorial Library: The St Charles streetcar line will take you to the Milton H. Latter Memorial Library--go west toward the Garden District, stop at St Charles-Robert, and go to 5120 St Charles Ave.

To RSVP, please sign into the section below!

Refreshments will be served at each event.

At these edit-a-thons, you will have the opportunity to work on improving or creating articles about women in library history, or any other topic that you may choose.

We'll help you get started. We'll have some librarians around to help you research and get you into the basics of Wikipedia editing.

* Any questions? Email Rachel at rswexelbaum@stcloudstate.edu or leave a message with RachelWex on her Talk page.

Where to start?
Check out or WikiProject Libraries for lists of notable librarians and articles about libraries, archives, and museums that need work!

Not interested in libraries but want to improve or create content in your area of expertise? Search the WikiProject Council/Directory to see what needs improvement!

Want to just add a quality citation or two to Wikipedia wherever you can? Try out the Citation Hunt page and search for different topics about women. They'll show you exactly where citations are needed and you take it from there!

Maybe you prefer writing and you'd rather get your feet wet with some copy editing? Here is a list of all the articles that need copy editing. Find one that relates to women or women's history, and see if you can clean up some of the content.

Women in Library History
Articles that need improvement!


 * 1) Dina Abramowicz
 * 2) Mary Eileen Ahern
 * 3) Regina M. Anderson
 * 4) May Hill Arbuthnot
 * 5) Jean Arnot
 * 6) Henriette Avram
 * 7) Pura Belpré
 * 8) Martha Boaz
 * 9) Clara Breed
 * 10) Miriam Braverman
 * 11) Lois Mai Chan
 * 12) Mayme Agnew Clayton
 * 13) Eileen Colwell
 * 14) Ina Coolbrith
 * 15) Martha P. Cotera
 * 16) Gratia Countryman
 * 17) Alma Dawson
 * 18) Sadie Peterson Delaney
 * 19) Electra Collins Doren
 * 20) Loleta Fyan
 * 21) Oralia Garza de Cortés
 * 22) Mary Virginia Gaver
 * 23) Barbara Gittings
 * 24) Edith Guerrier
 * 25) Alice Lougee Hagemeyer
 * 26) Evelyn Beatrice Hall
 * 27) Carla Hayden
 * 28) Frances E. Henne
 * 29) Caroline Hewins
 * 30) Lillian B. Horace
 * 31) Zoia Horn
 * 32) Julia Ideson
 * 33) Mary Frances Isom
 * 34) Alma Smith Jacobs
 * 35) Clara Stanton Jones
 * 36) Tessa Kelso
 * 37) Mollie Huston Lee
 * 38) Ida Leeson
 * 39) Anne Grodzins Lepow
 * 40) Margaret Mann
 * 41) Helen Marot
 * 42) May Massee
 * 43) Virginia Matthews
 * 44) Jewelle Mazique
 * 45) Kathleen de la Peña McCook
 * 46) Effie Morris
 * 47) Frances Jenkins Olcott
 * 48) Pack Horse Library Project
 * 49) Cornella Marvin Pierce
 * 50) Elizabeth Peabody
 * 51) Dorothy B. Porter
 * 52) Olivia Raney
 * 53) Ruth Rappaport
 * 54) Josephine Adams Rathbone
 * 55) Yolanda Retter
 * 56) Amanda Sullivan Randall Rudd
 * 57) Patricia G. Schuman
 * 58) Henrietta M. Smith
 * 59) Frances Lander Spain
 * 60) Lutie Stearns
 * 61) Mary Lemist Titcomb
 * 62) Althea Warren
 * 63) Ann Wolpert
 * 64) Janet Martin Welch
 * 65) Celeste West

Women who need articles!


 * 1) Margaret Auer
 * 2) Louise Bailey
 * 3) Helen Ball
 * 4) Mary Ellen Bates
 * 5) Clare Beck
 * 6) Sara Bird Askew
 * 7) Jean P. Black
 * 8) Cyndi Bloom
 * 9) Ethel Martin Bolden
 * 10) Lily Lawrence Bow
 * 11) Eliza Gordon Browning
 * 12) Quintilla Geer Bruton
 * 13) Ella Buchanan (Librarian)
 * 14) Susan Dart Butler
 * 15) Carole Callard
 * 16) Jessie Carson
 * 17) Mary J. Carter
 * 18) Linda M. Clatworthy
 * 19) Joan Cole
 * 20) Wessie Gertrude Connell
 * 21) Eileen Doris Cooke
 * 22) Nora Evelyn Cordingley
 * 23) Debra Davis
 * 24) Josefina del Toro Fulladosa
 * 25) Marta L. Dosa
 * 26) Vera Douie
 * 27) Leaonead Pack Drain-Bailey
 * 28) Everett Woman's Book Club
 * 29) Kathleen Farmann
 * 30) Frances Farmer (librarian)
 * 31) Carolyn W. Field
 * 32) Edith Ford
 * 33) Aurelia Elizabeth Whittington Franklin
 * 34) Ruth S. Freitag
 * 35) Charlyne Gadsden
 * 36) Gillis Girls
 * 37) Eliza Valeria Atkins Gleason
 * 38) Dorothy Peyton Gray
 * 39) Lilian Gunter
 * 40) Josephine Pardee Hallare
 * 41) Gretchen Hammerstein
 * 42) Inez Ratekin Herrig
 * 43) Olive Hoffman
 * 44) Laura Howey
 * 45) Mary Dengler Hudgins
 * 46) Ismoon Hunter-Morton
 * 47) Cynthia Hurd
 * 48) Esther Weaver Hurwitz
 * 49) Lora Hussey
 * 50) Gladys W. Jarrett
 * 51) Barbara Williams Jenkins
 * 52) Betty Jenkins
 * 53) Diane Gordon Kadanoff
 * 54) Anne Keating
 * 55) Ednita Kelly
 * 56) Ida Kidder
 * 57) Lucy Lee Lancaster
 * 58) Lora Lashbrook
 * 59) Marie Lawrence
 * 60) Sara R. Mack
 * 61) Alison Macrina
 * 62) Ora Maxwell
 * 63) Mary Mayfield
 * 64) Linda McPherson
 * 65) Mildred Miles
 * 66) Dharathula Millender
 * 67) Jean Barry Molz
 * 68) Christine Wigfall Morris
 * 69) Margaret Mott
 * 70) Maude Langhorne Nelson
 * 71) Eliza Des Saure Newell
 * 72) Jewel Nicholson
 * 73) Suzine Har Nicolescu
 * 74) Nancy Osborne
 * 75) Jane VanDike Patton
 * 76) Julia Roselle Pearce
 * 77) Lida Penfield
 * 78) Eva Perry
 * 79) Annie Petty
 * 80) Sylvia Piggott
 * 81) Wilma Radford
 * 82) Alice Damon Rider
 * 83) Mary “Topie” Utopia Rothrock
 * 84) Dorothy Esther Rowland
 * 85) Doris Rucks
 * 86) Linda Ryan
 * 87) Eva Santee
 * 88) Betty-Carol “BC” Sellen
 * 89) Agnes Sengstacken
 * 90) Beth J. Shapiro
 * 91) Sara L. Siebert
 * 92) Zelia Anne Smith
 * 93) Loretta Sorensen
 * 94) Susan Sosin
 * 95) Clara Gatzert Spiegel
 * 96) Eleanor Stevenson
 * 97) Mary Louise Stickley
 * 98) Marian Glenn Straw
 * 99) Maud Durlin Sullivan
 * 100) Nettie Taylor
 * 101) Mary Thompson Donlan
 * 102) Winifred Fleming Ticer
 * 103) Martha Trezpacz (or Trzepacz)
 * 104) Jane W. Turner
 * 105) Jane Van Arsdale
 * 106) Elva Van Winkle
 * 107) Vang Vang
 * 108) Esther J. Walls
 * 109) Genevieve M. Walton
 * 110) Annie Bell Weaver
 * 111) Clara Webber
 * 112) Allegra Westbrooks
 * 113) Mabel Zoe Wilson
 * 114) Women of Wyoming
 * 115) Frances Lydia Yocom
 * 116) Evelyn Zerzanek

Wikipedia resources
Help:Introduction

VisualEditor/User guide

Tutorial/Wrap-up and more info

GLAM Beginner's Guide

Citation guide

Simplified ruleset

Biographies of living persons

Portal:Current events

Rapid Grants - apply for money to support your editathons

Art+Feminism - good resources for learning to edit and organize editathons

Attendees
Definitely coming
 * RachelWex
 * Sherre Harrington
 * Alexandria Canyon
 * Mary Miller
 * Baotail (talk)
 * Merrilee (talk) 15:41, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
 * ERMlibrarian(talk)

Maybe

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Results
Below, list the articles that you've edited or added, so we can track our progress.

Articles Improved Articles Created
 * Barbara Gittings
 * Dina Abramowicz
 * Carla Hayden
 * American Committee for Devastated France
 * Yolanda Retter
 * Ida Leeson
 * Jessie Carson