Wikipedia:Meetup/Portland/ArtAndFeminism 2016

Event information


Please bring a laptop and charger with you!
 * Date: Saturday, March 5, 2016
 * Time: 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
 * Location: Yale Union, 800 SE 10th Avenue, in the kitchen, Portland, Oregon 97214
 * Hosts: Krystalsouth (talk) lradon (talk) ttomasello (talk)
 * No Wikipedia editing experience necessary; as needed throughout the event, tutoring will be provided for Wikipedia newcomers. Female-identified editors are particularly encouraged to attend. If you are unfamiliar with Wikipedia, you might try this training module which will help explain a lot of things, including how to add your signature. Attendees should bring their own laptops and power cords.


 * Twitter hashtag: #ArtAndFeminism #NowEditingAF
 * Facebook Event Page: Facebook

List of articles to edit
Below is a list of articles that would benefit from edits and expansion during the edit-a-thon:


 * WikiProject Women artists/Worklist
 * other ideas? Please add them here!

Resources for editing

 * Art+Feminism resources
 * Gender gap resources

Tools and templates

 * Cheatsheet for editing Wikipedia
 * Infobox template - person
 * Biographies of living persons
 * Writing an article
 * About the Sandbox
 * Determining Notability of Creative Professionals
 * Conflict of Interest in Wikipedia Editing
 * Verifying Reliable Sources


 * N.B. There is an IRC channel if online participants need help:
 * IRC/wikipedia-en-help

Articles created

 * 1) Bluets (book)
 * es:Edna Vazquez (Spanish Wikipedia)
 * 1) Elvira Santamaría
 * 2) Frances Toor
 * 3) Francesca Debora Nuzzolese
 * 4) Helen Marten
 * 5) Orchard (artist-run space)
 * 6) Pat Cummings (illustrator)
 * 7) Regina Silveira
 * 8) Rhea Anastas
 * 9) Sarah Mirk

Articles improved

 * 1) Alice Notley
 * 2) Audre Lorde (and Template:Audre Lorde)
 * 3) Bluet
 * 4) Elena Ferrante
 * 5) Harriet Whitney Frishmuth
 * 6) Idiotarod
 * 7) Jillian Tamaki
 * 8) Kati Horna
 * 9) Kim Longinotto
 * 10) Lili Dujourie
 * 11) Lorna Mills
 * 12) Lynda Barry
 * 13) Maggie Nelson
 * 14) Margaret Fitzhugh Browne
 * 15) Matt Bors
 * 16) Nancy Spero
 * 17) Orlan
 * 18) Reproductive labor
 * 19) Rose Ausländer
 * 20) Ruth Duckworth
 * 21) Same-sex marriage in Oregon
 * 22) Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Participants - Sign Up Here!
Sign here to help us learn more about how users interact with Wikipedia! If you sign up, we can observe how your username uses the Wikimedia projects during and after this event. This will help us to better measure the effectiveness of this event and similar programs. This means that your publicly available activity and the information you share with us during this event may be processed by the Wikimedia Foundation, Art+Feminism, and the organizers of the local event, and may be transferred to or from the US and other countries that may not have the same level of privacy regulation that your country does. However, we will not share your information with third parties or publicly unless it's in aggregated or anonymized form. Prior to the event:

Don't worry! If you haven't edited Wikipedia before and don't have a Wikipedia User Name yet, we will help you on the day of the event! And remember to have fun!
 * 1) Do you have a Wikipedia User Name?
 * No? Create a Wikipedia account
 * Yes? Go to Step #2
 * 1) Sign up! Add your Wikipedia User Name to this section by clicking the blue button below (follow instructions). Your name will be added to the bottom of this page


 * 1) Absent Referent (talk) 20:42, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 2)  Another Believer  ( Talk ) 05:25, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
 * 3)  Blurpeace  19:46, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
 * 4) DanaRachel (talk) 19:31, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 5) Hexatekin (talk) 18:35, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 6) Kaypaden (talk) 18:30, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 7) Krystalsouth (talk) 02:46, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
 * 8) Leedrakken (talk) 19:31, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 9) Lindsaymariekaplan (talk) 23:37, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 10) Lradon (talk) 18:57, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
 * 11) Nataliesept (talk) 17:34, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 12) Peaceray (talk) 16:16, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 13) Sarahmirk (talk) 20:42, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 14) Sarahsarahturner (talk) 18:34, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 15) Submem (talk) 20:43, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 16) Ttomasello (talk) 04:26, 4 March 2016 (UTC)