Wikipedia:Meetup/Schlesinger Library Edit-a-thon

Cambridge, MA event details

 * Date: Wednesday, April 17th, 2013, 2:00pm to 5:00pm EDT
 * Venue: Schlesinger Library, 3 James Street, Cambridge, MA, USA
 * Cost: Free
 * Participants: The event is open to anyone interested in women’s history! No Wiki editing experience necessary; as needed, tutorials will be provided for Wikipedia newcomers. Can’t come for the whole time? No problem. Join us for as little or as long as you like.
 * Details: Attendees should bring their own laptops and power cords if possible. Some library computers will be available for use. Light food and drinks will be provided.
 * Registration: If possible, please add your name to the guest list below

Confirmed Wikipedians attending
 Guest List

Online participation
If you cannot make it to the Schlesinger Library in person but would still like to participate, you are more than welcome to do so remotely. Suggested articles appear below, or you may add or contribute to one of your choosing. So that we can count you as having participated, please add your contributions under the section below.

Suggested Topics for April 17th edit-a-thon
The following is a sampling of suggested articles to create or add upon. These women and organizations are all represented in the Schlesinger Library's archival holdings. However, feel free to come up with your own ideas!

Articles needing creation

 * Annie Ware Winsor Allen
 * Papers
 * Louise Backus
 * Papers
 * Amelia Muir Baldwin
 * Papers
 * 1915 Boston Evening Transcript article
 * Mary Bancroft
 * Papers
 * New York Times obituary
 * Bancroft family
 * Encyclopedia of World Biography
 * Jennie Loitman Barron
 * Papers
 * Jewish Women Encyclopedia entry
 * James Chaplin Beecher
 * Papers
 * Beecher Stowe Center biography
 * New York Civil War biography
 * Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
 * Official history
 * Clara Mortenson Beyer
 * Papers
 * Clara Mortenson Beyer award
 * Black Women Oral History Project
 * Boston Association for Childbirth Education
 * Records
 * official history
 * Grace Morrison Boynton
 * Ella Lyman Cabot
 * Mary Barnicle Cadle
 * Nancy Caroline
 * Grace Ellery Channing
 * Consumers' League of Connecticut
 * Consumers' League of Massachusetts
 * Coordinating Committee on Women in the Historical Profession
 * Lini deVries
 * Denison House
 * Dorothy Dignam
 * Ethel Dummer
 * Margaret Dunkle
 * Amy Earhart
 * Fishermen's Wives of Gloucester
 * Fragment Society
 * Sarah Merry Gamble
 * Dr. Mildred Louise Wines Graham
 * Harriet Louise Hardy
 * Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers
 * Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration
 * Louise W. Holborn
 * Mary Gibson Hundley
 * Junior League of Boston
 * J. Ari Kane-DeMaios
 * Maida Springer Kemp
 * Lebanese Syrian Ladies' Aid Society
 * Clara Littledale
 * Ellis Gray Loring
 * Massport Jets
 * Elizabeth Stoffregen May
 * Frieda Miller
 * Emily Borie Mudd
 * Ruth Nash
 * New Words/Center for New Words
 * Alice Rich Northrup
 * Persephone Press
 * Anne Hunter Popkin
 * Rose Arnold Powell
 * Project on the Status and Education of Women
 * Quest: a Feminist Quarterly
 * Eliza Taylor Ransom
 * Rebecca Reyher
 * Corinna Smith
 * Hilda Worthington Smith
 * Sojourner
 * South Boston Neighborhood House
 * Marie-Therese Vieillot
 * Katharine Beecher Stetson
 * Sue Shelton White
 * Window Shop
 * Elizabeth Winship
 * Woman Alive!
 * Women's National Farm and Garden Association
 * Ada Worthington

Resources: Women's History

 * Women's History biographies


 * National Women's History Project biographies
 * National Women's History Museum biographies

Resources: Editing Wikipedia
After you create a new article, a Wikipedia editor will review it and OK it for inclusion in Wikipedia. This can take several hours or several days. Writing successful Wikipedia entries is somewhat of an art. Two main hurdles Schlesinger Library staff have faced are those of copyright and "notability."

Copyright: The Schlesinger Library creates finding aids for our collections with biographical information included. While this information can be used to write a Wikipedia entry, it can not be cut and pasted into Wikipedia (copying anything directly into Wikipedia may be a violation of copyright).

"Notability": Wikipedia places importance on secondary sources as a basis for proving an entry is notable enough to be included. Because of that, entries are more likely to be easily approved if they have clear references to a number of secondary sources about the person/topic.


 * Beginners’ Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
 * Five Pillars of Wikipedia
 * Tutorial
 * How to Edit a Page
 * Article Development
 * Your First Article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
 * Manual of Style
 * Citation Examples
 * Bookshelf

New articles created:

 * Caroline Iverson Ackerman
 * Edith Banfield Jackson