Wikipedia:Meetup/Simmons College Womens History Edit-a-thon 2014

=Event Details= To kick off its Women's History Month events, The Department of Women's and Gender Studies at Simmons College is hosting an edit-a-thon to help make women's history more visible on Wikipedia. The event is open to all students, faculty, staff, alumnae, and community members. Join us whether or not you've ever edited Wikipedia entries before!

Schedule
1:00-5:00PM - specifics to come

Logistics

 * Locations, directions, maps: P213, Graduate School of Library and Information Science Technology Lab, One Palace Road, Boston MA


 * Directions
 * Information on Parking


 * Twitter: Hashtag #wikiathon
 * WiFi: Simmons Guest
 * What to Bring: laptop and extension cord (optional; there will be computers available)
 * Contact the organizer: Laura Prieto (Clio.at.work (talk) 13:30, 22 February 2014 (UTC)clio.at.work). For day-of-event questions, please call: Melissa Kappotis (617-521-2224).

=Sign Up and Guest List=

Attending

 * Amanda Strauss, Schlesinger Library, librarian
 * Laura R. Prieto, Simmons College, professor
 * Dawna Thomas, Simmons College, professor
 * Kelly Hager, Simmons College, professor
 * Crystal Lack
 * Lindsey Troy
 * Maddie Gretzky
 * Anna Rausa
 * Cyrena Musset
 * Olivia Anderson
 * Ashley Converse
 * Emma Socha
 * Anne Crockett
 * Wesley Heitkamp
 * Becca Seetahal
 * Nicole Veneto
 * Brittney Barta
 * Meredith Sharka
 * Katie Koval
 * Kethry Burke-Scovill
 * Emmeline Rosenberg
 * Sara Yow
 * Gracie Rolfe
 * Jenny McMahon
 * Sidney Jean
 * Rose Leonard
 * Erica Rao
 * Marija Navarro
 * Natasha Diane Buchholz
 * Laurie Crumpacker
 * Karen Glenn
 * Sophia Cordova
 * Teresa Cordova
 * Vanyvel Cubero
 * Erin Butterfield
 * Hillary Donnell
 * Alyssa Graca
 * Ryann Tufts
 * Haley Clark
 * Sabrina Aguilar
 * Yurie Arakawa
 * Suzanne Leonard
 * Shauna Deleon
 * Katie McDonough
 * Cassandra de Alba
 * Jennifer I.
 * Constance Brichford
 * Paige Neumann
 * Kristin Moccia
 * Hannah Fish
 * Jasmine Clark
 * Rossi Fish
 * Ashley Hodges-Simmons
 * Lauren Backhaus
 * Valerie Rugulo
 * Alyssa McSherry
 * LaShawn Holloway
 * Dory Klein
 * Aurora Pover

Participating Remotely
--Thespian (talk) 07:26, 27 February 2014 (UTC) - Stephanie Clarkson - Wikipedia Administrator

Regrets
=Suggested Topics=

Biographies Needing Improvement

 * Margaret Ives Abbott - Stub
 * Lorraine Bethel - Stub; needs references to secondary or tertiary sources
 * Emily Blackwell - Good length, but needs more inline citations
 * Elizabeth Blackwell
 * Fidelia Bridges - needs citations to additional sources
 * Mary Bunting - Could really use a photo. Does Radcliffe have one that they'd add the necessary license to?
 * Caroline Wells Healey Dall - Needs infobox and detail
 * Denise Di Novi - Simmons alum - wording is subjective; needs additional citations for verification
 * Susan Macdowell Eakins - needs citations for verification
 * Susan Walker Fitzgerald - Needs an infobox; Need a disambiguation page for "Susan Fitzgerald" (or "for the MA politician, see" on the other Susan Fitzgerald page); Needs more references/inline citations
 * Elizabeth Freeman - If anyone is advanced enough to do this, I think this article is very close to being ready for GA nomination.
 * Rose Greely
 * Ruth Handler - Needs additional sources for verification
 * Matina Horner - Stub; needs infobox and more detail
 * Elinor Lipman - Simmons alum - stub
 * Mary Lyon - Good length and layout but needs inline citations
 * Fatema Mernissi - insufficient inline citation; needs refs to secondary and tertiary sources
 * Maud Wood Park
 * Edith Nourse Rogers - Great page; could potentially be nominated for GA, except it needs inline citations
 * Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin - Needs inline citations
 * Lucy Maynard Salmon - Needs additional or more specific categories
 * Srinagarindra - Princess Mother of Thailand; Simmons alum - tone needs editing and has insufficient inline citations

Other Subjects Needing Improvement

 * A Boy Named Sue
 * Combat Exclusion Policy
 * Djibouti - only information about women is about motherhood, female genital cutting, and clothing: needs additional or more specific categories
 * History of women in China - directs to Women in China which is about women in current-day China only
 * Japanese American internment - needs additional or more specific categories concerning women
 * Moroccan feminists - lists only 3 names; needs additional or more specific categories
 * Our Bodies, Ourselves
 * Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
 * Simmons College -make sure alumni listed have category "Simmons College (Massachusetts) alumni" in their individual entries
 * The Holocaust - needs additional or more specific categories concerning women's experiences in the Holocaust
 * This Bridge Called My Back - needs additional or more specific categories (list of contributing authors to this book is incomplete)
 * Donna Kate Rushin and Naomi Littlebear and Jo Carillo are contributors with no individual entries
 * Vietnam War - needs additional or more specific categories concerning Vietnamese women

New Entries to be Written (People)

 * Annie Ware Winsor Allen
 * Papers
 * Marion Boyd Allen American painter
 * Amelia Muir Baldwin
 * Papers
 * 1915 Boston Evening Transcript article
 * Lucy M. Ball
 * Martha V. Ball
 * Mary Bancroft
 * Papers
 * New York Times obituary
 * Bancroft family
 * Encyclopedia of World Biography
 * Ella Lyman Cabot
 * Mary Barnicle Cadle
 * Nancy Caroline
 * Mary G. Chapman
 * Eunice Davis
 * Jennifer Nez Denetdale
 * Sylvia Donaldson
 * Entry via NWHM
 * Margaret Dunkle
 * Sarah H. Earle
 * Ruth Ellen Fitch
 * Ruth Frankenberg
 * Obituary
 * Sarah Merry Gamble
 * Helena De Kay Gilder - artist; mentioned only as wife of Richard Watson Gilder
 * Harriet Louise Hardy
 * Louise W. Holborn
 * Sybil Holmes
 * Brief bio via Flickr
 * Vida Lahey
 * Louisa Lander - 19th c. American sculptor
 * Chloe Lee
 * Clara Littledale
 * Ellis Gray Loring
 * Mary S. Parker
 * Pragna Patel
 * 100 Top Women Activists
 * Anne Hunter Popkin
 * Elizabeth Riley
 * Catherine Sargent
 * Henrietta Sargent
 * Abby Southwick
 * Thankful Southwick
 * Catherine M. Sullivan
 * Anne Warren Weston
 * Caroline Weston
 * Esther Wilkins - Simmons alum,born 1916, pioneer in the field of dental hygiene, teacher, and author of "Clinical Practice of the Dental Hygienist"
 * Julia Williams
 * Information from Ancestry.com
 * Husband's Wikipedia entry
 * Elizabeth Winship
 * Ada Worthington

New Entries to be Written (Organizations)

 * Age Center of New England
 * Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching
 * Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
 * Official history
 * Black Women Oral History Project - needs citations to reliable sources
 * Boston Equal Suffrage Association
 * Boston NOW
 * Boston Parents' Council
 * Boston Women's Community Radio
 * Boston Women's Health Book Collective
 * Cambridge Plant and Garden Club
 * Cambridge Political Equality Association
 * Cambridge Public School Association
 * Camp Fire for Eastern Massachusetts Council
 * Center for New Words
 * Committee for the Equality of Women at Harvard
 * Committee on the Status of Women at Harvard
 * Committee to Ratify the Massachusetts State Equal Rights Amendment
 * Consumers' League of Massachusetts
 * Dedham Temporary Home for Women and Children
 * Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. Boston Alumnae Chapter
 * Denison House
 * Epicurean Club of Boston and Vicinity
 * Friends of the Framingham Reformatory
 * Girls' High School Association - Boston
 * Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers
 * Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration
 * Junior League of Boston
 * Lebanese Syrian Ladies' Aid Society
 * Massachusetts History Workshop
 * Massachusetts NOW
 * Massachusetts Society for Social Health
 * Massachusetts State Federation of Women's Clubs
 * Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association
 * Massport Jets
 * Mother's Study Club of Cambridge
 * Moving Violations Motorcycle Club
 * NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts
 * New Words/Center for New Words
 * North Bennet Street Industrial School
 * Persephone Press
 * Rockport Lodge
 * Rutland Corner House
 * Quest: a Feminist Quarterly
 * Saturday Morning Club of Boston
 * Sojourner (publication)
 * South Boston Neighborhood House
 * Window Shop
 * Woman Suffrage Party of Cambridge
 * Girls' LEAP Self-Defense

Other Entries to be Written

 * Peg's Paper
 * Sephardi Women
 * Yentl's Revenge

=Topical Resources=

Simmons College

 * Simmons College History and Online Exhibits

Women's History

 * Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers
 * Readers' Companion to U.S. Women's History
 * Women and Social Movements International
 * Women and Social Movements in the United States
 * Women in the Middle Ages
 * | Schlesinger Library: Public Domain images on Flickr Commons

=Wikipedia & the Gender Gap=


 * | Wikimedia Foundation: Gender Gap
 * | Unlocking the Clubhouse: Five Ways to Encourage Women to Edit Wikipedia
 * | Wikimedia Foundation: Gender Gap Manifesto

=Wikipedia Help=

These are just to get you started -- feel free to add to this list.


 * GLAM Beginners Guide
 * Wikipedia Tutorial
 * Starting an Article
 * Wiki Markup Quick Reference (PDF version of printed handout)
 * Citation Guide
 * Infobox templates
 * Five Pillars of Wikipedia
 * Formatting Shortcuts -
 * Text Formatting
 * Section Headers, Indents, and Lists
 * Links

=Results=

New articles created

 * Marion Boyd Allen
 * Ella Lyman Cabot
 * Jennifer Nez Denetdale
 * Kawhla Dunia
 * Louisa Lander
 * Anne Hunter Popkin
 * Groupe Feministe Socialiste
 * Committee to Ratify the Massachusetts Equal Rights Amendment
 * Sarah Prince

Articles expanded or improved

 * Mary Bunting
 * Fidelia Bridges
 * Combat Exclusion Policy
 * Ruth Handler
 * Mary Bunting
 * Matina Horner
 * Kate Larson
 * Fatema Mernissi
 * Lucy Maynard Salmon
 * Simmons College
 * Mameve Medwed