Wikipedia:Meetup/Victoria/Gender Sex Activism Yesterday and Today 2014

The Department of History and the Department of Gender Studies at the University of Victoria are co-hosting an edit-a-thon on women's history, titled "Gender/Sex Activism of Yesterday and Today." The goal of this edit-a-thon is to celebrate Women's History Month by improving public access to information on past and present activists and movements focused on gender and sex. Join us on October 23, 2014 from 1:30 - 5:00 pm in Clearihue Building, Room B115, at the University of Victoria. Those who are new to editing wikipedia are welcome, as are participants from other departments and specialties.

Wikipedia is the western world's most popular online encyclopedia, but it is acknowledged that only ten to fifteen percent of editors are women. This half-day event welcomes new and existing wikipedia editors. Participants will have access to helpful how-to guides and the session will begin with a brief introduction to wikipedia editing. Participants should bring a laptop to use during the event, and it would be useful to sign up for an account previous to the event. The event space will include some books for reference, but any materials editors can bring will be useful. Please note that pizza and snacks will be provided.

If you're not able to attend in person, you're welcome to participate remotely. To get started, see the links in the Resources section below.

Event information

 * Date: October 23, 2014
 * Time: 1:30 - 5:00 pm
 * Location: Clearihue B115

Please bring a laptop with you!

Attendees
Please add your Wikipedia username to the appropriate section below. If you don't have a Wikipedia username, get one in advance, or just add your name.

Confirmed Tentative
 * Rl1573r (talk) 04:10, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Quiddity (talk) 00:12, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Deborahdeacon (talk) 03:21, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Unicornsofija (talk) 21:02, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Claire311 (talk) 21:05, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Erma8 (talk) 21:35, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Murdershewote (talk) 23:24, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Heartofpeach (talk) 23:58, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Regrets

Online
 * DrWho42 (talk) 22:51, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

Possible articles to edit
Below is a list of articles that would benefit from creation or expansion during the edit-a-thon. Please feel free to brainstorm your own and add other pages to the list:

For creation:
Many of these suggestions were copied from Women's History Requested Articles.
 * Edith Bremer / Edith Terry Bremer (1885-1964), American social worker and pioneer in immigrant welfare.
 * Regina Davis, Black Panther.
 * Soledad Alatorre/Chole Alatorre (b. 1927), Chicana labor activist
 * Dorothy Lee Bolden (b. 1923), Georgia labor organizer who headed the National Domestic Workers Union
 * Genevieve Clark/Genevieve Clark Thomson (1894 – c. 1982), suffragist, daughter of speaker of the house Champ Clark, progenitor of the hairstyle "Genevieve curl", and in the 1940s a candidate for the House of Representatives for Louisiana
 * Alma Dolens/Teresita dei Bonfatti/Teresita Pasini (b. 1876), Italian pacifist, journalist and suffragist
 * Jane Galvin-Lewis NBFO co-founder
 * Antonia Hernández/Antonia Hernandez (b. 1948), civil rights activist and lawyer
 * June Holley Appalachian anti-poverty activist, network weaver
 * Jane Elizabeth Jones/Jane Jones (1813-1896), abolitionist
 * Mary Tarcisia Lakot, Ugandan peace advocate
 * Mary Eliza McDowell/Mary McDowell (1854-1936), Chicago social reformer
 * Kakenya Ntaiya, Kenyan activist
 * Hannah Jane Patterson/Hannah Patterson (1879-1937), Pennsylvania suffragist
 * Joan Trumpauer - civil-rights activist; ]; took part in the June 4, 1961, Mississippi Freedom Ride; she and eight others were arrested and refused bail; served three months in jail before enrolling in historically black Tougaloo College
 * María Teresa Tula/Maria Teresa Tula, Salvadoran activist and leader of COMADRES
 * Bertha May Walker, Australian labour activist
 * Letitia Woods Brown (1915-1976), Historian and community activist
 * Violette N. Anderson/Violette Anderson/Violette Neatley Anderson (1882-1937), lawyer and reformer
 * Benita Galeana/Benita Galeana Lacunza (1903–1995), Mexican writer, suffragist, feminist, and social activist

For creation:

 * Cercle Hermaphroditos (see Transgender History)

For expansion]:]

 * Veteran Feminists of America

For expansion:

 * Age of consent reform in Canada
 * Changing legal gender assignment in Canada
 * Feminist legal theory

For creation:

 * Feminism in Bangladesh
 * Feminism in Brazil
 * Feminism in Indonesia
 * Feminism in Pakistan
 * Feminism in the Balkans
 * Women's Joint Congressional Committee (United States)
 * List of feminist art magazines
 * Representations of women in art
 * Women and Work/Women and Work: A Document on the Division of Labour in Industry 1973-1975 (Mary Kelly, Margaret Harrison, Kay Hunt)
 * Women's Action Coalition (WAC)
 * Women's Interart Center
 * Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.)
 * LGBT in Antigua and Barbuda
 * LGBT in Bahamas
 * LGBT in Barbados
 * LGBT in Belize
 * LGBT in Costa Rica
 * LGBT in Cuba
 * LGBT in Dominican Republic
 * LGBT in El Salvador
 * LGBT in Haiti
 * Feminism in Turkey
 * Feminism in Belgium

For expansion:

 * Buddhist feminism
 * Convention on the Political Rights of Women
 * Feminism in Italy
 * Women and religion

For creation:

 * Victoria Pride Festival (article modelled after Vancouver Pride Festival)
 * Feminist Studies (journal)
 * University of Victoria Archives and Special Collections (create and include information about Trans* Collection)

For expansion:

 * GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies
 * Radical History Review
 * parallax (journal)
 * WSQ (journal)
 * Gay pulp fiction
 * Lesbian pulp fiction
 * Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives
 * LGBT in Canada
 * LGBT culture in Tokyo
 * LGBT culture in Paris
 * List of transgender-related topics

Wikiprojects

 * WikiProject Feminism
 * WikiProject Gender Studies
 * WikiProject LGBT studies
 * WikiProject Women's History
 * WikiProject Women scientists
 * WikiProject Women writers

Resources

 * Sign up for a Wikipedia account
 * Read a bit about how to contribute to Wikipedia. Start with their page on your first article for the social conventions of “talk pages,” where discussion about individual articles and projects happens.
 * Further information on how to edit can be found in the help section, Wikipedia: The Missing Manual.
 * Wikipedia's Citation templates will format your citations nicely.

Tools and templates

 * Template:Infobox person
 * Template:LBI Collection Links
 * Biographies of living persons
 * Cheatsheet for editing Wikipedia
 * Writing an article
 * About the Sandbox

Resources: Editing Wikipedia

 * 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

Post edit-a-thon considerations: DYK
Newly created articles are eligible for Did you know? (DYK) nominations within the first 5 days of their creation. (One of the ways new articles are highlighted are in the DYK section on Wikipedia's Main page.) Read the instructions and nominate your own or other newly created articles!