Wikipedia:Meetup/Wittenberg Feminist Edit-a-thon

Wittenberg University Feminist Edit-a-thon is a Wikipedia Meetup.


 * Wednesday, May 2, 2018
 * 6-9pm
 * Thomas Library Lab
 * Enroll: https://tinyurl.com/witt-enroll
 * Track Progress: https://tinyurl.com/witt-women

Content Policies

 * Verifiability -- Dr. Wagner says: "If you can't cite it, you can't write it"
 * Neutral Point of View
 * No Original Research
 * Biographies of living persons

Editing Help

 * Wikipedia Markup
 * Citation Templates

Research Resources

 * One Search (many databases at once)
 * Biography and Genealogy Master Index (guide to biographical sources)
 * Credo (search online dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc.)
 * New York Times Historical

Demos

 * Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers -- Ken's Notes
 * Noemie Benczer Koller

Sources for possible projects

 * Women's History Project list
 * Feminism Project list
 * WikiProject Women in Red/Redlist index - articles that need to be created

Infoboxes

 * Template:Infobox person
 * Template:Infobox writer
 * Template:Infobox playwright
 * Template:Infobox artist
 * Template:Infobox politician

Articles to improve

 * Water access and gender - re-write in encyclopedic style
 * debbie tucker green -- (contemporary black British playwright) needs to be de-stubbified; added a bunch of sources to her talk page
 * Life Among the Paiutes: Their Wrongs and Claims -- first published autobiography by a Native American woman, stub
 * Draft:MariNaomi - update draft to increase notability claim, maybe get it ready to publish
 * Brinda Somaya - improve style and citations
 * Eliza A. Pittsinger - American poet; lots of legwork has been done on research, it just needs to be incorporated into the article:
 * User:Xb2u7Zjzc32/Eliza Pittsinger
 * User:Xb2u7Zjzc32/E P - test
 * Ermengarde of Anjou (d. 1146) -- use "further reading" section to add content. (then cite the source, and remove from "further reading" when the citation is in place)
 * Dr. Livingstone's article is in the EJC: https://journals.ohiolink.edu/pg_200?::NO:200:P200_ARTICLEID:350358011
 * Lu Ann Homza - historian. read some of the reviews of her books and compile a section on her reception as an academic
 * Tama Hochbaum - artist -- incorporate some of the further reading links into the text
 * Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918 - expand. use more from sources, and:
 * http://ezproxy.wittenberg.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=sih&AN=17510754&site=eds-live
 * Elizabeth Duncan Koontz - African american leader in education, civil rights, and the women's movement -- expand.
 * Jean Rhys - 20th century Caribbean novelist
 * The Madwoman in the Attic - (book)
 * Matilda effect - "bias against acknowledging the achievements of woman scientists, whose work is often attributed to their male colleagues"
 * Gathering hypothesis - "the antithesis of "hunting hypothesis", suggesting that gathering rather than hunting was the main factor in the emergence of anatomically modern humans."
 * needs cleanup, citations, etc.

Women in Red

 * Matilde Padrós - (19 c. Spanish academic) for someone who can work with Spanish sources; see Ken for sources
 * Ignacia Sáenz y Ulloa - first lady of Costa Rica in the 19th c.
 * a Spanish-reader could translate the simple Spanish-language Wikipedia article
 * Binette Lipper - Composer

Contemporary Playwrights
(transcluded from User:Kenirwin/Playwrights -- edit through that link)