Wikipedia:Meetup/Women at Princeton Edit-a-thon

Women at Princeton Edit-a-thon

The Princeton University Archives is hosting a Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon on the theme of Women at Princeton!

WHO: Interested University community members (undergraduates, graduate students, alumni/ae, professors, staff, community). Limited to 15 participants; please RSVP before Wednesday, 16 May 2012.

WHAT: Creating and expanding existing Wikipedia pages about the history of women at Princeton as faculty members, wives, visitors, and students; and on the history of coeducation at Princeton. Participants will set up individual Wikipedia accounts, learn how to write an article, and then use University Archives resources to write and edit articles.

WHEN: Saturday, 19 May 2012, 12:30 P.M.-4:00 P.M. Lunch and snacks (with vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free options) will be provided. Afterward, several of us will go out to a local wiki-dinner at 5:00 P.M.

WHERE: Wiess Lounge, Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library (next to Sherrerd Hall and across from the Friend Center on the Princeton University campus).

WHY: To increase the number of pages on Wikipedia about the history and roles of women at Princeton and to help close the Wikipedia Gender Gap.

OTHER: Please bring your laptop since you will be asked to create a Wikipedia account if you do not already have an account (you are not required to have an account before participating).

IMPORTANT: Please RSVP by adding your name to the list below AND emailing mudd AT princeton DOT edu before Wednesday, 16 May 2012 because space is limited.

Possible Article Topics and Articles for Expansion
Please write what topic you are taking here and your username: Etherpad


 * History of Women at Princeton compare Category:Princeton_University_people and List of Princeton University people
 * Women at Princeton University
 * Coeducation at Princeton University
 * Coeducation at Princeton University
 * Nina Berberova
 * News about Margot Canaday
 * Elizabeth Diller and her architecture
 * Patricia Falcone
 * Willis M. Rivinus Papers on the Sally Frank case, 1979-1991
 * Nadine Taub Collection of Sally Frank Court Documents, 1879-1992
 * Sally Frank
 * Vera Marcus (class of 1972), first female African-American graduate
 * Toni Morrison and her works
 * Joyce Carol Oates and her works
 * Elaine Pagels and a new award (also for J.C. Oates)
 * Charlotte Moore Sitterly, astronomer
 * Karin Trainer, first female University Librarian
 * News release about Karin Trainer
 * Photo of Karin Trainer
 * Michaela Walsh
 * "Foreign Language Girls" (female Princeton graduate students before Princeton officially admitted women)
 * Women's Golf at Princeton
 * Program in Women's Studies
 * Women's Organization
 * Committee on the Education of Women at Princeton
 * Arthur J. Horton Collection on Coeducation
 * First female editrix of the Daily Princetonian
 * Isabella McCosh
 * Beatrix Farrand, consulting gardener
 * Agnes Carolyn Sage, author of Two Girls of Old New Jersey (and other children's books) and reinterpreter of the song Jersey Blue
 * Molly Pitcher in popular culture? (WP:Monmouthpedia connection!)
 * Alicia Lopez-Harrison de Lardé
 * Alice Chang
 * Ingrid Daubechies
 * Suzanne Keller - first female full professor, made so in 1968, sociology department - winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1972 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Guggenheim_Fellowships_awarded_in_1972

Wikipedia Resources

 * Five Pillars of Wikipedia
 * Wikipedia Tutorial
 * Starting an Article
 * Article Wizard
 * Editing Cheatsheet
 * GLAM Beginners Guide
 * Principles
 * No Original Research
 * Verifiability
 * Neutral Point of View
 * A Primer for Newcomers
 * Teahouse
 * |Excel to wiki - Great tool for creating tables.
 * Commons category

Princeton Resources

 * Princeton University Library Guide on Women at Princeton
 * "She's an Engineer?" Princeton Alumnae Reflect
 * FAQ's on popular topics in Princeton history
 * Searchable version of A Princeton Companion by Alexander Leitch (1978)
 * Searchable archive of the Daily Prince from 1876-2002
 * Database index of Princeton University undergraduate alumni Class of 1921 and later
 * Database index of Princeton University graduate school alumni
 * Database index (incomplete, but thorough) of Princeton University faculty and staff
 * Additional databases of historical Princeton-related information
 * Finding Aids on Mudd Library website
 * Princeton University Library Chronicle online
 * Arthur J. Horton Collection on Coeducation

Other Resources

 * NJ Women's History

Social Media

 * Please use hashtag #muddwiki during the event!
 * Wikimedia Commons category: Category:Women_at_Princeton_editathon

Wiki-Dinner
After the joys of editathoning, diehards will conclude the day with a 5pm Nassau Sushi wiki-dinner, located at the edge of the Princeton campus (in between, from 4-5pm we'll probably take an impromptu campus tour and possibly visit the Princeton Cemetery or the Evelyn College for Women site).

Yes

 * 1) Undead q (talk) Undead q 13:52, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
 * 2) OrangeBlackTreeGal
 * 3) Apkchu (talk) 15:40, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
 * 4) Anna Gerwel
 * 5) Katharina Roesler '12 - Sockat
 * 6) Pharos
 * 7) Mary Astarita (talk) 19:23, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
 * 8)   Blue Raspberry    (talk)   10:33, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
 * 9) LadyAusten (talk) 03:14, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
 * 10)  DGG ( talk ) 14:56, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
 * 11) Domanskim (talk) 12:16, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
 * 12) Zatrp (talk) 17:21, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
 * 13) dlinke (talk) 17:35, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
 * 14) Jeremyb (talk) 20:15, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

Maybe

 * 1) Smallbones (talk) 12:27, 16 May 2012 (UTC) probably won't be able to make it
 * 2) Your name here!
 * 3) Your name here!

Unable to attend, but wish to be informed about future meetups

 * 1) SarahStierch (talk) 13:29, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
 * 2) ccleeton
 * 3) User:shockofsputnik
 * 4) Thank you, but I'm afraid not. Twozenhauer (talk) 23:38, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
 * 5) --DThomsen8 (talk) 12:36, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
 * 6) Thomas Levine Thomas Levine (talk) 23:54, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
 * 7) I look forward to the next time! Clifford Anderson (talk) 03:16, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
 * 8) Oonapatrick
 * 9) I will take a rain check, thank you! Bev Corwin

=Article Outcomes=

Deliverables

 * Mudd Library Blog Entry

By the Numbers

 * Total participants: 15
 * Princeton students: 4
 * Usernames created: 5

Article Creations

 * Coeducation at Princeton University
 * Karin Trainer
 * History of Women at Princeton University
 * Margot Canaday

Article Expansions

 * Elaine Pagels
 * Evelyn College for Women
 * Addition of first editrix of The Daily Princetonian and first woman business manager

To Do

 * Continue the momentum! Keep writing articles.
 * Consider themes of next year's edit-a-thons