Wikipedia:Meetup:Philadelphia/Bryn Mawr College/American Archives Month

This is the project page for Wikipedia activities at Bryn Mawr College

Ada Lovelace and American Archives Month Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon 2014

 * When: October 22, 4 - 7:30pm
 * Where: Bryn Mawr College, Canaday Library Room 205 (101 N. Merion Ave, Bryn Mawr, PA) or remotely: http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Bryn_Mawr_Archives_Month_2014
 * Who: All are welcome to come: learn to edit and contribute to articles using the holdings of Bryn Mawr College Special Collections.

Past events
Seven Siblings Wikipedia edit-a-thon for Women's History Month 2014

Project Aims

 * Empowering community members and the general public to learn how to edit Wikipedia.
 * Creating or enhancing existing biographies of notable American women, especially those engaged in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math, based on both published and original primary source materials.
 * Increasing access to the archives and manuscript collections of Bryn Mawr College Special Collections.
 * Adding authoritative references, citations, and images to improve the quality of existing articles of all types.

Records to Create STEM women above line
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 * Julia Ward - WWII cryptographer and NSA Hall of Honor inductee
 * Elaine Surick Oran - Senior scientist at the U.S. Naval Research Lab
 * Harriet Randolph - Biologist
 * Kimberly Blessing - Web architect, Director of Think Brownstone, Inc.
 * Elizabeth Armstrong Wood - Crystallographer, geologist, first woman scientist at Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1942
 * Mary Winearls Porter - Crystallographer
 * Marguerite Lehr - Mathematician, pioneered math on television for Philadelphia's "University of the Air" (1953-4) (photo: http://triptych.brynmawr.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/BMC_photoarc/id/336/rec/1)
 * Martha Evens - Computer Scientist who wrote the first spelling checker, and many other things; emeritus at Illinois Institute of Technology (http://www.cs.iit.edu/~martha/)
 * Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
 * The Woman's Column
 * Seymour Adelman
 * Alma A. Clarke
 * Mamie Gwinn
 * Mariam Coffin Canaday

Records to Edit or Improve STEM women above line
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 * Nettie Stevens fix incorrect information, add more detail
 * Michelle Francl add image, expand
 * Maria Crawford add image, expand
 * Alina Surmacka Szczesniak
 * Ida Helen Ogilvie
 * Florence Bascom
 * Harriet Brooks
 * Gladys Anslow
 * Dorothy Wrinch
 * Kimberly Wright Cassidy add to Category: Presidents of Bryn Mawr College
 * Hilda Worthington Smith add image, De-orphan page, expand biography.
 * Nancy J. Vickers fix the link that goes to the College President's biography, which now is Cassidy, add image and expand info
 * Marion Edwards Park needs citations
 * Katharine Elizabeth McBride link to publications, expand, add image, external links
 * Mary Patterson McPherson link to publications, expand, add image, fix references
 * Harris Wofford add information about holdings in Special Collections
 * Albert M. Greenfield add mention of The Greenfield Digital Center
 * Marianne Moore link holdings in Special Collections
 * Mary Garrett expand and add citations, links, link holdings in Special Collections
 * Constance Applebee expand and add link to holdings in Special Collections
 * Carrie Chapman Catt link holdings in Special Collections
 * Laurence Housman link holdings in Special Collections
 * Richard Lattimore link holdings in Special Collections, perhaps add expanded bibliography of his works
 * Katharine Sergeant Angell White link holdings in Special Collections
 * Field Hockey add mention of Constance Applebee and citation
 * Josephine Clara Goldmark add her book of poems to a list of works (http://tripodclassic.brynmawr.edu/record=b4118713~S10)
 * Rhys Carpenter improve record and citations

Images to Upload or Link to Existing Records

 * Ruth R. Benerito needs photo
 * Marjorie Constance Caserio needs photo
 * June Zimmerman Fullmer needs photo
 * Mimi Lee needs photo
 * Mary Bidwell Breed needs photo
 * Dorothy Hahn needs photo
 * Frances Hardcastle needs photo
 * Jennet Conant needs photo
 * Katharine Elizabeth McBride
 * Jane Dammen McAuliffe
 * Mary Patterson McPherson
 * Kimberly Wright Cassidy
 * Nancy J. Vickers
 * Bryn Mawr College in general: http://photos.brynmawr.edu/Campus-Images
 * Hilda Worthington Smith
 * Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry

Resources
Editing Strategies
 * Research and contribute to the content of Wikipedia articles.
 * Improve citations, link to open journals and databases.
 * Cite archival collections as references or external links.
 * Add links to finding aids or catalog records for archival collections.
 * Embed or link to digitized content

Learning Tools
 * Why create an account?
 * Help: Cheatsheet
 * Wikipedia for Libraries Archives Museums

Participants
Sign your name using four Tildes (~) after a bullet point.
 * Evan McGonagill (talk)
 * Marianne Weldon (talk)
 * Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk)
 * Dorevabelfiore (talk) 12:42, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Richardjames444 (talk) 02:31, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Monica Mercado (talk)
 * Rachel Appel (talk)
 * Jlspohrer (talk) 21:39, 22 October 2014 (UTC)jlspohrer

Records Created

 * Elaine Surick Oran - Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 17:39, 22 October 2014 (UTC) -- Nominated for  DYK

Records Edited

 * Mary Patterson McPherson. Added references and inbox, reorganized info. -- Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 23:57, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Josephine Clara Goldmark -- Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 19:03, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
 * M. Carey Thomas. Added link to the M. Carey Thomas Papers. --Elpumroy (talk) 22:29, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Marion Edwards Park. Added link to the Marion Edwards Park Papers. --Elpumroy (talk) 22:29, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Theatre Guild. Added link to the Theresa Helburn Theatre Collection. --Elpumroy (talk) 22:29, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Laurence Housman. Added link to the Laurence Housman Papers. --Elpumroy (talk) 22:29, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Ida Helen Ogilvie
 * Florence Bascom
 * Ethel D. Allen