Wikipedia:WikiWomen's History Month/2012/Events


 * Welcoming to everyone, especially new Wikipedians and Wikipedian-wannabes looking to contribute on women in history
 * Allows diverse local focuses on aspects of Women's History
 * It's fun!
 * Find inspiration for articles to be expanded or creation here (and add to it!): WikiWomen's History Month/Missing articles.
 * Share your outcomes on the yearly Outcomes pages. We'll be promoting these successes via social media and let's work together to continue to improve them!
 * WikiProjects are encouraged to create and develop women's history month focuses for the month of March.
 * Events occur on-wiki and off-wiki as themes and translation projects! The are easy to organize at cafes, student clubs, at home and at small (or large!) public libraries or museums
 * WikiWomen's Collaborative with support from Fembot, the Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon hosts some of the annual events; its lead Wikipedia organizer is User:SarahStierch.
 * Event resources: WikiWomen's History Month/Resources for event organizers
 * Event promotion: Please promote your event on social media. If you have a Facebook or Eventbrite invitation, please post it with your entry below.
 * Social media:
 * Twitter hashtag: #Wikiwomen
 * Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WikiWomensCollaborative

Resources
Please take a look at the below resources. If you're stuck, or have a specific question, you can contact Sarah Stierch, who is a volunteer and lead organizer for this event. You can email her at sarahstierch@undefinedgmail.com. Please visit the WikiWomen's Collaborative for further help, too.

Here are some resources to help you plan and promote your event. Feel free to add your favorite resource here.

Planning an edit-a-thon and lessons learned

 * This Edit-a-thon How-To guide can help you plan your event which was created by experienced volunteers.
 * A blog about having a small scale Wikipedia editing party at your home by User:Seeeko
 * An evaluation of edit-a-thons which looks at numerous edit-a-thons from 2012-13 and assesses their impact and makes suggestions for improvements.
 * A self-evaluation by User:SarahStierch of past WikiWomen's edit-a-thons which includes her step by step on how she produced the event and lessons learned.

Learning patterns
Learning patterns are created by volunteers and based on experience and evidence. They're short and helpful resources you can use when planning your event:


 * Afterparty tells you why it's important to have a post-event get together to celebrate your achievements.
 * Cookies by the exit reminds you to the importance of surveying participants to see what you can do better next time.
 * Fostering affinity groups is important, so women can feel comfortable contributing to Wikipedia together without an worries.
 * Icebreaker explains why it's important to have everyone get to know each other at the start of your event.
 * Informal venue discusses how you can have a successful event anywhere, whether it's a coffee shop or a casual environment without formal planning.
 * Let the media know provides easy ways to promote your event so more people hear about it.
 * Mix newcomers and veterans discusses why it's important to have newbies and experienced editors together at an event.
 * Photographic evidence explains why it's important to take photographs!
 * Repeat events: Don't just have one event and never have another - have multiple to attract more regular editors and help sustain contributors to Wikipedia.
 * Safe space policies are used to make sure everyone has a fun and safe time at your event.
 * Six account limit: Did you know you can only make six new accounts via one IP at a time? So if your event has lots of new potential editors who don't have accounts, here's how you can make new accounts without worry.

Promoting your event

 * Add your event to the Wikipedia meetup page by adding it here. You can also find links for other language Wikipedia meetup pages, too.
 * Social media! Don't forget to promote it via your Twitter using the hashtag #wikiwomen and sharing it on Facebook. You can also post it on the WikiWomen's Collaborative Facebook page.
 * Promote your event via geonotice, which adds a banner to the top of Wikipedia readers and users pages based on where they live you can learn how to set one up here.
 * Find Wikipedians who live near the event location and promote it to them via their talk pages. Two resources for this:
 * Past meetup event pages where you can see who attended events in the past.
 * Wikipedians by location is where Wikipedians can add themselves if they live in a certain area.


 * Post to an event announcement to a mailing list and let community members know. Yow can find a list of mailing lists here.
 * Don't forget the gender gap mailing list for people interested in getting more women to contribute to Wikipedia.


 * Connect with a local chapter or affiliate who can sponsor and co-promote your event. Find a list of local chapters here.

Asia

 * India
 * Wikipedia Meetup & Edit-a-thon | Date: 25th March 12pm - 2pm | Location: All over the country

Europe
event in 2012 is part of the polish celebration of the International Week of Open Education, in 2011 the first edition covered workshops in Warsaw, Wikinews coverage about women, and online project that continues in 2012.
 * Poland
 * Warsaw
 * Workshop for women (and not only) on editing Wikipedia (2012 edition of the project "Wikipedia też jest kobietą" (eng. Wikipedia is also a woman)) | Date: March 8, start 16:15 GMT+1 | Location: Zachęta (Warsaw) | Coordinator and trainer: Lantuszka
 * aim and objectives:
 * to overcome barriers for women (and not only women) to start editing and contributing to Wikipedia
 * to use Wikipedia as a tool for overcoming digital illiteracy
 * to promote potential of Wikipedia as Free Encyclopedia open for contributors, readers as well as open as a tool to realise various projects and initiatives
 * how: by developing articles on women in Wikipedia: verifying articles, illustrating already existing articles and stubs, 8th March: workshop for women (and not only), meetups of she-Wikipedians, and "do you know" dedicated to women only, and online writing of new articles of the collected list (different fields of specialisation, each with a patronage of famous woman who contributed to this field and has biographical article already in Wikipedia)


 * Spain
 * Barcelona
 * Àngels Santos Torroella (Women artists) | Date: March 24 | Location: Figueres (Museu de l'Empordà) | Organizer: Kippelboy (Amical Viquipèdia)

United States

 * California
 * San Francisco Bay Area
 * Meetup/San_Francisco_WikiWomen's_Edit-a-Thon | Date: March 17 | Location: Wikimedia Foundation Office | Organizer:


 * Massachusetts
 * Boston
 * WikiWomen's History Month/Simmons College


 * New Jersey
 * Princeton
 * Princeton University Edit-a-Thon


 * New York
 * New York City
 * Meetup/Barnard Center for Research on Women | Date: March 27, 6-9pm | Location: Barnard College, 3009 Broadway @ 117th, Digital Training Lab, 1st Floor Lehmann Hall | Organizer: Whichvisions


 * Washington, DC
 * She Blinded Me With Science: Smithsonian Women in Science Edit-a-Thon | Date: March 30 | Location: Smithsonian Archives | Organizer: SarahStierch

Oceania

 * Australia
 * Canberra
 * Canberra Women's Month Meetup | Date: 23 March | Location: Hawker International Softball Centre, Canberra | Organizer: LauraHale