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This edit-a-thon is a part of the Women’s Studies Summer Technology Institute at the University of Maryland. This event is closed to the public, unless you are an attendee of the conference. You can learn more about the conference here. If you are interested in participating you can participate online via Twitter!
These events aim to educate the public, students, and especially women on the importance of contributing to Wikipedia. Females comprise approximately 10-20% of editors on the world's 5th biggest website (on any given day). The average Wikipedia contributor is a caucasian male in his late 20's/early 30's with a good education and job. This causes a systemic bias in the content, including, but not limited to, the representation of women and minorities internationally.
This event launches at 9:00 AM with a lectured by User:SarahStierch about how to contribute to Wikipedia, including tips of the trade. At 1:00 PM the edit-a-thon will commence! This event will be facilitated by User:SarahStierch, too!
We will open with a brief introduction to Wikipedia policies, and then dive into editing. Participants will be encouraged to either write new articles about subjects that interest them, or to expand articles that interest them. All participants will have "edits that stick" by 5 PM.
- Date: Friday, May 30
- Time: 9:00 AM lecture, 1:00 PM edit-a-thon
- Venue: 1107 TAWES, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
- Cost: To register please visit this website for more information
- Twitter hashtag: #WMSTSTI and #wikiwomen
- Participants: This event is open to anyone attending the conference.
- Details: Participants should bring their own laptop and power cords. Light food and drinks will be provided.
- Registration: If you are going to be attending the workshop please make a Wikipedia account and sign up below.
Event attendees[edit]
- Jonessneed (talk) 17:13, 30 May 2014 (UTC) #wmstst1 #wikiwomen[reply]
- SarahStierch (talk) 17:11, 27 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- JREnszer (talk) 18:19, 27 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Myntiepwny (talk) 20:10, 29 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- yh Patt (talk) 14:05, 30 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- HesterBaer (talk) 17:05, 30 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Pallavi Guha (talk) 18:02, 30 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- ShaunEdmonds (talk) 17:10, 30 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- castabile (talk) 17:14, 30 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- ChessieClio (talk) 17:13, 30 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Ktblanca (talk) 17:14, 30 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Editlearn (talk) 17:15, 30 May 2014 (UTC)editlearn[reply]
- Ana Patricia Rodriguez (talk)
- Joedonmd (talk) 17:28, 30 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Jiksoon (talk) 17:31, 30 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Cschuler62 (talk) 17:48, 30 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- CyberdivaliveRG (talk) 17:55, 30 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Janell hobson (talk) 18:06, 30 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Cjwalkerez (talk) 18:37, 30 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Jaimmadden (talk) 18:44, 30 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Ahudock (talk) 18:58, 30 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Ashwinitambe (talk)
Online participants[edit]
This event is closed to the public, as it is for conference attendees. However, you are welcome to participate online. Please use hashtag #WMSTSTI and #wikiwomen on Twitter!
Please add your suggestions here! Women focused subjects from around the world, please!
- Elizabeth A. Sackler, arts patron, founder of the Sackler Center for Feminist Art ([1])
- Amber Case [1][2][3][4]
- Violet Virginia "Pinky" Smith, first woman jockey to race against men (Portland Meadows, 1969)
- Dolores Margaret Richard Spikes, mathematician and university president [5][6][7][8][9]
- Julie Green, artist with exhibition at JSMA
- Rae Selling Berry (1881-1976), see Berry Botanic Garden (redirect?)
- Beatrice Morrow Cannady, still needs expansion
- Ella E. McBride, photographer, centenarian, potential DYK
- Barbara Fealy, landscape architect
- Dorothy Anne Hobson, need to add her and Valsetz Star to Valsetz article
- Julia Christianson Hoffman (1856-1934) of the Oregon College of Art & Craft, and daughter Margery Hoffman Smith
- Denmo Ibrahim, playwright
- Jennifer Owen, ecologist
- Myoung Sook Kim, artist
- Lucia Mathews, Tonalist artist—the link is currently a redirect to her husband's biography
- Alice Kahn, Berkeley writer who coined the phrase Gourmet Ghetto
- Emmy Lou Packard, fresco and print artist, social activist
- Alva Harvey, long-lived air pioneer, first circumnavigation flight
- Amy Swerdlow, American anti-war activist—the link is a redirect to an organization
- National Assembly of Women Religious (1970–197?) and National Assembly of Religious Women (1978–1995), Catholic organizations advocating for women to be priests
- Kittie Knox, mixed-race seamstress famous as a pioneer bicyclist, controversial member of the League of American Wheelmen[10][11][12]
- Hester Vaughan, famous 19th century infanticide court case
References for articles[edit]
Please post the results from the event here!
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