Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/WritingAndRightingHistory

Writing and Righting History: Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon A May Day Celebration
Date	01 May 2015
Time	4-7pm Eastern
Location	Eugene Lang College, The New School, 65 W 11th St, New York, NY

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Writing and Righting History: Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon A May Day Celebration is sponsored by the Humanities Action Lab and Project Continua, May 1, 2015, 4-7pm in the Cafeteria, Eugene Lang College, The New School, 65 W 11th St, New York, NY.

Writing and Righting History invites students, faculty, and the general public to learn and practice Wikipedia editing techniques to correct the gender imbalance of Wikipedia entries, as well as to create new and more accurate entries for historical women through time and around the globe. Technologists and content specialists will work with participants in changing and creating the "female biographies" of individuals and groups of women.

Event Information[edit]

Sponsored by the Humanities Action Lab and Project Continua, May 1, 2015 4-7pm in the Cafeteria, Eugene Lang College, 65 W 11th St, New York, NY.

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List of Articles Improved[edit]

Please list the article(s) you have improved upon during this edit-a-thon.

Veteran Feminists of America
Lucrezia Marinella --JenniferNCox (talk) 21:52, 1 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Jane C. Loudon -Gracelyang (talk) 22:09, 1 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Collage
Amelia Lanier
Ada of Caria and Hecatomnids -- SMNotley (talk) 22:42, 1 May 2015 (UTC) AlexaRangels (talk) 22:43, 1 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Bianca Cappello
Marie de Gournay
Aretaphila of Cyrene

List of Articles Created[edit]

Marie Harel

Sponsors[edit]

Resources for Editing[edit]

Wikipedia Editing Tutorials[edit]

Wikipedia citations are done in-line with the text, and are automatically aggregated as footnotes at the bottom of pages. Citation templates are an easy way for beginners to begin inserting citations.

Copyright and Wikipedia[edit]

Do not copy-paste text from a website directly into Wikipedia. Paraphrasing and citation is necessary.

Most of Wikipedia's text and many of its images are co-licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL).

Every image has a description page which indicates the license under which it is released or, if it is non-free, the rationale under which it is used.

Tutorials on Wikipedia editing[edit]

Art+Feminism Training Slides

Editing Wikipedia resources[edit]

Beginners' Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
Five Pillars of Wikipedia (philosophical guidelines and best practices for Wikipedia editing)
Tutorial
How to Edit a Page
Wiki Markup Quick Reference (PDF version of printed handout)
Guide to Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing by Susan H. Rodger (applicable to any biography)
Article Development
Your First Article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
Manual of Style
Citation templates
Infobox templates
Bookshelf (additional "getting started" resources)

Tools and templates[edit]

Conflict of Interest[edit]

Resources[edit]

Wikipedia Cheat Sheet – a Wikipedia markup cheatsheet

Use Worldcat free to get citations in MLA, Chicago, and other bibliographic formats.
Project Continua is a multimedia resource dedicated to the creation and preservation of women's intellectual history from the earliest surviving evidence into the 21st Century. The core of Project Continua is the "female biography" archive, searchable content containing individual entries for each woman, including up-to-date scholarship on their life trajectories, their work, and the new knowledge they produced. To cite a biography, use the citation information at the bottom of each biography page.
Wikipedia Library Journals Project works to grant Wikipedians access to databases to help with their Wikipedia work, and reference work, and for general knowledge. You can request an account on the project pages but must do so in advance. Some journals, such as JSTOR, require editors to have at least 1 year and 1000 edits worth of experience.
Jstor (subscription required)
Project MUSE (subscription required)
Digital Public Library of America
National Women's History Project
Google Books has many out of copyright or publisher-given permission usage books for review.
Internet Archive has many out of copyright or publisher-given permission usage books for review.
Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles (subscription needed) Orlando provides entries on authors’ lives and writing careers, contextual material, timelines, sets of internal links, and bibliographies.
The Online Library of Liberty has many out of copyright or publisher-given permission usage books for review.
Discovering American Women’s History Online This database provides access to digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States.
Women’s History Sourcebook Fordham University Database presents online documents and secondary discussions which reflect the various ways of looking at the history of women within broadly defined historical periods and areas.
National Women’s History Museum Biographies of American women
Women in World History A project of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University. More than 200 primary sources by region.
Library of Congress Access to print, pictorial and audio-visual collections and other digital services
Online Manuscript Resources in Southern Women’s History Emory University
National Museum of American History Library Links to online American Women’s History resources
Monastic Matrix A scholarly resource for the study of women's religious communities from 400-1600 CE
SIEFAR Dictionary of Women in Medieval, Early Modern and Modern France
Women Writer’s Project Brown University – devoted to early modern women’s writing
A Celebration of Women Writer’s
The Perdita Project a database guide to about 400 sixteenth- and seventeenth-century manuscript archives compiled by women in the British Isles
The Victorian Women Writers Project primarily concerned with the exposure of lesser-known British women writers of the 19th century
Collective Biographies of Women - Alison Booth
The Poetess Archive