Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Refinery29/April 2017

Refinery29 Wikipedia Event Spring 2017
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When and Where
Event:	Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
Date:	Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Time:	5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Location:	Refinery29 offices; New York, NY

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Short video about panel discussion produced by Stasha Rosen.

Event Information[edit]

Date: Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Time: 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Location: Refinery29 office
Hashtag: #wikiwomenshistory #EqualityArchive @WikimediaNYC

Agenda[edit]

5PM: Event Start
5:10PM: Panel Discussion (Shelly, Ann, Ari), Moderator (Stasha)
- On the Wikipedia community: AfroCROWD, Art+Feminism, WikiEdu
5:45PM: Live Instructional Tutorial about Wikipedia Editing Basics (Richard, Ann, Ari)
- Art+Feminism basic training slides
6:15PM: Refinery29 attendees make one edit (Speakers invited to float around and assist!)

Task list[edit]

Task list – list of articles to improve or create

Articles to improve

Black Power movement - to add more about Black Power feminism and activists
Kathleen Collins
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw - (Possible sources: 1, )
Fire Island
Georgia Gilmore - (Possible sources: 1, )
Miss America - (Possible sources: 1, )
Shirley Clarke
Stonewall (especially re: Marsha P. Johnson and Stormé DeLarverie) - (Possible sources: 1, )
Third-person pronoun - (Possible sources: 1, )
Women of All Red Nations - (Possible sources: 1, )
Our Bodies, Ourselves - (Possible sources: 1, )
Martha Gonzalez (musician) - (Possible sources, 1, )
Asian American movement - (Possible sources, 1, )
please add here

New article suggestions

Latina Feminisms
Undocuqueer Movement - (Possible sources, 1, )
add here

Editing resources[edit]

Wikipedia editing resources
The five pillars of Wikipedia Self guided introduction Manual of Style - Typical Section Order and Names Editing Wikipedia brochure Wikimedia Commons - getting images onto Wikipedia Infobox template Online resources N.B. There is an IRC channel if online participants need help: Wikipedia:IRC/wikipedia-en-help #wikipedia-en-help ^connect

Outcomes[edit]

Outcomes
Alphabetical by first letter Pages improved Pages created Wikidata items improved Wikidata items created Wikimedia Commons images uploaded As you upload files to Wikimedia Commons, please tag them with Category:Files uploaded during ArtAndFeminism 2017

Relevant links[edit]

Equality Archive
Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's History
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Biolithic (talk) 14:01, 26 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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