Wikipedia:Fembot Edit-a-Thon

On Thursday, April 4, 2019, Fembot travels to Texas A&M in College Station, Texas, for an edit-a-thon to help train people to edit Wikipedia and continue to engage more women, people of color, and members of LGBTQIA communities to edit Wikipedia and to enhance diversity of content.

Event details

Main page: Wikipedia: Fembot and the Texas A&M Department of Communication and the Women's and Gender Studies Program

• Date: Thursday, April 4, 2019
• Time: Training from 1-2 pm, general editing 2PM-5 PM (Presentation: Wikipedia: The Basics v2 by Sarah Stierch)
• Venue: James Cain Building, Room 205, TAMU
• Cost: Free, of course!
• Twitter hashtag: #fembot2019 and/or #fembotcoll and/or #adagender
• Participants: This event is open to anyone interested in improving women's history coverage on Wikipedia. No wiki editing experience is necessary, support will be on hand to help you out! Can't be there the whole time? No problem, join us for as long or as little as you can.
• Details: Participants should bring their own laptop and power cords.

Attendees

This Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon will contribute to the world of free and accessible knowledge, while at the same time working toward an anti-racist, gender inclusive history of everything within Wikipedia’s vast database.

At the Edit-a-Thon, we will be training people:

• to navigate the content production system in Wikipedia
• to make effective and engaging entries
• to conduct research that will meet Wikipedia’s notability criteria
• improve on existing content with more robust citations, data, categories, infoboxes, etc.

People can participate in a number of different ways: participants can come with their own projects or join teams that will be working on projects at the event; projects may involve identifying historical figures, organizations, and ideas that are missing from the online encyclopedia, researching entries, writing entries, locating images and getting permission to use them.

Join us as we ensure the digital legacy of women of color, trans, and/or gender non-conforming people, organizations, and ideas in multiple disciplines, fields, and periods of history!

Sign-in

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1. castabile(talk) 00:56, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
2. Effervesc (talk) 18:10, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

Suggested content for improvement

Please add your suggestions for Wikipedia content improvement here. If you'd like to claim a specific topic to work on, simply add your name next to it.

• See also Missing women of the Dictionary of National Biography
• See also Wikipedia:WikiProject:Wiki Loves Women/African feminists

• American Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born
• Enya Gonzalez, Philipina singer
• The Eclipse (before 1968 The Black Explosion), UMD African American student newspaper
• Mary Helen Washington, literary scholar
• Eslanda Cordoza Goode Robeson, chemist, author, activist
• Dolores Margaret Richard Spikes, mathematician and university president
• Insecure, TV_series
• Adame Ba Konaré, former first lady of Mali and history professor
• Denmo Ibrahim, playwright
• Off Our Backs, feminist news journal
• List of first female physicians by country - list (suggested by Cool Chicks from History) needs expanding.
• Rachel Anderson (football agent) 1 2 3 4 5
• Moya Dodd, FIFA executive
• Chiaki Kon, anime director
• Mother Rescuers from Poverty - Baltimore’s first welfare rights organization
• Suburban Maryland Fair Housing, Inc. - a private, non-profit organization that was involved in the development of the national fair housing movement. [1]
• Juanita Tomayo Lott - Filipina American statistician, demographer, policy analyst, author; in 1974 -1977 she directed the first and only Office of Asian American Affairs, Office of the Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Health Education and Welfare
• María de Pérez Almiroty - first woman elected as senator in Puerto Rico (English-language page could be expanded as well as the Spanish-language page)
• Rebecca Samaria Lolosoli fr
• Mina Zerrouk fr
• Nabiha Ben Abdallah fr
• Eileen Tighe - editor Woman's Day, playwright (author of Congressional Baby)
• Ann Batchelder - food editor, Ladies Home Journal
• Stella Karn - manager, Mary Margaret McBride
• The People's Voice - 20th century Harlem newspaper
• Mae Dena Huettig - political economist of film, anti-police violence activist
• Virginia Girvin - actress, executive secretary, Negro Actors Guild of America
• Circa -- Black cinema organization in Detroit
• Mamba's Daughters -- play
• Dr. Anne Bezanson -- first woman to be tenured in economics at University of Pennsylvania

Results

This is where we will put our article successes during and after the event. Also follow along on Twitter: #fembot2019

Created a new page on Mae D. Huettig

Added content to Laila Soueif

Added content to Moya Dodd

Added content to Maria McKee

Added content to Rachel Anderson

Added content to Mary Helen Washington

Added content to Juanita Tamayo Lott

Links

• WikiProject Feminism, a project which addresses articles related to feminism and maintains the Feminism Portal
• WikiProject California, a project dedicated to improving California-related topics on Wikipedia
• WikiProject Women artists, a project dedicated to coverage of biographies of women artists
• WikiProject Women scientists, a project dedicated to coverage of biographies of women scientists
• WikiProject Women writers, a project dedicated to coverage of biographies of women writers
• WikiProject Women's History, a project dedicated to improving coverage of women's history
• WikiProject UO Weaving Women Into Wikipedia, University of Oregon, sponsored by CSWS, collaborates to weave women's narratives into Wikipedia.

• Wikipedia:Meetup/LA - information about the L.A. Wikipedia community and other upcoming events in L.A.
• Wikipedia:Meetup/LA/Invites - add your name to this list to receive notifications about upcoming events in L.A.