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Wikipedia:Meetup/Bloomington/AdrianneWadewitzMemorial

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Adrianne Wadewitz
Memorial Edit-a-thon
Photo: Washington, D.C., in July 2012
DateFriday, March 27, 2015
Time10am-5pm
VenueHerman B Wells Library, Scholars Commons, Rm 157H
LocationBloomington, Indiana

Indiana University Bloomington Meetup & Edit-a-thon

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This special session will honor our beloved, brilliant colleague, Adrianne Wadewitz, who died last year in a tragic rock climbing accident. (Her New York Times obituary.)

An 18th-centuryist, Wadewitz was also an innovator in digital humanities. In particular, she worked tirelessly to increase the representation of women and minorities on Wikipedia--an online resource which historically has been edited primarily by men. Concerned with content, she wanted to ensure that a diversity of stories and voices were being recognized. During our extended session,we will thus add new entries and expand incomplete ("stub") entries for important literary, historical, artistic, and scientific figures from our period. In essence, we hope to contribute to an Encyclopédie project for the 21st century, following Diderot's aim: "to change the way people think."

We are thus soliciting ideas for content, and well as for participation in this digital humanities event. As eighteenth-century scholars, we have a remarkable opportunity to share our knowledge about this dynamic period--its narratives; its scientific, legal, social, and political discourses; and its novelists, poets, artists, theologians, and thinkers--with a much broader audience by contributing to this increasingly influential online resource.

We will be collaborating with experienced Wikipedians, so no prior editing experience with the encyclopedia is necessary. Instead, we can channel our collective energy into deciding what to add—including fresh entries as well as significant expansion of existing ones. We anticipate writing at least some of the content in advance, although this preparation is not required. The number of entries we add or revise will depend on the total number of participants, but our goal is to contribute substantially to at least 20-30 entries. Obviously, this will be a highly collaborative endeavor, and our hope is to draw a wide range of contributors from senior scholars to graduate students. No time commitment is too short or too long -- feel free to drop in for a few minutes, or stay for an hour or two. You may also contribute throughout the conference, or join us virtually.

Event information

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  • Date: Friday, March 27, 2015
  • Time: 12-6 PM EST
  • Location: Herman B Wells Library, Indiana University Bloomington, Scholars' Commons, 157H/IQ Wall.
  • Address: 1320 E 10th Street, Bloomington, IN 47405
  • Please bring your own laptop.
Attendees

Tools and templates

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List of articles to edit

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The following is a sampling of suggested articles to create or add upon. However, feel free to come up with your own ideas! In addition to the suggestions below, editors may consider cleaning up articles on more well-known women. Helpful updates could be as simple as: Making sure reference links are still appropriate and functional; Adding new inline citations/references; Adding a photo; Adding an infobox; Adding data to more fields in an existing infobox; Creating headings; Adding categories; etc.

Please see the CyberDH Blog for help and a list of articles needing work.

Resources for Research

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  • JSTOR Provides searchable full-text of historical runs of important scholarly journals in the humanities, arts, sciences, ecology, and business.
  • LexisNexis Academic Organized into 5 categories, LexisNexis includes articles from international newspapers, magazines, transcripts, legal research and medical journals.
  • Research Resources tab on IUB Libraries home page

List of Articles Worked On

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