Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/American University Scholar as Detective Edit-a-thon

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American University Scholar as Detective Edit-a-thon

Did you know that only 18% of English-language biographies on Wikipedia are about women? Help to change that editing and creating Wikipedia articles. Students can expect to learn how to edit Wikipedia and use their new skills to edit and create articles on the event's work list.

When

Tuesday, April 13, 2021 & Friday, April 16, 2021
4:05pm-5:20pm EDT

Safe Space Policy

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Presentation

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American University Edit-a-thon

Sign in: Outreach Dashboard

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Step one: Go to the Dashboard

Step 2: Select 'Login with Wikipedia'. (If you don't have a username already, open another tab and go HERE to create one.)

Step 3: Enter Wikipedia username and password

Suggested Article Work List

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Shirley Elizabeth Barnes - Former United States Ambassador to Madagascar

Shirley Elizabeth Barnes - Former United States Ambassador to Madagascar

Tasks: Add interview to External links, add photo to inforbox


Jane Anyango - Peace and women's rights activist

Tasks: Expand biography, add sections, fix dead links in references


Evelyn Groesbeeck Mitchell - Doctor and activist who established women's clinic

Tasks: Expand biography, add external links to primary materials


Chafika Meslem - Algerian politician and diplomat (Article in French Wikipedia)

Tasks: Improve article by adding inline citations


Dubravka Šimonovic - Human rights activist (Article in Spanish Wikipedia)

Tasks: Add sections, expand biography


Manila Davis Talley - First woman pilot from West Virginia, third women to complete Air Force War College

Tasks: Use 'primary materials' to improve articles. Be sure to check image rights and upload to Wikimedia Commons if the rights permit. All images in Wikipedia must be uploaded to Wiki Commons first.


Gurubai Karmarkar - Second Indian woman to graduate from the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania

Tasks: Build article body, upload photos to Commons/Add to article or external links


Rilla Moran Woods, first President of the National Federation of Democratic Women

Tasks: Build article body, add biography


Draft:Cashmere Nicole, Entrepreneur, Founder Beauty Bakerie

Task: Build article body, add biography


Draft:Josephine Serrano Collier - First Mexican-American woman to join the Los Angeles Police Department

Tasks: Create and expand sections
  • Use sources already listed in the article's references section


Articles/Drafts for Creation

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Mary Anna Henry - Witness to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Tasks: Start lead paragraph, continue with sections if able to do so. Upload images to Wikimedia Commons, add to article.


Hattie Meyers Junkin - Aviator, first women to earn a “C”-level pilot's license

Tasks: Start lead paragraph, continue with sections if able to do so


S. K. Chan (Dr. S. K. Chan) - President of the Chinese American Equal Suffrage Society in Portland, Oregon

Tasks: Start lead paragraph, continue with sections if able to do so


Draft:Jane Connors - Victims' Rights Advocate, United Nations

Tasks: Start lead paragraph, continue with sections if able to do so


Draft:Marieme Jamme Founder of iamtheCODE initiative (Living)

Tasks: Start lead paragraph, continue with sections if able to do so

Note : This page exists here, but without accent. This user edited another page


Draft:Christine Ahn - Peace activist

Tasks: Start lead paragraph, continue with sections if able to do so


Alicia Baro - Human and women's rights activist

Tasks: Start lead paragraph, continue with sections if able to do so


Draft:Laura Bergt - Activist for pushed for the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, Alaska Women's Hall of Fame

Tasks: Start lead paragraph, continue with sections if able to do so


Draft:Melanie Campbell (civil rights)

Tasks: Start lead paragraph, continue with sections if able to do so


Draft:Antionette Carroll - Designer, founder Creative Reaction Lab (Living)

Tasks: Start lead paragraph, continue with sections if able to do so


Draft:Turning Point Suffragist Memorial

Tasks: Start lead paragraph, continue with sections if able to do so. Be sure to include updates on recent design changes and progress.


Draft:Sandra Williams Ortega - Maryland’s first African American woman commissioned as a U.S. Air Force Officer

Tasks: Start lead paragraph, continue with sections if able to do so


Draft:Ruth Kurzbauer - Foreign Service Officer, diplomat (US->China)

Tasks: Start lead paragraph, continue with sections if able to do so


Draft:Wynn Richards - Photographer

Tasks: Start lead paragraph, continue with sections if able to do so


Draft:Marsha Anne Gomez - Artist, social activist

Tasks: Start lead paragraph, continue with sections if able to do so


Zena Howard - Award-winning architect, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture


Regina Safirsztajn - Holocaust victim, one of four women who orchestrated the Auschwitz uprising


Dora Chatterjee - Third Indian woman to graduate from the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania

Tasks: Build article body, upload photos to Commons/Add to article or external links

Additional resources

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