Dr. Mary Edwards Walker Wikipedia Edit-a-thon presented by the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum with support from Wikimedia DC
When
June 20, 2024 - 11 am – 2 pm EDT
Where
Virtual
Description
Did you know that less than 20% of biographies in English-language Wikipedia are about women? Help change that by joining the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum on March 27th for a Wikipedia edit-a-thon. Attendees will edit and create Wikipedia articles inspired by the museum’s first digital exhibition, “Becoming Visible.”
This event will have two parts:
1) Getting started with Wikipedia edits: 11am-12pm
2) Wikipedia edit-a-thon: 12pm-2pm
Attendees can join us for one of both parts depending on their availability and experience with Wikipedia editing. New editors are encouraged to attend the introductory session at 11am.
Go to this Google sheet and add your username next to the article you would like to edit or create
Return here to the event page and select your article's red or blue link. Red=New draft articles for creation, Blue=Existing articles
Select 'Create' (for new articles), and 'Edit' for existing articles
For new articles, start by adding a 'References' header at the bottom. Return to the top and start writing. Publish as you go to avoid losing your work.
Use the sources below each article name to find information and build your article/s. Be sure to cite your sources.
Tip: Open this event page in multiple tabs. You will need it quite often (mostly for sourcing) and it's easy to close inadvertently.
Edit Link to Book Written and Published by Mary E. Walker
Hit: Hit: Essays on Women’s Rights. New York: The American News Company, 1871. Reprint Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2003. New link to full ebook on Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/hitessaysonwomen0000walk
Lemay, Kate Clarke. “Où Sont Les Dames?”: Suffragists and the American Women’s Oversea Hospitals Unit in France During World War I” in Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence (Yale University Press, 2019): 83, 86.
* Lemay, Kate Clarke. “Où Sont Les Dames?”: Suffragists and the American Women’s Oversea Hospitals Unit in France During World War I” in Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence (Yale University Press, 2019): 72, 73, 77, 79, 83-84.
The First Contingent of the Women’s Oversea Hospitals, Supported by the National American Woman Suffrage Association, NAID 533774. Dr. Mary Edward is 5th from the left. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/533774
* Lemay, Kate Clarke. “Où Sont Les Dames?”: Suffragists and the American Women’s Oversea Hospitals Unit in France During World War I” in Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence (Yale University Press, 2019): 77, 79, 80.
Seitz, Emily A. “Womanhood of the Noblest Type: Early Medical Training for Women; The Distinguished Career of Dr. Marie Formad” in Prescribing Pregnancy Loss: Women Physicians and the Changing Boundaries of Fetal Life in Nineteenth-Century America. Dissertation. Pennsylvania State University. 2021. See pages 39-43. https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/files/final_submissions/24628
* Lemay, Kate Clarke. “Où Sont Les Dames?”: Suffragists and the American Women’s Oversea Hospitals Unit in France During World War I” in Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence (Yale University Press, 2019): 71, 76, 77 picture and caption, 78-79 picture and caption, 80, 86
* Lemay, Kate Clarke. “Où Sont Les Dames?”: Suffragists and the American Women’s Oversea Hospitals Unit in France During World War I” in Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence (Yale University Press, 2019): 71.
Bellafaire, Judith and Mercedes Herrera Graf, “Necessity’s Handmaidens: Women Contract Surgeons in World War I” in Women Doctors in War. (Texas A&M University Press, 2009): 54. Book available at the Internet Archive library.
Marr MC, Dupanovic I, Sefcsik VZ, Mehta N, Chin EL. They Were There: American Women Physicians and the First World War. Perm J. 2020 Sep;24:1-4. doi: 10.7812/TPP/20.032. PMID: 33482940; PMCID: PMC7849279.
Selecting a red link will allow you to start an article draft. Save as you go. When ready (today or another time), draft articles can be moved into Wikipedia mainspace.
Note: Wikipedia articles are not typically named using prefixes. For example, the article about Dr. Mary Edwards Walker is saved as Mary Edwards Walker. Prefixes can be used as they normally would within the text of the article.
* Lemay, Kate Clarke. “Où Sont Les Dames?”: Suffragists and the American Women’s Oversea Hospitals Unit in France During World War I” in Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence (Yale University Press, 2019): 82.
* Lemay, Kate Clarke. “Où Sont Les Dames?”: Suffragists and the American Women’s Oversea Hospitals Unit in France During World War I” in Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence (Yale University Press, 2019): 72, 73, 74 picture and caption, 77, 79, 83-84, 85.
* Lemay, Kate Clarke. “Où Sont Les Dames?”: Suffragists and the American Women’s Oversea Hospitals Unit in France During World War I” in Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence (Yale University Press, 2019): 72, 73, 75 picture and caption, 77, 83.
* Also spelled McMahon. Sometimes spelled Ada. Lived in Lafayette, IN
Lemay, Kate Clarke. “Où Sont Les Dames?”: Suffragists and the American Women’s Oversea Hospitals Unit in France During World War I” in Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence (Yale University Press, 2019): 82.
Lemay, Kate Clarke. “Où Sont Les Dames?”: Suffragists and the American Women’s Oversea Hospitals Unit in France During World War I” in Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence (Yale University Press, 2019): 82, 86.
Marr MC, Dupanovic I, Sefcsik VZ, Mehta N, Chin EL. They Were There: American Women Physicians and the First World War. Perm J. 2020 Sep;24:1-4. doi: 10.7812/TPP/20.032. PMID: 33482940; PMCID: PMC7849279.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7849279/
Anne Tjomsland,1880–1968, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume XXIV, Issue 4, October 1969, Pages 482–a–482, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/XXIV.4.482-a
Marr MC, Dupanovic I, Sefcsik VZ, Mehta N, Chin EL. They Were There: American Women Physicians and the First World War. Perm J. 2020 Sep;24:1-4. doi: 10.7812/TPP/20.032. PMID: 33482940; PMCID: PMC7849279.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7849279/
Lemay, Kate Clarke. “Où Sont Les Dames?”: Suffragists and the American Women’s Oversea Hospitals Unit in France During World War I” in Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence (Yale University Press, 2019): 82.
Lemay, Kate Clarke. “Où Sont Les Dames?”: Suffragists and the American Women’s Oversea Hospitals Unit in France During World War I” in Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence (Yale University Press, 2019): 80-81.
* Lemay, Kate Clarke. “Où Sont Les Dames?”: Suffragists and the American Women’s Oversea Hospitals Unit in France During World War I” in Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence (Yale University Press, 2019): 75-76, 79, 83.
See Chapter 13, “The Dental Service in the American Expeditionary Forces in France, 1917-1919: Organization, Administration, Personnel, Training, and Supply” in The History of Dentistry in the US Army to World War II. By John M. Hyson, Jr., DDS, Joseph W.A. Whitehorne, PhD, John T. Greenwood, PhD. (Washington DC: Borden Institute, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 2008): 496. https://medcoe.army.mil/borden-tb-history-of-dentistry-to-wwii
“Women Dentists Will Send Unit Abroad,” Detroit Free Press, January 5, 1918, p. 7. ProQuest Historical Newspapers.
“Women Doctors Cut Army Red Tape to Care for Wounded: Precedent Shattered in France When They Assist Male Surgeons” New York Tribune, July 4, 1918, p.4. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Tribune/Herald Tribune
“Women Vets Organize to Aid Defense Plans,” Daily Boston Globe (1928-1960), September 24, 1940, p.6. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Boston Globe.
* Lemay, Kate Clarke. “Où Sont Les Dames?”: Suffragists and the American Women’s Oversea Hospitals Unit in France During World War I” in Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence (Yale University Press, 2019): 69 picture and caption, 71, 72, 73, 77, 79, 83-84
Marr MC, Dupanovic I, Sefcsik VZ, Mehta N, Chin EL. They Were There: American Women Physicians and the First World War. Perm J. 2020 Sep;24:1-4. doi: 10.7812/TPP/20.032. PMID: 33482940; PMCID: PMC7849279.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7849279/
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