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Becoming Visible Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon presented by the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum with support from Wikimedia DC

When

March 27, 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.

Registration

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Safe Space Policy

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Outcomes via the dashboard

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START HERE

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Step 1:

  • Create a Wikipedia username if you don't already have one (top right) and log-in
  • Already have an account? Simply log-in (top right)
  • Usernames are public. You do not have to use your real name.

Step 2:

  • Check-in for this event using the blue button below. This helps us to track editing progress during the edit-a-thon.
1) Select 'Check in'
2) Scroll down on the page that follows and click 'Publish changes'. DO NOT ADD TEXT TO THE FIELD.
Your username will automatically be added to the list of attendees.

Articles to create or edit

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Instructions

  1. Go to this Google sheet and add your username next to the article you would like to edit or create
  2. Return here to the event page and select your article's red or blue link. Red=New draft articles for creation, Blue=Existing articles
  3. Select 'Create' (for new articles), and 'Edit' for existing articles
  4. 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.
  5. 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.

ILC Dover seamstresses

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ILC Dover seamstresses stitching together a sun-shield for the Skylab Orbital Workshop

Draft:ILC Dover seamstresses

Seamstresses (Notable)

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Eleanor Foraker

Draft:Roberta Pilkenton

Draft:Iona Allen

Draft:Joanne Thompson (seamstress)

Draft:Jeanne Wilson (seamstress)

Draft:Hazel Fellows

Black Fashion Museum

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Black Fashion Museum

Draft:Lillian Brown Head

Judy Dearing

Draft:Grace Miceli or Draft:Grace Costumes (choose one to create)

Mildred Blount

Lois K. Alexander Lane

Mothers’ March on Polio

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Draft:Mothers’ March on Polio

Draft:Elaine Whitelaw

  • Oshinsky, David M. Polio: An American Story (Oxford University Press, 2005): 86-87.
  • Obituary, NY Times

Draft:Elinor Widmont Bodian - Medical illustrator, wife of polio researcher Dr. David Bodian

Draft:Norma Gaillard - Chemist for the Tuskegee Infantile Paralysis Center (March of Dimes connected research)

Draft:Bettye Steele Turner - the head of Tuskegee’s March of Dimes chapter

Draft:Mathilda Benyesh Melnick - Wife and collaborator of polio research Joseph Melnick)

Irena Koprowska - Polish born pathologist and wife of Hilary Koprowski who discovered the first oral polio vaccine) (Page exists and needs improvement[1][2][3][4] (*NOTE: Koprowska page updated by Maydayparker and others during this edit-a-thon)

Bernice E. Eddy - vaccine tester at NIH who found live virus in the Cutter vaccine

Draft:Elsie N. Ward

Lorraine C. Friedman - (Jonas Salk’s personal secretary for 40 years)

Japanese American Women Artists and World War II

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Draft:Miki Hayakawa

Mira Nakashima

Doris Ota Saito - CREATED

Draft:Frances Ishihara White

Mary Nomura

Koho Yamamoto

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Wikimedia movement affiliates model
Chapters
Wikimedia chapters are independent organizations founded to support and promote the Wikimedia projects in a specified geographical region (in most cases, a country). Like the Wikimedia Foundation, they aim to "empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally". There are currently 39 chapters, with at least one on every inhabited continent., i.e. Wikimedia DC
Wikimedia thematic organizations
Thematic organizations are incorporated independent non-profits representing the Wikimedia movement and supporting work focused on a specific theme, topic, subject or issue within or across countries and regions. i.e., Wikimedia Medicine.
User groups
Wikimedia user groups are intended to be simple and flexible affiliates that are an alternative to chapters and thematic organizations - which require more formal requirements. User groups are highly valued as equal players in the Wikimedia movement, i.e., Art+Feminism

WikiProjects

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For Wikimedia DC Use

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User rights management
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Attendees

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Outcomes

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Articles created

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