Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Women in Media and Politics

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Women in Media and Politics
Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

Only 17% of profiles on Wikipedia are women. Help us change that! Join the National Democratic Institute and the Women's Media Center for a Edit-a-thon. We will provide lunch, training, coaches and a sense of humor! If you have a laptop please bring it. Laptops will be available for those who don't. Location details will be sent upon request / registration.

when

Saturday, June 3, 2017 from 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM

Schedule

Time	Activity
10:40-11:00 am	Arrival, name badges, video
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Introductions and training
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Edit-a-Thon and working lunch

where

Metro Chinatown or Mount Vernon

your hosts

• Women's Media Center
• National Democratic Institute
• Wikimedia DC

logistics

• Before the event:

• Attendance is free, but you must be registered in order to attend.
• Please create username before the event; you can do so here.

• Day of:

• ID is required at the door.
• Please bring a laptop.
• Lunch will be provided!

Sign up!

1. KellyDoyle (talk) 19:39, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
2. User:Ariel Cetrone (WMDC) (talk)
3. Rosiestep (talk) 22:23, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
4. econterms (talk) 19:49, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
5. Uncommon fritillary (talk) 13:49, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
6. Kirill Lokshin (talk) 17:28, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
7. Brock-brac (talk) 17:37, 26 May 2017 (UTC)
8. alexadj (talk) 15:27, 1 June 2017 (UTC)
9. mgmaliska (talk) 15:58, 1 June 2017 (UTC)
10. Antony–22 (^talk⁄_contribs) 04:33, 2 June 2017 (UTC)
11. Fuzheado | Talk 13:23, 2 June 2017 (UTC)
12. ArielleBaker (talk) 15:11, 3 June 2017 (UTC)
13. 216.185.19.10 (talk) 15:49, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

List of articles we will be working on

Volunteers should feel free to add the names of notable women in the media or politics who need a better Wikipedia presence. The following lists provides a starting point for work by edit-a-thon participants, either by researching and writing new articles (biographies) or expanding and improving existing articles. If you are not sure where to start, don't hesitate to ask for help!

Missing articles on notable women in the media

• Check out this crowd-sourced list of women journalists who don't have an article on Wikipedia.
• Check out this bot-generated list of women journalists who don't have an article on English Wikipedia but do have an article on another language Wikipedia. You can translate these!
• Check out this list of Afro-American women in journalism some of whom articles which need improvement, while others don't have a Wikipedia article yet.
• These journalists don't have a Wikipedia article but they are covered in: Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life. Moulton.

• Emma B. Alrich (b. 1845), journalist
• Emily Verdery Battey (b. 1828), journalist
• Cynthia Holmes Belcher (b. 1827), journalist
• Sarah Elizabeth Bierce (b. 1838), journalist
• Mary Agnes Dalrymple Bishop (b. 1857), journalist
• Emily St. John Bouton (b. ?), journalist
• Elia Goode Byington (b. 1858), journalist
• Helen Taggart Clark (b. 1849), journalist
• Jessie F. Culton (b. 1860), journalist
• Alma Carrie Cummings (b. 1857), journalist
• Eva Craig Graves Doughty (b. 1852), journalist
• Bessie Agnes Dwyer (b. ?), journalist
• Mary G. Charlton Edholm (b. ?), journalist
• Constance Fairbanks (b. 1866), journalist
• Stella A. Gaines Fifield (b. 1845), journalist
• Louise E. Francis (b. 1869), journalist
• Eliza Putnam Heaton (b. 1860), journalist
• Mary Catharine Hickman (b. 1838), journalist
• Ida Hinman (b. ?), journalist
• Mary Hayes Houghton (b. 1837), journalist
• Florence C. Ives (b. 1854), journalist
• Annie Laurie Wilson James (b. 1862), journalist
• Eliza D. Keith (b. ?), journalist
• Mary T. Lange (b. 1848), journalist
• Louise Markscheffel (b. 1857), journalist
• Margaret Manton Merrill (b. 1800s), journalist

• more from that work here Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by dictionary/Woman of the Century
• on wikisource s:A Woman of the Century

Missing articles on notable women politicians

• Check out this bot-generated list of women politicians who don't have an article on English Wikipedia but do have an article on another language Wikipedia. You can translate these!
• Check out this book (Law, Cheryl (2000). Women, A Modern Political Dictionary. I.B.Tauris. ISBN 978-1-86064-502-0.) and this list of women, some of whom have wiki articles which need improvement and some don't have a wiki article.

Articles to improve on notable women politicians and women in the media

• Click around these lists of women in politics and media, and find an article you'd like to improve:

• Category:Women in politics

• Category:African-American women journalists

• Category:Women journalists

• Category:Asian women in politics

Outcomes

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Attendees

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• Rosiestep (talk) 02:24, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

• KellyDoyle (talk) 14:33, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

• Ariel Cetrone (WMDC) (talk) 14:45, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

• Ukevillage24 (talk) 15:13, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

• Ggrebski (talk) 15:14, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

• Iuliamgh (talk) 15:14, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

• Ggrebski (talk) 15:15, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

• Brock-brac (talk) 15:18, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

• Jsheng15 (talk) 15:19, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

• Tfuny (talk) 15:20, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

• Fuzheado | Talk 15:21, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

• Eennis97 (talk) 15:22, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

• Andreea.lilly (talk) 15:22, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

• Ceefey (talk) 15:22, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

• Newswoman2017 (talk) 15:23, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

• Aidabenitabeck (talk) 15:27, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

• Kirill Lokshin (talk) 15:31, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

• Malenalopez5 (talk) 15:35, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

• Tamara.rasamny (talk) 15:46, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

• BrevaStone (talk) 15:49, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

• MraS3iba (talk) 15:49, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

• Andikadoming (talk) 15:49, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

• ArielleBaker (talk) 15:49, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

• Womenedit (talk) 15:49, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

• Froctyinstib (talk) 15:49, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

• Kharmannghia (talk) 15:50, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

• CarlaHiggins2017 (talk) 15:50, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

• Manalomar (talk) 15:51, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

• Capasora (talk) 15:51, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

• KateMcCarthy (talk) 15:58, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

• econterms (talk) 15:59, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

• Malenalopez5 (talk) 16:03, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

• Womenrise (talk) 16:04, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

• Mediaguru2017 (talk) 16:23, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

• Alexadj (talk) 17:13, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

• Mgmaliska (talk) 17:13, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

• Vivianliu94 (talk) 17:27, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

• BVRGERKING (talk) 17:27, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

• Parker Case (talk) 17:31, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

• Antony–22 (^talk⁄_contribs) 18:06, 3 June 2017 (UTC)