Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/2017-01 HGF Lenny

Her Girl Friday + Lenny Letter
Women Journos
Wiki Unconference and Editathon

When and Where
When:	Saturday, January 28, 2017
Time	11:00 am – 4:00 pm (doors open at 10:30 am)
Where:	ThoughtWorks 99 Madison Avenue (29th Street) 15th Floor New York, NY 10016 Phone: (646) 412-5200
co-sponsors: Her Girl Friday and

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Please join us for a Women Journos Unconference and Editathon, a Her Girl Friday Tackles the Gender Gap: The Wikipedia Editing Brunch event co-sponsored by Her Girl Friday and Lenny Letter on Saturday, January 28, 2017, at ThoughtWorks New York.

The all-day event will be an Unconference / Hackathon-style event with the goal of getting more notable women represented with pages on Wikipedia. #gender gap #PostInauguration

Strategies to address Post-Truth and Alternative Facts will be part of the conversation. Make a difference at a grass roots level by improving facts on Wikipedia! #Empowerment!

Event information

• Date: Saturday, January 28, 2017
• Time: 11:00 am – 4:00 pm (doors open at 10:30 am)
• Location: ThoughtWorks. 99 Madison Avenue (29th Street), 15th Floor, New York, NY 10016 Phone: (646) 412-5200 40°44′41″N 73°59′6.1″W
• Who should come: Women-identifying journalists, women-identifying non-journalists, allies, humans alike!
• What to bring: Please remember to bring a laptop and power cord! We are unable to provide computers, but there will be plenty of outlets and wifi
• Food: There will be coffee, nosherai, and brunch provided to power our work throughout the day!
• Hashtag: #WomenJournosUnite
• Etherpad: HGF-Lenny-2017-01
• Meetup: Meetup
• RSVP:
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  • Please also add your user name to the Attendees list below

Agenda

Time	Activity	Details
10:30 am	Doors
11:00 am – 11:30 am	Welcome	• Jackie Snow: Welcome from Her Girl Friday: Who We Are and Why This Matters
11:30 am – 12:00 pm	Lightning talks	• Short presentations • Group tutorial • Demo: Adding an Infobox • Intro to today's tasks
12:00 pm – 3:00 pm	Join a table and edit!	• Join a beginning or intermediate table and try these tasks!
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm	Share-out	• Share-out by each table: What was done, what needs to be done next
4:00 pm	Happy Hour @ TBD

Editing agenda

1. Wikipedia – 15 minute overview: 5 pillars, Conflict of Interest policies, self guided introduction, Intro with videos etc. (example COI)
2. Wikipedia – 5 minute register for Wikipedia account
3. Wikipedia – 40 minute make one edit: add infobox, citation, etc.

Lightning talks

A lightning talk is a short presentation

1. Women in Tech Who Should Be on Wikipedia – Deepthi Welaratna
2. Women in the Arts Who Should be on Wikipedia – Kat Griefen
3. Journalism, Ethics & Wikipedia – Karen Zraick
4. The Black Lunch Table – Heather Hart aka Heathart
5. Why and How We Edit Wikipedia: Cool Entries We’ve Done Related to the News – Erika Herzog aka BrillLyle – Example before and after

Attendees

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WikiFacilitators

1. BrillLyle (talk) 09:35, 19 November 2016 (UTC)
2. Heathart (talk) 16:22, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
3. Jim.henderson (talk) 01:12, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
4. Mozucat (talk) 18:48, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

Her Girl Friday

1. Atjackiesnow (talk) 14:11, 15 January 2017 (UTC)
2. Karenzraick (talk)
3. T onethousand (talk) 04:46, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

Attendees

1. Arianatobin (talk) 17:23, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
2. Belangerly (talk) 17:15, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
3. Benson22 (talk) 17:26, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
4. Drapered (talk) 17:24, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
5. Frankrina.84 (talk)
6. Gkduggan (talk) 17:26, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
7. Hannah Silverman (talk) 17:19, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
8. Jbrockington (talk) 18:04, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
9. JohnCharles007 (talk) 17:32, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
10. LennyHops (talk)
11. Milnesk (talk) 17:15, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
12. Nwhysel (talk) 16:45, 8 January 2017 (UTC)
13. Ospaghettibrain (talk)
14. SamNYC (talk) 18:44, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
15. Srwerth (talk) 17:27, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
16. Stale quail (talk) 17:22, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
17. Vchan23 (talk) 20:35, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
18. Vote4promqueens (talk) 19:56, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
19. Xthatsxcoolx (talk) 17:28, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
20. Yeewei12 (talk)

Wikipedia editing resources

Wikipedia editing resources
The five pillars of Wikipedia Self guided introduction Manual of Style - Typical Section Order and Names Editing Wikipedia brochure Wikimedia Commons - getting images onto Wikipedia Infobox template Online resources N.B. There is an IRC channel if online participants need help: Wikipedia:IRC/wikipedia-en-help #wikipedia-en-help connect

Task lists

✓ Please check with a WikiFacilitator before starting new pages – recommend beginners start by editing existing pages vs. starting new pages

General task list

Alphabetical by first letter   denotes Infobox is needed Pages to improve Ellen Mosley-Thompson, ice scientist - currently redirects to her husband's page [1] Helen Johns Kirtland – [2] Mary TallMountain Motor Maids#Dot Robinson – broken out to own page? Sisters in Islam West Area Computers <--- HIDDEN FIGURES!!! Pages to create Ellen Weaver, biologist – [3] [4] Josie Laures – [5] Kathleen Revis, first woman photog on staff at National Geographic – [6] Leonora Abravanel – [7] Marinda Branson Moore, Confederate mapmaker – [8][9] Mary Ann Roque, mapmaker – [10] Sandra Rodriguez (journalist) Sophie Hull, 2nd wife of founder of Singapore – see: Stamford Raffles Susan Goldberg, EIC of National Geographic

A Woman to Know task list
Alphabetical by first letter   denotes Infobox is needed Pages to improve Afong Moy – [11] Alice Dunbar Nelson – [12] Hetty Green – [13] Mary Blair – [14] Minerva Hamilton Hoyt – [15] Sylvia Mendez – [16]

Women in Red task list
Women in Red – Red link lists Women in Red – Journalists

Quick + easy! Infoboxes, stubs, obits with tons of biographical info, Wikidata, etc.

Add an infobox! It's fun, not super hard, and improves Google search results! Plus you don't need citations for infoboxes! Biography articles without infoboxes Journalism articles needing infoboxes Politics and government articles needing infoboxes Musicians articles needing infoboxes Sports articles needing infoboxes Improve an existing stub article! Clean up existing citations, add a new citation, add a selected works and publications section for published authors Journalist stubs American editor stubs Writer stubs Activist stubs Political people stubs Add citations to articles that have none! Biographies of Living People (BLP) without sources – January 2017 Other easy ideas Obituaries are a great starting point, have tons of biographical info! Chicago Tribune obituaries Los Angeles Times obituaries The Guardian obituaries The New York Times obituaries The Washington Post obituaries Are you into more tech-based data? Are you a librarian? Add Authority Control info to Wikidata! Wikidata + AuthorityControl Update Wikidata using Virtual International Authority File (VIAF.org) Go to VIAF.org Search for person (last name, first name) At bottom of page, where it says History of VIAF, expand section. See Werner Herzog example Add each listed Authority to Wikidata if its info is not already populated in Wikidata Add {{Authority control}} after External links section above Categories Refresh Wikipedia page

Outcomes

Alphabetical by first letter
Infobox was added

Pages improved

1. Alexander Abian -- LennyHops (talk)
2. Betty Kenward -- Atjackiesnow (talk)
3. Charlotte Wilson -- Atjackiesnow (talk)
4. Death of Sandra Bland -- Vote4promqueens (talk), BrillLyle (talk)
5. Gharida Farooqi -- Vchan23 (talk)
6. Ginny Ruffner -- Gkduggan (talk)
7. Hairstyling product -- Arianatobin (talk)
8. Hetty Green -- SamNYC (talk)
9. Helga Ochoterena Booth -- DRAFT -- Nwhysel (talk)
10. Joyce J. Scott -- Gkduggan (talk)
11. Katie Stelmanis -- JohnCharles007 (talk), BrillLyle (talk)
12. Linda Rosenthal -- Jbrockington (talk)
13. List of African-American visual artists -- Heathart (talk)
14. Marina Elali -- Atjackiesnow (talk)
15. Marta Rojas -- Belangerly (talk)
16. Mary Karr -- BrillLyle (talk) , Drapered (talk), Mozucat (talk)
17. Mary Pilon -- T onethousand (talk) , Atjackiesnow (talk)
18. Mary TallMountain -- Nwhysel (talk)
19. Minerva Hamilton Hoyt -- SamNYC (talk)
20. Phyllis Harrison-Ross -- Belangerly (talk)
21. Ruth E. Carter -- Belangerly (talk) , BrillLyle (talk)
22. Sisters in Islam -- Benson22 (talk)
23. Sylvia Mendez -- Drapered (talk)
24. Tami Sagher -- Benson22 (talk)
25. Tomohiro Kojiri -- Vchan23 (talk)
26. West Area Computers -- XthatsXcoolX (talk)
27. Where We At -- Heathart (talk)

Pages created

1. Kiran Gandhi -- Drapered (talk) -- very short, needs work so isn't deleted
2. Mickaella L. Perina -- Drapered (talk) -- very short, needs work so isn't deleted

Wikidata items improved

1. Katie Stelmanis (Q14622512) -- BrillLyle (talk)
2. Ruth E. Carter (Q3942970) -- BrillLyle (talk)

Wikidata items created

1. Kiran Gandhi (Q28545688) -- BrillLyle (talk)

Wikimedia Commons images uploaded

1. Joyce Scott 2016.jpg -- Gkduggan (talk)
2. Lana Shea.jpg -- JohnCharles007 (talk)
3. Sisters in Islam.jpg -- Benson22 (talk)
4. Women's March.jpg -- JohnCharles007 (talk)

Gallery

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  99 Madison Avenue
• 
  99 Madison Avenue
• 
  Lightning Talk:
  Welcome from Her Girl Friday: Who We Are and Why This Matters –
  Jackie Snow
• 
  Lightning Talk:
  Journalism, Ethics & Wikipedia –
  Karen Zraick
• Lightning Talk: Heather Hart from Black Lunch Table
  Lightning Talk:
  Heather Hart from Black Lunch Table
• 
  Lightning Talk:
  Heather Hart from Black Lunch Table
• 
  Lightning Talk
• 
  Lightning Talk:
  Women in Tech Who Should Be on Wikipedia –
  Deepthi Welaratna
• 
  Lightning Talk
  Women in Tech Who Should Be on Wikipedia –
  Deepthi Welaratna
• 
  Lightning Talk
  Women in Tech Who Should Be on Wikipedia –
  Deepthi Welaratna
• 
  Wiki training and skillshare
• 
  Black Lunch Table + new Wikipedia editors
• 
  Sustenance
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  Sustenance
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  Sustenance

See also

• 2017-01 HGF Train the Trainers
• 2017-01 Lenny Workshop

External links

• Wikipedia Meetup - NYC (main events page)
• Her Girl Friday
• Lenny Letter
• ThoughtWorks New York