Wikipedia:Meetup/Simmons College Womens History Edit-a-thon fall2014

Welcome! The History and Women's and Gender Studies Departments at Simmons College and the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America are hosting a Wikipedia edit-a-thon.

When: Thursday, October 23, from 11:00am-4:30 PM Where: L225 (Lefavour Hall), Simmons College. Focus: Did you know that over 5000 Wikipedia entries on women’s history are just stubs? And that thousands more of deserving individuals, movements, organizations, and events involving women are just not represented anywhere on Wikipedia? Given how many people turn to Wikipedia as their first source of information, this calls for action – and you can help! Come celebrate Women’s history by increasing the presence of Women on Wikipedia! And learn some mad technology, research, and Wiki skills in the process.

Event Details

Printable flyer for the Fall 2014 Simmons College Women's History Edit-a-thon

The Department of History and The Department of Women's and Gender Studies at Simmons College and the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America are co-hosting an edit-a-thon to help make women's history more visible on Wikipedia. The event is open to all students, faculty, staff, alumnae, and community members. Join us whether or not you've ever edited Wikipedia entries before!

Schedule

11:00-4:30PM

Amanda Strauss of the Schlesinger Library will lead two advanced intros and be available for questions at 11am-12:20pm and again 3-4:20pm.

The room will remain open for anyone who wants to drop in and edit from 12:20pm-3pm.

If you do not already have experience editing Wikipedia, we recommend the modules available at Wikipedia Training.

Logistics

• Locations, directions, maps: L225 Lefavour Building, 2 Louis Pasteur Ave, Simmons College Boston MA
  

Directions

Information on Parking

• Twitter: Hashtag #wikiathon
• WiFi: Simmons Guest
• What to Bring: laptop and extension cord (optional; there will be computers available)
• Contact the organizer: Laura Prieto (Clio.at.work (talk). For day-of-event questions, please call: Brenna Doyle, 617-521-2258.)

Sign Up and Guest List

Attending

• Amanda Strauss, Schlesinger Library, librarian, User:Amandastra
• Laura R. Prieto, Simmons College, professor, User:Clio.at.work
• Kelly Hager, Simmons College, professor, User:Caroline Norton
• Allie Hung, Simmons College, student, User:ahung315 New Article: Elizabeth Avery Colton
• Victoria Stetson, Simmons College, student, User:NelliO927 New Article: Dedham Temporary Home for Women and Children
• Laura Koch, Simmons College, student, User: Kochlaura New Article: Angela Heywood
• Brittney Barta, Simmons College, student, User: B.brittney29 New Article: Bethlehem Female Seminary
• Emmie Lindholm, Simmons College, student, User: EmilieLindholm New Article: New England Offering (women mill workers' magazine)
• Brianna Allen, Simmons College, student, User: Tsukichild New Article: Lanah Sawyer, Emma Chivers, Betsy Wheeler. Add on: Eliza Duffey
• Rachel Adler, Simmons College, student User: Rach713 New Article: Chloe Spear, Boston Equal Suffrage Association
• Caitlin Terry, Simmons College, student, User: C3t9547 New Article: Mary Ann Lee (dancer)
• Kelly Ferguson, Simmons College, student, User: Kellebelle53 New article: La Fronde, Grace Growden Heywood
• Patrick Shea, Simmons College, student, User: Sheapd
• Abigail Carr, Simmons College, student, User: AbbieCarr New article: Cecily Sidgwick
• Raelissa Glennon-Zukoff, Simmons College, student, User: RGlennZu New article: Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching
• Kristin Blow, Simmons College, student, User: kristinnlizz New Article: Cambridge Political Equality Association

Suggested Topics

Biographies Needing Improvement

• Margaret Ives Abbott - Stub
• Norma Alarcón - needs citations
• Marion Boyd Allen - American painter - stub
• Mary Bancroft - needs more information about career, published works
  • Papers
  • New York Times obituary
  • Bancroft family
  • Encyclopedia of World Biography
• Lorraine Bethel - Stub; needs references to secondary or tertiary sources
• Emily Blackwell - Good length, but needs more inline citations
• Ella Lyman Cabot - needs inline citations, additional information
• Hélène Cixous - needs additional citations
• Jennifer Nez Denetdale - stub
• Cornelia De Bey - Stub; orphan
• Denise Di Novi - Simmons alum - wording is subjective; needs additional citations for verification
• Sarah H. Earle - stub
• Chief Earth Woman - Stub
• Susan Walker Fitzgerald - Needs a disambiguation page for "Susan Fitzgerald" (or "for the MA politician, see" on the other Susan Fitzgerald page); Needs more references/inline citations
• Elizabeth Freeman - If anyone is advanced enough to do this, I think this article is very close to being ready for GA nomination.
• Rose Greely - Stub; needs infobox and more detail
• Ruth Handler - Needs additional sources for verification
• Matina Horner - Stub; needs infobox and more detail; improve references
• Louisa Lander - 19th c. American sculptor - needs additional information about life, works; add pictures of works if possible
• Elinor Lipman - Simmons alum - stub
• Mameve Medwed - Simmons alum - stub
• Maud Wood Park
• Anne Hunter Popkin - stub
• Edith Nourse Rogers - Great page; could potentially be nominated for GA, except it needs inline citations
• Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin - Needs inline citations
• Lucy Maynard Salmon - Needs additional or more specific categories
• Deborah Sampson - needs cleanup
• Srinagarindra - Princess Mother of Thailand; Simmons alum - tone needs editing and has insufficient inline citations
• Julia Williams - stub
• Elizabeth Winship - needs infobox, picture

Other Subjects Needing Improvement

• 1912 Lawrence Textile Strike - needs inline citations
• A Boy Named Sue
• Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
  • Official history
• Black Women Oral History Project - needs citations to reliable sources
• Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society - needs infobox, additional information (e.g., founders, activities)
• Chicana feminism - needs additional citations
• Chicago Clothing Workers' Strike - Possible duplicate; it has been suggested that this article be merged into 1910 Chicago Garment Workers' Strike
• Combat Exclusion Policy
• Committee to Ratify the Massachusetts State Equal Rights Amendment - stub; needs citations; orphan
• Comstock laws - requires cleanup
• Congressional Union - stub; needs additional information, infobox, citations
• Daughters of St. Crispin - stub
• Djibouti - only information about women is about motherhood, female genital cutting, and clothing: needs additional or more specific categories
• Female education in the United States - fix date values in references
• Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration - needs inline citations; orphan; subjective
• History of women in China - directs to Women in China which is about women in current-day China only
• The Holocaust - needs additional or more specific categories concerning women's experiences in the Holocaust
• Ipswich Female Seminary - stub
• Japanese American internment - needs additional or more specific categories concerning women
• Lucy Stone League - needs references to secondary and tertiary sources
• Moroccan feminists - lists only 3 names; needs additional or more specific categories
• National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies - needs citations
• Our Bodies, Ourselves
• Protective Laws - needs additional citations
• Queen's Castle - stub
  • [Fossenvue and the Women's Rights Movement]
• Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study - needs additional citations; tone needs editing
• Silent Sentinels - needs additional citations
• Simmons College -make sure alumni listed have category "Simmons College (Massachusetts) alumni" in their individual entries
• Suffrage Hikes - needs additional information, infobox
• This Bridge Called My Back - needs additional or more specific categories (list of contributing authors to this book is incomplete)
  • Donna Kate Rushin and Naomi Littlebear and Jo Carillo are contributors with no individual entries
• United States v. One Package of Japanese Pessaries - needs citations
• Vietnam War - needs additional or more specific categories concerning Vietnamese women

New Entries to be Written (People)

• Kathleen Adams
• Annie Ware Winsor Allen - 1884-1950, educator
  • Papers
• Amelia Muir Baldwin
  • Papers
  • 1915 Boston Evening Transcript article
• Letitia Woods Brown
• Mary Barnicle Cadle - 1891-1978
• Nancy Caroline - 1944-2002, doctor
  • Papers and Biographical Information
• Mary G. Chapman - abolitionist
• Juanita Jewel Craft
• Eunice Davis - singer
  • Article
• Sylvia Donaldson - 1849-1937; first woman to serve in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, with Susan Fitzgerald, in 1921; see NWHM
  • Entry via NWHM
• Margaret Dunkle - 1957-1993
• Ruth Ellen Fitch
  • Harvard Law Bulletin Profile
• Ruth Frankenberg
  • White Women, Race Matters
  • Obituary
• Sarah Merry Gamble
  • Papers
• Helena De Kay Gilder - d. 1916, artist
  • Richard Watson and Helena de Kay Gilder papers
  • [Richard Watson Gilder]
• Eliza Grier
• Louise W. Holborn - 1898-1975
• Sybil Holmes - first woman elected to Massachusetts State Senate, in 1936
  • Brief bio via Flickr
• Vida Lahey - 1882-1968, Australian painter
• Chloe Lee - abolitionist
• Clara Littledale - editor of Parents magazine
• Pragna Patel
  • 100 Top Women Activists
• Elizabeth Riley
• Elizabeth Bancroft Schlesinger
• Esther Mae Scott
• Lucy Sessions
• Catherine M. Sullivan
  • The role of communication, life role commitments, and sexist ideologies in dual-earner marriages
• Ruth Temple - 1892-1984, physician
• Caroline Weston - abolitionist
• Esther Wilkins - Simmons alum,born 1916, pioneer in the field of dental hygiene, teacher, and author of "Clinical Practice of the Dental Hygienist"
  • Information from Ancestry.com
  • [Henry Highland Garnet]
• Ada Worthington
  • Papers

New Entries to be Written (Organizations)

• Age Center of New England
• Boston NOW
• Boston Parents' Council
• Boston Women's Community Radio
• Boston Women's Health Book Collective - redirects to Our Bodies, Ourselves
• Cambridge Plant and Garden Club
• Cambridge Public School Association
• Camp Fire for Eastern Massachusetts Council
• Center for New Words
• Committee for the Equality of Women at Harvard
• Committee on the Status of Women at Harvard
• Consumers' League of Massachusetts
• Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. Boston Alumnae Chapter
• Denison House
  • [History at Harvard Open Collections Program]
• Epicurean Club of Boston and Vicinity
• Friends of the Framingham Reformatory
• Girls' High School Association - Boston
• Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers
• Junior League of Boston
• Lebanese Syrian Ladies' Aid Society
• Massachusetts History Workshop
• Massachusetts NOW
• Massachusetts Society for Social Health
• Massachusetts State Federation of Women's Clubs
• Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association
• Massport Jets
• Mother's Study Club of Cambridge
• Moving Violations Motorcycle Club
• NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts
• Night of Terror
  • Occoquan Workhouse
• North Bennet Street Industrial School
• Persephone Press
• Rockport Lodge
• Rutland Corner House
• Quest: a Feminist Quarterly
• Saturday Morning Club of Boston
• Sojourner (publication)
• South Boston Neighborhood House
• Window Shop
• Woman Suffrage Party of Cambridge
• Girls' LEAP Self-Defense

Other Entries to be Written

• Peg's Paper
• Sephardi Women
• Yentl's Revenge

Start your research with these resources

Simmons College

• Simmons College History and Online Exhibits

Women's History

E-books

• Google Books
• Project Gutenberg
• Internet Archive
• Digital Public Library of America
• HathiTrust

Databases

• Women and Social Movements International
• Women and Social Movements in the United States
• Newspaper databases

Books & Encyclopedias

• Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers
• Readers' Companion to U.S. Women's History
• Women in the Middle Ages
• Notable American women, 1607-1950 a biographical dictionary
• Notable American women : the modern period : a biographical dictionary
• Notable American women : a biographical dictionary completing the twentieth century
• The Grounding of Modern Feminism
• No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women
• Lesser-Known Women: A Biographical Dictionary
• Women's Firsts

Public Domain Images

• Schlesinger Library: Public Domain images on Flickr Commons
• Finding Public Domain Images
• Creative Commons Image Search
• Wikimedia Commons

Wikipedia & the Gender Gap

Wikipedia logo with feminist symbol.

• Wikimedia Foundation: Gender Gap
• Unlocking the Clubhouse: Five Ways to Encourage Women to Edit Wikipedia
• Wikimedia Foundation: Gender Gap Manifesto
• Wikipedia's gender gap and the complicated reality of systemic gender bias
• How To Be A Woman On The Internet

Wikipedia Help

These are just to get you started -- feel free to add to this list.

About Wikipedia

• Five Pillars of Wikipedia
• GLAM Beginners Guide
• Wikipedia Tutorial
• Wiki Project: Women's History

Article Examples

• Wikipedia quality scale
• Here is an article that Wikipedia rated as "good" Lowell Mill Girls
• Here is another article that Wikipedia rated as "good" Feminism
• Here is a "featured" article List of First Ladies of the United States

Formatting Shortcuts

• Help:Cheatsheet
• Starting an Article
• Citation Guide
• Wiki Markup Quick Reference
• Text Formatting
• Section Headers, Indents, and Lists
• Links
• Infobox templates

Wikiproject Templates

• If your article fits the projects' criteria, add the template to the article's Talk page. There are many Wikiprojects, here are two examples.
  • WikiProject: Women's History Template
  • WikiProject: Feminist Taskforce Template

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