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Wikipedia:Meetup/Simmons University/Women's Suffrage and Civil Rights Activism 2020

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Welcome!

Beatley Library and the Alumni Chair of Public Humanities at Simmons University

are hosting a Wikipedia edit-a-thon focused on Women Activists

part of our "Digitizing Women's Suffrage" series

co-sponsored by the Colleges of the Fenway

and the Wentworth Institute of Technology Presidential EPIC Mini-Grant program

When: Tuesday, March 31, 2020, 10am-4pm

Where: Virtual!

Event Details

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Officers of the First National Conference of the Colored Women of America, Boston, July 29-31, 1895
 
Portrait of suffragist Mabel Ping-Hua Lee from the New York Tribune, 1912

Simmons University and Wentworth Institute of Technology are co-hosting an edit-a-thon to help make women's history more visible on Wikipedia. It's the second event in our "Digitizing Women's History series"[1] marking the 100th Anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment.

Our focus is on activists, especially suffrage and civil rights activists who were or are women of color. The event is open to all. Join us whether or not you've ever edited Wikipedia entries before!


 
Women's March, January 2017

Schedule

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10 AM - 4 PM

Laura R. Prieto, Jess Wallis, and other experts will be available for editing help and support throughout the day in this designated Zoom room

The event is open to all but if you do not already have experience editing Wikipedia, we recommend the modules available at Wikipedia Training.

We will help new editors get started quickly and have free online resources available to help with your research.

Logistics

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For day-of-event questions, please call: (617) 521-2780

Interested in participating?

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We've created a dashboard to keep track of what articles we work on and our total edits. Please sign up there to contribute to this edit-a-thon!

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Besides the articles listed on the Dashboard, look through the stubs on Activist stubs and its sublists, especially American activist stubs. Also see Missing articles on suffragists.

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Wikipedia & the Gender Gap

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Wikipedia logo with feminist symbol.

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