Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/American University Scholar as Detective Edit-a-thon
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American University Scholar as Detective Edit-a-thon
Did you know that only 18% of English-language biographies on Wikipedia are about women? Help to change that editing and creating Wikipedia articles. Students can expect to learn how to edit Wikipedia and use their new skills to edit and create articles on the event's work list.
When
- Tuesday, April 13, 2021 & Friday, April 16, 2021
- 4:05pm-5:20pm EDT
Safe Space Policy[edit]
Presentation[edit]
Sign in: Outreach Dashboard[edit]
Step one: Go to the Dashboard
Step 2: Select 'Login with Wikipedia'. (If you don't have a username already, open another tab and go HERE to create one.)
Step 3: Enter Wikipedia username and password
Suggested Article Work List[edit]
Shirley Elizabeth Barnes - Former United States Ambassador to Madagascar
- Tasks: Add interview to External links, add photo to inforbox
Jane Anyango - Peace and women's rights activist
- Tasks: Expand biography, add sections, fix dead links in references
Evelyn Groesbeeck Mitchell - Doctor and activist who established women's clinic
- Tasks: Expand biography, add external links to primary materials
- Discover the life and career of an early public health heroine. , Smithsonian Archives - Source includes information about her work and activism
- National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: General Correspondence, 1839-1961; Mitchell, Evelyn
- Lawsuit filed by Evelyn Groesbeck Mitchell 4-28-1908, Washington Herald
Chafika Meslem - Algerian politician and diplomat (Article in French Wikipedia)
- Tasks: Improve article by adding inline citations
Dubravka Šimonovic - Human rights activist (Article in Spanish Wikipedia)
- Tasks: Add sections, expand biography
- Dubravka Šimonovic - UNHR biography
- Dubravka Šimonovic - UN biography
- Dubravka Šimonovic - UN report on violence again women
Manila Davis Talley - First woman pilot from West Virginia, third women to complete Air Force War College
- Tasks: Use 'primary materials' to improve articles. Be sure to check image rights and upload to Wikimedia Commons if the rights permit. All images in Wikipedia must be uploaded to Wiki Commons first.
- Manila Davis Talley Scrapbook, SI Online Virtual Archives
- Manila Davis Betsy Ross Corps Membership Card
Gurubai Karmarkar - Second Indian woman to graduate from the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania
- Tasks: Build article body, upload photos to Commons/Add to article or external links
- This 19th Century “Lady Doctor” Helped Usher Indian Women Into Medicine
- Photos: South Asian American Digital Archive
Rilla Moran Woods, first President of the National Federation of Democratic Women
- Tasks: Build article body, add biography
- History of NFDW Includes information about founding of organization and her leadership
- Rilla Moran Woods obituary
- Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, 1980
Draft:Cashmere Nicole, Entrepreneur, Founder Beauty Bakerie
- Task: Build article body, add biography
- How Beauty Bakerie founder Cashmere Nicole went from food stamps to launching a multi-million dollar cosmetics brand, Good Morning America
- How A Single Mom Battling Breast Cancer Built Beauty Bakerie To A $5M Brand, Got Unilever To Invest, Forbes
- Women Inspiring Women, WWD
- Beauty Bakerie CEO Cashmere Nicole Opens Up About the Inclusive Indie Makeup Brand's Massive Success, Allure
Draft:Josephine Serrano Collier - First Mexican-American woman to join the Los Angeles Police Department
- Tasks: Create and expand sections
- Use sources already listed in the article's references section
Articles/Drafts for Creation[edit]
Mary Anna Henry - Witness to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- Tasks: Start lead paragraph, continue with sections if able to do so. Upload images to Wikimedia Commons, add to article.
- Mary Henry: Eyewitness to the Civil War
- Mary Henry Diary Entries, April 1865, Death of President Lincoln
- Mary Henry Diary
Hattie Meyers Junkin - Aviator, first women to earn a “C”-level pilot's license
- Tasks: Start lead paragraph, continue with sections if able to do so
- The Fascinating Story of Hattie Meyers, National Aviation Heritage Area - Source includes information about the start of her career in aviation
- Hattie Meyers Weaver: Life During the Great Influenza Epidemic of 1918, Smithsonian Collections Blog - Source includes information about family life
- Hattie Meyers Junkin, Smithsonian Archives - Source includes a brief biography (scroll to Biographical note)
S. K. Chan (Dr. S. K. Chan) - President of the Chinese American Equal Suffrage Society in Portland, Oregon
- Tasks: Start lead paragraph, continue with sections if able to do so
- Neither Head nor Tail to the Campaign: Esther Pohl Lovejoy and the Oregon Woman Suffrage Victory of 1912 by Kimberly Jenson - Source includes detail about her and her work on the committee. Go to PDG page 17 for first mention of Dr. Chan.
- Who Was Left Out of the Story?, National Museum of American History - Source includes brief mention of her activism
- The bold suffragists you likely didn’t learn about in school, Mashable (See #9) - Source includes brief mention of her activism
Draft:Jane Connors - Victims' Rights Advocate, United Nations
- Tasks: Start lead paragraph, continue with sections if able to do so
- Jane Connors - UN biography
- Jane Connors - UN press release
- Jane Connors - Australia National University article
Draft:Marieme Jamme Founder of iamtheCODE initiative (Living)
- Tasks: Start lead paragraph, continue with sections if able to do so
- The woman building an army of female coders, one line at a time., BBC - Source includes information about her work
- Bio - Source includes biographical information, especially work history
- Bio Source includes biographical information, especially work history
- Jamme's website (For use as external site)
Note : This page exists here, but without accent. This user edited another page
Draft:Christine Ahn - Peace activist
- Tasks: Start lead paragraph, continue with sections if able to do so
- Bio, WHC SheSource
- WCDMZ’S CHRISTINE AHN ANNOUNCED WINNER OF 2020 US PEACE PRIZE
- American Peace Activist Is Denied Entry to South Korea
Alicia Baro - Human and women's rights activist
- Tasks: Start lead paragraph, continue with sections if able to do so
Draft:Laura Bergt - Activist for pushed for the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, Alaska Women's Hall of Fame
- Tasks: Start lead paragraph, continue with sections if able to do so
- Bio, Alaska Women Hall of Fame
- Alaska Women's Hall of Fame honors Alaska Native leader
- Laura Bergt Named Indian Arts and Crafts Board Commissioner, indianaffairs.gov
Draft:Melanie Campbell (civil rights)
- Tasks: Start lead paragraph, continue with sections if able to do so
- Bio, Women's Media Center
- ‘This is how democracy crumbles’: Melanie Campbell on the fight to defend Black votes
Draft:Antionette Carroll - Designer, founder Creative Reaction Lab (Living)
- Tasks: Start lead paragraph, continue with sections if able to do so
- Cut & Paste podcast: Antionette Carroll on how designers can solve social problems, St. Louis Public Radio
- Non-profit Creative Reaction Lab engages black, Latino St. Louis youth to address societal issues, St. Louis Public Radio
- Building Equity Through Design with Antionette Carroll - Source includes biographical information about her and organization
- Bio, AIGA, St. Louis
Draft:Turning Point Suffragist Memorial
- Tasks: Start lead paragraph, continue with sections if able to do so. Be sure to include updates on recent design changes and progress.
- Suffragist Memorial Construction Makes Progress
- Pandemic Levels Blow to Women’s Memorial Funding, Suffragist Turning Point Memorial work proceeds with design changes
- NPR: Women's Suffrage Memorial Breaks Ground In Northern Virginia
- Nova Parks: Turning Point Suffragist Memorial
- Turning Point Suffragist Memorial Location
Draft:Sandra Williams Ortega - Maryland’s first African American woman commissioned as a U.S. Air Force Officer
- Tasks: Start lead paragraph, continue with sections if able to do so
Draft:Ruth Kurzbauer - Foreign Service Officer, diplomat (US->China)
- Tasks: Start lead paragraph, continue with sections if able to do so
Draft:Wynn Richards - Photographer
- Tasks: Start lead paragraph, continue with sections if able to do so
Draft:Marsha Anne Gomez - Artist, social activist
- Tasks: Start lead paragraph, continue with sections if able to do so
Zena Howard - Award-winning architect, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Bio, North Carolina African American Heritage Commission
- Meet the Black Woman Architect Behind the New Smithsonian Museum
- How This Architect Managed The Design Of The National Museum Of African American History And Culture, Forbes
- [How This Architect Managed The Design Of The National Museum Of African American History And Culture NEWS10/16/20 USC ARCHITECTURAL GUILD HONOREE SPOTLIGHT: ZENA HOWARD]
Regina Safirsztajn - Holocaust victim, one of four women who orchestrated the Auschwitz uprising
- Article, German Wikipedia
- Portrait of Regina Szafirsztajn, one of the four women who was hanged for her participation in the Auschwitz uprising - See 'About this Photograph' for full bio
- See also: Anna Heilman
- Yad Vashem oral history that describes the uprising
- Sala's Gift: My Mother's Holocaust Story By Ann Kirschner
Dora Chatterjee - Third Indian woman to graduate from the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania
- Tasks: Build article body, upload photos to Commons/Add to article or external links
- This 19th Century “Lady Doctor” Helped Usher Indian Women Into Medicine
- Photos and documents: South Asian American Digital Archive
- Missing at the Smithsonian exhibition: 3 Indian women who graduated from medical school in the US in the 19th century
Additional resources[edit]
- Internet Archive
- Cleveland Museum of Art Open Access
- Smithsonian Open Access
- The Met, Open Access
- Library of Congress Digital Collections
- New York Public Library Digital Collections
- The Legacy Center - Repository for the records and heritage of Drexel University College of Medicine and its predecessor institutions, including Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania and Hahnemann University