Wikipedia:Meetup/Bloomington/AdrianneWadewitzMemorial

Adrianne Wadewitz
Memorial Edit-a-thon
	Photo: Washington, D.C., in July 2012
Date	Friday, March 27, 2015
Time	10am-5pm
Venue	Herman B Wells Library, Scholars Commons, Rm 157H
Location	Bloomington, Indiana

Indiana University Bloomington Meetup & Edit-a-thon

This special session will honor our beloved, brilliant colleague, Adrianne Wadewitz, who died last year in a tragic rock climbing accident. (Her New York Times obituary.)

An 18th-centuryist, Wadewitz was also an innovator in digital humanities. In particular, she worked tirelessly to increase the representation of women and minorities on Wikipedia--an online resource which historically has been edited primarily by men. Concerned with content, she wanted to ensure that a diversity of stories and voices were being recognized. During our extended session,we will thus add new entries and expand incomplete ("stub") entries for important literary, historical, artistic, and scientific figures from our period. In essence, we hope to contribute to an Encyclopédie project for the 21st century, following Diderot's aim: "to change the way people think."

We are thus soliciting ideas for content, and well as for participation in this digital humanities event. As eighteenth-century scholars, we have a remarkable opportunity to share our knowledge about this dynamic period--its narratives; its scientific, legal, social, and political discourses; and its novelists, poets, artists, theologians, and thinkers--with a much broader audience by contributing to this increasingly influential online resource.

We will be collaborating with experienced Wikipedians, so no prior editing experience with the encyclopedia is necessary. Instead, we can channel our collective energy into deciding what to add—including fresh entries as well as significant expansion of existing ones. We anticipate writing at least some of the content in advance, although this preparation is not required. The number of entries we add or revise will depend on the total number of participants, but our goal is to contribute substantially to at least 20-30 entries. Obviously, this will be a highly collaborative endeavor, and our hope is to draw a wide range of contributors from senior scholars to graduate students. No time commitment is too short or too long -- feel free to drop in for a few minutes, or stay for an hour or two. You may also contribute throughout the conference, or join us virtually.

Event information

Date: Friday, March 27, 2015
Time: 12-6 PM EST
Location: Herman B Wells Library, Indiana University Bloomington, Scholars' Commons, 157H/IQ Wall.
Address: 1320 E 10th Street, Bloomington, IN 47405
Please bring your own laptop.

Attendees

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Tools and templates

List of articles to edit

The following is a sampling of suggested articles to create or add upon. However, feel free to come up with your own ideas! In addition to the suggestions below, editors may consider cleaning up articles on more well-known women. Helpful updates could be as simple as: Making sure reference links are still appropriate and functional; Adding new inline citations/references; Adding a photo; Adding an infobox; Adding data to more fields in an existing infobox; Creating headings; Adding categories; etc.

Please see the CyberDH Blog for help and a list of articles needing work.

Abnormality_(behavior) (citations, tone, neutrality)
Abortion_in_Uganda (tone)
Academic_dishonesty (tone)
The_Addams_Family (Characters section has tone issues)
Bad_girl_art (quality, tone, factual accuracy)
Ballet_Folklorico_Aztlan (needs citations and someone thinks it doesn't meet notability standards, which we should challenge)
Polly_Barber (orphaned article!)
Abbey_Bartlet (contains weasel words; and hey! The West Wing!)
Care_Bears (verification, lead section re-written)
Pearl_Casias (tone, lead section)
Cat_gap (too many and too lengthy quotations)
Caucusing ("this article reads like a term paper")
Elaine_Coffman (tone)
Cold_Lake_First_Nations (relies entirely on a single source)
Lady_Catherine_de_Bourgh (character from Pride and Prejudice! Too many quotations. Do Adrianne proud and fix this!)
Shannon_Delany (tone)
Blanche_Devereaux (clean up of a Golden Girl!)
Disability_culture (tone)
Elder_abuse (tone)
Ella_Cinders (too many quotations, 1920s comic)
Emai_people (citations, tone)
Emma_(series) (no citations, too much detail)
Ever_After_High (citations and too fannish)
Falling in love (incomplete and poorly sourced)
Deanna Favre (style and tone)
Louise Fazenda (proper citations needed and verification)
Female figures in the Quran (sources, citation style, and quoted material)
Filipino domestic helpers in Canada (orphaned page, sources and citation style need work)
Filipino portrayals in American media (orphaned, tone is too personal)
Financial Women's Association (needs more neutrality, too close to an advertisement)
Lina Flor (style, sources, verification)
Antonia Forest (tone and objectivity, needs verification)
Emma Forsayth (needs inline citation)
Jane Frank (tone, personal opinion)
Suzan Frecon (sources and citations)
Suzanne Gabriello (verification and translation from German & French)
Eva Carrillo de García (orphaned, needs sources and tone improvements)
Gender role in language (editing, use of quotes needs context and style improvements)
Charlotte Gilbertson (overly subjective, needs work on sources)
Girl Genius (editing, style)
Melissa Goddard (only source is IMDb)
Lakshmi Gopalaswamy (sources too slight, fan-based)
Jean Grey (too fannish, needs sources)
Hair jewellery (too personal, needs objectivity)
Greta Gynt (tone, sources need verification)
Betty Heathfield (editing, sources)
Laurie Helgoe (orphaned, style, tone)
History of sex in India (tone, verification, sources)
Hooker with a heart of gold (editing, sources, verification)
Human sexuality spectrum (orphaned, needs in-line citations)
Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress (development, sources)
Role_of_women_in_Nicaraguan_Revolution (tone)
Hema Upadhyay
Mamie Van Doren
Jean van Heijenoort
Harriet Ware
Rebecca Wells
Women Artists of Bangladesh
Women for women's human rights
Women in prison film
Women in Sikhism
Women's day massacre
Women's education in Saudi Arabia
Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz
Elizabeth Woody
Waldorf_education
Mia_Zapata (tone)
Lyudmila_Zhivkova (insufficient citations, tone)
Zoobles!_(anime) (Characters section has tone issues)
Marine Life
Iker Hernandez (insufficent information on his early career)
Brittany Bock (insufficient information)

Resources for Research

JSTOR Provides searchable full-text of historical runs of important scholarly journals in the humanities, arts, sciences, ecology, and business.
LexisNexis Academic Organized into 5 categories, LexisNexis includes articles from international newspapers, magazines, transcripts, legal research and medical journals.
Research Resources tab on IUB Libraries home page

List of Articles Worked On

List or Wikipedia articles attendees have worked to improve.
Abortion in Uganda
History of sex in India
Marine ecosystem
Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball
Six Flags Great America
Falling in Love
Financial Women's Association
Kris Bryant
Captive killer whales
2011 Indiana vs. Kentucky men's basketball game
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Ella Cinders