Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Celebrating Influential Polish and Polish-American Women Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

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Celebrating Influential Polish and Polish-American Women Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

Only 18% of biographies on Wikipedia are about women. Help us change that! Join the Embassy of the Republic of Poland and Wikimedia DC for a Celebrating Influential Polish and Polish-American Women Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. Learn to edit Wikipedia and help to improve or create articles about notable Polish and Polish-American women. Lunch will be provided. Participants will also receive books and other rewards.

The event is a part of the celebration of the centennial of diplomatic relations between Poland and the United States.

Laptops are required. Please bring your own. Wikimedia DC has two laptops to loan. Reserve one by emailing info@wikimediadc.org.

When

Friday, November 15, 2019 11AM-2PM

Where

Embassy of the Republic of Poland

2640 16th Street Northwest

Washington, DC 20009

Register

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Coordination

Please use the Etherpad link below to share what you are currently editing. Remember to type 'Done' or 'Finished' when you are through making changes. REMEMBER TO PUBLISH (SAVE) OFTEN.

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Please sign in

This is for use on the day of the event.

1) Select 'Sign in'

2) Scroll down on the page that follows and click 'Publish changes' or 'Save changes'.

Your username will automatically be added to the list of attendees.

Presentation

Wikimedia Projects

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Wikidata, a common source of data, also accessible by the other projects
Wiktionary, a dictionary
Wikibooks, educational textbooks
Wikinews, news articles
Wikiquote, a collection of quotations
Wikisource, a library of source texts and documents
Wikiversity, educational material
Wikivoyage, a travel guide
Wikispecies, a taxonomic catalogue of species

Wikipedia Policies

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About the Article Assessment Quality Scale

Stub

Maria Kuncewiczowa (Wikidata)

LITERATURE development of her EN entry

MEDIA: development of her Polish heritage at her EN entry

Start Class

Grażyna Auguścik (Wikidata)

MUSIC jazz musician in Chicago, an article to be improved

Joanna Bator (Wikidata)

LITERATURE update of her EN entry

Dorota Masłowska (Wikidata)

LITERATURE update of her EN entry

Hanna Krall (Wikidata)

LITERATURE update of her EN entry

Dorota Kobiela (Wikidata)

FILM development of her EN entry

Maria Siemionow (Wikidata)

SCIENCE EN entry to be developed – transplant surgeon

Iwona Stroynowski (Wikidata)

SCENCE EN entry to be developed

Franciszka Themerson (Wikidata)

LITERATURE development of her EN entry

Iwona Chmielewska (Wikidata)

ART DESIGN development of her EN entry

Olga Boznańska (Wikidata)

ART DESIGN development of her EN entry

Wioletta Grzegorzewska (Wikidata)

LITERATURE update of her EN entry

C Class

Anne Wojcicki (Wikidata)

Anne is the co-founder and CEO of 23&me, a personal genetics company.

Anne Wojcicki’s older sister, Susan Wojcicki is the CEO of YouTube

Susan and Anne Wojcicki’s father, Stanley, was born in Warsaw, Poland and is a pre-eminent physicist and professor emeritus at Stanford University. Their grandfather was a member of Poland’s parliament.

Potential Sources:

https://businessinsider.com.pl/wiadomosci/susan-wojcicki-odnowila-polski-paszport/jccj70g

https://www.forbes.pl/wiadomosci/prezes-youtube-susan-wojcicki-z-wizyta-w-polsce-kolejny-google-albo-youtube-moze/q0gb4vm

https://culture.pl/en/article/an-open-letter-to-youtube-ceo-susan-wojcicki-about-the-pronunciation-of-her-surname"

Irena Lasota (Wikidata)

POLITICS ACTIVIST Update needed

Wanda Rutkiewicz (Wikidata)

SPORTS an article to be improved

Martyna Majok (Wikidata)

LITERATURE update of her EN entry

Joanna Kulig (Wikidata)

FILM development of her EN entry

Dagmara Domińczyk (Wikidata)

FILM development of her EN entry

Maria Czaplicka (Wikidata)

SCIENCE anthropologist, EN entry to be developed

Ursula von Rydingsvard (Wikidata)

ART DESIGN to develop the topic of her Polish heritage in her art

Barbara Hulanicki (Wikidata)

ART DESIGN PL fashion designer established in Miami development of her EN entry

Rita Cosby (Wikidata)

MEDIA: development of her Polish heritage at her EN entry

Anna Świrszczyńska (Wikidata)

LITERATURE development of her EN entry

Barbara Kwiatkowska-Lass (Wikidata)

FILM development of her EN entry

GA (Good Article)

Stephanie Kwolek (Wikidata)

Stephanie Kwolek was a Polish-American chemist who invented what is known today as Kevlar.

Wisława Szymborska (Wikidata)

Described as the “Mozart of Poetry” and “A Poet of Consciousness” Wisława Szymborska was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996 for, “poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality." Szymborska wrote some twenty books of poetry and became renowned all throughout the world.

Susan Wojcicki (Wikidata)

Susan Wojcicki is the CEO of YouTube. She recently received Polish citizenship and has traveled to Poland to speak about innovation.

Susan Wojcicki’s younger sister, Anne, is the co-founder and CEO of 23&me, a personal genetics company.

Susan and Anne Wojcicki’s father, Stanley, was born in Warsaw, Poland and is a pre-eminent physicist and professor emeritus at Stanford University. Their grandfather was a member of Poland’s parliament.

Potential Source

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/18/how-the-wojcickis-parents-raised-23andme-founder-youtube-ceo.html