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FemTechNet Resources and Videos

• Wikistorming
• Types of Wikipedia Work
• Editing on Wikipedia with Adrianne Wadewitz
• Feminism, Technology and WikiStorming Video Dialogue featuring Adrianne Wadewitz & Jacque Wernimont
• About #Global Women Write In

FemTechNet Articles and News

• Anne Balsamo and Alex Juhasz (2012), "An Idea Whose Time is Here: FemTechNet – A Distributed Online Collaborative Course (DOCC)" in Ada: a Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology.
• Media Mentions
• Technical Report (Sept 2013)
• FemTechNet Manifesto

Other Training Lesson Plans and Tutorials

Wikipedia:

• How to write a great article
• How to edit a page
• Training for Students, a tutorial for beginners
• Wikipedia Tutorial
• How to edit a page
• Your First Article (using the Article Wizard, if you wish)

Wikimedia Outreach:

• Wiki Markup Quick Reference, PDF version of printed handout
• Wikipedia Cheat Sheet (Bookshelf), another markup cheatsheet
• Bookshelf, additional "getting started" resources

Art+Feminism:

• Art + Feminism Training Slides
• ArtandFeminism Training Lesson Plan
• Art+Feminism Training Videos

Other Resources:

• Beginners' Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
• Guide to Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing by Susan H. Rodger (applicable to any biography)

Wikipedia editing

• Welcome to Wikipedia
• Introduction
• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• Common Questions
• Help pages
• Discover what's going on in the Wikimedia community
• Talk pages
• Sign your name using four tildes (~~~~); that will automatically produce your username and the date.
• What is a Wikipedian?
• Five Pillars of Wikipedia, philosophical guidelines and best practices for editing
• Welcome to Wikipedia
• GLAM's Beginner Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
• How to edit a page
• Article development
• Manual of Style
• Infobox templates

More on Wikipedia Markup Language (Wikicode)

Wikicode Resources

• Wikipedia Cheat Sheet, Wikipedia markup cheatsheet
• Wiki Markup Quick Reference, PDF version of markup language cheatsheet

Citing Sources

• Citing Sources in Wikipedia Tutorial
• Referencing for Beginners
• More Info on Citing Sources
• Citation templates

About “Wikipedia’s Women Problem”

• Gender gap resources.
• James Gleick, “Wikipedia’s Women Problem,” The New York Review of Books (4/29/13)
• Amanda Filipacchi, “Wikipedia’s Sexism Toward Female Novelists,” New York Times Opinion (4/24/13)
• Sue Gardner, “New York Times prompts a flurry of coverage of Wikipedia’s gender gap,” Sue Gardner’s Blog (1/31/11)
• Noam Cohen, “Define Gender Gap? Look Up Wikipedia’s Contributor List,” The New York Times (1/30/11)

From Adrianne Wadewitz’s HASTAC blog:

• “The struggle over gender on Wikipedia: the case of Chelsea Manning,” (with Phoebe Ayers)(9/3/13)
• “Looking at the five pillars of Wikipedia as a feminist, part 1″ (8/26/13) & part 2 (11/13/13)
• “Wikipedia’s gender gap and the complicated reality of systemic gender bias,” (7/26/13)

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