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Women's History Edit-a-thon, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University

(remote participants also welcome)

Every month is women's history month at the Schlesinger Library! Participants are invited to come to the Schlesinger Library to create and edit Wikipedia entries on women and organizations represented within our collections. Please bring your own ideas of women and areas of women's history that need more documentation within Wikipedia.

Cambridge, MA event details

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  • Date: Wednesday, April 17th, 2013, 2:00pm to 5:00pm EDT
  • Venue: Schlesinger Library, 3 James Street, Cambridge, MA, USA
  • Cost: Free
  • Participants: The event is open to anyone interested in women’s history! No Wiki editing experience necessary; as needed, tutorials will be provided for Wikipedia newcomers. Can’t come for the whole time? No problem. Join us for as little or as long as you like.
  • Details: Attendees should bring their own laptops and power cords if possible. Some library computers will be available for use. Light food and drinks will be provided.
  • Registration: If possible, please add your name to the guest list below

Confirmed Wikipedians attending

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Guest List

Online participation

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If you cannot make it to the Schlesinger Library in person but would still like to participate, you are more than welcome to do so remotely. Suggested articles appear below, or you may add or contribute to one of your choosing. So that we can count you as having participated, please add your contributions under the #Results section below.

Online participants

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Suggested Topics for April 17th edit-a-thon

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The following is a sampling of suggested articles to create or add upon. These women and organizations are all represented in the Schlesinger Library's archival holdings. However, feel free to come up with your own ideas!

Articles needing creation

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Resources: Women's History

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Resources: Editing Wikipedia

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After you create a new article, a Wikipedia editor will review it and OK it for inclusion in Wikipedia. This can take several hours or several days. Writing successful Wikipedia entries is somewhat of an art. Two main hurdles Schlesinger Library staff have faced are those of copyright and "notability."

Copyright: The Schlesinger Library creates finding aids for our collections with biographical information included. While this information can be used to write a Wikipedia entry, it can not be cut and pasted into Wikipedia (copying anything directly into Wikipedia may be a violation of copyright).

"Notability": Wikipedia places importance on secondary sources as a basis for proving an entry is notable enough to be included. Because of that, entries are more likely to be easily approved if they have clear references to a number of secondary sources about the person/topic.

Results

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New articles created:

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