Wikipedia:Meetup/Vancouver WikiWomen's Edit-a-Thon
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Details
- Date: Sunday March 25th, 2012
- Time: Starting at 1 PM
- Location: Prophouse Café on Venables St. and Commercial Dr.; see on Google Maps
- Event: An edit-a-thon focusing on (but not limited to) women's history, due to Women's History Month
- What to bring: Since there are no public computers available, please bring your own laptops or other mobile devices for editing. If you contribute to Commons, you might consider bringing your camera; the café is full of movie props and interesting objects.
If you live in the Vancouver area, consider joining us for an informal event at the Prophouse Café on March 25. It will be an edit-a-thon focusing on women's history due to it being Women's History Month, although work and discussions on anything of interest to the Vancouver Wikipedian community is welcome. Please sign below if you are interested, and feel free to edit this page or ask any questions.
Attending
Articles
Please add any articles you want to see worked on during the event!
Missing articles from "Where's the bio?", a study comparing bibliography databases (there were some others, but they didn't seem notable enough):
- Robin Owens (futuristic romance writer)
- Wendy Beckett (playwright)
Canadian articles:
- Inges Idee (the German artists of The Drop at the Vancouver Convention Centre [pictured])
- Almeera Jiwa (Vancouverite actress)
- Claire Bonenfant - Québécoise politician and champion of feminist rights, Chevalier of the Ordre national du Québec, and former president of the Quebec Status of Women Council. University of Laval department named in her honour ("Claire Bonenfant Chair in women’s studies").
- Articles from here
Other:
- Jo Ann Smith (former USDA undersecretary, now getting publicity for her role in the "pink slime" controversy)