Wikipedia:Meetup/Victoria/Gender Sex Activism Yesterday and Today 2014

*Gender/Sex Activism of Yesterday and Today* 2014 Edit-A-Thon
When and Where
Time	Thursday, October 23, 2014 (1:30 - 5 pm)
Address	Clearihue Building, Room B115, University of Victoria
City, State	Victoria, British Columbia

The Department of History and the Department of Gender Studies at the University of Victoria are co-hosting an edit-a-thon on women's history, titled "Gender/Sex Activism of Yesterday and Today." The goal of this edit-a-thon is to celebrate Women's History Month by improving public access to information on past and present activists and movements focused on gender and sex. Join us on October 23, 2014 from 1:30 - 5:00 pm in Clearihue Building, Room B115, at the University of Victoria. Those who are new to editing wikipedia are welcome, as are participants from other departments and specialties.

Wikipedia is the western world's most popular online encyclopedia, but it is acknowledged that only ten to fifteen percent of editors are women.^[1] This half-day event welcomes new and existing wikipedia editors. Participants will have access to helpful how-to guides and the session will begin with a brief introduction to wikipedia editing. Participants should bring a laptop to use during the event, and it would be useful to sign up for an account previous to the event. The event space will include some books for reference, but any materials editors can bring will be useful. Please note that pizza and snacks will be provided.

If you're not able to attend in person, you're welcome to participate remotely. To get started, see the links in the Resources section below.

Event information

Date: October 23, 2014
Time: 1:30 - 5:00 pm
Location: Clearihue B115

Please bring a laptop with you!

Attendees

Please add your Wikipedia username to the appropriate section below. If you don't have a Wikipedia username, get one in advance, or just add your name.

Confirmed

Tentative

Regrets

Online

DrWho42 (talk) 22:51, 16 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Possible articles to edit

Below is a list of articles that would benefit from creation or expansion during the edit-a-thon. Please feel free to brainstorm your own and add other pages to the list:

Individuals:

For creation:

Many of these suggestions were copied from Women's History Requested Articles.

Edith Bremer / Edith Terry Bremer (1885-1964), American social worker and pioneer in immigrant welfare.
Regina Davis, Black Panther.
Soledad Alatorre/Chole Alatorre (b. 1927), Chicana labor activist[1]
Dorothy Lee Bolden (b. 1923), Georgia labor organizer who headed the National Domestic Workers Union
Genevieve Clark/Genevieve Clark Thomson (1894 – c. 1982), suffragist, daughter of speaker of the house Champ Clark, progenitor of the hairstyle "Genevieve curl", and in the 1940s a candidate for the House of Representatives for Louisiana
Alma Dolens/Teresita dei Bonfatti/Teresita Pasini (b. 1876), Italian pacifist, journalist and suffragist[2]
Jane Galvin-Lewis NBFO co-founder[3]
Antonia Hernández/Antonia Hernandez (b. 1948), civil rights activist and lawyer[4]
June Holley Appalachian anti-poverty activist, network weaver[5]
Jane Elizabeth Jones/Jane Jones (1813-1896), abolitionist[6]
Mary Tarcisia Lakot, Ugandan peace advocate
Mary Eliza McDowell/Mary McDowell (1854-1936), Chicago social reformer[7]
Kakenya Ntaiya, Kenyan activist[8]
Hannah Jane Patterson/Hannah Patterson (1879-1937), Pennsylvania suffragist[9]
Joan Trumpauer - civil-rights activist; [10]]; took part in the June 4, 1961, Mississippi Freedom Ride; she and eight others were arrested and refused bail; served three months in jail before enrolling in historically black Tougaloo College
María Teresa Tula/Maria Teresa Tula, Salvadoran activist and leader of COMADRES [11][12]
Bertha May Walker, Australian labour activist[13]
Letitia Woods Brown (1915-1976), Historian and community activist[14]
Violette N. Anderson/Violette Anderson/Violette Neatley Anderson (1882-1937), lawyer and reformer[15][16][17]
Benita Galeana/Benita Galeana Lacunza (1903–1995), Mexican writer, suffragist, feminist, and social activist[18]

For expansion:

Groups

For creation:

Cercle Hermaphroditos (see Transgender History)

For expansion]:]

Veteran Feminists of America

Legality

For creation:

For expansion:

General Information

For creation:

For expansion:

Miscellaneous:

For creation:

Victoria Pride Festival (article modelled after Vancouver Pride Festival)
Feminist Studies (journal)
University of Victoria Archives and Special Collections (create and include information about Trans* Collection)

For expansion:

Wikiprojects

Resources

Sign up for a Wikipedia account
Read a bit about how to contribute to Wikipedia. Start with their page on your first article for the social conventions of “talk pages,” where discussion about individual articles and projects happens.
Further information on how to edit can be found in the help section, Wikipedia: The Missing Manual.
Wikipedia's Citation templates will format your citations nicely.

Tools and templates

Resources: Editing Wikipedia

Beginners’ Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
Five Pillars of Wikipedia
Tutorial
How to Edit a Page
Article Development
Your First Article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
Manual of Style
Citation Examples
Bookshelf

Post edit-a-thon considerations: DYK

Newly created articles are eligible for Did you know? (DYK) nominations within the first 5 days of their creation. (One of the ways new articles are highlighted are in the DYK section on Wikipedia's Main page.) Read the instructions and nominate your own or other newly created articles!

References

^ Scientific American

[1] Scientific American

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