Jump to content

Wikipedia:Meetup/WMWH

Add links
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
To sign up for this event: Log in or create an account.
Wiki-Women-Middle East
Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
When and Where
DateThursday March 31, 2016
DateThursday July 14, 2016

On the occasion of Women’s History Month 2016, Writing Middle Eastern Women into History Initiative (WMWH) is launching Wiki-Women-Middle East, a series of Wiki Edit-a-thon gatherings around the globe to add profiles of Middle Eastern women cultural and social art practitioners to Wikipedia.

Event details

[edit]

While volunteer editors can join this ongoing collective effort remotely at their preferred time and space, on Thursday, March 31, 2016, pilot programs will take place in four locations:

  • Location 1: CultureHub, 47 Great Jones St, New York, NY 10012 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
  • Location 2: Herat WMWH member space 8:00 am – 10:00 am
  • Location 3: Mashhad WMWH member space 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
  • Location 4 – Core Hub: Arab American National Museum, Annex Building, 13624 Michigan Ave, Dearborn, MI 48126 8:00 am – 8:00 pm
    • Profiles of DIWAN Forum's women members will be highlighted and registered to Wikipedia at this location
  • What to bring:Participants should bring their own laptops and power cords
  • Cost: The program is free and open to the public
  • Hashtag: #WHMH2016

Wiki-Women Middle East list

[edit]

Resources

[edit]

See Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism/Resources
If you are unfamiliar with Wikipedia, you might try this training module which will help explain a lot of things, including how to add your signature.

Editing Wikipedia resources

[edit]

Listed here for quick reference.
N.B. Also located on the Resources page referenced above under Editor Resources

Tools and templates

[edit]

Outcomes

[edit]

Pages improved

[edit]

Alphabetical by first letter

  1. Alise Alousi -- Watershrimp (talk)
  2. Women on Walls -- Tovacarlin (talk)

Pages created

[edit]

Alphabetical by first letter

  1. Laila Ajjawi -- Tovacarlin (talk) -- Stub
[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to 2016 WMWH.

March 2016 - Sign up

[edit]
To sign up for this event: Log in or create an account.
  1. Pharos (talk) 16:56, 31 March 2016 (UTC) - NYC[reply]
  2. BrillLyle (talk) 17:59, 31 March 2016 (UTC) - remote support[reply]
  3. George Rahme (talk) 19:13, 31 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Mehrdadsb (talk) 19:57, 31 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Watershrimp (talk) 21:31, 31 March 2016 (UTC) - NYC[reply]
  6. Tovacarlin (talk) 21:48, 31 March 2016 (UTC) - NYC[reply]
  7. Sofalyd (talk) 22:29, 31 March 2016 (UTC) - NYC[reply]
  8. Hasan4 art (talk) 22:35, 31 March 2016 (UTC) - Detroit[reply]
  9. Stripedplantz (talk) 22:40, 31 March 2016 (UTC) - Detroit[reply]
  10. Avaansari (talk) 22:52, 31 March 2016 (UTC) - Detroit[reply]
  11. Zegeer (talk) 13:15, 27 April 2016 (UTC) - NYC[reply]

July 2016 - Sign up

[edit]
To sign up for this event: Log in or create an account.
  1. Pharos (talk) 13:22, 14 July 2016 (UTC) - NYC[reply]
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Meetup/WMWH&oldid=741671174"