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Women in Translation: Goethe-Institut Wiki-Workshop and Edit-a-thon

Join us for the Goethe-Institut New York Women in Translation edit-a-thon workshop.

Help address the gender and other gaps on Wikipedia relating to literary translation by editing articles on international women writers, women translators and other underrepresented groups. Come with your own computer, connect with countless resources, and leave with a basic toolkit to continue editing on your own. The workshop will be led by translators Margaret Carson and Alta L. Price.

Newcomers to Wikipedia and experienced contributors of all genders, including queer, gender-non-conforming and gender-non-binary, are welcome.

Please create your own Wikipedia account before the session: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:CreateAccount

Kindly RSVP via email to [email protected] to indicate interest in attending.

As a starting-off point, we will be providing a list of Wikipedia articles that are already in need of work. Participants are asked to bring their own laptops, which must be able to connect to the Internet.

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When

Thursday, 18 April 2019 3PM-5PM

Where

Goethe-Institut New York

30 Irving Place

(Between 15th & 16th Streets)

New York, New York 10003

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Presentation

Wikimedia Projects

Wikimedia movement
Wikipedia, a web-based encyclopedia
Wikimedia Commons, a data repository of media (images, videos and sounds). (See * Wikiproject Wikimedia Commons:GLAM Wikiproject)
Wikidata, a common source of data, also accessible by the other projects
Women in Red, a gender gap-bridging project on Wikipedia
Wiktionary, a dictionary
Wikibooks, educational textbooks
Wikinews, news articles
Wikiquote, a collection of quotations
Wikisource, a library of source texts and documents
Wikiversity, educational material
Wikivoyage, a travel guide
Wikispecies, a taxonomic catalogue of species

Wikipedia Policies

Quick Editing Tips

Help:Getting started
Wikipedia:Your first article
Help:Referencing for beginners
Creating Redirects with Visual Editor
Creating Redirector with Source Editor
Using categories
Cheatsheet for Wiki markup

Tools and Other Resources

Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Essays/Primer for creating women's biographies
Track Wikipedia Page Views
Wikimedia Statistics
Wiki Education Foundation
Wiki Ed Foundation's online training modules
Internet Archive Wayback Machine

Potential Sources: General

Goethe-Institut New York
Feminist German Studies
Overview of the German Collections at the Library of Congress
Sophie: A Digital Library of Works by German-Speaking Women

Potential Sources for Specific Articles

Outcomes

Dashboard link

Wikis: commons.wikimedia, de.wikipedia, en.wikipedia
Start date: 2019-04-18 15:00 (America/New York)
End date: 2019-04-18 18:30

Attendees

Artatra (talk) 01:12, 16 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Jim.henderson (talk) 04:35, 18 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

ArroyodeManzana (talk) 19:03, 18 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Amal Alaboud (talk) 19:03, 18 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Pharos (talk) 19:12, 18 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wschlect (talk) 19:22, 18 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Womeninenglishtranslation (talk) 19:35, 18 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Luuah88 (talk) 21:11, 18 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]