Wikipedia:Meetup/Wittenberg Feminist Edit-a-thon

Wittenberg University Feminist Edit-a-thon is a Wikipedia Meetup.

• Wednesday, May 2, 2018
• 6-9pm
• Thomas Library Lab
• Enroll: https://tinyurl.com/witt-enroll
• Track Progress: https://tinyurl.com/witt-women

• Verifiability -- Dr. Wagner says: "If you can't cite it, you can't write it"
• Neutral Point of View
• No Original Research
• Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons

• Wikipedia Markup
• Citation Templates

• One Search (many databases at once)
• Biography and Genealogy Master Index (guide to biographical sources)
• Credo (search online dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc.)
• New York Times Historical

• Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers -- Ken's Notes
• Noemie Benczer Koller

• Women's History Project list
• Feminism Project list
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Redlist index - articles that need to be created

Infoboxes

• Template:Infobox person
• Template:Infobox writer
• Template:Infobox playwright
• Template:Infobox artist
• Template:Infobox politician

Articles to improve

• Water access and gender - re-write in encyclopedic style
• debbie tucker green -- (contemporary black British playwright) needs to be de-stubbified; added a bunch of sources to her talk page
• Life Among the Paiutes: Their Wrongs and Claims -- first published autobiography by a Native American woman, stub
• Draft:MariNaomi - update draft to increase notability claim, maybe get it ready to publish
• Brinda Somaya - improve style and citations
• Eliza A. Pittsinger - American poet; lots of legwork has been done on research, it just needs to be incorporated into the article:
  • User:Xb2u7Zjzc32/Eliza Pittsinger
  • User:Xb2u7Zjzc32/E P - test
• Ermengarde of Anjou (d. 1146) -- use "further reading" section to add content. (then cite the source, and remove from "further reading" when the citation is in place)
  • Dr. Livingstone's article is in the EJC: https://journals.ohiolink.edu/pg_200?::NO:200:P200_ARTICLEID:350358011
• Lu Ann Homza - historian. read some of the reviews of her books and compile a section on her reception as an academic
• Tama Hochbaum - artist -- incorporate some of the further reading links into the text
• Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918 - expand. use more from sources, and:
  • http://ezproxy.wittenberg.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=sih&AN=17510754&site=eds-live
• Elizabeth Duncan Koontz - African american leader in education, civil rights, and the women's movement -- expand.
• Jean Rhys - 20th century Caribbean novelist
• The Madwoman in the Attic - (book)
• Matilda effect - "bias against acknowledging the achievements of woman scientists, whose work is often attributed to their male colleagues"
• Gathering hypothesis - "the antithesis of "hunting hypothesis", suggesting that gathering rather than hunting was the main factor in the emergence of anatomically modern humans."
  • needs cleanup, citations, etc.

Women in Red

• Matilde Padrós - (19 c. Spanish academic) for someone who can work with Spanish sources; see Ken for sources
• Ignacia Sáenz y Ulloa - first lady of Costa Rica in the 19th c.
  • a Spanish-reader could translate the simple Spanish-language Wikipedia article
• Binette Lipper - Composer

Contemporary Playwrights

(transcluded from User:Kenirwin/Playwrights -- edit through that link)