Wikipedia:Meetup/National Archives Gender Equality Edit-a-Thon
National Archives Gender Equality Edit-a-Thon
Join the National Archives and Records Administration for a series of in-person and virtual edit-a-thons focused on improving Wikipedia entries related to gender equality. This event is part of the Amending America initiative at the National Archives in commemoration of the 225th anniversary of the Bill of Rights.
Goals
- To celebrate the 225th anniversary of the Bill of Rights
- To encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia
- To improve a selection of Wikipedia articles related to gender equality
- To increase awareness of NARA records and research resources
Task list: Entries to improve
Note: these categories are relatively arbitrary. Many of the women, events, or themes are listed multiple times
Civil Rights Activists
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Suffragists
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*[www.archives.gov/education/lessons/bloomer Article on archives.gov “Petition of Amelia Bloomer Regarding Suffrage in the West]
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Native American Women
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African American Women
Women in STEM
*Ellen Ochoa in National Archives Catalog-- we've got some good images in the catalog.
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ENIAC Girls or Section on Women in ENIAC Article
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Women on the Titanic
US Government Employees, Politicians, & Diplomats
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Women in Development
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Ann Moore - Peace Corps Alumna
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Carol Bellamy - Peace Corps Alumna and Director, Director of UNICEF
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*9405524 Letter to President Clinton
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US Military Women
LGBTQ Individuals; Women who Dressed as Men During 19th C. Wars
Some of the Women who Dressed as Men would be considered transgender by today's standards but it's not clear.
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Sarah Rosetta Wakeman - woman who served as a man in Civil War; see references on Women in Civil War in To Create List
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Albert Cashier - woman who served as a man in Civil War; see references on Women in Civil War in To Create List
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Joseph Lobdell - Lobdell would like be considered as transgender in today's world; see references on Women in Civil War in To Create List
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Other important women
*[https://catalog.archives.gov/id/12005167 Letters to Harry Truman - if you click on the link to the file units, each letter is in its own file unit.
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Archivists and NARA Leaders
For NARA Employees working on these articles, check with an experienced editor for conflict of interest issues
*Claudine Weiher: The Fight for Independence - can use images from the blog post to add to the page
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Themes and events
Task list: Entries to create
✓ Please check with a WikiFacilitator before starting new pages
Themes and Events
No page exists only Reynolds v. United States or Polygamy, neither mention the drive for a constitutional amendment. The drive mostly came during Utah’s bid for statehood. There was also a push at the time for the federal government to regulate marriage and divorce (because of the fear of polygamy from Utah).
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Thelma Bowe, et al, vs. Colgate Palmolive Company Hiring rules involving weight-lifting ability, when solely applied to female applicants, are unconstitutional.
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Women and Wars; Women in the Military
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There is no article for Women in the Civil War. There is a for it but no collective article. There is also no mention about women or nurses on the main page
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*There are many nurses, for example Dorethea Dix and a but no article; Even the category page can be fixed: Clara Barton and Dorethea Dix are not in this list
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There are no articles about either subject or mention on the main page. There is an article about the Spanish–American War Nurses Memorial and Anita Newcomb McGee In the memorial article there is a section about nurses in the War; that can be made into its own page Juliette Gordon Low was a nurse during the war but her page does not say that - HRC [Hillary Rodham Clinton /Girl Scouts 85th Anniversary 5/21/97] |
Women in Government and Politics
Women in STEM
Women Arrested with Susan B. Anthony
Women arrested with Susan B. Anthony: General resources for women arrested with Susan B. Anthony
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Task list: Completed or edited
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Resources
General sources
- March 2016 Twitter chat included some great information about women working in the White House: Women Working for the White House #POTUSchat
- More Women's History links, from the Archives Library Information Center
- Military Resources: Women in the Military
Wikipedia editing 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.
N.B. Also located on the Resources page referenced above under Editor Resources
See Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism/Resources
- Tutorial: Getting Started Guide (Presentation in DC)
- Beginners’ Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
- Five Pillars of Wikipedia (philosophical guidelines and best practices for Wikipedia editing)
- Tutorial
- How to Edit a Page
- Wiki Markup Quick Reference (PDF version of printed handout)
- Guide to Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing by Susan H. Rodger (applicable to any biography)
- Article Development
- Your First Article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
- Manual of Style
- Citation templates
- Infobox templates
- Bookshelf (additional "getting started" resources)
- Art+Feminism - Video training
Tools and templates
- Cheatsheet for editing Wikipedia
- Infobox template - person
- Biographies of living persons
- Writing an article
- About the Sandbox
- Determining Notability of Creative Professionals
- Conflict of Interest in Wikipedia Editing
- Verifying Reliable Sources
Online resources
- Want to go at your own pace? Self guided introduction
- N.B. There is an IRC channel if online participants need help:
- Wikipedia:IRC/wikipedia-en-help
- #wikipedia-en-help connect
- Wikipedia:IRC/wikipedia-en-help
External links
References
References
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