Wikipedia:Meetup/Berkeley/WWUCB

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WikiWomen's Edit-a-thon at University of California, Berkeley
WikiWomen's Edit-a-thon
When and Where
TimeSaturday, April 5, 2014 (1–5pm)
Address2nd Floor, CITRIS, Sutardja Dai Hall, University of California, Berkeley campus, Berkeley, California
City, StateBerkeley, California

The Berkeley Center for New Media is hosting Sarah Stierch as the Susan B. Miller Fellow. As part of Stierch's programming, she is hosting Wikipedia workshops and edit-a-thons. These events aim to educate the public, students, and especially women on the importance of contributing to Wikipedia. Females comprise approximately 10-20% of editors on the world's 5th biggest website (on any given day).

Event details[edit]

This event carries forward the momentum gained from WikiWomen's History Month. This event is one of many around the world that aims to engage more women to edit Wikipedia, and to improve coverage about women's history on Wikipedia. This event will be facilitated by User:SarahStierch.

We will open with a brief introduction to Wikipedia policies, and then dive into editing. Participants will be encouraged to either write new articles about subjects that interest them, or to expand articles that interest them. All participants will have "edits that stick" by 5 PM.

  • Date: Saturday, April 5, 2014
  • Time: 1–5pm
  • Venue: 2nd Floor, CITRIS, Sutardja Dai Hall, University of California, Berkeley campus, Berkeley, California
  • Cost: Free, of course!
  • Twitter hashtag: #wikiwomen
  • Facebook event page is here
  • Participants: This event is open to anyone interested in improving women's history coverage on Wikipedia. No wiki editing experience is necessary, support will be on hand to help you out! Female editors are specifically encouraged to attend. Can't be there the whole time? No problem, join us as long as you can.
  • Details: Participants should bring their own laptop and power cords. Light food and drinks will be provided.
  • Registration: Please RSVP below

Sign up to participate[edit]

Event attendees[edit]

  1. SarahStierch (talk) 15:23, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Jooojay (talk) 21:48, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Tmcqu33n (talk) 23:34, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Taliah Mirmalek 1:39, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
  5. Rosiestep (talk) 02:05, 14 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  6. HarZim (talk) 05:01, 14 March 2014 (UTC) (Ann Harlow) (talk) 04:59, 14 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  7. ParkerHiggins ( talk contribs ) 06:17, 14 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  8. ozhu (talk·contribs) 15:41, 14 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  9. SPattalk 16:14, 14 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  10. I'll be attending, and can probably also set up on-campus wifi access for anyone in attendance if Sarah can't, though I'll have to poke at it first. Kevin Gorman (talk) 22:41, 14 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  11. Hgrosser (talk) 03:05, 16 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  12. EmilyAnnRamos (talk) 01:13, 18 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  13. Maximilianklein (talk) 05:39, 19 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  14. Carillonista (talk) 22:04, 19 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  15. Bonnie Ruberg
  16. Well Appointed (talk) 23:43, 19 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  17. Ironholds (talk) 18:16, 24 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  18. Dreamyshade (talk) 04:53, 26 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  19. Julia\talk
  20. Angela Hom
  21. Alexsaum (talk) 16:22, 2 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  22. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 21:45, 3 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  23. CiaMaria (talk) 18:44, 2 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  24. Jgirl1307 (talk) 04:03, 3 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  25. alex cruse 11:22, 3 April 2014
  26. Sippinonaslurpee (talk) 20:00, 3 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  27. User: ChesPal -- I will be expanding article on Arequipa Pottery.
  28. Anne Schreiter
  29. Victor.starostenko (talk) 18:28, 4 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Online participants[edit]

If you cannot make it to the University of California, Berkeley in person, but would still like to participate, you are more than welcome to do so remotely. Sign up below, and please add any outcomes below. Be sure to use the Twitter hashtag #Wikiwomen and share your work.

  • Lizzard (talk) 22:45, 13 March 2014 (UTC) I am planning to work on entries for various African-American women suffrage activists.[reply]
  • Becky Beucher
  • iFaqeer. I will try to follow the hashtag and join online, especially for the last hour or so. I am tempted to start discussions or start off on some of the ideas on the Facebook page...but we should leave that for training exercises? — (talk to or email me) 01:50, 26 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, feel free to use the Facebook page. I know many of the people listed here aren't necessarily listed on Facebook. I won't be updating Facebook during the event much, so it's up to the community to guide conversation there! Thanks for your efforts! SarahStierch (talk) 15:22, 3 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Suggested content for improvement[edit]

Please add your suggestions here! Women focused subjects from around the world, please!

References for articles[edit]

  1. ^ "Amber Case, Cyborg Anthropologist - Speaker". TED. Retrieved 2014-03-29.
  2. ^ "Amber Case: We are all cyborgs now". TED Talk Video. December 2010. Retrieved 2014-03-29.
  3. ^ "Amber Case". http://caseorganic.com/. Retrieved 2014-03-29. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
  4. ^ "Amber Case, Cyborg Anthropologist Information, Facts, News, Photos". National Geographic. Retrieved 2014-03-29.
  5. ^ "Black Women in Mathematics - Dolores Spikes". Mathematicians of the African Diaspora. Retrieved 2014-03-29.
  6. ^ "Dolores Margaret Richard Spikes". Mathematical Association of America. Retrieved 2014-03-29.
  7. ^ "Biography - Dolores Margaret Richard Spikes". American Distance Education Consortium. Retrieved 2014-03-29.
  8. ^ "Dolores R. Spikes". The HistoryMakers. 2014. Retrieved 2014-03-29.
  9. ^ "125th Anniversary of UMES - Dolores Spikes". University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Retrieved 2014-03-29.
  10. ^ http://www.bikeleague.org/content/womens-bike-history-kittie-knox
  11. ^ http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/09/29/long-forgotten-bicycling-pioneer-who-broke-race-and-gender-barriers-honored/VAtfz0av4PqeHuHLiOw3sI/story.html
  12. ^ http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70A17F63B5E10738DDDA00894DF405B8585F0D3

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