Wikipedia:WikiWomen's History Month

We can make Wikipedia a greater resource for Women's History.

...and while you're at it, don't forget to mind the gap!

Wikipedia Editathon at the British Library, January 2011.

WikiWomen's History Month is a wiki-coordinated program of distributed events and editathons focused on WikiProject Women's History, to be held throughout the world in celebration of International Women's Day and Women's History Month in March 2012. These events can also be held ON Wiki - as themes and translation projects!

It is modeled on this past fall's Wikipedia Loves Libraries campaign (a month of distributed library micro-conferences), and the broader Gender Gap outreach effort.

The advantages of the WikiWomen's History Month model:

• Easy to organize, even at cafes, student clubs and small public libraries
• Welcoming to everyone, especially new Wikipedians and Wikipedian-wannabes looking to contribute on women in history
• Allows diverse local focuses on aspects of Women's History
• Also, it's fun!

Find inspiration for articles to be expanded or creation on our to-do list (and add to it!): Wikipedia:WikiWomen's History Month/To-do list.

Upcoming 2012 real life events

North America

United States

California

• San Francisco Bay Area

• Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco_WikiWomen's_Edit-a-Thon | Date: March 17 | Location: Wikimedia Foundation Office | Organizer:

Minnesota

• Minneapolis

• Wikipedia_talk:Meetup/Minnesota#Edit-a-thon at Hennepin County Library | Date: February 25 | Location: Minneapolis Central Library | Organizer: HCLschlubb

New Jersey

• Princeton

• Wikipedia:Meetup/Princeton University Edit-a-thon | Date: February 18 | Location: Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library | Organizer: Undead q

Washington

• Seattle

• Wikipedia:Meetup/seattlewp | Date: March 6 | Location: Café Allegro | Organizer: Bluerasberry

New York

• New York City

• Wikipedia:Meetup/Barnard Center for Research on Women | Date: March 27, 6-9pm | Location: Barnard College, 3009 Broadway @ 117th, Digital Training Lab, 1st Floor Lehmann Hall | Organizer: Whichvisions

Washington, DC

• She Blinded Me With Science: Smithsonian Women in Science Edit-a-Thon | Date: March 30 | Location: Smithsonian Archives | Organizer: SarahStierch

Europe

Spain

• Barcelona

• Àngels Santos Torroella (Women artists) | Date: TBA | Location: Figueres (TBA) | Organizer: Kippelboy

Asia

United Arab Emirates

• Dubai

• Dubai Meetup | Date: TBA | Location: TBA | Organizer: Saqib

South America

Argentina

• Buenos Aires

• English: Wikimedia celebrates Women's Day | Date: March 8 | Location: TBA | Organizer: Wikimedia Argentina
• Spanish: Wikimedia celebra el día de la mujer el 8 de marzo. | Fecha: 08 de marzo | Ubicación: ? | Organizador: Wikimedia Argentina.

Upcoming online events

WikiProjects

• WikiProject Architecture

• Create and expand articles related to List of female architects.
• Lady Elizabeth Wilbraham, the first known female architect, featured on the Architecture Portal.

• WikiProject Astronomy

• Create and expand articles related to List of women astronomers.

• Australia sport

• Bring articles Australian women water polo to Good Article status.

• Wikiproject Ballet

• Create and expand articles about ballet choreographers who are women.

• WikiProject Basketball

• Create and expand articles related to Women's Basketball Hall of Fame.

• WikiProject Comics

• Expand and create articles about female comic book creators.

• List of female comics creators
• More female comics creators

• WikiProject India

• Visit Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Women and gender issues for more information.

• Wikipedia:WikiProject New_Zealand

• Expand the articles in Category:New Zealand feminists and Category:New Zealand suffragists, as per the talk page

• WikiProject NRHP

• Expand and create articles about U.S. National Register of Historic Places sites related to women's history.

• Especially the 40 sites listed at NRHP Women's History Month. Also note resources at overall NPS website and an overall US government site

• WikiProject Punk music

• Expand and improve Bikini Kill.

• WikiProject Opera

• A special all-women version of the In this month feature on Portal:Opera for March. You can preview it here. We'll also try to create at least one new article for Did You Know? on a female opera singer or composer, and possibly an overview article on Women in opera.

• WikiProject Visual Arts

• Create and expand articles related to List of female sculptors.

• WikiProject The X-Files

• Expansion and hopeful Good Article promotion of all recurring and main female cast members across the series covered by the project, and their characters. A current list of intended articles can be found here.

Resources for event organizers

Meetup event pages

• Wikipedia:Meetup - Includes details on developing your event and how to create a meetup page.
• Edit-a-thon How-To - if you're interested in running a successful edit-a-thon.

Promoting your event

• Wikipedia:Geonotice - A geonotice is a banner that pops up at the top of Wikipedia based on where you live (like the donation banners!). Request a geonotice for areas around your region and Wikipedians in those areas will learn about your event!
• Finding users in your area to invite - Check out the event pages for past meetups in your area and invite those users on their talk pages.
• Wikipedians by location - Invite users based on where they live - It's easy to do this by exploring who has what types of userboxes on their pages.
• Wikimedia mailing lists - Promote your event through mailing lists for those interested in Wikimedia projects. There are mailing lists for regions around the world and specific interests.

Giveaways and support

• Wikimedia chapters - Visit this link to learn more about your local chapter.

Local chapters are available for financial and promotional support! Ask your local chapter how they can help today!

• Wikimedia Foundation - WMF can provide Wikipedia giveways such as buttons, how-to books and other related materials.

Contact Sarah at sstierch at wikimedia.org for any assistance.

Past events

• Wikipedia Loves Libraries
• British Library Edit-a-thons, January 14-15, 2011 and June 4, 2011
• Children's Museum of Indianapolis Edit-a-Thon, August 20, 2011
• Joan Miró Foundation Edit-a-Thon, September 2011
• Smithsonian Archives of American Art Edit-a-Thon, July, 2011
• GLAM events - Learn about how GLAM WIKI has thrown events of all types

Did You Know?

• Elizabeth Muriel Gregory "Elsie" MacGill, OC (March 27, 1905 – November 4, 1980), known as the "Queen of the Hurricanes", was the world's first female aircraft designer.
• On St. Patrick's Day, March 17, 1937, Amelia Earhart and her crew flew the first leg from Oakland, California to Honolulu, Hawaii on her first attempt at a round-the-world flight.