Wikipedia:Meetup/Durham/Women at Duke

Mary Duke Biddle ca. 1910

Women at Duke Edit-a-thon

Please join us for an opportunity to learn how to edit Wikipedia articles, learn more about the rich history of women at Duke University, and then put that knowledge into action by creating and editing entries that document the lives and contributions of women alumnae, faculty, staff, and community members. This event is part of a worldwide movement to increase the percentage of women editors and woman-focused articles within Wikipedia. Bridget Booher, author of the recently published book Women at Duke Illustrated, will give remarks about her experiences conducting research on Duke women. Librarians will be giving a short training session then will be on hand to help with editing. Bring your laptop if you have one, or use one of ours. You can also participate from anywhere in the world! Co-sponsored with the Duke Women's Center and Duke University Archives. Dinner will be provided!

When

Thursday, March 20, 5-9 pm

Where

The Duke Women’s Center (map)

Why

To increase the number of pages on Wikipedia about the history and roles of women at Duke and to help close the Wikipedia Gender Gap

What to Bring

A laptop if you can! There will also be several desktop computers and laptops available to use. If you have research materials you want to use, bring those as well. If you are interested in adopting one of the women or topics listed below, please make a notation and we'll try to bring some background material for you. Otherwise, just bring yourself and your enthusiasm!

Getting started

Want to get a head start? You can:

• Create an account and set up a user page
  • You’ll be able to edit Wikipedia without creating an account, but you must be signed in to create articles
  • Wikipedia has a limit on the number of accounts that can be created in a day at one IP address; help us avoid blocks by creating your account early!
• Read about Wikipedia’s core content policies and five pillars
• Learn about wiki markup
• Check out the Wikipedia resources below for information on editing and article creation
• Practice edits

Or just wait for the event, and we’ll walk you through it!

Wikipedia Resources

• A Primer for Newcomers
• Wikipedia Cheatsheet
• Article Wizard
• Editing Tutorial
• Writing an Article
• Teahouse
• Training for Students
• Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing -- useful information on creating biographies in Wikipedia
• The Missing Manual -- an online version of the "Missing Manual" for Wikipedia with information on creating and editing articles
• To be or not to be: Academic bios on Wikipedia

Possible Topics

Articles to Create

• Katharine Banham (professor in the Department of Psychology at Duke University from 1946 to 1967)
• Irene Leach Craven (wife of Union Institute/Trinity College president Braxton Craven, former student and assistant teacher at Union Institute)
• Artelia Roney Duke (second wife of Washington Duke, mother of J.B. Duke, B.N. Duke, and Mary Duke Lyon)
• Mary Clinton Duke (first wife of Washington Duke, mother of Sidney and Brodie Duke)
• Sara M. Evans (Duke alumna, historian specializing in American social and women's history of the 20th century; papers held at Bingham Center)
• Mary Duke Lyon (daughter of Washington Duke, involved in tobacco business)
• Mary Reamey Thomas Few (alumna of Trinity College, wife of former Trinity/Duke president W. P. Few)
• Laura Drake Gill (former dean of Barnard College, headed Committee on the Organization of a Co-ordinate College for Women, 1914-1915)
• Lillian Baker Griggs (Librarian of the Duke University Woman's College Library, 1930 to 1949)
• Julia Grout (Chairman of the Women's Department of Health and Physical Education at Duke University from 1924 to 1964)
• The White Duchy (secret women's honorary at Duke University, 1925-1968, alongside the Order of the Red Friars)
• Nereidians (synchronized swim team)
• Who Needs Feminism (2012 social media campaign originating at Duke)
• Bessie Whitted Spence (Duke instructor of Biblical literature; portrait hangs in Lilly library)
• Irene Price (artist, Trinity College alumna)
• Ann Henshaw Gardiner (assistant professor of nursing education at Duke University School of Nursing)
• Bessie Baker (first dean of Duke University School of Nursing)
• Jean Fox O'Barr (founding director of Women's Studies department at Duke, editor of SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society)
• Ernestine Friedl (cultural anthropologist and professor emerita at Duke)
• Thelma Ingles (instrumental in creating clinical master's program at Duke University School of Nursing)
• Jill Raitt (theologian, instrumental in creating Duke Divinity School Women's Center)
• Wilhelmina Reuben-Cooke (alumna, among the first five African-American undergraduate students to enroll at Duke)
• Mary Mitchell Harris (alumna, among the first five African-American undergraduate students to enroll at Duke)
• Cassandra Smith Rush (alumna, among the first five African-American undergraduate students to enroll at Duke)
• Susan Tifft (alumna, writer and editor for TIME magazine, married to journalist Alex Jones)
• Rose May Davis (first woman to earn a PhD at Duke University)
• Sally Kornbluth (prominent cell biologist and recently appointed to be Duke's first female provost)
• Clarissa Sligh (artist and photographer whose papers are held at the Rubenstein Library at Duke)
• Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance (organization whose papers are held at the Rubenstein Library at Duke)
• Catherine Nicholson (Lesbian, feminist writer and magazine publisher, and co-founder of Sinister Wisdom, a multicultural lesbian literary and art journal. Her papers are held at the Rubenstein Library.)
• Irene Peslikis (feminist artist and founding member of Redstockings whose papers are held at the Rubenstein Library)
• Katharine Bartlett (A. Kenneth Pye Professor of Law, served as Dean of Duke Law School from 2000-2007)

Articles to Edit

Check out this list of notable alums to see if there's an entry you'd like to expand on!

• List of mixed-sex colleges and universities in the United States
• Eleanor Smeal
• Janice Radway
• Minnie Bruce Pratt
• Clare Leighton
• Dorothy Allison
• Kate Millett
• Meredith Tax

RSVP

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Attending

• Bettyclaire (talk) 15:33, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
• Smeg68 (talk) 15:58, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
• CR203 88 (talk) 16:17, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
• Hannahsaur (talk) 00:54, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
• Sfconrad (talk) 17:03, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
• MMedit (talk) 20:45, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
• Ftklkr (talk) 15:44, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
• Smcrisp (talk) 21:30, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
• Mcchollie (talk)
• Sarah C. (talk)

Maybe

• Duke AHEAD reception first. Hope I can make it! --Gene Hobbs (talk) 18:57, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

Results

Create or edit an article? List it here!

• sfconrad - Ann Henshaw Gardiner, Bessie Baker, Thelma Ingles
• Smcrisp (talk) 00:05, 21 March 2014 (UTC) - Rose May Davis
• Irene Peslikis
• Ernestine Friedl