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Done Bailey<br> |
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Laura Nikolich<br> |
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Suki Lee<br> |
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Chris Maddox<br> |
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Elisabeth Betty Ryan Tylko<br> |
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Carol Ryan<br> |
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Lucy Gilbert<br> |
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Revision as of 17:55, 17 June 2019
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2019 Atari Women Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
AtariWomen is a research project aimed at celebrating the hidden stories of women who made crucial engineering contributions to Atari games in the early 70’s and 80’s. According to media historians Nathan Ensmenger and Marie Hicks, women have been essential to the rise of computing in both US and UK; nevertheless, few women are known and many more are completely missing from computing narratives. The 1980’s represent a crucial period of change for women’s participation in computing. Across the decade, images of the weird, brilliant, male computer hacker began to take hold of the media’s attention, showing up in storylines for major movies and popular accounts, but neglecting the important work of women in that process. We want to change this misrepresentation of women in the gaming industry by establishing their presence in the historical archives and on Wikipedia.
Event information
The Atari Women Wikipedia-edit-a-thon is an asynchronous initiative to create and update the wikipedia pages for the underrepresented minorities who made important contributions to Atari games in the 70s and 80s. The event begins in Friday June 21 2019 and ends on September 9th 2019 (which marks the date where Grace Hopper found the first bug in a computer). In this period we hope to create wikipedia pages for Atari Women who are not on Wikipedia, update the wikipedia pages for Atari Women who already have profile, as well as identify additional people from underrepresented minorities who did important contributions to Atari games in the 70s and 80s. The event is asynchronous because we hope to engage people around the world to help re-establish the history of gaming. If you are considering joining and are not sure how, please do get in contact.
List of articles to create
Done Bailey
Laura Nikolich
Suki Lee
Chris Maddox
Elisabeth Betty Ryan Tylko
Carol Ryan
Lucy Gilbert
List of articles to improve
Carol Shaw Patricia Goodson Rebecca Heineman Carla Meninsky
Resources
There are different sources to be used for the edits - how the main resource is atariwomen.org which displays the different stories about underrepresented minorities who made important contributions to Atari games in the 70s and 80s. Besides that we have different resources such as: