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[http://www.atariwomen.org 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 [https://sice.indiana.edu/contact/profile/?profile_id=197 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. |
[http://www.atariwomen.org 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 [https://sice.indiana.edu/contact/profile/?profile_id=197 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. |
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| Date and Time: | June 21, 2019 @ 1pm PT until September 9, 2019 3:45pm PT (when Grace Hopper recorded the "first computer bug" in 1947) |
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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
Noelie Alito
Jane Terjung
Jamie Fenton
Dawn Epstein
Marilyn Churchild
Wanda Hill
Sylvia Day
Susan McBride
Anne Westfall
Kathlean O'Brian
Anita Sinclair
Ava Robin Cohen
List of articles to improve
Resources
Many different sources are available for the edits, including:
AtariWomen
This website archives a variety of stories about underrepresented minorities who made important contributions to Atari games during the 70s and 80s.
Outcomes
Atari Women wikipedia-edit-a-thon is part of Wikipedia Women in Red initiative, dedicated to make the contributions of women in history available and documented on wikipedia. We wish to create the record of the historic contributions of women to the establishment of American the gaming industry in the 70s and 80s.
Participants
You!
Media coverage
University of Washington Spring Break