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Angel City FC WoSo Edit-a-thon 2024
Date	March 23, 2024
Time	1 pm–4 pm;
Address	Los Angeles Central Library, 630 W 5th St, Los Angeles, CA 90071
City, State	Los Angeles, California

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Angel City FC WoSo Edit-a-thon 2024
This Edit-a-thon, hosted by Kabest, Angel City FC, and the Los Angeles Public Library, will focus on athletes, teams, clubs, and other topics within women's soccer.
When: 1:00 to 4:00PM on Saturday March 23, 2024 Where: Los Angeles Central Library, 630 W 5th St, Los Angeles, CA 90071 RSVP: THIS EVENT IS AT CAPACITY. You can sign up for the waitlist here.

Event details

Angel City FC and the Los Angeles Public Library are co-hosting this Wikipedia edit-a-thon, focusing on athletes, teams, clubs, and other topics within women's soccer. Our goal is to help close the information gap between men's and women's sports. Fans of all skill and experience levels with Wikipedia are encouraged to join! We will introduce you to the basics of editing Wikipedia before moving to an open editing session. We have identified suggested articles to edit, as well as suggested sources, but we encourage you to edit pages that interest you!

About us

Angel City FC is LA's professional women's soccer club. Founded in 2020, the team began play in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) in 2022.

The last ten years have seen a rapid grown in interest and investment in women's soccer, both in the US and around the world, but our game still lags behind that of our male counterparts in many respects. One of those is the information gap between men's and women's soccer; look at the roster section of any top-flight women's club's Wikipedia page and you'll find players who don't have pages on the site. Pages for all but the best-known and most-successful players and clubs tend to be shorter and less well-cited than their male counterparts, and are sometimes years out of date. With better media coverage and bigger investments in things like data collection in recent years, reliable information on the women's game is becoming more and more available—it just needs to be collected and added to the world's biggest reference work.

The goals of this event are as follows:

Improve the breadth and depth of women's soccer-related pages on Wikipedia.
Train interested soccer fans on how to improve and update these pages.
Bring Angel City fans and the broader soccer community in LA together.

Schedule

If possible, create a Wikipedia username ahead of time. If you can't, no problem. We will help you!

1:00 pm – 1:10 pm: Welcome
1:10 pm – 1:30 pm: Intro to editing Wikipedia
1:30 pm – 4:00 pm: Open editing

FAQ

Should I bring a laptop? Yes!
Will there be food? Refreshments will be provided.

Join us!

Participants

Kabest
I’m an experienced editor and would be happy to help! Just let me know Blervis (talk) 01:47, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

How to participate

1

On the day of the event, add your Wikipedia username to the list of attendees above.
Don't have a username yet? It's easy to create one.

2

Choose an article to list on this page.
Want to work on an article that's not on the list? You're welcome to choose any player, team, league, or other topic within the sport!

3

Have questions during the event?
Ask one of the facilitators!

Get started!

Editing your first article!

Pick an article to edit!
Find some reliable sources that can support that article.
Learn more about citing sources.
Make your edits, or begin your article via the Wikipedia:Article wizard

Below are some examples of shorter entries which can be used as models for new player pages.

Suggested sources

NWSL Website and other league websites
US Soccer and other federation websites
The Athletic
Just Women's Sports
Pro Soccer Wire
LA Times and other daily newspapers
Keeper Notes, a database maintained by longtime NWSL stats collector Jen Cooper
| ACFC photo folder

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After today's event

Outcomes

We will track number of edits, articles edited, etc. during our event. To have your contributions included in our outcomes, add your name to the list of participants above and sign in on our dashboard.

Resources

Hooked on editing Wikipedia? Attend another Wikipedia Edit-a-thon! Drop by the Wikimedians of Los Angeles meta page to learn about more events in the LA area!

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 *[https://www.latimes.com/sports/soccer| LA Times] and other daily newspapers
 *[https://keepernotes.com/wosopedia/| Keeper Notes], a database maintained by longtime NWSL stats collector Jen Cooper
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