Wikipedia:WikiWomen's History Month/2013/Events
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Asia
- India
- Indian women Wikimedians will run a series of online and offline edit-a-thons. Details can be seen here.
Europe
- United Kingdom
- Wikimedia UK is running an event to encourage women to edit to coincide with International Women's Day. We are joining an event at the Southbank Centre in London - Women of the World festival. This was an awareness rising talk rather than an editing session. Contact Daria Cybulska (daria.cybulska
wikimedia.org.uk)
- Catalonia (Spain)
- Amical Viquipèdia is organizing a project where actual librarians from the Catalan & Basque Network of Libraries will write Wikipedia articles on 1910-1930's pioneer Women librarians. It will work as a typing contest. More info (in Catalan) here. Contact User:Kippelboy
- Amical Viquipèdia is organizing an edit-a-thon to improve the articles about prominent women with a street dedicated in Palafrugell at Local Archive. More info (in Catalan) here. Contact User:Davidpar
- Poland
- On 9 March Wikimedia Poland is organising the second edit-a-thon in Warsaw (Wikimaraton). It will be a Women-related editing event. Contact: Adam Kliczek (User:CLI, adam.kliczekgmail.com)
- Sweden
- Wikimedia Sweden and The Swedish Women's Lobby are hosting an edit-a-thon focused at the history of the women's movement.
- Italy
- Wikimedia Italia and Girl Geek Dinners Bologna will host an open talk about women and Wikipedia followed by a workshop. Contact: Atropine
North America
United States
- New Orleans, LA
- March 6, Wednesday - History of Women in Higher Education Wikithon
- South Hadley, MA
- March 6, Wednesday - Mount Holyoke College Women's History Month edit-a-thon
- Eugene, Oregon
- March 9, Saturday - University of Oregon Women's History Month edit-a-thon
- Southern California
- March 15, Friday - THATCamp Feminisms Edits of Engagement
- Atlanta, GA
- March 15, Friday - THATCamp Feminisms Edits of Engagement
- Washington, DC
- March 29, Friday - Women in the Arts Meetup & Edit-a-thon at the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art
- Cambridge, MA
- March 29, Friday - Women's History Edit-a-thon @ Harvard
South America
Brazil
- 2nd March, edithaton among women in São Paulo
Upcoming online events
WikiProjects are encouraged to create and develop women's history month focuses for the month of March. Please list your event here!
Opera and women's history
- WikiProject Opera will, as usual, feature an all-woman "In this month" on the Opera Portal.
- Our "March Composer of the Month" collaboration will feature Ethel Smyth. We plan to create articles on four of her operas.
- Our "March Operas of the Month" collaboration will work on improving and creating articles for operas based on female historical figures.
- We hope to have several articles from the two collaborations make it to the Did you know? section on the Main Page in March.
Architecture and women's history
- WikiProject Architecture features on the Architecture Portal as selected article of the month the Frankfurt kitchen, designed by architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky.