Wikipedia:Meetup/Kansas City/ArtAndFeminism November 2015

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Event information

Date: Saturday, November 7, 2015 from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Location: UMKC Miller Nichols Library iX Theatre, 800 E 51st St, Kansas City, MO 64110
Parking: Campus parking is free on Saturdays.
What to bring: Laptops and power cords, any research materials you would like to use. If possible make a Wikipedia account beforehand.
Contact: prose1984(@)gmail

Before the Event

Make an account. Click "Create Account" (blue link at very top right of this page) and make a username (can be as anonymous as you like) and password. Please make an account before the event, if you can. Then, register below.

About

The goal of this meetup is to contribute to Wikipedia more information about Midwestern women artists. Participants at Art+Feminism meetups across the globe have added hundreds of women artists to the free encyclopedia this year and last. The focus of the Kansas City November 2015 meetup will be women artists who have lived or worked in the Midwest. All are welcome!

Art+Feminism is an international campaign that addresses problems with Wikipedia’s representation of women. Less than 13% of Wikipedia contributors are female and articles on notable women’s history in the arts are missing. In an effort to start addressing the gender gap and representation challenge, the Art+Feminism campaign calls for people to participate in international edit-a-thons to create better coverage of women. Anyone can stop by an edit-a-thon to get training and resource to start improving Wikipedia.

Registration

Register here

To register, click "Edit." Next to the asterisk (bullet) at the bottom of the list, type a tilde (~) 4 times to sign your name. Then, click "Save" at the bottom of the page.

Prosekc (talk)
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Anc7dc (talk) 20:25, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
Steviemi (talk) 03:32, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
ATU1968 (talk) 21:19, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
Gasstationdogs (talk) 04:02, 5 November 2015 (UTC)Annie
Amberandresia (talk) 07:53, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
Sharod22 (talk) 18:58, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
Tkaraim (talk) 19:29, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
Sharon connecton (talk) 19:31, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
Dandilyonslouise (talk) 19:42, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
Kcisis (talk) 20:07, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
IncunabulumOfToday (talk) 20:15, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
Ameredith05 (talk) 20:19, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

Registrants: Wikimetrics opt-in consent disclosure

Sign here to help us learn more about how users interact with Wikipedia! If you sign up, we can observe how your username uses the Wikimedia projects during and after this event. This will help us to better measure the effectiveness of this event and similar programs. This means that your publicly available activity and the information you share with us during this event may be processed by the Wikimedia Foundation, Art+Feminism, and the organizers of the local event, and may be transferred to or from the US and other countries that may not have the same level of privacy regulation that your country does. However, we will not share your information with third parties or publicly unless it's in aggregated or anonymized form.

Safe-space policy

The organizers of this event are dedicated to providing a harassment-free event experience for everyone, regardless of race, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, age, religion, or marital status.

Harassment includes offensive comments related to any protected personal characteristic, sexual images in public spaces, deliberate intimidation, stalking, following, harassing photography or recording, sustained disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate physical contact, and unwelcome sexual attention. Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately. This applies to everyone, including event staff and sponsors.

If a participant engages in harassing behavior, the event organizers may take any action they deem appropriate, including warning the offender or expulsion from the event.

If you are being harassed, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact a member of event staff immediately. Event staff will be happy to help participants contact venue security or local law enforcement, provide escorts, or otherwise assist those experiencing harassment to feel safe for the duration of the event. We value your attendance.

Social media

The official hashtag for the international Art+Feminism edit-a-thon is #artandfeminism. We encourage you to tag any social posts made about this event. Art+Feminism will be pulling in documentation from tagged social media to the art.plusfeminsm.org website. You can see the beginning of it here: http://art.plusfeminism.org/social/

Hashtag: #artandfeminism
Twitter: https://twitter.com/artfemkc

Articles to edit

Below is a list of articles that would benefit from edits and expansion during the edit-a-thon, but you are welcome to work on anything you like.

Articles to create

If you are brand-new to editing Wikipedia, it is easier to work on an existing article. Even adding just one sentence and one citation is a helpful contribution:

Articles to improve

Category:Kansas City Art Institute alumni
- Doris Lee - Kansas City Art School alum
- Angela Dufresne
- Ellen Fullman
- Margot Peet
- Maria Ogedengbe
- Suzanne Klotz
- Patricia DuBose Duncan - [1]
- Janice Urnstein Weissman
- Elizabeth Layton

Editing tools and resources

Article creation and editing tools

Writing your first article – Info on creating your first article
Editing Cheatsheet – A reference to the syntax used on Wikipedia
Using the Sandbox – Use the sandbox to test and create a draft article before publishing it.
Beginner's Guide to Wikipedia – Goes over a lot of basics from account creation to adding an image and more
Video Tutorials from Art and Feminism – A lot of quick how-to videos are posted here
Five Pillars of Wikipedia – The fundamental principles of Wikipedia may be summarized in five "pillars".

Adding Images to Wikipedia Articles

Resources for creating biographies

Biographies of living Persons – Refer to this guide for policies on creating Wikipedia biographies.
Template:Infobox person – How to create the infobox about a person on a biography page
Talk:Camille Henrot – See this common example of WikiProject metadata to add to the Talk page of an artist.
Art and Feminism Research Resources – Research resources for biographies on women artists

Evaluation tools

Rater, for automatically creating and configuring WikiProjects metadata on Talk pages
reFill, for automatically creating formatted citations from bare URLs