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Writing for Wadewitz: An Adrianne Wadewitz Memorial Edit-a-Thon
Thursday May 22, 1:30-6pm, Digital Scholarship Lab in Rockefeller Library at Brown University

When: May 22, 1:30-6pm
Where: Digital Scholarship Lab in Rockefeller Library at Brown University.

What to bring: Your laptop and a power adapter.
Cost: Free

You do not need to be an experienced Wikipedia editor in order to attend, just bring a willingness to learn.

Hashtags: #wadewitz and #wikiwomen
Facebook:WikiWomen’s Collaborative and FemTechNet.

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This edit-a-thon is part of a worldwide series of tributes.

Background edit

Dr. Adrianne Wadewitz was an influential member of the Wikipedia community who died suddenly in April 2014. This loss has deeply affected Wikipedia and the academic world. Her work is recognized internationally as helping to encourage more women to contribute to Wikipedia to tackle the gender gap and systemic bias in its content. Wadewitz was one of the first academics to bring Wikipedia into the classroom as part of the Wikipedia Education Program, working with her students to improve Wikipedia instead of writing traditional term papers. At the time of her death, she was Mellon Digital Scholarship Fellow at Occidental College. She had over 50,000 edits and wrote numerous featured and good articles, including Mary Wollstonecraft.

You can read more about Wadewitz and her contributions via The Wikipedia Signpost, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, and the Omaha World-Herald.

Schedule edit

Tentative: Subject to Change:
1:30pm-1:45pm:Check-in and welcome
1:45pm-2:30pm: Beginner intro to Wikipedia editing, Q&A, self-organization
2:30pm- 5:00pm: Editing Time
5:30 - 6:00pm:Wrap-up and Thanks


Participants edit

Yes edit

  1. FaulkTest (talk) 20:34, 7 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Dialectric (talk) 08:20, 17 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Iscamaya (talk) 20:09, 22 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Vashti James (talk) 20:11, 22 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  5. --BrownBear2014 (talk) 20:46, 22 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  6. --Mylonas (talk) 21:08, 22 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  7. --Telepathic a game
  8. 18concord (talk) 21:47, 22 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe edit

  1. I'll try to show up around 4pm Kzirkel (talk) 14:54, 19 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Unable to attend, but wish to be informed about future meetups edit

A Little Editing Help edit

Topics edit

More coming soon. Until then, here are some possible topics to start thinking of (feel free to add your own). Also see WikiWomen's History Month To-do List, which links to a lot of other great to-do lists.

Women in Providence/Rhode Island/New England History edit

Articles in Need of Creation edit

Articles in Need of Editing and Expansion edit

Women in Politics edit

  • Victoria Claflin Woodhull, 19th-century stockbroker, first female candidate for U.S. President, printed first English version of Marx's Communist Manifesto

Women in the Sciences edit

Much of this is taken from the 2013 Ada Lovelace Wikipedia Write-In at Brown:

Articles in Need of Creation edit

Articles in Need of Editing and Expansion edit

Women in the Arts edit

  • Vinnie Ream, 19th-century sculptor, perhaps best known for her statue of Lincoln in the U. S. Capitol Rotunda
  • See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Women artists/Worklist

Sources edit

Through Brown Libraries edit

Links coming soon:

Online Resources from the Pembroke Center edit

Free Online edit

Through Rhode Island Historical Society (RIHS) edit

Resources from Past Write-Ins edit

2014 Art and Feminism Wikipedia Write-In edit

2013 Ada Lovelace Write-In at Brown Women in STEM: edit

More Women in STEM edit

Bedi, J.E. "Innovative Lives: Exploring the History of Women Inventors". Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation. Smithsonian.
Satrom, Heater. "Papers Illustrates Woman Inventor's Life and Work". Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation. Smithsonian.

  • Subject: Marion O'Brien Donovan.

Women of Invention: Women Inventors and Patent Holders (Library of Congress) Bibliography

Bibliography edit

Rhode Island Women edit

Laxton, Glenn V. Hidden History of Rhode Island: Not-to-be-Forgotten Tales of the Ocean State. Charleston, SC: History Press, 2009.

Women in R.I. History: Making a Difference. Providence: Providence Journal Co., 1994.

Women in STEM edit

Gornick, Vivian. Women in Science: Then and Now. Revised 25th Anniversary Edition. New York: The Feminist Press (NYU), 2009.
Jardins, Julie Des. The Madame Curie Complex. New York: The Feminist Press (NYU), 2010.

Outcomes edit

  1. New article on Annette Coleman (pending review)
  2. Added to the Joice Heth article, including images. --Iscamaya (talk) 20:19, 22 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Revisions and citations added to Nancy Elizabeth Prophet's page
  4. New article on Sarah Elizabeth Doyle
  5. BrownBear2014 Revised and Added to E-Science librarianship including adding [pioneering female information studies scholars to E-Science Librarianship] and [important female leader in providing e-Science librarianship skills to librarians] --BrownBear2014 (talk) 20:52, 22 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  6. added new images to Providence Athenaeum, also added an "Athenaeum Today" section, which I hope someone will fill!
  7. Enhanced article on Maud Howe Elliott -- Mylonas (talk) 21:09, 22 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  8. New article on Christiana Carteaux Bannister
  9. Worked on the Sarah Doyle article
  10. uploaded public domain image of Christiana Carteaux Bannister to Wikimedia Commons; added it and another image, and a short bibliography to her newly create page!
  11. linked Sarah Doyle article to Pembroke and Sarah Doyle Center entries
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