Wikipedia:Meetup/Simmons University/Women's Suffrage and Civil Rights Activism 2020

Welcome! Beatley Library and the Alumni Chair of Public Humanities at Simmons University are hosting a Wikipedia edit-a-thon focused on Women Activists part of our "Digitizing Women's Suffrage" series co-sponsored by the Colleges of the Fenway and the Wentworth Institute of Technology Presidential EPIC Mini-Grant program
When: Tuesday, March 31, 2020, 10am-4pm Where: Virtual!

Event Details

Officers of the First National Conference of the Colored Women of America, Boston, July 29-31, 1895

Portrait of suffragist Mabel Ping-Hua Lee from the New York Tribune, 1912

Simmons University and Wentworth Institute of Technology are co-hosting an edit-a-thon to help make women's history more visible on Wikipedia. It's the second event in our "Digitizing Women's History series"[1] marking the 100th Anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment.

Our focus is on activists, especially suffrage and civil rights activists who were or are women of color. The event is open to all. Join us whether or not you've ever edited Wikipedia entries before!

Women's March, January 2017

Schedule

10 AM - 4 PM

Laura R. Prieto, Jess Wallis, and other experts will be available for editing help and support throughout the day in this designated Zoom room

The event is open to all but if you do not already have experience editing Wikipedia, we recommend the modules available at Wikipedia Training.

We will help new editors get started quickly and have free online resources available to help with your research.

Logistics

• Contact the organizers: Laura R. Prieto (Clio.at.work (talk)) and Jess Wallis (User:Jwallis11)

For day-of-event questions, please call: (617) 521-2780

Interested in participating?

We've created a dashboard to keep track of what articles we work on and our total edits. Please sign up there to contribute to this edit-a-thon!

• User:hmprescott

Hosting

• Laura R. Prieto, Simmons University, professor, User:Clio.at.work
• Jess Wallis, Simmons University, librarian, User:Jwallis11
• Meghan Doran, Community Engagement, Simmons University, User:Devomyles
• Allison Lange, Wentworth Institute of Technology, professor, User:ALange1920

Suggested Topics

Besides the articles listed on the Dashboard, look through the stubs on Activist stubs and its sublists, especially American activist stubs. Also see Missing articles on suffragists.

Start your research with these resources

Simmons University

• Simmons University History and Online Exhibits
• Digitizing Women's Suffrage Research Guide

Women's History

E-books

• Google Books
• Project Gutenberg
• Internet Archive
• Digital Public Library of America
• HathiTrust

Databases

• Women and Social Movements International
• Women and Social Movements in the United States
• Newspaper databases

Books & Encyclopedias

• Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers
• Readers' Companion to U.S. Women's History
• Notable American women, 1607-1950 a biographical dictionary
• Notable American women : the modern period : a biographical dictionary
• Notable American women : a biographical dictionary completing the twentieth century
• The Grounding of Modern Feminism
• No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women
• Lesser-Known Women: A Biographical Dictionary
• Women's Firsts

Public Domain Images

• Schlesinger Library: Public Domain images on Flickr Commons
• Finding Public Domain Images
• Creative Commons Image Search
• Wikimedia Commons

Wikipedia & the Gender Gap

Wikipedia logo with feminist symbol.

• Wikimedia Foundation: Gender Gap
• Where are the Women of Wikipedia
• National Women's Studies Association Wikipedia Initiative
• Unlocking the Clubhouse: Five Ways to Encourage Women to Edit Wikipedia
• Wikimedia Foundation: Gender Gap Manifesto
• Wikipedia's gender gap and the complicated reality of systemic gender bias
• Michelle Moravec, "The Endless Night of Wikipedia's Notable Woman Problem" (2018)

Wikipedia Help

Videos

• Step-by-step Wikipedia Editing
• How to Edit Using Visual Editor
• Quick overview of editing with Visual Editor

Quick Reads and Tutorials

• How to Edit a Page in Wikipedia (with visuals)
• Editing Basics Course
• Wikitext Cheatsheet
• Starting an Article
• Citation Guide
• Wiki Markup Quick Reference
• Text Formatting
• Section Headers, Indents, and Lists
• Links
• Infobox templates

About Wikipedia

• Five Pillars of Wikipedia
• GLAM Beginners Guide
• Wikipedia Tutorial
• Wiki Project: Women's History

Article Examples

• Wikipedia quality scale
• Here is an article that Wikipedia rated as "good" Lowell Mill Girls
• Here is another article that Wikipedia rated as "good" Feminism
• Here is a "featured" article List of First Ladies of the United States

Wikiproject Templates

• If your article fits the projects' criteria, add the template to the article's Talk page. There are many Wikiprojects, here are two examples.
  • WikiProject: Women's History Template
  • WikiProject: Feminist Taskforce Template