User:Elyfw/sandbox

My Sandbox

About Me

Hello, my name is Elyse! I am a big advocate for justice through history, and am focused on better integrating women in to the historical cannon. I have read reports that only about 17% of biographies on Wikipedia are about women, so I am hoping to help address that with my account.

Education

I have a B.A. in History from Cornell University and an M.A. in History from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Work

I am currently volunteering at the New York Historical Society's Center for Women's History.

Reasons for this Sandbox

This is my personal wikipedia page, but I would like to help the historical society set up their own user page in order to increase people's ability to access our collections, and to contribute to women's history projects on wikipedia. I am pretty new to wikipedia editing in such a manner, and so I am hoping to experiment with code and design using my own sandboxes before we set up the NYHS page. I am very happy though to make any changes to my user page or sandbox to bring it up to Wikipedia standards, as I am sure that despite perusing policies and conditions as much as I can, I will not always be following it perfectly. I welcome feedback, so feel free to let me know if I should change anything about my user page!

Pages to Edit and Create

I want to add to and clarify theory and methods on pages pertaining to history. I have noticed a lot of articles that don't really accurately reflect the scholarly debates and practices on different topics. For example, I plan on contributing to the talk page of and editing the Women's Rights timeline to make it less presentist, explaining that the notion of "rights" is not universal but an Enlightenment philosophy, and add some citations about how historians and anthropologists think about gender in different time periods and cultures. I think it would be useful for readers to see a section on historiography or scholarly debate on such broad topics. I also hope to add to other pages, such as the historiography pages more generally, to reflect a broader range of scholarly ideas and practices. I also plan to edit the women's suffrage timeline and others.

Practice

• Basics

1. I am writing in italics.
2. Now, I am writing in bold.

• Intermediate

Lets make some columns!

About	Center for Women's History
We are a historical society! We sure like history around here.	This is where we write about our women's history projects

Template Practice

Template Practice - What Will Happen With This One?

New York Historical Society

Directory Page Template Practice With Tabs

User:Example User:Example/Subpage 1 Second subpage User:Example/Subpage 3

New York Historical Society eg, Independent Museum, National Museum, Local Government Museum: , New York, New York, United States

About us Our sites: ... ... ...

Our GLAMwiki work

Contact us Discuss the project on the talkpage

General GLAM Page Template

What is the difference between the Directory Page template and just the GLAM page template?

Wikipedia Cultural Embassy for [[]]
Featured article · Current exhibitions · Featured picture · Wikipedia collaborations
Featured article
Current events and exhibitions-related articles
Featured picture
Wikipedia collaborations

NotARealPerson (birth date - death date) is best known for being awesome.

Test Infobox

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Subheader above image
Second subheader
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Header defined alone
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Badges

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Communicator

Copyeditor

Neutrality

Collaborator

Researcher

Verifiability

Sourcer

Advisor

Civility

Citer

WikiLinker

Illustrator

Adventurer

References

Elyfw (talk) 16:46, 17 May 2018 (UTC)