Equality Archive Women's History Wikipedia Edit-a-thon - 2017 - Baruch College

Equality Archive Women's History Wikipedia Edit-a-thon 2017
When and Where
Event:	Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
Date:	Thursday, March 9, 2017
Time:	1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Location:	Baruch College; Great Works Resource Room, VC 7-205; Baruch College

The 2017 Equality Archive Women's History Wikipedia Edit-a-thon is hosted by Baruch College in New York City.

Join us as we work with EqualityArchive.com for a Wikipedia-edit- a-thon in which members of the Baruch College community contribute content related to women’s history on Wikipedia, the largest and most popular general reference resource on the internet. In this Women’s History Month session you will learn how to create knowledge by writing and editing Wikipedia entries about the people, issues, and events that inform women’s history. Wikipedia editing skills are not required. A limited number of computers will be available to use, please bring a laptop if you have one.

Most college and university professors warn students NOT to use Wikipedia. But creating and editing articles leads students to do all the things academics value most -- citing credible sources and learning to paraphrase work well. A professor at Baruch, Dr. Kyra Gaunt, was recently acknowledged in the WIkiEdu inaugural newsletter for improving representations of articles related to social inequality: "The concept of toxic masculinity has attracted a lot of interest in recent years, but the Wikipedia article was just a three-sentence stub when a student in Kyra Gaunt’s Social Inequality class started work on the article. In the course of expanding it, the student added sections addressing the subject in the contexts of sports, violence, and sexuality. Other students in the class expanded articles on a variety of topics including housing inequality, social inequality and women’s sports." Read more on WikiEdu and knowledge creation at Baruch, at other CUNY colleges here.

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Event Information

Date: Thursday, March 9, 2017
Time: 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Location: Baruch College, Great Works Resource Room, VC 7-205, Baruch College
Hashtag: #**add here
Who can attend: Open to all CUNY Students, Staff, and Faculty: Open to the public with rsvp.
What to bring: Please bring your laptop, but there will be computers available. Also, snacks and beverages will be available for all participants.
Create an account: If you haven't created a Wikipedia Account, please do so follow our Instructions

Attendees

We will help you register for a new Wikipedia editing account the day of the event if needed.
If you are able, please also add your Wikipedia username to the appropriate section below (signatures are created by saving four tildes [~] in a row).

Attending:

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Articles to edit

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Outcomes

Articles improved

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Articles created