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Welcome! The Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America is hosting an edit-a-thon focused on U.S. Women Food Writers. |
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When: Thursday, March 24, 2016 from 3:00-6:00 PM
Where: Radcliffe Room, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Yard. Focus: Part of a series of Wikipedia events focused on culinary history.
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Event Details edit
Wikipedia experts and research librarians will be available to help you write and edit your entries. A behind-the-scenes tour of the Schlesinger Library will also be provided.
Schedule edit
- 3:00-4:00PM - curator introductions to the Schlesinger's culinary collections and a tour of the Library
- 4:00-6:00PM - research and hands-on editing
Logistics edit
- Locations, directions, maps:
- Schlesinger Library is located in Radcliffe Yard, 3 James Street, Cambridge, MA. Directions, a map, and parking information is available here.
- Twitter: Hashtag TBD
- WiFi: Harvard Guest
- What to Bring: laptop and extension cord
- Contact the organizer: Amanda Strauss (Amandastra)
Sign Up and Guest List edit
If you do not have a Wikipedia account, please create one in advance of the event. It should take less than five minutes:User Login
Attending edit
- Amanda Strauss
- Nicole Topich
- Wendy Gan
- Ellen Messer
- Carolin Young
- Elizabeth Mindreau
- Rose Oliveira
- Sally Sampson
- Gail Arnold
- Barbara Ketcham Wheaton
- Mary Beaudry
- Peter Fairbank
Maybe edit
Regrets edit
Participating Remotely edit
Suggested Topics edit
Biographies Needing Improvement edit
- Ida Bailey Allen
- Pearl Bowser
- Poppy Cannon
- Grace Zia Chu
- Juliet Corson
- Christine Frederick
- Hannah Glasse
- Karen Hess
- Janet McKenzie Hill
- Mahalia Jackson
- Inez Y. Kaiser
- Zarela Martinez
- Maria Parloa
- Mary Ellen Pleasant also known as Mammy Pleasant Charlamae Rollins
- Mary Randolph
- Sarah Tyson Rorer
- Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor
- Effie Waller Smith
- Sue Bailey Thurman
- Barbara Tropp
- Madeline Turner
- Charleszetta Waddles also interviewed in the Black Women Oral History Project
New Entries to be Written (Topics) edit
- Community Cookbooks
- Ladies Ordinary
- Culinary Historians Organizations
- New York Women's Culinary Alliance
New Entries to be Written (People) edit
- Aglae Adanson
- Emma Todd Anderson
- Kathryn Armstrong
- Aunt Priscilla
- Katharin Bell
- Phyllis Pray Bober
- Lessie Bowers
- Alice Bradley
- Marie Buchmeier
- Beatrice Hightower Cates
- Dora Charles
- Anne Clarke
- Mamie Cook
- Belle De Graf
- Freda DeKnight
- Annie E. Dennis
- Margareth Dietrich
- Marie Dorninger
- Hildagonda J. Duckitt
- Joan Eckstein
- Julie Elias (food writer)
- Irma Eliason
- Malitta D. Fischer
- Abby Fisher
- Jane Eayre Fryer
- Bessie M. Gant
- Mme Gacon Dufour
- Ruth L. Gaskins
- Hattie Rhinehart Griffin
- Agathe Haggenmiller
- Anna Halm
- Ethel Brown Hearon
- Sarah Chapman Hill
- Annabella Powell Hill
- Mary Hollande (food writer)
- Nannie Talbot Johnson
- Ella Ervilla Kellogg
- Ella Eaton Kellogg
- Dorothy Kuffman
- Lebour-Fawssett
- Gesine Lemcke
- Carrie Alberta Lyford
- Helen T. Mahammitt
- Lois Ellen Mark
- Mary Jane McClure
- Gretchen McMullen
- Harriet S. McMurphy
- Helen Mendes
- Josephine T. Menefee
- Blance Elbert Moncure
- Flossie Morris
- Patricia Murphy
- Marion Harris Neil
- Sarah W. Partridge
- Jessie Payne
- Caroline Pickett
- Princess Pamela
- Lena Richard
- Malinda Russell
- Mrs. W. R. Sanner
- Maria Schellhammer
- Mary Li Sia
- Lucille Bishop Smith
- Elizabeth Woodcock Smith
- Mrs. James E. Smitherman
- Ethel Somers
- Elisabeth Stockel
- Jane Stoker
- Bertha L. Turner
- Edna Alice Waite
- Anna Weckerin
- Rebecca West (cookbook author)
- Frances Virginia Whitaker
- Anna White
- Helen W. William comp.
- Grace Young
Culinary History Resources edit
- Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project
- NYPL Menu Project
- Culinary biographies : a dictionary of the world's great historic chefs, cookbook authors and collectors, farmers, gourmets, home economists, nutritionists, restaurateurs, philosophers, physicians, scientists, writers, and others who influenced the way we eat today
- The Jemima code : two centuries of African American cookbooks
- Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery
- Schlesinger Library Chefs & Food Writers Research Guide
Wikipedia Help edit
These are just to get you started -- feel free to add to this list.
Wikipedia & the Gender Gap edit
- If you care about women, you should edit Wikipedia differently
- Wikimedia Foundation: Gender Gap
- 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
- How To Be A Woman On The Internet
About Wikipedia edit
Article Examples edit
- 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
Formatting Shortcuts edit
- Help:Cheatsheet
- Starting an Article
- Citation Guide
- Wiki Markup Quick Reference
- Text Formatting
- Section Headers, Indents, and Lists
- Links
- Infobox templates
- Create Citations from Google Books
Public Domain Images edit
- Schlesinger Library: Public Domain images on Flickr Commons
- Finding Public Domain Images
- Creative Commons Image Search
- Wikimedia Commons