On Thursday, April 4, 2019,
Fembot travels to
Texas A&M in College Station, Texas, for an edit-a-thon to help train people to edit Wikipedia and continue to engage more women, people of color, and members of LGBTQIA communities to edit Wikipedia and to enhance diversity of content.
Participants: This event is open to anyone interested in improving women's history coverage on Wikipedia. No wiki editing experience is necessary, support will be on hand to help you out! Can't be there the whole time? No problem, join us for as long or as little as you can.
Details: Participants should bring their own laptop and power cords.
Attendees
This Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon will contribute to the world of free and accessible knowledge, while at the same time working toward an anti-racist, gender inclusive history of everything within Wikipedia’s vast database.
At the Edit-a-Thon, we will be training people:
to navigate the content production system in Wikipedia
to make effective and engaging entries
to conduct research that will meet Wikipedia’s notability criteria
improve on existing content with more robust citations, data, categories, infoboxes, etc.
People can participate in a number of different ways: participants can come with their own projects or join teams that will be working on projects at the event; projects may involve identifying historical figures, organizations, and ideas that are missing from the online encyclopedia, researching entries, writing entries, locating images and getting permission to use them.
Join us as we ensure the digital legacy of women of color, trans, and/or gender non-conforming people, organizations, and ideas in multiple disciplines, fields, and periods of history!
Sign-in
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Please add your suggestions for Wikipedia content improvement here. If you'd like to claim a specific topic to work on, simply add your name next to it.
Juanita Tomayo Lott - Filipina American statistician, demographer, policy analyst, author; in 1974 -1977 she directed the first and only Office of Asian American Affairs, Office of the Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Health Education and Welfare
María de Pérez Almiroty - first woman elected as senator in Puerto Rico (English-language page could be expanded as well as the Spanish-language page)