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Welcome! The
American Woman ,
NowThis , and
Paramount Network are hosting an edit-a-thon and recption on 18 May 2018 .
What : WikiWomen Edit-a-thon
When : Friday, 18 May 2018. Editathon: 3:00-6:00 PM. Reception and editing event: 6:00-8:00 PM.
Where :
NeueHouse
Beginners welcome! We'll provide training for new editors.
What to bring: Your laptop, power adapter, and any reference materials you'd like to work from or share.
Focus: Our primary focus will be notable women, women's works, and women's issues.
RSVP:
You can join the Dashboard event for this meetup here:
Twitter: #WikiWomen
This edit-a-thon is focusing on improving articles about women's biographies, women's works, and women's issues.
List of articles to improve
Ti-Grace Atkinson , American radical feminist author, philosopher
Dotty Attie , co-founder of the first all-female cooperative art gallery in America
Kate Austin , American journalist and advocate of feminist and anarchist causes
Barbara Avedon , American television writer, political activist, and feminist
Helen Tufts Bailie , American was a social reformer and activist
Jes Baker , American writer, photographer, and activist, best known for being part of the body positive movement
Radhika Balakrishnan , Chair of the Board of the United States Human Rights Network
Anne Balsamo , American writer who focuses on the connections between art, culture, gender, and technology
Toni Cade Bambara , African-American author, documentary film-maker, social activist, college professor
Christiana Carteaux Bannister , American business entrepreneur, hairdresser, and abolitionist in New England
Karen Barad , American feminist theorist, known particularly for her theory of agential realism
Judi Bari , American environmentalist, labor leader, feminist, principal organizer of Earth First!
Marion Harvie Barnard , American suffragist
Cornelia Barns , American feminist, socialist, political cartoonist
Kathleen Barry , American sociologist, feminist
Ruth Behar , Cuban-American anthropologist, writer
Genevieve Belleveau , American performance artist, singer
Jessica Benjamin , American psychoanalyst known for her contributions to psychoanalysis and social thought
Jessica Bennett (journalist) , American journalist who writes on gender, sexuality, culture
Thekla M. Bernays , American author, journalist, artist, art collector, speaker, suffragette
Alice Standish Allen , first female engineering geologist in North America
Sophie Bledsoe Aberle , Native American anthropologist, physician and nutritionist known for her work with Pueblo people
Lilia Ann Abron , first African American woman to earn a PhD in chemical engineering
Janet Abu-Lughod , American sociologist with major contributions to World-systems theory and Urban sociology
Bernice Ackerma , American meteorologist, known for being the first woman weathercaster in the U.S. and the first woman meteorologist at Argonne National Laboratory
List of categories with articles for your consideration
This is the Dashboard list of articles created/improved during this event. This list is incomplete as not all editors logged into the Dashboard.
Citing sources video tutorial -- part one
Citing sources video tutorial -- part two
When in doubt:
Additional Tutorials: