Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Recognizing Black Suffragists: A Wikipedia Editing Workshop
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Recognizing Black Suffragists: A Wikipedia Editing Workshop
Did you know that Wikipedia is an openly editable resource, meaning that anyone can improve the quality and accuracy of Wikipedia entries? Data has shown that less than 18% of biographies on English-language Wikipedia are about women. Help us change that by joining us on April 13 at the Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument for a Wikipedia editing workshop. We will work together to improve and create Wikipedia content about black women who fought for the right to vote. Training will be provided, and no prior knowledge of suffrage history or Wikipedia editing is required.
This free event is presented by the Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument and the National Parks Service with support from the National Woman's Party and Wikimedia DC. Lunch will be provided.
Please bring your own laptop. Wikimedia DC has two laptops to loan, and they can reserved by emailing info@wikimediadc.org.
When
- Saturday, April 13, 2019 10:00AM-2PM
Where
- Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument
- 144 Constitution Ave NE
- Washington, DC 20002
Register
- Register here with Eventbrite
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- 1) Select 'Sign in'
- 2) Scroll down on the page that follows and click 'Publish changes' or 'Save changes'.
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Presentation

Wikimedia Projects
- Wikimedia movement
- Wikipedia, a web-based encyclopedia
- Wikimedia Commons, a data repository of media (images, videos and sounds). (See * Wikiproject Wikimedia Commons:GLAM Wikiproject)
- Wikidata, a common source of data, also accessible by the other projects
- Wiktionary, a dictionary
- Wikibooks, educational textbooks
- Wikinews, news articles
- Wikiquote, a collection of quotations
- Wikisource, a library of source texts and documents
- Wikiversity, educational material
- Wikivoyage, a travel guide
- Wikispecies, a taxonomic catalogue of species
Wikipedia Policies
- Wikipedia:Five pillars
- Wikipedia:Core content policies
- Wikipedia:General notability guideline
- Wikipedia:Verifiability
- Wikipedia:Conflict of interest
- Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources
- Wikipedia:No original research (Examples of Original Research)
- Wikipedia:Citing sources
- Wikipedia:Identifying and using primary sources
- (Somewhat) complete list of Wikipedia Policies
Quick Editing Tips
Tools and Other Resources
Potential Sources
- National Parks Service - The 19th Amendment: 100 Years
- Suffrage in America: The 15th and 19th Amendments
- Remarkable Legacies of American Women
- NPS Photos
Coordination
TO AVOID EDITING THE SAME ARTICLES AS OTHER ATTENDEES, please use the Etherpad link below to share what you are currently editing. Remember to type 'Done' or 'Finished' when you are through making changes. REMEMBER TO PUBLISH (SAVE) OFTEN.
Etherpad - Recognizing Black Suffragists: A Wikipedia Editing Workshop
Suggested Article Work List
About the Article Assessment Quality Scale
For Creation
- Mary Halton (d:Q63098901)
- New York Federation of Colored Women
- Harriet Purvis, Jr. (1839-?)
- Rhode Island League of Colored Women
Stubs
- Anna Simms Banks
- Gertrude Bonnin
- Mary Ann Shadd Cary
- Charlotte Forten Grimke
- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
- National Association of Colored Women
- National Training School for Women and Girls
- Sarah Remond
- Mary B. Talbert
- Portia Willis (d:Q63098979)
Start
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- Christia Adair
- Ella Baker
- Maria L. Baldwin
- Mary E. Britton
- Nannie Helen Burroughs
- Wilhelmina Kekelaokalaninui Widemann Dowsett
- Dolores Huerta
- Adella Hunt Logan
- Charlotte E. Ray
- Amelia Boynton Robinson
- Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
- Mary Church Terrell
- Margaret Murray Washington
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Edits made within the list area will be removed on the next update!
Attendees
- IJustMetAGirlNamedMaria (talk) 14:20, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
- SPhilman (talk) 14:21, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
- MCA025 (talk) 14:31, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
- Eshen1203 (talk) 14:33, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
- Hunt251 (talk) 14:33, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
- UrbanSafariDC (talk) 14:49, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
- Carolinefreedman (talk) 15:36, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
- Wynnemeghan28 (talk) 16:21, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
- Michaelasnid (talk) 16:21, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
- JJTaylor1999 (talk) 16:22, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
- Lwisenbarger28 (talk) 16:28, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
- Michaelasnid (talk) 17:10, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
- Carolinefreedman (talk) 17:43, 13 April 2019 (UTC)