Wikipedia:Meetup/WMWH

On the occasion of Women’s History Month 2016, Writing Middle Eastern Women into History Initiative (WMWH) is launching Wiki-Women-Middle East, a series of Wiki Edit-a-thon gatherings around the globe to add profiles of Middle Eastern women cultural and social art practitioners to Wikipedia.

Event details

While volunteer editors can join this ongoing collective effort remotely at their preferred time and space, on Thursday, March 31, 2016, pilot programs will take place in four locations:

• Location 1: CultureHub, 47 Great Jones St, New York, NY 10012 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
• Location 2: Herat WMWH member space 8:00 am – 10:00 am
• Location 3: Mashhad WMWH member space 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
• Location 4 – Core Hub: Arab American National Museum, Annex Building, 13624 Michigan Ave, Dearborn, MI 48126 8:00 am – 8:00 pm
  • Profiles of DIWAN Forum's women members will be highlighted and registered to Wikipedia at this location

• What to bring:Participants should bring their own laptops and power cords
• Cost: The program is free and open to the public
• Hashtag: #WHMH2016

Wiki-Women Middle East list

• Wiki-Women Middle East list

Resources

See Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism/Resources
If you are unfamiliar with Wikipedia, you might try this training module which will help explain a lot of things, including how to add your signature.

Outcomes

Pages improved

Alphabetical by first letter

1. Alise Alousi -- Watershrimp (talk)
2. Women on Walls -- Tovacarlin (talk)

Pages created

Alphabetical by first letter

1. Laila Ajjawi -- Tovacarlin (talk) -- Stub

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 2016 WMWH.

• Arab American National Museum المتحف العربي الأمريكي القومي
• Arab American National Museum Library
• المتحف العربي الأمريكي القومي on الصفحة_الرئيسية
• ArabAmericanMus on X
• الصفحة_الرئيسية

March 2016 - Sign up

1. Pharos (talk) 16:56, 31 March 2016 (UTC) - NYC
2. BrillLyle (talk) 17:59, 31 March 2016 (UTC) - remote support
3. George Rahme (talk) 19:13, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
4. Mehrdadsb (talk) 19:57, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
5. Watershrimp (talk) 21:31, 31 March 2016 (UTC) - NYC
6. Tovacarlin (talk) 21:48, 31 March 2016 (UTC) - NYC
7. Sofalyd (talk) 22:29, 31 March 2016 (UTC) - NYC
8. Hasan4 art (talk) 22:35, 31 March 2016 (UTC) - Detroit
9. Stripedplantz (talk) 22:40, 31 March 2016 (UTC) - Detroit
10. Avaansari (talk) 22:52, 31 March 2016 (UTC) - Detroit
11. Zegeer (talk) 13:15, 27 April 2016 (UTC) - NYC

July 2016 - Sign up

1. Pharos (talk) 13:22, 14 July 2016 (UTC) - NYC