Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Closing the Gap: Women's History Month Edit-a-thon

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Closing the Gap: Women's History Month Edit-a-thon presented by The White House Gender Policy Council & The White House Domestic Policy Council with support from Wikimedia DC

BACKGROUND The White House Gender Policy Council & the White House Domestic Policy Council are hosting a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon with Wikimedia to improve historical representation of women. The goal of this event is to mark Women's History Month by collaborating with a select group of youth organizations to address the gender content gap in Wikipedia entries. Shockingly only 10% of Wikipedia editors are women, and only 20% of Wikipedia profiles are about women, which leads to a systemic bias in how we document history. The solution is to motivate women and girls to create new content, expand the breadth of profiles, find reference materials to cite and fix the credit bias, and remove unconsciously biased language.

EVENT The Edit-a-thon is a virtual event where girls can edit, improve, and/or create Wikipedia content to recognize the contributions of underrepresented women in history. A list of topics will be created in advance so the girls can use the entire event to edit and improve Wikipedia.

Mentors from partner organizations will undergo training in advance to ensure that allotted time is used efficiently. Representatives from the United States Digital Service will be there to help troubleshoot any issues with editing Wikipedia.

When

March 29, 2021 4pm-7pm

Registration

This is a closed event.

Please sign in

This is for use on the day of the event.

1) Select 'Sign in'

2) Scroll down on the page that follows and click 'Save changes'.

Your username will automatically be added to the list of attendees at the bottom of this page.

Article work list

Instructions: Choose two articles to edit or create (first choice and second choice). Send the names of the articles you've chosen along with your username to your mentor. Your mentor will notify you to confirm or deny that your first choice is available. Please wait for confirmation before starting your article worksheet.

This list includes articles that need to be created and a few that require improvements. Use your article worksheet to write the lead section (3-5 sentences), when starting a new article. Use the worksheet to make notes of needed improvements when working on existing articles.

Tip: it's easier to prove that your topic is notable if 1) you have a number of sources to support this or 2) the subject of your article was the first to accomplish something. Try starting with an article that meets one or two of the items within this criteria.

Article for creation

Scroll down to find the article you may have a reserved.

If you have not reserved an article and would like to create one, please visit Wikiproject/Women in Red to search for a list of red links (articles for creation). Search by category to find one that may be of interest to you. Click the red link to start the article. Please share the article you are creating in the chat.

Activists

Regina Lee - Asian-American activist and co-founder of New York City's Chinatown Health Clinic (Now the Charles B. Wang Community Health Center) (Living)

Moved from draft to main, 3/30/21

Article assigned to User:Flower204

Regina Lee Interview, Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History Philanthropy Initiative Oral History Project - Source includes early life story, founding of clinic.
Bringing Health Care to the Community, National Museum of American History - Source includes information about founding of clinic
Celebrating 50 Years of Community Health Centers, Charles B. Wang Community Health Center - Source includes information abd the history of the clinic
Care for the Community, Smithsonian Institution (For use as an external link) - Smithsonian-produced video about the clinic

Draft:Flavia Kleiner, Cofounder of Operation Libero (Living)

Assigned to User:Mylow2021!

Flavia Kleiner, Politico - Source includes biographical data and information about her work
Flavia Kleiner: “I am fighting to defend the status quo." - Source includes information about her work
Change the narrative: how a Swiss group is beating rightwing populist - Source includes information about her work and organization
Interview. For use as an external link

Draft:Rilla Moran, first President of the National Federation of Democratic Women (Living)

Assigned to User:C.brandi45

History of NFDW Includes information about founding of organization and her leadership
Rilla Moran Woods obituary

Draft:Deanna Munoz, CEO/Founder, Latino Arts Foundation and Midwest Chicana Brand (Living)

Article is assigned to User:Seksek37

Aviators

Manila Davis Talley - Aviator, member of the 99s (International Association of Female pilots), founding member of the Betsy Ross Corps (private 1930s female auxiliary/reserve for the Army Air Corps), third woman to graduate from the Air Force Academy (Deceased)

Moved draft to mainspace April 9

Assigned to User:Andreeaiban

Guide to the Manila D. Talley papers 1919-1990, Archives and Special Collections, UAA/APU Consortium Library - Source includes information about early life, education, and personal life
Manila Davis Talley Scrapbook, Smithsonian Archives - Source includes information about her flight history
MANILA DAVIS (TALLEY), Parks Airport Source includes biographical data (DOB), and flight history
Meeting minutes from 1930 meeting of the 99s welcoming Manila David as a member (Good for use as an external link). - Source mentions Davis in meeting notes from 1930
Manila Davis Betsy Ross Corps Membership Card

Hattie Meyers Junkin - Aviator, first women to earn a “C”-level pilot's license (Deceased)

Assigned

The Fascinating Story of Hattie Meyers, National Aviation Heritage Area - Source includes information about the start of her career in aviation
Hattie Meyers Weaver: Life During the Great Influenza Epidemic of 1918, Smithsonian Collections Blog - Source includes information about family life
Hattie Meyers Junkin, Smithsonian Archives - Source includes a brief biography (scroll to Biographical note)

Authors

Draft:Marisel Vera, Author (Living)

Article assigned to User:Volleyball2022

Humboldt Park’s Marisel Vera explores Puerto Rico’s history in new novel, ‘The Taste of Sugar’, Chicago Tribune - Source includes information about early life and details about her book
Finding History: An Interview with Marisel Vera - Source includes information about past and recent works

Julissa Arce, best-selling, award winning author and activist (Living)

Moved from draft to main, 3/30/21

Assigned to User:Naturestyles01

Government Officials, Political Appointees or Politicians

Draft:Karen Jackson - Deputy Chief Operating Officer, Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS)

CMS Bio - Source includes education and career history

Draft:Alejandra Ceja, Former Executive Director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics. (Living)

This article has been claimed

Bio, Newark Trust For Education - Source includes early, education, and work history
Bio, Plen.org - Source includes work history
Bio, Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, Inc. - Source includes work history

Nancy Navarro, Montgomery County Maryland first Latina council member (Living)

Moved from draft to main, 3/31/21

Assigned to Tarheel01

Bio, Montgomery County, Maryland - Source includes detailed biography
Latina councilmember mocked for accent while discussing racial disparities in Maryland - Source recounts recent newsworthy event
Nancy Navarro To Receive Hispanic Hero Award - Source includes information about recent award

Draft:Ellen Hope Hays, First Alaska Native woman to become a National Park Service Superintendent (Deceased)

Assigned to User:Sparrow29

Chefs

Draft:Iris Veronica Jimenez, Chef and Culinary Director (Living)

Praising the Pupusa: DC's Love for an Iconic Salvadoran Dish - Source includes information about her business
Bio, James Beard Foundation - Source includes basic bio and shows that she was a James Beard Foundation 2020 Women's Entrepreneurial Leadership Fellow

Entrepreneurs

Draft:Carolina Contreras, entrepreneur and natural hair activist - opened the first natural hair salon in the Dominican Republic (Living)

Assigned to User:Shalla621

Draft:Cashmere Nicole, Founder Beauty Bakerie

Assigned to User:Nana2021

Draft:Rea Ann Silva - Creator of the Beautyblender (Living)

Assigned to User:HenSmithy

Bio, National Museum of American HIstory - Source includes detailed history of her life, career, and business
How broke, single mom Rea Ann Silva built her Beautyblender empire, NBCNews - Source includes detailed history of her life, career, and business
Beautyblender Founder Rea Ann Silva Talks The Brand's First Makeup Launch And Her Foundation Tips, Forbes - Source includes overview of new products, company growth
How the Beautyblender was created on the set of 'Girlfriends', Business Insider - Source includes detailed history of her life, career, and business

Draft:Brittney Ogike

Assigned to User:Girlsrock2006

Educators

Draft:Nadia Lopez (Dr. Nadia Lopez), Founding principal of Mott Hall Bridges Academy (Living)

Assigned to User:Fleepfloop

STEM Professionals

Evelyn Groesbeeck Mitchell - Doctor and activist who established women's clinic

Assigned to User:Redbuttercake

Discover the life and career of an early public health heroine. , Smithsonian Archives - Source includes information about her work and activism
National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: General Correspondence, 1839-1961; Mitchell, Evelyn

Catherine Pilachowski - Astronomer, past president of the American Astronomical Society, Professor and Kirkwood Chair in Astronomy at Indiana University Bloomington (Living)

Draft moved to mainspace April 9

Assigned to User:CalcuttaCode

HER STORY 2015 Astronomer has seen major achievements for space research, women in science, Indiana University - Source includes information about her career and research
Women Who Changed the Universe and How We Portray Them, Air and Space Museum - Source includes information about her study of galaxies and star clusters
Indiana University, Faculty Bio - Source includes detailed job history
How neutrinos saved your teeth from cavities, Science Magazine - Source includes information about her work
Wikidata property

Draft:Sorena Sorenson - Geologist, National Museum of Natural History (Living)

Assigned to User:Strongwomen14

Get to Know the Leading Ladies of Science at the Smithsonian, Smithsonian Magazine - Source includes recent work history and area of research
Bio including education - Source includes basic bio and education
Wikidata property

Draft:Sally Walker (paleontologist) (Living)

Assigned to User:Wengtech

Bio, University of Georgia - Source includes basic bio and education
Sally Walker wonders where have all the fossils gone?, American Association for the Advancement of Science - Source includes information about her work
Interview, University of Georgia - Source includes information about her work

Draft:Lisa Gaddis Astrogeologist and Director of the Universities Space Research Association's Lunar and Planetary Institute (Living)

Universities Space Research Association Names Lisa Gaddis Director of the Lunar and Planetary Institute, WFMZ - Source includes information about her new position
Bio, USGS - Source includes educational history (scroll down below bio)

Draft:Aileen Yingst - Geologist and Senior Scientist at the Planetary Science Institute. Currently working with NASA to explore Mars (Living)

Assigned to User:MFractals

Maine scientist helped rover land on Mars while working from Brunswick, News Center, Maine - Source includes news of her recent work on the new Mars rover
Out of This World, DAR American Spirit Magazine - Source includes information on work history and education
Bio, Planetary Science Institute - Source includes information about her research
Alumni bio, Dartmouth - Source include education and work history

Khalia Braswell - Computer Scientist, founder of INTech (Living)

Moved to mainspace April l8

Assigned to User:Kiweye

How This Former Engineer Left Her Dream Job To Bring Girls Of Color To Tech - Source includes information about her college degree and the organization she founded (INTech)
She believes in girls who code – so much that she left Apple to come home and help them, Charlotte Observer - Source includes information about her family and job history
West Charlotte native Khalia Braswell is bridging the digital divide with INTech - Source includes information about her early education
This tech founder will soon be growing her North Carolina nonprofit from Philly technical.ly/philly - Source includes information about her work towards a PhD

Draft:Deborah Kamin Mukaz (Living)

Assigned to User:fanclubss

Bio, Univ. of Vermont Division of Hematology and Oncology Department of Medicine - Source includes information about her areas of study and university degrees
Bio, #BlackInCardio Source includes information about her areas of study and early life
How to fill the crucial need for more Black cardiologists, Heart.org - Source discusses her areas of research
Good fellows, Luther Collage - Source discusses her areas of research
#BlackInCardio Week Highlights Black Cardiovascular Researchers, Forbes - Source discusses her areas of research

Kristen Ransom - Tech Engineer and founder of IncluDe, a web design and development agency (Living)

Moved to mainspace March 29

Article assigned to User: taurus333777

Kristen Ransom, MSEM ’18, named Top 30 Rising Tech Star, Tufts - Source includes information about her work and education
Bright Young Things, Boston Magazine - Source includes information about her work and company
How One Tech Engineer Built A Company Around Doing Good, Forbes - Source includes information about her work and company

Draft:Marah J. Hardt (Dr. Marah J. Hardt), Research Co-Director for the non-profit Future of Fish and science advocate

Ted talk bio - Source includes education and details about her work
Future of Fish Website (for use as external link)]

Draft:Marieme Jamme Founder of iamtheCODE initiative (Living)

Assigned to User:Zeegirl247

The woman building an army of female coders, one line at a time., BBC - Source includes information about her work
Bio - Source includes biographical information, especially work history
Bio Source includes biographical information, especially work history
Jamme's website (For use as external site)

Note : This page exists here, but without accent. This user edited another page

Draft:Jessica Malaty Rivera, infectious disease epidemiology.

Assigned to User:Esha2324

Malaty Rivera, This epidemiologist mom was on a mission to debunk COVID misinformation during naptime, Today's Parent - Source includes information about her work, specifically having to do with combatting Covid 19 misinformation]
was science and comms lead for this project)

Draft:Latinas in Tech, organization (Use the worksheet to write 3-5 sentences about the organization instead of writing about an individual)

Assigned to User:Thornyrose2021

Latinas in Tech: From informal happy hours to empowering more than 2,000 Latinas in the technology industry - source includes information about the founding of the company
Latinas in Tech Break Through Barriers- Sources includes organizational history

Historians

Draft:Alexis Coe, Biographer of George Washington, first woman historian to publish a biography of George Washington in the last hundred years (Living)

Assigned to User:BeSoKind

EXPANDING THE GENRE Alexis Coe Writes an Accessible Washington Biography - Source includes information about her biography of George Washington]
How historian Alexis Coe handles being the only woman in the room - Source includes interview with Coe about her book and research.

Suffragists

Portia Gage - One of the organizers of the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association. Considered one of the first 'protest voters' (Someone who attempts to vote when they know they are not allowed to do so)

Draft moved to mainspace March 29

Assigned to User:writeroftruthhhh

Portia Gage Tries to Vote in Vineland, NJ History Weekly - Source includes story recalling Gage's first attempt to cast a ballot
Education and agitation: The woman suffrage movement in New Jersey by Dodyk, Delight Wing, Ph.D., Rutgers The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick, 1997, 808; 9800245 - Includes her detailed biography and a detailed account of her efforts to gain the vote (Select 'View full PDF' on right)

Draft:S. K. Chan (Dr. S. K. Chan) - President of the Chinese American Equal Suffrage Society in Portland, Oregon

Article assigned to User:digitalempress

Neither Head nor Tail to the Campaign: Esther Pohl Lovejoy and the Oregon Woman Suffrage Victory of 1912 by Kimberly Jenson - Source includes detail about her and her work on the committee. Go to PDG page 17 for first mention of Dr. Chan.
Who Was Left Out of the Story?, National Museum of American History - Source includes brief mention of her activism
The bold suffragists you likely didn’t learn about in school, Mashable (See #9) - Source includes brief mention of her activism

The Arts: Artists, Musicians, Writers, Film makers

Draft:Angela Palladino - Folk Artist

Article assigned to User:Truthwriterxo

“Genius and Madness” in New York, Sicily in the Soul: Angela Fodale Palladino, La Voce di New York - Source includes detailed history of her life and career
Angela Palladino,SAAM - Source is link to her work in the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Draft:Delois Barrett Campbell - Gospel singer (deceased)

Assigned to User:DayDreamer007

Delois Barrett Campbell obituary, New York Times - Source includes a highly detailed biography
Delois Barrett Campbell obituary, Los Angeles Times - Source includes a highly detailed biography
Image, Sculpture of Delois Barrett Campbell
See The Barrett Sisters for additional sources

Draft:Carolyn Friedlander, fabric designer and quilt artist (Living)

Assigned to User:Oceanfairy

Carolyn Friedlander, Designing, sewing, and quilting with intention, by Meg Stively, Seam Work Magazine - Source includes information about background and asthetic
Everything You Need to Get Into Quilting, According to Quilters - Source includes information about her teaching]
Design Minds profile - Source discusses her design process.

Draft:Rashida Coleman-Hale, illustrator, fabric designer, and entrepreneur (Living).

Assigned to User:Summergirl9406

Draft:Melody Miller, fabric designer and entrepreneur (Living)

Assigned to User:Boatsonshore

Bio, Ruby Start Society - Source includes information about her work history and brand
Interview, Southern Fabric

Draft:Von Diaz, writer, documentarian, and radio producer (Living)

Assigned to User:Zeegirl247

Women in business

Draft:Sara Sunshine - Advertising professional and the first to win a Clio (advertising) award for a Latino-owned agency.

Assigned to User:Yauri2020

American History curator seeks Don Drapers of Hispanic Ad World - Source includes information about her impact on the advertising industry
Bio, National Museum of American History - Source includes information about her early career experiences
AHAA to Contribute to Smithsonian’s Advertising History Collections, Hispanic PR Wire

Innovators

Draft:Antionette Carroll, designer, founder Creative Reaction Lab (Living)

Assigned to User:Yellowkirby

Cut & Paste podcast: Antionette Carroll on how designers can solve social problems, St. Louis Public Radio
Non-profit Creative Reaction Lab engages black, Latino St. Louis youth to address societal issues, St. Louis Public Radio
Building Equity Through Design with Antionette Carroll - Source includes biographical information about her and organization
Bio, AIGA, St. Louis

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