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The Penn State University Libraries hosted their first LGBT Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on Tuesday, October 8, 2019. The event took place across multiple Penn State Campuses with the goal to recognize LGBT History Month by editing and creating pages for queer people, places, and things. In 2020, the event was hosted online by Penn State Brandywine.

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When and Where
2020 DatesOctober 18th-31st
LocationsBrandywine (Online)


Event Info

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2021

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Brandywine

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For the third year in a row, Vairo Library at Penn State Brandywine will be offering an asynchronous way to participate in Wiki Loves Pride for this year. Visit our online dashboard to join us!

2020

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Brandywine

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  • Oct 18th-31st
  • Online Only - visit our dashboard to join us.

2019

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University Park

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Behrend

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  • 9:00-1:00, Lilley Library 107

Brandywine

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  • 10:00 - 4:00, Vairo Library Instruction Lab

Shenango

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12:15 - 3pm Lartz Memorial Library, room 105

Getting Started

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Make a Wikipedia account

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Tips and Tricks

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Join the Dashboard

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On the day of the event, login to Wikipedia through our dashboard. It will track all of our edits and work throughout the day so we an see our progress.

Through the Dashboard you can either login with an existing Wiki account or make a new one. You can also assign yourself a page so others participating know who you're working on!

You can see what we did in 2019 via that Dashboard.

Wikipedia Pages to work on

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Crowd sourced Wiki page lists

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Check out some of these lists to find some pages to create or edit.

  • RedLinks Lists
    • Blue Links = this person has a page, but you can absolutely edit it!
    • Red Links = they don't have a page yet, so you can create one!

Library Resources

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This guide has useful databases. They're a great place to start once you've picked a person or topic!

Make a quick search to see what the library has on your person or topic! Run into problems? Use the Ask a Librarian function to chat with a librarian and get expert help!

Articles

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Name/Title Description What the page needs Articles To Check What was done
Ortez Alderson Actor and activist. Create Page Timothy Stewart-Winter, Queer Law and Order: Sex, Criminality, and Policing in the Late Twentieth-Century United States, Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 1, June 2015, Pages 61–72, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav283 HALL, S. (2010). The american gay rights movement and patriotic protest. Journal of the History of Sexuality, 19(3), 536-562. doi:10.1353/sex.2010.0011 GOULD, D. (2011, June 8). The Pleasures and Intensities of AIDS Activism; or, making a Place for Yourself in the Universe. Windy City Times, 26(36), 26–29. Activist arthur gursch dies at 72. (2018, ). Windy City Times Gould, D. (2011, ). The pleasures and intensities of AIDS activism; or, making a place for yourself in the universe. Windy City Times Standing ovation for colourful cameos. (1988, ). Pink Paper
James W. Flint Founder and owner of Miss Gay Continental Pageant. Create Page Baim, T. (2019, June 26). Stonewall. Windy City Times, 34(29), 31–36. _also check out this one for other Chicago LGBT activists_
Carol A. Johnson Midwest AIDS Project coordinator. Create Page Lynch, L. R. R. (2002, Feb 14). Trinity hosts national black HIV/AIDS awareness day: One of several workshops focuses on spirituality and sexuality, AIDS education. Chicago Weekend Retrieved from http://ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu/login?url=https://www-proquest-com.ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu/docview/367214361?accountid=13158
Jochen Hick German filmmaker expand and organize Leydon, J. (2000). no one sleeps. Variety, 378(11), 38. THOMAS, K. (2001, ). Movie review; 'no one sleeps' deft thriller set against AIDS backdrop: Home edition. The Los Angeles Times Crust, K. (2004, ). SCREENING ROOM; germany's isolated gays get a hearing: HOME EDITION. The Los Angeles Times
Luce Irigaray influential contemporary French feminist philosopher add additional citations Kloppenberg, B. (2014). WHAT IS A NEW OBJECT?: Thinking the ontological difference with hans loewald and luce irigaray. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 31(4), 537-546. doi:10.1037/a0038061 Fotaki, M., Metcalfe, B. D., & Harding, N. (2014). Writing materiality into management and organization studies through and with luce irigaray. Human Relations (New York), 67(10), 1239-1263. doi:10.1177/0018726713517727 Still, J. (2012). Sharing the world: Luce irigaray and the hospitality of difference. L'Esprit Créateur, 52(3), 40-51. doi:10.1353/esp.2012.0026 Karcher, K. (2013). Luce irigaray. Exchanges (Coventry), 1(1), 12-15. doi:10.31273/eirj.v1i1.70 added citations - still needs more
Jan Oxenberg writer, director add biography, expand Citron, M. (1981). The films of jan oxenberg: Comic critique. Jump Cut, 24-25, 31. Kelly, J., & Poppe, T. (1977). Jan oxenberg -- filmmaker. Off our Backs, 6(10), 12. Jan oxenberg's lesbian feminist films. (1978). Spare Rib (London, England), , 34.
Lorae Parry actor, director, playwright add biography, expand Edmond, M. (2004). How gothic is s/he?: Three new zealand dramas. Australasian Drama Studies, 44(44), 113-129. Dale, J. (2001). Lesbian plays and their players. Journal of Lesbian Studies, 5(1-2), 85-103. doi:10.1300/J155v05n01_06 A slick and hilarious political parody. (2017, ). Dominion Post (Wellington, N.Z.) added brief Eugenia Description and linked to other pages
Jeremy Podeswa filmmaker add to biography, expand
Pavel Tchelitchew artist expand
Micellany New articles about LGBT issues we may want to add to wikipedia Uttarapong, J., Cai, J., & Wohn, D. Y. (2021). Harassment Experiences of Women and LGBTQ Live Streamers and How They Handled Negativity. In Conference on Interactive Media Experiences (IMX’21). https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jie-Cai-22/publication/350740253_Harassment_Experiences_of_Women_and_LGBTQ_Live_Streamers_and_How_They_Handled_Negativity/links/606f5333a6fdcc5f77907ac3/Harassment-Experiences-of-Women-and-LGBTQ-Live-Streamers-and-How-They-Handled-Negativity.pdf Harder, L. (2021). How queer!? Canadian approaches to recognizing queer families in the law. Whatever. A Transdisciplinary Journal of Queer Theories and Studies, 4, 303-328. Kia, H., Robinson, M., MacKay, J., & Ross, L. E. (2021). Poverty in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Two-Spirit, and Other Sexual and Gender Minority (LGBTQ2S+) Communities in Canada: Implications for Social Work Practice. Research on Social Work Practice, 31(6), 584–598. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049731521996814

Books

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Check out the books below. Click the link to see if it's online of if your library has it!

Name/Title in Who's Who Description What the page needs What was done
Gösta Adrian-Nilsson Swedish painter organize and expand, additional sources
Arnold Aletrino Dutch author expand and use inline citations
Poul Georg Andræ Danish civil servant and author create page
Rupert Doone British dancer and choreographer expand added citations - needs more
Marie Dorval French actress expand added to early life
Hans Henny Jahnn German writer expand
Hilda Käkikoski Finnish writer and member of parliament expand
Karl-Erik Kejne Swedish cleric, pastor in the Stockholm City Mission create
Name/Title in Modern Herstory Description What the page needs What was done
Alicia Garza civil rights activist add education added citation for education
Carmen Perez activist, 2017 Women's March co-chair reorganize
Janet Mock writer, TV host, trans rights activist reorganize added headshot
Roxane Gay professor, writer expand
Amandla Stenberg actress, activist section on activism
Feminista Jones social worker, writer, blogger about Black feminism picture, expand and organize organized
Kat Blaque YouTuber, trans rights activist expand
Jennicet Gutiérrez trans and immigrant rights activist expand
Layshia Clarendon basketball player activism
Name/Title in Encyclopedia Description What the page needs What was done
Al-Fatiha Foundation organization for LGBTQ Muslims expand added citations and more history,added basic ideology regarding genders of Islam religion
Dennis Altman writer, advocate expand and organize added citations and reorganized a bit
Frank Aqueno performance artist create page
Miguel Arteta film director add additional citations added citations, information about films
Jack Babuscio journalist, activist create page page created (pending review)
Jochen Hick German filmmaker expand and organize
Jim Hubbard (filmmaker) experimental filmmaker create page Created and submitted draft, once approved edit ACT UP and MIX NYC reference to him not Kiwi artist
Luce Irigaray influential contemporary French feminist philosopher add additional citations added citations - still needs more
Satoru Ito gay activist, educator, writer create page
Lothar Lambert Berlin-based underground filmmaker create page
Judith Mayne film scholar, professor of French and Women's Studies create
Grzegorz Musial twentieth century writer create page
Lasse Nielsen openly gay Danish filmmaker create page
Nel Noordzij writer create page
Jan Oxenberg writer, director add biography, expand
Lorae Parry actor, director, playwright add biography, expand add plays, awards, and some bibliography.
Jeremy Podeswa filmmaker add to biography, expand added to biography, expanded briefly, edited for grammatical sense
Pavel Tchelitchew artist expand
  1. ^ [2], Modern Herstory