Wikipedia:Meetup/Native American Women Activists Editathon at Penn State

• 
  Lyda Conley (Wyandot)
  Your expertise can help improve the content and style issues.
  Edit Needs: B Class
• 
  Maria Tallchief (Osage)
  Your expertise can help improve the content and style issues.
  Edit Needs: B Class
• 
  Winona LaDuke (Ojibway)
  You can help improve the editing to close gaps in content.
  Edit Needs: C Class
• 
  Lucy Thompson (Yurok)
  Help by providing references to reliable sources and better content organization.
  Edit Needs: Start Class

In celebration of Women's History Month, the Penn State University Libraries are hosting a virtual Wikipedia editathon focusing on Native American women activists. The event will take place on Tuesday, March 29, 2022, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. -- participants can drop in at any time during the event. We will provide suggestions of articles to edit and references to use. First-time Wikipedia editors are welcome. Experienced Wikipedia editors will be on hand to answer your questions.

A week earlier on Tuesday, March 22 from 10:35 to 11:50 a.m., professors Julie Reed and Cathleen Cahill and Libraries Support employee Lily Murray will provide a training on Zoom for editathon participants. The training will cover best practices for writing about Indigenous people and reading and using sources, as well as the basics of Wikipedia editing. Instructions for joining the training will be sent to editathon registrants in advance of the training.

The Penn State University Libraries team organizing this event consists of Racine Amos, Lauren Cooper, Ana Enriquez, Jane Ingold, Lily Murray, Christina Riehman-Murphy, and Ruth Kitchin Tillman.

When and Where
Date	March 29, 2022
Time	10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time
Location	Virtual, on Zoom (leave a message on PacificWonderland's talk page for details)

Getting started

Trainings and Help

No experience? No problem! Refer to the tip sheet for participants, based on the March 22 training. Experts will be on hand during the editathon to help with research questions and Wikipedia questions.

Make a Wikipedia account

• Why create an account?
• Create an account

Join our Event Dashboard

Once you have an account, join our Dashboard in order to make sure your edits are tracked for our editathon!

Get familiar with Wikipedia

• Take a look at the Wikipedia resources below and get acquainted with the creation/editing process.
• Visit some Wiki pages and click "Edit Source" on the top of the page to see what it looks like to edit a page!
• Review notability requirements if you're interested in creating a new page.

Improve articles

• Add or edit inline citations/references.
• Add an infobox or add data to an existing infobox.
• Add an image.
• Use headings to improve the organization of the article.
• Add categories.
• Add incoming links.
• Check the article's Talk page to see what else needs work.

Editing Wikipedia: Tips and Tricks

• Cheatsheet for writing in wiki markup (unnecessary if you use the Visual Editor)
• Sample layout for biographical articles

Editing in Progress

We aim to improve the following articles about Native American Women Activists. During the editathon, if you are actively working on one of these articles, please edit this page to sign your name next to the article so that we don't end up with conflicting edits. There are additional suggestions for editing at the end of this page.

Priority Articles

WikiProjects grade article quality. Articles are arranged here beginning with those needing the least work. Keep in mind that the grades may be out of date. You can change the grade if appropriate.

GA-class articles

For an article in this class, some editing by subject and style experts is helpful; comparison with an existing featured article on a similar topic may highlight areas where content is weak or missing.

• Wilma Mankiller (Cherokee)

B-class articles

For an article in this class, a few aspects of content and style need to be addressed. Expert knowledge may be needed. The inclusion of supporting materials should be considered if practical, and the article checked for general compliance with the Manual of Style and related style guidelines.

• Laura Cornelius Kellogg (Wisconsin Oneida) Editing by M. Polgar 3/29/22
• Lyda Conley (Wyandot)
• Maria Tallchief (Osage)
• Marie Bottineau Baldwin (Turtle Mountain Chippewa)
• Christine Quintasket (Mourning Dove) (Sinixt and Colville)
• Suzan Shown Harjo (Cheyenne and Hodulgee Muscogee)
• Gertrude Bonnin/Zitkala-Ša (Yankton Lakota)

C-class articles

For an article in this class, considerable editing is needed to close gaps in content and solve cleanup problems.

• Alice Lee Jemison (Seneca)
• Czarina Conlan (Choctaw-Chickasaw)
• Elizabeth Bender Roe Cloud (Ojibwe) --Working on this. Racine Amos
• Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (Crow Creek Sioux)
• Elizabeth Peratrovich (Tlingit)
• Gladys Tantaquidgeon (Mohegan)
• LaDonna Harris (Comanche)
• Lilah Lindsey (Mvskoke Creek)
• Linda Aranaydo (Muscogee Creek)
• Lyda Conley - working on this Chadee Simms cfs5840
• Marie C. Cox (Comanche) Buuuchy (talk) 14:39, 29 March 2022 (UTC)
• Marjorie Bear Don't Walk (Ojibwa-Salish) (Hdb5136)
• Mary Jane Fate (Koyukon Athabascan)
• Mary Knight Benson (Pomo)
• Natalie Diaz (Mojave, Akimel O'odham)
• Rita Pitka Blumenstein (Yup'ik)
• Ruth Muskrat Bronson (Cherokee)
• Sarah Winnemucca (Paiute) -Sarah Rhine
• Dr. Susan LaFlesche Picotte (Omaha)
• Susette LaFlesche Tibbles (Omaha)
• Tsianina Redfeather (Creek/Cherokee)
• Waunetta McClellan Dominic (Odawa) -- enk51311 is working on this.
• Winona LaDuke (Ojibway)

Start-class articles

For an article in this class, providing references to reliable sources should come first; the article also needs substantial improvement in content and organization. Also improve the grammar, spelling, writing style and improve the jargon use.

• Ada Deer (Menominee) -Trovinson21 working on it
• Alyce Spotted Bear (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara) Did some expansion, but must sign off for now. JohnL314 (talk) 16:12, 29 March 2022 (UTC)
• Angel De Cora (Winnebago/Ho-Chunk)
• Annie Dodge Wauneka (Navajo/Diné)
• Cecilia Fire Thunder (Oglala Sioux) -- Sydney Hutchinson
• Dolly Akers (Assiniboine)
• Lucy Thompson (Yurok) - Claimed - Matt Vetter ; ) DarthVetter (talk) 14:08, 29 March 2022 (UTC)
• Maria Pearson (Yankton Dakota) working on this Seltzerlibrarian (talk) 17:11, 29 March 2022 (UTC)
• Susan Masten (Yurok) -- I'm working on this. PacificWonderland (talk) 14:11, 29 March 2022 (UTC)

Only have a short time but will try to add a little more. Gruenelf (talk) 17:34, 29 March 2022 (UTC)

• Pablita Abeyta (Navajo)
• Viola Hatch (Cheyenne and Arapaho)

Stub-class articles

For an article in this class, any editing or additional material can be helpful. The provision of meaningful content should be a priority. The best solution for a Stub-class Article to step up to a Start-class Article is to add in referenced reasons of why the topic is significant.

• Lucy Covington (Colville) - I am working on this, Kohl Lindaman
• Tessie Mobley (Chickasaw) Cdcahill (talk) 14:05, 29 March 2022 (UTC)

Resources for Research

Wikipedia articles should be based on reliable, published sources. Read Wikipedia's reliable sources policy to learn more.

Be aware of the possibility of bias in any resource, including scholarly materials and existing Wikipedia articles. Read with a critical eye. What do you know about the author? What is their affiliation with this information? Does the resource use demeaning terms? Use information when it is reliable, but do not include bias in your own writing.

Online Resources Requiring Penn State Authentication

Ebooks (access via Libraries catalog; links below)

• Bataille, Gretchen M.; Lisa, Laurie, eds. (2001). Native American women : a biographical dictionary (2nd ed.). New York: Routledge.
• Bloom, Harold, ed. (1998). Native American women writers. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers.

Databases

• Penn State Libraries Databases A to Z List
• Major databases of scholarly journals
  • JSTOR provides an archive of important scholarly journals and a selection of scholarly books. JSTOR includes American Indian Quarterly, Wíčazo Ša Review, Studies in American Indian Literature, and Cultural Anthropology. It does not include the most recent years of most journals.
  • Project MUSE provides full text of recent issues of humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from scholarly publishers, including American Indian Quarterly, Wíčazo Ša Review, Studies in American Indian Literature, and Native American and Indigenous Studies.
• America: History & Life with Full Text covers all aspects of the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
• American Indian Newspapers contains 45 titles including bi-lingual and indigenous language publications from the United States and Canada. Includes some key 19th century titles, but most publications were founded in the 1970s.
• Ethnic NewsWatch is a comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. It includes News from Native California.
• Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) is a collection of over 2000 reference resources.
• Gale Literary Sources is a good source for biographical information about authors.
• New York Times Historical (available from 1851) includes a digitized image of every backfile issue of The New York Times from cover to cover.
• Oxford Reference Online contains reference works with biographical information. NOTE: PSU does not have access to all of the content so limit to “unlocked and/or free content” under “availability.”
• Women's Studies International provides access to over 232,000 records drawn from ten important Women's Studies databases.

Online Open Access Resources (Authentication Not Required)

• "Chickasaw Hall of Fame". The Chickasaw Nation.
• Cultural Anthropology: Issues published since 2014 are available for free on the journal's website. Earlier issues are in JSTOR.
• "The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture". www.okhistory.org.
• "Independent Voices". www.jstor.org. is an open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals from the latter half of the 20th century.
• "Native American Women: National Museum of the American Indian". americanindian.si.edu.
• "Oklahoma Hall of Fame Member Archives". oklahomahof.com.

Print Resources

These print resources are available from the Penn State University Libraries. (Links below go to the Libraries' catalog.)

• Bataille, Gretchen M.; Sands, Kathleen Mullen (1984). American Indian women, telling their lives. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
• Perdue, Theda, ed. (2001). Sifters : Native American women's lives. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Sonneborn, Liz (1998). A to Z of Native American women. New York: Facts on File.

Additional articles to edit

Our top priority for this editathon is the Priority Articles list above. The following are automatically generated lists of articles about Native American women activists that need particular types of work. Note that some pages listed here are on the list of Priority Articles.

Articles with Template:Citation_needed

This template means particular claims in the article need citations. See Referencing for beginners to get started with improving citations on Wikipedia.

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Articles with Template:More citations needed

This template means the article overall needs more citations. See Referencing for beginners to get started with improving citations on Wikipedia.

Last updated on Wed, 23 Mar 2022 16:38:11 +0000. Regenerate this table or edit the query.

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Articles with Template:Orphan

In the Wikipedia glossary, an orphan is defined as "an article with no links from other pages in the main article namespace". These pages can still be found by searching Wikipedia, but it is preferable that they can also be reachable by links from related pages; it is therefore helpful to add links from other suitable pages with similar and/or related information. De-orphaning articles is an important aspect of building the web. This is a really great, simple way for new editors to contribute to Wikipedia! Here are instructions for de-orphaning articles.

Last updated on Wed, 23 Mar 2022 16:38:35 +0000. Regenerate this table or edit the query.

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Articles graded as stub-class

These are "stub-class" articles (very short articles). See Wikipedia:Stub for information on how to improve and expand stub-class articles and when to remove stub status.

Last updated on Wed, 23 Mar 2022 16:39:08 +0000. Regenerate this table or edit the query.

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