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Wikipedia:Meetup/Take Back the Night at UVA

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We will get together to improved content about issues centering on sexual assault, stalking and intimate partner violence, especially events that happen at universities and educational facilities.

Come join us!
Everyone is having fun at UVA's second edit-a-thon!
Lunchtime at the edit-a-thon!

Sponsored by UVa Libraries

When
  • Wednesday, April 13, 2016
  • 10am - 4 pm EDT
Where
What to bring
  • A laptop
  • Any resources you would like to refer to (and UVa has archives of its own to review )
  • You're welcome to bring your camera and take pictures
  • Preferably, a registered Wikipedia user account (but we can also create one on the spot)
Schedule

Come in the morning, afternoon, or both!

  • 10AM - Overview of Edit-a-Thon goals and Wikipedia "How Tos" - Breakfast will be served (bagels & coffee)
  • 11AM onward - editing workshops and direct editing pages of interest
  • 12:30 - "Lunch n' Learn" - Scholars will discuss why "Edit-a-Thons" are even necessary and get into the larger questions of gendered inequality on Wikipedia (Catering from Take It Away)
  • 1-4PM - editing workshops and direct editing pages of interest

Sign up!

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This event is open to people of all experience levels. Sign up below by editing the page and adding your username or by signing up on the Facebook event page.

I'll be attending!

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I'll be there in person!

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I'll be attending virtually!

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Regrets

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Outcomes

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  1. Stronger Than You Know (created)
  2. Luckiest Girl Alive (expanded)
  3. The Gender Knot: Unraveling our Patriarchal Legacy (created)
  4. Allan G. Johnson (created)
  5. "I Will Possess Your Heart" (expanded, now a Good Article)
  6. Talitha Kum (created)

Article suggestions

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Biographies

Basics on editing Wikipedia

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