Wikipedia:Meetup/Womens History Edit-a-thon - Harvard

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Women's History Edit-a-thon 2013, Berkman Center @ Harvard

(remote participants also welcome)

In conjunction with WikiWomen's History Month, participants from around New England are invited to gather together at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University to edit and create Wikipedia entries on notable women in history.

Cambridge, MA event details

Date: Friday, March 29th, 4:00pm to 9:00pm EDT
Venue: Berkman Center for Internet & Society @ Harvard, 23 Everett Street, Cambridge, MA, USA. Conference room is on the second floor
Cost: Free
Twitter hashtag: #WikiWomenMA
Participants: The event is open to anyone who wishes to help preserve women’s history! No Wiki editing experience necessary; as needed, tutorials will be provided for Wikipedia newcomers. Female editors are particularly encouraged to attend. Can’t be there the whole time? No problem. Join us for as little or as long as you like. The first hour will be focused on introducing newbies to Wikipedia tenets and markup language.
Details: Attendees should bring their own laptops and power cords. Light food and drinks will be provided.
Registration: To register, please sign in via one of these three channels: a) Add your name to the guest list below; b) RSVP on one of our Meetup pages Boston Wikipedia Meetup / Boston Feminists Meetup; or c) send an email to maiaw@nasw.org

Confirmed Wikipedians attending

-- Girona7 (talk) 17:30, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
-- Lui8E (talk)
-- GabrielF (talk) 17:16, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
-- I will try and make it. Sven Manguard Wha? 16:43, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
Protonk (talk) 20:41, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
-- ALN1013 (talk) 20:47, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
-- Speckledowl (talk) 20:50, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
-- CH-Editorb (talk) 20:54, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
—mako ๛ 21:44, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
-- Grumpycraig (talk) 23:38, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

Regrets

Sorry, maybe another time. Blue Rasberry (talk) 17:56, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

I will unfortunately be out of town because of the Easter weekend. I will be on the lookout for more opportunities to meet up in the near future.Timothysandole (talk) 19:11, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

Online participation

If you cannot make it to the Berkman Center in person but would still like to participate, you are more than welcome to do so remotely. Suggested articles appear below, or you may add or contribute to one of your choosing. So that we can count you as having participated, please add your contributions under the #Results section below. Note: There will not be a webinar aspect for online participants; simply log in and log your contributions below to have them "counted." And be sure to use the Twitter hashtag #WikiWomenMA if you tweet about the event!

Online participants

-- Girona7 (talk) 17:30, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
-- Gobōnobō ⁺ ^c

Results

New articles created:

Coeducation at Harvard University - Redirect created to Radcliffe College#Growing consolidation with Harvard, as it serves the same purpose as the proposed model article Coeducation at Princeton University
Amanda Clement - Also submitted to DYK
Natalie Kampen
Mary G. Ross
Lucy Shapiro
Eleanor Lytle McKillip Kinzie
Issa Rae

Articles expanded or improved:

Added notes to Radcliffe College article based on a Crimson article "Past Tense: Radcliffe, Cheating, and the Honor Code"^[1].

Added quotations from primary sources to article on James Barry (surgeon) (Margaret Ann Bulkley, believed to be the first woman to have qualified as a physician in Britain, using a male identity.)