Join the next great UMass Wikipedia Edit-a-thon! Improve Wikipedia's Coverage of Underrepresented Groups Friday, October 27, 2017, 10am-3pm at the W.E.B. Du Bois Library, Room 1920, at UMass Amherst. This edit-a-thon will focus on improving and writing Wikipedia content about Black and militant women suffragists in the United States. Join us!

Schedule[edit] Every hour, on the hour, we'll run a mini-workshop on getting started. Join us for that, or just come, eat pizza, and ask for help as needed! 10:00 am -- Edit-a-thon begins! Room 1920. 10:00 am -- Mini-Workshop on getting started in Wikipedia 11:00 am -- Mini-Workshop on getting started in Wikipedia 12:00 am -- Mini-Workshop on getting started in Wikipedia 1:00 pm -- Mini-Workshop on getting started in Wikipedia 2:00 pm -- Mini-Workshop on getting started in Wikipedia 3:00 pm END OF EDIT-A-THON

What?

Inspired by the work of scholars Thomas Dublin and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, as well as the online database Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000, this year's Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon will seek to create or improve Wikipedia entries on Black and militant women suffragists. This event is coordinated by Copyright and Information Policy Librarian Laura Quilter and Digital Project Manager Jeremy Smith, in collaboration with UMass faculty, and is open to all who are interested.

What's an edit-a-thon? A one-day event for students, scholars, librarians, and Wikipedians to come together to edit and create Wikipedia pages. These efforts help increase the historical representation of political activists from under-represented groups.

From 10am to 2pm, we will be offering "how to" workshops on Wikipedia every hour on the hour.

Who?

Anyone can contribute. Join us if you know a specific page you want to work on, you want to learn more about editing Wikipedia, or if you just want to pitch in. We will have people on hand to help with Wikipedia editing as well as laptops for those who need one.

Where?

• The W.E.B. Du Bois Library, 19th Floor (Room 1920). UMass Amherst

When?

• Friday, October 27, 2017, from 10-3. (Drop in at any time, for as long as you want. LUNCH provided!)

Workshops are on the hour.

Resources[edit] Resources about Black Women Suffragists UMass Library Guide to "Black Women Suffragists" Resources about Wikipedia "Student Training Modules" This set of modules helps students get started with Wikipedia. This page lists every module, including specialized modules for particular classes. Resources about this Edit-a-Thon We have a "template" to attach to any article we edit as part of this edit-a-thon. The template can be seen at Template:UMass edit-a-thon and to add it to a page, please edit the TALK page and use: {{subst:UMass edit-a-thon}} Sign up here on our dashboard! Black women suffragists edit-a-thon

How?

• Do you already know the Wikipedia page you'd like to edit? If you know what needs to be changed or added, be prepared to cite your sources. Since Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, any content or editing needs to follow conventions of neutrality and to cite published sources. Original research cannot be used. For more information, see: WP:Five pillars

• Want to contribute but don't have a specific page in mind? Great! We will have a list of people and works on hand for you.

• Want to contribute but can't make it? Please get this information out to as many people as possible! Send suggestions for Wikipedia pages that need to be added or edited to lquilter [at] library.umass.edu with a one-sentence description of the person or topic, or add their names below.

Questions?

• Contact Laura (lquilter [at] library.umass.edu)

What to bring

• a laptop (but we'll have some if you don't)
• a willingness to learn how to use Wikipedia markup
• a friend or two! Bring along other people -- it's more fun and more productive too.

• Laura Quilter, user:Lquilter
• Lisa Di Valentino
• Jeremy Smith
• Students from Jennifer Nye's classes

possible attendees[edit]

Students from Professor Jennifer Nye's and Sarah Patterson's classes

regrets for this event[edit]

• Isabel Espinal

This year we will be working from a list of black & white female abolitionists and suffragists generated for the Women and Social Movements in the United States database edited by scholars Thomas Dublin and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn. This work is part of a multi-years project aimed at increasing the depth of coverage of women and underrepresented groups in Wikipedia.

To find sources for articles, please consult the Woman and Social Movements in the U.S. library database:

• http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/wam2/wam2.object.details.aspx?dorpid=1007600702
• http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/wam2/wam2.object.details.aspx?dorpid=1006939749

Articles needing creation[edit] Naomi Talbert Anderson Alice Gertrude Baldwin Annie Simms Banks Josephine Beall Willson Bruce Eva Carter Buckner Mary P. Burrill Elizabeth Carter Brooks Jeannette Carter Minnie L. Crosthwait Gertrude Curtis Mamie Dillard Virginia Hewlett Douglass Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson Laura B. Fisher Sarah Forten Nellie Francis Elizabeth Gloucester [1] Phoebe A. Green Victoria Haley Edmonia Highgate Helen Holman Lottie Wilson Jackson Lydia Flood Jackson Mary E. Jackson Hester C. Jeffrey Harriet C. Johnson Frances R. Keyser Maria Coles Lawton S. Willie Layton Annie K. Lewis Grace Lucas-Thompson May Martel Mary Jackson McCrorey Mary A. McCurdy Mary Molson Irene Moorman Rosa Moorman Alice Moore Presto Emma Comer Ransom Charlotte A. B. Ray Emma J. Ray Charlotte (Lottie) M. Rollin Frances Anne Rollin Louisa Rollin Myra Virginia Simmons Anna Bustill Smith Lydia C. Smith Georgia Stewart Blanche Stubbs Emma Sykes Beatrice Sumner Thompson Lillian A. Turner Marion B. Wilkinson Sylvanie F. Williams Charlotte Vandine Forten, 1785-1884 [2]

Articles needing expansion or improvement[edit] Elizabeth Piper Ensley (expand!) Elizabeth L. Davis (expand!) Margaretta Forten (expand!) Ella Mahammitt (Content is not well-ordered) Grace Campbell (could use some more info and a picture - see WP:Wikimedia Commons) Mary Ann Shadd (internal linking and formatting in "Social activism" section - see WP:Manual of Style) Carrie Williams Clifford (could use some more info and a picture - see WP:Wikimedia Commons) Sarah Mapps Douglass (image of her if possible) Mary E. Eaton (image of her if possible) Mary Mossell Griffin (image of her if possible)

See also[edit] The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences Unlinked entries at "List of African-American inventors and scientists" Suggested topics (Ada Lovelace Day) Suggested topics (US Ada Lovelace Edit-a-thon at Harvard) Suggested topics (Royal Society Ada Lovelace Edit-a-thon) African American Wikipedia Portal Wikipedia:Meetup/UMass Amherst/Black-women-suffragists/Original list of Black women suffragists

see also

• Wikipedia:Meetup/UMass Amherst/Black-women-suffragists/Original list of Black women suffragists

New articles

Improved articles

Lists of more to do!

UMass

• UMass Amherst Open Access Week (2017) events
• Previous Edit-a-Thons:
  • October 2012 - Black feminist theater, and women in science
  • October 2015 - underrepresented minorities
  • October 2016 - Dakota Access Pipeline protests
  • March 29, 2017 - Art and Feminism - Annie Sollinger & Isabel Espinal

Tutorials

• Introduction to Wikipedia by Zach McDowell
• "Systemic Bias in Wikipedia: What It Looks Like, and How to Deal with It" by Laura Quilter
  • Quick and dirty guide to editing Wikipedia by Laura Quilter

Wikipedia projects

• Countering systemic bias
• Wikipedia Loves Libraries