Welcome to the THIRD Global Women of Color Write-In event! We are a hybrid event (a virtual event with in-person meeting nodes) that encourages everyone to write entries about women from around the world into Wikipedia and to improve existing entries on these topics. We are supported by the Postcolonial Digital Humanities Rewriting Wikipedia Project and the Global Outlook on Digital Humanities Special Interest Group of the Association for Digital Humanities Organizations. Our first #GWWI meeting was on April 2013 and our second #GWWI meeting was on March 2014. Join us October 20th-23rd 2014 for our THIRD #GWWI meeting!

Additionally, #GWWI 3 is dedicated to the memory of Adrianne Wadewitz, an active Wikipedia in higher education advocate and a leader in the movement to improve the content on women in Wikipedia.

• Date: Monday, October 20th-Thursday, October 23rd 2014.
• Time: ALL DAY, ANY TIME ZONE. Please share the results of your work on Twitter using the hashtag #GWWI!
• Location: All over the world! Join us virtually or in-person. Face-to-face nodes will be held at / The University of Michigan and at Kansas State University on Wednesday, October 22nd. Feminist Theory classes part of the Dialogues in Feminism, Technology & Culture (a DOCC) courses at Richard Stockton College, The College of New Jersey and West Virginia University will be participating. If you are planning to host your own node, please add your location here! If you are planning to host your own node, please add your location here!
• Website: Global Women Write-In by the Rewriting Wikipedia Project
• Event: An edit-a-thon/write-in! Learn how to contribute to Wikipedia and collaborate with others to write about topics related to women of color (not of European descent) around the world.
• Hashtag: #GWWI

Preparation: This link provides a useful guide to getting started with Wikipedia editing. Here's another guide to creating "sticky" Wikipedia entries. If you'd like to organize your own #GWWI node, check out this / article. More suggestions: use this tutorial http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:STUDENT or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Training/For_Ambassadors

• A bibliography for the topic you want to write on.
• Ideas for topics or articles you might want to work on (though suggestions will be provided for those just looking to be put to work).
• Any digital photos you've taken that you would like to use on Wikipedia.
• Or, if you don't have any of the above, just bring yourself.

Please make sure to RSVP for the local events at Kansas State University. Once you have an account, make sure to add your name below.

Attending[edit]

Please add your Wikipedia name below with four tildas (~~~~), observing that the list is alphabetical by user name. Add a dash before any comments.

• Asperlman (talk) 17:49, 22 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Akshayseth93 (talk)
• bluemoondoo (talk) 13:45, 22 October 2014 (UTC) - participating from the University of Michigan[reply]
• BrillLyle (talk) 17:15, 15 October 2014 (UTC) — participating from NYC[reply]
• CantEvenGo (talk) — participating from University of Michigan
• Cgreenhill (talk) — participating from University of Michigan
• Cmvong (talk) 13:45, 22 October 2014 (UTC)-University of Michigan[reply]
• Ccduan (talk) 17:55, 22 October 2014 (UTC) - University of Michigan[reply]
• jgoddeer (talk) - University of Michigan
• Deckdeckdeck (talk) — participating from NYC
• ecadoux (talk) - participating from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• gobonobo ^{+ c} — participating remotely from Minnesota
• Hajalie24 (talk) 17:45, 22 October 2014 (UTC) University of Michigan[reply]
• User:Hulswitb (talk) 22 October 2014 — attending at the University of Michigan
• ickywikiickyicky (talk) - participating from West Virginia University
• Kansascoaster (talk) 18:01, 22 October 2014 (UTC)-Kansas State[reply]
• Katmikay (talk) - University of Michigan
• jenalzate (talk) 6:04, 22 October 2014 (UTC) — participating from the University of Michigan
• Jadoada (talk) 17:53, 22 October 2014 (UTC) — participating from the Univesrity of Michigan[reply]
• Jnichole1 (talk) - participating from the University of Michigan
• Kcolos (talk) 17:49, 22 October 2014 - participating from the University of Michigan
• Kkotecki (talk) 14:34, 19 May 2015 (UTC)kkotecki — participating from Ball State University[reply]
• LauraLeatha (talk) 17:49, 22 October 2014 (UTC) - participating from the University of Michigan[reply]
• marthasjones (talk) - Univesity of Michigan
• MeganSaintLynn (talk) - University of Michigan
• Misscontingent (talk)
• Nutshell9 (talk) 17:45, 22 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Penny Richards (talk) — participating remotely from Southern California
• Randolph Hollingsworth — participating remotely from Lexington, Kentucky
• Rcamilled (talk) 19:04, 14 October 2014 (UTC) — participating from NYC[reply]
• Rsrikanth05 (talk) — Happy to help with whatever online coordination
• Rosiestep (talk) — participating remotely from Las Vegas, Nevada
• Sadads (talk) 15:15, 13 October 2014 (UTC) — Kansas State University Coordinator[reply]
• Sarahwoodchuck (talk) 17:53, 22 October 2014 (UTC)sarahwoodchuck -Participating as an undergraduate freshman at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI[reply]
• Siankevans (talk) 17:55, 14 October 2014 (UTC) — will be participating remotely from a lil laptop in Brooklyn[reply]
• Simescu (talk) 18:41, 22 October 2014 (UTC) -University of Michigan[reply]
• Simsdomo (talk) 13:49, 22 October 2014 (UTC)- participating from University of Michigan Ann Arbor[reply]
• s2ceball — helping however I can at WVU
• Smackgreer (talk) 15:56, 22 October 2014 (UTC) - On board from Kansas State University, Hale Library[reply]
• Ssphilips (talk) - University of Michigan
• Thebrycepeake (talk) — (helping from afar)!
• Thorgodofwar (talk) — will be coordinating Michigan event and event at Richard Stockton College
• UM_GWWI19 (talk) UMICH help
• Unfatelyfem (talk) UMICH help
• Jooojay (talk) 07:29, 21 October 2014 (UTC) - helping from San Francisco![reply]
• Whitcrow14 (talk) 15:57, 22 October 2014 (UTC)- Helping at KSU![reply]
• Chaseale (talk) 22 October 2014 - University of Michigan
• Amutiara (talk) - University of Michigan ... Go Blue!
• Mseleski (talk)
• stikijamwiki (talk) - University of Michigan
• lnakamur (talk) - University of Michigan
• Octavius - Destroyer of Smurfs (talk) - University of Michigan
• Vaparedes (talk) 19:25, 22 October 2014 (UTC) - participating remotely from The New School[reply]

Lists to work from[edit]

Try improving an existing article -- most of them need copyediting, references added or other work! This is often a better place to start than writing a new article from scratch.

• Dkriegls - Biography to-do list - List of writers in Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing
• Dsp13 - Redlinks - Women - Women around the world
• Gobonobo - Gender Gap red list:
  • Gobonobo - Gender Gap red list - Sorted by profession
  • Gobonobo - Gender Gap red list - In other sources - Sorted by other sources
  • Gobonobo - Gender Gap red list - Awards and honors - Sorted by awards and honors
  • Gobonobo - Gender Gap red list - By nationality - Sorted by nationality
  • Gobonobo - Gender Gap red list - Non-biographical topics - Sorted by topic
• Rosiestep - Gender Gap red list - Gender Gap of notable women with links to other language Wikipedia articles; sorted by topics and nationality
• Yupik - Redlinks - Indigenous Women - Redlink and stub lists for articles of indigenous women from around the world

Projects[edit]

Help the following WikiProjects:

• WikiProject Dictionary of National Biography - Missing women
• WikiProject Feminism - Open Tasks
• WikiProject Women artists - Worklist
• WikiProject Women's History - Requested articles
• WikiProject Women scientists - Worklist
• WikiProject Women Writers - Missing articles

Specific Articles[edit]

• 1929 Aba Women's Riots
• Tsitsi Dangarembga
• Domitila Chúngara
• Pacita Abad, Filipina artist
• Janet Chance British abortion reformer
• Sara Ahmed
• Suzy Lake -- contemporary Canadian-American artist
• Vandana Shiva
• Gloria E. Anzaldúa
• bell hooks
• Rey Chow
• Chandra Talpade Mohanty
• Shirley Kaneda
• Beth Kelly
• Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
• Frieda Ekotto
• Angkatan Wanita Sedar(“Force of Awakened Women”), historical women's group in Malaysia
• Mona Hatoum
• Faith Ringgold
• Nikki S. Lee
• Judith Lowry (artist) -- Native American painter (not to be confused with the actress)
• Tania Bruguera
• Shigeko Kubota
• Shobana Jeyasingh -- contemporary choreographer born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
• Lila Abu-Lughod -- anthropologist
• Ziba Mir-Hosseini -- an Iranian anthropologist and advocate of Islamic feminism.
• Victoria Mxenge
• Barbara Brandon-Croft -- the first female African-American comic strip artist to be nationally syndicated
• Mariko Tamaki -- and Jillian Tamaki, Japanese-Canadian graphic novelists
• Karen Lord -- World Fantasy Award-nominated author
• Raeda Saadeh -- Palestinian photographer
• Rawiya -- a collective of women photographers from Egypt, Palestine, Tunisia, Iran, and Jordan
• Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
• Rosario Castellanos
• Margaret Sloan-Hunter
• Crystal Bird Fauset -- stub entry, only has three references
• Feminist anthropology -- dominated by U.S. women anthropologists/archeology, and needs more global diversity (e.g. British, French, German, Indian, Chinese feminist anthropologies?)
• Nelly Roussel -- First wave, French feminist and anarchist
• Page Mellish
• Sampat Pal Devi -- Activist for Women Welfare and Empowerment
• Andi Zeisler
• Lida Abdul
• Diane Elam
• Sabiha Sumar
• Nancy Deloye Fitzroy -- Advocate for engineering workforce diversity
• Arabella Chapman
• Robyn Pennacchia
• Anna Holmes -- cofounder and past editor at Jezebel, blog under Gawker Media
• Catharina Halkes

Categories[edit]

Click on "►" below to display subcategories:
Women artists by nationality

Click on "►" below to display subcategories:
Women writers by nationality

Please list subjects alphabetically by last name of person or first letter of entity/institution. Thank you!

Pages Created

• Andam, Aba - (gobonobo)
• Arnovitz, Andi - Duckduckstop (talk)
• Amezkua, Blanka -(User:Deckdeckdeck)
• Brandt, Deborah - literacy scholar - (User:Kansascoaster)
• Carbonell, Teresa Gisbert - (gobonobo)
• Chapa, Esther - Rosiestep (talk)
• Doelwijt, Thea - Rosiestep (talk)
• Domínguez Navarro, Ofelia - Rosiestep (talk)
• Dorn, Marion - (Jooojay) (talk)
• Gajadin, Chitra - Rosiestep (talk)
• Gebara, Ivone - (gobonobo)
• Grosman, Tatyana - Duckduckstop (talk)
• Holmes, Anna - Duckduckstop (talk)
• Johnson, Grace Nail - Penny Richards (talk)
• Lihamba, Amandina - (gobonobo)
• Long, Pamela - Duckduckstop (talk)
• McLoyd, Vonnie - Duckduckstop (talk)
• Newport, Matilda - (gobonobo)
• Paoli, Olivia - Rosiestep (talk)
• Peña, Tonita - (Jooojay) (talk)
• Pollard, Marjorie - Duckduckstop (talk)
• Ribeiro, Matilde - Rosiestep (talk)
• Rodríguez Cabo, Matilde - Rosiestep (talk)
• Saʿīd, Amīnah al - (gobonobo)
• Treem, Sarah - BrillLyle
• Tuttle, Frank, native American, admittedly a man, but discoverd via work on Judith Lowry (artist) Sadads (talk)
• Varela, Maria - Duckduckstop (talk)
• Wirrpanda, Margaret - Penny Richards (talk)
• Woodard, Beulah - (gobonobo)

Improvements Made

• Alonzo, Cristela - BrillLyle
• Castellanos, Rosario - Duckduckstop (talk) added isbn's
• Fauset, Crystal Bird - LauraLeatha-Added a citation
• Free to Be... You and Me - BrillLyle
• Mahvash - Jooojay (talk)
• Nwapa, Flora - Duckduckstop (talk) add isbn, infobox
• Perez, Rosie - BrillLyle
• Tamaki, Jillian - Deckdeckdeck (talk) 17:35, 21 October 2014 (UTC) added missing citations + info to career section[reply]
• Judith_Lowry_(artist) added a couple of sources, expanded, etc. Sadads (talk) 17:26, 22 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Jaune Quick–to–See Smith - User:Smackgreer
• Nelly Roussel - User:Hulswitb and User:Sadads

Please list subjects alphabetically by last name of person or first letter of entity/institution. Thank you!

Pages Created

• Chesya Burke (Spgwwi)
• Arie Carpenter (Aoapoplar)
• Lauren Cornell ( alexandrakdm)
• Judith Lowry (artist) Duckduckstop (talk)
• Raeda Saadeh (Duckduckstop (talk))
• Lucy Stanton (abolitionist) (cmb233)
• Dea Loher (Lange.lea (talk) 21:59, 18 March 2014 (UTC))[reply]

Improvements Made

• Edited grammar and typos for entry on Crystal Bird Fauset (Spgwwi)
• Added bibliographic citations to Louis Andriessen (Doodle310)
• Added note about Arie Carpenter to Foxfire (magazine) (Aoapoplar)
• Maryse Conde page improved by the addition of biographical references.(Kellis1)
• Added charity Refashion Network to Sustainable_clothing (Rural Regeneration)
• Added space between names Euneika and Rogers A S.W.A.T. Healin' Ritual (Rural Regeneration)
• Added biography and bibliographic citations to Christine Holt (Chihle)
• Added bibliographic citation to Leslie Marmon Silko (dhsdance15)
• Copyedited Fanny Bullock Workman - working on colonial/postcolonial language problems Wadewitz (talk)
• Improvements Mary Ann Radcliffe Improved content and style, fixed citations.
• Added content to Linda Lavin (muchliterature)
• Added citation to Matilda of Tuscany (WikiTues)
• Added citation to Sikelgaita (WikiTues)
• Added citation to Melba Hernandez (Lhallingby)
• add infobox 1929 Aba Women's Riots (Duckduckstop (talk)
• Added content and citation to Kathleen Freeman (Wikinightbam)
• add infobox Tsitsi Dangarembga (Duckduckstop (talk)
• Added content and citations to Sara Ahmed (Leguilmette22)
• add image Tania Bruguera (Duckduckstop (talk)
• add infobox image Victoria Mxenge (Duckduckstop (talk)
• Patasola page improved upon by adding headings and sections, including information on location, mythical origins, and purpose. Also added citations. Dpitrone7
• add infobox Maryse Condé (Duckduckstop (talk)
• add image Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (Duckduckstop (talk)
• add image Rosario Castellanos (Duckduckstop (talk)
• add image infobox Melba Hernandez (Duckduckstop (talk)

Please list subjects alphabetically by last name of person or first letter of entity/institution. Thank you!

Pages Created

• María Jesús Alvarado Rivera page created Rosiestep (talk) 00:25, 27 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Margaret Brimble page created Vickytnz (talk) 18:54, 26 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Birth Control International Information Centre Esther Katz 14:40 25 April 2013 (UTC)
• Budhan Theatre page created Gehgoi (talk) 21:46, 25 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Cain, Mary Jane page created Aliaretiree (talk)
• Janet Chance page created Esther Katz 14:40 26 April 2013 (UTC)
• Ekotto, Frieda page created Thorgodofwar (talk) 21:40, 25 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Kaneda, Shirley page created, just a start. Penny Richards (talk) 18:30, 26 April 2013 (UTC)Penny Richards[reply]
• Gabriela Laperrière de Coni page created Rosiestep (talk) 00:25, 27 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Liming Liu-Wang page created Rosiestep (talk) 00:25, 27 April 2013 (UTC); became DYK article. --Rosiestep (talk) 14:56, 1 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Lord, Karen page created Paigecm. The page currently has basic info about Lord's publications and the awards and nominations for her first novel, "Redemption in Indigo." -- Infobox added. Karen Lord communicated via Twitter that she doesn't know of any freely licensed or public domain photos of her. -- I've gone through and tweaked the article a bit more, adding links to Worldcat and to academic publisher sites to document Lord's academic writing. (PCM)
• Mohanty, Chandra Talpade article layout updated. ChristineBushMV (talk) 08:10, 27 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Carolina Muzzilli page created Rosiestep (talk) 00:25, 27 April 2013 (UTC); Nomed at DYK --Rosiestep (talk) 15:44, 28 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Ocampo-Friedmann, Roseli page created P.J. Emery. This is only a stub although I was able to locate several web resources. I will add to this as time permits, but this will greately benefit from input from editors with expertise in this scientist's fields of study. --LiteratPJ (talk) 20:13, 26 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Elvira Rawson de Dellepiane page created Rosiestep (talk) 00:25, 27 April 2013 (UTC); became DYK article. --Rosiestep (talk) 04:26, 2 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Mariblanca Sabas Alomá page created Rosiestep (talk) 00:25, 27 April 2013 (UTC); Nomed at DYK --Rosiestep (talk) 15:44, 28 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Lee Tai-Young page created Rosiestep (talk) 00:25, 27 April 2013 (UTC); became DYK article. ---Rosiestep (talk) 14:52, 30 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Vuolab, Kerttu page created. Very basic information, but lots of solid references to the information that is there. -Yupik (talk) 19:28, 26 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Huiwu Wang page created Rosiestep (talk) 00:25, 27 April 2013 (UTC); became DYK article. --Rosiestep (talk) 04:26, 2 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Who Fears Death page created. It could use a more detailed plot summary and list of characters. Aaron Kashtan

Improvements Made

• Abad, Pacita page edited a bit (added birth/death dates, academic degrees, marriage detail)--could use an art historian to flesh out the "work" section. Penny Richards (talk) 17:32, 26 April 2013 (UTC)Penny Richards[reply]
• Aya of Yop City added a better introduction and a short section on the film adaptation, made Aya de Yopougon redirect here instead of to Marguerite Abouet. This article still needs a lot of improvement -- ideally, the entire article should be replaced by a translation of the corresponding article from the French Wikipedia. Aaron Kashtan
• bell hooks biblography added to
• Castillo, Ana added citations and filled in biographical details Miriamkp (talk)
• Dahomey Amazons page improved
• Dangarembga, Tsitsi bits of copyediting. NazcaTheMad, Amanda Phillips
• De Kiriline Lawrence, Louise more complete list of works and awards now listed. Notes on career, references, and further reading added.
• Ekotto, Frieda added more secondary sources, and section on creative writing and her latest monograph. Thorgodofwar (talk) 01:40, 27 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Godard, Barbara Infobox added to page
• Hatoum, Mona page cleanup, mostly formatting, inline citations look good Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 19:05, 26 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• History of lesbianism in the United States grammatical edits asbury569
• Kartini Added information about the relationship between Kartini's feminism and hegemonic state discourse that was left out in the English Wikipedia. The corresponding article from the Bahasa Indonesia Wikipedia contains and prioritizes different information. Vlasmana
• Lake, Suzy page has been updated with more information about her early life, still in progress Isluce(talk)
• Lee, Nikki Seung-hee added citations and removed the needs citations flag. --Michelledavison (talk) 19:25, 26 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Lord, Karen page improved upon by Data @ Columbia U and @mwidner
• Elizabeth Nunez page improvements by @jeannettemelee
• Palei, Marina page edited, more biographical details. Nafpaktitism (talk) 18:48, 26 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Queer theory Improvements to Queer theory page by Data @ Columbia U
• Sartika, Dewi Added more structure and information to the corresponding article from the Bahasa Indonesia Wikipedia. Vlasmana
• Marie Stopes page improved upon by removing loaded language (e.g., "controlling mother") by Hjl7
• Tamaki, Mariko - material added on her graphic novels Wadewitz (talk) 19:11, 26 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Women in Technology International - started adding biographical data, will continue at least a few sections BrillLyle (talk) 01:10, 27 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]