Wikipedia:Meetup/WMWH
| When and Where | |
|---|---|
| Date | Thursday March 31, 2016 |
| Date | Thursday July 14, 2016 |
On the occasion of Women’s History Month 2016, Writing Middle Eastern Women into History Initiative (WMWH) is launching Wiki-Women-Middle East, a series of Wiki Edit-a-thon gatherings around the globe to add profiles of Middle Eastern women cultural and social art practitioners to Wikipedia.
Event details
While volunteer editors can join this ongoing collective effort remotely at their preferred time and space, on Thursday, March 31, 2016, pilot programs will take place in four locations:
- Location 1: CultureHub, 47 Great Jones St, New York, NY 10012 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
- Location 2: Herat WMWH member space 8:00 am – 10:00 am
- Location 3: Mashhad WMWH member space 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
- Location 4 – Core Hub: Arab American National Museum, Annex Building, 13624 Michigan Ave, Dearborn, MI 48126 8:00 am – 8:00 pm
- Profiles of DIWAN Forum's women members will be highlighted and registered to Wikipedia at this location
- What to bring:Participants should bring their own laptops and power cords
- Cost: The program is free and open to the public
- Hashtag: #WHMH2016
Wiki-Women Middle East list
Resources
See Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism/Resources
If you are unfamiliar with Wikipedia, you might try this training module which will help explain a lot of things, including how to add your signature.
Editing Wikipedia resources
Listed here for quick reference.
N.B. Also located on the Resources page referenced above under Editor Resources
- Beginners’ Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
- Five Pillars of Wikipedia (philosophical guidelines and best practices for Wikipedia editing)
- Tutorial
- How to Edit a Page
- Wiki Markup Quick Reference (PDF version of printed handout)
- Guide to Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing by Susan H. Rodger (applicable to any biography)
- Article Development
- Your First Article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
- Manual of Style
- Citation templates
- Infobox templates
- Bookshelf (additional "getting started" resources)
- Art+Feminism - Video training
- Art+Feminism - Training Lesson Plan
Tools and templates
- Cheatsheet for editing Wikipedia
- Infobox template - person
- Biographies of living persons
- Writing an article
- About the Sandbox
Outcomes
Pages improved
Alphabetical by first letter
- Alise Alousi -- Watershrimp (talk)
- Women on Walls -- Tovacarlin (talk)
Pages created
Alphabetical by first letter
- Laila Ajjawi -- Tovacarlin (talk) -- Stub
External links
- Arab American National Museum المتحف العربي الأمريكي القومي
- Arab American National Museum Library
- المتحف العربي الأمريكي القومي on الصفحة_الرئيسية
- ArabAmericanMus on X
- الصفحة_الرئيسية
March 2016 - Sign up
- Pharos (talk) 16:56, 31 March 2016 (UTC) - NYC
- BrillLyle (talk) 17:59, 31 March 2016 (UTC) - remote support
- George Rahme (talk) 19:13, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
- Mehrdadsb (talk) 19:57, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
- Watershrimp (talk) 21:31, 31 March 2016 (UTC) - NYC
- Tovacarlin (talk) 21:48, 31 March 2016 (UTC) - NYC
- Sofalyd (talk) 22:29, 31 March 2016 (UTC) - NYC
- Hasan4 art (talk) 22:35, 31 March 2016 (UTC) - Detroit
- Stripedplantz (talk) 22:40, 31 March 2016 (UTC) - Detroit
- Avaansari (talk) 22:52, 31 March 2016 (UTC) - Detroit
- Zegeer (talk) 13:15, 27 April 2016 (UTC) - NYC
July 2016 - Sign up
- Pharos (talk) 13:22, 14 July 2016 (UTC) - NYC
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