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Name

Sara Marks

Born

September 7
Boston, MA

Country

USA

Current location

Lowell, MA

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english

IQ

123 (just found this out, pretty impressed with myself)

Personality type

INTJ

Family and friends

Pets

Cedric Doggory

Education and employment

Occupation

Librarian

Employer

UMass Lowell

Education

Masters Degrees (2)

College

Florida International University,
Simmons University,
Fitchburg State University

Hobbies, favourites and beliefs

Hobbies

reading, writing, knitting

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Website

http://saramarks.net/

Twitter

sara_marks

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I'm Sara Marks, a librarian at University of Massachusetts, Lowell. I am also an indie author with Rom Com, Fantasy, and Horror books. My new goal in life is to be notable enough to have my own Wikipedia entry that I am not allowed to edit. My editing interests include editing entries about Lowell, MA and creating biographies about women. I keep track of UMass Lowell entries, but primarily to monitor for vandalism.

Research

Thank you to all who helped me with my thesis research on the Paul Revere social drama. It has really increased my interest and understanding in what is going on here. I have completed my work and finished my defense. If you would like to see the final version, please let me know. I have been attending conferences presenting my findings so feel free to come talk to me if you see me. I would love to meet more of you face to face.

See my presentation about Social Dramas of Wikipedia at WikiCon USA 2014: This is my research from the Palin/Revere entries.

Editathons

I am still trying to host events in Lowell to help develop and improve Wikipedia. If you are an editor in the Lowell/Merrimack Valley area and want to help, leave me a message on my talk page. I work with the librarians at Pollard Memorial Library. I also work with class at UMass Lowell when they do Wikipedia related assignments.

Past Editathons

Art+Feminism: March 16, 2023
Women of Lowell: March 24, 2022
Women in Red: February 29, 2020
Latino Americans: 500 Years of History Editathon: April 9, 2016
NELA Academic Section Open Access Event: November 13, 2015
Lowell History #4: Pawtucketeville: March 28, 2015
Lowell History #3: The Highlands: February 21, 2015
Lowell History #2: The Acre: January 25, 2015
Lowell History #1: Downtown Lowell: December 7, 2014
UMass Lowell Fall 2012 Editathon: November 13, 2012

Conferences

Outreach to librarians is something I think is critical to the future of Wikipedia. To help, I present at conferences about ways librarians can participate and get others to participate in Wikipedia. This often includes running editathon models for librarians so you will see some of the same events on this list as well.

Past Conferences

Massachusetts Library Association's Spring 2016 Conference (5/17/16) - Presentation from session
New England Library Association Academic Section Open Access Event (11/13/15) - LibGuide from event
New England Library Association Annual Conference (10/17/16) in Danvers, MA - Presentation from session
International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (5/19/17) in Urbana, IL - Presentation from session
WikiCon NA (November 2019) in Cambridge, MA - Panelist for session

UMass Lowell and Women in Red

I am one of the coordinators for the UMass Lowell's Women in Red project. We're trying to empower faculty, staff, and students to get more engaged in editing Wikipedia and adding biographies of academic women.

Fall 2019 We ran a WikiScholars program with the WikiEd Foundation and 10 faculty members.
Spring 2019 We're supporting those faculty as they added Wikipedia assignments to their classes.
Spring 2019 We're running two edit-a-thons as part of Lowell's Women's week celebration - in partnership with Pollard Memorial Library.
Spring 2019 We started working on hosting a visiting scholar to help us jump start Wikidata content about regional and campus women.

Participation

Contributions:

Created/Creating

Pollard Memorial Library (re-created)
Heather Buck (created)
Isabel Wolff (created)
Estela Portillo-Trambley (created)
Felicia Mason (created)
Demetria Martinez (created)
Joyce Harrington (created)
Kelly DiPucchio (created)
Michelle Hoover‎ (created)
Lisa Robinson‎ (created)
Quail Hawkins‎ (created)
Jenny Nordberg (created)
Mary Helen Ponce (created)
Lucha Corpi (created)
New England Football League (re-created)
Brunonia Barry (created)
Mico Kaufman (created)
Linda Biehl (created)

Grants and Past Programs

I have successfully complete the Wikimedia grant process. In November 2014 Negawon and I wrote a grant for support when we ran a series for 4 editathons in Lowell, MA. Here are the documents from Wikimedia. Feel free to use these to guide you through the process.

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