Writing for Wadewitz: An Adrianne Wadewitz Memorial Edit-a-Thon Thursday May 22, 1:30-6pm, Digital Scholarship Lab in Rockefeller Library at Brown University

When: May 22, 1:30-6pm Where: Digital Scholarship Lab in Rockefeller Library at Brown University. What to bring: Your laptop and a power adapter. Cost: Free You do not need to be an experienced Wikipedia editor in order to attend, just bring a willingness to learn. Hashtags: #wadewitz and #wikiwomen Facebook:WikiWomen’s Collaborative and FemTechNet. RSVP by signing your username below (preferred). If you are unfamiliar with Wikipedia, try this training module which will help explain a lot of things, including how to add your signature. Or, sign up on the Meetup page This edit-a-thon is part of a worldwide series of tributes.

Dr. Adrianne Wadewitz was an influential member of the Wikipedia community who died suddenly in April 2014. This loss has deeply affected Wikipedia and the academic world. Her work is recognized internationally as helping to encourage more women to contribute to Wikipedia to tackle the gender gap and systemic bias in its content. Wadewitz was one of the first academics to bring Wikipedia into the classroom as part of the Wikipedia Education Program, working with her students to improve Wikipedia instead of writing traditional term papers. At the time of her death, she was Mellon Digital Scholarship Fellow at Occidental College. She had over 50,000 edits and wrote numerous featured and good articles, including Mary Wollstonecraft.

You can read more about Wadewitz and her contributions via The Wikipedia Signpost, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, and the Omaha World-Herald.

Tentative: Subject to Change:
1:30pm-1:45pm:Check-in and welcome
1:45pm-2:30pm: Beginner intro to Wikipedia editing, Q&A, self-organization
2:30pm- 5:00pm: Editing Time
5:30 - 6:00pm:Wrap-up and Thanks

Yes

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5. --BrownBear2014 (talk) 20:46, 22 May 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]
6. --Mylonas (talk) 21:08, 22 May 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]
7. --Telepathic a game
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Maybe

1. I'll try to show up around 4pm Kzirkel (talk) 14:54, 19 May 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Unable to attend, but wish to be informed about future meetups

• The Five Pillars of Wikipedia
• Starting an Article
• Writing Your First Wikipedia Article
• Citation Guide
• Infobox templates
• Formatting Shortcuts -
  • Text Formatting
  • Section Headers, Indents, and Lists
  • Links
• Wiki Markup Quick Reference
• Wikipedia Cheatsheet
• Wikipedia Image Policy
• Create your user page and add some info.
• Add pages to your Watchlist to learn about subsequent edits.
• The Wikipedia Teahouse is a good place to go for help

More coming soon. Until then, here are some possible topics to start thinking of (feel free to add your own). Also see WikiWomen's History Month To-do List, which links to a lot of other great to-do lists.

Women in Providence/Rhode Island/New England History

Articles in Need of Creation

• Christiana Carteaux Bannister, 19th-century activist, abolitionist, businesswoman, wife of Edward Mitchell Bannister.
• Elleanor Eldridge, 19th-century African American entrepreneur, her Memoirs (1838), which describe her grandfather and his family's capture in Africa and journey on the Middle Passage.
• Betsey Metcalf, 18th-century straw hat materials innovator
• Lizzie "Spike" Murphy, Early 20th-century baseball player, the first woman to play for a major league team in an exhibition game
• Isabelle Ahearn O'Neill, Actress and Politician: acted in and directed productions for 18 years at the Providence Opera House; was one of the first women elected to the Rhode Island Assembly, where she became deputy Democratic floor leader; served in Rhode Island Senate; was appointed as FDR's legislative liaison to the U.S. Bureau of Narcotics
  • Papers at the Rhode Island Historical Society Library
• Providence Art Club, many lives of Rhode Island female artists, patrons, and those on this list intersect here
• Catherine Read Williams, 19th-century author, portrait is at RIHS
  • Works included in the Rare Books Collection of the Providence Athenaeum

Articles in Need of Editing and Expansion

• Anne Lynch Botta, salon host during Dorr War, poet, teacher
  • Works included in the Rare Books Collection of the Providence Athenaeum
  • Correspondence, manuscripts, portraits, and other miscellany available online through Brown University's Brown Archival and Manuscript Collection Online (BAMCO).
• Elizabeth Buffum Chace, 19th-century activist in the Anti-Slavery, Women's Rights, and Prison Reform Movements
• Prudence Crandall, 19th-century educator consider to have created one of the first racially integrated classrooms in the United States
• Sarah Elizabeth Doyle, founded Pembroke College at Brown
  • Sarah Doyle Center page
  • Holden, Ming. "'The Women's Sphere': Who Was Sarah Doyle?"Chronicles of Brunonia, 2006.
  • RI Heritage Hall of Fame Sarah Doyle page
• Maud Howe Elliott, Pulitzer Prize winning author
  • Works included in the Rare Books Collection of the Providence Athenaeum
  • Correspondence and other papers held at the Hay Library at Brown University
• Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis, 19th-century suffragist, abolitionist, founded New England Women's Suffrage Association
• Sarah Harris Fayerweather, African-American activist who worked for abolitionism in Kingston, Rhode Island; attended Prudence Crandall's school in Canterbury, Connecticut.
• Ann Smith Franklin, first female newspaper editor and one of the earliest printers in 18th-century North America, sister-in-law of Benjamin Franklin
• Katharine Ryan Gibbs founded Gibbs College in Providence, 1911
• Gertrude I. Johnson, co-founded Johnson & Wales Business School (now University) in 1914
• Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones, 19th-century African-American Soprano
• Ida Lewis, 19th-century Newport, RI lighthouse keeper, noted for multiple rescues, dubbed "the Bravest Woman in America" by the press at the time.
• Lowell Mill Girls, 19th-Century New England Women who worked in the textile mills of Lowell, Mass.
• Elizabeth Nord, Rhode Island textile worker, organized for the United Textile Workers Union Textile Workers Union of America (1930s-1940s), attended the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
• Susannah Paine, 19th-century painter, painted the portrait of Catherine R. Williams, currently in the collections of the Rhode Island Historical Society
• Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, sculptor and first African-American RISD graduate
  • Her Paris diaries at at the Hay Library at Brown University, which includes digital copies of one volume.
• Helen Adelia Rowe Metcalf, founded RISD
• Eliza Greene Metcalf Radeke, president of RISD 1913 to 1931, daughter of RISD founder
• Glenna Collett Vare, American Hall of Fame golfing champion
• Mary T. Wales, co-founded Johnson & Wales Business School (now University) in 1914
• Mary C. Wheeler, founder and first head of the Wheeler School
• Jemima Wilkinson, 18th-century radical utopian religious leader from a Rhode Island Quaker family

Women in Politics

• Victoria Claflin Woodhull, 19th-century stockbroker, first female candidate for U.S. President, printed first English version of Marx's Communist Manifesto

Women in the Sciences

Much of this is taken from the 2013 Ada Lovelace Wikipedia Write-In at Brown:

Articles in Need of Creation

• Annette Coleman (biologist)
• Marie Morisawa (geologist) - See Geological Society of America: Memorials, March 1, 1996, page 15.
• Elizabeth Stefanski (Egyptologist)
  • Biography from Brown University

Articles in Need of Editing and Expansion

• Elizabeth Thomas (Egyptologist)
  • Biography from Brown University
• Women and Patent Law

Women in the Arts

• Vinnie Ream, 19th-century sculptor, perhaps best known for her statue of Lincoln in the U. S. Capitol Rotunda
• See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Women artists/Worklist

Through Brown Libraries

Links coming soon:

• American National Biography Online
• Gender Studies Database
• Historical Boston Globe
• JSTOR
• Oxford Art Online
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• Project Muse
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers
• Slave Trade: A Forgotten History: The Slave Trade and Slavery in New England. Second edition.

Online Resources from the Pembroke Center

• Pembroke Center Archives
  • Christine Dunlap Farnham Archives, material on women in Brown University and Pembroke College, Brown alumnae, and Rhode Island women.
    • The Pembroke Record, 1922-1970
    • Brown Women Speak: A Collection of Alumnae Oral Histories
    • Online Exhibit: Exploring the Farnham Archives
    • Online Exhibit: Disturbances
  • Feminist Theory Archives
    • Online Exhibits from the Papers of Naomi Schor and Elaine Marks
    • Honoring Anne Fausto-Sterling
    • Accessible Collections in the Feminist Theory Archives
• differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, an academic peer-reviewed journal "supported and located within" the Pembroke Center
• Educating Change: Latina Activism and the Struggle for Educational Equity

Free Online

• Bay Windows
• Bay State Banner
• Google News
• Google Books
• Google Scholar
• Internet Archive
• For Images
  • Creative Commons
  • Wikimedia Commons
  • TinEye

Through Rhode Island Historical Society (RIHS)

Resources from Past Write-Ins

2014 Art and Feminism Wikipedia Write-In

2013 Ada Lovelace Write-In at Brown Women in STEM:

More Women in STEM

Bedi, J.E. "Innovative Lives: Exploring the History of Women Inventors". Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation. Smithsonian.
Satrom, Heater. "Papers Illustrates Woman Inventor's Life and Work". Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation. Smithsonian.

• Subject: Marion O'Brien Donovan.

Women of Invention: Women Inventors and Patent Holders (Library of Congress) Bibliography

Rhode Island Women

Laxton, Glenn V. Hidden History of Rhode Island: Not-to-be-Forgotten Tales of the Ocean State. Charleston, SC: History Press, 2009.

• RIHS Library: Reading Room F79 .L39 2009
• Ocean State Libraries: Multiple Call Numbers
• Providence Athenaeum: 974.5 L45H
  • Subjects include: Robert Voorhis (a.k.a., Robert the Hermit), Chirstiana Carteaux Bannister, Jeannie Lippitt Weeden

Women in R.I. History: Making a Difference. Providence: Providence Journal Co., 1994.

• RIHS Library: F78.W65
• Brown University Libraries: 1-SIZE F78 .W66x 1994
• Ocean State Libraries: Multiple Call Numbers
  • Subjects include: Anne Hutchinson, Mary Dyer, Ann Franklin, Jemima Wilkinson, Elleanor Eldridge, Prudence Crandall, Sarah Harris Fayerweather, Elizabeth Buffum Chace, Christiana Carteaux Bannister, Ida Lewis, Helen A. R. Metcalf, Sissieretta Jones, Sarah Doyle, Katharine Ryan Gibbs, Gertrude I. Johnson, Mary T. Wales,Isabelle Ahearn O'Neill, Mary D. Grant, Maud Howe Elliott, Lillian Moller Gilbreth, Alice Winsor Hunt, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, Lizzie Murphy, Glenna Collett Vare, Elizabeth Nord.

Women in STEM

Gornick, Vivian. Women in Science: Then and Now. Revised 25th Anniversary Edition. New York: The Feminist Press (NYU), 2009.
Jardins, Julie Des. The Madame Curie Complex. New York: The Feminist Press (NYU), 2010.

1. New article on Annette Coleman (pending review)
2. Added to the Joice Heth article, including images. --Iscamaya (talk) 20:19, 22 May 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]
3. Revisions and citations added to Nancy Elizabeth Prophet's page
4. New article on Sarah Elizabeth Doyle
5. BrownBear2014 Revised and Added to E-Science librarianship including adding [pioneering female information studies scholars to E-Science Librarianship] and [important female leader in providing e-Science librarianship skills to librarians] --BrownBear2014 (talk) 20:52, 22 May 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]
6. added new images to Providence Athenaeum, also added an "Athenaeum Today" section, which I hope someone will fill!
7. Enhanced article on Maud Howe Elliott -- Mylonas (talk) 21:09, 22 May 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]
8. New article on Christiana Carteaux Bannister
9. Worked on the Sarah Doyle article
10. uploaded public domain image of Christiana Carteaux Bannister to Wikimedia Commons; added it and another image, and a short bibliography to her newly create page!
11. linked Sarah Doyle article to Pembroke and Sarah Doyle Center entries