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WMST Summer Technology Institute WikiWomen Edit-a-Thon
WMST Summer Technology Institute WikiWomen Edit-a-Thon
University of Maryland
City, StateCollege Park, Maryland

This edit-a-thon is a part of the Women’s Studies Summer Technology Institute at the

University of Maryland. This event is closed to the public, unless you are an attendee of the conference. You can learn more about the conference here
. If you are interested in participating you can participate online via Twitter!

These events aim to educate the public, students, and especially women on the importance of contributing to Wikipedia. Females comprise approximately 10-20% of editors on the world's 5th biggest website (on any given day). The average Wikipedia contributor is a caucasian male in his late 20's/early 30's with a good education and job. This causes a systemic bias in the content, including, but not limited to, the representation of women and minorities internationally.

Event details

This event launches at 9:00 AM with a lectured by

User:SarahStierch
, too!

We will open with a brief introduction to Wikipedia policies, and then dive into editing. Participants will be encouraged to either write new articles about subjects that interest them, or to expand articles that interest them. All participants will have "edits that stick" by 5 PM.

Sign up to participate

Event attendees

  1. Jonessneed (talk) 17:13, 30 May 2014 (UTC) #wmstst1 #wikiwomen[reply]
  2. SarahStierch (talk) 17:11, 27 May 2014 (UTC)[reply
    ]
  3. JREnszer (talk) 18:19, 27 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Myntiepwny (talk) 20:10, 29 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  5. yh Patt (talk) 14:05, 30 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  6. HesterBaer (talk) 17:05, 30 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Pallavi Guha (talk) 18:02, 30 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  8. ShaunEdmonds (talk) 17:10, 30 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  9. castabile (talk) 17:14, 30 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  10. ChessieClio (talk) 17:13, 30 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  11. Ktblanca (talk) 17:14, 30 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  12. Editlearn (talk) 17:15, 30 May 2014 (UTC)editlearn[reply]
  13. Ana Patricia Rodriguez (talk)
  14. Joedonmd (talk) 17:28, 30 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  15. Jiksoon (talk) 17:31, 30 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  16. Cschuler62 (talk) 17:48, 30 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  17. CyberdivaliveRG (talk) 17:55, 30 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  18. Janell hobson (talk) 18:06, 30 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  19. Cjwalkerez (talk) 18:37, 30 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  20. Jaimmadden (talk) 18:44, 30 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  21. Ahudock (talk) 18:58, 30 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  22. Ashwinitambe (talk)

Online participants

This event is closed to the public, as it is for conference attendees. However, you are welcome to participate online. Please use hashtag #WMSTSTI and #wikiwomen on Twitter!

  • Pallavi Guha

Suggested content for improvement

Please add your suggestions here! Women focused subjects from around the world, please!

References for articles

  1. ^ "Amber Case, Cyborg Anthropologist - Speaker". TED. Retrieved 2014-03-29.
  2. ^ "Amber Case: We are all cyborgs now". TED Talk Video. December 2010. Retrieved 2014-03-29.
  3. ^ "Amber Case". http://caseorganic.com/. Retrieved 2014-03-29. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
  4. ^ "Amber Case, Cyborg Anthropologist Information, Facts, News, Photos". National Geographic. Retrieved 2014-03-29.
  5. ^ "Black Women in Mathematics - Dolores Spikes". Mathematicians of the African Diaspora. Retrieved 2014-03-29.
  6. ^ "Dolores Margaret Richard Spikes". Mathematical Association of America. Retrieved 2014-03-29.
  7. ^ "Biography - Dolores Margaret Richard Spikes". American Distance Education Consortium. Retrieved 2014-03-29.
  8. ^ "Dolores R. Spikes". The HistoryMakers. 2014. Retrieved 2014-03-29.
  9. ^ "125th Anniversary of UMES - Dolores Spikes". University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Retrieved 2014-03-29.
  10. ^ http://www.bikeleague.org/content/womens-bike-history-kittie-knox
  11. ^ http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/09/29/long-forgotten-bicycling-pioneer-who-broke-race-and-gender-barriers-honored/VAtfz0av4PqeHuHLiOw3sI/story.html
  12. ^ http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70A17F63B5E10738DDDA00894DF405B8585F0D3

Results

Please post the results from the event here!

Links
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