Wikipedia:Meetup/Take Back the Night at UVA

We will get together to improved content about issues centering on sexual assault, stalking and intimate partner violence, especially events that happen at universities and educational facilities.

Sponsored by UVa Libraries

When

Wednesday, April 13, 2016
10am - 4 pm EDT

Where

Alderman library. The library is located at 160 McCormick Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22904. Parking is available at the bookstore garage called Central Grounds Parking at 400 Emmet Street between McCormick Road and University Avenue for $2/hour.

What to bring

A laptop
Any resources you would like to refer to (and UVa has archives of its own to review )
You're welcome to bring your camera and take pictures
Preferably, a registered Wikipedia user account (but we can also create one on the spot)

Schedule

Come in the morning, afternoon, or both!

10AM - Overview of Edit-a-Thon goals and Wikipedia "How Tos" - Breakfast will be served (bagels & coffee)
11AM onward - editing workshops and direct editing pages of interest
12:30 - "Lunch n' Learn" - Scholars will discuss why "Edit-a-Thons" are even necessary and get into the larger questions of gendered inequality on Wikipedia (Catering from Take It Away)
1-4PM - editing workshops and direct editing pages of interest

Sign up! edit

This event is open to people of all experience levels. Sign up below by editing the page and adding your username or by signing up on the Facebook event page.

I'll be attending! edit

I'll be there in person! edit

Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 12:31, 4 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Ftripodi (talk) 20:53, 4 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Sumdeshmukh (talk) 15:42, 13 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Rachemkay (talk) 16:10, 13 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
GoGalexy (talk) 17:12, 13 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Mooeena (talk) 17:24, 13 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I'll be attending virtually! edit

Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:17, 13 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Antony–22 (^talk⁄_contribs) 04:39, 14 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Regrets edit

Outcomes edit

Stronger Than You Know (created)
Luckiest Girl Alive (expanded)
The Gender Knot: Unraveling our Patriarchal Legacy (created)
Allan G. Johnson (created)
"I Will Possess Your Heart" (expanded, now a Good Article)
Talitha Kum (created)

Article suggestions edit

To edit edit

Effects and aftermath of rape (A tag on the page suggests that it focuses too much on one aspect, see talk page comment here)
Intimate partner violence (Tag says it could use a wider world view.)
Title_IX#Impact_on_female_athletics (Per this talk page comment the section needs to be better sourced and more neutral.)
Campus_sexual_assault#2015_Campus_Climate_Surveys (Possible original research?)
School bullying (article has several tags that need to be dealt with)
National Campus Climate Survey (Could be expanded?)
Estimates of sexual violence (Could use more citations and this part could be expanded)
Mass sexual assault (Needs a few more citations)
Women Against Rape (could be expanded?)
Rape crisis center (Needs a worldwide view)
Rape Crisis Movement (Incomplete, needs expansion badly)
Aggravated sexual assault (Needs expansion)
Anti-rape movement (several issues)
Statutory rape (needs citations)
Orang Minyak (Tagged as dealing with rape, but mention of this in the article is only one sentence)
List of rape victims from ancient history and mythology (Needs citations, could also be expanded w/ other rape victims)
Rape kit (Needs worldwide view)
Rape shield law (Needs citations)
Delhi Gang Rape Photo Shoot (Could be expanded)
Denim Day (Needs citations)
Untitled (Rape Scene) (Could be expanded)
The Uncondemned (could be expanded)
Date Rape (song) (Could be expanded)
Monument Quilt (Could be expanded)
Obsession (book) (Could be expanded)
Luckiest Girl Alive (Could be expanded, I believe this deals with the aftermath of a rape during the main character's high school years)
Yes Means Yes (could be expanded?)
Tears of the Desert (needs expansion, sources, deals with rape in Darfur)
Cyberstalking#Western_Europe (needs expansion on how other countries deal with the problem)
Cyberstalking legislation (Needs worldwide view)
Stalking Bill 1996 (Needs expansion, further explanation, sourcing)
Obscene phone call (Needs worldwide view)
Richard Farley (needs sourcing)
The Fan (Abrahams novel) (Needs expansion, sourcing, book is the source of the film by the same name)
The Executioners (MacDonald novel) (Needs expansion, sourcing, book deals w/ stalking, adapted into the Cape Fear films)
One Way or Another (Song, deals w/ stalking, needs expansion)
Obsessive love (Could use some expansion, maybe expand to include more examples in fiction, mythology, and so on?)
Domestic violence (There's been discussion here about making a media section, as well as an entry on DV in same sex relationships)
The Gender Knot: Unraveling our Patriarchal Legacy (A 1997 work by Allan G. Johnson, WorldCat listing, Reviewed here, here, here, here)

To create edit

On-campus stalking (This would be a huge undertaking - we would need to make sure that this wouldn't already be covered somewhere else - maybe find a way to incorporate it into an article?) ([1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7])
No One Else Can Have You (A 2014 YA murder mystery, author gained some attention for stalking a negative reviewer - [8], [9], [10], [11], [12])

Biographies

Jenna Baronette, Canadian sex trafficking activist.
Laila Bugaighis, advocate for victims of sexual assault. chair of the National Protection Against Violence Committee in Libya.
Karen Naimer, Canadian director of the program on sexual violence in conflict zones for Physicians for Human Rights, [13], interview
Gema Ramkeesoon, Trinidad, anti-child marriage, girls’ education [14], [15], [16], [17], [18]
Deborah Tucker (executive), founder of the National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence, founder of the first shelter for abused women and children, Texas Women's Hall of Fame, [19]
Malya Villard-Appolon, Haitian woman helps women who have experienced sexual violence, CNN Hero, [20], [21]

Basics on editing Wikipedia edit

Help:Cheatsheet - quick guide to Wiki markup
Editing - The Basics has .pdf handouts and videos
Wikipedia Training, Includes a one-hour training for newcomers, and more extensive pages for teachers and Wikipedia Ambassadors
Wikipedia Tutorial is a hands-on approach that walks you through various aspects of Wikipedia editing
A PDF about editing Wikipedia from a prior edit-a-thon in 2015
Wikipedia:Media copyright questions - a board for questions about copyright and uploading media (photos, etc)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red - a WikiProject devoted to the expansion of female related articles, definitely a good, safe place to start with questions