Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon: Women in Virginia History


Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon: Women in Virginia History

Maggie L. Walker, African-American businesswoman and teacher. Born in Richmond, VA.
Join us and help to edit and create Wikipedia articles about notable women from Virginia. Laptops are required. Please bring your own.
Training will be provided for new Wikipedia editors.
Please note that this is an IN-PERSON event.

When

Sunday, August 14, 2022
12pm - 3pm EDT

Where

City of Fairfax Regional Library
10360 North St
Fairfax, VA 22030

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IMPORTANT: Please reserve articles using this Google sheet before you begin.

Red links = Article to be created
Blue links = Existing articles needing improvement

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  • Sally Fairfax[3] - To do: Embolden name. Add infobox and external link to GW letter.
  • Jean Packard - To do: Establish clear lead paragraph and sections.
  • Laura Copenhaver - To do: Establish clear lead paragraph and sections. See Dictionary Virginia Biography for information.
  • Anne Burras - To do: Add infobox. Expand. See sources: "VA immigrants and adventurers" > Travels and Works of John Smith AND Minutes of the Council and General Court of Colonial Virginia AND Adventurers of Purse and Person
  • Orianna Andrews - To do: Upload this image to Commons. Add image to infobox. See Dictionary Virginia Biography for more information.

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  • Laura Ratcliffe - To do: This article could use a rewrite. The lead lays out part of what she did, but the rest is not fleshed out in the sections. 'Gift for Laura' is a strange heading. After lead should go 'Early life', then 'Spy activities' or similar which should include work with the Confederacy. After that, maybe 'After the war' and then perhaps 'Death and legacy'. See source A Southern Spy in Northern Virginia. Stealing Secrets
  • Virginia Women's Monument
  • Evelyn Thomas Butts[4] - Also see Inspiring African American Women of VA and Dictionary Virginia Biography
  • Clementina Rind[5] - See also Virginia Women: Their Lives and Times.
  • Anne Spencer[6][7] - To do: Add more about her home as a museum and that it received funding recently from the National Trust. See also More Than Petticoats.
  • Angela (enslaved woman)[8] - See also: Original Lists of Persons of Quality. William & Mary Quarterly v54.

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-Bold Dragoon: Cavalryman of the Lost Cause.
Photo already in Commons

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