Wikipedia:Meetup/Durham, NC/Women at Duke 2015

Visiting with Washington Duke (1900s)

Women at Duke Edit-a-thon

Please join us for an opportunity to learn how to edit Wikipedia articles, learn more about the rich history of women at Duke University, and then put that knowledge into action by creating and editing entries that document the lives and contributions of women alumnae, faculty, staff, and community members. This event is part of a worldwide movement to increase the percentage of women editors and woman-focused articles within Wikipedia. Bring your laptop if you have one, or use one of ours. You can also participate from anywhere in the world! Co-sponsored with the Duke Women's Center and Duke University Archives. Lunch will be provided!

Want to get a head start before the event? Here's a link to the slideshow presentation we'll be starting with!

When

Wednesday, March 25, 2015 10am-2 pm

Where

The The Edge Workshop Room Bostock Library, First Floor (map)

Why

To increase the number of pages on Wikipedia about the history and roles of women at Duke and to help close the Wikipedia Gender Gap

What to Bring

A laptop if you can! There will also be a few laptops available to use. Please create a Wikipedia account in advance. (Too many sign ups from the same domain in a short period of time results in a lockout from creating new accounts.) If you have research materials you want to use, bring those as well. If you are interested in adopting one of the women or topics listed below, please make a notation and we'll try to bring some background material for you. Otherwise, just bring yourself and your enthusiasm!

Getting started

Want to get a head start? You can:

• Create an account and set up a user page
  • You’ll be able to edit Wikipedia without creating an account, but you must be signed in to create articles
  • Wikipedia has a limit on the number of accounts that can be created in a day at one IP address; help us avoid blocks by creating your account early!
• Read about Wikipedia’s core content policies and five pillars
• Learn about wiki markup
• Check out the Wikipedia resources below for information on editing and article creation
• Practice edits

Or just wait for the event, and we’ll walk you through it!

Wikipedia Resources

• A Primer for Newcomers
• Wikipedia Cheatsheet
• Article Wizard
• Editing Tutorial
• Writing an Article
• Teahouse
• Training for Students
• Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing -- useful information on creating biographies in Wikipedia
• The Missing Manual -- an online version of the "Missing Manual" for Wikipedia with information on creating and editing articles
• To be or not to be: Academic bios on Wikipedia

Possible Topics

Articles to Create

• Katharine Ashe (author, pen name of Katharine Brophy Dubois, class of 1989, visiting assistant professor in the Department of History at Duke University 2007-present.)
• Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance (organization whose papers are held at the Rubenstein Library at Duke)
• Bessie Baker (first dean of Duke University School of Nursing)
• Katharine Banham (professor in the Department of Psychology at Duke University from 1946 to 1967)
• Katharine Bartlett (A. Kenneth Pye Professor of Law, served as Dean of Duke Law School from 2000-2007)
• Irene Leach Craven (wife of Union Institute/Trinity College president Braxton Craven, former student and assistant teacher at Union Institute)
• Artelia Roney Duke (second wife of Washington Duke, mother of J.B. Duke, B.N. Duke, and Mary Duke Lyon)
• Mary Clinton Duke (first wife of Washington Duke, mother of Sidney and Brodie Duke)
• Alyssa Perz-Edwards (Director of Duke Cardea Fellows Program)
• Sara M. Evans (Duke alumna, historian specializing in American social and women's history of the 20th century; papers held at Bingham Center)
• Mary Reamey Thomas Few (alumna of Trinity College, wife of former Trinity/Duke president W. P. Few)
• Ann Henshaw Gardiner (assistant professor of nursing education at Duke University School of Nursing)
• Laura Drake Gill (former dean of Barnard College, headed Committee on the Organization of a Co-ordinate College for Women, 1914-1915)
• Fannie Gladstein (alumna, class of 1911, one of the first Jewish students to enroll at Trinity College)
• Lillian Baker Griggs (Librarian of the Duke University Woman's College Library, 1930 to 1949)
• Julia Grout (Chairman of the Women's Department of Health and Physical Education at Duke University from 1924 to 1964)
• Mary Mitchell Harris (alumna, among the first five African-American undergraduate students to enroll at Duke)
• Thelma Ingles (instrumental in creating clinical master's program at Duke University School of Nursing)
• Sally Kornbluth (prominent cell biologist and recently appointed to be Duke's first female provost)
• Mary Duke Lyon (daughter of Washington Duke, involved in tobacco business)
• Catherine Nicholson (Lesbian, feminist writer and magazine publisher, and co-founder of Sinister Wisdom, a multicultural lesbian literary and art journal. Her papers are held at the Rubenstein Library.)
• Angela O'Rand (sociology Professor, former Dean of Social Sciences, former Chair of Sociology department, designer and former director of Duke FOCUS program, former president of the Southern Sociological Society, winner of the 2008 Matilda White Riley Award from the American Sociological Association]]
• Irene Price (artist, Trinity College alumna)
• Jill Raitt (theologian, first tenured female faculty member Duke Divinity School. Became a feminist while at Duke and supported Duke Divinity Women's Center Women's Center)
• Bessie Whitted Spence (Duke instructor of Biblical literature; portrait hangs in Lilly library)
• Cassandra Smith Rush (alumna, among the first five African-American undergraduate students to enroll at Duke)
• The White Duchy (secret women's honorary at Duke University, 1925-1968, alongside the Order of the Red Friars)
• Catherine Wilfert Pediatrician whose clinical trial group demonstrated the efficacy of using doses of AZT to reduce the incidence of mother-to-child transmission of HIV

Articles to Edit

Check out this list of notable alums to see if there's an entry you'd like to expand on!

• List of mixed-sex colleges and universities in the United States
• Eleanor Smeal
• Janice Radway
• Minnie Bruce Pratt
• Clare Leighton
• Dorothy Allison
• Kate Millett
• Meredith Tax
• Cathy Davidson
• Clarissa Sligh
• Batya Weinbaum
• Joan Little
• Sarah Lisanby
• Kathy Acker

RSVP

(sign up by editing the page and entering four tildes ~. This will automatically put in your username.)

Attending

• Chulpankh (talk) 17:47, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
• Laerlet (talk) 15:29, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
• Bettyclaire (talk) 14:14, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
• K. B. Dubois (talk) 05:16, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
• Mmatty1 (talk) 14:31, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
• PWfellow (talk) 20:02, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
• Demingacolyte (talk) 21:49, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
• Hartsea (talk) 17:33, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
• Stokesnet (talk) 19:10, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
• Atomlattice (talk)

Results

Create or edit an article? List it here!

Other Local Edit-a-thons!

Some other Edit-a-thons going on soon in our area! Be sure to check them out!

Meetups at UNC-Chapel Hill

• American Indians in North Carolina Edit-a-thon - 1 April 2015
• Art + Feminism UNC Edit-a-thon - 7 April 2015
• African American Soldiers in US Wars Edit-a-thon - 8 April 2015
• Women in Science Edit-a-thon - 16 April 2015

Meetups at Duke University and Durham

• Art + Feminism Durham Edit-a-thon - 7 March 2015