Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/ArtAndFeminism/Babycastles 2015/Resources

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Resources for Editing

Wikipedia editing

• Welcome to Wikipedia
• Wikipedia:Questions
• Introduction
• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• How to edit a page
• Help pages
• How to write a great article
• Discover what's going on in the Wikimedia community
• Talk pages
• Sign your name using four tildes (~~~~); that will automatically produce your username and the date.
• Wikipedian
• Wikipedia Cheat Sheet (Bookshelf), another markup cheatsheet
• Training for Students, a tutorial for beginners
• Beginners' Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
• Five Pillars of Wikipedia, philosophical guidelines and best practices for editing
• Tutorial
• Wiki Markup Quick Reference, PDF version of printed handout
• Guide to Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing by Susan H. Rodger (applicable to any biography)
• Article development
• Your First Article (using the Article Wizard, if you wish)
• Manual of Style
• Citation templates
• Infobox templates
• Bookshelf, additional "getting started" resources

Training Lesson Plans and Tutorials

• ArtandFeminism Training Lesson Plan
• Art + Feminism Training Slides
• Wikipedia markup cheatsheet

About Wikipedia's Systemic Gender Bias

• Gender gap resources.
• James Gleick, “Wikipedia’s Women Problem,” The New York Review of Books (4/29/13)
• Amanda Filipacchi, “Wikipedia’s Sexism Toward Female Novelists,” New York Times Opinion (4/24/13)
• Sue Gardner, “New York Times prompts a flurry of coverage of Wikipedia’s gender gap,” Sue Gardner’s Blog (1/31/11)
• Noam Cohen, “Define Gender Gap? Look Up Wikipedia’s Contributor List,” The New York Times (1/30/11)
• “The struggle over gender on Wikipedia: the case of Chelsea Manning,” (with Phoebe Ayers)(9/3/13)
• “Looking at the five pillars of Wikipedia as a feminist, part 1″ (8/26/13) & part 2 (11/13/13)
• “Wikipedia’s gender gap and the complicated reality of systemic gender bias,” (7/26/13)