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Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: Women in Environmental Justice

Presented by:

Anacostia Community Museum with support from Wikimedia DC

Event description

Wikipedia is one of the most highly visited websites in the world, but representation of women of color is strikingly low—both in terms of who contributes to the site and the subjects they write about. Many local and national environmental justice women activists are not represented among Wikipedia's many biographies.

Join us to set the record straight, make some friends, and celebrate the activists who have fought to make our urban environments greener. No Wikipedia editing experience necessary; training will be provided.

This event is planned in coordination with our friends at Wikimedia DC.

Registration required.

When

October 4, 2023 - 4pm-8pm EDT

Where

Anacostia Community Museum

Registration

Register

Event Dashboard

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Presentation[edit]

Please sign in[edit]

This is for use on the day of the event.
1) Select 'Sign in'
2) Scroll down on the page that follows and click 'Save changes'.
Your username will automatically be added to the list of attendees.

Instructions[edit]

Goal 1. Create drafts of new Wikipedia articles. Move articles from draft form to Wikipedia main space when ready.

  • Choose an article you want to edit or create from the list below
  • Use this Google sheet to reserve the article you would like to edit and find the sources needed to create the articles.
  • Return to this page and select the red link to open a blank page
  • Select Create, not Create source (top right). This may happen automatically.
  • Start writing and cite sources indicated by the hyperlinked numbers next to each article name. You may also use verifiable secondary sources you've found on your own.
  • Tip: Be sure to add a header titled 'References' at the bottom of the page before you begin.
  • Publish as you go (blue button, top right)
  • Select 'Edit' to re-open the draft and keep working
  • Once you are pleased with the article, publish one last time.
  • Select the 'More' button (top right next to View History). Note: This button may not be visible to new editors. Ariel can deactivate this restriction. Be sure to sign in to the Dashboard so she has your username. It is needed to give these extra permissions.
  • Open the 'New title' drop down menu.
  • Change Draft to (Article). You may need to scroll up to find it.
  • Select the blue 'Move' button

Goal 2: Edit existing articles

  • Choose an article you want to edit or create from the list below
  • Reserve the article you want to edit in Google sheet.
  • Return to this page and select a blue link to open an existing article
  • Select 'edit'.
  • Make changes, add content, etc.
  • Publish as you go

Articles to create[edit]

Use the Google sheet to reserve the articles you would like to edit and find the sources needed to create these articles.

In lieu of starting drafts, you may also start articles in your sandbox. Select create or edit to switch to visual editor.

Smithsonian Magazine article about exhibition To Live and Breathe: Environmental Justice in Their Own Words, American Women's Histroy Museum


Select a red link below to start an article draft. Once the draft is ready, you may move to Wikipedia mainspace. Feel free to ask Ariel to review your draft before it is moved. DO NOT select the 'submit y article for review' option.

J. S. Fuerst, Social Service Review, Vol. 62, No. 2 (Jun., 1988), pp. 337-345 (9 pages) [147]

Existing articles to edit[edit]

Use the Google sheet to reserve the articles you would like to edit and find the sources needed to create these articles.

Start (short) articles

C articles

GA articles

Other Resources Online Resources that cover multiple people:

Books

Women, Environmentalism, and Justice, Anacostia Community Museum (Includes Vernice Miller-Travis, Akiima Price, Leslie Fields, Irma Munoz, Dorceta Taylor)

New Perspectives on Environmental Justice: Gender, Sexuality and Activism, by Rachel Stein. (Includes Dana Alston, Dollie Burwell, Rose Augustine, Hazel Johnson, Dorceta Taylor)

Environmental Justice in Postwar America: A Documentary Reader, edited by Christopher W. Wells (Includes Dana Alston, Rose Augustine, Leslie Fields, Vernice Miller-Travis, Peggy Shepard, Gail Small, Dorceta Taylor).

Outcomes - Articles created[edit]

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Wikimedia Affiliates[edit]

Wikimedia movement affiliates model
Chapters
Wikimedia chapters are independent organizations founded to support and promote the Wikimedia projects in a specified geographical region (in most cases, a country). Like the Wikimedia Foundation, they aim to "empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally". There are currently 39 chapters, with at least one on every inhabited continent., i.e. Wikimedia DC
Wikimedia thematic organizations
Thematic organizations are incorporated independent non-profits representing the Wikimedia movement and supporting work focused on a specific theme, topic, subject or issue within or across countries and regions. i.e., Wikimedia Medicine.
User groups
Wikimedia user groups are intended to be simple and flexible affiliates that are an alternative to chapters and thematic organizations - which require more formal requirements. User groups are highly valued as equal players in the Wikimedia movement, i.e., Art+Feminism

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Attendees[edit]

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