Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Aurora Hills library edit-a-thon

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==Create Wikipedia username and login to the Outreach Dashboard==

Step 1: Go to the [https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Aurora_Hills_Library,_Arlington,_VA/Aurora_Hills_Library_Women's_Biographies_Edit-a-thon?enroll= Dashboard]]

Step 2:

:* Have a Wikipedia username? Select 'Log-in with Wikipedia'.

:* Don't have a username? Select 'Sign-up with Wikipedia'

Usernames are public. You do not have to use your real name or expose any personal details.

Note: This will allow you to create a username and sign up to participate in the this event in one simple step. You can also create a username at the top right of this event page or from any Wikipedia page.

Instructions

1. Use this [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1y-FbzlIWKI3QAzhDehjW2gSZGU7SIwTLcgL7eoyw2yw/edit#gid=1143115122 Google sheet] to reserve the article you plan to edit or create
2. In the sheet, reserve the article you'd like to work on by adding your name or username next to the article
3. Return here to the event page and select your article's red or blue link. Red links open blank pages to start article drafts (select 'Create to begin'). Blue links open existing mainspace articles and existing drafts (select 'Edit' to begin).
4. TIP: For new articles, start by adding a 'References' header at the bottom. Return to the top and start writing.

:Use the sources provided on the event page (numbers next to each name) or other reliable secondary materials to find the information needed to build your article

Links colors

:Red drafts = New draft articles that can be created

:'''Blue drafts = Draft articles that have been created, but need more content before moving to Wikipedia 'mainspace'.

:Blue = Existing articles in Wikipedia mainspace

:'''Start and work on drafts and publish as you go. When they are ready, they can me 'moved' to mainspace. Moving instructions will be provided during the training.

Activism

• Draft:Lena Angevine Warner[https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8898561/][https://www.wknofm.org/news-and-features/2014-01-31/lena-angevine-warner] - Nurse and activist
• Draft:Lily Chin[https://www.aasc.ucla.edu/resources/untoldstories/vincentchin.aspx][https://issuu.com/polytechnicmarketing/docs/vin-2202_vincent_chin_rededication_book_rtv_forweb/s/16092925] - Asian American rights activist
• Draft:Georgette Imura[https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/obituaries/article248004505.html] - AAPI activist and pioneer, CA state legislature
• Draft:Aditi Mayer[https://www.vogue.co.uk/fashion/article/aditi-mayer-how-to-live-sustainably][https://www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/news/2023/2023-04-19-mayer-wwd.php][https://wwd.com/sustainability/social-impact/influencer-aditi-mayer-climate-activism-sustainable-fashion-earth-month-1235605881/] [https://fashionmagazine.com/style/aditi-mayer/] - sustainable fashion activist

Arts and culture

• Marie-Elmina Anger - Artist
• Jane E. Bartlett - Artist
• Susan Hinckley Bradley - Artist
• Draft:Margaret Schloemann Frisch[https://www.philamuseum.org/collection/object/75525?][https://americanart.si.edu/artist/margaret-schloemann-frisch-4301] - Artist
• Draft:Mae Engron[https://fwmoa.blog/2021/03/08/treasures-from-the-vault-mae-engron/][https://americanart.si.edu/artist/mae-engron-5656] - Artist
• Draft:Adele Y. Schonbrun[https://vineyardgazette.com/obituaries/2017/06/01/adele-y-schonbrun-prolific-ceramic-artist] [https://americanart.si.edu/artist/adele-y-schonbrun-4319] - Artist
• Agnes Lyall - Artist
• Lillian Desow-Fishbein - Artist
• Draft:Sue Jane Smock[https://americanart.si.edu/artist/sue-jane-smock-4530][https://allenartcollection.oberlin.edu/people/879/sue-jane-smock/objects][https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-palm-beach-post-sue-jane-smock/89035169/][https://www.hnoc.org/database/artist/record.php?id_artist=13554&search=advanced_search] - Artist
• Draft:Sondra Freckelton[https://americanart.si.edu/artist/sondra-freckelton-1651][https://www.artic.edu/artists/8774/sondra-freckelton] [https://www.mmoca.org/artist/sondra-freckelton/] - Artist
• Draft:Evelyn Bridge - Artist
• Draft:Katja Oxman[https://fwmoa.org/exhibition/the-secret-rooms-of-katja-oxman/][https://art.state.gov/personnel/katja_oxman/] [https://fwmoa.blog/2019/08/05/treasures-from-the-vault-katja-oxman/][https://americanart.si.edu/artist/katja-oxman-30871] - Artist
• Draft:Lillette Jenkins-Wisner[https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/2014/02/03/still-queen-of-the-keys/29228377007/][https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/03/08/queen-of-the-keys-lillette-jenkins-wisner-holds-80-year-legacy/][https://www.harlemworldmagazine.com/harlems-queen-keys-lillette-jenkins-wisner-video/] [http://wijsf.org/jazzwomen/lillettewisner.htm] - Jazz Pianist
• Draft:Marika Gidali[https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/culture/2023/01/through-dancing-i-could-talk-about-the-holocaust-says-survivor.shtml][https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/gidali-marika][https://www.scielo.br/j/rbep/a/YFnPPm7H7vmzyFzMJsCyfcv/?lang=en] - Dancer, Holocaust survivor
• Draft:Grace D. Li[https://news.stanford.edu/report/2023/08/08/grace-lis-art-heist-caper-development-netflix/][https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/grace-li-portrait-of-a-thief-netflix-tv-series-1234950097/] - Writer
• Draft:Melissa Carper[https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/melissa-carper-ramblin-soul-1234650596/][https://xpn.org/2023/05/04/melissa-carpers-portable-americana-finds-a-home-at-non-comm/][https://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2022-09-02/the-ramblin-soul-of-songwriter-melissa-carper/] - Singer, songwriter
• Draft:Jean Kittrell[https://syncopatedtimes.com/jean-kittrell-the-red-hot-mama-of-dixieland-jazz-has-died/] [https://digitallis.isg.siue.edu/exhibits/show/jean-kittrell-exhibit/professor][https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/Remembering-the-career-of-local-favorite-Jean-13197789.php#:~:text=EDWARDSVILLE%20%2D%20Long%20before%20she%20became,in%20her%20Southern%20Baptist%20church.] [https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/nana-adjoa-big-dreaming-ants-interview] - Jazz Musician
• Draft:Gertrudes Altschul[https://www.moma.org/artists/49197][https://www.dw.com/en/discovering-brazils-unknown-modernist-photographers/a-57374296] - Photographer
• [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Smithsonian_American_Art_Museum_and_American_Art_Library_Presents,_Wikipedia-Edit-A-Thon:_Art_and_Feminism_2020 More artists can be found here]

Education

• Draft:Ida Gray Hampton[https://deafwomeninhistory.wordpress.com/deaf-women-of-color/][https://www.marionschools.net/site/Default.aspx?PageID=60236&PageType=17&DomainID=15147&ModuleInstanceID=87820&EventDateID=31110] - Educator and first Black woman to graduate from Gallaudet University
• Draft:Cornelia Storrs Adair[https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/adair-cornelia-storrs-1884-1962/][https://www.nea.org/nea-today/all-news-articles/womans-place-inher-union-leadership] - Educator

Food

• Draft:Norma Shirley[https://www.newyorker.com/culture/kitchen-notes/a-jamaican-chefs-journey-home] [https://legacyquiltproject.mofad.org/quilt/norma-shirley/] - Chef

Historical

• Draft:Elisabeth Friske

Holocaust-related

• Draft:Leah-Lonka Kozibrodska[https://jewishcurrents.org/march-18-death-ghetto-courier][https://www.yadvashem.org/articles/general/couriers.html] [https://www.infocenters.co.il/gfh/notebook_ext.asp?book=29008&lang=eng&site=gfh] - Ghetto courier, smuggler
• Draft:Bela Hazan[https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-the-three-jews-at-the-center-of-one-of-the-most-daring-holocaust-rescue-stories-1.8812977][https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/hazan-bela-yaari][https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2021/04/29/the-heroic-jewish-women-who-resisted-the-nazis], The Light of Days. By Judy Batalion - Survivor. Saved prisoners by evacuating a hospital, Wrote memoir.
• Ruth Elias[https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-the-three-jews-at-the-center-of-one-of-the-most-daring-holocaust-rescue-stories-1.8812977]. To do: Expand with more pre-war biographical information - Survivor. Saved prisoners by evacuating a hospital, Wrote memoir.
• Draft:Renia Kukielka - Ghetto courier, smuggler, resistance fighter[https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2021/04/29/the-heroic-jewish-women-who-resisted-the-nazis] [https://time.com/5953135/hidden-history-jewish-women-fought-nazis/][https://www.historytoday.com/archive/review/ghetto-girls], The Light of Days. By Judy Batalion
• Draft:Tema Schneiderman[https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/sznajderman-tema][https://www.yadvashem.org/articles/general/couriers.html] [https://www.judybatalion.com/gallery-the-light-of-days/][https://www.jta.org/2021/03/31/culture/their-stories-seeped-into-my-system-how-judy-batalion-found-the-stories-of-overlooked-female-polish-wwii-resistance-fighters] - Courier, smuggler. Forged documents to help with escapes, resettlement.
• Draft:Mira Shelub[https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/mira-shelub][https://www.jweekly.com/2015/04/10/a-partisans-life-s-f-woman-tells-her-story-of-resistance/][https://www.jewishpartisans.org/partisans/mira-shelub] - Partisan
• Draft:Hella Hirsch - Nazi-resistance - Source: Defying Hitler: the Germans who resisted Nazi rule
• Draft:Charlotte Holzer[https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/baum-gruppe-jewish-women#pid-14557][https://books.google.com/books?id=CXgiDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA22&lpg=PA22&dq=Charlotte+P%C3%A4ch&source=bl&ots=OAgj-U8fw9&sig=ACfU3U3kDj0BfXGd0d9oUyOwSQ0yjRoZCQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjhvbmH6u3zAhV5pnIEHfsJBJYQ6AF6BAgIEAM#v=onepage&q=Charlotte%20P%C3%A4ch&f=false][https://books.google.com/books?id=u4I2DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA66&lpg=PA66&dq=Charlotte+P%C3%A4ch&source=bl&ots=a_y1F8ySjc&sig=ACfU3U3VUCVt0q5co_Iqvjtjej3vrdqCDA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjhvbmH6u3zAhV5pnIEHfsJBJYQ6AF6BAgQEAM#v=onepage&q=Charlotte%20P%C3%A4ch&f=false][https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/02/untold-stories-of-jewish-resistance-revealed-in-london-holocaust-exhibition], Years of Defiance: The Herbert Baum Group and Jewish Resistance in Berlin - Resistance, Baum Group

Science

• Draft:Monkgomotsi Maseng - - Scientist

:Book "Science People" by Lindy Sinclair[https://www.superscientists.org/superscientists/the-tailor-monkgomotsi-maseng] [https://www.santheafrica.org/about/people/trainees/monkgomotsi-josephine-manewe-maseng]

Sport

• Draft:Amazin LeThi[https://www.thepinknews.com/2022/10/09/amazin-lethi-lgbtq-asian-racism/][https://www.forbes.com/sites/dawnstaceyennis/2021/05/20/6-extraordinary-women-of-asian-and-pacific-island-heritage/?sh=1cb773d45ecd]

Suffrage

• Draft:Janetta R. FitzHugh[https://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/dvb/bio.asp?b=FitzHugh_Janetta_R][https://www.librarypoint.org/blogs/post/womens-suffrage-fredericksburg/][https://uncommonwealth.virginiamemory.com/blog/2019/08/21/equal-suffrage-league-of-virginia-records-are-coming-to-making-history-transcribe/] - Suffragist
• Draft:Emma Frances Plecker Cassell[https://www.lva.virginia.gov/exhibits/destiny/notable/cassell.htm] - Suffragist
• Draft:Maud Jamison[https://suffragistmemorial.org/maud-jamison/][https://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/dvb/bio.asp?b=Jamison_Maud] [https://www.loc.gov/static/collections/women-of-protest/images/detchron.pdf] - Suffragist

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