Wikipedia:Meetup/Philadelphia/Women in Architecture

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Join us for the Women in Architecture edit-a-thon at the AIA Philadelphia Center for Architecture on Thursday, October 15, 2015

Participate in the Philadelphia edition of our global Women in Architecture campaign to improve Wikipedia's content about underrepresented history in this field. As always, beginners welcome! We'll provide training for new editors at 5:30pm, following by editing until 9.00.


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What: Women in Architecture @ AIA Philadelphia Center for Architecture

When: Thursday, October 15, 2015 from 5.30 pm - 9.00 pm.

Where: AIA Philadelphia Center for Architecture, 1218 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107

Suggested Focus: Women in architecture - people, their works, architectural and design movements, and use of materials

What to bring: Your laptop, power adapter, and any reference materials you'd like to work from or share. If you have some ideas to work on, bring them along! If not, we'll provide some resources.

Registration Page: http://aiaphiladelphia.ticketleap.com/wikipedia-edit-a-thon/

Website: http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/calendar-and-events/2015/10/15/wikipedia-edit-a-thon-women-in-architecture/5228

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(drop-in any time!)

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The AIA Philadelphia Center for Architecture is joining the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, Women in Design, Wikiproject Women Wikipedia Design and WikiProject Women in Red, in hosting the Women in Architecture Wikipedia edit-a-thon global campaign of editing events for improving and increasing the presence of cultural, historic, and artistic information on Wikipedia pertaining to the lives and works of women in architecture.

With keystone concurrent events scheduled for Thursday October 15 in Philadelphia, New York City, Los Angeles, and elsewhere, the campaign aims to further the goals of Ada Lovelace Day for STEM, and Art+Feminism for art, in a field that by its nature combines both.

RSVP

Please RSVP here by adding four tildes to automatically list your Wikipedia user name, or send an email with your RSVP to email_TBD

To-Do

Here are a some possible articles with particular relevance to Philadelphia, that you could create or improve during this edit-a-thon. You can help us by adding to this list!

File:Woman's pavilion, by Centennial Photographic Co.RHS.jpg

File:Woman's pavilion from Gallery, by Centennial Photographic Co.RHS.jpg

In addition, the following crowdsourced list contains a broad range of topics of interest to Women in Architecture. You are welcome to work on anything you like.'''

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Resources

File:Citing sources tutorial, part 1.ogv

File:Citing sources tutorial, part 2.ogv


Please start here:

  • [http://www.eastofborneo.org/wikipedia Getting Started (step-by-step instructions : ignore the main link in step 1)]

When in doubt:

Additional Tutorials:

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