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[crimeshowfandomfan-blog]

#chronicfatigueproblems - When showering and washing your hair uses way way to much energy. -ugh

[feministwikiturgy]

1st feminist wikiturgy edit-a-thon to add/expand/edit women playwright entries on Wikipedia

Which of the following dates is the best for folks to engage in the first feminist wikiturgy edit-a-thon to increase visibility of women playwrights in Wikipedia? #tooFEW

Monday, August 12, 2013 Noon-2pm EST (date is also an On Her Shoulders reading)

Thursday, August 22, 2013 1-3pm EST

Monday, September 16, 2013 3-5pm EST (date is also an On Her Shoulders reading)

Wednesday, September 18, 2013 1-3pm EST

Two of these dates were chosen as they deliberately coincide with play readings sponsored by the On Her Shoulders project. Tumblr doesn't allow me a way to make a poll so if anyone following is interested in participating click the "Ask Me Anything" link at the top of the page.

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Global Women Wikipedia Write-In from 1-3pm EST! This write-in is aimed to improve and increase the amount of Wikipedia coverage on women outside of Europe and the United States.

Reminder: The Global Women Wikipedia Write-In #GWWI, TODAY, 1-3pm EST - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education

And just a reminder, if we're improving the visibility of women playwrights via edit-a-thons, there are considerations of race, nationality, ethnicity, and language that we must look for, identify, and value. 

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How can you ensure that the article you create will remain on Wikipedia when these harried, unsung volunteers are looking at it?

Learning to work with Wikipedia - New Pages Patrol and how to create new Wikipedia articles that will stick | HASTAC

This is the $64,000 question. Adrianne Wadewitz offers three essential tips to surviving Wikipedia's "new pages patrol" and getting your entry accepted. I've mentioned the basics in another post (and will have this full post as a hard copy handout at the "Hot Topics" session). In the posts that follow I'll go through the major Wikipedia contributor points in their own language.

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Three principles of Wiki-entry writing

I'll have a handout at LMDA--Vancouver with Wadewitz's concise recommendations for ways to make sure your entry survives Wikipedia's New Pages Patrol, but as a shortcut here are basic three ideas to remember. I'll expound on each, using Wikipedia's own guidelines, in separate posts. 

1. Use at least three, different reliable sources. References help a contributor establish notability for the entry's subject. Certainly peer-reviewed or some other kind of fact-checked/confirmed sources carry greater weight even in the Wikipedia world where we tend to assume contributions have a greater probability of randomness and rigor. Sources outside the immediate influence of the subject are more reliable. For example, if you're making an entry about a playwright you want to have sources outside his/her own personal/promotional webpage. That might be informative but Wiki-bots might flag it as unreliable.

2. Notability. As seen above, this is tied to the sources one finds. You've got the first few sentences to assert notability to those who read as part of the New Page Patrol, so get the most important information out there right away in the entry.

3. Write like a Wikipedia Entry Reads. It goes without saying that an encyclopedic tone is essential. Neutral Point of View is something you'll see when you get into the Wikipedia guts and start making entries. Unemotional, non-partisan, advancing information versus opinion. There are many more conversations to be had about how "tone" polices gender and other differences in Wikipedia and elsewhere, but I maintain you can be assertive about a writer's achievements, artistry, notability without falling afoul of the New Page Patrol. 

Other suggestions in making your writing fit in the Wikipedia style: create different sections (especially References and External Links); label your article a Stub if it's short or incomplete (that way it isn't rejected outright and you can return to it for fleshing out later). Wadewitz also suggests including a WikiProjects Tag in your entry. (I've noticed there are not tags for Dramaturgy or New Plays already, so if there's interest in future edit-a-thons we might have to investigate how those headings get created.)

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In celebration of Women’s History Month and WikiWomen’s History Month, groups across the United States are organizing both virtual and in-person meet-ups to edit Wikipedia to include more perspectives on women and people of color on Friday: #tooFEW — a feminist Wikipedia edit-a-thon! Originally conceived of as part of a virtual way to connect the upcoming THATCamp unconferences on feminism, there are now widespread events everywhere. I

#TooFEW: Feminist People of Color Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon on Friday, March 15 (2013) from 11am-3pm EST - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education

An announcement from this past March's edit-a-thon. Describes a bit of the origins of #tooFEW edit-a-thons at THATCamps past. This was the event I attended at Duke, one of the satellite campuses. The edit-a-thon was sponsored by HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Sciences and Technology Advanced Collaboratory) and the Duke PhD Lab sponsored by the Franklin Humanities Institute.

Tweets from this event using the #tooFEW hashtag were Storifyed.

[dhpoco]

"That is one thing I am really coming to admire about the site [Wikipedia]–that, for all its problems, it at least makes everything from the authors of its content to its unfolding editorial squabbles quite transparent. So far,I have also found its frankly stunning phalanx of volunteer editors to be incredibly engaged and welcoming. This is peer to peer teaching and collaborative knowledge production at its (potential) best. And as Adeline Koh and Roopika Risam have pointed out , there is a real window of opportunity here for ground-up, subaltern knowledge production and dissemination."

[tellwiddit-blog]

Adding WOC to Wikipedia, party style!

Click through for details.