English Wikipedia @ Freddythechick:Meetup/Unbias Format
Shortlink to this page: bit.ly/Unbias2
Events at the Royal College of Art to improve understanding of Wikipedia and create and expand content on art/design, and where this can intersect with women and minorities online.
The Manual of Style
Wikipedia has help pages which set out style guidelines for pages being created on certain subject areas. Please have a look at the following pages:
- Manual of Style for Biographies including how to begin the lead paragraph.
- Manual of Style for Biographies of Living Persons
January priorities for WikiProject Women in Red
Happening now
- January 2018: Prisoners
- January 2018: Fashion designers
- January 2018: Geofocus Great Britain and Ireland
Trainers
Stuart Prior, Project Coordinator, Wikimedia UK
Participants
Hit list of articles to be created or improved
Helpful updates could be as simple as: Making sure reference links are still appropriate and functional; Adding new inline citations/references; Adding a photo; Adding an infobox; Adding data to more fields in an existing infobox; Creating headings; Adding categories; etc.
The following is a small sample of topics to work on. Feel free to come up with your own ideas!
Worklist
[1]====Articles to Create====
References we have:
References we have:
Legacy work
Sources
- Wikipedia is a tertiary resource, which relies upon secondary sources. Wikipedia is not a place for original research.
- For more guidance on the use of sources, see this guide here.
- We will provide a variety of reference books on the day.
- Editors will also have access to some University of Edinburgh e-resources.
Suggested sources:
General
- DiscoverEd to find books, ebooks, journals, ejournals and more.
News sources
Theses databases
Outcomes
Created and Improved pages
- Transgender rights
- The Transexual Menace
- Riki Wilchins
- International Women's Day
- Bernadette Corporation
- Trưng Sisters
- Tarana Burke
- Marilyn Lima
- Philippine Stindel
- Chi Pu
- Influencer marketing
- Tsibi Geva
External links
- ^ Krupat, Kitty; McCreery, Patrick (1 January 2001). Out at Work: Building a Gay-labor Alliance. U of Minnesota Press. ISBN 9780816637409. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
- ^ "Hostility in 1980 turns to acceptance in 2012". Times Union.
- ^ Alsop, Ronald. "Transgender, at the office". Retrieved 15 April 2018.
- ^ "Denise Norris - Andes, NY". MEUSA. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
- ^ https://www.timesunion.com/tuplus-local/article/Transgender-woman-honored-at-UAlbany-Lavender-7467664.php.
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(help) - ^ http://www.blogtalkradio.com/stonewalllive/2012/03/23/denise-norris-transgender-activist-thurs-mar-22-9pm-est. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
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(help) - ^ Alsop, Ronald. "Transgender, at the office". Retrieved 15 April 2018.
- ^ "Transexual Menace | UC Berkeley Library". www.lib.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
- ^ Stryker, Susan (7 January 2009). Transgender History. Da Capo Press. ISBN 9780786741366.
- ^ "Lavender Menace". Wikipedia. 23 June 2017.
- ^ "Brandon Teena". Wikipedia. 15 April 2018.