Wikipedia:Meetup Women Archivists Roundtable Edit-a-thon

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The Women Archivists Roundtable (WAR) Wikipedia Edit-a-thon will take place at the SAA Annual Meeting on August 3, 2016. The event is open to SAA members and the public--anyone who wants to help create or enhance information in Wikipedia about women archivists. As this event page is a work in progress, please check back for more information. Feel free to contribute more resources and ideas for new articles or articles to be improved!

DateWednesday, August 3, 2016

Time4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

Quick facts When, Date ...

SAA Women Archivists Roundtable (WAR) Edit-A-Thon
When
File:Margaret Cross Norton advertises the WAR Wikipedia edit-a-thon.jpg
Date	Wednesday, August 3, 2016
Time	4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

About

Please join WAR at the SAA Annual Meeting to create and improve Wikipedia articles related to women archivists, in order to highlight the past and present accomplishments of women archivists, recognizing the importance of the history of the women who have shaped and were shaped by the archival profession. No Wikipedia editing experience necessary! We will provide resources and reference materials on this page and at the event for Wikipedia newcomers. Bring your laptop, power cord, and ideas for entries that need updating or creation. Also, please create your account ahead of time! You don't need to be at the annual meeting to participate--remote participation is welcome too! We hope you'll join us, WARriors!!!

Our keynote speaker for the event will be Michele Pacifico who will reflect on her article, "Founding Mothers: Women in the Society of American Archivists, 1936-1972," The American Archivist (1987).

Event Information

Date: Wednesday, August 3, 2016
Time: 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm EDT
Location: Salon E, Hilton Atlanta, 255 Courtland Street NE, Atlanta, GA 30303 / More accessibility information about building can be found here
Host: Women Archivists Roundtable
Sched: Women Archivists Roundtable Meeting
Facebook
Twitter Hashtag: #saawar
Please bring a laptop and power cord with you!

Editing Resources

Citation and Style Guidelines

Resources for Images and Photos

Activities for Edit-a-thon

After you create an editor account, you can work on variety of tasks during the edit-a-thon:

Article Creation: Please pick from the list of articles to create below or an article of your own choosing (but please check first to see if it is on the list and isn't already in Wikipedia)
Article Improvement: Work on any of the articles already in Wikipedia to improve information about a woman archivist (see the list below of articles already in Wikipedia)
Add to the list of articles to create: Please continue to add to the list - we hope to continue creating and improving articles about women archivists in the long term!
Add more sources to the list: Please continue to help add links to sources about women archivists in the lists of articles to create and improve
Add images to Wikimedia:Commons, for use in Wikipedia articles. Please note that images must comply with Commons:Licensing

Remote Participants

If you will be participating remotely, we have created some basic guidelines for remote participants in addition to the information provided on this meet-up page.

Articles to Create

Under construction - please add suggestions and links to sources! Sign up for articles in the Editor(s) column. You must be logged in to add your name - put four tildes (~) in a row to add your name. Remove your name after you are finished and move the entry to the Results section. As you create new articles, please refer to Wikipedia:Notability and adhere to Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons guidelines.

More information Name for Article Creation, Sources/Notes ...

Name for Article Creation	Sources/Notes	Editor(s)
Brenda Banks	SGA Fellow SAA obituary	Cara MooreCaramoore68 (talk) 21:02, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
Menzi Behrnd-Klodt	SAA Bio The American Archivist	Thnidu (talk) 23:04, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
Danna Bell	WAR Blog SAA Bio Teaching with the Library of Congress	Rgroverohrbaugh (talk) 20:33, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
Ruth Blair	Provenance Information & Culture	Your name
Eileen Bowser	The Moving Image	Your name
Nina Browne	Nina Elizabeth Browne Papers, Smith College Archives	Mhpmiller (talk) 19:44, 5 August 2016 (UTC)
Ann Morgan Campbell		Your name
Michelle Caswell	Waldo Gifford Leland Award	Your name
Amy Cooper Cary		Your name
Arline Custer	Arline Custer Memorial Award Arline Custer Oral History Interview Eva Garrison Letters to Arline Custer	Your name
Susan Dalton	UCLA Film & Television Archive Blog	Your name
Mabel Deutrich	NARA blog NARA blog post 2015 NARA Tumblr The American Archivist	Hayseed2016 (talk) 20:51, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
Elizabeth B. Drewry	NARA blog SAA History of Leadership Washington Post obituary	Mhpmiller (talk) 14:06, 8 August 2016 (UTC)
Maxine Fleckner Ducey	The Moving Image	Your name
Wendy Duff	University of Toronto Faculty of Information SAA Ernst Posner Award Google Scholar	Your name
Linda Edgerly		Your name
Meredith Evans (archivist)		Dorevabelfiore (talk) 04:45, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
Elsie Freeman Finch	Society of American Archivists Oral History Project, Oral History Interview with Elsie Freeman Finch, April 23, 2011	jmcarleton (talk)
Shonnie Finnegan	University at Buffalo Libraries SAA History of Leadership	Your name
Patricia Galloway	WAR blog UT iSchool homepage UT iSchool bio	Your name
Jessie P. Guzman	Notable Black American Women History of the Tuskegee University Archives	Jkelly88 (talk) 20:32, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
Elizabeth Hamer Kegan	NARA blog Washington Post obituary American Archivist obituary	Ctanguay (talk) 20:48, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
Carroll Hart		Your name
Linda J. Henry	The American Archivist SAA Linda J. Henry Fund The American Archivist Author Bios Archival Issues	Your name
Andrea Hinding		Your name
Sue E. Holbert	SAA Vice Presidents HathiTrust Minnesota Historical Society DPLA	Your name
Sara Dunlap Jackson	NARA blog Prologue obituary BlackPast	Jennifereltringham (talk) 19:59, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
Andrea Jackson		Your name
Karen Jefferson		Your name
Lucille Kane		Your name
Anne R. Kenney	Cornell bio The Signal	Mhpmiller (talk) 19:54, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
Joan Echtenkamp Klein		Your name
Diana Lachatanere		Your name
Karen M. Mäson	Karen M. Mason bio	Your name
Nancy McGovern	SAA Bio SAA Vice President/President-elect Statement MIT Libraries Library of Congress IASSIST Preservation and Conservation News	Gaylelschechter (talk) 20:46, 3 August 2016 (UTC)Gaylelschechter
Eva Steiner Moseley	SAA History of Leadership Massachusetts Peace Action American Thinker The American Archivist Harvard University Gazette WorldCat Identities	Your name
Geraldine Phillips	Prologue ACA	Your name
Virginia C. Purdy	SAA History of Leadership Washington Post obituaries NARA blog	Kschlot1 (talk) 20:08, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
Dolores Renze	Delores C. Renze Papers, University of Denver	Your name
Kathleen D. Roe	WAR Blog SAA Bio SAA VP/President Candidate Statement SNAP Interview SAA Bookstore	Your name
Carol Rudisell		Your name
Mattie Underwood Russell	Mattie Russell Papers, Duke University	Your name
Karan Sheldon	Northeast Historic Film	Your name
Ann Allen Shockley	Ann Allen Shockley Biographical Note Oxford Reference	Elliotdwilliams (talk) 20:40, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
Anne Van Camp	The Signal Smithsonian Institution Archives Library of Congress podcast SAA History of Leadership	Your name
Joan Warnow-Blewett	American Scientist SAA history of leadership Obituary WorldCat	Asp34 (talk) 20:36, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
Claudine Weiher	NARA blog The Washington Post Prabook Dignity Memorial obituary Little Known Black Librarian Facts	EDinschel (talk) 20:14, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
Paula Williams (archivist)		Your name
Pam Wintle	YouTube	Your name
Elizabeth Yakel	ICA-SUV University of Michigan SI Google Scholar SAA Bookstore	Kmthomas06 (talk) 20:35, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
Nancy Zimmelman Lenoil	California Museum SAA Vice President/President-elect Statement California Historical Records Advisory Board The Sacramento Bee	Mhpmiller (talk) 14:00, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
Women Archivists	a history of women archivists, e.g., an article like Women in architecture or Women in science; WAR bibliography has some links to relevant articles	Your name
Add female archivists category to existing articles about women archivists	this is not an article, but something that can be done to enhance information about women archivists in Wikipedia	CurtisEmma (talk) 03:57, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

Articles already in Wikipedia

Under construction! Some of these articles may be candidates for enhancement. Sign up for articles in the Editor(s) column. You must be logged in to add your name - put four tildes (~) in a row to add your name. Remove your name after you are finished and move the entry to the Results section.

More information Articles in Wikipedia, Sources/Notes ...

Articles in Wikipedia	Sources/Notes	Editor(s)
Mary Ritter Beard	ICA-SUV	Your name
Camille Billops		Kaitlinthearchivist (talk) 20:56, 3 August 2016 (UTC)K
Phyllis Blakeley		Tsivihcra (talk) 20:59, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
Mary G. Bryan		Your name
Julie Buck		Your name
Marie-Anne Chabin		Your name
Margaret Cruwys		Your name
Elaine Didier		Your name
Edith Ditmas		Your name
Luciana Duranti	WAR Blog	Your name
Isabella Henriette van Eeghen		Your name
Gabrielle Enthoven		Your name
Lucie Favier		Your name
Adelaide Fries		Your name
Lilli Gjerløw		Your name
Marthe Gosteli		Your name
Margaret Gowing		Your name
Margaret Storrs Grierson		Your name
Nora Guthrie		Your name
Elizabeth Heaps		Your name
Margaret Hedstrom		Calumnies (talk) 20:39, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
Jean Blackwell Hutson		Your name
Margaret Ilnicka		Your name
Rita Keegan		Your name
Gerdina Hendrika Kurtz		Your name
Christina Kenworthy-Browne		Your name
Martha Levisman		Your name
Ida Lewis (lighthouse keeper)	NARA blog post Life Saving Benevolent Association of New York Records finding aid	AwakesUndo (talk) 20:33, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
Dianne Macaskill		Your name
Sue McKemmish		Your name
Jessica Mink		Your name
Rosamond Joscelyne Mitchell		Your name
Eleanor Mlotek		Your name
Margaret Cross Norton	ICA-SUV	Your name
Beryl Oliver		Your name
Dorothy Owen		Your name
Trudy Huskamp Peterson	NARA blog post WAR Blog	Your name
Megan Prelinger		Your name
Alice Prochaska		Your name
Stella Rimington		Your name
Helen Willa Samuels		Your name
Celia Sanchez		Your name
Joan Sinar		Your name
Elizabeth W. Stone		Your name
Norah Story		Your name
Margaret Suckley		Your name
Shelley Sweeney (archivist)		Your name
Adrienne Thomas	NARA blog post	Your name
Édith Thomas		Your name
Gladys Esther Tormes Gonzalez		Your name
Sarah Tyacke		Your name
Jehanne Wake		Your name

Results

Articles Created

Margaret M. H. Finch --Jennifereltringham (talk) 21:35, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
Virginia C. Purdy Kschlot1 (talk) 21:54, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
Anne R. Kenney Mhpmiller (talk) 22:06, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
Sara Dunlap Jackson --Jennifereltringham (talk) 21:47, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
Nina Browne Mhpmiller (talk) 21:14, 5 August 2016 (UTC)
Ann Allen Shockley --Elliotdwilliams (talk) 21:32, 5 August 2016 (UTC)
Joan Warnow-Blewett
Brenda Banks
Mabel Deutrich
Jessie P. Guzman
Elizabeth Hamer Kegan
Anne R. Kenney
Nancy McGovern
Dolores Renze
Claudine Weiher
Elizabeth Yakel
Elizabeth B. Drewry Mhpmiller (talk) 16:25, 8 August 2016 (UTC)
Nancy Lenoil Mhpmiller (talk) 19:32, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

Articles Improved

I went through a bunch of the new ones to add incoming links, extra categories, links on alumni and faculty pages, etc. Mhpmiller (talk) 16:33, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

Other resources added

Category:Fellows of the Society of American Archivists Mhpmiller (talk) 18:23, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

Participant list

Please add your Wikipedia username below (signatures are created by saving four tildes [~] in a row) or edit and add your name.

Yes

Gkuriger (talk) 14:30, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

Ctanguay (talk) 13:03, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

Michael Barera (talk) 03:01, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

AwakesUndo (talk) 17:36, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

Dorevabelfiore (talk) 19:54, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

Hayseed2016 (talk) 19:56, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

EDinschel (talk) 20:10, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

Elliotdwilliams (talk) 20:24, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

jmcarleton (talk) 20:24, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

caramoore68 (talk) 20:45, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

Kschlot1 (talk) 21:55, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 00:23, 9 November 2016 (UTC)

Maybe

extabulis (talk) 16:53, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

Remote Participant

K.Grey (talk) 15:14, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

Airedecluny (talk) 19:38, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

CurtisEmma (talk) 03:55, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

Jennifereltringham (talk) 14:49, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

Mhpmiller (talk) 18:28, 3 August 2016 (UTC)