Wikipedia:Meetup/FemTech Edit-a-thon

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Event details

Date: Friday October 26, 2012
Time: 3:00 - 6:00 pm
Location: Albrecht Auditorium, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California, 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles
Event: An edit-a-thon! Learn how to contribute to Wikipedia and collaborate with others to write about feminism!
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The event will begin with a roundtable on feminist, anti-racist approaches to technology featuring Liz Losh, Lisa Parks, Lisa Cartwright, Kavita Philip, Anne Balsamo and Alex Juhasz (at UCSD, UCSB, UCSD, UCI, New School, and Pitzer College, respectively).

Food and drinks will be provided. Don't know how to edit Wikipedia? That's ok, friendly, experienced editors will be here to help!

Everyone is welcome to come edit Wikipedia with us at this event. Women, men, new editors, professors, students, archivists and librarians who have resources to share, those who want to learn how to edit or can teach others how, and anyone with an interest having a great time & editing collaboratively are encouraged to attend!!

What to bring

ideas for topics or articles you might want to work on (though suggestions will be provided for those just looking to be put to work)
any relevant reference materials you might have
or, if you don't have any of the above, just bring yourself :-)
any digital photos you've taken that you would like to use on Wikipedia

Sign up

Attending

Wadewitz (talk)
Kavita [Intro to Feminist, Anti-racist science & technology studies
Monika

Might attend

alafarge
Your name here!
Your name here!

Cannot attend

Hopefully not your name here!
I wish!! SarahStierch (talk) 23:26, 11 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 02:39, 12 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
PKM (talk) 18:59, 17 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Wish I could be there!! bummed I can't make it. AnnBLea (talk) 19:35, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Articles to improve and to create

(Details and references to use in future editing are listed after entries as comments and/or reference links)

===Living People" biographical articles to improve (Feminist theory, Science Studies, and STS)===>

Karen Barad - page cited for biographical review; it is heavy on her theoretical contributions, needs more biographical detail
Sandra Bartky - page is a stub; could use details on her theoretical contributions in phenomenology, list of publications, such as details on her contributions the feminist journal Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy^[1]
Susan Bordo - article has multiple issues, needs secondary source citations
Rosemarie Buikema[[17]] - page is a stub in Dutch; could be expanded and also translated for non-Dutch readers
Judith Butler - article needs additional citations for verification of content in marked sections; list of publications is incomplete
Drucilla Cornell - update categories and sections to explicitly reflect her contributions to feminist theory
Teresa de Lauretis - missing citations; interlink to other topically relevant pages
Evelyn Fox Keller - "This biographical article needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources."
Emily Martin - "This article has multiple issues."
Angie Chabram-Dernersesian - "This article reads more like a story than an encyclopedia entry."
Catherine Opie - "too autobiographical"

"Living People" biographical articles to consider creating (Feminist Science Studies and STS)

Alison Adam - Contributes to fields of human-computer interaction, history of technology, gender and technology, computer ethics; feminist theory; books published include Gender, Ethics, and Information Technology (2005); Artificial Knowing: Gender and the Thinking Machine (1998)
Anne Balsamo - Dean of School of Media Studies at New School, formerly at USC; books published Designing Culture (2011) and Technologies of the Gendered Body (1995) ^[2]
Mario Biagioli
Kate Boyer- ^[3]
Montserrat Cabre^[4]
Lisa Cartwright - Professor of Communication and Science Studies; publications include Screening the Body (1995), Moral Spectatorship (2008) and Practices of Looking (2012); ^[5]^[6]
Monica Casper^[7]
Adele Clarke ^[8] ^[9] ^[10] ^[11] ^[12]
Nelly Oudshoorn^[13]
Constance Penley^[14]
Kavita Philip^[15]

Biographical articles of historical persons to improve:

Helen Blanchard - article is a stub, categories should be added
Rene Descartes - "Contemporary reception" could include critiques and debates, including feminist philosophers who have criticized Cartesian dualism and its legacies (see, Susan Bordo, Feminist Interpretations of Rene Descartes (1999) ^[16]
Margaret Howe (researcher)

Topical articles to improve (Feminist Science Studies and STS)

Topical articles to create (Feminist Science Studies and STS)

Feminist Science Studies

Outcomes

Intense discussion about the role of feminists vis-a-vis Wikipedia
Role of educators vis-a-vis Wikipedia
New professors recruited to teach with Wikipedia
Session to edit planned for the future
Several informational sessions on Wikipedia set up at other institutions

References

[About-1] [1]

[Anne_Balsamo-2] [2]

[Kate_Boyer-3] [3]

[Montserrat_Cabre-4] [4]

[Lisa_Cartwright-5] [5]

[Lisa_Cartwright2-6] [6]

[Monica_Casper-7] [7]

[Adele_Clarke-8] [8]

[Adele_Clarke2-9] [9]

[Adele_Clarke3-10] [10]

[Adele_Clarke4-11] [11]

[Adele_Clarke5-12] [12]

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