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American University Scholar as Detective Edit-a-thon
Did you know that only 18% of English-language biographies on Wikipedia are about women? Help to change that editing and creating Wikipedia articles. Students can expect to learn how to edit Wikipedia and use their new skills to edit and create articles on the event's work list.
When
Step one: Go to the Dashboard
Step 2: Select 'Login with Wikipedia'. (If you don't have a username already, open another tab and go HERE to create one.)
Step 3: Enter Wikipedia username and password
Shirley Elizabeth Barnes - Former United States Ambassador to Madagascar
Jane Anyango - Peace and women's rights activist
Evelyn Groesbeeck Mitchell - Doctor and activist who established women's clinic
Chafika Meslem - Algerian politician and diplomat (
Article in French Wikipedia)
Dubravka Šimonovic - Human rights activist (Article in
Spanish Wikipedia)
Manila Davis Talley - First woman pilot from West Virginia, third women to complete Air Force War College
Gurubai Karmarkar - Second Indian woman to graduate from the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania
Rilla Moran Woods, first President of the
National Federation of Democratic Women
Draft:Cashmere Nicole, Entrepreneur, Founder Beauty Bakerie
Draft:Josephine Serrano Collier - First Mexican-American woman to join the Los Angeles Police Department
Mary Anna Henry - Witness to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Hattie Meyers Junkin - Aviator, first women to earn a “C”-level pilot's license
S. K. Chan (Dr. S. K. Chan) - President of the Chinese American Equal Suffrage Society in Portland, Oregon
Draft:Jane Connors - Victims' Rights Advocate, United Nations
Draft:Marieme Jamme Founder of iamtheCODE initiative (Living)
Note : This page exists here, but without accent. This user edited another page
Draft:Christine Ahn - Peace activist
Alicia Baro - Human and women's rights activist
Draft:Laura Bergt - Activist for pushed for the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, Alaska Women's Hall of Fame
Draft:Melanie Campbell (civil rights)
Draft:Antionette Carroll - Designer, founder Creative Reaction Lab (Living)
Draft:Turning Point Suffragist Memorial
Draft:Sandra Williams Ortega - Maryland’s first African American woman commissioned as a U.S. Air Force Officer
Draft:Ruth Kurzbauer - Foreign Service Officer, diplomat (US->China)
Draft:Wynn Richards - Photographer
Draft:Marsha Anne Gomez - Artist, social activist
Zena Howard - Award-winning architect, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
Regina Safirsztajn - Holocaust victim, one of four women who orchestrated the
Auschwitz uprising
Dora Chatterjee - Third Indian woman to graduate from the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania
@WikimediaDC
American University Scholar as Detective Edit-a-thon
Did you know that only 18% of English-language biographies on Wikipedia are about women? Help to change that editing and creating Wikipedia articles. Students can expect to learn how to edit Wikipedia and use their new skills to edit and create articles on the event's work list.
When
Step one: Go to the Dashboard
Step 2: Select 'Login with Wikipedia'. (If you don't have a username already, open another tab and go HERE to create one.)
Step 3: Enter Wikipedia username and password
Shirley Elizabeth Barnes - Former United States Ambassador to Madagascar
Jane Anyango - Peace and women's rights activist
Evelyn Groesbeeck Mitchell - Doctor and activist who established women's clinic
Chafika Meslem - Algerian politician and diplomat (
Article in French Wikipedia)
Dubravka Šimonovic - Human rights activist (Article in
Spanish Wikipedia)
Manila Davis Talley - First woman pilot from West Virginia, third women to complete Air Force War College
Gurubai Karmarkar - Second Indian woman to graduate from the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania
Rilla Moran Woods, first President of the
National Federation of Democratic Women
Draft:Cashmere Nicole, Entrepreneur, Founder Beauty Bakerie
Draft:Josephine Serrano Collier - First Mexican-American woman to join the Los Angeles Police Department
Mary Anna Henry - Witness to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Hattie Meyers Junkin - Aviator, first women to earn a “C”-level pilot's license
S. K. Chan (Dr. S. K. Chan) - President of the Chinese American Equal Suffrage Society in Portland, Oregon
Draft:Jane Connors - Victims' Rights Advocate, United Nations
Draft:Marieme Jamme Founder of iamtheCODE initiative (Living)
Note : This page exists here, but without accent. This user edited another page
Draft:Christine Ahn - Peace activist
Alicia Baro - Human and women's rights activist
Draft:Laura Bergt - Activist for pushed for the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, Alaska Women's Hall of Fame
Draft:Melanie Campbell (civil rights)
Draft:Antionette Carroll - Designer, founder Creative Reaction Lab (Living)
Draft:Turning Point Suffragist Memorial
Draft:Sandra Williams Ortega - Maryland’s first African American woman commissioned as a U.S. Air Force Officer
Draft:Ruth Kurzbauer - Foreign Service Officer, diplomat (US->China)
Draft:Wynn Richards - Photographer
Draft:Marsha Anne Gomez - Artist, social activist
Zena Howard - Award-winning architect, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
Regina Safirsztajn - Holocaust victim, one of four women who orchestrated the
Auschwitz uprising
Dora Chatterjee - Third Indian woman to graduate from the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania