MyWiki:Meetup/Philadelphia/Women in Architecture
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Join us for the Women in Architecture edit-a-thon at the AIA Philadelphia Center for Architecture on Thursday, October 15, 2015!! |
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Participate in the Philadelphia edition of our global Women in Architecture campaign to improve Wikipedia's content about underrepresented history in this field. As always, beginners welcome! We'll provide training for new editors at 5:30pm, following by editing until 9.00.
What: Women in Architecture @ AIA Philadelphia Center for Architecture When: Thursday, October 15, 2015 from 5.30 pm - 9.00 pm. Where: AIA Philadelphia Center for Architecture, 1218 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107 Suggested Focus: Women in architecture - people, their works, architectural and design movements, and use of materials What to bring: Your laptop, power adapter, and any reference materials you'd like to work from or share. If you have some ideas to work on, bring them along! If not, we'll provide some resources. Registration Page: http://aiaphiladelphia.ticketleap.com/wikipedia-edit-a-thon/ |
Background
[edit source]| File:Signelinna.jpg Signe Hornborg: Signelinna (1892) in Pori, Finland, possibly the first building designed by a credentialed female architect. | |
| Date | Thursday, October 15, 2015 |
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| Time | 5.30pm-9pm (drop-in any time!) |
| Address | Philadelphia Center for Architecture, 1218 Arch Street |
| City, State | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Part of a global edit-a-thon campaign to counter the gender gap and improve Wikipedia's coverage of women in architecture. | |
The AIA Philadelphia Center for Architecture is joining the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, Women in Design, Wikiproject Women Wikipedia Design and WikiProject Women in Red, in hosting the Women in Architecture Wikipedia edit-a-thon global campaign of editing events for improving and increasing the presence of cultural, historic, and artistic information on Wikipedia pertaining to the lives and works of women in architecture.
With keystone concurrent events scheduled for Thursday October 15 in Philadelphia, New York City, Los Angeles, and elsewhere, the campaign aims to further the goals of Ada Lovelace Day for STEM, and Art+Feminism for art, in a field that by its nature combines both.
RSVP
[edit source]Please RSVP here by adding four tildes to automatically list your Wikipedia user name, or send an email with your RSVP to email_TBD
- -Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 19:14, 19 September 2015 (UTC)
- -of course I'll be there! Smallbones(smalltalk)
- -Attending!--DThomsen8 (talk) 19:38, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
To-Do
[edit source]Here are a some possible articles with particular relevance to Philadelphia, that you could create or improve during this edit-a-thon. You can help us by adding to this list!
- Denise Scott Brown
- Melissa Minnich Coleman, co-designer of Founder's Hall and other structures at Milton Hershey School
- Ruth Schwartz Cowan
- Kimberlee Douglas, Director, Landscape Architecture Program, Philadelphia University
- Elizabeth Hirsh Fleisher, designed The Parkway House, the first major Philadelphia building to be designed, in part, by a woman
- Jane Bowne Haines, founder of the Pennsylvania School of Horticulture for Women
- Barbara Klinkhammer, Dean, College of Architecture and the Built Environment, Philadelphia University (2012)
- Elizabeth Leighton Lee, first female landscape architect in Philadelphia, established program as Director of the Pennsylvania School of Horticulture for Women
- Minerva Parker Nichols, designer of the New Century Club (Philadelphia)
- Claudia Goetz Phillips, Director of the MS in GeoDesign Program, Philadelphia University
- Betty Ray Rotenberg, first woman to earn a degree in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania
- Anne Griswold Tyng
- Georgina Pope Yeatman, first woman to practice architecture in Philadelphia
- The Women’s Pavilion at the Centennial International Exhibition of 1876 in Philadephia, organized by Elizabeth Duane Gillespie (1821- 1901), chair of the Women’s Centennial Committee. Note that the photos say The Woman's Pavilion
- Women in landscape architecture (See Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).)
In addition, the following crowdsourced list contains a broad range of topics of interest to Women in Architecture. You are welcome to work on anything you like.
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Women/Women in Red/Women in architecture}}
Resources
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Please start here:
When in doubt:
- Notability Guidelines for Artists & Creative Professionals
- Notability Guidelines for Organizations
- Conflict of Interest policy
- Image Use Policy
- Article Naming & Disambiguation
Additional Tutorials:
- Basic tutorial
- More detailed tutorial
- Wikipedia Adventure - a silly but easy and effective tutorial!
- Citing sources video tutorials (about two minutes each, very helpful) ------------>
Outcomes
[edit source]During the editathon, add the titles of your new or upgraded articles here