Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle/Atari Women

AtariWomen is a research project aimed at celebrating the hidden stories of women who made crucial engineering contributions to Atari games in the early 1970s and 1980s. According to media historians Nathan Ensmenger and Marie Hicks, women have been essential to the rise of computing in both US and UK; nevertheless, few women are known and many more are completely missing from computing narratives. The 1980s represent a crucial period of change for women’s participation in computing. Across the decade, images of the weird, brilliant, male computer hacker began to take hold of the media’s attention, showing up in storylines for major movies and popular accounts, but neglecting the important work of women in that process. We want to change this misrepresentation of women in the gaming industry by establishing their presence in the historical archives and on Wikipedia.

The Atari Women Wikipedia edit-a-thon is an asynchronous initiative to create and update the Wikipedia pages for the underrepresented minorities who made important contributions to Atari games in the 1970s and 1980s. This virtual event begins Friday, June 21, 2019 and ends September 9, 2019, which marks the date when Grace Hopper found the first bug in a computer. In this period we hope to create Wikipedia pages for Atari Women who are not on Wikipedia, update the Wikipedia pages for Atari Women who already have profile, as well as identify additional people from underrepresented minorities who did important contributions to Atari games in the 1970s and 1980s. The event is asynchronous because we hope to engage people around the world to help re-establish the history of gaming. If you are considering joining and are not sure how, please do get in contact.

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• Carol Shaw
• Dona Bailey
• Patricia Goodson
• Rebecca Heineman
• Brenda Laurel
• Carla Meninsky
• Jamie Fenton
• Anne Westfall
• Amy Hennig
• Cathryn Mataga

• AtariWomen, website archives a variety of stories about underrepresented minorities who made important contributions to Atari games during the 70s and 80s
• Geek wire
• University of Washington
• Emerald City Comic Con 2019

• Visual Editor User Guide
• Wikipedia cheat sheet (Bookshelf), another markup cheatsheet
• Training for students, a tutorial for beginners
• Beginners' guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
• Five pillars of Wikipedia, philosophical guidelines and best practices for editing
• Tutorial
• How to edit a page
• Wiki markup quick reference
• Guide to Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in ComputingbySusan H. Rodger (applicable to any biography)
• Article development
• Your first article (using the Article Wizard, if you wish)
• manual of style
• Citation templates
• Infobox templates
• Bookshelf, additional "getting started" resources
• Writing about women
• Biographies of Living Persons
• FAQ on Conflict of Interest Editing
• FAQ on paid contributions without disclosure

• Primer for creating women's biographies
• Primer for AfD, AfC and PROD
• Ten Simple Rules for Creating Women's Biographies
• Writing women into the encyclopedia

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• Geek Wire
• University of Washington Spring Break
• University of Washington Directed Research Group
• SyFy at ComicCon
• King5 at Comic Con

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