WikiCigar:Meetup/WomeninHort2018

Please note that this event has been postponed! Please see our Women in Horticulture website for further details.

Training

Training will be offered in the first hour for those who are new to editing Wikipedia. We also highly encourage new editors to take a look at the below introductory and training resources:

• Art+Feminism (Beginner editor video series, highly recommended for new editors!)
• Wikipedia:Tutorial

Suggested articles for editing

This list is very much a work in progress. Please feel free to add ideas, and keep an eye on this space for changes.

• List of women in science via New York Botanic Garden. Please note that anyone in italics has a record but no Wikipedia page.
• List of women botanists

• Ellen Biddle Shipman (Landscape architecture/design)
• Marian Cruger Coffin (Landscape architecture/design)
• Martha Schwartz (Landscape architecture/design)
• Andrea Cochran (Landscape architecture/design)
• Cheryl Barton (Landscape architecture/design)
• Mia Lehrer (Landscape architecture/design)
• Elizabeth Barlow Rodgers (Landscape architecture/design)
• Katherine Bashford (Landscape architecture/design)
• Martha Brookes Brown Hutcheson (Landscape architecture/design)
• Mary Rutherford Jay (Landscape architecture/design)
• Rose Standish Nichols (Landscape architecture/design)
• Marjorie Sewell Cautley (Landscape architecture/design)
• Nellie B. Allen (Landscape architecture/design)
• Alice Recknagel Ireys (Landscape architecture/design)
• Ruth Stout (Landscape architecture/design)
• Cynthia Westcott
• Harriet Williams Russell Strong

Women in Red

• Women in Science (general list)
• Women in Red: Botany
• Women in Red: Ecology
• Women in Red: Geoscience
• Redlist Index

Suggested articles for creating

• F. M. Mooberry (Horticulturalist)
• Janet Ebert (Botanist)
• Jan W. Midgley (Propagation, author, nursery owner)
• Ann Fowler Rhoads (Botanist)
• Carol R. Johnson (Landscape architecture/design)
• Cornelia Han Oberlander (Landscape architecture/design)
• Isabelle Greene (Landscape architecture/design)
• Lauren Melendrez (Landscape architecture/design)
• Pamela Palmer (Landscape architecture/design)
• Katherine Spitz (Landscape architecture/design)
• Antonia Adezio (Former director, The Garden Conservancy)
• Elizabeth Scholtz (Director Emeritus, Brooklyn Botanic Garden)
• Elizabeth (Liz) Christy (Gardener, activist)
• Helen Hawkins Clarke (Horticulturalist, landscape architect)
• Lois Page Cottrell (Landscape and garden designer)
• Ruth Bramley Dean (Landscape and garden designer)
• Annette Hoyt Flanders (Landscape and garden designer)
• Ellen Louise Payson (Landscape and garden designer)
• Isabella Pendleton Bowen (Landscape and garden designer)
• Eleanor Louise Roche (Landscape and garden designer)
• Mary Lois Deputy Lamson Cattell (Landscape and garden designer)
• Helen Elise Bullard (Landscape and garden designer)
• Helen Swift Jones (Landscape and garden designer)
• Janet Darling Webel (Landscape and garden designer)
• Theodosia Burr Shepherd (The Flower Wizard of California)
• Jenny Foster Butchart
• Martha Logan (nursery person and garden writer)

Resources

General resources

• Directory of Open Access Jounals
• Google Scholar

Other

• Women of Steel and Stone
• Shaping the American Landscape
• Notable Women in the History of Horticulture

Editing resources

Special thanks to the Amon Carter Museum of American Art Wikipedia Edit-a-thon page for these resources!

Basics

• Why (and how) to create a Wikipedia account
• Five Pillars of Wikipedia (philosophical guidelines and best practices for Wikipedia editing)
• List of Guidelines (summary of the most important guidelines that are currently in use)
• TransporterMan's Cheatsheet on the Basics of Editing
• GLAM Beginners' Guide to Wikipedia (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums overview account creation, article editing, etc.)
• Tutorial (covers all the major areas)
• How to Edit a Page
• Wikipedia Cheatsheet (PDF version)
• Manual of Style
• Article Development
• Your First Article (using the [[Wikipedia:Article_wizard2.0 Article Wizard] if you wish)
• Writing an Article
• The Perfect Article
• About the Sandbox
• Bookshelf Project] (additional "getting started" resources)

Images

• Preparing Images for Upload (Handy technical reference that provides, among other things, guidance for choosing the appropriate image file format)
• Wikipedia Image Use Policy

Tools and templates

• Infobox Template - Person
• GLAM Art Object Template (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums. If you are creating an article about an art object, you can use this template so that the formatting corresponds with other artifact articles)
• Citation Templates
• Infobox Templates
• Biographies of Living Persons

RSVPs received

• Lfp85 (talk) 14:51, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

• Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 15:22, 23 August 2018 (UTC)