Wikipedia:Meetups/UK/Senate House Library April 2018
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About the event
[edit]This editathon is one of many events being held in conjunction with the Senate House Library exhibition, Queer Between the Covers: Literature, Queerness, and the Library, which runs from 15 January to 16 June 2018. The event will focus on editing Wikipedia pages about anything to do with LGBTQ literature.
- How do I prepare?
- Sign up
- Create a Wikipedia account - Special:UserLogin/signup
- Bring a laptop (wi-fi will be provided), if you don't have a laptop please contact us about borrowing one.
- Learn about editing if you like: Wikipedia:Tutorial, or Getting started on Wikipedia for more information
- Refreshments will be provided
Agenda
[edit]- 09:30 - Coffee, set up, and registration
- 10:00 - Introduction to Wikipedia editing, and making your first edits
- 13:00 - Break for lunch
- 14:00 - Hands on editing with one-to-one support from trainers
- 16:30 - Recap what people have been working on during the session
- 17:00 - End
Disability
[edit]This event is wheelchair accessible. If you need a disabled parking space please contact us in advance. Please tell us in advance if you need to have a hearing loop available.
Image editing exercise
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Trainers
[edit]Attendees
[edit]Please sign in below using ~~~~
- Slaveofsolitude
- Empyreanpark (talk) 14:13, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
- Julia bee1 (talk) 10:15, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
- CaminoVictoria (talk) 10:16, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
- QBTC (talk) 14:42, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
- Cerithompson (talk)
- Alison Read (talk) 15:13, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
- BuzzardBird (talk) 15:16, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
Target list
[edit]Articles to edit:
- Maud Allan, not much about her sexuality
- Michael Field (author), actually a lesbian couple, needs better referencing
- Don Leon, 19th-century poem attributed to Lord Byron. Scrappy article, needs proper referencing.
- Uranian, 19th-century term that referred to a person of a third sex, needs inline referencing
- Uranian poetry, needs inline referencing
- Under the Hill, Aubrey Beardsley's unfinished erotic novel The Story of Venus and Tannhäuser, needs expansion and inline referencing
- The Girls of Radcliff Hall, could be expanded
- The Platonic Blow aka The Gobble Poem, an erotic poem by W. H. Auden. Needs referencing and expansion.
New articles to start:
- Carol Ann Duffy, Poet Laureate since 2009. Article is decent, but there are almost no articles on her individual poems or collections. For example, Heaney's District and Circle which won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2006 has an article, but not Duffy's Rapture which won in 2005.
- Strato's Boyish Muse, we do have an article on Straton of Sardis
- In the Dreamy Afternoon, poetry collection from John Gambril Nicholson
- The Sink of Solitude, work by Beresford Egan
- Poems & Poèmes: Autres Alliances, poetry collection from Natalie Clifford Barney
- Humphrey Lancaster, wrote several novels for The Fortune Press
- The Fortune Press, only a redirect to Reginald Caton
- The Milkman's on His Way, novel by David Rees
- The Well of Sleevelessness, work by P. R. Stephensen (not even mentioned in his article)
- The Playbook for Kids About Sex, by Joani Blank
- Operation Tiger (1984), redirect to Gay's the Word (bookshop), which was prosecuted for the alleged obscenity of 144 titles - bookshop article has some coverage, but could easily be a stand-alone
- My Life and Dancing, Maud Allan's autobiography
- The Master of the House, novel by Radclyffe Hall, follow-up to The Well of Loneliness, on a religious theme. Interesting publishing history briefly covered in the Hall article, but would make a nice stand-alone article.
- Humphrey Lancaster wrote several novels for The Fortune Press, including:
- True Yokefellow
- The Friendly Young Ladies (UK title) or The Middle Mist (US title), novel by Mary Renault
- The Youngest Director novel by Martyn Goff, led to him meeting his life partner