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Dr. Adrianne Wadewitz was an influential member of the Wikipedia community who died suddenly in April 2014. This loss has deeply affected Wikipedia and the academic world. Her work is recognized internationally as helping to encourage more women to contribute to Wikipedia to tackle thegender gap andsystemic bias in its content. Wadewitz was one of the first academics to bring Wikipedia into the classroom as part of theWikipedia Education Program, working with her students to improve Wikipedia instead of writing traditional term papers. At the time of her death, she was Mellon Digital Scholarship Fellow atOccidental College. She had over 50,000 edits and wrote numerous featured and good articles, includingMary Wollstonecraft.
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More coming soon. Until then, here are some possible topics to start thinking of (feel free to add your own). Also seeWikiWomen's History Month To-do List, which links to a lot of other great to-do lists.
Women in Providence/Rhode Island/New England History
Elleanor Eldridge, 19th-century African American entrepreneur, herMemoirs (1838), which describe her grandfather and his family's capture in Africa and journey on the Middle Passage.
Betsey Metcalf, 18th-century straw hat materials innovator
Isabelle Ahearn O'Neill, Actress and Politician: acted in and directed productions for 18 years at the Providence Opera House; was one of the first women elected to the Rhode Island Assembly, where she became deputy Democratic floor leader; served in Rhode Island Senate; was appointed as FDR's legislative liaison to the U.S. Bureau of Narcotics
Sarah Harris Fayerweather, African-American activist who worked for abolitionism in Kingston, Rhode Island; attended Prudence Crandall's school in Canterbury, Connecticut.
Ann Smith Franklin, first female newspaper editor and one of the earliest printers in 18th-century North America, sister-in-law of Benjamin Franklin
Ida Lewis, 19th-century Newport, RI lighthouse keeper, noted for multiple rescues, dubbed "the Bravest Woman in America" by the press at the time.
Lowell Mill Girls, 19th-Century New England Women who worked in the textile mills of Lowell, Mass.
Elizabeth Nord, Rhode Island textile worker, organized for the United Textile Workers Union Textile Workers Union of America (1930s-1940s), attended the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
Victoria Claflin Woodhull, 19th-century stockbroker, first female candidate for U.S. President, printed first English version of Marx'sCommunist Manifesto
uploaded public domain image ofChristiana Carteaux Bannister to Wikimedia Commons; added it and another image, and a short bibliography to her newly create page!
