Hi all - Today I helped run an editathon at an all-women's cooperative in Berkeley. We attracted maybe fifteen or twenty people over the course of the day, and focused most of our editing on prominent historical women active in the cooperative movement. I think we created a number of neat articles, although they all have a lot of room for improvement (which hopefully will be coming in part from our new editors - engagement was much higher than I am used to for an event like this!) We also improved a number of existing articles. These are the articles we created: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Acland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanzania_Federation_of_Co-operatives http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Llewelyn_Davies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Webb_(Co-operative_Activist) There's little information about most of these women online, but there's an awful lot available in books. The sources we had today would've allowed us to expand the articles a lot further than we did, but we were operating under some time constraints (plus the whole teaching people wikicode part.) If anyone is further interested in expanding these articles (especially those about Alice, Margaret, or Catherine,) there's a huge amount of information available about them in these books: *The woman with the basket; the history of the Women's Co-operative Guild, 1883-1927. By Catherine Webb *The matriarchs of England's cooperative movement : a study in gender politics and female leadership, 1883-1921 / Barbara J. Blaszak *Feminism and the politics of working women : the Women's Co-operative Guild, 1880s to the Second War Main *Caring & Sharing, the Centenary History of the Co-operative Women's Guild As well as information in a decent number of other books, though not much available online. If anyone feels like improving these articles further, it'd be awesome, and we'll get to improving them ourselves eventually otherwise :) Just figured I'd share some happiness, Kevin Gorman

Hi all - Today I helped run an editathon at an all-women's cooperative in Berkeley. We attracted maybe fifteen or twenty people over the course of the day, and focused most of our editing on prominent historical women active in the cooperative movement. I think we created a number of neat articles, although they all have a lot of room for improvement (which hopefully will be coming in part from our new editors - engagement was much higher than I am used to for an event like this!) We also improved a number of existing articles.