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Info about the event

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The Open University and Wellcome Trust are joining forces to host a Wikithon to celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Join us to highlight the women that deserve a more prominent place in the online historical record. You'll learn how to edit Wikipedia in order to harness the power of the web to share your knowledge.

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Click here to go to the Dashboard so we can keep track of all the editing

For nice easy edits, check that all people are in the right categories, translate information between Wiki's, check out Wikidata, and check that people's articles are included on lists like these and mentioned on relevant pages.

You can find advice on how to search for relevant sources on any scientist here.

Even more things to edit

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Take a look at the list of 20th-century women scientists and 20th-century women engineers for lots of examples of pages.

Some that especially need improving are here:

Also here:

Tips on how to edit

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Here are some more useful links to help you with your editing:

  • You can add pictures for use on Wiki-pages and beyond on Wikimedia Commons. Your Wikipedia account will work on Commons too - as well as all the other Wiki-projects and different language versions of Wikipedia.

See what a difference you're making

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Here are some ways to keep track of your edits:

  • You can view all your contributions to Wikipedia by clicking "Contributions" (in the top right of this page).
  • The Pageviews tool is a great way of measuring how many people are looking at the page you created/edited. You can even export the data if you'd like it for reports, etc.