Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/211/Kenya

Ada Lovelace Day:
24-Hour Global Edit-a-thon – Kenya

12 October 2021

Date: Tuesday 12 October 2021 is Ada Lovelace Day.

Online (via Zoom) hosted in Nairobi. The workshop sessions also have open chat rooms for experienced editors to create content in an online collegial environment. Get the zoom link for whenever you are able.

Wikimedia Edit A Thon
Session Country	Time	Kenya Based Session
Kenya	14:00-16:00 pm Kenya time	Zoom Link (via registering HERE)
Global	24 hours	Global

Goal

Increase biographies of women in STEM on Wikipedia to address the existing bias

Recruit and teach new users how to create a biography

Articles to do

We have hundreds of lists of missing women in our "redlists". Here is a list of Kenyan Women Scientists, who do not have English Wikipedia pages: Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Scientists - Kenya

Not all of the women listed might be notable - good things to look for to establish their notability are whether they have received any awards e.g. from the African Academy of Sciences.

Creating a new article for any of them will reduce the gender gap and highlight women in STEM. In the UK during October it is Black History Month. The first step after you have identified a subject is to check that you can find three reliable sources to write your article. Want more then see the Resources tab at the top of the page.

Other more general lists, where you might find Kenyan women include: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Engineering

Edit existing pages

Expanding existing pages is an extremely useful task. If you came to our pre-event briefing, the pages we looked that could be usefully added to are:

Other suggestions include:

Dorothy Wanja Nyingi
Ng'endo Mwangi
Shitsama Nyamweya
Emma Mbua
Charity Wayua
Cynthia Wandia
Emily Orwaru
Esther Ngumbi
Evelyn Gitau
Emily Orwaru
Gladys Ngetich
Josephine Wapakabulo
Naadiya Moosajee
Nzambi Matee
Sheila Mwarangu
Shitsama Nyamweya
Frannie Léautier Suggestion for Tanzania
Proscovia Nabbanja Suggestion for Uganda

New pages

Rosemary Chepkorir Sang

Trainers/Hosts

Carol Mwaura
Lucy Moore
RodW

You? (Helper?)

First Step

We have an automatic facility that will record the edits that you make on Wikipedia once you have an account. You need to click here to make this work. You can see the articles created by others at the same place.

Second Step

You need to register for the event and in return we will send you a zoom link which you should not share with others. Please register HERE

Third Step

Have a look at our red list and decide who you would like to write an article for. You should have three independent sources for their biography. Wiki dies not use trivial sources. "MyCelebityLife" and tabloids are not a good source. Journals, leading newspapers and citations for major awards are usually good.

Fourth step

If you have a new account then why not experiment? Try adding that missing comma or improving the phrasing of an article. Look out for peacock phrases in articles and remove them.

Fifth step

Carol Mwaura User:Cmwaura will welcome you on zoom on October 12th at 2 o'clock pm (14:00 Kenyan Time).

Sixth step

Afterwards, have a look again at the dashboard and see all the new and improved article. Add "WIR-211" to the talkpage of your new article in double curly brackets so that Women in Red can keep an eye on it. Come and say "Hi" at www.womeminred.org and find some mates.