Ada Lovelace Day: 24-Hour Global Edit-a-thon – New Zealand & Australia 12 October 2021
What's it about?
Ada Lovelace (1815–1852)
Inspired by English mathematician and pioneer computer programmer Ada Lovelace, a group of volunteers are holding a 24-hour global event to create more biographies of women in STEM on Wikipedia and to teach new editors.
This combined New Zealand and Australia event on 12 October 2021 will go from noon New Zealand time (NZST) until 8 pm Sydney time (AEST), covering 10 hours of the 24 hour event and then handing off to Wikipedia friends in Asia, Africa, and the UK.
This edit-a-thon is especially for people who want to learn how to edit Wikipedia and create new biographies about women. There will be coaching available for the duration of the event with four sessions run first by a team in [Aotearoa] and then a team in Australia.
STEM stands for science, technology, engineering and mathematics and covers a range of careers from architect through to aeronautical engineer, including chemist, data analyst, epidemiologist, biologist, doctor, food technologist, data analyst and software product designer.
Who do you want to see better represented in the world?
This event is part of Women In Red: an international group of editors of all genders who are reducing systemic gender bias in Wikipedia.
Ada Lovelace Day: 24-Hour Global Edit-a-thon – New Zealand & Australia 12 October 2021
Location:Online - Register with Evenbrite for Zoom link.
These workshop sessions also have open chat rooms for experienced editors to create content in an online collegial environment and to support new people. Please bookmark this page and refer to it for updates.
Tuesday 12 October
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Noon – 10:00 pm
10:00 am – 8:00 pm
Open editing. New to Wikipedia? See the sessions below.
Free Wikipedia training sessions
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1
Noon–12:45 pm
10:00–10:45
New Zealand new editor training in a Zoom breakout room
Articles need to pass notability, which typically means the person, company or event is well-known enough to be discussed by sources in the media or in academic articles.
This Wikisource list of women who were published in the Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. Some don't have author pages, some aren't even in Wikidata (and their articles need to be transcribed and proofread)
Starting a new article on Wikipedia needs a bit of technical knowledge (hence the workshops!) - but we also have short entry level articles ready to expand with cited facts - it is fun to see articles improve with every small edit.
Association for Women in Science (AWIS), International professional association, AWIS NZ held conference in Dunedin in 2021 - article can be expanded to include NZ branch, awards
Looking at an example page (04:07) including the Talk page (10:50) and View History (11:25)
Drafting an article and using your Sandbox (13:00) including having a minimum of 50 to 100 words with three high quality, reliable, secondary sources (13:50), drafting content and editing tools in visual editor (16:25), adding citations (19:02), adding images from Wikimedia Commons (26:10), adding an info box (28:24), categories (30:35)
Your own talk page (33:25) including adding a new editor badge
Moving drafted content to Wikipedia's livespace (39:23)
A timelapse of drafting and publishing a new article on Wikipedia (44:23)
Here are a few articles of women in STEM to look at to see how they are laid out (add good examples when you come across them): Phoebe S. Leboy, Carol W. Greider
Our objective is to turn red links into blue ones. Our project's scope is women's representation on all language Wikipedias (biographies, women's works, women's issues, broadly construed). Did you know that, according to Humaniki, only 19.98% of the English Wikipedia's biographies are about women? Not impressed? Content gender gap is a form of systemic bias, and this is what WiR addresses. We invite you to participate, whenever you like, in whatever way suits you and your schedule. Editors of all genders are equally and warmly welcome at Women in Red!
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