Wikipedia:Meetup/Wellington/Women in STEAM Edit-a-thon 2022

A meetup event to edit and learn about creating content on Wikipedia held at the Home Of Compassion in Island Bay, Te Whanganui-a-Tara. SATURDAY 8 OCTOBER 11AM – 2PM. Join a friendly team to help learn how to profile women in STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics). Please register for the event at https://www.eventfinda.co.nz/2022/women-in-steam-wikipedia-edit-a-thon/wellington

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What's it about?

In honour of Ada Lovelace Day 2022 we are holding an event to improve the coverage of New Zealand women in Wikipedia. As one of the web’s most visited reference sites, Wikipedia serves as a starting point for many individuals looking to learn about science, technology, engineering, the arts and mathematics (STEAM). Wikipedia is an openly editable resource, meaning that YOU can improve the quality and accuracy of Wikipedia articles. We will offer training so that attendees of all experience levels can learn the basics of how to edit Wikipedia enabling attendees to contribute to improving articles on New Zealand women contributing to science, technology, engineering, the arts and mathematics.

Dashboard

Please click the link above and add your user name to the dashboard. This will enable us to track the total edits undertaken by participants.

When and where

Our Lady's Home of Compassion, 2 Rhine St, Island Bay, Wellington Saturday 8 October 2022 11:00am – 2:00pm

Health and safety

COVID

To keep everyone safe please follow our COVID health and safety requirements. Our goal is to be a welcoming safe space for people including those with compromised health conditions and to ensure all measures are taken to prevent the spread of COVID and other airborne diseases.

Masks are expected to be worn (by those who can). Please stay away if you sick.

If you are feeling unwell, have any Covid-19 symptoms, were recently in close contact with a person who has tested positive for COVID, or have been instructed to isolate, please do not attend.

Our event will be masked and our expectation is that people will wear a quality N95 or KN95 mask (supplied) at all times apart from when eating or drinking. Those who are unable to wear a mask are also welcome. People eating and drinking will manage their own safety in a variety of well ventilated spaces with the ability to social distance. Masks will be required in the main hall during all the editing sessions.

As a further measure only facilitators who have passed a negative Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) on the day will attend. We will have RAT tests available if participants want to do one.

Schedule

10.30am – Venue open – come & set up computers etc

11.00am – Event start – Welcome, housekeeping & round table

11.30pm – EDITING – pair up and either learn about Wikipedia or start editing.

1pm – Lunch (catered)

1.30pm – Closing round – what people have learnt & next steps

2pm – Finish or stay and keep editing

Goals:

New editors / writers will be trained to make their first contributions
Expand information on women in STEAM in Aotearoa on Wikipedia
Increase the number and quality of biographies of people who identify as women, indigenous women and women of colour to address the existing bias in Wikipedia.

People

This event is being hosted by Our Lady’s Home of Compassion – Te Piringa Pūaroha o Te Whaea Tapu and coordinated by Lisa Maule, Siobhan Leachman and Sofia Roberts. Lisa is a Pākehā theatre practitioner who also loves knowledge and research, and uses Wikipedia to increase the coverage of notable women particularly in the performing arts. Siobhan is Pākehā and is an experience editor of Wikipedia with an interest in increasing Wikipedia's coverage of women in natural history. Sofia is also pākehā and works as the Events Coordinator at Compassion New Zealand, and has a background in museums and heritage.

Please add your user name to the list below and enrol in the Dashboard so your edits can be tracked.

Attending

Remotely

Preparation

Please register for the event for catering: https://www.eventfinda.co.nz/2022/women-in-steam-wikipedia-edit-a-thon/wellington
Create a Wikipedia account beforehand: best not to wait until the day to do it. Here's a form you can use if you like. Creating an account makes editing much easier (here's more info on why you should). You'll need to pick a "handle" for your username. Here's some advice on picking a username.
Read up on Wikipedia: there are lots of tutorials, like the Wikipedia Adventure, and useful guides, like the Editing Wikipedia brochure.

What to have

Resources that can be cited in Wikipedia if you have any – media clippings, books etc
Photos to upload (if you own the copyright)
A computer is better than a tablet for editing on Wikipedia

Articles to develop

Articles need to pass notability, which typically means the person is well-known enough to be discussed by sources in the media or in academic articles. These are some articles ready for expansion:

Joan Wiffen paleontologist
Tracey McIntosh sociology and criminology academic
Hinke Osinga professor of applied mathematics
Ema Tavola artist, curator, arts manager
Jessica Hutchings kaupapa Māori research leader
Ngahuia Murphy recipient of a Health Research Council New Zealand Postdoctoral Fellowship

These are some redlinks for notable women (a redlink means there is no article yet):

Tina Ngata community advocate

Here is the Google Doc project plan to add suggestions to or get inspiration from

There is also the Women In Red list for New Zealanders

Please comment with any additions or thoughts.

Outcomes

New articles

Barbara Mitcalfe
Beverley Clarkson
Jessie Munro
Charlotte Paul
Karen Grylls
essa may ranapiri
Dione Joseph founder & artistic director of Black Creatives Aotearoa

Improved articles

Hinke Osinga, inc. added Scholia template
Ruth Mason

Wikidata

Understanding the geometry of dynamics: the stable manifold of the Lorenz system
Determining the global manifold structure of a continuous-time heterodimensional cycle
Much improved Simone Marshall (Q109666144)
Improved Jennifer Hay (Q91332146), who pointed out she had received a University of Canterbury Research Medal (Q104649899), so then worked through the list of award recipients and added it to their Wikidata items too.
Improved Ruth Mason (Q15921103) including author disamb and adding additional references to wikidata
Author disamb for Hinke Osinga

Commons

Uploaded a profile photo to Category:Simone_Marshall and organised a permissions email for her

Training aids and resources

Guidance for writing women's biographies.

Just getting started and want to make an account?

The main English Wikipedia Help page is here. It has links on how to edit a page, contributing to Wikipedia, an introductory tutorial, and "getting started"
A useful introductory video on editing: YouTube video – How to Edit Wikipedia – a 2018 tutorial (47:44)

This includes

How to create and set up your account (00:00)
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)

The Wikipedia Adventure

Learn to edit Wikipedia in under an hour!

How to edit pages using the Visual Editor: for when you click Edit
An explanation of Creative Commons, Wikimedia Commons, and crowdsourced photos by Harry Chapman

Future help, meetups and more information about future events

Anyone who is new to Wikipedia and wants more support or help are welcome to reach out to the user name talk pages of the organisers with questions. These are User:Pakoire talk page, User:Ambrosia10 talk page and User:AtticEdit talk page.
Wikimedia Australia are holding virtual "drop in" sessions during October to support new editors. See this link. They would be happy to help New Zealanders too!
The next Wellington meetup will be on Saturday the 29th of October and is held at 10am at the He Matapihi Molesworth Library at National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets, Wellington. See this link for more information.
Sign up to the NZ Wikipedia mailing list or join the Wikipedia New Zealand Facebook group to be kept informed and ask questions.
Also see Wikipedia:New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board for discussion relevant to New Zealand Wikipedians.

Hours spent by editors organising the event

User:Ambrosia10 – Wikipedia meetup page drafting, COVID information research and draft = 2hrs
Pakoire, AtticEdit and User:Ambrosia10 – 30min meeting to discuss editathon and divide up to do tasks = 1.5hrs
AtticEdit – time spent research and organising Google sheet with "to do" list of either articles to be created, stub articles, or articles to be expanded = 2hrs
Ambrosia10 – time spent creating a Dashboard for the event, adding banner & dashboard to page = 30min
Ambrosia10 – time spent ordering some RAT tests & collecting same, researching prices & catering options, emailing & editing COVID advice document = 1.5hrs
Pakoire, AtticEdit and User:Ambrosia10 – 1hr15min meeting discussing catering, other needs, runsheet and outreach strategy = 3hr.45min
AtticEdit – time spent emailing out event information = 1hr
AtticEdit – time spent creating articles to be expanded = 2hrs
Ambrosia10 – time spent thanking new or recent editors in emails & on their talk page as well as giving them info on the next physical and virtual meetups. Writing brief report back to community in next Aotearoa New Zealand meet-up page in preparation for oral report back as well as emailing Home of Compassion a thank you for providing the ventue. – 1.45hrs.

Total time organising editathon: 17hrs.