Wikipedia:Meetup/Women in Religion March2023

International Women's Day Edit-athon March 8, 2023: #Embrace Equity

Hosted by the Women in Religion User Group

We will discuss the importance of working on women biographies and work on women's biographies for two hours, either editing and enhancing current biographies or adding new women.

Hello and welcome!

Event details

• Date:Wednesday, March 8, 2023
• Time: 8 - 10am PST, 9 - 11am MST, 10am -12pm CST, 11am - 1pm EST, 7 - 9pm EAT
• Location: Zoom Meeting. Link: https://tulane.zoom.us/j/95701649626?pwd=d2RPTHRSTTU3bGtZeC9Ydy9uKzBjUT09
• Special guest: Rosie Stephenson-Goodnight, co-founder of WikiProject Women in Red

• Duration: 2 hours
• Who should attend: Any and all beginning and experienced Wikipedians
• Training: No background in religion, diversity, or women's history is required as we will have resources to cite. Find more information, lists of women in religion, tutorials, and training modules at Wikipedia: WikiProject Women in Religion
• Questions? For more information, contact Rosalind Hinton at rhinton1@tulane.edu.

Event background

Did you know that only 19.5% of the biographical subjects and 9% of the editors on Wikipedia are women? Women in Religion Wiki Project aims to address the under-recognized work of cisgender and transgender women in the world's religious, spiritual, and wisdom traditions by adding women in religion to Wikipedia.

Goals:

At this edit-a-thon/workshop, participants will sign up as wiki editors, create their personal user page, learn the basics of editing, and make their first wiki edits. Our work list will be Women religious scholars, activists, and leaders. We will edit existing pages, learn our way around Wikipedia and create a short entry or stub. The group will set the pace. Participants are also welcome to work on women from any religious, spiritual, or wisdom tradition who are not on the work list. No need to be a technological expert! Join us in our effort to address gender bias on Wikipedia by improving the coverage of women in religion on Wikipedia.

Before you arrive

If you can, signup for a Wikipedia account: Consider concerns about anonymity when choosing a "user name" unless you want to be identified. Look at our work list on the Women in Religion Project Page

Accessibility

This event welcomes attendees of all abilities.

Planning to attend

If you plan to attend, please edit this section and insert your username as well as what you'd like to work on during the edit-athon.

• User:Figureskatingfan - helping other participants; my usual niche, obscure female saints. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 18:01, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
• User:Rosiestep - Looking forward to the attendee discussion regarding the editing experience on the topic of women in religion. --Rosiestep (talk) 18:14, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
• User:Dzingle1 -- I too am looking forward to the event. I am feeling strangely hopeful about the future of getting women represented on Wikipedia!!

About the Women in Religion Project

The Women in Religion WikiProject (formerly 1000 Women in Religion), seeks to add names and contributions of religious, spiritual, and wisdom women to Wikipedia, the largest encyclopedia in the world. The contributions of cis, trans, and LGBTQI women in all fields of work, scholarship, and life, including religion and spirituality, have gone under-recognized, across time and in our present-day context. This under-recognition is a form of gender bias reflected and reproduced in our commonly used sources of knowledge – in our history books, in our news media, and even in our sacred texts. The more we can document and highlight the contributions of women leaders in their religious and spiritual traditions, the more we can change the perception that women have not been leaders.