Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Loves Women/WhenGirlsWrite
WhenGirlsWrite is a project established to encourage Nigerian girls to improve their writing skills and lend their voices to advocacy on issues affecting girls in Nigeria by contributing to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. The Girl Lead Hub Network and Project PINK BLUE is collaborating with Wikimedia UG Nigeria (WUGN) to organize the program.
THANK YOU!
A giant thank you to all the GIRLS that are joining us for this event. Keep editing
Goals
[edit]- To make a substantive improvement to the representation of Nigerian women on Wikipedia
- To encourage the Nigerian girls community to learn how to contribute to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Projects.
- To increase digital literacy among Nigerian girls
Partners
[edit]Participation details
[edit]- When
- Friday and Saturday, August 4th and 5th 2017
- 9:00am – 4:00pm
- Who
- Wikipedians
- Interested member of the society
- No advanced technical skills required – those with experience will help
- What to bring
- Laptop computer with power cable
- Where
- Abuja
- RSVP
- Sign up directly below
- This event is free of charge but we need an advance count of attendees.
Signup pages
[edit]Schedule
[edit]Day One
[edit]Time | Activity | Speakers |
---|---|---|
9:00-9:10 am | Welcome to the venue | Bella Anne Ndubuisi, Founder, Girl Lead Hub Network & Runcie Chidebe: CEO, Project Pink Blue, The Coordinator Wikimedia Hub Abuja |
9:10-10:00 | PLAN International and UNDO |
Two Speakers |
10:00-12:15 | Introduction to Wikipedia | Olaniyan Olushola |
12:15-12:30 | Wikipedia:Notability (people)
|
Olaniyan Olushola,Project Lead Wiki Loves Women (Olaniyan Olushola) |
12:30-1:00 | Break | |
1:00-1:50 | Basics of Wiki markup – |
Olaniyan Olushola Discussion on where to from here |
1:50-4:00 | Introduction to Biography of Living people on Wikipedia | Olaniyan Olushola Discussion on where to from here |
Day Two
[edit]Time | Activity | Speakers |
---|---|---|
9:00-3:00 pm | Edit-a-thorn | Olaniyan Olushola |
If you don’t need the tutorials, you can just start/keep editing!
Wikipedia Editing Resources
[edit]- Wikipedia's criteria for academics
- Biographies of Living Persons on Wikipedia
- Wikipedia's Manual of Style for Biographies
- Wikipedia Image use policy
- Wikipedia Editing Cheatsheet
Attendees
[edit]Please add your name below
List of Tasks
[edit]Pages which could be improved:
lists of important articles that need to be assessed or improved
[edit]List of images or data that is missing
[edit]List of expected articles to be created
[edit]Notable Names to be profiled
[edit]Edit-a-Thon Results
[edit]Please do remember to add {{WikiProject Wiki Loves Women|class=Stub|importance=}} to the talk pages of those articles
New pages
[edit]Improved pages
[edit]Improving visibility of Nigerian Women on Wikipedia
[edit]Photos added to Wikimedia Commons
[edit]Template for Creating Info Box with Image
[edit]Cut and paste this example from the edit page here - replace the placeholder text with info for your scientist and a photo file from Wikimedia Commons, and you're good to go. (Having the birthdate means it will calculate age automatically.)
An example of what these info boxes look like is here: Linda Buck
Be careful that you don't leave any of the filler explanatory text there (the words in all capital letters). Always add "alternative image text" - that will show in rollover text and for people who use machines to read (e.g. because of visual impairment). It should be a short caption explaining the image.
The template is everything from here to the end of this section:
NAME | |
---|---|
ALTERNATE IMAGE TEXT SUCH AS PHOTO OF X | |
Born | FULL BIRTH NAME 30 January 1950 |
Alma mater | |
Known for |
|
Scientific career | |
Fields |
|
Institutions | |
Thesis | TITLE OF PHD THESIS IF AVAILABLE (DELETE LINE IF NOT USED) (YEAR OF PHD THESIS (IF AVAILABLE)) |