Wikipedia:GLAM/Amnesty International: Human Rights Defenders/Glasgow 19.05.18

Edit-A-Thon held 2 July 2016 at Glasgow Women's Library, Scotland, UK, hosted by the 'Strong Women of the Clydeside' (SWaC) and 'Govan's Hidden Histories' project. The event increased representation of women involved in Glasgow's Red Clydeside actions. Image by tsBeall, Lead Artist, SWaC project.
Edit-A-Thon held 2 July 2016 at Glasgow Women's Library, Scotland

Booking

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Please sign up through the official event page on Eventbrite.

About the event

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With 47 million articles in 229 different languages, Wikipedia is now both a well-established force for the democratisation of knowledge, and a key outreach tool, with one recent study showing that the encyclopedia shapes, as well as reflects, scientific thought. However, Wikipedia has a gender problem: the encyclopedia and its content is weighted toward men. In a 2011 survey, the Foundation found that only around 9% of contributors identified as female, and less than 1% as trans*. This imbalance in demographic leads to a content gap - as of 1 January 2018, just 17.37% of biographies on English Wikipedia were about women. It’s a form of systemic bias that both the Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikipedia community are working to fix, with projects like Wikiproject Women in Red and the Gender Gap Task Force. But we need more people to help.

No prior experience of editing Wikipedia is necessary, as full training will be given on the day, but participants should create a Wikipedia account in advance (see below).

 
We Can Edit

How do I prepare?

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Where

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  • The event will be held in the Events Space at Glasgow Women's Library

Programme

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  • 10:00 - 12:00 - Introduction, welcome, and Wikipedia training
  • 12:00 - 12:30 - Lunch
  • 12:30 - 16:00 - EDIT!

Trainers

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Hit list of articles to be created or improved

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Helpful updates could be as simple as:

  • Making sure reference links are still appropriate and functional
  • Adding new inline citations/references
  • Adding a photo
  • Adding an infobox
  • Adding data to more fields in an existing infobox
  • Creating headings
  • Adding categories; etc.

The following is a small sample of topics to work on. Feel free to come up with your own ideas!

Articles to be created

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Articles to be improved

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Sources

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General Sources

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Outputs

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Pages Created

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Pages Improved

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After the event

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You may find these useful if you want to learn further about editing:

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