Women in Red - a Wikipedia Editathon - Celebrate Women in STEM
To celebrate International Women's Day, Wikimedia Community Ireland and the SMDBS SWAN Gender Equality Committee invites you to celebrate the work of women scientists through a Wikipedia Women in Red Editathon.
Women in Red - a Wikipedia editathon - Celebrate Women in STEM
Organised by: QUB SMDBS SWAN Gender Equality Committee and Wikimedia Community Ireland
When: Wednesday, 8 March, 2023, 1.30-5pm
Where: Training Room 2, McClay Library
Facilitated by: Rebecca O'Neill, Wikimedia Community Ireland
To celebrate International Women's Day, Wikimedia Community Ireland and the SMDBS SWAN Gender Equality Committee invites you to celebrate the work of women scientists through a Wikipedia Women in Red Editathon.
Women in Red is a Wikipedia editathon celebrating the lives and contributions of all the inspiring woman scientists missing from the world's go-to site for information.
Wikipedia is the fifth most visited website in the world but lacks diversity in its editors and its articles. Less then one-fifth of biographies on English Wikipedia, the world's go-to source of information, are about women. This event will focus on improving the representation online of inspiring women.
Wikipedians of all experience levels are welcome to join us! No prior knowledge required as training will be provided for those with no Wikipedia editing experience. We will copyedit, source, and write articles and can teach you how to do these things too!
Participants will learn how to edit Wikipedia pages during this event and will be supported over the afternoon to help create new pages for notable individuals who are not currently on Wikipedia. Each participant will be assigned a woman scientist together with appropriate references.
(We'll also ensure that you are topped up with tea, coffee and traybakes.)
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For further details contact: Jaine Blayney