Wikipedia:GLAM/Women in Tech Edit-a-Thon Brussels 2018

Editing during the Women in Tech edit-a-thon

On Saturday 13 October 2018 the Women in Tech Edit-a-Thon is organised in Brussels by BeCentral and Wikimedia Belgium. During this Wikipedia writing session (edit-a-thon) participants are invited to write about women in the technology sector, as they are less well described.

“ Wikipedia is the 5th most visited website in the world. But did you know that only 17% of wikipedia’s bios were about women? Part of the reason is simple: more than 80% of Wikipedia contributors are...men.

Take an example: the computer programmers category lists 180 profiles, of whom fewer than 10 are women. But history hasn’t been documented well: a lot of women have contributed to shaping the internet as we know it today.

On 13 October 2018, BeCentral will be hosting a full day edit-a-thon to document Wikipedia with Women in Technology.

” — Eventbrite

To know which top 50 women should have an article, we used the list with the top 50 women of Forbes at: https://www.forbes.com/top-tech-women-europe/list/

Program

What's the schedule?

• 9h30 – 10h00: Registrations
• 10h00 -11h00: Tutorial on how to edit wikipedia
• 10h30 - 12h30: Documenting

Lunch Break

• 13h30 - 16h30: Documenting
• 16h30 - 18h00: Closing session and networking drinks.

Handy links

• Tutorial
• Cheatsheet with basic wikisyntax
• Annotated article
• Sandbox - generic page where you can test and try
• Your personal sandbox (only when you are logged in)
• File:Editing Wikipedia brochure EN.pdf

Guidelines

The (simplified) guidelines on Wikipedia, resting on the five pillars, include:

• Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, the content that you add must fit in an encyclopedia.
• Write in a neutral point of view.
• All content added must be free content that anyone can use, edit, and distribute. (copyrights)

Further:

• Use references to source facts in your article.
• Sign your messages in talk pages with ~~~~. The software of Wikipedia automatically converts this in your linked user name and date and time, so other users know who wrote what when.

New on Wikipedia?

First: welcome to Wikipedia!

Before you start writing, please keep the following thoughts in mind:

• add to Wikipedia only knowledge that is suitable for an encyclopedia
• add only material that is available under a free license or describe knowledge in your own words
• describe the knowledge from a neutral point of view
• add references and sources where the information can be found
• do not write about your own organisation nor about yourself, a family member or your boss
• do not describe new theories, new insights that have not been published widely
• look at comparable subjects as examples of how it is done
• use headers to structure an article
• use internal links (links to other articles on Wikipedia in that language)
• do not use links inline in the text, but only as reference or at the bottom of a page
• avoid qualifications like "the best", "the most", "great" and write time specific (not: "last year", "coming month", etc., but: "on 10 April 2016")

Please start writing in your sandbox. The link to your personal sandbox you can find on top of every page (if you are logged in).

Photos

• Photos on Wikimedia Commons

Organisation

• BeCentral
• Romaine - Wikimedia Belgium

Participants

• Romaine (talk) 06:13, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

• Driesvr (talk) 09:22, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

• Kowalski 75 (talk) 09:24, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

• Ainali (talk) 09:24, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

• 00xirix00 (talk) 09:25, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

• --Tdelestre (talk) 09:26, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

• ManonB2018 (talk) 09:28, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

Output

• Francesca Bria (new article)
• Phedra Clouner (new article)
• sv:Åsa Zetterberg (new article)
• sv:Lyndsey Scott (new article)
• Saskia Van Uffelen (new article)

Other upcoming events

The Women in Tech Edit-a-Thon has resulted in the start of the Wiki Club Brussels, biweekly meetups to edit Wikipedia articles, ask questions and get some help.