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Ada Lovelace Day:
24-Hour Global Edit-a-thon – Kenya
12 October 2021
 Welcome to WikiProject Women in Red (WiR)! Our objective is to turn red links into blue ones. Our project's scope is women's representation on all language Wikipedias (biographies, women's works, women's issues, broadly construed). Did you know that, according to Humaniki, only 19.91% of the English Wikipedia's biographies are about women? Not impressed? Content gender gap is a form of systemic bias, and this is what WiR addresses. We invite you to participate, whenever you like, in whatever way suits you and your schedule. Editors of all genders are equally and warmly welcome at Women in Red! |
Organisers in each country need to
- supply contact details of organisers - trainers names etc
- create a page like this.
- create a local press release
- create an eventbrite invitation
- create a zoom session invite
- attend weekly sessions to keep in line with other countries
The in-person editathon will be hosted in Nairobi? as an on-line event.
Time: see below
The bad news is that well over 80% of people on Wikipedia are blokes. The good news is that anyone can change it. If you are on-line then sign up for the event here. You will need to register at Wikipedia for an account.
As we train you to edit then our friends in Australia will keep an account of all the new articles, new users and new images created on the day. With your Wikipedia name ready then you can register here.
- Watch! We are going to show you how to add (i.e. donate) your own photos
When and where
[edit]Date: Tuesday 12 October 2021
online (via Zoom). The workshop sessions also have open chat rooms for experienced editors to create content in an online collegial environment. Join the zoom link whenever you are able.
| Session | ? Time | ADA time | Register | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pakistan | 8:00 pm- 10:00 pm | 16:00 - 18:00 pm | Pakistan based session, coaching available for new people or join an editing room | Zoom link via Eventbrite | |
| Kenya | 14:00 - 17:00 pm | 12:00 - 3:00 pm | Kenya session, coaching available for new people or join an editing room | Zoom link via Eventbrite | |
| Joint | Whatever?? | 24:00 | End of the Day in New Zealand | [Zoom link here] |
Goals:
- Increase biographies of women in STEM on Wikipedia to address the existing bias
- Recruit and teach new users how to create a biography
Trainers:
- Please add names here
Women in Red members available to support new editors
- We will have new people trained to edit using the visual editor to create a new article in their sandboxes. They will have some knowledge of the skills required to edit but we want to have experienced editors who can reassure about choosing a reliable reference and when a stub article looks as if it could be published. Could you do this?
- Please add yourself here
- your name here
Articles to do We have hundreds of lists of missing women in our "redlists". For instance here is a list of missing women engineers. Creating a new article for any of them will reduce the gender gap and highlight women in STEM. If you decide to choose someone from Africa or Latin America then you can reduce other areas of bias that exist on-line. In the UK during October it is Black History Month. The first step after you have identified a subject is to check that you can find three reliable sources to write your article. Want more then see the Resources tab at the top of the page.
Articles created
- We have an automatic facility that will record the edits that you make on Wikipedia. You need to click here to make this work. You can see the articles created by other at the same place.