Wikipedia:Meetup/Wellington/Women in STEAM Edit-a-thon 2022

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A meetup event to edit and learn about creating content on Wikipedia held at the Home Of Compassion in Island Bay, Te Whanganui-a-Tara. SATURDAY 8 OCTOBER 11AM – 2PM. Join a friendly team to help learn how to profile women in STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics). Please register for the event at https://www.eventfinda.co.nz/2022/women-in-steam-wikipedia-edit-a-thon/wellington

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What's it about?[edit]

In honour of Ada Lovelace Day 2022 we are holding an event to improve the coverage of New Zealand women in Wikipedia. As one of the web’s most visited reference sites, Wikipedia serves as a starting point for many individuals looking to learn about science, technology, engineering, the arts and mathematics (STEAM). Wikipedia is an openly editable resource, meaning that YOU can improve the quality and accuracy of Wikipedia articles. We will offer training so that attendees of all experience levels can learn the basics of how to edit Wikipedia enabling attendees to contribute to improving articles on New Zealand women contributing to science, technology, engineering, the arts and mathematics.

Dashboard[edit]

Please click the link above and add your user name to the dashboard. This will enable us to track the total edits undertaken by participants.

When and where[edit]

Our Lady's Home of Compassion, 2 Rhine St, Island Bay, Wellington Saturday 8 October 2022 11:00am – 2:00pm

Health and safety[edit]

COVID[edit]

To keep everyone safe please follow our COVID health and safety requirements. Our goal is to be a welcoming safe space for people including those with compromised health conditions and to ensure all measures are taken to prevent the spread of COVID and other airborne diseases.

Masks are expected to be worn (by those who can). Please stay away if you sick.

If you are feeling unwell, have any Covid-19 symptoms, were recently in close contact with a person who has tested positive for COVID, or have been instructed to isolate, please do not attend.

Our event will be masked and our expectation is that people will wear a quality N95 or KN95 mask (supplied) at all times apart from when eating or drinking. Those who are unable to wear a mask are also welcome. People eating and drinking will manage their own safety in a variety of well ventilated spaces with the ability to social distance. Masks will be required in the main hall during all the editing sessions.

As a further measure only facilitators who have passed a negative Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) on the day will attend. We will have RAT tests available if participants want to do one.

Schedule[edit]

10.30am – Venue open – come & set up computers etc

11.00am – Event start – Welcome, housekeeping & round table

11.30pm – EDITING – pair up and either learn about Wikipedia or start editing.

1pm – Lunch (catered)

1.30pm – Closing round – what people have learnt & next steps

2pm – Finish or stay and keep editing


Goals:

  • New editors / writers will be trained to make their first contributions
  • Expand information on women in STEAM in Aotearoa on Wikipedia
  • Increase the number and quality of biographies of people who identify as women, indigenous women and women of colour to address the existing bias in Wikipedia. 

People[edit]

This event is being hosted by Our Lady’s Home of Compassion – Te Piringa Pūaroha o Te Whaea Tapu and coordinated by Lisa Maule, Siobhan Leachman and Sofia Roberts. Lisa is a Pākehā theatre practitioner who also loves knowledge and research, and uses Wikipedia to increase the coverage of notable women particularly in the performing arts. Siobhan is Pākehā and is an experience editor of Wikipedia with an interest in increasing Wikipedia's coverage of women in natural history. Sofia is also pākehā and works as the Events Coordinator at Compassion New Zealand, and has a background in museums and heritage.

Please add your user name to the list below and enrol in the Dashboard so your edits can be tracked.

Attending

  1. User:Ambrosia10
  2. User:AtticEdit
  3. User:Stitchbird2
  4. User:Einebillion (talk)
  5. User:Gertrude206
  6. User:Pippipip
  7. User:Avocadobabygirl
  8. User:Noracrentiss
  9. User:Paisleyapples
  10. User:Lipstikpunch

Remotely

  1. User:Giantflightlessbirds
  2. User:Oronsay
  3. MurielMary

Preparation[edit]

  1. Please register for the event for catering: https://www.eventfinda.co.nz/2022/women-in-steam-wikipedia-edit-a-thon/wellington
  2. Create a Wikipedia account beforehand: best not to wait until the day to do it. Here's a form you can use if you like. Creating an account makes editing much easier (here's more info on why you should). You'll need to pick a "handle" for your username. Here's some advice on picking a username.
  3. Read up on Wikipedia: there are lots of tutorials, like the Wikipedia Adventure, and useful guides, like the Editing Wikipedia brochure.

What to have[edit]

  • Resources that can be cited in Wikipedia if you have any – media clippings, books etc
  • Photos to upload (if you own the copyright)
  • A computer is better than a tablet for editing on Wikipedia


Articles to develop[edit]

Articles need to pass notability, which typically means the person is well-known enough to be discussed by sources in the media or in academic articles. These are some articles ready for expansion:

These are some redlinks for notable women (a redlink means there is no article yet):

Here is the Google Doc project plan to add suggestions to or get inspiration from

There is also the Women In Red list for New Zealanders

Please comment with any additions or thoughts.

Outcomes[edit]

Simone Marshall (new photo)

New articles

Improved articles

Wikidata

Commons

Training aids and resources[edit]

Just getting started and want to make an account?[edit]

This includes
  • How to create and set up your account (00:00)
  • Looking at an example page (04:07) including the Talk page (10:50) and View History (11:25)
  • Drafting an article and using your Sandbox (13:00) including having a minimum of 50 to 100 words with three high quality, reliable, secondary sources (13:50), drafting content and editing tools in visual editor (16:25), adding citations (19:02), adding images from Wikimedia Commons (26:10), adding an info box (28:24), categories (30:35)
  • Your own talk page (33:25) including adding a new editor badge
  • Moving drafted content to Wikipedia's livespace (39:23)
  • A timelapse of drafting and publishing a new article on Wikipedia (44:23)
Learn to edit Wikipedia in under an hour!

Future help, meetups and more information about future events[edit]


Hours spent by editors organising the event[edit]

User:Ambrosia10 – Wikipedia meetup page drafting, COVID information research and draft = 2hrs
Pakoire, AtticEdit and User:Ambrosia10 – 30min meeting to discuss editathon and divide up to do tasks = 1.5hrs
AtticEdit – time spent research and organising Google sheet with "to do" list of either articles to be created, stub articles, or articles to be expanded = 2hrs
Ambrosia10 – time spent creating a Dashboard for the event, adding banner & dashboard to page = 30min
Ambrosia10 – time spent ordering some RAT tests & collecting same, researching prices & catering options, emailing & editing COVID advice document = 1.5hrs
Pakoire, AtticEdit and User:Ambrosia10 – 1hr15min meeting discussing catering, other needs, runsheet and outreach strategy = 3hr.45min
AtticEdit – time spent emailing out event information = 1hr
AtticEdit – time spent creating articles to be expanded = 2hrs
Ambrosia10 – time spent thanking new or recent editors in emails & on their talk page as well as giving them info on the next physical and virtual meetups. Writing brief report back to community in next Aotearoa New Zealand meet-up page in preparation for oral report back as well as emailing Home of Compassion a thank you for providing the ventue. – 1.45hrs.

Total time organising editathon: 17hrs.