Wikipedia:Meetup/femedtech 2019

Feminist in edtech? let's grow FemEdTech network - hosted collaboratively by volunteers.

Following a successful distributed editathon organised by Kathrine Jensen in February 2019, the #FemEdTech community is proposing to host a second event in September 2019. The aim is to add information and sources on overlooked and underrepresented people with important and critical contributions in the fields that #femedtech covers. Wikipedians of all experience levels are welcome to join us! We will copyedit, source, and write articles and can teach you how to do these things too! Bring a friend -- come one, come all! Join us in celebrating the women who are challenging the status quo and making the internet and EdTech a better place for everyone. These Uncommon Women deserve recognition but so do so many more. Help us this September make Wikipedia and the Internet a less sexist place. Create or edit a Wikipedia page for your sheroes! All are welcome, no editing experience is necessary and the event is free.

Event details (September 2019)

• Date: 9-21 September 2019
• Time: distributed using #femedtech
• Editing Workshops: No previous experience necessary!
• Locations: online
• Who should attend: People of all gender identities and expressions are invited to participate. Everyone is welcome.
• How do I sign up? Create a Wikipedia account and add your name to the list below.
• Hashtag: #femedtechedits

Event details (February 2019)

• Date: 11-22nd Feb 2019
• Time: distributed using #femedtech
• Editing Workshops: No previous experience necessary!
• Locations: online
• Who should attend: People of all gender identities and expressions are invited to participate. Everyone is welcome.
• How do I sign up? Create a Wikipedia account and add your name to the list below.
• Hashtag: #femedtech

How to Prepare

1. CREATE A WIKIPEDIA ACCOUNT (if you don't already have one)

Please set up an account before the event if at all possible. Very few details are needed: a Username, password, and we recommend giving your email, if only to be reminded of your password when you forget it. The short Wikipedia:Tutorial/Registration explains why this is a good idea.

• For new editors
• Start here
• Primer for creating women's biographies
• Ten Simple Rules for Creating Women's Biographies
• Take a look at the editing videos and advice from the Art and Feminism project

Online participants

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September Event

Samantha Ahern and Rebecca O'Neill will lead the event. Samantha will be curating @FemEdTech from 9th to 23rd September. There will be two tweet chats associated with this editathon. These will take place on 9th September, launch chat, and 23rd September, celebration chat, at 7pm (UTC) using #FemEdTechChat. We welcome everyone to take part by either adding to existing articles and creatign new articles. These can be independent or collaborative efforts. Let us know what you're upto using #FemEdTechEdits.

1. Sharonlflynn (talk) 14:38, 24 August 2019 (UTC)

February Event

Kathrine Jensen will be curating the @femedtech twitter account during the two weeks and as part of this will attempt to edit some wikipedia pages. We will spend the first week (w/c 11. Feb) getting started and suggesting areas for editing and the second week (w/c 18. Feb) doing some editing. We will be using the #femedtech for this event. Online participants from anywhere are very welcome, whether experienced or not. For a basic editing tutorial see Wikipedia:Tutorial, and Wikipedia:Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia is short, and full of good advice. Or try this one - four modules, taking one hour it says.

1. --Smurf anemone (talk) 20:01, 22 October 2018 (UTC) Kathrine Jensen
2. Sharonlflynn (talk) 19:49, 22 October 2018 (UTC)
3. Smirkybec (talk) 20:08, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
4. Frances Bell (talk) 10:01, 2 January 2019 (UTC) Frances Bell
5. jhengstler(talk) Julia Hengstler
6. Lou Mycroft (talk) Lou Mycroft
7. --WoodsieGirl (talk) 14:48, 26 October 2018 (UTC)
8. Sharonlflynn (talk) 19:49, 22 October 2018 (UTC)
9. Maha Bali(talk)

Suggested articles

Add suggestions or what you are working on here

Take a look at the bell hooks book article stub and consider how to improve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminist_Theory:_From_Margin_to_Center Kathrine Jensen - been adding summary of some of Chapter one

Kathrine Jensen - I added some references in the Legacy and Impact section on Paulo Freire (I have just been to a public lecture on Freire and was made aware of a special issue celebrating 50th anniversary of Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Open access -YAY!) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Freire

Kathrine Jensen has worked on this article and submitted it for review https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Yukako_Uchinaga

Frances Bell is working on page for Joan Rothschild, link to sandbox article.

Maha Bali wants to improve on the Women's Ways of Knowing Article which currently has insufficient inline citations https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Ways_of_Knowing

You could take a look at the Wiki Project Women in Red for ideas on articles to contribute to here

Suggestion: Uncommon Women - create or update pages for the women recognised in the Uncommon Women colouring book for their contributions to the Commons.

Stubs

Articles that are short and need expansion or improvement

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Suggestions for new articles

• Engineers (CS)
• Engineers (WD)
• Scientists (CS)
• Scientists (WD)
• Technology (CS)
• Technologists (WD)
• Mathematicians (CS)
• Mathematicians (WD)

Helpers

If you are an experienced Wikipedian and are interested in helping please sign up below with 4 tildas.