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    Ada Lovelace Day:
    24-Hour Global Edit-a-thon – New Zealand & Australia

    12 October 2021

    What's it about?

    Ada Lovelace (1815–1852)

    Inspired by English mathematician and pioneer computer programmer Ada Lovelace, a group of volunteers are holding a 24-hour global event to create more biographies of women in STEM on Wikipedia and to teach new editors.

    This combined New Zealand and Australia event on 12 October 2021 will go from noon New Zealand time (NZST) until 8 pm Sydney time (AEST), covering 10 hours of the 24 hour event and then handing off to Wikipedia friends in Asia, Africa, and the UK.

    This edit-a-thon is especially for people who want to learn how to edit Wikipedia and create new biographies about women. There will be coaching available for the duration of the event with four sessions run first by a team in [Aotearoa] and then a team in Australia.

    STEM stands for science, technology, engineering and mathematics and covers a range of careers from architect through to aeronautical engineer, including chemist, data analyst, epidemiologist, biologist, doctor, food technologist, data analyst and software product designer.

    Who do you want to see better represented in the world?

    This event is part of Women In Red: an international group of editors of all genders who are reducing systemic gender bias in Wikipedia.

    Ada Lovelace Day: 24-Hour Global Edit-a-thon – New Zealand & Australia 12 October 2021

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    When and where

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    Date: Tuesday 12 October 2021

    Time: Noon – 10.00 pm NZDT / 10:00 am – 8:00 pm AEDT

    Location: Online - Register with Evenbrite for Zoom link.

    These workshop sessions also have open chat rooms for experienced editors to create content in an online collegial environment and to support new people. Please bookmark this page and refer to it for updates.

    Tuesday 12 October
    NZDT AEDT Register
    Noon – 10:00 pm 10:00 am – 8:00 pm Open editing. New to Wikipedia? See the sessions below.
    Free Wikipedia training sessions
    Session NZDT AEDT Register
    1 Noon–12:45 pm 10:00–10:45 New Zealand new editor training in a Zoom breakout room Evenbrite NZ registration
    2 2:00–3:15 pm 12:30–1:15 pm New Zealand new editor training in a Zoom breakout room Evenbrite NZ registration
    3 5:00–5.45 pm 3:00–3:45 pm Australian Wikipedian Training Session 1 for New Editors Eventbrite registration
    4 8:30–9:00 pm 6:30–7:00 pm Australian Wikipedian Training Session 2 for New Editors Eventbrite registration
    5 9:00am - Noon 7:00am - 10:00am Collective editing to round the 24 hours in Aotearoa (12 - 12) Contact Pakoire on talk page

    Goals:

    • Increase biographies of women in STEM on Wikipedia to address the existing bias
    • Recruit and teach new users how to create a biography

    Dashboard

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    Please register with the Dashboard (a place where progress is counted and articles are allocated).

    'Wikipedians' and learners at an on-line edit-a-thon in Aotearoa in August 2021

    People

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    The team in Aotearoa is Lisa (User:Pakoire), Mike (User:Giantflightlessbirds), Tamsin (User:DrThneed) and Siobhan (User:Ambrosia10). The team in Australia is Caddie (User:Tenniscourtisland), Ann (User:Oronsay), Alex (User:Canley) and Margaret User:MargaretRDonald. We are volunteer Wikipedia editors who are passionate about addressing the gender gap on Wikipedia.

    Attending / participants

    • Please add yourself here
    1. Pakoire
    2. Ambrosia10
    3. DrThneed
    4. Logo Women in STEM Wikipedia
      Logo Women in STEM Wikipedia
      MurielMary
    5. Tenniscourtisland
    6. Oronsay
    7. Giantflightlessbirds
    8. Jonathanischoice
    9. Gertrude206
    10. ClaudineChionh
    11. MargaretRDonald
    12. Kunokuno
    13. Prosperosity
    Many thanks for any contribution you make.

    What you need

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    • Access to a computer and the internet
    • A username and login for Wikipedia (if you can't do this we can help you)

    Preparation

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    OPTIONAL

    Articles to develop

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    Articles need to pass notability, which typically means the person, company or event is well-known enough to be discussed by sources in the media or in academic articles.

    Some examples are New Zealand field ecologist, zoologist, mountaineer and photographer Mavis Melville Davidson, architect Dorita Hannah currently based in Auckland, Polish-Australian ichthyologist Barbara F. Nowak, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, neuroscientist Glenda Halliday and Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, ecologist Janet Wilmshurst.

    New Zealand

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    There are many notable New Zealand women in STEM who can have a Wikipedia article.

    For ideas use:

    • to develop NZ/Aus a curated list of notable women in Google docs with references listed
    • Wikipedia:Meetup/Ada Lovelace Day Women In Red lists searchable by career etc
    • This Wikisource list of women who were published in the Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. Some don't have author pages, some aren't even in Wikidata (and their articles need to be transcribed and proofread)

    Starting a new article on Wikipedia needs a bit of technical knowledge (hence the workshops!) - but we also have short entry level articles ready to expand with cited facts - it is fun to see articles improve with every small edit.

    Articles for expansion

    Australia

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    Outcomes

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    • Add links to your expanded, completed or draft articles on the main page for this global event.

    Media

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    Global Event Schedule Tuesday 12 October 2021

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    Ada Lovelace Day schedule 24-Hour Global Edit-a-thon 12 October 2021
    Ada Lovelace Day schedule 24-Hour Global Edit-a-thon 12 October 2021

    Edit-a-thon guidelines

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    Training aids and resources / getting started

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    Please create an account before you arrive with an anonymous user name

    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
    • See the Resource Tab for more!

    Example articles

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    Here are a few articles of women in STEM to look at to see how they are laid out (add good examples when you come across them): Phoebe S. Leboy, Carol W. Greider

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