Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/211/UK
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Ada Lovelace Day:
24-Hour Global Edit-a-thon – UK
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 19.81% 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! |
This hybrid editathon will be hosted in Manchester as both an in-person and an on-line event. The Manchester event will be at the Pankhurst Centre, the former home of Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters, Britain's leading suffragette family.
Two UK trainers will be on hand.
Time: 2 p.m.(UK time) (1 p.m UTC)
There is ALSO an event in Scotland hosted by the University of Edinburgh.
Intro[edit]
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 below. You will need to register at Wikipedia for an account. Click here to Create an account
Early Reading list? An introductory video on editing - the first 4 minutes to set up an account are very good: – How to Edit Wikipedia (47:44)
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.
When and where[edit]
Date: Tuesday 12 October 2021
Time: 2 pm to 10 pm UK time (i.e. BST). The global Ada Lovelace Day will have been running for 14 hours by the time the Manchester and Edinburgh-based events begin.
Locations: Manchester, Edinburgh and online (via Zoom). The workshop sessions have open chat rooms (breakout rooms) for experienced editors to create content in an online collegial environment. Join the Zoom link whenever you are able.
| Session | UK Time | ADA time | Register | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scot1 | 2:00 - 5:00 pm | 14:00 - 17:00 pm | Scottish session (our 57th?), coaching available for new people or join an editing room | Zoom link via Eventbrite register here | |
| UK1 | 2:00 - 4:00 pm | 14:00 - 16:00 pm | UK session, coaching available for new people or join an editing room | Zoom link via Eventbrite | |
| UK2 | 5:00 - 7:00 pm | 17:00 - 19:00 pm | UK session, coaching available for new people or join an editing room | Zoom link via Eventbrite | |
| UK3 | 8:00 - 10:00 pm | 20:00 - 22:00 pm | Open editing - New editors welcome to join and find an edit mate. | Zoom link via Eventbrite | |
| Joint | Midnight | 24:00 | End of the 24 hours in the UK and 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 yourself here
- Victuallers (talk) 17:09, 7 September 2021 (UTC)
- Robin Owain
- Duncan.Hull (talk) 11:56, 7 October 2021 (UTC)
- Paul W (talk) 17:11, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
- Carbon Caryatid (talk) 18:54, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
- your name here
Women in Red members available to support new editors
- We will have new people trained to edit using the VisualEditor 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 offer reassurance 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.
First step[edit]
We have an automatic facility that will record the edits that you make on Wikipedia once you have an account. You need to click here to make this work. You can see the articles created by others at the same place (a dashboard).
Second step[edit]
You need to register for the event. We will then send you a Zoom link which you should not share with others.
Third step[edit]
Have a look at our red lists and decide who you would like to write an article for. You should have three independent sources for their biography. Wiki does not use trivial sources. "MyCelebrityLife" and tabloids are not a good source. Journals, leading newspapers and citations for major awards are usually good.
Fourth step[edit]
If you have a new account then why not experiment? Try adding that missing comma or improving the phrasing of an article. Look out for peacock phrases in articles and remove them.
Fifth step[edit]
Carol Ann Whitehead will welcome the first invitees in person or on Zoom at 2pm BST.
Sixth step[edit]
Afterwards, have a look again at the dashboard and see all the new and improved articles. Add "WIR-211" to the talkpage of your new article, using double curly brackets so that Women in Red can keep an eye on it. (More info about this template here.) Come and say "Hi" at www.womeminred.org and find some mates.
Funding[edit]
Women in Red is run by volunteers with no payment. In this case refreshments, travelling expenses etc are being supplied for the trainers by Wikimedia UK.