Thursday, 8 March 2018, 10am to 4pm Venue: The Academy Bar,
University of Derby, Kedleston Road, Derby, DE22 1GB
International Women's Day edit-a-thonA badge from last years event at Cambridge - New one for this event
The
University of Derby Library is organising its first Wikipedia edit-a-thon! In honour of
International Women's Day, we will be contributing to the Wikipedia
Women in Red project's
list of missing articles (see below).
Women in Red are volunteers who are trying to fix the gendergap as currently the 1.5 million biographies on Wikipedia contain only 17.4% that are about women (in English. Similar problems exist in other languages.)
It's free to anyone - Just drop in during the day - Sign up (below) if you want to indicate you'll definitely be coming.
Refreshments etc
Vouchers will be provided to the first 25 participants for a free coffee or drink from Blends or the Academy Bar. Otherwise, well, we are in a bar! NB: Alcohol consumption is not required, however!
Wikimedia UK will be providing a limited range of t-shirts and badges etc for early birds.
Parking
Limited parking is available in the pay-and-display student car park (It's limited because it's term-time). There are UniBuses from Derby that everyone can use, and there's bicycle parking, too. (See
here for full details). Google map:
here
What will we do?
Derby University main building 2018 - you'll find the Academy Bar off the main Atrium
Our goals for the day will be: (details to be finalised by event organiser)
To get newcomers started with their own user account for editing
To encourage attendees to select one of the numerous women who don't yet have an article about them on Wikipedia. Find one that interests you to start researching and working on. See
the full list here
to be confirmed
Of course, if you have other topics you'd prefer to work on, we'll still have experienced helpers on hand to assist you.
Come just for half an hour - or stay the full day - and learn how to contribute to the world's greatest encyclopaedia! We can help you create an account, though it's far better to create one
here before you arrive.
By the end of the day, beginners will have started down the road of becoming Wikipedia editors. You'll know how to make changes, and to support each fact you add with a good reference (citation). You'll take away
a handy guide on the next steps in editing Wikipedia page, as well as showing you how to get further help should you need it.
Programme for Thursday 8 March
10am - 10:15am: Coffee and Tea (vouchers for the first 25 attendees)
10:15 am – 10:30 am: Housekeeping and welcome from Caroline Ball, Subject Librarian, and Catherine Shipley, Study Skills
10:30 am – 11:30am: Wikipedia training
11:45am – 12:30 pm: EDIT!
12:30 pm – 1:15 pm: Lunch break and/or further editing
1:15 pm – 1:30 pm: Housekeeping and Welcome
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm: Wikipedia training
2:30 pm - 3:45pm: EDIT!
3:45pm - 4:00 pm: Publish new content to Wikipedia and close of event.
Note: this is a rough outline only. As many people often drop in just for an hour or so, we'll have people here to help anyone at any time of the day.
What should I bring?
Wiki Women's Edit-a-thon (San Francisco 2012)
a laptop if you have one (and charger if you're staying all day)
your Wikipedia login details (we can create a free account for you, but it's best to do it beforehand
here)
refreshments and/or lunch
enthusiasm to help contribute to the world's greatest encyclopaedia
Sign up!
Please sign below if you intend to come. If you are an experienced Wikipedian and are willing to lend a hand guiding and training students who may be new to Wikipedia, please leave a note after your signature. Remote editors are also very welcome.
(just edit the page and type four tildes, like this: ~~~~ to automatically add your username here - or simply put in your real name or email. Then click the big blue Publish changes button)
Derbyshire women
Some of the women who feature now. Could you add a snippet or fix some grammar?
Marion Adnams (1898-1995), painter, printmaker, and draughtswoman.[1]
Joan Bridge BAFTA-winning costume designer from Derbyshire - huge potential to improve this poorly referenced, short article from online obituaries etc.
Katharine Burdekin (born Cade), SF and dystopian feminist author was born in Spondon.[3]