Atari Women Wiki Edit-a-thon
What?[edit]
A two days edit-a-thon (including two-evening online workshop organized by the Computer Science Department of University of Copenhagen - DIKU), focused on introducing participants to Wikipedia editing. During this event, will be added new articles and improved existent articles based on Atari Women, a research project about pioneer women and gender minority engineers. Adding free license images of the biographies and Wikidata items is also welcomed.
When?[edit]
Tuesday 10th and 17th November 2020, all day, virtual edit-a-thon. Tuesdays 10th and 17th of November 2020 - from 17:00-20:00 - Zoom workshop (sign up here).
Where?[edit]
Online
Italy[edit]
Online event:
Atari Women, project page on Italian wikipedia
Results - Articles translated for this edit-a-thon:
- it:Carla Meninsky
Camelia - it:Rebecca Heineman Valeria
- it:Suki Lee Camelia
- it:Elizabeth Betty Ryan (Betty Ryan Tylko) Camelia
Who?[edit]
Computer science students and anyone interested in editing Wikipedia (new or expert Wikipedians). Add your username below:
Why?[edit]
The Computer Science Department of the University of Copenhagen (DIKU) Virtual Wiki Edit-a-thon - part of DIKU’s research program FemTech - is part of a master’s thesis focused on diversity and gender equality on Wikipedia, focusing on facilitating inclusion in computing science.
Articles proposed[edit]
The challenge this time could be having the Atari Women into so many languages possible.
Existing on English Wikipedia:
- en:Carla Meninsky[1]
- en:Danielle Bunten Berry[2]
- en:Dona Bailey[3]
- en:Rebecca Heineman[4]
- en:Elizabeth Betty Ryan[5]
- en:Patricia Goodson[6]
- en:Brenda Laurel[7]
- en:Carol Shaw[8]
To-do on English Wikipedia:
- en:Chris Maddox[9] was in progress; not enough reliable sources
- en:Suki Lee[10] done
- en:Laura Nikolich[11] done
- en:Carol Ryan Thomas[12] was in progress; not enough reliable sources
- en:Lucy Gilbert[13] done
Organized by[edit]
Supported by[edit]
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References[edit]
Internal links[edit]
- Atari Women, Women in red
External links[edit]
- DIKU Virtual Wiki Edit-a-thon, Københavns Universitet
- FemTech.dk, project supported by the Computer Science Department of the University of Copenhagen (DIKU)
- Stories, Atari Women