Whose Knowledge?/VisibleWikiWomen/Online edit-a-thon/Oxford Editathon
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#VisibleWikiWomen Challenge - Online edit-a-thon,
Rhodes House, Oxford |
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Join Whose Knowledge? and Wikimedia UK for a Wikipedia edit-a-thon at Rhodes House to hack gender bias on the world's most visited website! Only around 1 in 10 Wikipedia editors self-identifies as female, and less than 25% of biographies on Wikipedia are about women. When women’s faces are missing from Wikipedia, their invisibility spreads both online and offline. Help us make more women visible on Wikipedia! The #VisibleWikiWomen edit-a-thon is a chance to learn how to add images to Wikimedia Commons and edit Wikipedia articles alongside experienced Wikipedia editors. It takes a multitude of us working together to tackle the skewed representation of knowledge online and build an internet that's truly by, of, and for all of us.
Join the #VisibleWikiWomen Edit-a-thon on Fri 23 November 2018!
Evening's Agenda[edit]
- 17:00 Introductions and overview of campaign and editing Wikipedia.
And registering on today's event dashboard!
- 17:30 Getting folks started with Wikipedia accounts
- 18:00-20:00 Editing workshops at tables: learn to add images, improve existing articles, or create new ones!
Join![edit]
Enroll on the outreach dashboard
Hashtags to use as you celebrate your edits! #VWWeditathon #VisibleWikiWomen #16DaysofActivism
Suggested Activities[edit]
- Add images of women to existing Wikipedia articles.
- Write and translate articles. See the worklist below for some suggestions of articles to start, improve, or translate!
- Improve descriptions and categories for the women's images already gathered on Wikimedia Commons.
- Create and improve Wikidata items for these women.
- Continue uploading images of notable women and their work to Wikimedia Commons under the #VisibleWikiWomen Category. Here is an Upload Wizard to help you :)
Resources and tools[edit]
Here are some resources for today (and beyond!)
Adding Images to Wikimedia Commons
- How to give and get consent for images on Wikipedia
- Do's and Don't's for adding images to Wikimedia Commons
- How to find free images for Wikimedia Commons
- How to ask for image donations
- How to create drawings for Wikipedia
Editing Wikipedia
- Resources to understand, practice, critique, and teach with Wikipedia
- Resources on open licenses and digital repositories
Spread the word[edit]
Even after the event, you can help let people know about this effort.
- Reach out your volunteers from previous events or editathons.
- Tell them more about #VisibleWikiWomen: invite them to visit #VisibleWikiWomen, or follow us on social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram).
- Share the list of articles with them.
- Ask them to register in the event dashboard so that their contributions can be counted as they improve Wikimedia projects!
Work lists[edit]
During the VisibleWikiWomen challenge in March-April 2018 over 800 new photos was uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. This represents a lot of articles to create, translate or improve. We are building a list of women that appear in the category VisibleWikiWomen and their respective items on Wikidata.
TAKE A LOOK AT THE WIKIDATA LIST.
This is a work in progress. You can help by finding or creating the Wikidata item of each woman, and adding it to the list.
Suggested articles[edit]
We have chosen the uploaded pictures of some prominent women who are very interesting, and whose biographies still do not exist in any version of Wikipedia.
Once you choose an article, please assign yourself on the Dashboard, to let other participants know that you are working on it. Feel free to create articles in any Wikipedia language. When you finish it, link your article in the last column, so that everyone can read it!
| N°1 | Image | Wikidata item | Description | Articles created |
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| 1 | .jpg) |
Norma Boero | Argentinian scientist | |
| 2 | _(9804420436)_(cropped).jpg) |
Demitu Hambisa Bonsa Bonsa | politician of Ethiopia | de:Demitu Hambisa Bonsa |
| 3 | .jpg) |
Hania Morsi Fadl | Sudanece doctor of medicine | |
| 4 |  |
Margarette May Macaulay | Commissioner of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (OAS) | |
| 5 |  |
Daphne Martschenko | American rower | |
| 6 |  |
Ana Lorena Delgadillo | Mexican lawyer | |
| 7 |  |
Berta Zúñiga Cáceres | environmental activist from Honduras | es:Berta Zúñiga Cáceres |
| 8 |  |
Blerta Aliko | Deputy Regional Director for UN Women in Arab States | |
| 9 | .jpg) |
Runa Sandvik | privacy and security researcher | no:Runa Sandvik |
| 10 | .jpg) |
Esmeralda Arosemena Troitiño | Commissioner of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (OAS) | |
| 11 |  |
Cicely Carew | American Visual artist | |
| 12 |  |
Constanza Valdés | Chilean politician | |
| 13 |  |
Cristyne Nicholas | American entrepreneur | |
| 13 |  |
Maria Chiara Pievatolo | Professor of political philosophy | |
| 14 |  |
Dzigbordi Dosoo | entrepreneur from Ghana | |
| 15 | _(cropped).jpg) |
Eleanor Holgate Lattimore | author, East Asia expert | |
| 16 |  |
Elena Reynaga | activist for sex workers rights in Latin America | |
| 17 |  |
Nesma Abdel Aziz |
Egyptian marimba performer|| | |
| 18 |  |
Juana Calfunao Paillalef | Mapuche's chief (lonko) | |
| 19 |  |
Amina Benkhadra | Moroccan politician
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