Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's History/Ada Lovelace Festival of Wikipedia workshop

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BCS Women joined forces with Wikimedia UK and Suw Charman-Anderson of Finding Ada, to celebrate Ada Lovelace day in 2013. In general, the day exists to celebrate the contributions of women in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, especially since Ada Lovelace is considered the first programmer, due to her work on Charles Babbage's analytical engine. As well as the usual events on Ada Lovelace Day, October 15, this year BCS Women run a Festival of Wikipedia to add/update/ improve Wikipedia entries of Women In Computing. There was a series of informal events in various locations, details of which you can find below.

General contact: WMUK, Daria Cybulska on daria.cybulska (at) wikimedia.org.uk, telephone 0207 065 0994. Finding Ada, please contact Suw on suw.charman (at) gmail.com.

Preparation for the participants

  • Laptop
  • Details of your Wikipedia username
  • Ideas of topics to edit

Training was given by the leader and a Wikipedia volunteer at each event.

Additional resources

For people joining us online, and those wanting to learn more before the event, following help pages were suggested:

Joining online

  • Twitter: #WISWIKI, @wikimediauk, @bcswomen, @FindingAda
  • Chat room: #wikimedia-uk channel - this was supported by Cornelia Boldyreff.

I'm attending online

London

  • Date: Thursday 3 October 2013
  • Time: 3.30pm-7.30pm; plus food and networking until 8.45pm
  • Venue: BCS, 1st Floor, The Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London, WC2E 7HA [1]
  • More information - Here
  • BSC lead - Sarah Burnett, sarah.burnett@bcs.org

Suggested topics for the editathon

Computer Science

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Trainers

Edinburgh

  • Date: Thursday 3 October 2013
  • Time: 4.00pm-8.00pm
  • Venue: IBM, 21 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh, EH2 1AY
  • More information and how to book (free) - Here
  • BCS lead - Sharon Moore, sharon.moore@bcs.org

Resources

In addition to publicly accessible on-line resources, participants may wish to register for a National Library of Scotland digital readership in advance of the event. If you already hold a valid NLS library card then you will simply need to register for online access; if you do not have an NLS library card, you can still register for a digital readership so long as your residential address is in Scotland. Simply fill out the online registration form for either new or existing customers, activate your account, and set up your password. This will give you access to a wealth of knowledge and online resources:

  • Hundreds of thousands of digitised books, periodicals and manuscripts spanning over five centuries
  • Millions of records and abstracts via online services and databases
  • Thousands of full-text newspapers, journals and reports
  • Hundreds of full-text reference works.

You can then browse these collections or search for keywords during the edit-a-thon and during any other Wikipedia contributions you may make in the future! A step-by-step, detailed guide to digital registration with the NLS is also available.

Suggested topics for the editathon

Trainers

Participants

Southampton

  • Date: Saturday 5 October 2013
  • Time: 11am – 3pm
  • Venue: Southampton Solent University, Reginald Mitchell Building, RM 326 3rd Floor, 326 East Park Terrace, Southampton, SO14 0YN
  • More information - Here
  • BCS lead - Margaret Ross, margaret.ross@solent.ac.uk; arranged jointly with BCS Women, Open Source SG and Hampshire Branch

Trainers

Outcome

The event was attended by a small but very capable group of BCS women members new to Wikipedia who learned how to contribute to Wikipedia and started articles on women in computer science.

Press

Further outcomes

BSC Women were keen to continue with the events, setting up sessions for or around 10th December 2013, the birthday of Ada Lovelace. The cooperation continued in 2014.

References

  1. ^ "Profiles of Technical Women: Famous Women in Computer Science". {{cite web}}: |first= missing |last= (help)
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