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User:Pakoire/Aotearoa Ada STEM Day 24HRS

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What's it about?

Ada Lovelace (1815–1852)

English mathematician and pioneer computer programmer Ada Lovelace has inspired a group of volunteers to hold a 24 hour global event to create more biographies of women in STEM on Wikipedia.

This combined New Zealand and Australia event on 12 August 2021will go from noon New Zealand time (NZST) until 8 pm Sydney time (AEST), covering 10 hours of the 24 hour event and then handing off to Wikipedia friends in Asia, Africa, and the UK.

This edit-a-thon is especially for people who want to learn how to edit Wikipedia and create new biographies about women. There will be coaching available for the duration of the event with four sessions run first by a team in Aotearoa and then a team in Australia.

Logo Women in STEM Wikipedia
Logo Women in STEM Wikipedia

STEM stands for science, technology, engineering and mathematics and covers a range of careers from architect through to aeronautical engineer, including chemist, data analyst, epidemiologist, biologist, doctor, food technologist, data analyst and software product designer.

Who do you want to see better represented in the world?

This event is part of Women In Red: an international group of editors of all genders who are reducing systemic gender bias in Wikipedia.

When and where

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Date: Tuesday 12 October 2021

Time: Noon – 10.00 pm NZST / 10:00 am – 8:00 pm AEST

Location: online (zoom link). These workshop sessions also have open chat rooms for experienced editors to create content in an online collegial environment. Join the zoom link whenever you are able.

Free Wikipedia training sessions
Session NZST AEST Coaches Register
1 Noon–2:00 pm 10:00 am–Noon NZ
2 2:30–4:30 pm 12:30–2:30 pm NZ
3 5:00–7:00 pm 3:00–5:00 pm Australia
4 8:00–10:00 pm 6:00–8:00 pm Australia

Goals:

  • Increase biographies of women in STEM on Wikipedia to address the existing bias
  • Recruit and teach new users how to create a biography

Dashboard

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Please register with the 'dashboard' - a place where progress is counted and articles are allocated. (Link to follow).

'Wikipedians' and learners at an on-line edit-a-thon in Aotearoa in August 2021

People

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The team in Aotearoa is Lisa (User:Pakoire), Mike (User:Giantflightlessbirds), Tamsin (User:DrThneed) and Siobhan (User:Ambrosia10). The team in Australia is Caddie (Wikipedia Coordinator). We are volunteer Wikipedia editors who are passionate about addressing the gender gap on Wikipedia.

Attending

  1. Pakoire
  2. Ambrosia10
  3. DrThneed
Many thanks for any contribution you make.

What you need

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  • Access to a computer and the internet
  • A username and login for Wikipedia (if you can't do this we can help you)

Preparation

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OPTIONAL

Articles to develop

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There are many notable New Zealand women in STEM who can have a Wikipedia article. Please look at our list of suggested articles to develop on Google docs, or you can use the Women In Red lists: Wikipedia:Meetup/Ada Lovelace Day

Articles need to pass notability, which typically means the person, company or event is well-known enough to be discussed by sources in the media or in academic articles.

Some examples are:

Some short entry level articles ready to expand are:

Outcomes

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Add links to your expanded, completed or draft articles here

Schedule Tuesday 12 October 2021

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To be detailed

Start time 12.00pm

Edit-a-thon guidelines

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Training aids and resources / getting started

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Please create an account before you arrive with an anonymous user name

This includes
  • How to create and set up your account (00:00)
  • Looking at an example page (04:07) including the Talk page (10:50) and View History (11:25)
  • Drafting an article and using your Sandbox (13:00) including having a minimum of 50 to 100 words with three high quality, reliable, secondary sources (13:50), drafting content and editing tools in visual editor (16:25), adding citations (19:02), adding images from Wikimedia Commons (26:10), adding an info box (28:24), categories (30:35)
  • Your own talk page (33:25) including adding a new editor badge
  • Moving drafted content to Wikipedia's livespace (39:23)
  • A timelapse of drafting and publishing a new article on Wikipedia (44:23)
Learn to edit Wikipedia in under an hour

Women in STEM - Wiki Projects

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For more information see:

Other Events

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