Wikipedia:GLAM/Wellcome/Events and Workshops/BirminghamWSTEM

Mary Ann Cotrell slitting pen nibs at C. Brandauer & Co., Birmingham, c.1910s. This image is one of many images of scientists and engineers that have been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons.

About the event

The University of Birmingham, the Women's Engineering Society and Wellcome Collection are joining forces to host a Wikithon to celebrate International Women in Engineering Day. Come along and celebrate the women engineers that deserve a more prominent place in the online historical record. You'll develop your digital skills and learn how to edit Wikipedia in order to harness the power of the web to share knowledge.

Experienced Wikipedia editors and complete beginners are both welcome to attend - we'll provide training for anyone new to editing. If you’ve spotted an article that needs improving, bring along your queries and we’ll see what we can do to help!

This will contribute to the Women's Engineering Society's Centenary Year. The WES Centenary Trail is all about putting women from history onto Wikipedia, so their achievements aren't overlooked or forgotten.

Editing

Click here to go to the Dashboard so we can keep track of all the editing

For nice easy edits, check that all people are in the right categories, translate information between Wiki's, check out Wikidata, and check that people's articles are included on lists like these and mentioned on relevant pages.

Take a look at WES on Twitter or on Instagram to get inspired by the brilliant women engineers who don’t have a Wikipedia page … yet! To find more fascinating women engineers, take a look at The Woman Engineer journal and a list of women featured in The Woman Engineer in this handy index. You can find advice on how to search for relevant sources on any person here.

Useful links

Here are some more useful links to help you with your editing and with keeping track of your edits:

• All sorts of helpful guides and online resources can be found on the Wellcome Library Wikimedian in Residence Project Page. For instance, there are links to digitised material from the Wellcome Library.
• You can view all your contributions to Wikipedia by clicking "Contributions" (in the top right of this page).
• You can add pictures for use on Wiki-pages and beyond on Wikimedia Commons. Your Wikipedia account will work on Commons too - as well as all the other Wiki-projects and different language versions of Wikipedia.
• If you're interested in joining a community of editors passionate about women in STEM broadly, take a look at Wikipedia:WikiProject Women scientists. You can view useful resources, "to do" lists of pages that need creating, and view metrics highlighting featured articles and articles in need of improvement.
• If you're interested in joining a community of editors passionate about engineering, take a look at Wikipedia:WikiProject Engineering. You can view useful resources and view metrics highlighting featured articles and articles in need of improvement.
• The Pageviews tool is a great way of measuring how many people are looking at the page you created/edited. You can even export the data if you'd like it for reports, etc.
• Learn about editing if you like: see Visual Editor user guide for more information.
• Check out the notability guidelines and what topics can be written about on Wikipedia.
• Think about whether you have any conflicts of interest.