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    1000 Women in Religion Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
    December 2020

    Event information
    WhatEditing workshop - post AAR/SBL 2020 Annual Meeting
    DateMonday, December 14, 2020
    3:00pm-6:00pm CST
    LocationOnline
    HostColleen D. Hartung
    FacilitatorsDzingle1; PMCH2

    Event Description

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    Did you know that only 18% of the biographical subjects and 9% of the editors on Wikipedia are women? WikiProject 1000 Women in Religion is a major initiative of the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature (AAR/SBL) Women's Caucus. The project aims to address the under-recognized work of cis and transgender women in the world's religious, spiritual and wisdom traditions by adding 1,000+ women in religion onto Wikipedia.

    At this workshop, which is being held just following the 2020 AAR/SBL annual meeting, participants will sign up as wiki-editors, create their personal user page, learn the basics of editing and make their first wiki-edits. We can also help you to start a new article about a woman who is not on Wikipedia but should be included.

    Our worklist will focus on: women scholars of religion, especially BIPOC scholars. Participants are also welcome to work on women from any religious, spiritual or wisdom tradition who are not on the worklist. There will be plenty of time for questions and time for hands on assistance. No need to be a technological expert!

    Join us in our effort to address gender bias on Wikipedia by improving the coverage of women in religion on Wikipedia.

    Event Details

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    Agenda

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    • Introductions
    • What is the “1000 Women in Religion Project”?
    • Systemic bias on Wikipedia
    • Is everybody signed up as a Wiki-editor?
    • Training on basic editing
    • Questions
    • Develop an editing plan
    • Open editing, as time allows

    Goals: Create user account (if new to Wikipedia), create user page with at least one sentence, sign up for edit-a-thon on the 1000 Women in Religion Wikipedia Meetup page, make at least one edit to a Wikipedia page.

    Before you arrive

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    Let us know you are coming
      • if you do not yet have a Wikipedia account, you can create one on the dashboard. Consider choosing a user name that is gender neutral, and not your full name, when choosing a "user name" unless you want to be publicly identifiable.
    • You can also signup for a Wikipedia account directly: here.



    About the 1000 Women in Religion Project

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    The "1000 Women in Religion Project", a major initiative of the Women's Caucus of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature, seeks to add over 1,000 names and contributions of religious, spiritual and wisdom women to Wikipedia, the largest encyclopedia in the world. The contributions of women in all fields of work, scholarship and life, including religion and spirituality, have gone under-recognized, across time and in our present-day context. This under-recognition, which is a form of gender bias, is reflected and reproduced in our commonly used sources of knowledge – in our history books, in our news media, even in our sacred texts. The more we can document and highlight the contributions of women leaders in their religious and spiritual traditions, the more we can change the perception that women have not been leaders. The Women’s Caucus is supported in this effort to raise up notable women onto Wikipedia by Atla and the Women’s Task Force of the Parliament of the World's Religions.

    Workbench

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    Women in blue -- articles need improvement
    Women in red -- need Wikipedia articles

    Scholars of religion and/or biblical studies

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    Womanist Scholars

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    Lists to edit

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    These lists could use editing to increase the representation of women, or to expand the names of notable women listed in each category.

    Resources

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    Inspiration for possible new articles
    Helpful sources and links

    Outcomes

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    Add any pages you worked on here:


    You can also find a summary of our edits on our dashboard: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/AAR_and_SBL_Women's_Caucus/1000_Women_in_Religion_Edit-a-thon?enroll=iqgtsebj