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Wikipedia:Meetup/UK/KCL/Maughan Library/International Women's Day 2017

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2017 International Women's Day
Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
When and Where
DateWednesday, March 8, 2017
Time12:30 pm – 4:00 pm
AddressMaughan Library
Kings College London
Chancery Lane
City, CountryLondon, England
DateWednesday, March 8, 2017

Event information

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Women make up only 17% of the biographies on Wikipedia. Women editors make up under 15% of Wikipedia’s regular editing community.

Please bring a laptop if you have one, as only a small number of laptops will be available on the day.

Image adding exercise

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Please go to WP:Shakyi

List of articles to edit

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This is a list of articles that would benefit from edits and expansion during the edit-a-thon, but you are welcome to work on anything you like.
Please note: This is a crowdsourced list. You can help us by adding to it!

List of King's College London alumni has plenty of KCL alumni, but not just women.

See also: Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism/Tasks

To start:

To improve (stub pages):

  • tba
  • tba

To improve (need images):

To improve (page has issues):

Resources for editing

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Articles created

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List of Wikipedia articles attendees started:

Articles improved

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List of Wikipedia articles attendees have worked to improve:

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Trainers

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Participants - Sign Up Here!

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Prior to the event:

  1. Do you have a Wikipedia User Name?
    No? Create a Wikipedia account
    Yes? Go to Step #2
  2. Sign up! Add your Wikipedia User Name to this section by clicking the blue button below (follow instructions). Your name will be added to the bottom of this page
Don't worry! If you haven't edited Wikipedia before and don't have a Wikipedia User Name yet, we will help you on the day of the event! And remember to have fun!
To sign up for this event: Log in or create an account.

References

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