User:Pakoire/Aotearoa Ada STEM Day 24HRS
What's it about?
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.
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[edit]
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.
| 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[edit]
Please register with the 'dashboard' - a place where progress is counted and articles are allocated. (Link to follow).
People[edit]
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
- Many thanks for any contribution you make.
What you need[edit]
- Access to a computer and the internet
- A username and login for Wikipedia (if you can't do this we can help you)
Preparation[edit]
- Create a Wikipedia account beforehand, here's the form. Creating an account makes editing much easier (here's more info on why you should). You'll need to pick a "handle" for your username; it's best not to use your real name. Here's some advice on picking a username.
OPTIONAL
- Read up on Wikipedia: there are lots of tutorials, like the Wikipedia Adventure, and useful guides, like the Editing Wikipedia brochure.
Articles to develop[edit]
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:
- Dorita Hannah (architect)
- Hanareia Ehau-Taumaunu (biologist)
- Briar Taylor-Smith (biologist)
Some short entry level articles ready to expand are:
- Alice Bush (1914–1974), doctor
- Eily Elaine Gurr (1896–1996), doctor
Outcomes[edit]
Add links to your expanded, completed or draft articles here
Schedule Tuesday 12 October 2021[edit]
To be detailed
Start time 12.00pm
Edit-a-thon guidelines[edit]
- This workshop will be following "friendly space" guidelines; check them out. Harassment and disruption won't be tolerated, online or offline.
- Meetup Code of Conduct and Anonymity when Meeting Via Video Conference. All attendees are expected to understand and abide by the Draft Universal Code of Conduct for the Wikimedia Movement.
Training aids and resources / getting started[edit]
Please create an account before you arrive with an anonymous user name
- An introductory video on editing - the first 4 minutes to set up an account are good: – How to Edit Wikipedia (47:44)
- 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)
- This includes
- Learn to edit Wikipedia in under an hour
- How to edit pages using the Visual Editor: for when you click Edit
- An explanation of Creative Commons, Wikimedia Commons, and crowdsourced photos by Harry Chapman
- The main English Wikipedia Help page is here. It has links on how to edit a page, contributing to Wikipedia, an introductory tutorial, and "getting started"
Women in STEM - Wiki Projects[edit]
For more information see: