Wikipedia:GLAM/Amnesty International: Human Rights Defenders/London
Amnesty International: Women Human Rights Defenders Editathon edit
- Where?: Human Rights Action Center, 25 New Inn Yard, London EC2A 3EA
- When?: Sunday May 20th, 10am- 6pm
- Cost: Free!
- How do I sign up?: [Register your attendance to the event here | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-making-history-festival-stillmarching-tickets-45374072071]
Please note that the event is currently oversubscribed, but due to uncertainty of numbers on the day, registration for the event is remaining open. If you have any questions prior to or following the event, you can drop an email to hannah.evans@wikimedia.org.uk
No prior experience of editing Wikipedia is necessary, as full training will be given on the day, but participants should create a Wikipedia account in advance (see below).
What can I do to prepare? edit
- Most importantly please create a Wikipedia account before you arrive, so that you can get on editing those pages right away!
- Learn a little about Wikipedia editing if you can before you arrive Tutorial, or Getting started on Wikipedia for more information
- Learn about creating women's biographies: Primer for creating women’s biographies
- Learn more about good practice for writing about women on Wikipedia: Writing about women
- Arrive promptly at 10am to hear the first Key-note speaker: Woman Human Rights Defender, and to be trained up on editing!
Event Context: The Gender Gap edit
With 47 million articles in 229 languages, Wikipedia is a well-established force for the democratisation of knowledge, and a key outreach tool, with one recent study showing that the encyclopedia shapes, as well as reflects, scientific thought.
However, Wikipedia has a gender problem: the encyclopedia's editors and its content is weighted towards men.
In a 2011 survey, the Foundation found that only around 9% of contributors identified as female, and less than 1% as trans*. This imbalance in demographic leads to a content gap - as of 1 January 2018, just 17.37% of biographies on English Wikipedia were about women. It’s a form of systemic bias that both the Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikipedia community are working to fix, with projects like Wikiproject Women in Red and the Gender Gap Task Force. But we need more people to help.
Where edit
You can find us in the Conference Room of the Amnesty International's Human Rights Action Centre, 25 New Inn Yard, Shoreditch, London
Editathon Agenda edit
Session 1: 10:30am- 2pm
- 10:30 Key Note Speaker 1: WMHD Jaz O'Hara & Welcome to Amnesty
- 10:50 Introduction to Wikimedia UK
- 1055- 1110 Introduction to Wikipedia Editing
- 1110- 1350: WHRD Wikipedia Editing!
- 1350- 1400: Summary of Session 1
2-3 pm Break [Room will be open to carry on editing]
Session 2: 3pm- 6pm
- 1500- 1510 Key Note Speaker 2: WHRD Anna Whitehouse / Mama Pucka
- 1515-1520 Wikimedia UK Refresher
- 1520-1535: Introduction to Editing- Refresher
- 1535- 1745 Wikipedia Editing!
1745- 6pm Summary of Sessions- Assessing what we achieved!
Event Wikipedia Trainers edit
Participants edit
Please sign your name here before you begin editing, by typing hashtag, then three 'tills' (3 of these ~); it's crucial step for us to keep a track of the work we achieve at the event!
Hit list of articles to be created or improved edit
Amnesty International have carefully procured a list of Women Human Rights edits and new biographies to be made for the day, and will have plenty of resources on the day to support your editing/ biography creation at the event- (as well as google being a friend too)!
Women Human Right Defender (WHRD) Articles to be created edit
WHRDs from the UK
- Angela Glendenning
- Amy Redmont(Zing)
- Anna Whitehouse/ Mother Pukka
- Emma Norton
- Jessica Hepburn
- Joeli Brearley
- Joy Lewis
- Kate Garbers (Draft)
- Klina Jordan
- Marchu Girma
- Maria Munir
- Mandie McKeown
- Mehala Osborne
- Michelle Smith
- Mridul Wadha (record to be created by AI scotland )
- Marta Welander
- Polly Harrar
- Polly Higgins
- Polly Neate
- Rhiannon Prideaux
- Trudy Baddams
- Vicky Spratt
Global WHRD New Articles
- Radhya Almutawakel
- Maryam Akbari Monfared
Global WHRD Wikipedia Updates Needed
- Mahienour El-Masry *Existing Wikipedia but needs updating
- Fatou Kine Camara *Existing Wikipedia
- Atena Daemi
- Fartuun Adan
- Fatimata Mbaye
- Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee
- Narges Mohamamdi
- Ruth Mumbi
- Salimata Lam
UK Women Rights Organisations- New records
- Women for Refugee Women
UK Women's Rights Organisations- Wikipedia Updates Needed
- Southall Black Sisters
Global Human Rights Organisations- New Wikipedia Articles
- Nazra for Feminist Studies (Egypt)
- MENA WHRD Coalition
Global Human Rights Organisations- Updates Needed
- International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)
- IPAS
- Women Deliver
- Restless Development
- Women Global Network for Reproductive Rights
- Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID)
Women Human Right Defender (WHRD) Articles to be improved/ updated edit
Helpful Resources edit
Link to Wikiproject: Women in Red edit
- This Wikiproject links to some great resources, focusing on the writing of women biographies Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/00
Example Women Human Right Defenders (WHRD) Biographies edit
General resources to use when editing edit
- Wikipedia is a tertiary resource, which relies upon good quality secondary sources and some primary sources. Wikipedia is not a place for fringe theories, untested hypotheses, or personal interpretation.
- For more guidance on the use of sources, see this guide here.
- We will provide a variety of reference materials on the day.
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- Shareable Images can be found through a Creative Commons search(which includes Google, Flickr & Wikicommons in its search).
Outputs edit
Pages Created edit
Pages Improved edit
After the event edit
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