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User:Pakoire/Women's Day Edit-a-thon New Zealand

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New Zealand International Women's Day Editathon

To acknowledge International Women's Day on Tuesday the 8th of March the New Zealand Wikipedia Usergroup are holding a weekend edit-a-thon on 5th and 6th March 2022. It is online on Zoom intended for people to participate for any length of time that suits them and to enable people to come and go. There will be two facilitated catch up times a day - morning and afternoon, to enable any users to get support they might need and to provide a more social aspect to the virtual event.

When and where edit

  • Date: 9am (0900) Saturday 5 March - 9pm (2100) Sunday 6 March 2022
  • Location: Online at a Zoom link (to be advised)
Dashboard edit

(dashboard link on its way)

If folk are intending to do stuff outside the project during these two days you can choose not to add yourself to the dashboard but instead manually add your contributions to Outcomes.

Running order edit
  • Saturday 5 March
  • 0900 - Event start
  • 1030 - Morning tea meetup and introductions
  • 1100 - Breakout rooms opened including questions and exchange facilitated by Pakoire & Ambrosia10.
  • 1500 - Afternoon tea check-in (all welcome)
  • 1600 - Zoom closed for the day
  • Sunday 6 March
  • 0900 - Zoom breakout rooms opened for informal joint editing
  • 1200 - Aotearoa Online Meetup takeover - meetup, introductions, check-in, coaching as required
  • 1530 - Afternoon tea check-in and closing (all welcome)
  • 1600 - Zoom closed for the day
  • 2100 - Dashboard finish

Purpose and suggested content edit

The purpose of the event is to increase content about women in Aotearoa in Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikiquotes or Wikisource. Editors are free to contribute in anyway big or small on any Wikimedia Foundation platform. We look forward to finding out what is generated - you can share in the Outcomes sections

Wikipedia goals

Create 20 new articles about women

  • Improve 20 stub articles about women to ORES C class

Please see this google document for suggested articles to work on.

Please see this google document for advice and suggestions on the structure of articles and other resources that may be of use.

Wikimedia Commons

Images of women are important to illustrate articles. The New Zealand Governor Generals Office has many images in their website under an open licence that could be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. For people new to this we can offer tutorial - indicate your interest when you add yourself as a participant.

Participants edit

Please add yourself to the project in the list below - add the name of any article you are drafting or updating to avoid edit conflicts. Many thanks.

You can join the zoom if you wish or you can work independently. You will be added to the dashboard.

Outcomes edit

Please list your outcomes to the lists below:

New articles edit
Improved articles edit
Other edit

(add links / share the things you have done)

Meetup Code of Conduct and Anonymity when Meeting Via Video Conference edit

All attendees are expected to understand and abide by the Draft Universal Code of Conduct for the Wikimedia Movement.

The video conferencing meetup is a replacement for the in-person meetup. While attending and remaining anonymous is supported by the group, lurking is not supported and will be actively discouraged. All attendees are expected to use their User name as an identifier on the video conference call and to introduce themselves and their interest in joining the call on the chat channel of the call as a minimum. Participation using video and / or voice in addition to Chat is encouraged but not required.

Some members of the group have been the target of cyber bullying in the past and these measures are intended to support creating a safe space for collaboration.

  • If a new attendee joins the group with video and voice disabled, they will be encouraged to participate by the facilitator, using this script:
    • Welcome new attendee. This group respects your right to remain anonymous. This group has a policy of discouraging lurking as it makes some of us uncomfortable. If you are happy to introduce yourself over voice, please let us know what you've been working on and if you need help with any editing issues.
    • If you're not comfortable updating the group by voice, then that's okay. You have the option of introducing yourself and adding your user page link in the chat feature. The chat is deleted once the video conference finishes.
    • If you want to remain completely anonymous and not chat, then this meetup is not for you. We make comprehensive and extensive notes of the meetup that will be included in the meetup page afterwards. That's the best way to catch up with what this meetup has been doing if you don't want to contribute during the video call.
    • If you're not sure how to use the chat feature you can access it by clicking on the icon that looks like a speech bubble in the bottom left corner.

If, after an appropriate length of time, the new attendee does not participate by video, voice, or chat, the facilitator of the group will remove the attendee from the video call.

If the new attendee persists in logging in, the group will discuss abandoning the meet up.

 

Promotion and affiliated Wikipedia projects to join edit

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