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Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland/NZ Fashion Museum 2

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What's it about? edit

Only 17% of Wikipedia's biographies are of women and only 10% of its editors are female. Join the New Zealand Fashion Museum for an all day event as we work to change this! Spend a day bringing more voices and diverse content to the the fifth most searched website in the world. Help create and improve Wikipedia entries on subjects related to fashion, gender, art and feminism. We will provide tutorials for the beginner Wikipedian, reference materials and refreshments. All you need to bring is your laptop!

When and where edit

  • Sat 23 September 2018, 11.00–15.30 NZST
  • Betty Wark Room, Ellen Melville Centre, 2 Freyberg Pl, Central Auckland
  • Participants from anywhere in the world are welcome to join in remotely.

Timetable edit

  • 11.00: Meet and greet
    Introductions, name lanyards, and account creation if needed
  • 11.15–12:15: Intro to Wikipedia
    We'll learn how Wikipedia works and how to improve and create articles. There will be experienced editors present who'll be buddied up with newcomers.
  • 1.00–17.00: Editing
    Our goal is to improve the representation of women in Wikipedia; we'll focus today on gender, art, and fashion, but you're welcome to pursue any project you want. You can improve existing articles, add photos, or create stub articles for women missing from Wikipedia. See below for some ideas.

Attending edit

  • The Edit-a-thon is free and open to all. We invite people of all gender identities and expressions, particularly transgender and cisgender women, to participate!
  • This workshop will be following "friendly space" guidelines; check them out. Harassment and disruption won't be tolerated, online or offline.
  • There's a public Facebook event you can share, and please use the #Suffrage125 hashtag on social media.
  • Attendees: sign in on the Dashboard tool with your Wikipedia username; that will help us keep track of edits and stats.

People attending edit

In person edit

Remotely edit

What to bring edit

 
Participant Rattelle at the edit-a-thon
  • Your own laptop and power cord.
  • Any snacks or drink you want; refreshments are provided.
  • Any resources such as books, journals, magazine or newspaper articles relevant to women you're interested in.
  • Photos you've taken that could illustrate articles; you'll learn how to donate these to Wikimedia Commons so other Wikipedia articles can use them.

Preparation edit

  1. If you're coming, try to create a Wikipedia account beforehand: don't wait until the day to do it! Here's a form you can use. 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; you could use your real name, but it's nice to have the option to be a bit anonymous if you want. Here's some advice on picking a username.
  2. Read up on Wikipedia: there are lots of tutorials, like the Wikipedia Adventure, and useful guides, like the Editing Wikipedia brochure. The more you prepare, the more you'll be able to get done. You may want to read up on avoiding common mistakes, but Wikipedia has a "don't bite the newbies" policy, and we'll be there to troubleshoot.
  3. Have a think about topics you'd like to work on; do a little research first so you're prepared. You don't have to be an expert; anyone who can do library research and write clearly can contribute to Wikipedia. Good references for Wikipedia articles are news stories, textbooks, or magazine articles. The best candidates for Wikipedia articles are people who are "notable". In Wikipedia terms, "notability" usually means they're mentioned in print in various reliable independent sources, such as news stories, textbooks, or magazine articles. If you're proposing to add someone to Wikipedia it's very important to make sure they're "notable"; talk to us if you're not sure.
  4. We'll also need photos, and those need to be free of any copyright or released under a Creative Commons license that lets anyone use them. If you're not familiar with Creative Commons, see Useful Links below. If you've taken photos and are happy to donate them, great! Bring them along. If you know of anyone who has good photos, approach them and ask them if they'd like their work to be seen and used by people all over the world (with them credited, of course).

Guides to editing edit

 
179 Queen Street, the store front from 1936 to the early 1950s of the Trilby Yates fashion label. The workroom at 26 Durham Street West, the street to the right, has not survived.

To work on edit

Outcomes edit

 
Participants Sesame86 and Susan Tol at the edit-a-thon

Pages improved or created:

Edits Files in use Files uploaded Items created Items improved New editors Pages created Pages improved 7 day retention
82 2 8 0 3 1 5 17 0

Acknowledgements edit

Many thanks to the New Zealand Fashion Museum and Sarah Powell for making this workshop possible.


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