Wikipedia:Meetups/UK/International Women's Day Oxford 2018

Join us on International Women's Day in Oxford. We'll have a short talk on the gender gap on Wikipedia, learn how to edit, and then work on improving articles about and of interest to women!

International Women's Day training & editathon in Oxford in a nutshell:

Where?: Oxfordshire County Library, Makerspace, first floor, Westgate, Queen Street, Oxford OX1 1DJ
When?: 8th March 2018, 10.30-14.00
Point of contact: Marielle Volz - marielle.volz(at)gmail.com
Hashtag: #OxWoWiki2018
Short link: bit.ly/OxWoWiki (link resolves to the current page)
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1878658965479525/
Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-gender-gap-on-wikipedia-tickets-43501847196
Twitter: @wikimediauk @mariellevolz @MarkLibrarian
Cost: Free

Event Details edit

Interior of the Oxfordshire County Library Makerspace

Date & Location edit

Date: Thursday 8 March 2018

Time: 10:30am - 2pm

Location: Oxfordshire County Library, Oxford UK. Meets in the MakerSpace on the first floor.

Programme edit

10:30-10:45am: Talk: The Gender Gap on Wikipedia (Marielle Volz)

11:00am-2:00pm: Let's edit! Trainers will be on hand for anyone who needs help.

Registration edit

You can register for the talk on eventbrite. This is not required but is helpful for us to get an idea of the number of attendees.

If you are attending the editathon, please enroll on the outreach dashboard. You can also enroll on the day if you do not have a Wikipedia account and would like help setting one up.

Disability accessibility, children, & inclusion edit

All are welcome!

Unfortunately, the lifts to the first floor of the library are very small. There is a wheelchair available that fits in the lift available on request.

Infants and children are welcome to accompany their carers into the talk and editathon. There will be a small area set aside on the floor with toys and books for infants. The Makerspace is right next to the children's library if you need to leave at any point, and there are gender neutral toilets available on the same floor with changing tables. Parents are welcome to feed their infants (breast or bottle) in the venue.

If your questions or concerns are not addressed in this section, please bring them up in the talk page or to the organiser directly.

Editing ideas edit

There are lots of ideas on Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red which could be interesting.

Bite sized tasks for new editors edit

Add a citation! Citation Hunt
Fix a spelling or grammatical error!

Women in Red edit

Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red is a project for creating new articles about women. Please see: Ten simple rules for creating women's biographies for reference.

Crowd-sourced lists on:

Missing articles in English that can be translated from another language:

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Green for improving articles.

Contribute to other Wikiprojects edit

There are a large number of Wikiprojects which are a good place to find articles to work on. Some are below, others are in the sidebar.

New Wikiprojects edit

Candidate wikiprojects for creation

New article ideas edit

The Kindness Rock Project is a viral trend where people (commonly children) paint rocks and leave them for others to find. It has significant UK and US news coverage.
Milk bleb
No Teen Shame - "A campaign to raise awareness around issues impacting young families while pushing back against stigmatizing teen pregnancy prevention messaging."
Parenting Science Gang - Wellcome trust citizen science group for researching scientific questions of interest to parents.

Articles for improvement edit

Tag review edit

This articles have been tagged as having a problem. Resolve issue and (hopefully) remove tag.

Articles worked on edit

Jacquetta Hawkes
Lady Betty
Martha Annie Whiteley
Eucaine (Martha Annie Whiteley worked on a synthesis of it)