Ada Lovelace Day – 24 hour Global Edit-a-thon #WikiAda24 – Hybrid Event

Ada Lovelace Day – 24 hour Global Edit-a-thon

The Zebra Partnership are back at their Pankhurst Centre* Hub with Wiki Women in Red to bring you an extra special wikieditathon with international partners

On 12 October on Ada Lovelace Day we are organizing a round-the-clock online recruitment drive, including inspiring presentations and extensive support around the globe.

We are planning two-hour on-line events in Australia/New Zealand, Asia Europe, Africa and the United States, which will be focused on encouraging new contributors and inexperienced editors to create their first article about women.

If you are physically joining the event in Manchester the slots are:

2pm – 4pm

5pm – 7pm

Your hosts will be:

Roger Bamkin

Co-Founder of Women in Red is a WikiProject which has been running since 2015 and aims to turn Wikipedia “redlinks” blue.Find out more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red

Carol Ann Whitehead FRSA

Co-founder of award winning The Zebra Partnership www.thezebratribe.co.uk, Northern PowerWoman, Global Goodwill Ambassador, an SDG Champion, she is in the top 100 social media influcers and a Queen Bee Coaching and Pankhurst Centre Ambassador.

Wikieditathon Mentor to the United Nations Youth Association, Aalborg Denmark supporting them to host their first edit-a-thon on International Womens Day 2019 http://unya.dk/2019/03/19/wiki-edit-a-thon-writing-women-back-into-history/

REMEMBER TO BRING YOUR OWN LAPTOP

You must create a wiki account before you get started. Log your details on this dashboard created by our friends at Wikimedia Australia, this enables us to see what pages have been started or completely created Pankhurst UK facilitator is WikiZebraCarol

https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wikimedia_Australia/Ada_Lovelace_Day_-_24_hour_Global_Edit-a-thon

Continue on this eventbrite to sign up for either the physical in-person event in Manchester or online, let us know which country you are from and we can connect you with a collective team or join as an individual, the objective as we have said is to encourage female and male contributors to be able to create their own article about women.

In August 2021 there was the International Wikimania conference, here is a snippet from one of the panel discussions

‘Can we rid Wikipedia of its content gender gap?’

Views from Women in Red

Speakers – Moderators: Roger Bamkin & Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight

Panelists: Several Women in Red members including Antiqueight, Brenda Wahler, Camelia Boban, Ewan McAndrew, Lucy Moore, Penny Richards, Jess Wade, Carol Ann Whitehead, SusunW

https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/Can+we+rid+Wikipedia+of+its+content+gender+gapF+Views+from+Women+in+Red/1_n08gcokd

Many thanks to Ewan McAndrew, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

#Ada24 #WikiAda24 #WikiWomeninRed #ZebraWikieditathon

The Pankhurst Centre*

The Pankhurst Centre is an iconic site of women’s activism, past and present. Emmeline Pankhurst and her family lived at number 62 Nelson Street from 1898 until 1907, and the first meeting of the movement that became known as the suffragettes took place in the parlour of this house!

The Pankhurst Centre is the only place where members of the public can visit a former home of the Pankhurst family, and is the only museum dedicated to telling the story of women’s fight for the right to vote.

The building continues the fight for women’s equality today as the headquarters of Manchester Women’s Aid, providing confidential services to victims of domestic abuse, and as a women’s centre, supporting women’s activism in Manchester and our local community. https://www.pankhursttrust.org/pankhurst-centre

Ada Lovelace Day – 24 hour Global Edit-a-thon #WikiAda24 – Hybrid Event