Whose Knowledge?/VisibleWikiWomen/Online edit-a-thon/Oxford Editathon

Join Whose Knowledge? and Wikimedia UK for a Wikipedia edit-a-thon at Rhodes House to hack gender bias on the world's most visited website! Only around 1 in 10 Wikipedia editors self-identifies as female, and less than 25% of biographies on Wikipedia are about women. When women’s faces are missing from Wikipedia, their invisibility spreads both online and offline. Help us make more women visible on Wikipedia! The #VisibleWikiWomen edit-a-thon is a chance to learn how to add images to Wikimedia Commons and edit Wikipedia articles alongside experienced Wikipedia editors. It takes a multitude of us working together to tackle the skewed representation of knowledge online and build an internet that's truly by, of, and for all of us.

#VisibleWikiWomen Challenge - Online edit-a-thon, Rhodes House, Oxford
Friday 23 November 2018, 5-8pm 2018
[#VisibleWikiWomen]

Visible Wiki Women Oxford Editathon

Join the #VisibleWikiWomen Edit-a-thon on Fri 23 November 2018!

Evening's Agenda

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  • 17:00 Introductions and overview of campaign and editing Wikipedia.

And registering on today's event dashboard!

  • 17:30 Getting folks started with Wikipedia accounts
  • 18:00-20:00 Editing workshops at tables: learn to add images, improve existing articles, or create new ones!

Join!

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Sign up on eventbrite.

Enroll on the outreach dashboard

Hashtags to use as you celebrate your edits! #VWWeditathon #VisibleWikiWomen #16DaysofActivism

Suggested Activities

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Resources and tools

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Here are some resources for today (and beyond!)

Adding Images to Wikimedia Commons

Editing Wikipedia

Spread the word

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Even after the event, you can help let people know about this effort.

Work lists

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During the VisibleWikiWomen challenge in March-April 2018 over 800 new photos was uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. This represents a lot of articles to create, translate or improve. We are building a list of women that appear in the category VisibleWikiWomen and their respective items on Wikidata.

TAKE A LOOK AT THE WIKIDATA LIST.

This is a work in progress. You can help by finding or creating the Wikidata item of each woman, and adding it to the list.

Suggested articles

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We have chosen the uploaded pictures of some prominent women who are very interesting, and whose biographies still do not exist in any version of Wikipedia.

Once you choose an article, please assign yourself on the Dashboard, to let other participants know that you are working on it. Feel free to create articles in any Wikipedia language. When you finish it, link your article in the last column, so that everyone can read it!

N°1 Image Wikidata item Description Articles created
1   Norma Boero Argentinian scientist
2   Demitu Hambisa Bonsa Bonsa politician of Ethiopia de:Demitu Hambisa Bonsa
3   Hania Morsi Fadl Sudanece doctor of medicine
4   Margarette May Macaulay Commissioner of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (OAS)
5   Daphne Martschenko American rower
6   Ana Lorena Delgadillo Mexican lawyer
7   Berta Zúñiga Cáceres environmental activist from Honduras es:Berta Zúñiga Cáceres
8   Blerta Aliko Deputy Regional Director for UN Women in Arab States
9   Runa Sandvik privacy and security researcher no:Runa Sandvik
10   Esmeralda Arosemena Troitiño Commissioner of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (OAS)
11   Cicely Carew American Visual artist
12   Constanza Valdés Chilean politician
13   Cristyne Nicholas American entrepreneur
13   Maria Chiara Pievatolo Professor of political philosophy
14   Dzigbordi Dosoo entrepreneur from Ghana
15   Eleanor Holgate Lattimore author, East Asia expert
16   Elena Reynaga activist for sex workers rights in Latin America
17   Nesma Abdel Aziz

Egyptian marimba performer||

18   Juana Calfunao Paillalef Mapuche's chief (lonko)
19   Amina Benkhadra Moroccan politician