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!

Date & Location
Date: Thursday 8 March 2018

Time: 10:30am - 2pm

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

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

Bite sized tasks for new editors

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

Women in Red
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:
 * women activists
 * women in art
 * women in architecture
 * feminists
 * women in leadership.

Missing articles in English that can be translated from another language:
 * Artists
 * Art critics
 * Art historians
 * Architects
 * Illustrators
 * Painters
 * Politicians
 * Photographers
 * Scientists
 * Sculptors
 * Trade unionists

See WikiProject Women in Green for improving articles.

Contribute to other Wikiprojects
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.
 * WikiProject Women
 * Women's Classical Committee
 * Wikiproject Children's Literature
 * Wikiproject food and drink
 * WikiProject Education
 * WikiProject Nursing
 * WikiProject Toys
 * WikiProject Adoption, fostering, orphan care and displacement
 * WikiProject Directory/All

New Wikiprojects
Candidate wikiprojects for creation
 * WikiProject Children
 * WikiProject Parenting
 * WikiProject Pediatrics

New article ideas

 * 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

 * Nipple bleb
 * Prenatal testing

Tag review
This articles have been tagged as having a problem. Resolve issue and (hopefully) remove tag.
 * Fistula_Foundation
 * Child_development_stages

Articles worked on

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