Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/211/New Zealand

 Ada Lovelace Day: 24-Hour Global Edit-a-thon – New Zealand & Australia 12 October 2021

What's it about? Inspired by English mathematician and pioneer computer programmer Ada Lovelace, a group of volunteers are holding a 24-hour global event to create more biographies of women in STEM on Wikipedia and to teach new editors.

This combined New Zealand and Australia event on 12 October 2021 will go from noon New Zealand time (NZST) until 8 pm Sydney time (AEST), covering 10 hours of the 24 hour event and then handing off to Wikipedia friends in Asia, Africa, and the UK.

This edit-a-thon is especially for people who want to learn how to edit Wikipedia and create new biographies about women. There will be coaching available for the duration of the event with four sessions run first by a team in [Aotearoa] and then a team in Australia.

STEM stands for science, technology, engineering and mathematics and covers a range of careers from architect through to aeronautical engineer, including chemist, data analyst, epidemiologist, biologist, doctor, food technologist, data analyst and software product designer.

Who do you want to see better represented in the world?

This event is part of Women In Red: an international group of editors of all genders who are reducing systemic gender bias in Wikipedia.

When and where
Date: Tuesday 12 October 2021

Time: Noon – 10.00 pm NZDT / 10:00 am – 8:00 pm AEDT

Location: Online - Register with Evenbrite for Zoom link.

These workshop sessions also have open chat rooms for experienced editors to create content in an online collegial environment and to support new people. Please bookmark this page and refer to it for updates. Goals:


 * Increase biographies of women in STEM on Wikipedia to address the existing bias
 * Recruit and teach new users how to create a biography

Dashboard
Please register with the Dashboard (a place where progress is counted and articles are allocated).

People
The team in Aotearoa is Lisa (User:Pakoire), Mike (User:Giantflightlessbirds), Tamsin (User:DrThneed) and Siobhan (User:Ambrosia10). The team in Australia is Caddie (User:Tenniscourtisland), Ann (User:Oronsay), Alex (User:Canley) and Margaret User:MargaretRDonald. We are volunteer Wikipedia editors who are passionate about addressing the gender gap on Wikipedia.

Attending / participants
 * Please add yourself here
 * 1) Pakoire
 * 2) Ambrosia10
 * 3) DrThneed
 * 4) Logo_Women_in_STEM_Wikipedia_01.svglMary
 * 5) Tenniscourtisland
 * 6) Oronsay
 * 7) Giantflightlessbirds
 * 8) Jonathanischoice
 * 9) Gertrude206
 * 10) ClaudineChionh
 * 11) MargaretRDonald
 * 12) Kunokuno
 * 13) Prosperosity
 * Many thanks for any contribution you make.

What you need

 * Access to a computer and the internet
 * A username and login for Wikipedia (if you can't do this we can help you)

Preparation

 * Create a Wikipedia account beforehand, here's the form. 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; it's best not to use your real name. Here's some advice on picking a username.

OPTIONAL


 * Read up on Wikipedia: there are lots of tutorials, like the Wikipedia Adventure, and useful guides, like the Editing Wikipedia brochure.

Articles to develop
Articles need to pass notability, which typically means the person, company or event is well-known enough to be discussed by sources in the media or in academic articles.

Some examples are New Zealand field ecologist, zoologist, mountaineer and photographer Mavis Melville Davidson, architect Dorita Hannah currently based in Auckland, Polish-Australian ichthyologist Barbara F. Nowak, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, neuroscientist Glenda Halliday and Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, ecologist Janet Wilmshurst.

New Zealand
There are many notable New Zealand women in STEM who can have a Wikipedia article. For ideas use:
 * to develop NZ/Aus a curated list of notable women in Google docs with references listed
 * Meetup/Ada Lovelace Day Women In Red lists searchable by career etc
 * This Wikisource list of women who were published in the Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. Some don't have author pages, some aren't even in Wikidata (and their articles need to be transcribed and proofread)

Starting a new article on Wikipedia needs a bit of technical knowledge (hence the workshops!) - but we also have short entry level articles ready to expand with cited facts - it is fun to see articles improve with every small edit.

Articles for expansion
 * Alice Bush (1914–1974), doctor
 * Barbara Gillam Psychologist; emeritus prof at UNSW
 * Eily Elaine Gurr (1896–1996), doctor - ✅
 * Association for Women in Science (AWIS), International professional association, AWIS NZ held conference in Dunedin in 2021 - article can be expanded to include NZ branch, awards

Australia

 * A list of suggested pages to create are here. Add your username beside the content you wish to work on!

Outcomes

 * Add links to your expanded, completed or draft articles on the main page for this global event.

Media

 * "24-hour Wikipedia 'Edit-a-thon' launches." RNZ Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan, 13.32 12 October 2021.

Edit-a-thon guidelines

 * This workshop will be following "friendly space" guidelines; check them out. Harassment and disruption won't be tolerated, online or offline.
 * Meetup Code of Conduct and Anonymity when Meeting Via Video Conference. All attendees are expected to understand and abide by the Draft Universal Code of Conduct for the Wikimedia Movement.

Training aids and resources / getting started
Please create an account before you arrive with an anonymous user name


 * Create account


 * An introductory video on editing - the first 4 minutes to set up an account are good: – How to Edit Wikipedia (47:44)


 * This includes
 * How to create and set up your account (00:00)
 * Looking at an example page (04:07) including the Talk page (10:50) and View History (11:25)
 * Drafting an article and using your Sandbox (13:00) including having a minimum of 50 to 100 words with three high quality, reliable, secondary sources (13:50), drafting content and editing tools in visual editor (16:25), adding citations (19:02), adding images from Wikimedia Commons (26:10), adding an info box (28:24), categories (30:35)
 * Your own talk page (33:25) including adding a new editor badge
 * Moving drafted content to Wikipedia's livespace (39:23)
 * A timelapse of drafting and publishing a new article on Wikipedia (44:23)


 * The Wikipedia Adventure


 * Learn to edit Wikipedia in under an hour


 * How to edit pages using the Visual Editor: for when you click Edit
 * An explanation of Creative Commons, Wikimedia Commons, and crowdsourced photos by Harry Chapman


 * See the Resource Tab for more!

Example articles
Here are a few articles of women in STEM to look at to see how they are laid out (add good examples when you come across them): Phoebe S. Leboy, Carol W. Greider