Breast Cancer Care editing session

The pink ribbon is the international symbol of breast cancer awareness

Wikimedia UK is teaming up with the charity Breast Cancer Care to deliver a training session on how to edit Wikipedia. There will also be an editing session which will focus on improving several key articles relating to breast cancer.

The session is provisionally booked to take place on the afternoon of Tuesday 22 October in London. The reason for this scheduling is to coincide with Breast Cancer Awareness Month, an annual campaign designed to raise awareness and understanding of the condition.

The session will train six Breast Cancer Care staff about how Wikipedia works and how to edit. There will also be access to many reference materials such as publications and research papers. A list of important articles to work on has been prepared by Breast Cancer Care and is below.

• Breast cancer
• Mammography
• Metastatic breast cancer
• Risk factors for breast cancer
• Breast cancer management
• BRCA mutation
• Breast cancer screening
• Breast reconstruction
• Mastectomy
• Breast cancer awareness
• Breast cancer awareness month

If you are interested in participating in this event as a trainer please email stevie.benton@wikimedia.org.uk

What to bring

Wikimedia UK will be providing some laptops on the day and some printed materials, such as cheat sheets and booklets. Breast Cancer Care will be providing access to source and reference materials. Trainers can bring their own laptops if they wish.

Additional resources

Before the event Breast Cancer Care will provide a list of the most important articles related to breast cancer. This will be added below.

Join in

If you'd like to join in you can do so online. Simply use the hashtag #BCAMwiki

Trainers

Andy Mabbett has volunteered as possible trainer, although he would defer to any local trainer. John Byrne has volunteered to be a trainer.