Wikimedia Girl Geek Dinner/Manchester October 2013

• Sunday 27th October
• 10am-5pm, MadLab, Edge Street, Manchester
• Tickets: £3 (including lunch) - book HERE

lunch, and possibly cake, will be provided

Manchester Girl Geeks presents an introduction to editing Wikipedia! Practically everyone uses The Free Encyclopedia to find out about the world - but have you ever tried adding to it? Women are sorely underrepresented in editing and contributing to Wikipedia articles, and we aim to shift the balance.

We'll show you how to take your first steps as a Wikipedia contributor, and can provide more advanced help if you've already dabbled. Bring along your favourite sources, and we can fix things and add to the body of knowledge together. If you're not experienced, trainers will take you through the basics of logging in and editing, as well as give you some ideas of how to contribute.

We'll have some reference sources from local libraries and online sources, but if you have any good reference works, please bring them along. We'll be joined by guests from the national Ada Lovelace Day celebrations, who have also been holding Wikipedia days to edit articles about women in science and make sure they're comprehensive and accurate, and give credit where it's due to female scientists. If you're in need of a focus on which articles to try editing, you're welcome to take this as inspiration and fix up your favourite science hero.

Refreshments and lunch will be provided.

What to bring

• A laptop/computer, on which to edit; if you don't have one you can bring, please get in touch beforehand and we can sort something out
• Reference materials on topics you'd like to write about, such as books, papers or journals