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| 15 October is recognised as [http://findingada.com/ Ada Lovelace Day] and is dedicated to celebrating the contributions of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
| | ''This post was written by Martin Poulter. [http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/23things/wikipedia-learning-by-sharing-knowledge/ You can read the original here].'' |
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| Wikimedia UK is proud to be a part of those celebrations. Along with [http://www.jisc.ac.uk/ Jisc], we’re supporting an [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_University_of_Oxford/AdaLovelaceDay2013 editathon] focusing on women in science which takes place today at the [http://blogs.it.ox.ac.uk/adalovelace/ University of Oxford]. Additionally, there is [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women%27s_History/Ada_Lovelace_Day_London_2013_Conway_Hall another editathon] taking place on Saturday at Conway Hall, London. This session will work to create articles about notable and historic women. There are still some spaces available for this free event, so sign up on the project page linked above.
| | Billions of people around the world crave education, but lack the resources we take for granted. Adequate libraries and current textbooks are out of their reach, but they are increasingly getting internet access. Meanwhile, every day in universities and schools, talented students are writing essays, then handing them in to be read by a tutor who already knows the topic, to be marked and eventually thrown away. If only that student work could be put into a free, multilingual, knowledge-sharing space. |
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| As if to illustrate that the ongoing campaign to encourage greater recognition of women in STEM, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman's_Hour BBC Radio 4′s Woman’s Hour] show featured a discussion of this topic, featuring our very own Daria Cybulska. UK readers of this blog can [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03cmt4n listen to the show here]. The section about Ada Lovelace Day begins after around 7:45 of the recording.
| | Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, is part of a charitable project to give everyone on the planet free access to the sum of all human knowledge. This takes enormous effort from tens of thousands of volunteer editors, and after thirteen years it is still very much a work in progress. In many areas, Wikipedia has a real need for decent, well-written content. |
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| This is an important issue and we thank and congratulate everyone working in this area. Happy Ada Lovelace Day!
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