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;Call For Proposals - the Wikipedia Science Conference (deadline 8 May)
;First Welsh university edit-a-thon creates new articles on medieval women


[[File:Dame_Wendy_Hall.jpg|175px|thumb|right|Dame Wendy Hall is one of the keynote speakers at the conference]]
[[File:Editathon Editors at work.jpg|175px|thumb|right|The Medieval Women Edit-a-thon at Swansea University focused on women’s access to justice in Wales, Britain and Ireland.]]


''This post was written by Dr Martin Poulter, Wikipedian and the convener of the Wikipedia Science Conference''
''This post was written by Robin Owain, WMUK’s Wales Manager, and originally published on the <span class="plainlinks">[https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/12/medieval-women-edit-a-thon/ Wikimedia Foundation’s blog]</span>''


Wikimedia UK and [http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/ Wellcome Trust] are delighted to welcome session proposals for the Wikipedia Science Conference – the first of its kind – taking place in London on the 2nd and 3rd of September.
On 28 January 2015, Prof. Deborah Youngs and Dr Sparky Booker of Swansea University ran the first edit-a-thon at a university in Wales. The aim was to improve articles on women and reduce the gender gap on Wikipedia – by getting more women involved as editors and increasing coverage of medieval and early modern women on Wikipedia.


The two-day conference reflects the growing interest in Wikipedia and its sister projects as a platform not just for communicating science but for scientific research and publishing. Last year, a clinical review paper authored on Wikipedia was published in a peer-reviewed academic journal. Meanwhile, scientists and Wikipedians are using papers, data, and figures to improve Wikipedia and related projects such as Wikidata.
This [[:en:User:Whistlaw/Jan_28_Editathon|Medieval Women Edit-a-thon]] was organized as part of <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.swansea.ac.uk/riah/research-projects/women-negotiating-the-boundaries-of-justice/ “Women Negotiating the Boundaries of Justice”]</span>, a four-year research project on the history of women’s access to justice in Britain and Ireland between the twelfth and eighteenth centuries (led by Prof. Youngs and funded by the <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/Pages/Home.aspx AHRC]</span>).


Using these free, open platforms, scientific content is benefiting both from increased impact and an increased opportunity for checking and review. This in turn is a benefit of open-access publication models which make the outputs of research free for anyone to reuse and repurpose.
About 45 people attended and around 30 participated in editing. Participants included undergraduates, postgraduates, academic researchers and librarians from Swansee University — and workers from Paris. Three quarters were women, and only three had previously edited Wikipedia. A few spoke Welsh, and therefore, some of the jargon was in that language (being my mother tongue). We were also joined by researchers from Trinity College, Dublin, who were keen to update material on Irish women. Their focus was on [[:en:Alice_Kyteler|Alice Kyteler]] and [[:en:Petronilla_de_Meath|Petronilla de Meath]], her servant, who were the first women to be tried for witchcraft in medieval Ireland. This inspired one of the editors in Swansea to write about [[:en:Gwen_daughter_of_Ellis|Gwen daughter of Ellis]], the first person to be executed on charges of witchcraft in Wales.


The two keynote speakers are [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Murray-Rust Dr Peter Murray-Rust] of the University of Cambridge and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Hall Dame Wendy Hall] of the University of Southampton. Professor Hall was a founding director of the Web Science Research Initiative and is a Fellow of both the Royal Society and the Association for Computing Machinery, previously leading the ACM and the British Computer Society. Dr Murray-Rust, a chemist, campaigns for open sharing of scientific publications and data. He leads the Content Mine project to extract data from published papers and has called Wikidata “the future of science data.”
<span class="plainlinks">[https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2015/03/first-welsh-university-edit-a-thon-creates-new-articles-on-medieval-women/<nowiki>[</nowiki>Continues...]<nowiki>]</nowiki></span>
 
The rest of the programme will consist of invited speakers, sessions suggested through this call, and an “unconference” block in which participants create their own sessions on the day.
 
The conference is arranged by Wikimedia UK and will be hosted by the Wellcome Trust at its premises on Euston Road in London. The Trust is a global charitable foundation dedicated to achieving extraordinary improvements in health by supporting the brightest minds. Wikimedia UK is the national charity that supports Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects, and is a voice for free and open knowledge in all its forms.
 
[[Wikipedia_Science_Conference|You can learn more about the conference, and submit your proposal, here]]
 
<span class="plainlinks">[https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2015/03/call-for-proposals-the-wikipedia-science-conference-deadline-8-may/<nowiki></nowiki>...]<nowiki></nowiki></span>


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'''March'''
'''March'''
* {{event inline|2014|03|12|[[IT Development/Technology committee meetings/Agenda 12 March 2015|Tech Com]]}}
* {{event inline|2015|03|14|[[:m:Meetup/Cambridge/26|Cambridge meetup]]}}
* {{event inline|2015|03|15|[[:m:Meetup/Oxford/26|Oxford meetup]]}}
* {{event inline|2015|03|20|[[:en:Wikipedia:Meetup/Ireland 2|Dublin meetup]]}}
* {{event inline|2015|03|20|[[:en:Wikipedia:Meetup/Ireland 2|Dublin meetup]]}}


'''April'''
'''April'''


* {{event inline|2015|04|01|[[Edinburgh University Wikipedia:Meetup]]}}, [https://www.facebook.com/events/964840990194330/ Wiki Hour of Power: Edinburgh Science Festival] 
* {{event inline|2015|04|10|end=12|[[:wmnl:GLAM-WIKI 2015|GLAM-WIKI 2015, The Netherlands]]}}
* {{event inline|2015|04|10|end=12|[[:wmnl:GLAM-WIKI 2015|GLAM-WIKI 2015, The Netherlands]]}}
* {{event inline|2015|04|10|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jason.nlw/Welsh_Photographers_Editathon Welsh Photographers Editathon, National Library of Wales]}}
* {{event inline|2015|04|12|[[:m:Meetup/London/92|London meetup]]}}
* {{event inline|2015|04|12|[[:m:Meetup/London/92|London meetup]]}}
* {{event inline|2015|04|15|[[:w:Wikipedia:Meetups/UK/National_Maritime_Museum_April_2015|National Maritime Museum - Longitude Editathon]]}}, Greenwich
* {{event inline|2015|04|15|[[:w:Wikipedia:Meetups/UK/National_Maritime_Museum_April_2015|National Maritime Museum - Longitude Editathon]]}}, Greenwich
* {{event inline|2015|04|19|[[:m:Meetup/Oxford/27|Oxford meetup]]}}
* {{event inline|2015|04|21|[[GLAM Committee Agenda 2015-04-21]]}}
* {{event inline|2015|04|21|[[GLAM Committee Agenda 2015-04-21]]}}
* {{event inline|2015|04|23|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jason.nlw/WWI_Gallipoli_Edit-a-thon WWI - Gallipoli Editathon, National Library of Wales]}}
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