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[[File: | [[File:100wikidays books.JPG|thumb|right|300px|Just a few of the books Rebecca used during 100wikidays]] | ||
''This post was written by | ''This post was written by Rebecca O’Neill'' | ||
The | It is hard to believe that I completed the <span class="plainlinks">[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/100wikidays #100wikidays] challenge on the 9th August, as the time absolutely flew by. The challenge, as many people know, is to write an article a day for 100 days straight and draws on the idea of the 100 days of happiness. Within a few days of the challenge being mentioned to me by Asaf from the foundation, I had fallen down the rabbit hole and created a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Smirkybec/100wikidays To Do list] in my user space. Unlike the project’s originator, Vassia, I could not place my faith in finding a subject on each day or letting the article subject find you, I needed a plan of attack. As I’m involved in [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_Ireland Wikimedia Community Ireland]</span>, I had become familiar with the list of Irish National Monuments through our running of Wiki Loves Monuments, and knew that many did not have articles. That was my jumping off point. From there I went to my own areas of interest, Irish naturalists from around the turn of twentieth century, and Irish museums. I choose these areas as I worked for a number of years in the Natural History Museum in Dublin and had become intrigued by the social history and people behind the specimens. My excuse on the museums is a childhood spent in local museums dotted across the county as my parents attempted to entertain children and visitors over the years. Soon enough I had a list of almost 100 potential articles right there. | ||
Although I was not entirely new to creating new articles, I certainly had not created many, so had a lot of the new(ish) editor fears of deletion or criticism. Particularly as I am a woman, you sometimes come primed to expect a little push back, and as I began to focus on women more and more I wondered would I ever have the notability of my articles contested. I was pleasantly surprised. All of my articles are surviving as of right now, and I’m delighted to say that some have been improved upon since I created them. There was no greater pleasure for me than to see an article on an Irish botanical artist or collector edited by someone else adding to the story. It meant that I’m not the only one on Wikipedia who cares! | |||
<span class="plainlinks">[https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2015/08/100wikidays/<nowiki>[</nowiki>Post continues...<nowiki>]</nowiki>]</span> | |||
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* {{event inline|2015|08|19|end=21|[http://www.opensym.org/ OpenSym 2015, San Francisco]}} | * {{event inline|2015|08|19|end=21|[http://www.opensym.org/ OpenSym 2015, San Francisco]}} | ||
* {{event inline|2015|08|23|[[:m:Meetup/Manchester/30|Manchester meetup]]}} | * {{event inline|2015|08|23|[[:m:Meetup/Manchester/30|Manchester meetup]]}} | ||
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