Leader training session for Ada Lovelace Festival of Wikipedia
- Date: Saturday 7 September, 12pm-6pm
- Place: Wikimedia UK, Basement meeting room 2, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT (Old Street tube station). Once you reach the main door follow the instructions. Directions.
- Registration: Free, but pre-booking is essential -> Book here. There are 10 places available.
- Contact: WMUK, Daria Cybulska on daria.cybulska (at) wikimedia.org.uk, telephone 0207 065 0994. Finding Ada, please contact Suw on suw.charman (at) gmail.com.
About the event
This event is an informal training meeting to help you organise your own Wikipedia editing workshop. It will give you some useful tips on running such an event, together with a brief introduction to editing Wikipedia.
It's Ada Lovelace Day on 15 October this year, and Wikimedia UK wants to support as many people as possible to get involved! In general, the day exists to celebrate the contributions of women in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. As you may know, Ada Lovelace is considered the first programmer, due to her work on Charles Babbage's analytical engine. As such, she's someone we can very much hold up as a role model.
As a part of the Finding Ada initiative, we would like to encourage anyone interested to organise their own informal Wikipedia editing meetup. If you belong to a STEM-related group, why not ask the organisers to devote one meeting during the autumn to editing Wikipedia? Or offer to help put on a special Ada Lovelace Day meet-up for your edit-a-thon? If you don’t belong to any official groups, why not gather your friends together at a pub with wifi and help each other research and create new entries, or expand existing stub articles on notable women?
And remember, your event doesn’t have to be on Ada Lovelace Day itself but can be any convenient date around 15 October.
We’ll also provide a way for you to let us know when and where your event is, and will publicise it on the Finding Ada website, in this newsletter and on Twitter for you.
- Why?
Wikipedia is a key resource for millions of people, but women are sadly underrepresented, both as entry subjects and as participants. We would like to encourage both men and women to get together during October to add biographical information about notable women to the online encyclopaedia.
Aim for the day
What to bring
- Laptop
- Information about your event idea
- Ideas for your topic target list
- Any questions about the event you may have
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Additional resources
- Guide to running your own edit-a-thon
If you can't attend
Please get in touch with Daria and let us know about your event! We will help you by sending you free support materials for the day, providing someone to have a chat to before the event and promoting your meetup. Don't forget to have a look at the guide above.