Women Archaeologists editing event at the Petrie Museum

Women Archaeologists editing event at the Petrie Museum - In a nutshell Where?: Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, Malet Place, University College London WC1E 6BT Nearest tube - Warren street or Euston When?: 8 March 2014, 2-6pm Point of contact: Jonathan Cardy (jonathan.cardywikimedia.org.uk) for Wikimedia UK, or Debbie Challis d.challisucl.ac.uk) for the Petrie Museum Twitter: @wikimediauk Cost: Free

Join us for the event!

About the event

The event will focus on editing pages of notable women archaeologists, who took part in Petrie excavations / or were involved in museum work but whose Wikipedia articles are incomplete or nonexistent.

How do I prepare?

• Sign up for the event
• Create a Wikipedia account - en:Special:UserLogin/signup
• Bring a laptop (wi-fi will be provided), if you don't have a laptop then email jonathan.cardywikimedia.org.uk
• Learn about editing if you like: w:en:Wikipedia:Tutorial, or Getting started on Wikipedia for more information
• Alternatively print out Nefertiti, Hatshepsut, Winifred Brunton, Margaret Murray, Gertrude Caton-Thompson or Hilda Petrie, redpen the article in advance of the event and come along with a change that you would like to be shown how to make.

• Refreshments will be provided

Attendees 2pm-3.45pm

We have 6 spare places for this session Once you've created your account please sign below with # ~~~~

Attendees 4pm-6pm

We have 5 spare places for this session Once you've created your account please sign below with # ~~~~

Trainers

Below is the list of trainers that will be present on the day

1. Jonathan Cardy (WMUK) (talk) 16:38, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
2. Johnbod

We will have 4-5 laptops in the main museum room on wifi.

We are expecting about 5 museum staff / volunteers and maybe 1 or 2 others to help out with public interest

Debbie's plan is to to advertise the sessions in 2 batches 2-3.45 and 4.15-6pm for those who wanted to come and write and people could sign up before hand. Some people may just want to pop in and see what we are doing. In terms of actual involvement, we are imagining 4 - 5 laptops connected up with groups of 2-3 writing / researching per laptop so we can accommodate 10-12 in each session.

Target List

Articles we want to start

• Margaret Drower
• Violet Lafleur
• Elinor Wright Gardner
• Veronica Seton-William

Articles that need expansion

• Winifred Brunton
• Margaret Murray has a lengthy entry on the witchcraft stuff but very little on archaeology (her main work)
• Gertrude Caton-Thompson
• Hilda Petrie

Potential FA

It would be really nice if we could get Nefertiti or Hatshepsut to Featured Article status in time to be featured on the main page of Wikipedia for International Women's day 2015