Drop in for a long or as short as you like!
In person and on Zoom
In person:
Scott Library Making and Media Creation Lab Flexspace (2nd floor)
Online:
Register here for the Zoom link
Edit-a-Thon Dashboard Page link here
A link to join the Article Assignment & Tracking page for the Edit-a-thon.
This site has a list of potential articles for participants to work on as well as allowing us to automatically keep track of who's working on which pages.
We are using the Wikiconference North America Safe Space Policy for this event.
Wikipedia
Here are some lists of articles on women scientists already on Wikipedia. There are many opportunities to improve these articles. Our project tracker site also has a list of pre-selected articles.
First, try list link: Wikipedia:WikiProject Women scientists/Worklist
More resources here:
Wikidata
A few lists for finding scientists on Wikidata items to update include:
In addition, all of the above lists provide Wikipedia articles that can be used to find the associated Wikidata item, if it exists. To retrieve a Wikidata item once on a Wikipedia article, you can find the link in the left sidebar or by using the Windows shortcut alt+shift+g or Mac equivalent. Wikidata items are often sparse and can be updated with more details like occupations, dates of employment, and external identifiers.
Wikidata has less stringent notability standards than Wikipedia - you could create or update an item for one of your York professors, like Dawn R. Bazely!
York-specific suggestions
If you want to edit and improve existing pages:
If you want to work on a new page:
Canadian-specific suggestions
Learn how to edit Wikipedia and Wikidata with short interactive training modules. These modules cover many important topics like:
Click on the YouTube logo on the embedded video to see the full list of videos:
Some resources on editing and creating Wikipedia articles:
Our Twitter hashtag for the day is #YorkuALD. You might also want to use #AdaLovelaceDay, #ALD21, #WomeninSTEM.
A few readings about Ada Lovelace Women in Science Edit-a-thons:
With much more here on Wikipedia culture in general.
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