You are invited to the Wadewitz-Wollstonecraft Wikipedia editathon for learning, sharing, editing, tea and (in the evening) dissenting beer. It is happening all day this Saturday 31 May in atmospheric Newington Green, London N16 9PR, and forms one of a worldwide series of tributes to prolific and influential editor Dr Adrianne Wadewitz (User:Wadewitz), who died suddenly last month.
Her work is recognized internationally as helping to encourage more women to contribute to Wikipedia to tackle the gender gap and systemic bias. Wadewitz was one of the first academics to bring Wikipedia into the classroom as part of the Wikipedia Education Program, working with her students to improve Wikipedia instead of writing traditional essays. She had over 50,000 edits and wrote numerous featured and good articles, including Mary Wollstonecraft, author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Wadewitz was a scholar of eighteenth-century British literature, and yet this is the first tribute to her in Britain (hence the somewhat rushed timescale).
Wollstonecraft is the nominal theme of the day, in that the editathon will take place in the Mary Wollstonecraft Room, in Newington Green: a village when she lived here in the 1780s, but now part of inner London. It is on the Islington/Hackney border, with plentiful buses and an overground station. However, any subject you want to work on is fine. Beginners are very welcome, so please spread the word beyond this mailing list.
Full information here. Feel free to drop in at any point between 10am and 6pm, or meet us in the Dissenting Academy afterwards for a drink. (Yes, a pub named after an educational establishment - like Wikipedia, with beer.)
Hope to see some of you there.