Dear all,
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Join us for our International Women's Day 2024 Wikipedia edit-a-thon event ONLINE and in person at the University of Edinburgh's Centre for Research Collections this Friday 8th March at 1pm. Come for the snacks and meet our new student Assistant Wikimedian in Residence, Ellie Whitehead, who has prepared some pages and sources for you to have at!
Wikipedia is the world’s go-to source of information but not everything is online. Far from it! And only 19.76% of biographies on Wikipedia are about women. 50-100 words+ is all we need to publish NEW pages as long as you #CiteWhatYouWrite
Join us for a social and supportive afternoon and learn a new FUN and important 21st century digital research skill where you can do something amazing that has a lasting published impact by creating and improving Wikipedia pages about women's activism and campaigners for women's rights, education, suffrage and global justice. See what volunteer activism has ALREADY achieved in the last 5 years since we first created this Women's Suffrage in Scotland resource for #Vote100 in 2018. So many new pages!
Suggestions for new pages to create and improve on our event page.
I'll bring some tea, coffee, and some biccies and cake to keep your editing efforts fuelled and keep the #InspireInclusion activism going 🙂.
Please also be aware this is part of a day of events and you may also like to attend in person the following:
We hope you can make the events and join us in celebrating International Women’s Day and the pioneering woman that was Bessie Watson.
Best wishes,
Ewan McAndrew
Wikimedian in Residence
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