Childcare at an edit-a-thon - Gendergap

31 Oct 2014

      Hello all,
I'm organizing a feminist edit-a-thon in Seattle at UW for February or
early March. This event will be a conversation about media literacy and
reading between the lines in light of the Wikipedia Gender Gap, an editing
tutorial, and a space for editing/writing on missing entries.
The event will be primarily geared for folks affiliated with the UW, but
also for the public.
As a feminist event, I'd like to provide childcare, particularly since it's
likely the event might be happening on a Saturday.
For those of you who have organized edit-a-thons before, how have you
accommodated for dependents? If you've arranged childcare at edit-a-thons,
would you be willing to share what you did and how it went?
Please feel free to email me directly. Also, if there are any
Wikimedians/pedians in Seattle who I haven't met, I'd love to be in touch.
Happy Halloween all -- and thanks, as always, for a fiery and inspiring
listserv and all the work many of you are doing. I've been a member on this
list for a long time, and the contents of this list really do bring me joy
-- and have also inspired action. Thanks. :)
All the best,
Monika
www.monikasengul.com
jones.monika@gmail.com
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Re: University of Sydney women's #wikibomb (Roberta Wedge)
Re: University of Sydney women's #wikibomb (Toby Hudson)
Re: Look who's in the paper!! :) (Roberta Wedge)
Re: Encouraging in the paper!! :) (Kathleen McCook)
New wikipedia group for Los Angeles (Sarah Stierch)

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Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 12:20:48 +0000
From: Roberta Wedge roberta.wedge@wikimedia.org.uk
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Subject: Re: [Gendergap] University of Sydney women's #wikibomb
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Re COI for academics: I've recently come across Melodee Beals, a senior
lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. Her userpage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mhbeals strikes me as an exemplar of
one way for academics to engage with Wikipedia. She has given thought and
space to making a declaration of interests, spelling out how she intends to
handle affiliations and her understanding of self-promotion.
Declaration of interest: Dr Beals is the colleague of a friend of mine.
Roberta

*Roberta Wedge*
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On 30 October 2014 10:58, Toby Hudson tobyyy@gmail.com wrote:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Sydney/University_of_Sydney_W...
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This is going to be big.  There are 39 signed up (mostly female academics
and students), but we are expecting nearer 100.
How Wikipedians can help:
We will have a decent number of experienced editors on site, but we will
be stretched. Anyone who can provide online support 03:00-07:00 UTC
tomorrow (Friday) would be much appreciated. Please add your name to the
project page with a note so that we know who we can call on. Here's some
ways you can help:

Any sandbox started by a wikibomb participant should be added to

*Category:University
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of Sydney Wikibomb 2014
   <
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:University_of_Sydney_Wikibomb_2014%3E...
so
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that we can all find it.
   2. Monitor *These Related Changes
   <
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:Meetup/S...
to
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look out for editors having trouble.
   3. Write (kind) sandbox_talk page comments if you see *promotional
   language*. It seems that some participants are intending to write
   articles about their friend/colleague/boss. The organizing team now
all
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understand how much COI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:COI
editing
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is discouraged, but I'm afraid academics are harder to herd than
cats. We
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are at least trying to ensure that everyone declares their employer on
   their userpage, and declares any COI they have on the article talk.
   4. Assess articles' *readiness to move into mainspace* (also post a
   note on the talk page). Experienced Wikipedians will do these moves,
but
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for COI and general stress relief, it would be good to have third
party
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eyes over it.
   5. *Categorize, prettify, wikidatify, wikiprojectify* ({{WP Australia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:WP_Australia}}{{WP Biography
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:WP_Biography}} etc) any
   articles that do make it into mainspace. We will not have time to
   concentrate on any of these things.
   6. *Ping me (99of9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:99of9)*
or
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another involved Wikipedian if you spot any problems.
   7. Publicise on *Twitter (#Wikibomb)* with a link to the project page
Thanks for helping!
Toby/99of9

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