With pleasure, Sven :) Thanks for contributing, as always!!
maia
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 2:19 AM, Sven Manguard svenmanguard@gmail.comwrote:
Please link me to the Wikipedia page for the event so that I can participate remotely. I am 2 for 2 on producing GA class articles from Ada Lovelace Day editathons, and do not intend on letting a little thing like the full length of the eastern seaboard break my streak.
-Sven On Oct 10, 2013 10:28 PM, "Maia Weinstock" maiapw@gmail.com wrote:
Hey everyone,
Great to see those of you at the New England Wikimedians meeting on Saturday; I plan on following up soon with some of the ideas we tossed around.
In the meantime, the Ada Lovelace Day edit-a-thon that I've been organizing with my friend, biology professor Anne Fausto-Sterling, is set to take place on the Brown University campus in Providence, RI this Tuesday, Oct 15, from 3-8:30pm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Ada_Lovelace_Edit-a-thon_2013...
In case you missed some of the press we've drummed up, check it out!
From Brown https://news.brown.edu/pressreleases/2013/10/lovelace; from The Chronicle of Higher Edhttp://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/wiki-edit-a-thon-at-brown-u-will-add-entries-for-women-in-science/47235; from The Atlantichttp://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/10/to-fix-wikipedia-s-gender-imbalance-a-big-editing-party/280470/; from The Mary Sue http://www.themarysue.com/ada-lovelace-wikipedia/
I'm very pleased to have connected this week with Wikimedian Michael Umbricht, who is the curator at Brown's historic Ladd Observatory. Mike will be speaking at the edit-a-thon about the Ladd's recent GLAM project, plus some women-in-astronomy trivia. Later in the evening, Anne will discuss the continuing gender imbalance in the STEM fields as well as her take on "storming" Wikipedia as a way to improve representation of women in the annals of science history.
I know it's a bit of a trek for those in the Boston area, but if any of you are interested, we'd love to have you join us, even for a short while. Of course, remote contributions are also very much welcome if you can't make it to Providence on Tuesday. For anyone I don't see in person, I hope to catch up with you at the Mass. History Wiki edit-a-thon at the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe on the 23rd!
best, maia
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