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(a)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_201…
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
Ed<http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/wiki-edit-a-thon-at-brown-u-wi…35>;
from The
Atlantic<http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/10/to-fix-wi…0/>;
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
maiaw.com | 917-553-6158 | @20tauri | user:Girona7
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