Hi everyone!
I was told that I should write to this list with questions about finding a
scholarship for funding to attend the Wikimedia Diversity conference.
I'm a PhD student at MIT and have been designing ways to use gender data to
crowdsource greater participation in expanding Wikipedia's coverage of
women. This early prototype <http://passingon.followbias.com>, for example,
uses data about women in 20 years of New York Times obituaries. Users can
read about those women and check to see if they're in Wikipedia. As readers
explore, their micro-actions are pooled into a dataset of resources that
can be used to create stub articles for notable people.
In the long term, it should be possible to connect with other data sources
in archives and newspapers in ways that bring new editors into Wikipedia.
Think of it as a precursor to a Wiki Loves Monuments for diversity. I have
applied to the conference in hopes that my work on data could support such
an initiative.
1. What's the process for getting funding?
2. Who should I try to team up with on this effort
Thanks!
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From: Dorothy Howard <dhoward(a)metro.org>
Date: Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 5:38 PM
Subject: Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon Tomorrow, Sat Nov. 2nd at Jefferson Market
Library
To: glamwikiny(a)googlegroups.com
Dear Wikipedians,
Wikimedia NYC, NYPL Jefferson Market Library, and METRO would like to
remind you of the Edit-a-Thon that we'll be hosting tomorrow from 10am-5pm
at Jefferson Market Library in Greenwich Village . Please forward this
message to anyone that you think will be interested.
*Edit-a-Thons
*Adding to Wikipedia is an exercise in research and writing to avoid
biasing language, and a way to contribute to the framing of public
knowledge. It also allows you to instantaneously share your knowledge and
subject specialties with an international community. The average American
takes a look at 5 Wikipedia articles a day and Wikipedia is consistently in
the top two search results on any given topic.*
*
An Edit-a-Thon is an event meant to build attendees Wikipedia editing
skills and critical understanding of Wikipedia content and most of all, to
generate Wikipedia articles, content, organize pages, and upload
photographs on topics of interest to attendees.
*
*
*Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon on Greenwich Village History, NYPL Jefferson
MarketLibrary, Sat November 2
*
The Edit-a-thon <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC> will
help complete Wikipedia articles about Greenwich
Village History and the public art, community gardens, and library
branches in the area, but you are welcome to come and edit on anything of
interest to you. Editors will have the opportunity to utilize rare books
and items from the Greenwich Village Collection, which holds over 150+
books on the history of New York City.
Wikipedians will be on hand to provide basic training on how to edit
articles, and provide more advanced training for the experienced.
*Location:* Jefferson Market Library.
425 Avenue of the Americas at 10th Street in Greenwich Village, Manhattan.
*Agenda*
• 10am: Event Begins
• 10:30: Session 1: Presentation on Editing Techniques (1) (non-mandatory)
• 1pm: Session 2: Presentation on Editing Techniques (2) ''
• 5pm: Library Closes
What's in Store in the Greenwich Village Collection
<http://thedeskset.org/the-greenwich-village-collection/>
Hope to see you there!
Dorothy
Wikipedia User:OR drohowa <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:OR_drohowa>
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