Dear colleagues,
The annual conference for Wikipedia and its sister projects, Wikimania, took place last week (13-17 August) with a range of interesting
talks about how knowledge is currently created, curated and contested online now curated on our
Media Hopper channel including:
Also, if you are interested in editing Wikipedia then please join us tomorrow for our
52nd monthly workshop:
Women
in Red - a Wikipedia editing event celebrating the lives and contributions of all the inspiring women of Scotland (and beyond) missing from the world's go-to site for information (and where currently
only 19.04% of biographies are about women).
- Wikipedia is the 5th most visited website in the world but lacks
diversity in its editors and its articles. This event will focus on improving the representation of inspiring women online. Only 18.7% of biographies on Wikipedia are about women meaning so many are missing from our search results.
Participants will learn how to edit Wikipedia pages during an online webinar and will be supported over the afternoon to help create new pages for notable individuals who are not currently on Wikipedia. Suggested
worklist here but you are free to edit on any topic. No
prior knowledge required as training will be provided for those with no Wikipedia editing experience.
You'll learn a new digital skill in a social & supportive setting and meet like-minded event participants all passionate about improving representation online to help close the gender gap for the benefit of millions of readers all around the world.
Join
us as we help make Wikipedia better!
Want to suggest a collaboration?
Get in touch! The
university's Wikimedia residency is a free resource available to all staff and students to learn how to
benefit from and contribute to the free and open Wikimedia projects and includes advice on
citing Wikipedia,
teaching with Wikipedia and more. We've recently worked on projects to improve
coverage of Islamic Art, Scotland's links with slavery on Wikipedia
and created new pages covering the
history of HIV/AIDS awareness and activism in Scotland.
Best wishes,