Whose Knowledge?/VisibleWikiWomen/Online edit-a-thon/Oxford Editathon

Join Whose Knowledge? and Wikimedia UK for a Wikipedia edit-a-thon at Rhodes House to hack gender bias on the world's most visited website! Only around 1 in 10 Wikipedia editors self-identifies as female, and less than 25% of biographies on Wikipedia are about women. When women’s faces are missing from Wikipedia, their invisibility spreads both online and offline. Help us make more women visible on Wikipedia! The #VisibleWikiWomen edit-a-thon is a chance to learn how to add images to Wikimedia Commons and edit Wikipedia articles alongside experienced Wikipedia editors. It takes a multitude of us working together to tackle the skewed representation of knowledge online and build an internet that's truly by, of, and for all of us.

#VisibleWikiWomen Challenge - Online edit-a-thon, Rhodes House, Oxford
Friday 23 November 2018, 5-8pm 2018
[#VisibleWikiWomen]

Join the #VisibleWikiWomen Edit-a-thon on Fri 23 November 2018!

Evening's Agenda

17:00 Introductions and overview of campaign and editing Wikipedia.

And registering on today's event dashboard!

17:30 Getting folks started with Wikipedia accounts
18:00-20:00 Editing workshops at tables: learn to add images, improve existing articles, or create new ones!

Join!

Sign up on eventbrite.

Enroll on the outreach dashboard

Hashtags to use as you celebrate your edits! #VWWeditathon #VisibleWikiWomen #16DaysofActivism

Suggested Activities

Add images of women to existing Wikipedia articles.
Write and translate articles. See the worklist below for some suggestions of articles to start, improve, or translate!
Improve descriptions and categories for the women's images already gathered on Wikimedia Commons.
Create and improve Wikidata items for these women.
Continue uploading images of notable women and their work to Wikimedia Commons under the #VisibleWikiWomen Category. Here is an Upload Wizard to help you :)

Resources and tools

Here are some resources for today (and beyond!)

Adding Images to Wikimedia Commons

How to upload images to Wikimedia Commons

Editing Wikipedia

Spread the word

Even after the event, you can help let people know about this effort.

Reach out your volunteers from previous events or editathons.
Tell them more about #VisibleWikiWomen: invite them to visit #VisibleWikiWomen, or follow us on social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram).
Share the list of articles with them.
Ask them to register in the event dashboard so that their contributions can be counted as they improve Wikimedia projects!

Work lists

During the VisibleWikiWomen challenge in March-April 2018 over 800 new photos was uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. This represents a lot of articles to create, translate or improve. We are building a list of women that appear in the category VisibleWikiWomen and their respective items on Wikidata.

TAKE A LOOK AT THE WIKIDATA LIST.

This is a work in progress. You can help by finding or creating the Wikidata item of each woman, and adding it to the list.

Suggested articles

We have chosen the uploaded pictures of some prominent women who are very interesting, and whose biographies still do not exist in any version of Wikipedia.

Once you choose an article, please assign yourself on the Dashboard, to let other participants know that you are working on it. Feel free to create articles in any Wikipedia language. When you finish it, link your article in the last column, so that everyone can read it!

N°1	Wikidata item	Description	Articles created
1	Norma Boero	Argentinian scientist
2	Demitu Hambisa Bonsa Bonsa	politician of Ethiopia	de:Demitu Hambisa Bonsa
3	Hania Morsi Fadl	Sudanece doctor of medicine
4	Margarette May Macaulay	Commissioner of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (OAS)	es:Margarette May Macaulay
5	Daphne Martschenko	American rower
6	Ana Lorena Delgadillo	Mexican lawyer
7	Berta Zúñiga Cáceres	environmental activist from Honduras	es:Berta Zúñiga Cáceres
8	Blerta Aliko	Deputy Regional Director for UN Women in Arab States
9	Runa Sandvik	privacy and security researcher	no:Runa Sandvik
10	Esmeralda Arosemena Troitiño	Commissioner of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (OAS)
11	Cicely Carew	American Visual artist
12	Constanza Valdés	Chilean politician
13	Cristyne Nicholas	American entrepreneur
13	Maria Chiara Pievatolo	Professor of political philosophy
14	Dzigbordi Dosoo	entrepreneur from Ghana
15	Eleanor Holgate Lattimore	author, East Asia expert
16	Elena Reynaga	activist for sex workers rights in Latin America
17	Nesma Abdel Aziz	Egyptian marimba performer\|\|
18	Juana Calfunao Paillalef	Mapuche's chief (lonko)	w:Juana_Calfunao_Paillaléf es:Juana_Calfunao_Paillaléf
19	Amina Benkhadra	Moroccan politician