Celebrate LGBT history month - help write women onto Wikipedia!

"Women in Red" - a Wikipedia editathon celebrating the lives and contributions of all the inspiring women of Scotland (and around the world) missing from the world's go-to site for information.

Wikipedia is the 8th most visited website in the world but lacks diversity in its editors and its articles. LGBTQ+ people (and queer women in particular) remain significantly under-represented. Many notable figures, activists, artists, and community organisers are missing entirely or only minimally documented. We can #ChooseToChallenge the paucity of stories currently shared on the open web and #InspireInclusion.

Join us for a social and supportive Wikipedia editathon celebrating LGBT+ History Month, with a focus on queer women in Scotland, as part of the global Women in Red project. This editathon aims to help address these gaps by turning Wikipedia’s “red links” into well-researched, published articles.

Participants will learn how to edit Wikipedia pages during a hybrid event (online webinar AND in person meetup in the University of Edinburgh Main Library on 1st floor in training room 1.07) and will be supported over the afternoon to help create new pages for notable individuals who are not currently on Wikipedia and/or help improve already existing Wikipedia pages.

No prior knowledge required as training will be provided for those with no Wikipedia editing experience.

You'll learn a new digital skill 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.

• 1:00 pm – 1:15pm: Welcome and Tea/Coffee
• 1:15pm – 2:15pm: Wikipedia training from Ewan McAndrew.
• 2:15pm - 2:30pm: Tea and Coffee break
• 2:30 pm – 4:30pm: Research and Editing with aim to publish by 4:30pm.
• 4:30pm – 5:00pm: Publishing your edits, recap and event close.

Contact @emcandre on Twitter, ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk for help.

Join us as we help make Wikipedia better!

Have a look at the event page to see if there are pages you would like to help edit/create and if you fancy learning more about Wikipedia ahead of time then you can view the Wiki Basics site.