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Women in SBS Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

2023

Los Angeles | London | New Delhi | Singapore | Washington DC | Melbourne | Toronto

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Why?

Increase the public profile of SBS scientists – and their work – making impact

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Increase representation of women in particular

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Why?

Of all Wikipedia content focuses on women

Of Wikimedia contributors are women

Most visited website in the world

Wikipedia is the

18%

15%

5th

“Biographies about women who meet Wikipedia’s criteria for inclusion are more frequently considered non-notable and nominated for deletion compared to men’s biographies.” (Wikimedia Foundation)

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High-Level Timeline (Tentative)

Oct-Jan

Edit!

Training

Launch registration

Promote sign ups

Gather data

Jan

Jan-March

March

March 8

International Women’s Day

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Join the effort!

Designate a point person from your organization, connect them with us (camille.gamboa@sagepub.com)

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What is expected of organizations that get involved?

  1. Now: Crowdsource data, add it to the Google Spreadsheet.
    • Search through Wikipedia looking for women your organization is connected to. Do they have profiles? Are the profiles missing key information? Add it to the spreadsheet!
  2. Now: Register to participate in the edit-a-thon
    • We welcome multiple attendees from any organization to participate. For those participating in-person, please register by February 15th, 2023.
  3. Feb-March: Take the one-hour virtual training at your convenience
    • Link to come.
  4. March 8: Participate in the edit-a-thon!
    • We ask that you reserve three hours of your time for this effort. Anyone is welcome to participate virtually; however, those local to our London office are welcome to attend in-person from 2-5pm GMT and those local to our DC office are welcome to attend in-person from 11am-2pm ET.
    • Food and drink will be provided at both locations.

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