Atari Women Wiki Edit-a-thon

What?

A two days edit-a-thon (including two-evening online workshop organized by the Computer Science Department of University of Copenhagen - DIKU), focused on introducing participants to Wikipedia editing. During this event, will be added new articles and improved existent articles based on Atari Women, a research project about pioneer women and gender minority engineers. Adding free license images of the biographies and Wikidata items is also welcomed.

When?

Tuesday 10th and 17th November 2020, all day, virtual edit-a-thon. Tuesdays 10th and 17th of November 2020 - from 17:00-20:00 - Zoom workshop (sign up here).

Where?

Online

Italy

Online event:

Atari Women, project page on Italian wikipedia

Results - Articles translated for this edit-a-thon:

it:Carla Meninsky Camelia
it:Rebecca Heineman Valeria
it:Suki Lee Camelia
it:Elizabeth Betty Ryan (Betty Ryan Tylko) Camelia

Who?

Computer science students and anyone interested in editing Wikipedia (new or expert Wikipedians). Add your username below:

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Why?

The Computer Science Department of the University of Copenhagen (DIKU) Virtual Wiki Edit-a-thon - part of DIKU’s research program FemTech - is part of a master’s thesis focused on diversity and gender equality on Wikipedia, focusing on facilitating inclusion in computing science.

Articles proposed

The challenge this time could be having the Atari Women into so many languages possible.

Existing on English Wikipedia:

To-do on English Wikipedia:

en:Chris Maddox^[9] was in progress; not enough reliable sources
en:Suki Lee^[10] done
en:Laura Nikolich^[11] done
en:Carol Ryan Thomas^[12] was in progress; not enough reliable sources
en:Lucy Gilbert^[13] done

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References

Internal links

Atari Women, Women in red

External links

DIKU Virtual Wiki Edit-a-thon, Københavns Universitet
FemTech.dk, project supported by the Computer Science Department of the University of Copenhagen (DIKU)
Stories, Atari Women

[1] Carla Meninsky

[2] Danielle Bunten Berry

[3] Dona Bailey

[4] Rebecca Heineman

[5] Betty Ryan Tylko

[6] Patricia Goodson

[7] Brenda Laurel

[8] Carol Shaw

[9] Chris Bush Maddox

[10] Suki Lee

[11] Laura Nikolich

[12] Carol Ryan Thomas

[13] Lucy Gilbert

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