OER Service Digital Skills Events
The OER Service runs a wide range of workshops and events as part of the University's Digital Skills programme. Our up and coming events are listed below, and you can find a full list of workshops we offer here: OER Service Digital Skills. If you would like us to come to your school or college to run a session tailored to your requirements, please contact us at open.ed@ed.ac.uk.
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Women in Red – Wiki meetup
In November 2014, just over 15% of the English Wikipedia’s biographies were about women. Founded in July 2015, WikiProject Women in Red has brought the figure up to 16.97%, as of 21 May 2017. But that means, according to WHGI, only 249,079 of our 1,468,135 biographies are about women. Not impressed? “Content gender gap” is a form of systemic bias, and this series of meetups seeks to address it in a positive way.
As part of the Wikimedia residency at the University of Edinburgh, the University’s Information Services team run monthly informal Wiki meetups focused on improving Wikipedia’s representation of notable women; turning red-linked articles that don’t yet exist into blue clickable ones that do.
These are drop-in sessions so knowledge of Wikipedia editing is beneficial. However, Wikipedia editing can be easy to pick up as this 5 minute walkthrough of the new Visual Editor interface demonstrates. The editing will focus on creating and improving the quality of articles about notable women on Wikipedia using source texts such as The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women.
Come along to learn about how Wikipedia works and create new role models for young and old alike!
The sixth meetup will be in the ground floor training room (EW.10) of Argyle House, 3 Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh. 2pm to 5pm. Open to all.
Book your place here.
If coming from outside the university then please book through Eventbrite.
Header image: Women in Red logo, Nevit (Wikimedia Commons), Public Domain
