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Wikipedia, Student Activism and Gender Equality

Wikimedian in Residence Ewan McAndrew discusses Wikipedia and gender equality at The University of Edinburgh. This webinar was recorded on Tuesday 23 May 2023. Original blog post announcement:…

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Why I am editing Wikipedia by Dr. Jess Wade at Women in STEM Connect

Talk by Dr. Jess Wade at the University of Edinburgh's Women in STEM Connect edit-a-thon on Sunday 16th August 2020.

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Women of Climate Change - training webinar to create more biographies of women on Wikipedia

This online training session was hosted Wikipedia Women in Red student intern Laura Rose Wood and was held on Monday 20th April 2020. The 1.5 training session introduced editors the how & why of…

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Closing the Gender Gap | Wikimedia UK

Wikimedia UK is the national chapter for the global Wikimedia movement which supports Wikipedia and its sister sites. This video showcases the work of Wikimedia UK and the community of Wikimedians in…

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HerNaturalHistory - Citizen Scientist Siobhan Leachman on how Wikidata can play a vital role in surfacing notable women

Wikidata can play a vital role in surfacing notable women and can assist with closing the gender gap in various language Wikipedias. Using the example of under acknowledged women in the field of…

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Wikimania 2019: Enhancing Awareness to the Gender Gap through EDUWiki

https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Program This Panel will explore how diversity and specifically the Gender Gap could be addressed in EDUWiki initiatives around the world.We will also discuss…

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Why we still need to talk about diversity in Physics - Dr. Jess Wade

Dr. Jess Wade is a physicist who, alongside being a postdoc researcher at Imperial College London in plastic electronics, campaigns tirelessly to increase diversity in physics. One of…

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The Value of a Wikimedian in Residence - Melissa Highton and Ewan McAndrew (University of Edinburgh)

Presenters: Melissa Highton - Melissa Highton - Assistant Principal Online Learning, the University of Edinburgh. Ewan McAndrew - User:Stinglehammer - Wikimedian in Residence at the University of…

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The Wikimedia Residency at the University of Edinburgh

In January 2016, the University of Edinburgh employed a Wikimedian in Residence. The remit was to raise awareness of Wikipedia and its sister projects. To design and deliver digital skills…

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Katherine Maher (Wikimedia Foundation) - Privacy and Harassment on the Internet

Katherine Maher, Executive Director at the Wikimedia Foundation, speaking at Mozfest 2016 about Privacy and Harassment on the Internet. Source:…

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Promoting diversity in the German Wikipedia - Ilona Buchem

This presentation focuses on the aims, approaches and first results of the research project - Wikipedia-Diversity (WiDi) - dedicated to fostering gender diversity in the German Wikipedia. WiDi is…

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Wikipedia Academy - The Visual Experience: Gender and Ways of Seeing Wikimedia. Keynote Sarah Stierch

Wikipeda Academy - The Visual Experience: Gender and Ways of Seeing Wikimedia. Keynote by Sarah Stierch According to the Wikimedia Foundation's most recent community survey, women continue,…

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Interview with Emily Temple-Wood (Wikiproject Women Scientists) at the Wikimedia Diversity Conference, Berlin.

Wikimedia Diversity Conference, 9 & 10 November 2013, Berlin Emily Temple-Wood is an American college student studying Biology and she has been editing Wikipedia since 2007. She founded…

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Bridging the Gender Gap with Women Scientists - Emily Temple-Wood

https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Bridging_the_Gender_Gap_with_Women_Scientists Established and aspiring women scientists are an untapped resource for the Wikimedia movement and…

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Emily Temple-Wood - WikiProject Women Scientists

Emily Temple-Wood has been editing Wikipedia since she was 12, but her work goes beyond editing and writing and extends to running workshops and doing outreach work. Also view on Wikimedia…

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Wikimania 2016 - Content Gender Gap, an International Movement by Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight

Content gender gap (CGG) is a systemic bias issue affecting all language Wikipedias. A group of editors have addressed CGG on the English Wikipedia in a unique way, creating almost 9,000 new…

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