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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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Creating new Wikipedia pages about notable women for International Women's Day

Wikipedia is the site anyone can edit but too few do and only 19.16% of biographies are about women. Representation matters. Learning about these stories matters. Gaps in our shared knowledge…

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For Grandmas, Girls and GLAM-Queens: WomenEdit

SpeakerIvaBerlin is in Wikipedia and also outside ;) Iva. I'm originally from Berlin, where I live and work also. I've been a reader for the last 15 years and now I'm editing since…

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Can we rid Wikipedia of its content gender gap? Views from Women in Red

SpeakersModerators: Roger Bamkin & Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight Panelists: Several Women in Red members including Antiqueight, Brenda Wahler, Camelia Boban, Ewan McAndrew, Lucy Moore, Penny…

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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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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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Wikipedia and Chemistry - Interview with Dr. Jenni Garden and Dr. Michael Seery

Interview with Dr. Jenni Garden and Dr. Michael Seery at the University of Edinburgh's School of Chemistry. Under discussion, Wikipedia's relationship with the study of chemistry and Ada…

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Wikipedia and Women in STEM - Athina Frantzana, PhD student at the School of Physics and Astronomy

Wikipedia and Women in STEM - Athina Frantzana, PhD student at the School of Physics and Astronomy, was interviewed in March 2018 about her experience of writing Wikipedia articles about Women in…

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Wikipedia in the Classroom - Interview with World Christianity MSc students Lucy Schouten and Nuam Hatzaw

In Autumn 2016, Wikimedian in Residence, Ewan McAndrew, supported Dr. Alexander Chow (Course Manager) integrate a Wikipedia literature review assignment into the postgraduate module: Selected Themes…

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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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Wikipedia 15: Wikipedia's content gender gap

Rosiestep, with @Keilana and FloNight via Google Hangouts - "Content Gender Gap" - overview of WikiWomen's User Group, Women in Red, Women scientists, Women's health, Wikipedian…

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