Women of Climate Change - a Wikipedia editathon for Earth Day 2020

Wikipedia is the 5th most visited website in the world but lacks diversity in its editors and its articles. This event will focus on improving the representation of:

• Women of Climate Change
• Women of Sustainable Development
• Women of History
• Women of Edinburgh

Participants will learn how to edit Wikipedia pages during an online webinar and will be supported over the rest of the week to help create new pages for notable individuals who are not currently on Wikipedia and/or help improve already existing Wikipedia pages.

No prior knowledge required as training will be provided for those with no Wikipedia editing experience.

You'll learn a new digital skill in a social & supportive setting and meet like-minded event participants all passionate about improving representation online to help close the gender gap for the benefit of millions of readers all around the world.

Revised Programme - Online training webinar on Monday 20th April 2020 1pm (link to follow)

NB: This session will be recorded if you cannot attend 1pm on Monday so you are very welcome to take part when you can during this week.

• 1:00 pm - 1:15 pm: Housekeeping and Welcome from Laura Rose Wood
• 1:15 pm – 2:30 pm: Wikipedia training from Ewan McAndrew.

• EDIT the article and contact @emcandre on Twitter or ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk for help. Questions can also be posted on the Facebook event page.

• PUBLISH the article by 6pm on Monday 20th April 2020 if you can or on Earth Day itself Wednesday 22nd April 2020.
• Laura and Ewan will be available to support any editing efforts over the course of the week with a view to publishing all new articles by 5pm on Friday 24th April at the latest.

Join us as we help make Wikipedia better!

Then you can check how long it takes for it to appear in Google's top ten results!

Have a look at the event page to see if there are pages you would like to help edit/create and if you fancy learning more about Wikipedia ahead of time then you can view the Wiki Basics site.