Wikipedia:Meetup/MakeThinkCode/TheVisibilityProject

Wikipedia has become a valuable crowdsourced resource for education and awareness and has the potential to empower a diverse community to participate in the creation of an effective reference tool. Unfortunately, Wikipedia’s editors do not reflect the diversity and richness of the world (for example over 80% of the editors are male) and reviewing the content reveals unconscious and systemic bias. There is a significant amount of data that is missing --- women and people of color are significantly under-represented, and missing pages often correlate with individuals and issues affecting marginalized and vulnerable communities.

Calling all librarians, researchers, students and educators, artists, technologists, community groups, historians, and activists to help us make Wikipedia a more vibrant, representative, inclusive and diverse resource supporting their vision of "collecting and sharing knowledge that fully represents human diversity."

On January 19, join Make+Think+Code and the Library at Pacific Northwest College of Art to learn the basics of creating and editing a Wikipedia entry, and add a page (or 5) to reveal the invisible content that reflects the entirety of human diversity. Bring 1 to 5 topics, people, events that you'd like to make visible (women in science, pages about native communities in Oregon, activists, community organizers, and entrepreneurs in Portland's history, pages in other languages ...) and bring your questions. We'd love for you to bring your new skills back to your communities and help train more people to be Wikipedia editors. There is a growing grassroots movement to make the community of Wikipedia editors more diverse and inclusive, and we hope to hold regular trainings to start to make our voices and presence more visible on the web.

Please share with anybody interested. Our editing/training will be richer and more impactful with a greater diversity of individuals and groups.

Details

Saturday, January 19th, 10am-2:30pm
Shipley Collins Mediatheque at Pacific Northwest College of Art
511 NW Broadway (enter on the Park Blocks side of the building), Portland, OR 97209

To register, please visit the Make+Think+Code event page.

This event is free and the space is ADA accessible. We will have some laptops available for use, but if you are able to bring your own, please do so. You will be asked to sign in at the door; just let the person at the front desk know you're here for the editathon!

It is helpful, but not necessary, for you to create a Wikipedia account ahead of time if you don't already have one. From the Wikipedia main page, click "Create Account" and follow the simple instructions. Linking your account to an email address is not mandatory but is suggested for the purposes of password recovery.

Participants and Outcomes

Participants

MarieInternette (talk): improved Miss Anthology article
Another Believer (talk): improved Creative coding and Jo Ann Hardesty
Dhportland (talk)
Nandiniranganathan (talk)
Lmedina26 (talk)
Ave volc (talk): improved Oruanui eruption article
Meganmckissack (talk)
Jinzhong2 (talk)
Handbookofdiscardedideas
Capnleela: improved Leroy F. Moore Jr.

Pages Improved

Resources