International Women's Day edit-a-thon in RCSI Library, Dublin in a nutshell:
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Join us on International Women's Day in RCSI Library, Dublin.
Wikimedia Ireland, National Doctors Training and Planning (NDTP) Spark Innovation Programme, and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) will celebrate International Women's Day with a Wikipedia Editathon focusing on RCSI Female Firsts.
Wikipedia is the 5th most popular website in the world, built by volunteers from around the globe. We need your help to create and improve articles, highlighting the amazing achievements of women in medicine, particularly RCSI Female Firsts. No experience is necessary - we will teach you how to edit and help you to find high quality reference material.
All you need to do is:
There will be prizes for the best contributions and we will even provide lunch!
Date: Thursday 8th March 2018
Time: 9:30 - 12.30
Location: Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Library, No. 26 York Street, Dublin 1, Ireland.
09.30 - 09.40: Welcome & Housekeeping
09.40 - 10.20: How to edit Wikipedia
10.20 - 10.30: Exploring the RCSI Heritage Collections
10.30 - 12.30: Edit!
12.30: Lunch and prizes
Please register for the event on eventbrite.
If you are attending, please enroll on the outreach dashboard. You can also enroll on the day if you do not have a Wikipedia account and would like help setting one up.
Everyone is welcome. There is wheelchair access to all areas.
If your questions or concerns are not addressed in this section, please bring them up in the talk page or to the organiser directly.
Feel free to add ideas for the editathon here.
Affiliates of WikiProject Women |
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African women |
Architecture & design |
Art |
Business |
Feminism |
Health |
Hip hop music |
History |
History Month (March) |
Jewish women |
Journalism |
Music |
Religion |
Scientists |
Sport |
Warfare & military |
Writers |
Missing articles department: Women in Red |
Article improvement department: Women in Green |
See also: Gender gap task force |
Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red is a project for creating new articles about women. Please see: Ten simple rules for creating women's biographies for reference.