2023 HWW Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
Hoosier Women at Work Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
Thursday, November 2, 2023
11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Indiana State Library, Fourth Floor
Register now via Eventbrite.
Attention historians, citizen historians, librarians, archivists, teachers, students and museum professionals! We all wish more people would use digitized research and collections from reliable sources. So, let’s meet people where they are — Wikipedia — and connect them to great research on Hoosier women.
Colleagues, adding images from your organization’s collections into Wikipedia will increase traffic to your website, accessibility to your collections, and grow your audience.
Join us and you’ll also help address the dearth of information on women’s history online, which perpetuates the marginalization of the field. In fact, only 19% percent of articles on Wiki are about women and those are disproportionately deleted by Wiki editors. But we can help correct this gender bias.
No experience needed! Expert Wikimedians will be on hand to help you get started.
Already have some Wiki experience? Great! Help us improve article stubs and write new articles on significant women in Hoosier history. We have a list of suggestions on the Wikipedia event page, but feel free to bring your own ideas.
Pizza and drinks will be provided courtesy of the Indiana Women’s History Association.
Questions? Email Jill Weiss Simins: jweiss@library.IN.gov
Sponsors: Indiana Historical Bureau, Indiana State Library, IUPUI, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, National Archives, Indiana Women’s History Association, Crown Hill Heritage Foundation