Women in Architecture Edit-a-thon 20 May 2023[edit]
When a group of volunteer Wikipedia editors get together to spend the day working on one topic, it's an edit-a-thon. These can be virtual, but it's also great to work together in the same space and help each other, especially for beginners.
This event was inspired after Tamsin (DrThneed) attended a talk at the National Library about the book "Making Space: A history of New Zealand Women in Architecture". We will be working to improve information about women architects in New Zealand (we won't limit ourselves to Dunedin women if you have interests elsewhere, but Tamsin will create a list of women with Dunedin connections to get us started). There will be a parallel event taking place in Auckland (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland_20 |Auckland architecture meet-up).
The edit-a-thon is free and open to all. There will be two main sorts of attendee:
Experienced Wikipedia editors to handle the actual page creation, expansion, and improvement.
Anyone with expertise and experience, who can supply published references (Wikipedia is a summary of already-published sources) or photos.
The focus of the event will be on writing better content and backing it up with good references. We will work collaboratively, trying to improve articles as much as we can over the course of the day – researchers, experts, and writers can draft text while Wikipedians publish it, add references, and upload photos.
We'll be monitoring CO₂ levels to make sure the venue is well-ventilated, and mask wearing will be strongly encouraged.
Attendees should enrol in the Dashboard, which will track edits made during the edit-a-thon
Photos you've taken that could illustrate articles. If you want to add photos to Commons so they can be used in Wikipedia, they'll need to be free of any copyright (pre-1945, in NZ) or released under a Creative Commons license that lets anyone use them (which means CC BY or CC BY-SA). To apply a Creative Commons licence you need to be the copyright owner: usually, this means you took the photo (not that you own the photo or you're in the photo). If you've taken photos and are happy to donate them, great! Mike can help with the Creative Commons licensing. If you know of anyone who has good photos, approach them and ask them if they'd like their work to be seen and used by people all over the world (credited, of course).
Sources that could be cited in Wikipedia: books, newspaper stories, magazine articles, and official publications. Wikipedia is entirely made of summaries of reliable published sources.
Tamsin will be working on creating a list of women architects with a Dunedin connection, and creating/improving Wikidata items so we can see who is notable
Mike will do some photography and sketching of buildings for articles on Dunedin women
