WikiDonne/en
Marilyn, Rita, Caterina: Wikipedia e le donne
Outline
What: Open Talk about women's participation on Wikipedia + introductory workshop
When: Saturday, march 23th 2013
Where: Urban Center, Biblioteca Salaborsa, Bologna
Who: Emma Tracanella, Frieda, Ginevra, Elitre, Giuseppe, Virginia Gentilini. The event was organized in partnership with Girl Geek Dinners Bologna
How: In the first part Emma and Frieda talked about women in technology and in the Wikimedia movement, explaining how the gender gap affects Wikipedia contents; in the second part Ginevra explained Wikipedia basics analyzing and comparing articles, then we focused on markup working on some selected pages which required some simple fix. At the end of the workshop we gave some "homeworks" recommending tre articles needing improvements and pointing out which kind of work was necessary to make.
Resources: Presentation used during the workshop (in Italian)
Participants
We registered 30 subscribers on Eventbrite, 10 of them actually attended the event, all of them were women.
Outcomes
All the participants were interested and attentive, in both the workshop and the presentation.
We improved these pagese on it.wiki:
and created the stub:
Documentation
Foto dell'evento (copyrighted)
Notes
The event was included in Bologna Digital Agenda.
What went well
- The collaboration with GGD Bologna worked out very well and allowed us to have a certain coverage of the event on social networks, blogs and local press
What could have gone better
- The invitation to continue editing some articles at home was not embraced by the participants