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Marilyn, Rita, Caterina: Wikipedia e le donne
Outline
English name: Marilyn, Rita, Catrina: women and Wikipedia
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
Wikipedia in Salaborsa: editathon su biografie femminili
Outline
Englis name: Wikipedia in Salaborsa: editathon on women's biographies
What: Editathon on women's biographies
When: Saturday, May 4th, 2013
Where: Biblioteca Salaborsa, Bologna
Who: Virginia Gentilini, Ginevra, Elitre
How: We started with a brief exposition of Wikipedia's basic principles (it was assumed that the participants already had some basic knowledge on the argument) followed by the presentations of the women we were going to write about. We invited the participants to split into two persons groups (but we also had a 4 people group and one person choosed to work alone) and to choose a biography. The groups worked simultaneously and with discrete autonomy, we only supervised the work and gave some technical advice.
To choose the biographies for the event we collected books about women's history in Salaborsa and then selected the ones who had more references, with an eye on women connected to the territory of Bologna and Emilia Romagna. After this phase we checked the status of Wikipedia articles on the women we choose, and refined our list excluding the ones who already had a decent article. Once we had the final nucleus, some more references were collected in other libraries and in the internet.
Resources: list of the biographies and online references
Participants
13 persons, 10 women and 3 men. Some persons participated in the introductory workshop held by Piero Grandesso on April 20th.
Outcomes
New articles:
Improved articles:
Documentation
Notes
This workshop, together with the one held by Piero to give a basic education on Wikipedia, was one of the first occasions to real approach between italian libraries and Wikipedia. Both workshops must be read in the context of GLAM/Libraries Project which has been growing in Italy in the last months. Moreover, some librarians who knew about the workshops trough the discussion list of italian librarians aib-cur showed interest for the initiative.
What went well
- Some participants also attended Piero's event (consecutive events works);
- Some participants continued editing their article once went home;
- We collected a contact interested in organizing something in a school;
What could have gone better
- The press and media coverage of the event was poor, we must improve that.