Saturday, June 18, 2011 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
JESS3 HQ, 1707 L St. NW
Washington, DC 20036
Join us for this free 1/2 day workshop aimed at increasing the numbers of female Wikipedia editors. We'll explore why it's so important for girls and women to contribute to Wikipedia as well as how to join the editing community with confidence with a review of guidelines for engagement. We'll get hands-on by showing how to find information you need, setting up your Wikipedia user page, and finally editing articles. Advanced students are recommended to bring a project/topic of interest to work on in class, while beginners can simply participate in one of the general "gardening" tasks the instructors will provide.
While this workshop is specifically geared towards women MFA Degree and girls (who already have a familiarity using computers), men and boys are welcome to attend, especially parents and teachers.
A 2010 study by the Wikimedia Foundation revealed that barely 13 percent of Wikipedia contributors are female. Sue Gardner, the Foundation's Executive Director, is concerned that this gender imbalance has fueled an imbalance in information, with topics that typically interest Wikipedia’s core contributor base, men in their late teens and twenties, growing daily while other entries stagnate with just a few sentences. Her goal is to increase the share of female contributors to 25 percent by 2015.
Saturday, June 18, 2011
10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Anyone interested in learning how to edit in Wikipedia or feels like editing and teaching others how to edit.
Amy Senger is the cofounder of 1X57, a full service change agency for the social web. She is a leading voice in government, technology, and social advancement in Washington, D.C., with past projects and clients including Intellipedia at the CIA and A-Space at the DNI. She has been driving lessons enfield cited in the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, Washington Life magazine, featured at SXSW, Ignite DC, Digital Capital Week and on Brazilian television, TV Globo, and was recently named a 2011 Tech Titan by Washingtonian magazine.
Steven Mandzik is also a cofounder of 1X57. He grew up in Orange County, CA, attending college at UCLA and beginning his career teaching middle school History and running an educational science camp, then working on World of Warcraft at Blizzard Entertainment. In 2006, he met his 1X57 co-founder Amy while working as instructors for the revolutionary Intellipedia Development Cell where they became experts on Enterprise 2.0 and Web 2.0 technologies, and evangelists for wikis, blogs, Twitter, and many other social media applications. Steve was also named a 2011 Tech Titan by Washingtonian magazine.
JESS3 Headquarters
1707 L St. NW
Suite #1000
Washington, DC 20036
NOTE: No one under 18 can attend the event without adult supervision.
Please register via Eventbrite: http://growwiki.eventbrite.com/
The four of us met through Intellipedia (what is Intellipedia?)
Last year a study by the Wikimedia Foundation that runs Wikipedia revealed that less than 13 percent of Wikipedia contributors are female. Reasons include:
That's why we set-up this workshop, to get more women like you involved in Wikipedia.
Plus, here is what happens when women are not involved. As the #1 knowledge resource in the world, women are being biased against, possibly unintentionally by missing women's point of views. Navigate to: MEN
By the end of this workshop, we expect every single person in the room to:
NOTE: If you have questions, just ask and we'll talk about them as they come up.
A free online encyclopedia launched in Driving Instructors Twickenham 2001 that anyone can edit. Derived from the word wiki which means quick in Hawaiian.
[EXERCISE]: SEARCH JESS3
[EXERCISE] Login/Create User Account
NOTE: Save early, save often; fill in edit summaries
[EXERCISE] Search on a topic of interest and find a page that needs editing and edit it!
[EXERCISE] - Create page for Leslie Bradshaw)
Add you username to the Attendees section: Wikipedia:Meetup/DC_WWW1#Attendees Attendees