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Join us on for a virtual Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon!
Join us on for a virtual Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon!
Friday April 4, 2025
Friday April 4, 2025
1 - 4pm Pacific | 2 - 5pm Mountain | 3 - 6pm Central | 4 - 7pm Eastern
1 - 4pm Pacific | 2 - 5pm Mountain | 3 - 6pm Central | 4 - 7pm Eastern
Registration for the Edit-a-Thon is FREE but required to participate.
Please register HERE by April 2.
Participants in or around the Austin, TX area are welcome to join the edit-a-thon in person on UT Austin's campus. We will meet in the Data Lab inside the Scholar's Lab on the ground floor of the Perry Castañeda Library. More information about directions, parking, bathrooms, etc can be found here.
Quick Links for Participants
Quick Links for Participants
Did You Know?
Did You Know?
Wikipedia is a free, online encyclopedia written and edited by a community of users. It is one of the most used websites and anyone with access to the internet can contribute. However in the US, around 80% of Wikipedia editors are cis men. Moreover, only about 20% of biographies on Wikipedia are about cis women. There isn't even data on the number of biographies about trans and non-binary folks.
To learn more, check out this AMS article about the gender gap on Wikipedia and check out the Women in Red WikiProject.
The purpose of the Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon is to raise awareness for the gender bias on Wikipedia and to teach a new generation of Wikipedia editors how to contribute. The goal is to change not only who edits Wikipedia, but also who is written about on the world's largest encyclopedia.
No prior editing experience is required.
We will begin with a tutorial on how to edit Wikipedia pages and provide a list of pages that need editing. Edits can be as simple as fixing broken links, adding wiki-links, and updating references. More experienced editors can add new content to pages, or even add new articles.
Getting Started
Getting Started
The first step to editing articles on Wikipedia is creating an account. We recommend you do this ahead of time. Instructions for creating a Wikipedia account can be found HERE.
If you have trouble, don't worry! We can help you troubleshoot during the Edit-a-Thon!
Next Steps and Resources
Next Steps and Resources
Next, join our Edit-a-Thon dashboard HERE to track your edits and contributions.
If you'd like to learn the basics of Wikipedia editing prior to the Edit-a-thon, here are some quick references.
The Wikipedia Adventure - A short browser game introducing Wikipedia editing
For more particular guidelines, try these:
Google Sites
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