GenderGap edit-a-thon March 2018

This page documents the GenderGap edit-a-thon in March 2018.

Purpose

The edit-a-thon (Wikipedia writing session) is organised on International Women's Day to write articles about women to make Wikipedia more gender equal. It is not only organised in Brussels, but in many Swedish embassies around the world. With the edit-a-thon participants get an introduction in Wikipedia and then start to edit Wikipedia with support from experienced Wikipedia editors.

History and background

Research has shown that there are much less articles about women than men, which is called gendergap. To close this gendergap, over the years many activities have been organised. Also a project group in Brussels focuses on this subject, Just For The Record.

Contacts

Romaine

Partners

Budget

General 2018 budget: GLAM program

Timeline

6 February 2018 - Meeting with the Permanent Representation of Sweden to the EU in Brussels about organising an edit-a-thon on 8 March with as topic gendergap (Romaine)
28 February 2018 - Sending out invitation: Invitation to the GenderGap edit-a-thon in March 2018 in Dutch, French and English
8 March 2018 - GenderGap edit-a-thon

Speakers

Statistics

The metrics and statistics of this project are:

Number of people registered via the registration form of the edit-a-thon: 44
Number of people present with the edit-a-thon: 34
Number of newly registered users: 17
Number of content pages created/improved: 14 written + 6 improved + 1 image uploaded of subject + 13 images uploaded of event