My library is hosting a Ada Lovelace Day event tomorrow (ok, a little late...). Continuing in a tradition of having Women in Science Wikipedia Edit-a-thons, we're hosting our own Wikipedia Women in Science Edit-a-thon!
I've been doing a fair bit of reading over the last couple of years about Wikipedia culture and especially how it relates to the under-representation of women both as editors and as subjects of articles. So I thought I'd share some of my readings here with all of you.
Of course, this list is in no way comprehensive or complete. I welcome suggestions for further readings in the comments, either on edit-a-thons, women in science, Wikipedia culture or any of the intersections of those topics.
About Wikipedia Edit-a-thons
- Wikipedia:How to run an edit-a-thon (with a list of past edit-a-thons)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's History/Ada Lovelace Day 2012
- Edit-a-thon gets women scientists into Wikipedia
- Stop female scientists being written out of Wikipedia history
- The Mission to Get Women Scientists on Wikipedia
- Royal Society edit-a-thon to improve Wikipedia articles about women in science
- Wiki editors boost entries on female scientists to mark Ada Lovelace Day
- How Hosting an Edit-A-Thon Made Me Trust Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Royal Society/Women in Science Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at the Royal Society, March 2014
- Wikipedia: Women in Science edit-a-thon / Bodelian Library
- Women in Science Wikipedia Edit-a-thon III / Smithsonian
- WOMEN IN SCIENCE WIKIPEDIA EDIT-A-THON / UNC WISE
- Wiki editing recognizes women in science / Brown U
- Lilavati's Daughters Edit-a-thon / Indian Academy of Sciences
- NIH Marks Women’s History Month with All-Day Wikipedia Edit
- Ada Lovelace Day at SFU
About Wikipedia and Editor Culture More Generally
- Wikipedia Celebrates 750 Years Of American Independence
- Wikipedia:Systemic bias
- How do I use Wikipedia for research?
- The Wikipedia wars: does it matter if our biggest source of knowledge is written by men?
- Wikipedia votes to ban some editors from gender-related articles
- Wikipedia’s Women Problem
- 90% of Wikipedia's Editors Are Male—Here's What They're Doing About It
- The Problem of Women in Science in Wikipedia
- Yes, Wikipedia Is Sexist -- That's Why It Needs You
- Wikipedia, Cynicism And Idealism.
- Love, hate, and the Wikipedia contributor culture problem
- The Decline of Wikipedia
- Who Killed Wikipedia?
- Can Wikipedia Survive?
- Number of women in tech ‘disastrous’: Wikipedia founder
- What do Wikipedia, Bing, Reddit, and the FBI Have in Common?
- Harvard's Looking for a 'Wikipedian in Residence'
- 'I've Got a Hunch'
- Research Report Looks at Wikipedia Article Creation Trends
- The distorted mirror of Wikipedia: a quantitative analysis of Wikipedia coverage of academics
- "Rise and decline" of Wikipedia participation, new literature overviews, a look back at WikiSym 2012
- Can Automated Editorial Tools Help Wikipedia's Declining Volunteer Workforce?
- Volunteers Log Off as Wikipedia Ages
- Does The 'Neutral Point Of View' Make Wikipedia Boring?
- Student Hoaxes World's Media on Wikipedia
- Why Wikipedia + Open Access = Revolution
- Marathon Editing Brings New Rigor to Wikipedia Physics
- The most-edited Wikipedia pages from House of Commons IP addresses
- Anti-Science Trolls are Starting Edit Wars on Wikipedia
- Is Wikipedia Being Hit By a Google Penalty?
- Google Still Loves Wikipedia (More Than Its Own Properties)
- This free online encyclopedia has achieved what Wikipedia can only dream of
- Wikipedia Bans Hundreds Of “Black Hat” Paid Editors Who Created Promotional Pages On Its Site
- The Covert World of People Trying to Edit Wikipedia—for Pay
- Wikipedia edits performed on government computers extends beyond Hillsborough disaster
- Expenses and sex scandal deleted from MPs’ Wikipedia pages by computers inside Parliament
- Victoria Police edits Wikipedia page of police shooting victim Tyler Cassidy
- Wikimedia Foundation employee ousted over paid editing
- Elsevier access donations help Wikipedia editors improve science articles
- “WikiGate” raises questions about Wikipedia’s commitment to open access
- Should Wikipedia work with Elsevier?
- Is a Giant Academic Publisher Trying to Paywall Wikipedia?
I'm working on a LibGuide for the event which I'll post here once I make it live.
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Thony may seem a trifle acerbic but this is nothing to his debunking attacks on Galileo.