Wikipedia (read approximately 8000 times per second) is considered the most massive centralized collection of knowledge in history. Men make up approximately 90% of Wikipedia's editors & over 80% of all biographies.
We want to help bring more women and non-binary stories to the public web! We are aligned with WikiProject, Women in Red and their heroic efforts to combat the content gender gap. We are honored to welcome Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, the co-founder of Women in Red, as our very special guest. She's also a real dame: an actual Serbian knight!
We invite women-identifying & nonbinary community to join us and contribute to our shared cause! We will be hosting 2 training and editing sessions:
Session 1: Friday, January 10th, from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm
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Session 2: Saturday, January 11th, from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm
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No experience is required! You are welcome to join for one session as an intro or both to get further along in your edits. Just bring your laptop & we'll provide the rest, including tasty meals & snacks!
About Rosie Stephonson-Goodknight
Dame Rosie Gojich Stephenson-Goodknight is an American Wikipedia editor, known on the site under the pseudonym Rosiestep, who is noted for her actions addressing gender bias in the encyclopedia by running a project to increase the quantity and quality of women's biographies. She has contributed thousands of new articles.
Stephenson was named co-Wikipedian of the Year in 2016. In May 2018, she was honored with a Serbian knighthood as a Dame of the St. Sava Order of Diplomatic Pacifism. She was elected to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees in October 2021.
Check out Rosie's Wikipedia page and coverage of her inspiring work by The Washington Post and Glamour!
About Women in Red
Women in Red is a group of volunteer (unpaid) editors of all genders who live around the world and speak dozens of languages. Across different language Wikipedias, WIR focus on reducing systemic bias regarding gender representation (content gender gap) in the Wikipedia movement. Their goal is to "move the needle" in terms of statistical representation of women and other gender minorities on Wikipedia.