Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/211/Kenya
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Ada Lovelace Day:
24-Hour Global Edit-a-thon – Kenya
12 October 2021[edit]
Date: Tuesday 12 October 2021 is Ada Lovelace Day.
Online (via Zoom) hosted in Nairobi. The workshop sessions also have open chat rooms for experienced editors to create content in an online collegial environment. Get the zoom link for whenever you are able.
| Session Country | Time | Kenya Based Session |
|---|---|---|
| Kenya | 14:00-16:00 pm Kenya time | Zoom Link (via registering HERE) |
| Global | 24 hours | Global |
 Welcome to WikiProject Women in Red (WiR)! Our objective is to turn red links into blue ones. Our project's scope is women's representation on all language Wikipedias (biographies, women's works, women's issues, broadly construed). Did you know that, according to Humaniki, only 19.83% of the English Wikipedia's biographies are about women? Not impressed? Content gender gap is a form of systemic bias, and this is what WiR addresses. We invite you to participate, whenever you like, in whatever way suits you and your schedule. Editors of all genders are equally and warmly welcome at Women in Red! |
Goal[edit]
- Increase biographies of women in STEM on Wikipedia to address the existing bias
- Recruit and teach new users how to create a biography
Articles to do[edit]
We have hundreds of lists of missing women in our "redlists". Here is a list of Kenyan Women Scientists, who do not have English Wikipedia pages: Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Scientists - Kenya
Not all of the women listed might be notable - good things to look for to establish their notability are whether they have received any awards e.g. from the African Academy of Sciences.
Creating a new article for any of them will reduce the gender gap and highlight women in STEM. In the UK during October it is Black History Month. The first step after you have identified a subject is to check that you can find three reliable sources to write your article. Want more then see the Resources tab at the top of the page.
Other more general lists, where you might find Kenyan women include: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Engineering
Edit existing pages[edit]
Expanding existing pages is an extremely useful task. If you came to our pre-event briefing, the pages we looked that could be usefully added to are:
Other suggestions include:
- Dorothy Wanja Nyingi
- Ng'endo Mwangi
- Shitsama Nyamweya
- Emma Mbua
- Charity Wayua
- Cynthia Wandia
- Emily Orwaru
- Esther Ngumbi
- Evelyn Gitau
- Emily Orwaru
- Gladys Ngetich
- Josephine Wapakabulo
- Naadiya Moosajee
- Nzambi Matee
- Sheila Mwarangu
- Shitsama Nyamweya
- Frannie Léautier Suggestion for Tanzania
- Proscovia Nabbanja Suggestion for Uganda
New pages[edit]
Trainers/Hosts[edit]
- Carol Mwaura
- Lucy Moore
- RodW
- You? (Helper?)
First Step[edit]
We have an automatic facility that will record the edits that you make on Wikipedia once you have an account. You need to click here to make this work. You can see the articles created by others at the same place.
Second Step[edit]
You need to register for the event and in return we will send you a zoom link which you should not share with others. Please register HERE
Third Step[edit]
Have a look at our red list and decide who you would like to write an article for. You should have three independent sources for their biography. Wiki dies not use trivial sources. "MyCelebityLife" and tabloids are not a good source. Journals, leading newspapers and citations for major awards are usually good.
Fourth step[edit]
If you have a new account then why not experiment? Try adding that missing comma or improving the phrasing of an article. Look out for peacock phrases in articles and remove them.
Fifth step[edit]
Carol Mwaura User:Cmwaura will welcome you on zoom on October 12th at 2 o'clock pm (14:00 Kenyan Time).
Sixth step[edit]
Afterwards, have a look again at the dashboard and see all the new and improved article. Add "WIR-211" to the talkpage of your new article in double curly brackets so that Women in Red can keep an eye on it. Come and say "Hi" at www.womeminred.org and find some mates.