We have a number of exciting Wikipedia editing events coming up in Edinburgh this Summer
which are free to attend and open to all! Please disseminate to interested colleagues in your networks as appropriate.
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31 May - Women
in Red editing workshop at University of Edinburgh Library. Monthly editing workshop open to all with a special focus on creating new biographies of inspirational women missing
from the free and open online encyclopedia.
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5 June - Young
Academy Scotland editing event at the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Creating new entries for female fellows of the RSE and celebrating Women in STEM.
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20 June - Conectando:
Scottish Encounters with Spanish & Portuguese (inc. Tour of exhibition). Celebrating 100 years of the Spanish Degree at the University of
Edinburgh, this exhibition and editing event is arranged into five themed sections: Learning; The Student Experience; Journeys; Treasures; and Solidarity (the latter with a particular focus on Chile under Pinochet, and the Spanish Civil War).
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10 July - Feminist
Writers editing event at the Chrystal Macmillan Building, Edinburgh. Guest talk from Liz Stanley and a focus on feminist writers, their works and the Olive Schreiner archive. Booking to open shortly so please save the date.
Find out more:
"It is amazing that humanity has managed to produce
Wikipedia.
Somebody recently said "You know what? For all of the defending of the open net and the open web, it would have been worth it if we just got Wikipedia."
- Sir Tim Berners-Lee, 29 May 2018 giving his Turing Award lecture in Amsterdam.
Best wishes,
Ewan McAndrew