[Wikimediauk-l] #Vote100 and Women in Medicine - Wikipedia events in 2018

[MCANDREW Ewan]

Dear colleagues,

During the University of Edinburgh’s Festival of Creative Learning (19-23 
February 2018), we will be 
holding a Women in Medicine Wikipedia editing event as part of 2018’s 
celebration of one hundred years since the Representation of the People Act 
(1918) 
came into force and women were finally given the right to vote, almost fifty 
years after the Edinburgh Seven fought for and won the right to train and 
practice as doctors. #Vote100 #FCL18

Festival of Creative Learning events – Free and open to all!


  1.  #Vote100 and Women in Medicine – Wikipedia editing event (22 February 
2018).
  2.  Wikidata 
Hackathon
 – Learn how to edit Wikipedia’s most exciting sister project (21 Feb).
  3.  Histropedia 
workshops
 – create bespoke visually dynamic timelines in minutes (20 Feb).

Only 17.39% of biographies on Wikipedia are about notable women so there are a 
great many notable women in medicine missing (both historic and contemporary) 
from Wikipedia and from Google’s search results. More 
suggestions
 for pages to edit are very welcome and the Royal College of Physicians’ recent 
Women in Medicine 
exhibition may give some 
ideas too.

No editing experience necessary as learning how to edit is super easy. Full 
training (and refreshments) will be given and you are free to edit whichever 
page you would like to contribute. Alice White from the Wellcome Library will 
also be joining us.

Join us to celebrate the lives and contributions of women in medicine and help 
us create new role models for young & old alike! All welcome!

Date for your diary!

This International Women’s Day (8th March 2018) we will also be holding a 
Wikipedia editing event to celebrate #Vote100 as an important milestone on the 
road to universal franchise. Details to be confirmed but please free to email 
me if you have suggestions or would be interested in attending.

Very best regards,

Ewan

Ewan McAndrew
Wikimedian in Residence

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Signing off for now

[Andy Mabbett]

On 26 January 2018 at 17:36, Richard Nevell
 wrote:

> This is my last day at Wikimedia UK for a year as from Monday I'll be taking
> a sabbatical to work for English Heritage do stuff to do with castles.

What, like this:

   https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chateau_de_sable.png ?

Good luck, and don't be a stranger!

-- 
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Signing off for now

[CAMPBELL Lorna]

Best of luck with the sabbatical and the new post Richard.  I have to admit to 
being just a little bit jealous!

All the best,
Lorna


—
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Education Design & Engagement
University of Edinburgh
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On 26 Jan 2018, at 17:36, Richard Nevell 
> wrote:

Hello everyone,

This is my last day at Wikimedia UK for a year as from Monday I'll be taking a 
sabbatical to work for English Heritage do stuff to do with castles. Best 
wishes to everyone on the mailing list, and please make sure WMUK stays a 
primarily tea-drinking office as I never got the taste for coffee.

Regards,
Richard Nevell
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