Ada Lovelace Day is an international day to celebrate the contributions of self-identifying women to science, technology, engineering, and math. So to celebrate their achievements, 500 Women Scientists and our allies, as well as the DC Science Writers Association, are gathering at the West End DC Public Library on Saturday, October 13th to share their work on Wikipedia’s pages.
While Wikipedia is the fifth most popular website in the world, notching up more than 32 million views a day, less than 18% of its English-language biographies are about women. So in honor of Ada Lovelace—and her contributions to mathematics and computing—we’ll work to add more entries to Wikipedia and give you the tools to keep making the Internet less sexist after our Wiki-thon. All you have to do is come armed with a laptop or tablet!
We ask participants to only do a few things before October 13th:
To read more about why editing Wikipedia is such a powerful tool to combat gender inequity in science, you can check out this editorial in Nature.
To register for the event, please visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wikipedia-edit-a-thon-ada-lovelace-day-edition-tickets-50167568548