Submissions:2022/Diversifying Wikipedia's biographies

This submission has been accepted for WikiConference North America 2022.

Etherpad

Title:

Diversifying Wikipedia's biographies

Theme:

Friday Lightning Talk Day

Type of session:

Lightning Talk

Abstract:

Since 2018 Wiki Education's Scholars & Scientists Program has worked taught faculty, graduate students and professionals to become Wikipedians. The program has trained over 1,000 participants and contributed over 1.6 million words to over 3,500 articles. Fees from participants and sponsors have funded a substantial portion of the operational costs of the program.

In this session, we will discuss the contributions of recent courses in the Scholars & Scientists program to diversifying Wikipedia's biographies by adding and expanding articles about women and underrepresented minorities. This program helps improve knowledge equity on Wikipedia.

Academic Peer Review option:

Author name:

Ian Ramjohn

E-mail address:

ianwikiedu.org

Wikimedia username:

Ian (Wiki Ed)

Affiliated organization(s):

Wiki Education

Estimated time:

8-10 minutes

Special requests:

Have you presented on this topic previously? If yes, where/when?:

No

If your submission is not accepted, would you be open to presenting your topic in another part of the program? (e.g. lightning talk or unconference session)

Yes