Submissions:2021/How the Smithsonian and Wiki Education are adding biographies of American women

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Title:

How the Smithsonian and Wiki Education are adding biographies of American women

Theme:

Global & Local, Inclusion & Diversity, Depth & Breadth for Newer Editors

Type of session:

Presentation

Abstract:

In 2021, the Smithsonian's American Women's History Initiative partnered with Wiki Education to run a series of four Wiki Scholars courses. In Wiki Scholars courses, Wiki Education staff lead participants through a six-week course on how to edit Wikipedia in a particular topic area, meeting once per week on Zoom and with outside of class work to research and write articles. These courses were for staff of Smithsonian Affiliates institutions, spread geographically around the United States. These GLAM professionals learned how to improve biographies of women on Wikipedia, particularly those relevant to their local institutions' collections and contexts.

Throughout 2021, we've run three editions of this course, with a fourth happening at the time of submission. In the first three courses, 55 participants edited more than 100 articles, making this a successful opportunity to improve Wikipedia's coverage of American women's history. In this session, Wiki Education's LiAnna Davis and the Smithsonian's Kelly Doyle will discuss how we collaborated, share more about what the outcomes are for Wikipedia, and describe additional collaborations currently underway to continue improving biographies of American women throughout history.

Academic Peer Review option:

No

Author name:

LiAnna Davis, Kelly Doyle

E-mail address:

liannawikiedu.org, DoyleK2si.edu

Wikimedia username:

LiAnna (Wiki Ed); KellyDoyle

Affiliated organization(s):

Wiki Education, Smithsonian

Estimated time:

30 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