WikiDonne/en

Outline
English name: Marilyn, Rita, Catrina: women and Wikipedia

What: Open Talk about women's participation on Wikipedia + introductory workshop

When: Saturday, march 23th 2013

Where: | Urban Center, | Biblioteca Salaborsa, Bologna

Who: Emma Tracanella, Frieda, Ginevra, Elitre, Giuseppe, Virginia Gentilini. The event was organized in partnership with | Girl Geek Dinners Bologna

How: In the first part Emma and Frieda talked about women in technology and in the Wikimedia movement, explaining how the gender gap affects Wikipedia contents; in the second part Ginevra explained Wikipedia basics analyzing and comparing articles, then we focused on markup working on some selected pages which required some simple fix. At the end of the workshop we gave some "homeworks" recommending tre articles needing improvements and pointing out which kind of work was necessary to make.

Resources:

Participants
We registered 30 subscribers on Eventbrite, 10 of them actually attended the event, all of them were women.

Outcomes
All the participants were interested and attentive, in both the workshop and the presentation.

We improved these pagese on it.wiki: and created the stub:
 * Caterina Enrichetta di Borbone
 * Dorothy Janis
 * Augusta Rapetti Bassi
 * Girl Geek Dinners

Documentation
Iperbole

Girl Geek Dinners Bologna

Women and Technology

Vita da streghe

Storify

Foto dell'evento (copyrighted)

What went well

 * The collaboration with GGD Bologna worked out very well and allowed us to have a certain coverage of the event on social networks, blogs and local press

What could have gone better

 * The invitation to continue editing some articles at home was not embraced by the participants

Outline
Englis name: Wikipedia in Salaborsa: editathon on women's biographies

What: Editathon on women's biographies

When: Saturday, May 4th, 2013

Where: Biblioteca Salaborsa, Bologna

Who: Virginia Gentilini, Ginevra, Elitre

How: We started with a brief exposition of Wikipedia's basic principles (it was assumed that the participants already had some basic knowledge on the argument) followed by the presentations of the women we were going to write about. We invited the participants to split into two persons groups (but we also had a 4 people group and one person choosed to work alone) and to choose a biography. The groups worked simultaneously and with discrete autonomy, we only supervised the work and gave some technical advice.

To choose the biographies for the event we collected books about women's history in Salaborsa and then selected the ones who had more references, with an eye on women connected to the territory of Bologna and Emilia Romagna. After this phase we checked the status of Wikipedia articles on the women we choose, and refined our list excluding the ones who already had a decent article. Once we had the final nucleus, some more references were collected in other libraries and in the internet.

Resources: list of the biographies and online references

Participants
13 persons, 10 women and 3 men. Some persons participated in the introductory workshop held by Piero Grandesso on April 20th.

Outcomes
New articles:
 * Ortensia
 * Nicolosa Sanuti
 * Enrichetta di Lorenzo
 * Marcelle Cahn
 * Maria Dalle Donne

Improved articles:
 * Giuseppa Eleonora Barbapiccola
 * Anna Morandi Manzolini

Documentation
Salaborsa

Storify

Post on WMF Blog

Interview for Società Italiana delle Letterate - Italian Women of Letters Society

What went well

 * Some participants also attended Piero's event (consecutive events works);


 * Some participants continued editing their article once went home;


 * We collected a contact interested in organizing something in a school;

What could have gone better

 * The press and media coverage of the event was poor, we must improve that.