Saturday, March 17, 2018

Women, WIkipedia, and the ANE: International Women's Day 2018

THE CSTT.FI BLOG: CEL­EB­RAT­ING THE IN­TER­NA­TIONAL WO­MEN’S DAY 2018 WITH A WIKI­PE­DIA EDIT-A-THON (Katri Rostedt).
On the 8th of March, International Women’s Day, the Centres of Excellence ANEE and CSTT co-organized a Wikipedia edit-a-thon with the theme “Women and the Ancient Near East”. The aim was to improve both the Wikipedia pages on female scholars of the ancient Near East and on women in the ancient sources. The event took place in a casual but inspiring atmosphere, and the Wikimedia volunteers provided some editing training for the ones not so familiar with Wikipedia content creating. The event gathered 15 participants, who created in total 4 new Wikipedia articles, edited 9 existing ones, and added 2540 words to Wikipedia.

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