Edit-A-Thon
What is an Edit-A-Thon?
"An edit-a-thon (sometimes written editathon) is an event where editors of online communities such as Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap (also as a "mapathon"), and LocalWiki edit and improve a specific topic or type of content. The events typically include basic editing training for new editors and may be combined with a more general social meetup. The word is a portmanteau of "edit" and "marathon". An edit-a-thon can either be "in-person" or online or a blended version of both. If it is not in-person, it is usually called a "virtual edit-a-thon" or "online edit-a-thon"."
--Information from Wikipedia
Prominent Edit-A-Thons & Editing Efforts
- African Climate Change Edit-A-ThonThe African Climate Change Edit-a-thon was a three-day workshop focused on introducing climate change researchers from across Africa to the process of editing Wikipedia. The aim is to expand, improve and create articles on Wikipedia related to climate change in Africa. Event participants are drawn from research programmes Future Climate for Africa (FCFA), Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Disasters (BRACED) and Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA), amongst others.
- Art+FeminismArt+Feminism envisions an internet that reflects diverse global histories of art-making, where communities who have most often been written out of history feel welcome and empowered to participate in writing (and righting) our stories
- WikiProject Black Lives MatterWikiProject Black Lives Matter is a WikiProject dedicated to Wikipedia's coverage of the Black Lives Matter movement. This project does not extol any point of view, political or otherwise, other than that of a neutral documentarian.
- WikiProject MedicineWikiProject Medicine was started in 2004 by Dr. Jacob de Wolff as WikiProject Clinical Medicine with the later branch WikiProject Preclinical Medicine. These merged and WikiProject Medicine has since been one of Wikipedia's most active WikiProjects. WP:MED as it is known aims to manage and help in curation of Wikipedia's medical articles, including making Wikipedia a source of medical information relating to the COVID-19 pandemic
- WikiProject Women in RedWomen in Red are a group of editors of all genders living around the world focused on reducing systemic bias in the wiki movement. Founded in July 2015, WiR strives to increase the percentage, which, according to Humaniki has reached 19.15% as of 7 February 2022. But that means that of 1,872,231 biographies, only 358,438 are about women. "Content gender gap" is a form of systemic bias, and WiR addresses it in a positive way through shared values.
