{"id":4267,"date":"2015-03-04T13:26:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T13:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xl1916apps.mucampus.ie\/?p=4267"},"modified":"2018-04-10T14:40:37","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T14:40:37","slug":"letters-1916-wikipedia-edit-thon-international-womens-day-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/letters-1916-wikipedia-edit-thon-international-womens-day-2015","title":{"rendered":"Letters of 1916 Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon for International Women&#8217;s Day 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\">Letters of 1916<\/a> project team and Maynooth University librarians for a \u201cWrite Women Back Into History\u201d Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon on Friday 6 March 2015 from 9.30 &#8211; 13.30 in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.maynoothuniversity.ie\/library\" target=\"_blank\">Maynooth University Library<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6654 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/B_aaI5yWIAAssJl.jpg\" alt=\"B_aaI5yWIAAssJl\" width=\"280\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/B_aaI5yWIAAssJl.jpg 768w, https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/B_aaI5yWIAAssJl-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s International Women&#8217;s Day theme is <strong>&#8220;Make It Happen&#8221;<\/strong> and Digital Humanities projects are\u00a0all about making things happen. \u00a0We are inviting\u00a0people to come along and learn how to make changes that matter to Wikipedia pages. Our aim is to improve existing pages and create new ones that will truly reflect\u00a0women&#8217;s roles in Irish history.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maynoothuniversity.ie\/library\/events\/make-it-happen-celebrate-women-s-achievements-call-greater-equality\" target=\"_blank\">Maynooth Library&#8217;s 2015 Equality Celebrations<\/a>, we will be holding a Wikipedia edit-a-thon in the Library Lobby. An edit-a-thon is a meeting where people edit Wikipedia together to add or improve existing entries. The <a href=\"http:\/\/historyinthecity.blogspot.ie\/2015\/01\/virtual-editathon-women-in-wikipedia.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cWrite Women Back Into History\u201d<\/a> edit-a-thon initiative was started specifically to address the gender bias that exists on Wikipedia.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6652 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/B_abdkKXAAAgt-z.jpg\" alt=\"B_abdkKXAAAgt-z\" width=\"305\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/B_abdkKXAAAgt-z.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/B_abdkKXAAAgt-z-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/B_abdkKXAAAgt-z-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/B_abdkKXAAAgt-z-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\" \/>Friday\u2019s edit-a-thon aims to celebrate the role of Irish women in the Easter Rising 1916 by updating or creating their Wikipedia entries. Come by to see how you can get involved from adding links or citations, uploading photographs or creating new Wikipedia entries.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bring a laptop and we can help you to get started!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IWDMU15?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #016d8c;\">#IWDMU15<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join members of the Letters of 1916 project team and Maynooth University librarians for a \u201cWrite Women Back Into History\u201d Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon on Friday 6 March 2015 from 9.30 &#8211; 13.30 in\u00a0Maynooth University Library. This year&#8217;s International Women&#8217;s Day theme <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/letters-1916-wikipedia-edit-thon-international-womens-day-2015\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Letters of 1916 Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon for International Women&#8217;s Day 2015<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[232,202,220,65,211],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4267"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6655,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267\/revisions\/6655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}