# WikiHackathon ## Proposed date: - Tuesday 13 October 2022 ## Idea: Wikipedia is one of the most amazing things that's come out of the internet, but it has a huge bias problem (Who writes wikipedia article [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Who_writes_Wikipedia%3F#:~:text=28%25%20of%20editors%20are%20aged%2040%2B.&text=59%25%20of%20the%20editors%20are%20aged%2017%20to%2040.&text=The%20English%20Wikipedia%20currently%20has,contributors%20participate%20in%20community%20discussions.)). One statistic which stands out is that only ~15% of all edits being from women. The Turing is in a fantastic position where we have so many experts from a wide variety of topics. It would be really fun if we could organise an effort to help leverage this knowledge towards improving wikipedia (with an EDI focus in mind). ## Plan: - Everyone and anyone can get involved! - Have a few people who are experienced with contributing to wikipedia to help out - Have simple getting started instructions: - How to make a wikipedia account - How to make a simple edit - Use an "opendoor" setup - Keep things casual and let people come in and leave whenever they want - Very conversational atmosphere - Make it clear there's no requirement to join - We could make a few suggestions for getting started of where to update things: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing - This could have some additions to link to the institute for example - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing_Institute - This is quite out of date - Could have some great links to our current teams/projects - More to add.. - Could collect suggestions when advertising! - Have ample supply of biscuits to entice people to come in and chat ## Tasks We'd focus on finding, correcting and adding: - Missing / lacking articles - Outdated references - Retracted / proven incorrect references - Biased / conjecture information - Adding references diverse (e.g. some pages have like 10 references all from the same author) - Fix outdated phrasing / insensitive language - Make efforts to highlight lesser known - but just as important - researchers/groups - Reword verbose pages to be more approachable - Adjust language to be more inclusive ## Monitoring of contributions It would be great to record pages being changed. Would be able to do some fun analytics on / try to measure the amount of impact we can make in a short timeframe.