Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight

We will also discuss new opportunities to enhance the work done in this context and open the floor for "brainstorming" with the audience.

Other people: Shani Evenstein Anna Åberg Vassia Atanassova Justine Toms May Hashem Manavpreet Kaur

In my role as Wikipedia Visiting Scholar at Northeastern University Library's Digital Scholarship Group, I focus on writing Wikipedia biographies about pre-20th-century women writers and articles about their works, broadly construed. This is supported by scholars in the Women Writers Project as well as reference librarians. As a remote community member of the team, I have access to library resources to support my efforts. A secondary focus area is championing the Cultures of Reception of pre-20th-century works by women writers associated with the university's "Women Writers in Review" initiative, which supports research into the transatlantic reception and readership of early texts by women. Reception history rubrics exist, and using structured data to understand Cultures of Reception allows for analysis, identification, and depiction of gender bias. But Wikidata lacks a model for it, and it's unclear how easy it would be to transform the API into Wikidata. The session will discuss approaches to this Case Study, and the value of creating a model in Wikidata so that other academics can contribute their unique data sets, and researchers can study the findings. '''Links''': https://wwp.northeastern.edu/review/about

''The Equal Edit - an initiative by Wikimedia Sweden, the Wikimedia Foundation, and collaborators to make Wikipedia more gender equal.'' The United Nations has made gender equality a Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), describing it as “not only a fundamental human right, but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world.” Aligned with this objective, the Wikimedia movement, embracing knowledge equity for all, has long undertaken efforts to improve the representation of women on Wikipedia. Building off existing efforts in gender equity and the Wikimedia movement, including those by WikiGap, last month Swedish volunteers collaborated to make Wikipedia articles about the history of Sweden more gender equal. Working with Historiskan, Sweden’s first women’s history magazine, the group helped create a toolkit of notable women and resources about them to include in Swedish Wikipedia articles. In this 45 minute panel, we will hear representatives from Wikimedia Sweden, the Editor in Chief of Historiskan, and Wikipedians active in gender equality talk about the initiative, the challenges of tackling gender equity, and how communities across the globe might work together to make our projects more inclusive and representative of women.

Other people: Eva Bonde Sofie Jansson

Other people: Florence Devouard Mehman Ibragimov Oleg Abarnikov