{"id":215,"date":"2016-06-10T00:16:25","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T00:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/?p=215"},"modified":"2016-06-11T13:46:59","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T13:46:59","slug":"coming-soon-day-of-the-dead-editathon-31st-october-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/coming-soon-day-of-the-dead-editathon-31st-october-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"COMING SOON: Day of the Dead editathon &#8211; 31st October 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_216\" style=\"width: 179px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/06\/IMG_20160602_143728215.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-216\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-216\" class=\"wp-image-216 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/06\/IMG_20160602_143728215-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Day of the Dead Wikipedia editathon\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/06\/IMG_20160602_143728215-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/06\/IMG_20160602_143728215-768x1367.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/06\/IMG_20160602_143728215-575x1024.jpg 575w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/06\/IMG_20160602_143728215.jpg 1456w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-216\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Day of the Dead Wikipedia editathon &#8211; 31st October 2016<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Dario Taraborelli, head of research at Wikimedia, passed a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/passingon.natematias.com\/\">http:\/\/passingon.natematias.com\/ <\/a>to my colleague, Melissa Highton, Assistant Vice Principal of Online Learning and Director of Learning, Teaching &amp; Web Services at the University of Edinburgh, as the University ran two Wikipedia editathons last year on \u2018<em>Women in Science &amp; Scottish History\u2019 and \u2018Ada Lovelace Day \u2013 celebrating Women in STEM<\/em>\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>We are endeavouring to keep the momentum going this year and have already run events on <em>Women in Art<\/em> for International Women\u2019s Day and <em>Women in Espionage<\/em> for \u2018Spy Week 2016\u2019. All of these events are mentioned on my project page.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So the plan is to run an event, or a series of events, in the Autumn which would make use of the brilliant application which scrapes data from the annotated corpus of 25 years&#8217; worth of New York Times articles to help identify missing Wikipedia articles about notable women; utilising these obituary records to help celebrate the lives of those recently passed on and changing Wikipedia\u2019s representation of notable females in the process.<\/p>\n<p>The tricky part will be whether the application could incorporate Scotland\/UK based news obituaries e.g. scraped from the Scotsman newspaper or the Guardian newspaper for example.<\/p>\n<p>Some investigating to be done&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dario Taraborelli, head of research at Wikimedia, passed a link to http:\/\/passingon.natematias.com\/ to my colleague, Melissa Highton, Assistant Vice Principal of Online Learning and Director of Learning, Teaching &amp; Web Services at the University of Edinburgh, as the University ran two Wikipedia editathons last year on \u2018Women in Science &amp; Scottish History\u2019 and \u2018Ada Lovelace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[286,288,281,38,289,256,285,291,282,287,290],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-annotated-corpus","tag-dario-taraborelli","tag-day-of-the-dead","tag-gender-gap","tag-guardian","tag-melissa-highton","tag-new-york-times","tag-notable-females","tag-obituaries","tag-passingon","tag-scotsman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}