Wikipedia:Meetup/San Francisco/SPIE 2020

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When & where
Park Central Hotel, on far left, overlooking Yerba Buena Gardens
Date	Sunday, 2 February 2020 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm PDT (UTC-7)
Venue	Park Central Hotel Franciscan I, 3rd Level 50 Third Street San Francisco, CA, 94103 37.78654°N 122.40309°W / 37.78654; -122.40309
Who
Host	SPIE Women in Optics
Instructor	Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, co-founder of Women in Red
Social media
Hashtags	`#PhotonicsWest` `#WomenInSTEM`
Wikipedia/Wikicommons inks
short url to this page	https://w.wiki/GSL
SPIE photos at WikiCommons	here
SPIE website
SPIE wiki editathon announcement	here
SPIE's Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion events	here

Wikipedia is the fifth most popular website in the world, with more than 32 million views a day. However, only 18.23% of the English-language biographies are about women. The stats for ethnic and racial minorities and scientists who identify as LGBTQ+ are no better. With a focus on equity, diversity, and inclusion, we will work together to research, write, and improve the biographies of gender, ethnic, and racial minorities working in optics and photonics.

What to expect

This will be a relaxed evening with training plus time for discussion, discoveries, and questions. There will be experienced Wikipedians present to help newcomers get started. Join us in editing Wikipedia pages about inspiring women, ethnic, or racial minority scientists. This event is open to the public, and no previous experience is needed.

Participate in any way that's comfortable for you. Bring your curiosity and questions; it's ok to just drop by to check things out. Bring your laptop, tablet, power cord if you want to edit Wikipedia. Ideas for articles that need updating or creation are welcome, too. Stop by for a short while or stay for two hours.

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The main goals of the event are:

to have fun and learn something
to encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia by improving/creating biographies
to draw the attention of more experienced editors to the need for concerted action on a specific area
to support Wikipedia in combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women, women's works, and women's issues
to promote new/improved articles and images through social media (Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter).

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