women’s history – dh+lib https://dhandlib.org where the digital humanities and librarianship meet Tue, 26 Mar 2013 18:04:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 180836968 RESOURCE: New Challenges in Digital History: Sharing Women’s History on Wikipedia https://dhandlib.org/post-new-challenges-in-digital-history-sharing-womens-history-on-wikipedia/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=post-new-challenges-in-digital-history-sharing-womens-history-on-wikipedia Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:30:08 +0000 https://dhandlib.org/?p=1519 read more]]>

Mia Ridge has shared her presentation notes from the Women’s History in the Digital World Conference at Bryn Mawr’s Albert Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Women’s Education. The talk explores how and why academics should edit Wikipedia, a topic that has received a lot of attention recently in the library world, with many libraries now hosting Wikipedians-in-Residence. Ridge concludes:

If it’s worth researching the life and achievements of a notable woman, it’s worth making sure their contribution to history is available to the world while improving the quality of the world’s biggest encyclopaedia.

The conference, which took place March 22-23, was live tweeted using the hashtag #WHDigWrld, and Michelle Moravec has created a Storify.

This post was produced through a cooperation between Heidi Madden and Kristen Totleben (Editors-at-Large for the week), Roxanne Shirazi (Editor for the week), and Zach Coble and Sarah Potvin (site editors).

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