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A workshop at Wellcome Collection, Camilla Greenwell. Source: Wellcome Collection. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).

What you’ll do

Bring along your laptop or tablet and help us write women into history by editing the world’s biggest encyclopaedia. Suggest or discover a notable woman to share with the world by creating or improving a Wikipedia article, and help to fix the gender gap with the support of a community passionate about improving the internet. All you need is a laptop or tablet – we will provide training for even complete beginners.

Dates

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Need to know

Location

We’ll be in the ‘Being Human’ gallery, which you can find by taking the stairs or the lift to level 1.

Drop in

Just turn up to this event. It's likely to have room for everyone.

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About your facilitators

Alice White

Alice is a digital editor and Wikimedian for Wellcome Collection. Before joining Wellcome, she researched frogs, moustaches, psychiatry in World War II, and British science-fiction fans.

Colour photograph of Kelly Foster

Kelly Foster

Kelly Foster is a public historian, London Blue Badge Guide and wikimedian. She was named 2017 UK Wikipedian of the Year and is the organiser of AfroCROWD UK.