“Wiki4Climate”: A week of editing on climate change topics from 24 November - 1 December 2020. (Edit on 8 December 2020: this particular edit-a-thon has now ended but the Wiki4Climate initiative is ongoing and you can continue to collaborate using our Slack channel to jointly edit Wikipedia articles on climate change topics. Our twitter handle is @Wiki4Climate. Our e-mail address is: [email protected])
This was the project meet-up page for an online edit-a-thon on climate change topics, called “Wiki4Climate”. This edit-a-thon took place online from 24 November until 1 December 2020. It aimed to mobilise a community of climate change professionals (researchers, practitioners and communicators), climate organisers, and existing Wikipedia editors and volunteers to edit and update climate change articles on Wikipedia. This initiative was organised by the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) and Future Climate for Africa (FCFA).
This event had four specific goals;
- To enhance climate change related content on Wikipedia, particularly related to the Global South,
- To increase awareness on the value of contributing to the platform,
- To enhance the confidence and skills of climate change professionals to edit Wikipedia, and
- To build a community of climate change editors, particularly women and editors from the Global South.
Anyone can take part in this event provided you have a reliable internet connection, an interest in climate change, and a desire to improve Wikipedia content or share research.
You are free to commit according to the time you have available. You do not need to attend for the whole week. You can choose to edit for ten minutes a day, or every day for the entire week. If you are able to add one sentence or a paragraph, improve one lead or simply add a few robust references, you will be making an important contribution.
We particularly encouraged participants from the Global South and women to participate as editors in this event. We wanted to help reduce the major gaps on Wikipedia, such as the Gender Gap, and encouraged voices from less-represented groups to be heard in the global knowledge commons.
Recordings from two live sessions (launch webinar, opening webinar) which we held for this edit-a-thon are available in this Youtube Playlist by CDKN. Presentation slides from these events and further information is available here.
This event followed the Friendly Space policy for conduct.
Questions about the event? Email: [email protected]