12 Oct 2021

24-hour Wikipedia 'Edit-a-thon' launches

From Afternoons, 1:32 pm on 12 October 2021

Today volunteer Wikipedia editors in Aotearoa are kicking off a 24-hour edit-a-thon. 

The event has been organised by Women in Red - a group working to end the gender gap in the biographies featured on the website. 

They chose this date as it's Ada Lovelace day, Ada being the 19th-century British mathematician who's considered the world's first computer programmer. 

Dr Mike Dickison joins Jesse to tell us more.

Wikipedia logo, Wikipedia website

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