Jump to content

Wikipedia:Meetup/Neurodiversity/October 2023

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Neurodiversity Edit-a-thon
When and Where
DateThurs/Fri, 12-13 October, 2023 (2 days)
Participant chatThurs, 12 October, 2023 at 4:00-5:00pm GMT/UTC+0 (9:00am-10:00 PT/12:00-1:00pm ET). Find your local time here: https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1697126400
You can participate remotely from anywhere!

This Edit-a-thon is focused on increasing the quality and amount of content about topics related to neurodiversity in Wikipedia and other Wikimedia platforms, thereby increasing the accessibility of this information to the wider online community. It is open to everyone.

This event will take place asynchronously over 2 days, Thursday and Friday, 12 and 13 October, 2023 globally and virtually. On Thursday, 12 October, we will have a meeting to chat about the event and efforts to improve content about neurodiversity on Wikipedia

Event information

[edit]

Participants

[edit]

Please add your Wikipedia username to list below if you plan on participating:

  1. Hexatekin (talk) 17:33, 8 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Gufo46 (talk) 17:35, 8 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Egezort (talk) 18:19, 8 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Samthony (talk) 20:24, 8 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Bluerasberry (talk) 14:00, 11 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  6. --

What can I work on?

[edit]

The theme for this edit-a-thon is neurodiversity. You can create or enhance Wikipedia articles, add external links, verify and update citations, provide resources to help those writing articles, assist with research, translate articles, and more. Please add articles in need of improvement or creation to the lists below to suggest to other editors. Editing in all languages encouraged!

Articles in need of improvement

[edit]

Please add articles in need of improvement to this list. Wikipedia:WikiProject Autism also has lists of open tasks and article alerts we can work on.

Articles in need of creation

[edit]
  • Book: Neurodiversity: The Birth of an Idea (2016) by Judy Singer
  • Spectrum Women Magazine https://www.spectrumwomen.com/
  • Harvey Blume (journalist)
  • Hamish Steele (comic artist)
  • AuDHD (high rates of comorbidity between autism and ADHD)

Articles to be translated

[edit]

Resources for Research

[edit]

Useful templates

[edit]

Articles improved

[edit]

Wikidata items improved

[edit]