User:Andrew Davidson/Events

These are Wikimedia events which I have attended, organised or plan to attend.

Recurring

• London meetup
• Wikimania
• WMUK General Meetings
• Dashboard

2024

• 2 January – Oxford Food Symposium WikiClub – article leads

2023

• 14 December – Community Resilience & Sustainability Conversation
• 12 December – Wikimedia Research Showcase
• 9 December – Jimmy Wales on Times Radio with Ayesha Hazarika
• 6 December – UK virtual Wikimedia Meetup
• 23 November – Wikimedia UK 2023 Community Meeting
• 3 October – Oxford Food Symposium WikiClub – event coordination
• 3 March – Editing team Community Conversation
• 27 January – Edinburgh WiR – Hannah Hodge
• 15 January – Oxford meetup – Jarn Mound
• 15–20 August – Wikimania at Eventyay and Suntec Singapore Convention and Exhibition Centre

2022

• 15 December – Edinburgh WiR – Highland Stoneware
• 1 December – Wikimedia UK Potluck Editathon – Tamsin van Essen, John Oliver Udal
• 30 September – Edinburgh WiR – event coordination, Tessa Keswick
• 14 September – Wiki Loves Monuments UK – judging
• 12–13 August – Wikimania 2022 UK Community Festival
• 24 June – Edinburgh WiR – event coordination, Argentocoxos, Crawford's, From this moment despair ends and tactics begin...
• 27 May – Edinburgh WiR – event coordination, Ida Baumann, Maria Olsvik, Business golf
• 25 March – Edinburgh WiR – event coordination, Raptor persecution, Seely wight
• 25 February – Edinburgh WiR – event coordination, West Pier Public Convenience ‎, Jenny Armstrong (shepherd)
• 29 January – WMUK January Editathon – David Cox (statistician)
• 28 January – Edinburgh WiR – event coordination, Joy Ferguson, Women's RAF Volunteer Reserve

2021

• 17 December – Edinburgh WiR – event coordination, Elspeth Green, Marion Conacher
• 26 November – Edinburgh WiR – event coordination, Menstrual underwear, Shu-Fang Lai
• 12 November – Connected Heritage Potluck Wikithon – event coordination, Saving Lives at Sea
• 9 November – Women in Green : Good Article Editathon : Women's Rights – reviewed Elena Arizmendi Mejía
• 29 October – Edinburgh WiR – Cutty-sark (witch), Jean Milligan
• 24 September – Edinburgh WiR – Katharina Dalton, London Foot Hospital, Nicola Owen, Ella Logan, &c.
• 30 August – London Wiknic near the Marble Arch Mound
• 25 August – Edinburgh WiR – Andrew Man, Boswell, Elspeth McEwen, Witchery, &c.
• 15 August – Kent Wiknic at Bore Place
• 13–17 August – Wikimania 2021
• 20 May – Invasive Species – Introduced species of the British Isles
• 20 May – Coventrypedia session #6 – Lisa Bayliss-Pratt and Coventrypedia
• 15 May – Urban Tree Festival – Osterley Cork Oak
• 11 May – Coventrypedia session #5 – Alice Arnold (mayor)
• 13 May – Coventrypedia session #4 – Coventry blue, The Old Windmill
• 11 May – Coventrypedia session #3 – Primrose Hill Park
• 29 April – Coventrypedia session #2 – Mary Ball (poisoner)
• 22 April – Coventrypedia session #1 (plus Women in Classics) – Pearl Hyde

2020

• 28 Aug – Vaccine safety
• 17 Jul – Oxford Food Symposium – virtual symposium on Zoom
• 26 Feb – Wikimedia in Education UK Summit
• 14 Feb – Public health posters at the Wellcome Library – started Health security and Lewitt-Him
• 23 Jan – Six millionth article – photo finish with Auto-trolling and Castle Folds. Also ran: Edda Tasiemka and Great Asby Scar.

2019

• 12 Dec – UK Election Night at The London College of Political Technologists
• 15 Nov – UCL Wikibook
• 14 Nov – TrowelBlazers edit-a-thon at UCL
• 10 Nov – Victorian Blogging at the Conway Hall
• 21 Sep – Electrifying Women at the LSE Library. Event coordination and ...
• 14–15 Aug – Women in Optics Edit-a-Thon at SPIE 2019. Event coordination
• 12 July – Oxford Food Symposium. Event coordination, supper club, Song and supper room, Casper's, Moosewood Restaurant, Fruit pudding, Tembleque, Welf pudding, Figgy pudding
• 26 June – Diversithon at the Francis Crick Institute. Event coordination, Anna B. Eckstein and Intersectionality.
• 20 May – Wiki-Food and Mostly Women at the British Library for the Oxford Food Symposium. Event coordination, Elisabeth Luard, Hattie Ellis
• 18 May – Victorian Blogging at the Conway Hall. Started Political Achievements of the Earl of Dalkeith.
• 18 May – Extraordinary Women in Engineering at the LSE Library. Event coordination, started Elizabeth Georgeson
• 8 May – Women's Classical Committee event at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge. Event coordination, list of women classicists.
• 7 May – AutoWikiBrowser Skillshare at Wikimedia UK
• 28 Feb – Diversithon at Imperial College. Welcomed and confirmed 22 participants. Rescued lists of activists: African American; Jewish American
• 19 Feb – Wikidata meetup at Newspeak House
• 15 Feb – Diversithon event at Downing College to celebrate 40 years of admitting women. Welcomed and confirmed 42 partipants. Created Priyanka Joshi
• 17 Jan – WES&HODS WES/HODS Women's Engineering Society and Heritage Open Days at Wellcome Collection. Welcomed and confirmed 4 participants. Created Lynette Willoughby and assisted with Sue Bird (engineer) and Sarah Guppy.
• 15 Jan – 500yrswomen Royal College of Physicians Museum 'This vexed question' at Wellcome Library. Welcomed and confirmed 8 participants. Created Ethel Browning.

2018

• 21 Nov – Skillshare at Wikimedia UK
• 17 Nov – Ladies of Quality and Distinction at the Foundling Museum for the Being Human festival in association with Birkbeck's Editing the Long Nineteenth Century: Recovering Women in the Digital Age
• 7 Nov – Wikidata birthday meetup at Wikimedia UK
• 4 Nov – Wikimedia Editathon Middle Eastern Human Rights at NewspeakHouse. dashboard
• 20 Oct – Workshop at the Cambridge Makespace for Wikidata 6th anniversary.
• 18–21 Oct – Daylighting events at Wellcome Collection for the Bloomsbury Festival.
• 29 Sep – Cambridge wikimeet, featuring ContentMine's ScienceSource project at the Makespace and The Mill
• 20 Sep – Women's Classical Committee workshop at UCL Gordon House. Created template:User WCC.
• 14 July – Wikimedia UK AGM, honourable mention as Positive Wikimedian of the Year,

  Andrew has remotely supported every event that he hasn't been able to attend in person, and gives such warm welcomes and support to new editors. He takes the time to keep up with events, and to patiently and enthusiastically share his expertise on Wikipedia with others. Many new pages would not exist without his support to help new editors who are from communities that have not previously felt welcome to edit until - his contribution to breaking down those barriers is invaluable, and we Wikimedians in the UK are lucky to have him.

• 6 July – Oxford Food Symposium at St Catherine's College, Oxford, started Elisabeth Luard
• 8 June – Women in Medicine at Wellcome Library
• 6 June – WES Wikithon at Blackett Laboratory, started Carolyn Griffiths
• 23 May – Wiki-Food and Mostly Women at British Library, started Claire Ptak, pictured Lily Bollinger.
• 28 April – Dissidents, Suffragists and Freedom Fighters at the National Archives, started Petra Schelm and Stri Dharma. Pictured Valerie Arkell-Smith.
• 28 March – Medieval Feminist Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at the Senate House, helped Damesnet with Maria Jastrzębska.
• 3 February – The Future of Wikipedia with Katherine Maher at NewspeakHouse. Raised the question of Trump Street.

2017

The BHSM event at Wellcome

• 10 November – Food and drink at the British Library. Started Mary Ann Ashford, Elizabeth Beecroft, Jill Norman.
• 13 October – Editathon at the Physiological Society. Started Joan Mott, Kim Barrett and Ole Holger Petersen.
• 2 September – Photograpy workshop for Wiki Loves Monuments. Photographed sites in Lambeth like Konditor & Cook.
• 26 August – Another Woman in Classics, Elizabeth Visser.
• 17 August – Royal Society of Chemistry Women in Science Wikithon. Started Dorothy Marshall. Helped with Evelyn Hickmans, Kim Cobb and Shu Jie Lam.
• 21 July – Started List of women classicists for that month's Women in Classics.
• 15 July – Wikimedia UK AGM. Led workshop on fake news and presented on the use of talk pages. Mentioned in despatches

  Andrew D. has been a tireless supporter of editors, editathons, and general-wikiness. He's attended a great many events over the past year and done a stellar job of helping new editors to find their feet. He's particularly brilliant at putting new pages through DYK so that they find a wider audience. Events such as the huge school session at Imperial would have been impossible without his support.
  
  I would support this nomination, Andrew has been excellently supportive to the Women's Classical Committee Wikipedia project.

  — Zeromonk and Claire 75.

• 7 July – Wikithon at the Oxford Food Symposium. Started charcoal in food and added images for plenary speakers.
• 15 June – Electrical Engineering at Wellcome; started Dorothy Spicer and Constance Wood. General advice and support.
• 14 June – Schools training and women engineers editathon at Imperial College; started event page and Alison Vincent, helped with improved Zetland Arms
• 8/9 June – General Election at Newspeak House
• 11 April – British Society for the History of Medicine at the Wellcome Foundation. Helped train volunteers. Used library to improve Agnata Butler. Followed up by starting Beryl Corner.

The Ethical Encyclopædia

• 9 April – Thinking on Sunday at the Conway Hall Ethical Society – presented a talk on The Ethical Encyclopædia: right and wrong in Wikipedia
• 22 March – another sprint for the Women's Classical Committee, starting Barbara Hammond and getting Agnata Butler en route to DYK too. First class!
• 8 March – Role Models from Women's Universities at Newnham College, created Myra Curtis and advised on Ashley Moffett and Ivy Josiah.
• 5 March – Art & Feminism at the Royal Academy of Arts. Started Rebecca Salter.
• 20 February – Wikimedia UK Education Summit at Middlesex University
• 23 January – Women in Classical Studies, created Dorothy Tarrant, Edith Sharpley. DYK for Amy Richlin, Beryl Rawson, Miriam Griffin, Susanna Elm. Improved Gail Trimble.

2016

• 8 December – BBC 100 Women – created Lucy Finch and helped with Furra. Also took some pictures of the event at Broadcasting House.
• December – Women in Red: Women in Aviation – created list of aviatrices and women in aviation.
• 20 November – Wiener Library – created Bertha Bracey and helped with Alan Montefiore.
• 24 August – Liberal history – created The Glad
• 14 August – London meetup – created Great Turnstile
• 9 July – 2016 AGM – suggested extending membership from a year to reduce renewal hassle
• 13 February – Black Cultural Archives – created Althea McNish, Merikins
• 1-15 February – Black Women's History – created Hetty Reckless
• 16 January – Wikipedia's 15th birthday party, London – Call outs and image
• 10 January — Women in Music – created Otomae

2015

• 5 December — Women in Religion — started Sarah Crosby
• 21 November — Being Human — started The Foundery
• 29 July — Royal Society of Chemistry — started beer chemistry
• 31 May — Wiener Library – postponed
• 8 May — General Election — improved Royston Smith (politician)
• 15 April — Longitude at the National Maritime Museum — improved William Whiston
• 11 April — Women's Boat Race — started Women's Boat Race, Amy Gentry, Silvermere
• 7 March — The Tramp at the Cinema Museum — improved The Tramp

2014

• 29 November - Volunteer Strategy Gathering at Library of Birmingham
• 26 November - Science Museum Late at the Science Museum
• 22 November - World War 1 and Dissent at Senate House Library – improved No-Conscription Fellowship
• 19 November - prep for the Science Museum at Wikimedia UK
• 31 October - Halloween map tagathon at the British Library. Tagged 1880s Asia - Borneo, Burma, bear-hunting by moonlight, &c.
• 25 October - Ballet editathon at the Royal Opera House - started Dance and Dancers and Peter Williams (dance critic)
• 11 October - Backstage pass at the Cinema Museum - started Lambeth workhouse and List of London workhouses
• 23 September - Institute of Classical Studies - Women as Classical Scholars
• 6-10 August - Wikimania 2014
• 4 August – WW1 centenary – started First World War centenary, Paul Cummins, Spectra (installation)
• 23 July - Editathon at Conway Hall, Rationality and Skepticism on the Internet — started the Great Rationality Debate, trained Ndrluzardo.
• 7 June - Neuroscience Editathon at the Royal Society — started Keith Martin (ophthalmologist), Colonel's Review (outside) and town mouse.
• 7 June - Wikimania Free Culture Hack — chaordic organization
• 29 May - DNAdigest Editathon — started beanbag genetics.
• 24 May - Wikimania Social Machines Hack

2013

• 4 December 2013 - Art Nouveau
• 27 November 2013 - Conway Hall editathon
• 15 November 2013 - Ada Lovelace Day 2013 - UK Diversity editathon
• 9 November 2013 - Wiki takes the Tube to the Lord Mayor's Show.
• 19 October 2013 - Bloomsbury Group editathon
• 17 October 2013 - Ada Lovelace Day at Conway Hall
• 15 October 2013 - Ada Lovelace Day 2013 - Women in Leadership editathon
• 11 October 2013 - Women in Science at the Royal Society
• 7-11 August 2013 - Wikimania 2013
• 8 August 2013 - Conway Hall editathon
• 25 July 2013 - Women in Science at NIMR
• 19 July 2013 - Institute of Civil Engineers
• 29 June 2013 - WWI at the British Library
• 22 June 2013 - Sir Frederick Ashton at the Royal Opera House
• 24 May 2013 - Queen Victoria's Journals at the Bodleian Library
• 23 March 2013 - Five year plan

2012

• 23-26 October 2012 - Dunhuang at BL
• 15/16 September 2012 - British Library GLAM Camp
• 13 September 2012 - British Museum: Staging the World
• 10 September 2012 - British Library Workshop
• 16 June 2012 - World War I editathon
• 7/8 January 2012 - OTRS workshop

2011

• 13 November 2011 - Sue Gardner
• 16 July 2011 - V&A Wikilounge
• 4 June 2011 - Editathon, British Library June 2011
• 16 April 2011 - WikiConference UK 2011
• 14/15 January 2011 - British Library editathon

2010

• 26/27 November 2010 - GLAM-WIKI 2010

Coaching

I have advised and coached editathon groups at my workplace including Women in Leadership; Women in Technology; UK Women’s Network and the Diversity Advocates. Their output includes:

Ada Lovelace Day - 15 October 2013

Did you know ...

1. ... that mathematician Grace Bates was the only woman allowed to study differential equations in her final year at college? - 3425 hits.
2. ... that royal midwife Mrs. Cannon collected exotic animals and curiosities such as Oliver Cromwell's nightcap?" - 2359 hits.
3. ... that female physicist Elizabeth Laird came out of retirement during WWII to research radar?" - 1938 hits.
4. ... that philosopher Julia Gulliver was the only woman in a department of 200 men when she studied in Leipzig? - 1076 hits.
5. ... that the first person to isolate Vitamin E, Gladys Anderson Emerson, taught history before starting her career in biochemistry? - 821 hits.
6. ... that pioneering petrographer Eleanora Knopf was the daughter of General Tasker H. Bliss? - 778 hits.
7. Katharine Blunt - one-line stub still awaiting 5x expansion.
8. Dorothy Hahn - one-line stub still awaiting 5x expansion.

Other trainee work

• Michael Abraham (chemist)
• Rationalism (approach to life)
• Tall Jawa