Trowel Blazers event

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• Date: Saturday 19th October 2013
• Time: 10:30am - 5.00pm
• Venue: Board Room, Natural History Museum
• Main event page: Click here for the event page on Wikipedia
• For more information contact: Tori Herridge from Team TrowelBlazers (teamtrowelblazers@gmail.com) or John Cummings, Wikimedian in Residence at the Natural History Museum (j.cummings@nhm.ac.uk)

Outcomes

Talk about female paleontologists in the earth sciences library as part of the event

• A writeup of the event can be found on the Natural History Museum website here.
• The event was attended by 20 people, most were new to Wikipedia:

usernames of the participants:

• People new to Wikipedia learned the skills to contribute
• Earth science library staff presented archival material related to women scientists including Dorothea Bate, Dorothy Garrod, Helen Muir-Wood, and Barbara Hastings (pictured).
• Many new articles were created

topics edited were:

Feedback

Was captured on SurveyMonkey. The response received described the event as "constructive, important, fun".