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Ada Lovelace Day is an annual event held on the second Tuesday of October to celebrate and raise awareness of the contributions of women to STEM fields. It is named after mathematician and computer science pioneer Ada Lovelace. It started in 2009 as a "day of blogging" and has since become a multi-national event with conferences. [1] [2]
Ada was a descendant of the extinct Barons Lovelace and in 1838, her husband was made Earl of Lovelace and Viscount Ockham, meaning Ada became the Countess of Lovelace. [30] In 1843–44, Ada's mother assigned William Benjamin Carpenter to teach Ada's children and to act as a "moral" instructor for Ada. [ 31 ]
BCS Women joined forces with Wikimedia UK and Suw Charman-Anderson of Finding Ada, to celebrate Ada Lovelace day in 2013.In general, the day exists to celebrate the contributions of women in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, especially since Ada Lovelace is considered the first programmer, due to her work on Charles Babbage's analytical engine.
The University of Oxford’s IT Services and Bodleian Libraries organised an editathon focused on women in science to celebrate Ada Lovelace Day on 15 October 2013. The editathon took place at IT Services on Banbury Road, Oxford, and included some basic training by Martin Poulter, the Jisc Wikimedian Ambassador supported by Jisc and Wikimedia UK.
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The Ada Lovelace Day Edit-a-thon was conducted on 19th October 2012. Six users signed up for the event. 6 articles were created, and one article was copy-edited and expanded. User:Bishdatta created the article about Kamal Ranadive. User: Hisham created the article about Shubha Tole. User: Djembayz created the biography article about Darshan ...
Ada Lovelace Day 2023: Celebrating Women in STEM in a nutshell: Where?: 1.07 in Edinburgh University Main Library and remotely, wherever you are! When?: 10 October 2023 2–5 PM
The aim of this event as part of Ada Lovelace Day is to attempt to address Wikipedia's gender bias by creating or improving articles about notable women. (Also see here ). The aim of the event is to improve the coverage of an assortment of nineteenth century organisations and people - especially related to the atheist movement.