A US professor is attempting to educate people about women in science and technology fields by holding a Wikipedia "edit-a-thon."

Washington's Wikipedia profile gets cleaned up during "Edit-a-Thon"

And next month, the Royal Society is planning a Wikipedia "Edit-a-thon" to improve the online encyclopedia's articles about women in science.

This involved a Wikipedia "edit-a-thon", meetups, the creation of a cookbook in Bassel's honor, and press mentions.

Art and Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon.

One such edit-a-thon was organized by the White House to create and improve articles on African Americans in STEM.

We will have a panel discussion after the edit-a-thon to talk about some brilliant women scientists, such as the astronomer Caroline Herschel and the crystallographer Kathleen Lonsdale.

Of course, the Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon was a lot more sedate than other activities ending in "thon": marathon, telethon, Toyotathon. . . .

In addition, the Creative Commons Arab World organized a virtual Arabic Wikipedia edit-a-thon to translate and expand pages related to Bassel and his interests.

This was all thanks to Andrew Kuchling, who was one of about two dozen local history buffs who spent Saturday at the Historical Society of Washington engaged in a Wikipedia "Edit-a-Thon."

Nicholas Dodo, Sinoxolo Cotyi, Esethu Dudumashe, Asiya Bucwa and Sesethu Mdikane joined Lead SA in association with WikiAfrica at an Edit-a-thon.

Anne Fausto-Sterling, a Brown University biology professor, and Maia Weinstock, a recent graduate, hope to help chip away at the problem with the "edit-a-thon," one of many that's been held in recent years to help increase the representation of women on Wikipedia.

In the online communities of projects such as Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, and LocalWiki an edit-a-thon (sometimes written editathon) is an event where editors get together to edit and improve a specific topic or type of content, typically including basic editing training for new editors.

In February 2014 the first ever Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon was hosted at Eyebeam in conjunction with more than 30 satellite edit-a-thons internationally across the United States, Canada, Australia, Italy, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.