Roger Bamkin
Roger Bamkin is known as Victuallers on-line. He is a long-time admin and editor of the English Wikipedia. He has been a serial co-creator of open volunteer projects including the charity Wikimedia UK, QRpedia, Wikitowns, Jobergpedia, Monmouthpedia, Women in Red and the emerging Motokazi project. Motokazi will be focussed on Malawian Women Role-Models. It intends to clone the Women in Red approach while partnering with leading editors, charities and NGOs. Roger was the third Wikimedian in Residence and he led Wikimedia UK to become a registered charity with its first office, CEO and employees. He is a retired engineer, IT manager, woodcarver, Rotary member and an apprentice Scotsperson. He has given several presentations at Wikimanias - nearly always virtually.
Session
🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/ojbuIcX6LVg?list=PLhV3K_DS5YfIr2HbYikIz4XMBXKTGytWY&t=23750 🎥
10 years ago Roger and Rosie made a short presentation at Wikimania in Mexico suggesting that every editor should take an interest in the low number of women on Wikipedia. The idea took off and the resulting wikiproject was called Women in Red. Wikidata had only just started, but it soon told us that there were 15.5% of biographies that were about women. Over thirty sister projects looked at other languages. Over ten years, hundreds of editors, over 400 editathons from Norway to Kenya and New Zealand and a budget of zero, has resulted in an increase in the percentage to 20%. What did we learn?