Tuesday, October 16th, was Ada Lovelace Day, in honor of Byron’s daughter, who is often recognized as the first computer programmer. To celebrate, UMD English Professor Melanie Kill’s “Computer and Text” class organized a “Wikipedia Loves Humanities” Edit-a-Thon from 3:30-6:00pm in the Learning Commons on the second floor of McKeldin Library.
Plus! In addition to contributing to a resource that I’m sure you use all the time, there is EXTRA CREDIT at stake. Attend the Edit-a-Thon and email me a link to a page you edited and your Wikipedia username so I can verify you participated, and you’ll get 7 points of extra credit (equal to one blog post). You may still receive extra credit if you couldn’t attend, but if you can make one meaningful edit to Wikipedia and send me links to both your edit and your Wikipedia user page before class on Thursday.