On Monday evening 9 November the NSW branch of the AIP hosted a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at the University of Sydney. The event was also sponsored by gemaker and the School of Physics at the University of Sydney, with support from Wikimedia Australia.

Wikipedia trainers Alice Woods (Wikimedia employee), Melanie Zeppel and Annie Reynolds helped 30 registered people edit over 32 pages, adding 120 references so far.

The focus was on Australian women in physics. Women make up 20% of all biographies on Wikipedia and their pages are almost twice as likely to be removed.

Attendees enjoyed refreshments and meeting people in the physics community. Then they put their heads down to search for solid evidence to support statements on Wikipedia pages.

Thanks to AIP national secretary Noel Hanna and AIP operations manager Karen Siu for attending to support this NSW branch event.

The following day the trainers traveled to ANSTO at Lucas Heights (south Sydney) to deliver a smaller workshop to AIP members there.