Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/4

Women in Science
World Virtual Edit-a-thon
	Lobby, New York Academy of Sciences
Dates	Sunday, November 8 to Sunday, November 29, 2015
Location	This is a virtual, global event... you can participate from anywhere in the world
Sponsor	New York Academy of Sciences
Hosts	Women in Red & Women scientists
Facilitators	Rosiestep, Pharos, Keilana
Twitter hashtags	#WomenSciWiki & #wikicontentgendergap

Women in Red

Did you know that 15% of the biographies on Wikipedia are about women? Not impressed? Women in Red (WiR) focuses on "content gender gap". If you'd like to help contribute articles on women and women's works, we warmly welcome you!

The New York Academy of Sciences is sponsoring a Women in Science Wikipedia edit-a-thon, an editing event for improving and increasing the coverage of historic, technical and biographical information on Wikipedia pertaining to the lives and works of women in science. The event is to be launched in the afternoon of Sunday, November 22 in New York City and will continue over the following week.

In this connection, Women in Red, in close cooperation with WikiProject Women scientists, is running a three-week virtual editathon from November 8 to 29. Anyone can take part whatever their previous experience. We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies of some of the many past and present notable women in science who are still red-linked on the English Wikipedia. The virtual edit-a-thon allows enthusiasts from around the globe to participate in the work. See the List of red-linked articles to be created for guidance.

The main goals of the edit-a-thon are:

to encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia by creating biographies of some of the world's most prominent women
to draw the attention of more experienced editors to the need for concerted action on a specific area
to support Wikipedia in combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women and women's works

Articles to be created

Yaël Nazé

Mercedes Fernández-Martorell

File:Grete Mostny 1980.jpg

Grete Mostny

Christine Mannhalter

There is a list of historic and/or prominent female members of the New York Academy of Sciences →here←.
And there is an evolving, crowd-sourced list of red-linked articles broken down by scientific sectors and countries →here←.
Or create an article about one of the redlinked women whose photographs appears in this section (hint: each has an article on another language Wikipedia).
Or pick from one of these (references provided):

Anne Astin, biochemist, [1], [2], [3], Victorian Honour Roll of Women
Melania Cristescu, Ecological genomics, [4], [5], co editor of Genome Journal
Alix Generous, biology researcher, advocate for Asperger's Syndrome, co-owner of Autism Sees, [6], [7], [8], [9]
Emily Grossman, British TV science populariser, already redlinked at existing wiki article Duck Quacks Don't Echo
Naomi McClure-Griffiths, astrophysicist [10] [11], [12]
Helen Oujesky, Helen Matusevich Oujesky, microbiology and environmental pollution, [13], [14], [15]
May Owen, (1892-1988) Ft. Worth pathologist, discovered that talcum powder used in surgical gloves caused problems, Texas Womens Hall of Fame, first woman president of the Texas Medical Association, [16], [17], [18], [19]
Una Ryan, uses algae to clean wastewater, other unique initiatives [20], [21], [22], [23], [24]
Natalie Shlomo, Professor of Social Statistics [25]
Christine Williams (professor), professor with senior roles at University of Reading [26]
Elizabeth Williamson, professor also at University of Reading, pharmacy, [27]

Participants

Add your name here ...

Rosiestep (talk) 00:47, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
SusunW (talk) 02:37, 27 October 2015 (UTC) (maybe just the first week, but we'll see how my schedule shakes out)[reply]
Ipigott (talk) 07:24, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Megalibrarygirl (talk) 15:01, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Keilana (talk) 15:15, 27 October 2015 (UTC) (I'll be dedicating my #100wikidays articles in November just to women scientists!)[reply]
gobonobo ⁺ ^c 19:13, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Sydney Poore/FloNight ♥♥♥♥ 02:37, 28 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nvvchar. 10:00, 28 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
♦Definitely, one of the weakest areas on wikipedia, women in science.♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:23, 28 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Pharos (talk) 19:20, 28 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
97198 (talk) 12:48, 30 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 10:50, 31 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Dgorsline (talk) 12:07, 31 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Penny Richards (talk) 14:01, 31 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Duncan.Hull (talk) 14:11, 31 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
T. Anthony (talk) 14:57, 31 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
LovelyLillith (talk) 17:12, 31 October 2015 (UTC) This is an area close to my heart, I'm in![reply]
Rich Farmbrough 17:29, 31 October 2015 (UTC) I'll be there! (Virtually.)[reply]
Ambrosia10 (talk) 18:15, 31 October 2015 (UTC) Will definitely participate![reply]
Zpeopleheart (talk) 02:21, 1 November 2015 (UTC) lovely[reply]
Psanchez820 (talk) 14:21, 1 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Alexisclements (talk) 17:23, 1 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Alafarge (talk) 17:37, 1 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
--Animalparty! (talk) 18:19, 1 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
jaldous1 (talk) 19:22, 1 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 23:20, 1 November 2015 (UTC) Virtually yours... :-)[reply]
Fuzchia (talk) 20:44, 2 November 2015 (UTC) Can't wait![reply]
Big_iron (talk) 11:08, 3 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
The Vintage Feminist (talk) 12:03, 4 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Sam Walton (talk) 16:06, 8 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Victuallers (talk) 17:52, 8 November 2015 (UTC) Written a few - working on a few more[reply]
Opabinia regalis (talk) 19:36, 8 November 2015 (UTC) (virtually, but jealous of people who get to visit NYAS :)[reply]
Jocelyn^{Talk to me} 00:31, 9 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Outcomes

During the editathon...

Add the titles of your new or upgraded articles here – most recent at the top
Add {{Authority control}} at the foot of every biography; it will remain hidden until relevant identifiers have been added to Wikidata.
Add to talk page: {{WikiProject Biography|s&a-work-group=yes|s&a-priority=}} and {{WikiProject Women scientists}}.
As appropriate, add to the List of female scientists before the 21st century or the List of 21st-century women scientists.

Main session – 8 November 2015 onwards

Add the titles of your new or upgraded articles here – most recent at the top

Early start – up to 7 November

Did You Know features

New/expanded articles featured in the Did you know... column of the Wikipedia Main page

Event invitation

This event's invitation template: here
This event's invitation distribution: here

Event thank you note

This event's thank you note: Wikipedia:Meetup/Women in Red/4/thankyou

Guidance on editing

Wikipedia Meetups
November 2024 +/-
London 210	November 10, 2024 (2024-11-10)
US Mountain West online	November 12, 2024 (2024-11-12)
Wiki Uff da! - Event 2	November 14, 2024 (2024-11-14)
Oxford 106	November 17, 2024 (2024-11-17)
San Diego 116	November 18, 2024 (2024-11-18)
Seattle meetup	November 19, 2024 (2024-11-19)
Wiki Uff da! - Event 3	November 20, 2024 (2024-11-20)
CCA Montreal Editathon	November 20, 2024 (2024-11-20)
WikiCon Australia 2024	November 23, 2024 (2024-11-23)
BLT Office Hours	November 24, 2024 (2024-11-24)
December 2024 +/-
Christchurch 34	December 1, 2024 (2024-12-01)
London 211	December 8, 2024 (2024-12-08)
San Diego 117	December 16, 2024 (2024-12-16)
Full Meetup Calendar • Events calendar on Meta For meetups in other languages, see the list on Meta

Editing Wikipedia resources

Beginners' Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
Five Pillars of Wikipedia (philosophical guidelines and best practices for Wikipedia editing)
Tutorial
How to Edit a Page
Wiki Markup Quick Reference (PDF version of printed handout)
Guide to Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing by Susan H. Rodger (applicable to any biography)
Article Development
Your First Article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
Manual of Style
Citation templates
Infobox templates
Bookshelf (additional "getting started" resources)

Tools and templates for the newer editor

Cheatsheet for editing Wikipedia
Infobox template - scientist
- (alternate infoboxes include Infobox: scholar, Infobox: astronaut or the more general Infobox: person: use the one most relevant to the subject)
Biographies of living persons
Science stub templates
Writing an article
About the Sandbox
Wikipedia Cheat Sheet – a Wikipedia markup cheatsheet
On the talk page, in addition to {{WikiProject Biography}} please add {{WikiProject Women Scientists}}
At the bottom of all articles, please add {{authority control}} so that the appropriate tie ins with Wikidata can occur.

Press about the event

add here

References

Thank you for participating in this event. Want to become a member of Women in Red? Join →here←.