Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/9

Dates	April-December, 2016
Location	This is a virtual, global event... you can participate from anywhere in the world
Collaborators	WikiProject Women scientists
Institutional support	WikiEdu
Co-organizers	Keilana (talk); Rosiestep (talk); add your name here

Women Scientists Online Editathon: Apr-Dec 2016

Aug-Dec: Philosophers Apr-Dec: Scientists

December: Women in Aviation December: Women in the Military December: Caribbean Women

January: Women Philosophers January: Women in Education

Participants

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Rosiestep (talk)
Megalibrarygirl (talk)
Victuallers (talk)
Girona7 (talk)
Penny Richards (talk)
FloNight (talk)
T. Anthony (talk)
Dgorsline (talk)
97198 (talk)
Grand'mere Eugene (talk)
Nvvchar. 12:24, 1 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Alafarge (talk) 14:41, 1 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Ozhu (talk · contribs)
Animalparty (talk)
Keilana (talk · contribs)
jaldous1 (talk · contribs)
SusunW (talk) 21:30, 3 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Cypherquest (talk) 01:18, 7 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Iamthecheese44 (talk)
Jocelyndurrey (talk)
Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk · contribs)
Rhododendrites (talk)
Cypherquest (talk) 10:09, 20 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Howkafkaesque (talk) 23:56, 22 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Threefinnsjims (talk · contribs) 00:04, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nattes à chat (talk · contribs) --Nattes à chat (talk) 16:06, 9 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Lange.lea (talk) 16:12, 19 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Lutzv (talk) 19:38, 19 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Lizzius (talk · contribs)
Fouetté rond de jambe en tournant 07:45, 26 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 17:45, 28 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Alybrarian (talk)
Lange.lea (talk) 22:52, 7 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
PamD 10:41, 1 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Ennegma (talk) 15:31, 5 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Zeromonk (talk) 08:47, 20 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
MWright96 (talk) 19:55, 16 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Chogg (talk · contribs) 23 August 2016
Rich Farmbrough (talk · contribs)
— Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:45, 1 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Vanamonde93 (talk · contribs)
Camelia (talk), wikifacilitator on the italian WikiDonne's editathon page

Redlists (lists of redlinked articles to be created)

Redlists

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Wikidata redlink list of women scientists

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{{Authority control}}; it will remain hidden until relevant identifiers have been added to Wikidata.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Surname, Given name}}; using the subject's surname and given name
Categories: see Category:Scientists and Category:Women scientists; use most specific category/categories.
Stub templates: See Category:Scientist stubs; use most specific stub template(s).

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{{WikiProject Biography | listas= | living= | class= | s&a-work-group=yes | s&a-priority= }}
{{WikiProject Women scientists | class= | importance= }}
{{WIR-YOS}}

Outcomes

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Boshra Salem
Doris Vickers
Margaret Blackwood
JoAnne L. Hewett
Heidi Schellman
Anna Estelle Glancy
Photograph of Katherine Johnson
Photograph of Bertha Lutz
Iva Tolić
Jennie Hwang
Vera Lüth
Margaret Huxley
Yulia Gel
Gülsen Bozkurt
Eleanor Lyon Duke
Linda Burnes Bolton
Vineeta Bal
Gertrude Selma Sober
Ethel Thomas
Janet Zaph Briggs
Photograph of Janet Niven
Photograph of Rosalind Venetia Pitt-Rivers
Photograph of Brigid M. Balfour
Patricia Happ Buffler
Photograph of Margaret D. Foster
Margaret D. Foster - Improved. Not a lot more text, but it actually lists her accomplishments now, which it didn't before.
Irina Podgorny
Elli Stamatiadou
Hester A. Davis
Photograph of Alice C. Evans
Rose Amal
Photograph of Barbara McClintock
Mercedes Vila
Isabel Lastres Becker
Ana Briones Alonso
Elena Ramírez Parra
María Antonia Herrero
Photograph of Alice Paul, sociologist, lawyer, suffragette.
Suzanne Madden
Priscilla Nzimiro
Rose Scott-Moncrieff
Randi J. Hagerman
Rosemary Askin
Stefi Baum
Elizabeth Lada
Judith Young (astronomer)
Harriet Dinerstein

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Created in May

Francesca Gherardi
Nerida Wilson
Ruth Peterson
J. Mary Taylor
Priyanka Bakaya - started article, please expand!
Clara Lee Tanner - expanded stub to full article
Elisa Quintana
Catherine Anderson (scientist) - new article
Restoration of an image of Chien-Shiung Wu
Winifred Smith
Nina Tandon - new article
Maureen Ann Donnelly
Elaine Abraham - new article
Judith Daylen
Judith Harackiewicz
Lola Romanucci-Ross
Dorothy Cayley
Stephanie A. Majewski
Jeane Porter Hester
Webe Kadima
Mary MacArthur
Rosemary Candlin
Wanda Gass draft submitted
Judith Craven
Edith Philip Smith
Isabelle M. Côté pic
Ana María Groot
Carmen Pujals
Elizabeth Ripper
LouAnn Gerken
Parvaneh Salahshouri
Moira Whyte
Nancy Turner - pic, polish & tweet
Jennifer Gardy - better pic & tweet
Glenda Gray - expand from CV to bio, tweet
Barbara Reagan
Karen Bailey
Agniya Desnitskaya
Barbara J. Bain
Adelina Gutiérrez
Kay Deaux
Christiane Bonnelle
Nora Calderwood
Christine E. Dickson
Hazel Branch
Annalisa Buffa
Grace Ebun Delano
Myrtle E. Johnson
Susan Marqusee
Andrea Liu
Judith Irvine
Mary Lou Guerinot
Mary Cabot Wheelwright - new article
Catharina Stroppel
Joan Tully
Dorothy Adlington Cadbury
Cecilia Hidalgo Tapia
Alexandra Illmer Forsythe - new article
Alison Sheridan
Gitel Steed
Sarah Martha Baker
Kathleen Johnston
Padma Raghavan
Glaci Zancan
Elaine Sadler
Felicitas Svejda
Karen Beauchemin
Jane Ising
Andrea Gamarnik
Elaine Sadler - new article
Barbara Tsakirgis
Audrey Henshall
Suzanne Mary Prober
Wendy Chung - new article
Gemma Lavender
Clara Lee Tanner - new article

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Did You Know? articles

This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot (talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged or categorized (e.g. Category:WikiProject Women in Red meetup 9 articles) correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options.

... that Kitty O'Brien Joyner (pictured) was the first woman engineer at NACA, the predecessor to NASA? (2019-06-10)
... that epidemiologist Yasmin Altwaijri encourages other Saudi Arabian women to become scientists, arguing that this need not "cross the boundaries of our societal norms and customs"? (2017-01-15)
... that Salinee Tavaranan and her Border Green Energy Team installed solar panels and micro-hydro turbines at the Mae La refugee camp? (2017-01-15)
... that Bronx High School of Science graduate Naomi Amir is credited as "the founder of modern child neurology in Israel"? (2017-01-10)
... that although Susan Reeve Lyon could not own property while a married woman, she was able to run her own apothecary shop as a widow? (2017-01-02)
... that Nancy Sottos helped create the first polymeric self-healing material, announced in Nature in 2001? (2017-01-01)
... that the labour studies scholar Kendra Coulter calls for interspecies solidarity between human and animal workers? (2016-12-14)
... that 18th-century chemist Claudine Picardet translated scientific articles from Swedish, English, German, and Italian into French? (2016-10-27)
... that Gadis Arivia established Indonesia’s first journal of feminist theory? (2016-10-09)
... that the entomologist Alice Gray became known as the "Bug Lady" for her work with the public at the American Museum of Natural History? (2016-09-17)
... that in 2010 Joanne M. Maguire became the first woman to receive the International von Kármán Wings Award? (2016-08-23)
... that in 1974 the anthropologist Reina Torres de Araúz was the first woman distinguished as a full member of the Panamanian Academy of History? (2016-08-18)
... that botanist Dame Margaret Blackwood studied pine trees and maize, and had a species of fungus named after her? (2016-08-07)
... that Priscilla Nzimiro was the first woman from Igboland, Nigeria, to qualify as a medical doctor? (2016-07-23)
... that Jeanne Burbank designed batteries for the first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus (SSN-571)? (2016-07-21)
... that the botanist Ethel Thomas designed the University of London's botany garden in Regent's Park? (2016-07-20)
... that the Medical Women's Federation was formed in the UK in 1917 and has acted to address workplace and educational grievances of female doctors? (2016-07-07)
... that Lois Jones led the first all-woman science team to Antarctica in 1969? (2016-07-06)
... that In-Young Ahn (pictured) was the first Korean woman to visit Antarctica? (2016-06-28)
... that Felicity Okpete Ovai was the first female commissioner of the Rivers State Ministry of Works? (2016-06-28)
... that after retiring as dean of the College of Home Economics at the University of Rhode Island, Elizabeth W. Crandall became an environmental and women's rights activist in Maine? (2016-06-22)
... that Ukrainian-American endocrinologist Ricka Sapiro Finkler began using the name Rita after Saint Vincent's Hospital offered her a job which they later retracted when they discovered she was a woman? (2016-06-19)
... that Margarete Zuelzer, only the 37th woman to earn a doctorate at the University of Heidelberg, had to get special permission from her professors to attend their classes? (2016-06-18)
... that Utako Okamoto, discoverer of tranexamic acid, worked with her infant daughter on her back in the laboratory, as she could not find child care? (2016-06-16)
... that Ora Mendelsohn Rosen and her colleagues achieved a scientific breakthrough by cloning the human insulin receptor gene? (2016-06-14)
... that Louise Stevens Bryant, a secretary for the Girl Scouts, also worked with the English sexologist Havelock Ellis? (2016-06-13)
... that Mary Cabot Wheelwright (pictured as a child) recorded details about Navajo ceremonies in the early 20th century from medicine man Hosteen Klah? (2016-06-02)
... that Josephine Nesbit, an American army nurse and second-in-command of the Angels of Bataan, was credited with their survival through internment at Santo Tomas? (2016-05-18)
... that forensic chemist Mary Louisa Willard was referred to as "Lady Sherlock" for assisting law enforcement officials? (2016-04-30)
... that biologist Katherine Sanford was the first person to successfully clone a mammal cell in vitro? (2016-04-20)
... that Hertha Ayrton's 1902 candidature to be the first woman elected Fellow of the Royal Society was turned down on the basis that as a married woman she had no standing in law? (2012-11-08)
... that biochemist Rosalind Pitt-Rivers co-discovered the thyroid hormone triiodothyronine in 1952? (2012-11-04)

Featured pictures

Press about the event

Not press, but here's the Pinterest board for this editathon. I'll update it periodically through the end of the year.Penny Richards (talk) 14:03, 29 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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May

5/9: Transit of Mercury
5/26: 23rd Annual APS-STP Teaching Institute: Implementing the APS Wikipedia Initiative in General Education Coursework, 3:45pm to 4:45pm, Chicago, IL
5/31: Science Outreach Working to Inspire the Next Generation: 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm, Simons Foundation, 160 Fifth Avenue (at 21st Street), 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10010

June

6/15: American Astronomical Society edit-a-thon, San Diego
6/19: American Society for Microbiology edit-a-thon, Boston

September

9/21: Science Literacy Week edit-a-thon, "Local Women in Science', Vancouver, Canada

November

11/14: Edit-a-thon vol.2: Women in science, Prague, Czech Republic

December

12/15: Edit-a-thon, AGU 2016 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California

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