Wikipedia:GLAM/Natural History Museum and Science Museum/Trowelblazers


 * Date: Saturday 19th October 2013
 * Time: 10:30am - 5.00pm
 * Venue: Board Room, Natural History Museum
 * Outcomes - here
 * For more information contact: Tori Herridge from Team TrowelBlazers (teamtrowelblazers@gmail.com) or John Cummings, Wikimedian in Residence at the Natural History Museum (j.cummings@nhm.ac.uk)

Celebrate women in archaeology, palaeontology and geology – by creating and improving Wikipedia articles!
TrowelBlazers was a one-day Wikipedia editathon dedicated to improving the Wikipedia pages of key women in archaeology, palaeotology and geology. There was a practical training in how to edit a Wikipedia page, support and resources on-hand to make editing easier, and we’ve even lined up a team of experts (biographers and historians) to give talks about trowelblazing women and to lend their expertise. This event was open to those new to Wikipedia and to experienced contributors. Female editors were especially encouraged to attend.

Our aim for the event was: 'Help us improve the visibility of a host of forgotten women in science! We can think of no better way to celebrate International Archaeology Day, Earth Science Week AND Ada Lovelace Day.'



Attendees were asked to bring

 * A laptop
 * Details of your Wikimedia username (create one now! - by clicking on the link on the top right)
 * Ideas of topics you want to edit on
 * Reference material

Agenda

 * 10.15: assemble at visitor desk, Earth Galleries (Exhibition Rd entrance)
 * 10.30: start - welcome talk, over tea/coffee
 * 10.45: get cracking on editing, focussing on getting to grips with wiki training
 * 11.30: break - we'll head behind the scenes (!) to the Earth Science Library Reading Room, to see archival material and fossil relating to women scientists at the Natural History Museum, and have panel discussion Q&A
 * 12.15: (ish) - back to editing with renewed vigour!
 * 13.15: lunch (everyone does their own thing)
 * 14.15: welcome back - feedback on progress, and chatting about what we've discovered, trouble shooting
 * 14.30: editing!
 * 15.45: break - Back to the Earth Sciences Library for show and tell of fossils from the NHM collections collected/worked on by Dorothea Bate, Dorothy Garrod, Helen Muir-Wood, and Barbara Hastings
 * 16.15: final editing flourish!
 * 17.00: wrap up/end

Joining online (archival)

 * Feel free to pick a topic from the target list and join in! Before the event, you can get in touch with us for support materials.
 * To join in a conversation about the event and to ask questions simply click on the Talk page at the top of this page. All you need to do is:
 * 1) Sign up for a Wikimedia account by clicking sign up in the top right hand corner of any Wikipedia page.
 * 2) Click on the talk page
 * 3) Click new section to start a new topic or click edit next to the section you would like to add to
 * 4) Type your message and then click the sign button in the menu bar Insert-signature.png
 * 5) Click save page at the bottom of the page

Twitter hashtag: #TBwiki

I'm attending online

 * RBedescone(talk) 21:03, 18 October 2013 (UTC) - Should be popping in to write about Etheldred Benett & Dorothea Bate late morning early afternoon.

Topics for the editathon
Women we intended to focus on include:

Geology and Paleontology

 * Dorothea Bate
 * Etheldred Bennett
 * Mary Fairfax Somerville
 * Charlotte Murchison see Roderick Murchison
 * Mary Buckland
 * Barbara Hastings
 * Elizabeth Carne
 * Ethel Woods
 * Margaret Crosfield
 * Gertrude Elles
 * Marie Stopes
 * Ida Slater
 * Helen Drew
 * EM Hendricks
 * Eileen Guppy
 * Diane Knill
 * Susan Arnold (currently links to an American business woman)
 * Edna Waine
 * Beris Cox
 * Jane Plant
 * Elinor W. Gardner
 * Etheldred Benett
 * Helen Muir-Wood
 * Marie Morisawa (geologist) - See Geological Society of America: Memorials, March 1, 1996, page 15. (no article)
 * Sharon Mosher (geologist)
 * Margaret Davis (paleoecologist)
 * Mary Lou Zoback (geophysicist)
 * Helen M. Duncan
 * Sue Hendrickson
 * Meemann Chang (WTF! I can't believe it! Wikipedia even has the fish named after her Meemannia)
 * Gloria Arratia (another big palaeoichthyologist)

Archaeology
main online source: http://www.brown.edu/Research/Breaking_Ground/introduction.php
 * Dorothy Garrod
 * Gertrude Caton-Thompson
 * Jeanne-Marie Aynard
 * Denise Cocquerillat
 * Lucienne Laroche
 * Marguerite Rutten
 * Hermine Speier
 * Ruth Amiran
 * Anna Maria Bisi
 * Jole Bovio Marconi
 * Lucia Guerrini
 * Alessandra Melucco Vaccaro
 * Bruna Tamoro
 * Ersilia Lovatelli
 * Paola Montuoro
 * Michela Schiff Giorgini
 * Elisabeth E.C.L. During Caspers
 * Maria Ludwicka Bernhard
 * Barbara Ruszczyc
 * Tania Ghirshman
 * Tatiana Warsher
 * Julia Zablocka
 * Barbara Adams (archaeologist)
 * Elise Jenny Baumgartel
 * Sarah Belzoni
 * Crystal-M Bennett
 * Margaret Benson
 * Sylvia Benton
 * Amelia Blanford Edwards
 * Olwen Brogan
 * Myrtle Florence Broome
 * Amice Calverley
 * Grace Crowfoot
 * Nina Davies (Archaeologist)
 * Joan Du Plat Taylor
 * Janet A. Gourlay
 * Henriette Antonia Groenewegen-Frankfort
 * Vronwy Hankey
 * Hilda Lorimer
 * Marga Masson Hardie Hasluck
 * Mercy Money-Coutts Seiradaki
 * Rosalind Moss
 * Margaret Munn-Rankin
 * Caroline Nestmann Peck
 * Sety Omm
 * Hilda Petrie
 * Bertha Porter
 * Veronica Seton-Williams
 * Helen Waterhouse
 * Edith Eccles
 * Dorothy Lamb
 * Nina Layard

Trainers

 * John Cummings