Wikipedia:GLAM/Wellcome/Events and Workshops/Imperial WiSTEM2020

Info about the event
Imperial College, the Institution of Engineering and Technology and Wellcome Trust are joining forces to host a Women in STEM Wikithon. Join us to celebrate the women that deserve a more prominent place in the online historical record. You'll learn how to edit Wikipedia in order to harness the power of the web to share your knowledge.

Links to get editing
Click here to go to the Dashboard so we can keep track of all the editing

For nice easy edits, check that all people are in the right categories, translate information between Wiki's, check out Wikidata, and check that people's articles are included on lists like these and mentioned on relevant pages.

To find some fascinating women engineers, take a look at The Woman Engineer journal. You can find advice on how to search for relevant sources on any scientist here.

Even more things to edit
Take a look at the list of 20th-century women scientists and 20th-century women engineers for lots of examples of pages.

Some that especially need improving are here:
 * Mid importance stubs.
 * Low importance stubs.

Also here:
 * Wikiproject Women Scientists
 * Women Scientists in Africa

Tips on how to edit
Here are some more useful links to help you with your editing:
 * Learn more editing: see Visual Editor user guide for more information.
 * Think about what you would like to edit about check that you have enough sources to help with verifiability).
 * Check out the notability guidelines and what topics can be written about on Wikipedia.
 * Think about whether you have any conflicts of interest.
 * All sorts of helpful guides and online resources can be found on the Wellcome Library Wikimedian in Residence Project Page. Here's a selection:


 * You can add pictures for use on Wiki-pages and beyond on Wikimedia Commons. Your Wikipedia account will work on Commons too - as well as all the other Wiki-projects and different language versions of Wikipedia.

See what a difference you're making
Here are some ways to keep track of your edits:
 * You can view all your contributions to Wikipedia by clicking "Contributions" (in the top right of this page).
 * The Pageviews tool is a great way of measuring how many people are looking at the page you created/edited. You can even export the data if you'd like it for reports, etc.