Wikipedia:Meetup/Ada Lovelace Edit-a-thon 2013 - Brown

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 * Ada Lovelace color.svg Now in its fifth year, Ada Lovelace Day is an international celebration of women in science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM). Participants from around New England are invited to gather at Brown University to edit and create Wikipedia entries on women who have made significant contributions to the STEM fields. (If you'd like to also participate in Earth Science Week and International Archaeology Day, we encourage edits/additions to articles on women in paleontology, archaeology, and the geosciences.)
 * Ada Lovelace color.svg Now in its fifth year, Ada Lovelace Day is an international celebration of women in science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM). Participants from around New England are invited to gather at Brown University to edit and create Wikipedia entries on women who have made significant contributions to the STEM fields. (If you'd like to also participate in Earth Science Week and International Archaeology Day, we encourage edits/additions to articles on women in paleontology, archaeology, and the geosciences.)

This event is co-organized by Wikimedia New England and the Science and Technology Studies Program; Science Center; and Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women at Brown.

Providence, RI event details

 * Date: Tuesday, October 15th, 3:00pm to 8:30pm. Can’t be there the whole time? No problem. Join us for as little or as long as you like.
 * Venue: Room 305, Pembroke Hall, Brown University. Address: 172 Meeting Street, Providence, RI, USA
 * Cost: Free
 * Speakers: Anne Fausto-Sterling of Brown University; Maia Weinstock of Wikimedia New England; Michael Umbricht of the Ladd Observatory (slides from Mike's GLAM talk are available online)
 * Participants: The event is open to anyone who wishes to help preserve women’s STEM history! No Wikipedia editing experience necessary; the first hour will be devoted to the fundamentals of Wiki editing. As needed throughout the event, tutoring will be provided for Wikipedia newcomers. Female editors are particularly encouraged to attend.
 * Registration: To register, please sign up via one of the following avenues: add your Wikipedia username to the guest list below; RSVP to our Facebook event page; or send an email to maiaw@nasw.org
 * What to Bring: Attendees should bring their own laptops and power cords. Light snacks and drinks will be provided.
 * Etherpad: http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/AdaWikithon
 * Twitter Hashtag: #AdaWikithon

Confirmed Wikipedians attending

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Online participants
If you cannot make it to Brown in person but would still like to participate, you are more than welcome to do so remotely. So that we can count you as having taken part, please add your name to the participant list below and also add any and all contributions under the section. (Note: There will not be a webinar aspect for online participants; simply log in and log your contributions below to have them recorded.) And be sure to use the Twitter hashtag #AdaWikithon if you tweet about the event!


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 * Jenwike (talk)Valerie A. Brown, Georgia Piedmont Technical College
 * MariaMJohnson (talk)Maria Johnson, Georgia Piedmont Technical College
 * Karen Clackum, Georgia Piedmont Technical College
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 * kjalcock Katie Alcock
 * Philosophia2 15 October
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 * Djembayz (talk) 04:02, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
 * EnoughNerve 15 October 2013
 * Verbistheword (talk) 12:23, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Sholom (talk) 03:24, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

Suggested Topics
The following is a sampling of suggested articles to create or add upon. However, feel free to come up with your own ideas! In addition to the suggestions below, editors may consider cleaning up articles on more well-known women STEMmers, such as Rosalind Franklin, Marie Curie, Jane Goodall, Grace Hopper, Elizabeth Blackwell, Emmy Noether or Ada Lovelace herself. Helpful updates could be as simple as: Making sure reference links are still appropriate and functional; Adding new inline citations/references; Adding a photo; Adding an infobox; Adding data to more fields in an existing infobox; Creating headings; Adding categories; etc. Editors may also choose to focus on women in archaeology, paleontology, and geology as part of Earth Science Week and International Archaeology Day.

Articles needing creation

 * Annette Coleman (biologist)
 * Marie Morisawa (geologist) - See Geological Society of America: Memorials, March 1, 1996, page 15.
 * Elizabeth Stefanski (Egyptologist)
 * Biography from Brown University

Recipients of the following awards:
 * Lasker Award, Turing Award
 * Geophysics:
 * William Bowie Medal, Maurice Ewing Medal, John Adam Fleming Medal
 * Robert E. Horton Medal, Inge Lehmann Medal, James B. Macelwane Medal
 * Roger Revelle Medal, Waldo E. Smith Medal, Charles A. Whitten Medal

Articles needing expansion and/or cleanup

 * Virginia Alexander (Obstetrics and gynecology)
 * NIH bio
 * Rosa Beddington (developmental biologist) -- some fresh substantive additions made Oct 12
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Evelyn Berezin (computer scientist) -- working on this TechGeisha (talk) 21:26, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
 * JudyAnn Bigby (Internal Medicine)
 * Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (mathematician) -- added infobox, fleshed out biography
 * Alexa Canady (neuroscience)
 * Gertrude Cox (statistician) NAS Relatively full article but needs sections w/headings and inline citations
 * Mary Letitia Caldwell (chemist) - added infobox, info, fixes. Needs photo, more info
 * Susan Jane Cunningham (mathematician)
 * Marie Maynard Daly (biochemist) Needs proper scientist infobox (done, still needs to be more fully filled in) & image, plus inline citations
 * Margaret Davis (paleoecologist)
 * Sylvia Earle (oceanographer) Good length but needs general cleanup/reorganization
 * Annie Easley (computer engineer) Needs photo, infobox, inline citations -- working on this. Lightbreather (talk) 15:24, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Caroline Endres Diescher (civil engineer)
 * Helen T. Edwards (physicist) - added scientist infobox, cleaned up references; text needs to be rewritten due to plagiarism
 * Katherine Esau (botanist)
 * Debra Fischer (astronomer) - infobox added; needs expansion
 * Dorothy Celeste Boulding Ferebee (medical doctor) Needs more inline citations
 * Charlotte Friend (virologist) Needs more inline citations
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Alyssa A. Goodman (astronomer)
 * Mary W. Gray (mathematician)
 * Sheila Greibach (computer scientist) Needs to be reformatted; needs an infobox
 * Alice Hamilton (toxicology) Article is good but needs inline citations, reference cleanup
 * Emmeline Jean Hanson (physiologist)
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Dorrit Hoffleit (astronomer) - infobox added; needs photo and expansion of text
 * Hildegarde Howard (paleornithologist) Infobox added, citations formated; needs photo; could use more detail. Edit 10/15: detail and biographical subhead added; needs photo.
 * Biography from JSTOR
 * Ruth Hubbard (biologist) infobox added, needs photo and more fleshing out
 * Margaret Ingels (engineer)
 * Barbara Crawford Johnson (aerospace engineer)
 * Mary Ellen Jones (biochemist)
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Emeline Roberts Jones (dental scientist)
 * Maria Klawe (computer scientist)
 * Rebecca Lancefield (biochemist)
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Martha L. Ludwig (crystallographer)
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Sidnie Manton
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Ann McKee (neuropathologist)
 * Carla Meninsky (computer engineer)
 * Mary Parke (algae expert)
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Carle M. Pieters ( planetary scientist)
 * Edith Quimby (physicist)
 * Helen Quinn (particle physicist) Could use additional detail and section headings. Also needs inline citations and a scientist infobox.
 * Sarah Ratner (chemist) Infobox could use updating; consolidation of book ref with multiple page citations. Again, see Henrietta Swan Leavitt for this.
 * Nancy Roman (astronomer) - added infobox
 * Bio from NASA
 * Margaret W. Rossiter (historian of science) Done -- Significantly Expanded
 * Carolyn Rovee-Collier (psychologist/cognitive scientist)
 * Bio from FABBS Foundation
 * Elizabeth S. Russell (geneticist) Infobox needs to be filled out
 * Ruth Sager (geneticist)
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Ruth Sanger
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Carolyn Jean Spellmann Shoemaker (astronomer)
 * Sylvia Agnes Sophia Tait (biochemist) Article is good, but needs inline citations and ref reformatting
 * Elizabeth Thomas (Egyptologist)
 * Biography from Brown University
 * Monica Turner (ecologist) Could use overall formatting updates (eg, more line spaces to create shorter paragraphs); Infobox could use more detail
 * Mary Walton (engineer)
 * Mary Wheeler (mathematician)
 * Sylvia Wiegand (mathematician) Added infobox, but could probably use more detail
 * Mary Lou Zoback (geophysicist)
 * Inge Lehmann (seismologist) Added infobox, citations

Good Article nominees
Maria Goeppert-Mayer - listed as a Natural sciences good article!

Women in STEM Resources
Note: Wikipedia pages that include lists of important women are all missing plenty of key people, so feel free to add to those lists
 * Category:Women scientists
 * List of notable women in computer science
 * List of female mathematicians
 * List of women scientists
 * Women in computing - Wikipedia article that needs additional citations for verification
 * Women in engineering
 * List of women astronomers
 * Category:Women astronomers
 * History of Women in Astronomy
 * Category:Women physicists
 * Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics
 * Women in medicine
 * Women in geology
 * List of female Nobel laureates
 * History of women in engineering
 * Timeline of women in dentistry
 * Women and the environment through history
 * Biographies of Women Mathematicians
 * Encyclopedia of Women in Medicine
 * Indian Academy of Sciences - List of Women Scientists
 * Lilavati's daugters
 * Biographical Memoirs of the National Academies of Science
 * Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
 * Women in Aviation and Space History
 * Changing the face of Medicine (women in medicine)

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)

Results
Articles created or expanded (includes remote contributions from Oct 8 - Oct 18):

New articles created

 * Kay Behrensmeyer
 * Martha Rhoads Bell
 * Linda Braidwood
 * Joanne Chory
 * Gladys Anderson Emerson
 * Susan Gerbi
 * Virginia Grace
 * Ingeborg Hochmair - DYK nomination
 * Helene J. Kantor
 * Vera Kistiakowsky
 * Martha L. Ludwig
 * Ann McKee
 * Sharon Mosher
 * Eleanor Emlen Myers
 * Bertha Parker Pallan
 * Sibyl M. Rock, mathematician, mass spectrometry and computing. Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 11:13, 15 October 2013 (UTC) DYK nomination
 * Liane Russell
 * Jessica Duncan Piazzi Smyth, Scottish geologist, astronomer's assistant
 * Jantina Tammes
 * Blanche Wheeler Williams (archaeologist)  czar  ♔  14:47, 15 October 2013 (UTC) DYK nomination
 * now a good article  czar  16:35, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Society for Women in Philosophy

Articles expanded, improved, or cleaned up

 * Nora Lilan Alcock (plant pathologist) Redwellie14 (talk) 00:47, 16 October 2013 (UTC) general editing and citation reformatting
 * Rosa Beddington
 * Sophia Hayden Bennett (architect) BrillLyle (talk) 01:42, 16 October 2013 (UTC) added photo of Bennett and building she designed, added some content
 * Amanda Adams
 * Virginia M. Alexander
 * Evelyn Berezin
 * Dorothy Lewis Bernstein
 * Anita Borg
 * Dorothy Donaldson Buchanan
 * Mary Letitia Caldwell
 * Eleanor Campbell
 * Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
 * Joanne Chory
 * Patricia Cladis
 * Gertrude Mary Cox
 * Marie Maynard Daly
 * Elvira de Mejia
 * Nance Dicciani Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 11:13, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Sylvia Earle
 * Annie Easley
 * Helen T. Edwards
 * Gladys Anderson Emerson
 * Katherine Esau
 * Anne Fausto-Sterling
 * Mary Fergusson
 * Mabel Purefoy FitzGerald
 * Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser
 * Cecilia Glaisher
 * Mary W. Gray
 * Sheila Greibach
 * Anna Jane Harrison
 * Dorrit Hoffleit
 * Hildegarde Howard
 * Ruth Hubbard
 * Clara Immerwahr
 * Margaret Ingels
 * Barbara Crawford Johnson
 * Louise Johnson
 * Karen Spärck Jones
 * Maria Klawe
 * Rebecca Lancefield
 * Inge Lehmann
 * Katharine McCormick
 * Kaisa Nyberg
 * Mary Parke
 * Lulu Hunt Peters (calorie counting) Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 18:33, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Helen Kemp Porter (botanist) BrillLyle (talk) 19:59, 15 October 2013 (UTC) Citation reformatting
 * Margaret W. Rossiter
 * Liane Russell
 * Eleni Sikelianos
 * Monica Turner
 * Dana Ulery (computer scientist) Verbistheword (talk) 12:28, 16 October 2013 (UTC) More detailed citations, additional citation, additional publications, infobox
 * Mary Wheeler
 * Telle Whitney
 * Grace Olive Wiley
 * Deirdre Wilson
 * Chien-Shiung Wu


 * Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
 * List of Austrian inventors and discoverers
 * List of Austrian Scientists
 * X-ray crystallography
 * Scientific American
 * Women in geology
 * Koobi Fora
 * Paleobiology Database
 * Biocon
 * Langholm
 * Noether Lecture

Ongoing
Consider joining one of the WikiProjects to continue contributing to articles throughout the year.


 * WikiProject Women scientists