Wikipedia:Meetup/Ada Lovelace Edit-a-thon 2019 Cornell

About the event
Ada Lovelace Day is an international day to celebrate the contributions of self-identifying women in science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM), and related fields. Cornell Students and Ithaca Community members are invited to gather together at Mann Library to edit and create Wikipedia entries on women who have made significant contributions to the STEM fields.

While Wikipedia is the fifth most popular website in the world, notching up more than 32 million views a day, less than 18% of its English-language biographies are about women. So in honor of Ada Lovelace—and her contributions to mathematics and computing—we’ll work to add more entries to Wikipedia and give you the tools to keep making the Internet less sexist after our Wiki-thon. All you have to do is come!

Working together with liaison librarians, archivists & academic colleagues we will provide training on how to edit and participate in an open knowledge community. New editors are very welcome and participants will be supported to develop Wikipedia articles; creating new role models for young and old alike.

Come along to learn about how Wikipedia works and contribute a greater understanding of Women in STEM!

Schedule
Drop by anytime during the event. There will be editing from 12PM - 5PM and Makerspace activities.

1. Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

 * 12pm to 1pm – Wikipedia Training.
 * 1pm - 5pm Editing with Wikipedia editors to offer assistance as needed

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2. Makerspace
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 * 12pm to 5pm – Makerspace is open for VR, Button making, and Games

What to do in an edit-a-thon
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.

All are welcome to add names to the list which is intended to serve as a basis for creating new articles in this important but somewhat neglected sector on the English Wikipedia.

The following is a small sample of topics to work on. Feel free to come up with your own ideas!

Participants
Prior to the event: 1. *Create a Wikipedia account

2. Sign up to attend.

Don't worry! If you haven't edited Wikipedia before and don't have a Wikipedia User Name yet, we will help you on the day of the event!

Cornell affiliated women in STEM
Famous women affiliated with Cornell, McClintock and Rubin have high quality articles that you should use to guide your editing work.

Cornell Faculty
Marcia Neugebauer

Madelon Lubin Finkel

Cornell Alumni
Mary Styles Harris

Grace Wahba

Mildred Dresselhaus

Claudia Goldin

Renu Malhotra

Isabel Martin Lewis

Judith Pipher

Additional Cornell affiliates
Look through and find women you be interested in editing!

List_of_Cornell_University_faculty

List_of_Cornell_University_alumni

Also consider any professors you currently have.

Women in STEM
Anna Freud Lucy Shapiro Katherine Johnson Magda Staudinger Melanie Klein Susan Solomon

Alma Howard Anne Dell Claire E. Sterk Elisabeth Christina von Linné Katharine Bishop M. Margaret Clark Margaret Stanley (virologist) Mary E. P. Davis Barbara Rae-Venter Adah Almutairi Anna Russell Anna Suk-Fong Lok Ashawna Hailey Hagit Attiya Mamta Patel Nagaraja Mariam al-Asturlabi

Additional Articles about Women in S.T.E.M.

 * Women in computing
 * WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Missing_articles_by_occupation/Scientists (from other language versions of Wikipedia)
 * WikiProject Women in Red/Science (crowd-sourced list)
 * Women in geology

Articles created 2019

 * xyz

After the event?



 * Join WikiProject Women in Technology
 * Join WikiProject Women Scientists

Video guides to editing Wikipedia

 * Wikipedia - It's main policies & guidelines
 * Navigating Wikipedia's front page
 * How to structure an article on Wikipedia: the Featured Article
 * Wikipedia editing in under 25 mins
 * How to edit using with Visual Editor Part 1: Creating an Account
 * Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 1.1 Adding Headings
 * Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 1.2 Adding bold & italics
 * Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 1.3 Adding bullet points
 * Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 1.4 Adding links
 * Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 2.1 Adding citations and references
 * Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 2.2 Further practice with citations (DOI and Pubmed IDs)
 * Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor:Part 2.3 Adding an image
 * Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 2.4 Adding categories
 * Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 3 Creating a new article in the Sandbox
 * Editing Wikipedia: Communicating with others using the Talk page and Help Desk

Tutorials on Wikipedia editing

 * Visual Editor User Guide
 * manual of style
 * Wikipedia cheat sheet (Bookshelf), another markup cheatsheet
 * Training for students, a tutorial for beginners
 * Beginners' guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
 * Five pillars of Wikipedia, philosophical guidelines and best practices for editing
 * Tutorial
 * How to edit a page
 * Wiki markup quick reference, PDF version of printed handout
 * Article development
 * Your first article (using the Article Wizard, if you wish)
 * Bookshelf, additional "getting started" resources
 * Biographies of Living Persons