Wikipedia:Meetup/Ann Arbor/Women in Science 2018

AWIS at UM is hosting a Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon open to all graduate students, which will also function as our year-end social for the AWIS mentoring circles program. The event will take place in the Chemistry Department on the University of Michigan's Central Campus on March 27th from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. This page is a work in progress; please check back for updates.

Event Information
The event will be held University of Michigan Chemistry building, room 1200 on March 27th beginning at 5:00 p.m. Students, faculty, staff should bring their own device and should also set up a Wikipedia account for editing prior to arriving at the event.

No Wikipedia editing experience is required. We will provide a tutorial at the beginning of the event discussing how to edit, reference, and create pages in Wikipedia.

Participants will be able to choose from a list of articles to improve, or begin creating a new page.

Dinner and snacks will be provided. Please RSVP here.

We will be live tweeting during the event with the tag #AWISUMwikithon2018

Wikipedia Help

 * GLAM/Beginner guide to Wikipedia
 * Wikipedia Tutorial
 * Referencing for Beginners
 * Formatting Shortcuts -
 * Text Formatting
 * Section Headers, Indents, and Lists
 * Links
 * Your First Article

Video Tutorials
These video tutorials were put together to support the Art + Feminism Meetup, but they are extremely helpful for all new Wikipedia editors. Thanks Art + Feminism Meetup!
 * Beginner Training Video Part 1- Making Simple edits on Wikipedia
 * Beginner Training Video Part 2 - Using your sandbox and adding citations
 * Beginner Training Video Part 3 - Best practices and Wikipedia policies
 * Advanced FAQ: Adding Images to Wikimedia Commons
 * Advanced FAQ: Creating New Pages on Wikipedia
 * Advanced FAQ: Talk Pages on Wikipedia
 * Advanced FAQ: Wikipedia Notability Guidelines
 * Advanced FAQ: Adding Infoboxes to Wikipedia Articles
 * Advanced FAQ: Advanced FAQ: Adding Images to Wikipedia Articles

Online Research Sources
Use these to help you find pages to edit or interesting women to create pages for.


 * America's News- U.S. newspaper resource.
 * American Men and Women of Science
 * American Physical Society, Profiles of Women in Science
 * Association for Women Geoscientists, Profiles.
 * Association for Women in Mathematics, Profiles of Women in Mathematics
 * Chemical Heritage Foundation, Women in Chemistry
 * National Science Foundation, Pioneering Women in STEM
 * 34 American Lady Scientists Who Changed the World
 * Proquest Newsstand
 * List of prizes, medals, and awards for women in science
 * L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science
 * List of inventions and discoveries by women
 * Women in geology
 * List of women astronomers
 * List of women botanists
 * List of women in mathematics
 * List of women in statistics
 * Women in physics
 * Women in engineering
 * Women in chemistry

Blank syntax
This infobox may be added to an article by copy-pasting the code below at the start of the article, completing it (and/or replacing any of the commented information) and then grouping those parameters left unused together. 

Images
We encourage you to upload images from your events to Wikimedia Commons so all the language Wikipedias and other Wikimedia projects can use them.

Uploading to Wikimedia Commons

 * Images for this year's events can be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons.
 * How to upload images to Wikimedia Commons Video.

Using images in Wikipedia articles
Steps
 * Wikimedia Commons is a “sister-project of Wikipedia.” Once you are logged in to Wikipedia, you are logged into all sister project websites.
 * Images on Wikipedia must be uploaded and hosted at Wikimedia Commons (commons.wikimedia.org).
 * Search for an find and image you would like to use for your Wikipedia article on Wikimedia Commons.
 * When you click on an image, you will be directed to that image’s “image description” page.
 * At the top, you should see an option that says “use this file” and has a Wikipedia logo.
 * Click on “use this file” copy the wikimarkup listed for “Thumbnail” and paste this wikimarkup into the "Edit" Tab of the Wikipedia article markup where you want the image to go.
 * Press “save” and the image should appear as a thumbnail, with the default right-hand side location.
 * Extras: You can make image galleries on Wikipedia pages. Template:Gallery
 * Extras: Template:Commons category

Participant List
We had a great time with the first Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon for AWIS-UM! Thanks to our participants and stay tuned in the next year for another event!
 * ferielp (talk) 20:06, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Wolverineanon (talk) 22:48, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Cortnie330 (talk) 23:04, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Danger High voltage!
 * Vivek Rai (talk) 14:08, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Tsoucy (talk) 10:15, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Melum103 (talk) 14:27, 28 March 2018 (UTC)