Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston/Ada Lovelace Edit-a-thon - Harvard

{|style="background:#dee; border:1px solid #00c; margin:0.5em; padding:0.5em;border-radius:8px;; width:100%" !colspan=2 style="font-size:150%;"|U.S. Ada Lovelace Day 2012 edit-a-thon, Harvard University (remote participants also welcome)
 * Ada Lovelace color.svg Now in its fourth year, Ada Lovelace Day is an international celebration of women in science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM), and related fields. Participants from around New England are invited to gather together at Harvard Law School to edit and create Wikipedia entries on women who have made significant contributions to the STEM fields.
 * Ada Lovelace color.svg Now in its fourth year, Ada Lovelace Day is an international celebration of women in science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM), and related fields. Participants from around New England are invited to gather together at Harvard Law School to edit and create Wikipedia entries on women who have made significant contributions to the STEM fields.

Cambridge, MA event details

 * Date: Tuesday, October 16th, 3:00pm to 8:30pm
 * Venue: Harvard University Law School, Wasserstein Hall/Caspersen Student Center, Room 4062; 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, USA. FYI: There is construction going on around the law school right now. Easiest way to get to our room is to arrive from the Mass Ave entrance right at 1585 Mass Ave, just south of Everett St. Through the main doors, you will see an elevator on your left; take that to the 4th floor. Our room number is 4062.
 * Cost: Free
 * Twitter hashtag: #ALDWikithon
 * Participants: The event is open to anyone who wishes to help preserve women’s STEM history! No Wiki editing experience necessary; as needed, tutorials will be provided for Wikipedia newcomers. Female editors are particularly encouraged to attend. Can’t be there the whole time? No problem. Join us for as little or as long as you like.
 * Details: Attendees should bring their own laptops and power cords. Light food and drinks will be provided.
 * Registration: Space for the physical gathering is limited. To register, please email maiaw@nasw.org.

Confirmed Wikipedians attending

 * -- Girona7 (talk)
 * -- Thespian (talk)
 * -- GorillaWarfare (talk)
 * -- Sven_Manguard (talk)
 * -- Sj (talk)
 * -- KeSerra (talk)
 * -- Jdietsch (talk)
 * -- GabrielF (talk) 00:51, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
 * --Lilaroja (talk) 17:10, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
 * -- Antony–22 (talk⁄contribs)
 * -- Prometheaz (talk)
 * -- Katebirdy (talk)
 * --Maryalexandraagner (talk) 20:48, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
 * -- Redwellie14 (talk) 20:50, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
 * -- Xephyrous (talk) 21:28, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
 * -- Sharimo1 (talk) 16 October 2012 (UTC)
 * -- PaintedGatsby (talk) 16 October 2012

Online participation
If you cannot make it to Harvard in person but would still like to participate, you are more than welcome to do so remotely. Suggested articles appear below, or you may add or contribute to one of your choosing. So that we can count you as having participated, please also add any and all contributions under the section below. (Note: There will not be a webinar aspect for online participants; simply log in and log your contributions below to have them "counted!") And be sure to use the Twitter hashtag #ALDWikithon if you tweet about the event!

Online participants

 * -- Girona7 (talk) 16:56, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
 * -- SarahStierch (talk) 21:15, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
 * - I started work on Maria Mitchell last year, and could use some help. - Bearian (talk) 15:38, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
 * --Seergenius (talk) 20:47, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
 * --Sarasays (talk) 18:50, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
 * --EraserGirl (talk) 17:45, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
 * --Doncram (talk), 16 October 2012
 * --Djembayz (talk) 23:00, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Additional Ada Lovelace Day 2012 Edit-a-thons
For those who speak Swedish, check out the Swedish Wiki edit-a-thon event.
 * Date: Tuesday 16 October
 * Main article: Wikipedia:Skrivstuga/Ada Lovelace 2012

A few days after Ada Lovelace Day, in association with Wikimedia UK and the Royal Society, groups will be holding women-in-STEM Wiki edit-a-thons in England and India. Both events welcome remote contributors!
 * Date: Friday 19 October
 * Main article: WikiProject Women's History/Ada Lovelace Day 2012
 * Etherpad: http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/Ada
 * Twitter hashtag: #WomenSciWP

Suggested Topics for U.S. edit-a-thon
The following is a sampling of suggested articles to create or add upon. However, feel free to come up with your own ideas! You may also 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. See also the Royal Society/UK-focused list here.

Articles needing creation

 * Virginia Alexander (Obstetrics and gynecology) NIH bio
 * Alice Augusta Ball (chemist) UH bio; no articles found
 * Rosa Beddington (developmental biologist)
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Evelyn Berezin (computer scientist)
 * Andrea Bertozzi (mathematician)
 * Ann Bishop (scientist) (protozoologist and parasitologist)
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Susan Jane Cunningham (mathematician)
 * Margaret Davis (paleoecologist; full name Margaret Bryan Davis)
 * Susan Gerbi (molecular biologist)
 * Biography from Brown University
 * Margaret Ingels (engineer)
 * Barbara Crawford Johnson (aerospace engineer)
 * Vera Kistiakowsky (nuclear physicist)
 * Martha Ludwig (crystallographer)
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Marie Morisawa (geologist) - See Geological Society of America: Memorials, March 1, 1996, page 15.
 * Sharon Mosher (geologist)
 * Mary Winifred Parke (algae expert)
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Helen Kemp Porter
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Edith Quimby (physicist)
 * Sarah Ratner (chemist)
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Elizabeth S. Russell (geneticist)
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Liane Russell (geneticist; full name is Liane Brauch Russell)
 * Janese Swanson (computer engineer)
 * Sylvia Agnes Sophia Tait
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Jantina Tammes (geneticist)
 * Sylvia Wiegand (mathematician)
 * Rosalind Venetia Pitt-Rivers
 * Biographical Memoir

Indian women scientists

 * Kamala Sohonie (Biochemist) (Link)
 * Kamal Ranadive (Link)
 * Darshan Ranganathan (Link)
 * Bindu Bambah (Link)
 * Mahani Chakravorty (Link)
 * Sulochana Gadgil (Link)

Articles needing expansion and/or cleanup

 * Claudia Alexander (planetary scientist)
 * Florence Bascom (geologist)
 * JudyAnn Bigby (Internal Medicine)
 * Sophia Hayden Bennett (architect)
 * Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (mathematician)
 * Edith Bülbring (Pharmacologist)
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Alexa Canady (neuroscience)
 * Edith Clarke (electrical engineer)
 * Mildred Cohn (biochemist, biophysicist)
 * Gertrude Cox (statistician) NAS
 * Caroline Endres Diescher (civil engineer)
 * Helen T. Edwards (physicist)
 * Katherine Esau (botanist)
 * Debra Fischer (astronomer)
 * Dorothy Celeste Boulding Ferebee (medical doctor)
 * Charlotte Friend (virologist)
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Alyssa A. Goodman (astronomer)
 * Mary W. Gray (mathematician)
 * Sheila Greibach (computer scientist, Harvard alum)
 * Mary Haas (linguist) NAS
 * Alice Hamilton (toxicology)


 * Emmeline Jean Hanson (physiologist)
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Beatrice Hicks (engineer)
 * Dorrit Hoffleit (astronomer)
 * Mary Rockwell Hook (architect) bio material pp24-27 in
 * Ruth Hubbard (biologist -- at Harvard)
 * Mary Ellen Jones (chemist) (biochemist)
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Emeline Roberts Jones (dental scientist)
 * Maria Klawe (computer scientist)
 * Rebecca Lancefield (biochemist)
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Sidnie Manton
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Carla Meninsky (computer engineer)
 * Ruth Sager (geneticist)
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Ruth Sanger
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Carolyn Jean Spellmann Shoemaker (astronomer)
 * Monica Turner (ecologist)
 * Mary Walton (engineer)
 * Mary Wheeler (mathematician)
 * Catherine G. Wolf (psychologist, AI researcher)
 * Mary Lou Zoback (geophysicist)
 * Maria Zuber (planetary scientist)
 * Association for Women Geoscientists (many women missing)

Resources: Women in STEM
Note: Wikipedia pages that include lists of important women are all missing plenty of key people, so feel free to add to those lists
 * List of female mathematicians
 * List of women scientists
 * Women in computing
 * Women in engineering
 * List of astronomers
 * 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)

Resources: Editing Wikipedia

 * Beginners’ Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
 * Five Pillars of Wikipedia
 * Tutorial
 * How to Edit a Page
 * Article Development
 * Your First Article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
 * Manual of Style
 * Citation Examples
 * Bookshelf

Results
Articles created or expanded:

Before the event

 * Charlotte Friend
 * Catherine G. Wolf

New articles created

 * Evelyn Berezin
 * Dorothy Celeste Boulding Ferebee
 * Margaret Ingels
 * Barbara Crawford Johnson
 * Sarah Ratner

Articles expanded or improved

 * Mary Rockwell Hook, expanded
 * Florence Bascom, expanded
 * Mildred Cohn, expanded
 * Carla Meninsky, expanded
 * Debra Fischer, expanded, reorganized
 * Maria Zuber, added infobox, reorganized, expanded
 * Mary Haas, copyedited, added infobox, categories, reference
 * Gertrude Mary Cox, copyedited, added infobox, categories, reference
 * Florence Bascom, copyedited, expanded, added headings, references
 * Beatrice Hicks, expanded, became a GA
 * Mary Walton, references

Further events

 * Monthly meetups: http://www.meetup.com/wikipedia-5/events/76790132/
 * Events: Meetup/Boston
 * Meetup/Ada_Lovelace_Edit-a-thon_2013_-_Brown