Wikipedia:Meetup/Charles M. Vest Tribute Women in STEM Edit-a-thon - MIT

{|style="background:#dee; border:1px solid #00c; margin:0.5em; padding:0.5em;border-radius:8px;; width:100%" !colspan=2 style="font-size:150%;"|Charles M. Vest Tribute Women in STEM Edit-a-thon @ MIT (remote participants also welcome)
 * Charles-m-vest.jpg As part of Women's History Month, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Program in Women's and Gender Studies invites members of the MIT community to gather together on March 18th to improve and create Wikipedia entries related to the history of women in the STEM fields. We especially encourage additions that highlight the accomplishments of notable women (or those identifying as female) who have made important contributions to gender equity in STEM research areas. We also encourage a focus on articles relating to gender and technology, including reproductive technology, cosmetic technology, transgender surgery, and the medicalization of the body.
 * Charles-m-vest.jpg As part of Women's History Month, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Program in Women's and Gender Studies invites members of the MIT community to gather together on March 18th to improve and create Wikipedia entries related to the history of women in the STEM fields. We especially encourage additions that highlight the accomplishments of notable women (or those identifying as female) who have made important contributions to gender equity in STEM research areas. We also encourage a focus on articles relating to gender and technology, including reproductive technology, cosmetic technology, transgender surgery, and the medicalization of the body.

This edit-a-thon is being held in honor of former MIT president Charles M. Vest (1941-2013), who supported a groundbreaking study on the experiences of women faculty in the STEM fields at MIT. The event is organized and sponsored by the Women's and Gender Studies program at MIT, and allies.

Cambridge, MA event details

 * Date: Tuesday, March 18th, 7:00pm to 10:00pm. Can’t be there the whole time? No problem. Join us for as little or as long as you like.
 * Venue: Room W20-308, 3rd Floor Coffee House Lounge, MIT Campus, Cambridge, MA, USA. Map
 * Cost: Free
 * Speakers: Maia Weinstock of the New England Wikimedians user group
 * Participants: This meetup is open to all members of the MIT community with valid MIT ID, but space is limited to a maximum of 39 (on-site) attendees. As such, registration is required for the in-person event (details below). No Wikipedia editing experience is 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. Online participants may sign up and participate remotely.
 * Registration: Please register here
 * What to Bring: Attendees should bring their own laptops and power cords. Light refreshments will be provided.
 * Etherpad: etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/vesttributemit

Confirmed Wikipedians attending

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Online participants
We encourage online participation for this event. 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.)

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.

Articles needing expansion and/or cleanup

 * Virginia Alexander (Obstetrics and gynecology)
 * NIH bio
 * Evelyn Berezin (computer scientist)
 * JudyAnn Bigby (Internal Medicine)
 * Alexa Canady (neuroscience)
 * Gertrude Cox (statistician) - Relatively full article but needs sections w/headings and inline citations
 * NAS Biographical Memoir
 * Mary Letitia Caldwell (chemist)
 * Susan Jane Cunningham (mathematician)
 * Marie Maynard Daly (biochemist) Needs inline citations
 * Margaret Davis (paleoecologist)
 * Ann Dowling (mechanical engineer) - needs an infobox, reformatting, and more info
 * Recent news
 * Sylvia Earle (oceanographer) Good length but needs general cleanup/reorganization
 * Annie Easley (computer engineer) Needs inline citations
 * Caroline Endres Diescher (civil engineer)
 * Helen T. Edwards (physicist)
 * Katherine Esau (botanist)
 * Debra Fischer (astronomer)
 * 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) - needs photo and expansion of text
 * Hildegarde Howard (paleornithologist) - could use fleshing out, reorganization so it's less listy and more like prose
 * Biography from JSTOR
 * Ruth Hubbard (biologist) - needs photo and general cleanup
 * Barbara Crawford Johnson (aerospace engineer) - needs more substance; "projects" section needs to be converted from a list into prose
 * Mary Ellen Jones (biochemist)
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Emeline Roberts Jones (dental scientist)
 * Maria Klawe (computer scientist) - generally good but needs a photo
 * Rebecca Lancefield (biochemist) - needs more detail and a proper infobox
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Martha L. Ludwig (crystallographer) - needs an infobox
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Sidnie Manton
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Ann McKee (neuropathologist)
 * Carla Meninsky (computer engineer)
 * Carle M. Pieters (planetary scientist) - needs an infobox
 * Edith Quimby (physicist) - could use more inline citations
 * Helen Quinn (particle physicist) - needs inline citations
 * Sarah Ratner (chemist) Infobox could use updating; consolidation of book ref with multiple page citations. See Henrietta Swan Leavitt for this.
 * Carolyn Rovee-Collier (psychologist/cognitive scientist)
 * Bio from FABBS Foundation
 * 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)
 * Sylvia Wiegand (mathematician) Added infobox, but could probably use more detail
 * Mary Lou Zoback (geophysicist)
 * Sex reassignment surgery (male-to-female) - needs additional sourcing
 * Sex reassignment surgery (female-to-male) - needs additional sourcing
 * Reprogenetics - could use general cleanup and needs lots of citations
 * Reproductive technology - needs sources

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:

New articles created

 * Penelope Jeggo
 * Karen Gleason

Articles expanded, improved, or cleaned up

 * Sylvia Earle
 * Ann McKee
 * Alexa Canady
 * Helen T. Edwards
 * Carolyn Rovee-Collier
 * Sheila Greibach
 * Evelyn Berezin
 * Carle M. Pieters
 * Elizabeth Thomas
 * Emeline Roberts Jones
 * Charlotte Friend
 * Virginia M. Alexander
 * List of chemical engineers

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


 * WikiProject Women scientists