Wikipedia:Meetup/Ireland NUIG Women in History Editathon



To mark Women’s History Month, Wikimedia Community Ireland and the Academic Writing Centre at the James Hardiman Library are proud to present an editathon on Women in History. The event aims to help turn students into active users and contributors to Wikipedia. Participants will be able to hone their editing, writing and research skills.

At the moment, there is a debate whether Wikipedia has a place in third-level education. Should students feel ashamed when using Wikipedia to check facts or dates of a particular historical event? Should teachers encourage students to read only reputable published sources and to avoid consulting Wikipedia? Or can Wikipedia be a useful teaching and learning tool? The Galway Women in History editathon will explore these and other questions while working to enrich the available corpus of articles on women in history.

The editathon is split into two events:
 * On 10 March, participants will be introduced to the basic Wiki-editing techniques. There will also be a presentation on spotting errors, editing, sentence structure, and proofreading. Participants will identify their topic of interest and related articles. Trainers will help them to identify information gaps or other areas of improvement. Participants will identify published sources that will help them improve the existing articles.
 * On 16 April, we will meet again to continue working on the articles and to discuss the progress we have made. We will discuss editorial and research related challenges and work to produce high quality articles on various within the broad theme of women in history.

Both events are free to all NUIG students and staff, no editing experience is necessary. Please register in advance for the second event at. You do not need to have attended the first event. All are welcome.

How to Prepare

 * 1) Sign up for the event via Eventbrite (second date)
 * CREATE A WIKIPEDIA ACCOUNT (if you don't already have one)

Please set up an account before the event if at all possible. Very few details are needed: a Username, password, and we recommend giving your email, if only to be reminded of your password when you forget it. The short Tutorial/Registration explains why this is a good idea.

If you like, you can also learn a little about editing ahead of time here: w:en:Wikipedia:Tutorial, or see Getting started on Wikipedia for more information

'''The event takes place in a computer lab. You do not need to bring your own device'''

Attendees (in person)
Please Sign your name below using the signature tool or using ~


 * 1) Sharonlflynn (talk) 21:27, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 2) Sameichel (talk) 21:48, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 3) Smirkybec (talk) 15:39, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 4) Smcq (talk) 17:57, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 5) Irabarbanel (talk) 17:59, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 6) Fruthie (talk) 18:00, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 7) CKinsellaJD2014 (talk) 18:01, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 8) Jtonra (talk) 09:09, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
 * 9) Margaret Forde (talk) 15:14, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
 * 10) N.dubois1 (talk) 15:28, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
 * 11) Tighnasi (talk) 15:50, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

Online participants
Online participants from anywhere are very welcome, whether experienced or not. For a basic editing tutorial see Tutorial, and Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia is short, and full of good advice. Or try this one - four modules, taking one hour it says. Online participants who can't join us in person are welcome to list themselves below with # ~

Some suggested articles
Feel free to add to these lists.

Women in STEM

 * Máirin de Valéra (1912–1984), Professor of Botany at University College, Galway (1962–1978).
 * Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu one of the world's first female engineers.
 * Caroline Haslett British electrical engineer and electricity industry administrator.
 * Katharine Wright, Wright Brothers' sister.
 * Jean Venables 144th President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, the first woman to be elected to the position.
 * Verena Holmes English mechanical engineer and inventor.
 * Dorothée Pullinger a pioneering automobile engineer and businesswoman.
 * Dorothy Donaldson Buchanan the first female member of the Institution of Civil Engineers.
 * Penny Dwyer a metallurgist, Dwyer had a major role in the construction of the Channel Tunnel.
 * Bertha Lamme Feicht an American engineer.
 * Mary Fergusson a British engineer, the first female fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, elected in 1957.
 * Marie Killick an English audio engineer who patented the truncated-tip sapphire stylus in 1945 for playing gramophone records.
 * Constance Tipper an English metallurgist and crystallographer.
 * Margaret Lindsay Huggins an Irish scientific investigator and astronomer.
 * Ann Kelleher Intel's first Irish female vice president.
 * Jane Ní Dhulchaointigh inventor of Sugru.
 * Dervilla Mitchell lead the Arup team at Terminal 5 Heathrow, Chair of the Awards Committee and a vice-president at the Royal Academy of Engineering, appointed by UK Prime Minister David Cameron to the Council for Science and Technology (CST).
 * Lady Kane nee Katherine Sophia Bailey wrote the first guide to Ireland's flowering plants in 1833.
 * Mary Andrews notable Northern Irish geologist.
 * Doris Reynolds Northern Irish geologist (1899-1985).
 * Veronica Burns collector of graptolites (1914-1998).
 * Lucy Everest Boole Irish chemist and pharmacist and professor at the London School of Medicine for Women. She was the first female Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chemistry.
 * Alicia Boole Stott mathematician, worked with Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter.
 * Louise McIlroy one of the first women medical graduates from Glasgow University.
 * Carmel Humphries first female professor of zoology at UCD.
 * Phyllis Clinch an Irish botanist most recognised for her work in the field of plant viruses.
 * Eva Philbin Irish chemist who became the first woman president of the Institute of Chemistry of Ireland.
 * Sophie Bryant mathematician, educator, feminist and activist.

Notable Irish Women

 * Kathleen Clarke Irish activist.
 * Helena Moloney Irish Republican, feminist and activist.
 * Dorothy Wilde Anglo-Irish socialite.
 * Margaret Clarke nee Crilly, wife of Harry Clarke, artist in her own right.
 * Margaret McDonnell brought landmark case against marriage bar in Ireland.
 * Ann Jellicoe (educationalist) educationalist, founded Alexandra College.
 * Elizabeth Vesey wealthy Irish intellectual who is credited with fostering the Blue Stockings Society.
 * Hazel Lavery a painter and the second wife of the artist Sir John Lavery.
 * Eileen Lavery daughter of Sir John Lavery, later Lady Sempill.
 * Eilís Dillon author of 50 books and niece of Joseph Plunkett
 * Mary Ann McCracken Belfast social reformer
 * Nano Nagle Pioneer of Catholic Education in Ireland

Resources

 * The library has access (both online and in hardcopy) to the Dictionary of Irish Biography, a good authoritive source for some of the people on the list including the Boole sisters, Mairín de Valera, many of those involved in the Clare Island survey and Bindon Blood Stoney. It would also provide access to other references.
 * The library also has good online access to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
 * Another good source of References (but not actual articles) is the National Library of Ireland's SOURCES database http://sources.nli.ie as it includes references to articles in periodicals published in Ireland between c.1850-1960. It's likely we would have most of the journals available in the library.
 * As well as Labcoats & Lace Mary Mulvihill has also published Ingenious Ireland, a kind of scientific tour of the island, which often contains biographical information as well.

Helpers
If you are an experienced Wikipedian and are interested in helping please sign up below with 4 tildas.