Wikipedia:Meetup/Kitchener-Waterloo/16 Days UW 2017

Event details
Women, trans, two-spirit and non-binary researchers in STEM regularly suffer from gender-based harassment and exclusion, a phenomenon that is reflected in their under-representation on Wikipedia. The University of Waterloo Library is hosting an edit-a-thon to improve the representation of women, trans, two-spirit and non-binary researchers in STEM fields as part of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence events taking place on campus.

Please join us at the Dana Porter Library in the FLEX Lab on December 8, 2017 from 12:00 – 1:30 pm to participate in person or contribute virtually from a location of your chosing.

On-site and virtual attendees are welcome! Join the event dashboard using the passcode STEM.


 * Date: December 8, 2017
 * Time: 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
 * Venue: University of Waterloo Library - Dana Porter Flex Lab, LIB 329
 * Cost: Free!
 * Participants: Basic Wiki editing skills are required, though hands-on assistance (and encouragement!) will be available on-site. First-time and experienced editors welcome!
 * What to bring: A limited number of computers will be available on-site, along with work space for personal laptops.

Editing assistance

 * Wikipedia training for students
 * Art+Feminism training videos
 * Your first article
 * Identifying reliable sources
 * Wiki markup cheatsheet
 * Plain and simple conflict of interest guide

Templates

 * Place at the top of a new article to protect it from undue speedy deletion - remember to remove it when you are finished. For more info:Template:New_page
 * Place at the top of an article if you are editing on your own in order to avoid editing conflicts - remember to remove it when you are finished: Template:In_use
 * Placing next to a name on the list of Women in STEM suggestions will generate an  note next to the entry to help avoid editing conflicts.
 * Template:Infobox person
 * Template:Infobox scientist

Work suggestions
The following lists are not exhaustive and are intended only as a starting point for possible contributions. Feel free to add the names of notable people, organizations or events related to the theme of women in STEM.

WikiProject lists and categories

 * Missing articles about women scientists from WikiProject Women in Red
 * Gender red gap list by profession
 * Category:Stub-Class Women scientists articles (links to article Talk page - click Article tab in top left to see main page)

Articles for improvement

 * Mona Ataya (e-commerce entrepreneur)
 * Fiona Brinkman (bioinformatics and genomics)
 * Alessandra Buonanno (theoretical physicist)
 * Nadine Caron (general surgeon)
 * Anne Innis Dagg (zoologist)
 * Doris Daou (astronomer)
 * Bianca Dittrich (theoretical physicist)
 * Yulia Gel (mathematician)
 * Elodie Ghedin (parasitologist and virologist)
 * Eman Ghoneim (geomorphologist)
 * Gabriela González (physics and astronomy)
 * Kathryn E. Hare (mathematician)
 * Penny Haxell (mathematician)
 * Sara Hestrin-Lerner (physiologist)
 * Catherine Hickson (vocanologist) (usable photo)
 * Judith Howard (chemist)
 * Anna Lubiw (computer scientist)
 * Rachel Rosen Massive gravity
 * Liz Sandals (politician trained in science and math)
 * Genevieve Stearns (biochemist)
 * Irene Uchida (scientist and Down syndrome researcher)
 * Mary Vaux Walcott (naturalist)
 * Dorothy Warburton (geneticist)
 * Nai-Chang Yeh (physicist)
 * Anne Zeller (physical anthropologist)

Articles to create

 * Sara Akbar (chemical petroleum engineer)
 * Asimina Arvanitaki (theoretical physics)
 * Ghada Bassioni (chemist)
 * Melanie Campbell (physics and astronomy)
 * Maria Augusta Generoso Estrela (physician)
 * Abeer Abu Ghaith (tech entrepreneur)
 * Maria Skyllas-Kazacos (industrial chemist) (useable photo) Vanadium redox battery
 * Saadia Muzaffar (TechGirls Canada founder)
 * Lois Ann Pfiester Pfiesteria
 * Donna Strickland Chirped pulse amplification
 * Natalia Toro (particle physics) Natalia Toro page on German Wikipedia
 * Beata Ujvari (evolutionary ecologist)
 * Manjusri Misra (BioMaterials Engineering)
 * Linda Nazar (Solid State (Electro)Chemistry)