Wikipedia:Meetup/Montréal/WomenInAgriculturalSciences

Join us at McGill Library during Open Access Week on Wednesday, October 26, 2016. This inclusive, hands-on, drop-in event will show you how to create your own Wikipedia account and edit articles related to science, and more. The theme is Women in Agricultural Science.

2016 is the Wikipedia Year of Science an initiative to improve Wikipedia’s science coverage.

The drop-in event will take place at the Mac Campus Library, Room 308, Montreal, QC.

McGill University Library Event information
Please bring a laptop with you if you have one.
 * Date: Wednesday, October 26, 2016
 * Time: 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
 * Location: Mac Campus Library - Room 308
 * Participants: No Wikipedia editing experience necessary. Workshop will open with a 30-minute tutorial and there will be individual help available as needed.

Participants
MacLibrarian (talk) 17:59, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

What can I work on?
The theme for this Edit-a-Thon is Women in Science based on the WikiProject: Women Scientists. There are a number of ways you can contribute to Wikipedia. You can create or enhance Wikipedia articles, add external links,  verify and update citations, provide resources to help those writing articles, and assist with research.

Articles needing citation or authority control

 * Citation Hunt game


 * Mathilde Bensaude - information from this book
 * Karen Beauchemin - information from this website
 * Carrie Derick - information from this website, this book, this book or this article
 * Amalie Dietrich - information from this book chapter and this website
 * Florence R. Sabin - Information from this book

Articles needing expansion, updating and/or cleanup

 * Gail Anderson - Information from this book, this link and this link
 * Gladys Elizabeth Baker
 * Hazel Branch - information from this book and this book
 * Bertha Cady - information from this book and this book
 * Zulma Brandoni de Gasparini - information from this book
 * Charlotte Cortlandt Ellis - Information from this book
 * Sophia Eckerson - Information from this book
 * Katherine Esau - Information from this book, this book, this book and this link
 * Susan Hallowell - Information from this book
 * Helen Hart (plant_pathologist) - Information from this article
 * Margaretta Morris - Information from this book and this link
 * Cynthia Moss - Information from this book and this book
 * Mary Murtfeldt - Information from this book
 * Helen Alma Newton Turner - Information from this book
 * Mildred K. Nobles - Information from this book
 * Isabella Preston - Information from this ebook, this book and this link
 * Line Rochefort
 * Suzanne Simard - Information from this article and this Ted talk and this link
 * Effie A. Southworth - Information from this book, link and this link
 * Alexandra Smirnoff - Information from link
 * Felicitas Svejda - Information from this link
 * Charlotte De Bernier Taylor - Information from this book, this link and link

Articles needing categorization
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_scientists/missing_articles

Articles needing creation
If you don't have time to create a full article make sure you mark it as a stub. You can also help out by categorizing existing stub articles
 * Memory Elvin-Lewis - information from this link or this link

Resources for editing
Wikipedia articles should be based on reliable, published sources that have a  neutral point of view

Canadian female scientists

 * Science.ca's list of female scientists
 * Famous Canadian Women - Scientists, Engineers and Astronauts
 * Notable American women, 1607-1950 : a biographical dictionary

Open Access (OA) resources

 * OPANEN - Open monographs
 * Directory of Open Access books
 * JURN - OA search engine (journals primarily and some theses)
 * ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

Women in STEM fields

 * Women in STEM fields (Wikipedia article)
 * Gender differences in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and computer science (STEM) programs at university. Statistics Canada report.

Helpful Wikipedia tools

 * Beginner Training Video Series
 * How to write a great article
 * The Five Pillars of Wikipedia
 * Standards and Principles
 * Tutorial
 * How to avoid conflict of interest
 * Neutral point of view policy
 * Dispute resolution
 * Wikipedia etiquette
 * Staying cool when the editing gets hot
 * Wikipedia Teahouse

Tutorials on Wikipedia editing

 * Visual Editor User Guide
 * Wikipedia cheat sheet (Bookshelf), another markup cheatsheet
 * Training for students, a tutorial for beginners
 * Beginners' guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
 * Five pillars of Wikipedia, philosophical guidelines and best practices for 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
 * Writing about women
 * Biographies of Living Persons

Art+Feminism video tutorials

 * Beginner Training Video: The Gender Gap
 * Beginner Training Video: Basic Rules of Wikipedia Editing
 * Beginner Training Video: Anatomy of a Page
 * Beginner Training Video: Userpages and the Sandbox
 * Beginner Training Video: Meet-Up Pages
 * Beginner Training Video: Adding Citations
 * Beginner Training Video: Adding Images to Articles
 * Beginner Training Video: Creating New Articles
 * Intermediate Training Video: Adding Images to Wikimedia Commons
 * Intermediate Training Video: Adding Infoboxes to Wikipedia Articles

The Wikipedia Adventure
The Wikipedia Adventure Learn to edit Wikipedia in under an hour. Interactive, "Choose Your Own Adventure" style learning adventure.