Wikipedia:Meetup/Montréal/WomenInScience



Join us at Concordia Library and McGill Library during Science Literacy Week on Wednesday September 21st, 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 Science.

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

The drop-in event will take place at across two institutions in Montreal: Concordia University and McGill University Library.

Concordia University Library Event information
'Please bring a laptop with you! ' (or borrow one from the Circulation desk)
 * Date: Wednesday, September 21st, 2016 (and continuing through week of Sept 19-25)
 * Time: 2pm - 5pm
 * Location: Webster Library, LB-322
 * Participants: No Wikipedia editing experience necessary. Help will be provided for Wikipedia newcomers as needed throughout the event.
 * Twitter hashtags: #Scilit16 #womensciwiki #culibrary

McGill University Library Event information
'Please bring a laptop with you if you have one. A few loaners will be available as well.'
 * Date: Wednesday, September 21st, 2016 
 * Time: 2pm - 5pm
 * Location: Research Commons Room A - Data Visualization lab Redpath Library, 3459 rue McTavish
 * Participants: No Wikipedia editing experience necessary. Workshop will open with a 30 minute tutorial and there will be individual help available as needed.
 * Twitter hashtags: #Scilit16 #womensciwiki

Participants

 * 1) PGLib
 * 2) Librarianpam
 * 3) Viola-Ness (talk) 22:13, 8 September 2016 (UTC)
 * 4) MayMarian
 * 5) ka_lib
 * 6) Lizzybirch
 * 7) Broomgrass
 * 8) Vienna verde
 * 9) DR.DYD
 * 10) George Williams
 * 11) Yashastew

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


 * Carrie_Derick - needs additional citations for verification - Source
 * Harriet_Brooks - insufficient inline citations - - Thesis
 * Berzowska, Joanna This biography of a living person does not include any references or sources.

Articles needing expansion, updating and/or cleanup

 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Stewart_(scientist)
 * Maude_Abbott - Source and Source

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

Concordia scientists

 * Catherine Mulligan (132 publications, cited by 4432 documents (Scopus))
 * Virginia Penhune (64 publications, cited by 3608 documents (Scopus))
 * TBD

McGill scientists
http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/-?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=142701&silo_library=GEN01
 * Annie Macleod - 1910: becomes the first woman to earn a McGill PhD - (Chemistry)

Born 1883 (LC Authority record) https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchArg=Macleod,%20Annie%20Louise,%201883-&searchCode=NAME%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25

Canadian scientists
These female Canadian scientists have each been cited more than 1000 times and currently do not have a biography in Wikipedia.

Articles created/improved
List or Wikipedia articles attendees have worked to improve.
 * 1) Patricia Baird
 * 2) Frances Gertrude McGill
 * 3) Suzanne Simard
 * 4) Index of women scientists articles
 * 5) Geraldine Thomas
 * 6) Geraldine A. Kenney-Wallace
 * 7) Carrie Derick
 * 8) Joanna_Berzowska

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

Baird, Patricia

 * Canadian Academy of Health Sciences
 * (2014) Harry R. Painton Award 2013, to Hope M. Draheim, Patricia Baird, and Susan M. Haig. The Condor: February 2014, Vol. 116, No. 1, pp. 148.
 * Elizabeth Lumley. Canadian Who's Who 2002. University of Toronto Press. p. 55.

Brooks, Harriet

 * Rayner-Canham, M. F., & Rayner-Canham, G. (1992). Harriet Brooks: Pioneer nuclear scientist. Montréal [Que.: McGill University Press.]
 * Dictionary of women worldwide [electronic resource : 25,000 women through the ages / Anne Commire, editor ; Deborah Klezmer, associate editor]

Daou, Dorris

 * NASA Science Newsletter

Derick, Carrie

 * We walked very warily : a history of women at McGill / by Margaret Gillett
 * Despite the odds : essays on Canadian women and science / edited by Marianne Gosztonyi Ainley
 * Montreal Gazette - Honouring Carrie Derrick, Canada's first female professor on International Women's Day

Farrell, Leone N.

 * 100 more Canadian heroines : famous and forgotten faces / by Merna Forster

Hickson, Catherine

 * The Globe and Mail - Surviving Mount St. Helens: 'terrifying but exciting'

O'Kelley, Shana

 * The Globe and Mail - Shana Kelley: A quicker way to diagnose disease

McGill, Frances Gertrude

 * 100 more Canadian heroines : famous and forgotten faces / by Merna Forster
 * Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan

Pielou, E.C.

 * Science.ca

Shoichet, Molly

 * The Globe and Mail - U of T biomedical engineer wins women in science prize

Scriver, Jesse Boyd

 * We walked very warily : a history of women at McGill / by Margaret Gillett
 * National Library of Medicine

Sherwood Lollar, Barbara

 * BBC News - Science & Environment

Simard, Suzanne

 * The New Yorker - The intelligent plant added!

Wilson, Alice

 * Science.ca
 * Despite the odds : essays on Canadian women and science / edited by Marianne Gosztonyi Ainley

Canadian female scientists

 * Science.ca's list of female scientists
 * Famous Canadian Women - Scientists, Engineers and Astronauts

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.

Best Practices

 * Include Category Codes to improve findability of Wikipedia content e.g. [University_of_British_Columbia_faculty]