Wikipedia:Meetup/Seamless Astronomy Edit-a-thon Center for Astrophysics

{|style="background:#dee; border:1px solid #00c; margin:0.5em; padding:0.5em;border-radius:8px;; width:100%" !colspan=2 style="font-size:150%;"|Seamless Astronomy Wikipedia Edit-a-thon @ the Center for Astrophysics / Cambridge, MA
 * Ngc2392.jpg NIEdot362.jpg Astronomer Edward Charles Pickering's Harvard computers.jpg M45map.jpg Feburary 18, the Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is hosting an astronomy-themed edit-a-thon. The primary goal of the event is to improve existing astronomy and astrophysics articles and to add images to the pages of Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.
 * Ngc2392.jpg NIEdot362.jpg Astronomer Edward Charles Pickering's Harvard computers.jpg M45map.jpg Feburary 18, the Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is hosting an astronomy-themed edit-a-thon. The primary goal of the event is to improve existing astronomy and astrophysics articles and to add images to the pages of Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.

Cambridge, MA event details

 * Date: Thursday, February 18, 6pm to 9pm EST
 * Venue: Center for Astrophysics, John G. Wolbach Library Collaboration Space, 60 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138
 * Host: The event will be facilitated by Maia Weinstock of the New England Wikimedians and Phoebe Ayers of the MIT Libraries.
 * Cost: Free.
 * Twitter hashtag: #cfawiki
 * Participants: The event is open to established members of the astronomy and astrophysics community. First-time Wikipedia editors are particularly encouraged to attend.
 * Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/seamlessastro Remote/online participants may send in questions via this link and a facilitator will reply when available.
 * What to bring: Laptops and power cords. Please also be sure to create a Wikipedia account prior to the event.
 * Registration: All participants must RSVP through the registration page. Wikimedians may also submit their usernames below, but should not bypass the Google doc registration.

Confirmed Wikipedians attending
& -- phoebe / (talk to me) 21:38, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
 * -- Girona7 (talk) 00:44, 4 January 2016 (UTC)
 * -- Dbouquin (talk)
 * -- Winner 42 Talk to me!  01:39, 18 February 2016 (UTC)
 * -- EdJohnston (talk) 22:44, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

Possible attendees

 * --mikeu talk 21:18, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

Articles that could use cleanup

 * RR Lyrae
 * Supernova Impostor
 * Hypernova
 * High-energy astronomy
 * Cleanup listing for WikiProject Astronomy

Stubs that could use fleshing out

 * American astronomer stubs
 * Space stubs

Articles needing an image

 * Margaret Burbidge (astrophysicist)
 * Sandra Faber (astrophysicist)
 * Alyssa A. Goodman (astronomer)
 * Barbara Crawford Johnson (aerospace engineer)
 * Jane Luu (astronomer)
 * Margaret Mayall (astronomer)

Editing Wikimedia Commons / Wikipedia

 * A Guide to Getting Started on Wikimedia Commons
 * Adding Flickr files to Commons
 * Wikimedia Commons Help


 * Beginners’ Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
 * How to Edit a Page

Lists of women in science

 * List of women scientists
 * Women in engineering
 * List of women astronomers
 * List of astronomers
 * Women in geology
 * History of women in engineering
 * Women in space

Articles updated/improved:

 * fr:Annie Jump Cannon
 * Margaret Mayall
 * Sandra Faber
 * Digital Access to a Sky Century @ Harvard
 * Margaret Harwood
 * Adam Burrows
 * X-ray telescopes
 * Maria Mitchell Observatory