Wikipedia:Meetup/TuftsEditAThon

Details
Come help us end gender bias, increase the coverage of women in STEM fields, and make Wikipedia a better place! Everyone is welcome to participate in this event. Drop in when you can and stay for as long as you like. We will have pizza and refreshments. When? Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016, 11am-2pm Where? Tisch Library, Room 223 What should I bring? We will have PCs for you to work on, but you may bring your laptop or Macbook if you prefer to work from your own device.

What can I work on?
There are lots of ways that you can contribute to Wikipedia! You can verify facts by adding citations, cleaning up articles, correcting typos/broken links, adding new content to existing articles, or creating a new page that does not yet exist.

Articles needing citation

 * Citation Hunt matches you with an article in need of citation, based on your interests. (For example: you may want to type "women scientists" in the search box).
 * Women scientists: articles that need references

Articles needing expansion or improvement
Specific People Specific topics Lists
 * Linda Abriola, Director of the Tufts Institute of the Environment and Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Chemical & Biological Engineering
 * Diana Bianchi, Natalie V. Zucker Professor of Pediatrics, and Obstetrics and Gynecology at Tufts University School of Medicine, Director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the NIH
 * Diane Souvaine, Tufts University Vice Provost for Research and Professor of computer science & mathematics
 * Gladys Hobby, American microbiologist who conducted important research on antibiotics
 * Nicola Pellow, member of the WWW Project at CERN
 * Florence Bagley, American psychologist
 * Martha Bunting, American biologist
 * Margaret Boyle, Scottish mathematician
 * Christiane Bonnelle, French physicist
 * Esther Batchelder, American chemist
 * Women in science
 * Women in computing
 * Women in geology
 * List of African American women in STEM fields
 * Wikiproject: Women scientists worklist
 * List of female scientists before the 20th Century
 * List of female scientists in the 20th Century
 * List of female scientists in the 21st Century
 * Women scientists: articles that need cleanup
 * Women scientists: articles that need cleanup

Articles needing creation

 * List of Female Scientists With No Wiki Page
 * Highly cited women in STEM: missing articles
 * Karen Panetta, Tufts University Professor of Computer Engineering and Associate Dean of Graduate Education - http://www.karenpanetta.com

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

Tufts Resources
 * Tufts Digital Library: A collection hilighting the history, scholarship, and publications of Tufts University faculty/staff/students. Most information here is open for the public to browse or use.

Free Resources
 * ArXiv: Physics, math and computer science open archive
 * BioRxiv: Biology open archive
 * PubMed Central, Open access to biomedical and life sciences literature
 * Biodiversity heritage library: biodiversity literature, dating back to the 1400s
 * SocArXiv: Social Sciences open archive (in development)
 * Internet Archive, a not-for-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as archived web pages

Help with Wikipedia

 * Editing Wikipedia Brochure
 * How to edit Wikipedia (video series)
 * Wiki Markup Cheat Sheat
 * Visual Editor user guide
 * Beginner's guide to Wikipedia style
 * Article wizard: creating a new article
 * More information about biographies of living persons on Wikipedia

During the Edit-A-Thon
Participant sign-in Kspill14 (talk) 15:12, 2 November 2016 (UTC) Narwhalaniec (talk) 15:00, 2 November 2016 (UTC) Travis.lilleberg (talk) 15:01, 2 November 2016 (UTC) cberrius (talk) 15:02, 2 November 2016 (UTC) Librariandianne (talk) 15:03, 2 November 2016 (UTC) Wrathofquan (talk) 15:06, 2 November 2016 (UTC) Mdkelehan (talk) 16:24, 2 November 2016 (UTC) Woofy35 (talk) 16:55, 2 November 2016 (UTC) CancerStar (talk) 17:07, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

Pages expanded or created today

Edited Esther Batchelder to add additional articles published by her --cberrius (talk) 15:54, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

Citation Added Irene Joliot-Curie, about nuclear research

Citation added Mary Jo Ondrechen THEMATICS computational method

Fixed a broken link on Dorothy Hodgkin's page --Narwhalaniec (talk) 17:17, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

Citation added Sybil Gibson Higley, about personal life. --Woofy35 (talk) 16:55, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

Added secondary sources to Nicola Pellow's page. --Travis.lilleberg (talk) 16:47, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

Added secondary source to Chien-Shiung Wu's page.

Citations Added to Women in computing  page.

Added citations to Carolyn Beug --cberrius (talk) 17:01, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

Added content to Linda Abriola --Narwhalaniec (talk) 17:17, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

Added citation to Catherine Kousmine and reworded some awkward writing. --Travis.lilleberg (talk) 17:21, 2 November 2016 (UTC)