Wikipedia:Meetup/UK/University of Manchester Women in Physiology, October 2019

In a nutshell

 * Where? University of Manchester, Sackville Street Building on Sackville Street (Manchester)
 * When? Thursday 17th October
 * What time? 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
 * Point of contact: Duncan Hull

About the event
The event celebrated the work of women scientists and engineers such as Ada Lovelace (the world's first software engineer) and Women in Physiology with help from The Physiological Society, Keynote speakers include:
 * 1) Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell  Physiologist, President and Vice Chancellor of the University of Manchester
 * 2) Professor Susan Wray  Physiologist University of Liverpool
 * 3) Dr. Jessica Wade  Physicist Imperial College London

Outcomes of the edit-a-thon
There were several outcomes of the edit-a-thon including:

Translations

 * The english entry for Maria Fitzgerald was translated into Maltese by User:EnriqueTabone, see Maria Fitzgerald in Maltese
 * The english entry for Nancy Rothwell was translated into Romanian by User:PaulCodrea, see Nancy Rothwell in Română . Bulgarian, Russian, Hindi and Mandarin versions are in progress.

New articles

 * A new article was created on Shamshad Cockcroft by User:AliceP29
 * A new article was created on Anne McArdle by User:Duncan.Hull
 * A new article was created on Susan Brain by User:Stain

New redlist for Women Physiologists

 * A new redlist was created for Women Physiologists. This was created by womeninred.org and automatically generated using wikidata e.g. people with gender female and occupation physiologist who do not have a wikipedia article in any language. Redlists are lists of Red links where articles are wanted.

Articles needed on Women in Physiology
Our goal during the edit-a-thon was to turn as many of the red links below into blue links, by creating new biographies. These women are all listed in Women phsysiologists : centenary celebrations and beyond.

Obituaries



 * 1) Alison Brading (1939-2011) needs infobox
 * 2) Gertrude Falk (1925-2008)
 * 3) Marianne Fillenz (1924-2012) needs improving
 * 4) Olga Hudlická (1926-2014)
 * 5) Shelagh Morrissey (1916-1990) needs article
 * 6) Anne Warner (1940–2012)
 * 7) Maureen Young (1915-2013) needs improvement and infobox

Women in Physiology

 * 1) Frances Ashcroft
 * 2) Heidi de Wet
 * 3) Susan Brain
 * 4) Aisah Aubdool (Postdoc working with Susan Brain)
 * 5) Andrea Brand
 * 6) Lynn J. Bindman
 * 7) Irene Miguel-Aliaga
 * 8) Barbara Casadei
 * 9) Svetlana Reilly
 * 10) Shamshad Cockcroft
 * 11) Kathryn Garner
 * 12) Kay Davies
 * 13) Lisa Heather
 * 14) Annette Dolphin
 * 15) Claudia Bauer
 * 16) Kim Dora
 * 17) Pooneh Bagher
 * 18) Maria Fitzgerald
 * 19) Stephanie Koch
 * 20) Abigail Fowden
 * 21) Amanda Sferruzzi-Perri
 * 22) Christine Holt
 * 23) Paloma Gonzalez-Bellido
 * 24) Anne King (physiologist)
 * 25) Ilona Obara
 * 26) Bridget Lumb
 * 27) Emma C. Hart
 * 28) Margaret MacLean needs infobox
 * 29) Kirsty Mair
 * 30) Eleanor Maguire
 * 31) Cornelia McCormick
 * 32) Janice Marshall
 * 33) Jeanette Woolard
 * 34) Anne McArdle
 * 35) Aphrodite Vasilaki
 * 36) Mary Morrell
 * 37) Ivana Rosenzweig
 * 38) Lucilla Poston
 * 39) Anne-Maj Samuelsson
 * 40) Sheena Radford (needs portrait)
 * 41) Anastasia Zhuravleva
 * 42) Nancy Rothwell (needs a better picture)
 * 43) Catherine B. Lawrence
 * 44) Maria Grazia Spillantini
 * 45) Joanne Jones
 * 46) Tilli Tansey
 * 47) Emma M Jones
 * 48) Alex M. Thomson
 * 49) Audrey Mercer
 * 50) Susan Wray
 * 51) Rachel Floyd
 * 52) Chrissy Stokes
 * 53) Rachel Tribe

Preparation notes

 * evenbrite registration link can be found here
 * Create a Wikipedia account
 * Bring a laptop (or pair up with somebody who has one)
 * WiFi will be provided, or you can use eduroam if you have it
 * Start with The Wikipedia Adventure which will take you through the key points in under an hour
 * You can also learn about editing in this Tutorial, or Getting started on Wikipedia

Things you can work on

 * Write a biography of a woman physiologist (see redlist above)
 * Transate a biography of a woman physiologist into a different language
 * With permission from the subject(s), upload pictures you have of scientists to wikimedia commons, many scientists do not have good portraits on wikipedia because of complex licensing and copyright issues see A picture of you
 * Improve or increase the number of inbound links to a given page
 * Encourage journalists to write about women in science so there are good secondary sources

Attendees

 * 1) User:Duncan.Hull
 * 2) User:Jesswade88
 * 3) User:Stain
 * 4) User:Odder
 * 5) User:AliceP29
 * 6) User:EnriqueTabone
 * 7) User:PaulCodrea
 * 8) User:CCamacho81