Wikipedia:Meetup/UQ

University of Queensland Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon

Information
UQ Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon is aimed at all abilities and no experience is necessary. The session will be a relaxed get together where the basics of how to set up an account, how to make an edit, what makes a good contribution, how to reference, fair use and copyright, and new article creation. The session will begin just covering the basics you need to know before everyone can begin editing and improving Wikipedia. There is a list of articles which need improving which everyone is free to pick subjects that interest them or they can work on their own project. Experienced editors will be on hand to help answer questions and guide you through getting started. born in bologna.

What you will need
Please bring along your own laptop and any other resources you want. Food will be provided.

Attendance details
Time: 17:30 - 20:00

Date: 8th August 2013

Location: Room 566, Brian Wilson Chancellery Building(61A), St Lucia Campus

List of attendees
If you already have an account then please feel free to add your name to this list: --Bluejacketset (talk) 09:39, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

Would have attended if I was at UQ Geraldshields11 (talk) 21:39, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

Cleanup needed
Achmet (oneiromancer) Alien autopsy, Amygdalin, Biolumanetics, Black Athena, Black triangles, Buttered cat paradox, Capture-bonding, Chemical imbalance, Christian Science Journal, Cláudio Tsuyoshi Suenaga, Controversy about ADHD, Creation Science Association, Crop circle, Crystal skull, Dean drive, Dropa, Ellsworth UFO Case, Emergy synthesis, Emotional Freedom Techniques, Extraterrestrial hypothesis, Famous oracular statements from Delphi, Fine-tuned universe, Gaia philosophy, Game nou, Gene Matlock, Herd behavior, Institute 22, James McCanney, List of discredited substances, Majestic 12, Maury Island incident, Meridian (Chinese medicine), Milton William Cooper, Necromancy, Neuro-linguistic programming, New Age, Onmyodo, Prediction, Process physics, Propaganda, Prophet Yahweh, Pseudoarchaeology, Quantum evolution (alternative), Quantum mind, Rupert Sheldrake, Seduction community, Social Darwinism, Spaewife, Starchild skull, State of Fear, Technology in Revelation Space, Tweaking (behavior), UFO conspiracy theory, UFO sightings in Iraq, Unidentified submerged object, Uri Geller, Walt Brown (creationist), Word salad (mental health)

Expansion needed
Catoptromancy, John F. Schrank, Loyd Auerbach

Wikification needed
Black Eyed Kids, Lysenkoism, Naturopathic medicine, Self Advocacy, Thought Field Therapy, Unarius Academy of Science, Wrap rage

Neutrality in question
Antonio Villas Boas Case, Applied kinesiology, Bernard Haisch, Cartomancy, Chi Machine, Craniosacral therapy, Dynamic theory of gravity, Dysgenics, Edward R. Dewey, Electrical quackery, Emotional Freedom Techniques, Ernesto Contreras, Ex-gay, Extra-sensory perception, Gerson therapy, Gravity shielding, Hydrino theory, Interdimensional hypothesis, Internet troll, Ionized bracelet, John Hutchison, José Silva (parapsychologist), Matthias Rath, Modern Galilean relativity, Neuro-linguistic programming, New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, Oscillococcinum, Parapsychology, Parental alienation syndrome, Philip J. Klass, Physiognomy, Plasma cosmology, Polarizable vacuum, Popular psychology, Pseudoscience, Psychiatric imprisonment, Quasi-steady state cosmology, Radiesthesia, Reiki, Tired light, Transcendental Meditation, Unidentified flying object, Uri Geller, West coast air raid, What the Bleep Do We Know!?

To be merged or split
Bibliomancy, Church of Christ, Scientist, Consumer eugenics, Creationism, Cyberpathy, Diagnostic kinesiology, Divining rod, Emotional intelligence, Energy vampire, Epsilonism, Erototoxin, First Church of Christ, Scientist, Herd behavior, Homeopathy, Human zoo, Involuntary treatment, Jeane Dixon effect, John E.W. Keely, Metron, Paleocontact theory, Plasma Universe, Psi ball, Psionics, Racial purity, Rex Deus, Stopping power, Time Cube, Virgula divina

Articles needing Skeptical attention
Articles needing improvement

Women in Science needing articles
• Aba A. Bentil Andam / Aba Bentil Andam (c. 1960–), Ghanaian physicist

• Geneviève D'Arconville / Marie-Geneviève-Charlotte Thiroux d'Arconville (1720–1805), French chemist and woman of letters

• Angélique Arvanitaki (1901-1983), Greek-French neurophysiologist

• Anne Beloff-Chain (1921–1991), American biochemist

• Agnes Meara Chase (1869–1963), American botanist

• Margaret Blackwood (1909–1986), Australian botanist and geneticist

• Margrethe Bohr (1890–1984), wife of Niels Bohr

• Matilda M. Brooks (1888–1981), American scientist

• Jennie Darlington (c. 1925–), American scientist and polar explorer

• Cindy Van Dover / Cindy L. Van Dover (1954–), marine biologist

• Mary Alice Downie (1934–), Canadian writer

• Sophia H. Eckerson / Sophia Eckerson (d. 1954), plant microchemist

• Katherine Foot (c.1852–1944), American cytologist

• Winifred Frost / Winifred E. Frost (1902–1979), British freshwater biologist

• Margaret Joan Geller (1947–), American astrophysicist

• Elizabeth Dexter Hay (1927–), American scientist

• Jean Laby / Jean E. Laby (1915–), Australian climate scientist

• Marie Lebour (1877–1971), marine biologist

• Agnes Claypole Moody (1870–1954), American botanist

• Angeliki Panagiotatou (1878–1954), Greek scientist

• Antoinette Pirie (1905–1991), British opthalmologist

• Elizabeth M. Ramsey (1906–1993), American embryologist

• Jane Anne Russell (1911–1967), biologist

• Tine Tammes / Jantine Tammes (1871–1947), Dutch botanist and geneticist

• Helen Newton Turner (1908–1995), Australian animal geneticist

• E. M. Delf-Smith / Ellen Delf-Smith (1980), British botanist
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• Alice Evans (botanist) / Alice Margaret Evans (1927-1981), British botanist

• Frances Hamer (1894-1980), British photographic chemist

• Ann Horton (-7 Apri l894 - 15 July 1967), British experimental physicist and academic at Newnham College, Cambridge

• Alma Howard (1903-1984), British geneticist

• Mary Lunt (died 1981), British biochemist

• Brenda Ryman / Brenda E. Ryman / Brenda Edith Ryman (1922-1983), British biochemist and Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge

• Anne Shaw (management consultant) (1904-1982), Scottish pioneer of management consultancy in Britain.

• Winifred Smith (died January 1926?) was a British botanist and educationist, tutor to women students at University College London

• Mary Snow / Mrs G. R. S. Snow (c.1902-1978), British botanist

• Edith Stoney / Edith Anne Stoney (1869 - 25 June 1938), British physicist

• Florence Stoney / Florence Ada Stoney (1870 - 7 October 1932), British pioneer in X-ray and ultra-violet light treatment

• Mary Waller / Mary Désirée Waller (died 11 December 1959), British physicist

• Elisabeth Wangermann (1923-1981), Austrian-British botanist


 * From http://inventors.about.com/od/womeninventors/Women_Inventors.htm
 * Randice-Lisa Altschul / Randi Altschul, inventor of the disposable cell phone
 * Dianne Croteau, inventor of Actar 911, the CPR mannequin
 * K. K. Gregory, the ten-year old inventor of Wristies
 * Krisztina Holly, co-inventor of the telephony software Visual Voice
 * Gabriele Knecht, patentor of the Forward Sleeve design for creating clothing
 * Krysta Morlan, American inventor
 * Alice Parker (inventor), inventor of an improved gas heating furnace
 * Betty Rozier and Lisa Vallino, mother and daughter co-inventors of an intravenous catheter shield
 * Ann Tsukamoto, co-patenter of process to isolate human stem cells


 * Mothers and Daughters of Invention
 * Henrietta Vansittart (1833-1883), English inventor of the Vansittart screw propellor.
 * Maria Beasley / Maria E. Beasley (c.1847-1904), inventor of various barrel-making mchines and life raft
 * Joan Moore, British pioneer of plant disease forecasting systems
 * Mary Glynne, British agnronomist
 * Maria Szanto Luck / Mme Maria Luck-Szanto / Maria Szanto / Maria Luck (1899-1988), Hungarian-British dress fabric innovator

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