Wikipedia:Meetup/Women in Science Edit-a-thon 2016 - Oklahoma

 {| style="background:#dee; border:1px solid #00c; margin:0.5em; padding:0.5em;border-radius:8px;; width:100%" !colspan=2 style="font-size:150%;"|Women in Science Edit-a-thon 2016, University of Oklahoma (remote participants also welcome)
 * Hashtags: #Wikiwomen #OUOpenEd


 * We_Can_Edit.jpg In conjunction with WikiWomen's History Month, participants from around Oklahoma are invited to gather together in the Helmerich Collaborative Learning Center Classroom (LL123) at the University of Oklahoma to edit and create Wikipedia entries on notable women in the history of science.

Norman, OK event details

 * Date: Tuesday, October 11, 2016, 10:00am to 3:00pm CST
 * Venue: Helmerich Collaborative Learning Center Classroom (LL123) on the Lower Level of the Bizzell Memorial Library @ the University of Oklahoma, 401 West Brooks St., Norman, OK, USA.
 * Cost: Free
 * Twitter hashtag: #Wikiwomen #OUOpenEd
 * Participants: The event is open to anyone who wishes to help preserve women’s history! No Wiki editing experience necessary; as needed, tutorials will be provided for Wikipedia newcomers. Female editors are particularly encouraged to attend. Can’t be there the whole time? No problem. Join us for as little or as long as you like. The first hour will be focused on introducing newbies to Wikipedia tenets and markup language.
 * Details: We will have access to computers, but attendees are welcome to bring their own laptops and power cords if they prefer.
 * Registration: To register, please sign in via either of these channels: a) Add your name to the guest list below; or b) send an email to johnstewart@ou.edu

Confirmed Wikipedians attending

 * -- Kirwanfan (attending from 9am-3:00pm)
 * -- CodyAlanTaylor
 * -- JenWaller
 * -- Hunter Heyck


 * -- K Leehan (remote from OUHSC)

Online participation
If you cannot make it to the History of Science Collections in person but would still like to participate, you are more than welcome to do so remotely. Suggested articles appear below, or you may add or contribute to one of your choosing. So that we can count you as having participated, please add your contributions under the section below. Note: There will not be a webinar aspect for online participants; simply log in and log your contributions below to have them "counted." And be sure to use the Twitter hashtag #WikiWomen and/or #OUOpenEd if you tweet about the event!

You can also use this etherpad to collaborate with others and chat: http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/OUOpenEd

Online participants

 * -- Kirwanfan (talk) 21:11, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

Suggested Topics for the October 11th edit-a-thon
The following is a sampling of suggested articles to create or add upon. However, feel free to come up with your own ideas! In addition to the suggestions below, editors may consider cleaning up articles on more well-known women STEMmers, such as Rosalind Franklin, Marie Curie, Jane Goodall, Grace Hopper, Elizabeth Blackwell, Emmy Noether or Ada Lovelace herself. Helpful updates could be as simple as: Making sure reference links are still appropriate and functional; Adding new inline citations/references; Adding a photo; Adding an infobox; Adding data to more fields in an existing infobox; Creating headings; Adding categories; etc. Editors may also choose to focus on women in archaeology, paleontology, and geology as part of Earth Science Week and International Archaeology Day.

The WikiProject on Women Scientists includes lists of requested articles and a table of current articles by Wikipedia rating. This is a great place to see what's out there and what needs work.

Articles needing creation

 * Elizabeth Stefanski (Egyptologist)
 * Biography from Brown University
 * scientist couples - this would be neat topic to cover, especially in terms of the prevalent antinepotism rules (and other discrimination) of the mid-20th century that kept a lot of women scientists in roles like research associate because their husbands were professors. There's relevant material in Rossiter's 1945-1970 volume, as well as Creative Couples in the Sciences and plenty of less rigorous sources.

Recipients of the following awards:
 * Lasker Award, Turing Award
 * Geophysics
 * John Adam Fleming Medal

Articles needing expansion and/or cleanup
This section is currently under construction. Any suggestions for women from the history of science or women currently involved in science, either in Oklahoma or the World more broadly, are appreciated.


 * Virginia Alexander (Obstetrics and gynecology)
 * NIH bio
 * Rosa Beddington (developmental biologist) -- some fresh substantive additions made Oct 12
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Evelyn Berezin (computer scientist) -- working on this TechGeisha (talk) 21:26, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
 * JudyAnn Bigby (Internal Medicine)
 * Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (mathematician) -- added infobox, fleshed out biography
 * Alexa Canady (neuroscience)
 * Gertrude Cox (statistician) NAS Relatively full article but needs sections w/headings and inline citations
 * Mary Letitia Caldwell (chemist) - added infobox, info, fixes. Needs photo, more info
 * Susan Jane Cunningham (mathematician)
 * Marie Maynard Daly (biochemist) Needs proper scientist infobox (done, still needs to be more fully filled in) & image, plus inline citations
 * Margaret Davis (paleoecologist)
 * Sylvia Earle (oceanographer) Good length but needs general cleanup/reorganization
 * Annie Easley (computer engineer) Needs photo, infobox, inline citations -- working on this. Lightbreather (talk) 15:24, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Caroline Endres Diescher (civil engineer)
 * Helen T. Edwards (physicist) - added scientist infobox, cleaned up references; text needs to be rewritten due to plagiarism
 * Katherine Esau (botanist)
 * Debra Fischer (astronomer) - infobox added; needs expansion
 * Dorothy Celeste Boulding Ferebee (medical doctor) Needs more inline citations
 * Limor Fried (technologist) Needs expansion
 * Press Coverage
 * Charlotte Friend (virologist) Needs more inline citations
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Alyssa A. Goodman (astronomer)
 * Mary W. Gray (mathematician)
 * Sheila Greibach (computer scientist) Needs to be reformatted
 * Alice Hamilton (toxicology) Article is good but needs inline citations, reference cleanup
 * Emmeline Jean Hanson (physiologist)
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Dr. Betty Harris - no existing page
 * Biographical information available at http://www.black-inventor.com/Dr-Betty-Harris.asp
 * Dorrit Hoffleit (astronomer) - infobox added; needs photo and expansion of text
 * Hildegarde Howard (paleornithologist) Infobox added, citations formated; needs photo; could use more detail. Edit 10/15: detail and biographical subhead added; needs photo.
 * Biography from JSTOR
 * Ruth Hubbard (biologist) infobox added, needs photo and more fleshing out
 * Margaret Ingels (engineer)
 * Barbara Crawford Johnson (aerospace engineer)
 * Emeline Roberts Jones (dental scientist)
 * Maria Klawe (computer scientist)
 * Rebecca Lancefield (biochemist)
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Martha L. Ludwig (crystallographer)
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Sidnie Manton
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Ann McKee (neuropathologist)
 * Carla Meninsky (computer engineer)
 * Melba_Roy_Mouton (Mathematician, NASA Scientist)
 * Adriana_Ocampo (Adriana C. Ocampo Uria)
 * Ida Stephens Owens (Biochemist and Physiologist - no existing page
 * Mary Parke (algae expert)
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Alice H. Parker - Inventor - no existing page
 * in 1919 was issued a patent for a heating furnace. The invention provided a mechanism for regulating heat to be carried to vaious rooms of a building.
 * Carle M. Pieters ( planetary scientist)
 * Edith Quimby (physicist)
 * Helen Quinn (particle physicist) Could use additional detail and section headings. Also needs inline citations and a scientist infobox.
 * Sarah Ratner (chemist) Infobox could use updating; consolidation of book ref with multiple page citations. Again, see Henrietta Swan Leavitt for this.
 * Nancy Roman (astronomer) - added infobox
 * Bio from NASA
 * Margaret W. Rossiter (historian of science) Done -- Significantly Expanded
 * Carolyn Rovee-Collier (psychologist/cognitive scientist)
 * Bio from FABBS Foundation
 * Elizabeth S. Russell (geneticist) Infobox needs to be filled out
 * Ruth Sager (geneticist)
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Ruth Sanger
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Donna_Shirley (Aerospace Engineer/Oklahoman)
 * Carolyn Jean Spellmann Shoemaker (astronomer)
 * Sylvia Agnes Sophia Tait (biochemist) Article is good, but needs inline citations and ref reformatting
 * Becky Stern (technologist)
 * Personal "about" page
 * Elizabeth Thomas (Egyptologist) completed! by Taylor Smith
 * Biography from Brown University
 * Monica Turner (ecologist) Could use overall formatting updates (e.g., more line spaces to create shorter paragraphs); Infobox could use more detail edited to be more concise- Taylor Smith
 * Mary Walton (engineer)
 * Mary Wheeler (mathematician)
 * Sylvia Wiegand (mathematician) Added infobox, but could probably use more detail
 * Mary Lou Zoback (geophysicist)
 * Inge Lehmann (seismologist) Added infobox, citations

Women in STEM Resources
Note: Wikipedia pages that include lists of important women are all missing plenty of key people, so feel free to add to those lists
 * List of people from Oklahoma
 * Category:Women scientists
 * List of notable women in computer science
 * List of female mathematicians
 * List of women scientists
 * Women in computing - Wikipedia article that needs additional citations for verification
 * Women in engineering
 * List of women astronomers
 * Category:Women astronomers
 * History of Women in Astronomy
 * Category:Women physicists
 * Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics
 * Women in medicine
 * Women in geology
 * List of female Nobel laureates
 * History of women in engineering
 * Timeline of women in dentistry
 * Women and the environment through history
 * Biographies of Women Mathematicians
 * Encyclopedia of Women in Medicine
 * Indian Academy of Sciences - List of Women Scientists
 * Lilavati's daugters
 * Biographical Memoirs of the National Academies of Science
 * Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
 * Women in Aviation and Space History
 * Changing the face of Medicine (women in medicine)
 * Search for articles on Google Scholar
 * Try the Wikipedia Library's list of free resources
 * Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
 * The Hathi Trust Digital Library - 100s of novels & other assorted texts

Editing Wikipedia Resources

 * Beginners’ Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
 * Five Pillars of Wikipedia (philosophical guidelines and best practices for Wikipedia 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)

New articles created:

 * Millicent Hathaway

Articles expanded or improved:

 * Gwen Bell
 * Donna Shirley

Further events

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