Wikipedia:Meetup/Womens History Edit-a-thon - Harvard

{|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's History Edit-a-thon 2013, Berkman Center @ Harvard (remote participants also welcome)
 * We_Can_Edit.jpg In conjunction with WikiWomen's History Month, participants from around New England are invited to gather together at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University to edit and create Wikipedia entries on notable women in history.
 * We_Can_Edit.jpg In conjunction with WikiWomen's History Month, participants from around New England are invited to gather together at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University to edit and create Wikipedia entries on notable women in history.

Cambridge, MA event details

 * Date: Friday, March 29th, 4:00pm to 9:00pm EDT
 * Venue: Berkman Center for Internet & Society @ Harvard, 23 Everett Street, Cambridge, MA, USA. Conference room is on the second floor
 * Cost: Free
 * Twitter hashtag: #WikiWomenMA
 * 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: Attendees should bring their own laptops and power cords. Light food and drinks will be provided.
 * Registration: To register, please sign in via one of these three channels: a) Add your name to the guest list below; b) RSVP on one of our Meetup pages Boston Wikipedia Meetup / Boston Feminists Meetup; or c) send an email to maiaw@nasw.org

Confirmed Wikipedians attending

 * -- Girona7 (talk) 17:30, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
 * -- Lui8E (talk)
 * -- GabrielF (talk) 17:16, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
 * -- I will try and make it.  S ven M anguard   Wha?  16:43, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Protonk (talk) 20:41, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
 * -- ALN1013 (talk) 20:47, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
 * -- Speckledowl (talk) 20:50, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
 * -- CH-Editorb (talk) 20:54, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
 * — m a k o ๛  21:44, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
 * -- Grumpycraig (talk) 23:38, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

Regrets

 * Sorry, maybe another time.  Blue Rasberry    (talk)   17:56, 20 March 2013 (UTC)


 * I will unfortunately be out of town because of the Easter weekend. I will be on the lookout for more opportunities to meet up in the near future.Timothysandole (talk) 19:11, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

Online participation
If you cannot make it to the Berkman Center 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 #WikiWomenMA if you tweet about the event!

Online participants

 * -- Girona7 (talk) 17:30, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
 * -- Gobōnobō  + c

Suggested Topics for March 29th 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! You may also consider cleaning up articles on more well-known women, such as Marie Curie, Sonia Sotomayor, Hillary Clinton, Jane Goodall, Rosa Parks or Ada Lovelace. Helpful updates could be as simple as making sure reference links are still appropriate and functional.

Articles needing creation

 * Virginia Alexander (Obstetrics and gynecology)
 * NIH bio
 * Alice Augusta Ball (chemist) UH bio
 * Yvonne Brill (aerospace engineer)
 * Obit from the NYTimes
 * Profile from the Inventors Hall of Fame
 * Amanda Clement (first professional female baseball umpire)
 * Susan Gerbi (molecular biologist)
 * Biography from Brown University
 * Natalie Kampen (Art historian and women's studies pioneer)
 * Obit from Columbia U
 * NYTimes obit
 * Vera Kistiakowsky (nuclear physicist)
 * Martha Ludwig (crystallographer)
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Marie Morisawa (geologist) - See Geological Society of America: Memorials, March 1, 1996, page 15.
 * Sharon Mosher (geologist)
 * Mary Winifred Parke (algae expert)
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Mary G. Ross (first female Native American engineer)
 * Bio from Amsterdam News
 * Liane Russell (geneticist; full name is Liane Brauch Russell)
 * Lucy Shapiro (developmental biologist, recent National Medal of Science winner)
 * Bio from Stanford U
 * Bio from NIH
 * German Wikipedia article
 * Justine Siegal (baseball coach)
 * Janese Swanson (computer engineer)
 * Jantina Tammes (geneticist)

Articles needing expansion and/or cleanup

 * Marie Machacek (physicist and astronomer)
 * Claudia Alexander (planetary scientist)
 * Rosa Beddington (developmental biologist)
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Evelyn Berezin (computer scientist)
 * Andrea Bertozzi (mathematician)
 * JudyAnn Bigby (Internal Medicine)
 * Ann Bishop (scientist) (protozoologist and parasitologist)
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Sophia Hayden Bennett (architect)
 * Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (mathematician)
 * Alexa Canady (neuroscience)
 * Mildred Cohn (biochemist, biophysicist)
 * Gertrude Cox (statistician) NAS
 * Susan Jane Cunningham (mathematician)
 * Margaret Davis (paleoecologist; full name Margaret Bryan Davis)
 * Caroline Endres Diescher (civil engineer)
 * Helen T. Edwards (physicist)
 * Katherine Esau (botanist)
 * Joan Feynman (astrophysicist; sister of Richard)
 * Debra Fischer (astronomer)
 * Charlotte Friend (virologist)
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Alyssa A. Goodman (astronomer)
 * Mary W. Gray (mathematician)
 * Sheila Greibach (computer scientist, Harvard alum)
 * Emmeline Jean Hanson (physiologist)
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Dorrit Hoffleit (astronomer)
 * Margaret Ingels (engineer)
 * Barbara Crawford Johnson (aerospace engineer)
 * Mary Ellen Jones (chemist) (biochemist)
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Emeline Roberts Jones (dental scientist)
 * Maria Klawe (computer scientist)
 * Rebecca Lancefield (biochemist)
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Sidnie Manton
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Carla Meninsky (computer engineer)
 * Rosalind Venetia Pitt-Rivers
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Helen Kemp Porter
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Edith Quimby (physicist)
 * Sarah Ratner (chemist)
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Elizabeth S. Russell (geneticist)
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Ruth Sager (geneticist)
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Ruth Sanger
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Carolyn Jean Spellmann Shoemaker (astronomer)
 * Sylvia Agnes Sophia Tait
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Monica Turner (ecologist)
 * Mary Walton (engineer)
 * Mary Wheeler (mathematician)
 * Sylvia Wiegand (mathematician)

Resources
Note: Wikipedia lists of notable women (and men) are all missing plenty of key people, so feel free to add to those lists
 * History of women in the United States
 * Women in the United States Senate
 * Women in the United States House of Representatives
 * Women in the United States judiciary
 * Women's cinema
 * List of female rock singers
 * List of classic female blues singers
 * Major women's sport leagues in North America
 * Women's baseball
 * Women's cricket
 * Women in architecture
 * List of female mathematicians
 * List of women scientists
 * Women in computing
 * Women in engineering
 * List of astronomers
 * 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
 * Grandma got STEM - Accomplished grandmothers in the STEM fields

Resources: Editing Wikipedia

 * Beginners’ Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
 * Five Pillars of Wikipedia
 * Tutorial
 * How to Edit a Page
 * Article Development
 * Your First Article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
 * Manual of Style
 * Citation Examples
 * Bookshelf

New articles created:

 * Coeducation at Harvard University - Redirect created to Radcliffe College, as it serves the same purpose as the proposed model article Coeducation at Princeton University
 * Amanda Clement - Also submitted to DYK
 * Natalie Kampen
 * Mary G. Ross
 * Lucy Shapiro
 * Eleanor Lytle McKillip Kinzie
 * Issa Rae

Articles expanded or improved:
Added notes to Radcliffe College article based on a Crimson article "Past Tense: Radcliffe, Cheating, and the Honor Code".

Added quotations from primary sources to article on James Barry (surgeon) (Margaret Ann Bulkley, believed to be the first woman to have qualified as a physician in Britain, using a male identity.)


 * Maria Klawe
 * Doreen Massey (geographer)
 * Sophia Hayden Bennett
 * Claudia Alexander
 * Juliette Gordon Low
 * Joan Feynman - Submitted to DYK

Further events

 * Monthly meetups: http://www.meetup.com/wikipedia-5/events/76790132/
 * Events: Meetup/Boston