Wikipedia:New York Academy of Sciences/Women in Science Editathon 2015

The Women In Science @ New York Academy of Sciences edit-a-thon, launched Sunday, November 22, 2015, 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm in New York City, was a weeklong Wikipedia editing campaign, to create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to the lives and works of women scientists, working to highlight undercovered science stories in the encyclopedia.

Working globally with WikiProject Women in Red (supporting the online campaign running from November 8 to 29) and the resource lists of WikiProject Women scientists!

Due to limited space, the in person aspect of the edit-athon will primarily be for New York Academy of Sciences members.

Event information

 * Date: Sunday, November 22, 2015
 * Time: 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
 * Location: New York Academy of Sciences. 7 World Trade Center, 250 Greenwich Street (between Vesey and Barclay Streets), 40th Floor, New York, NY 10007-2157 40.7136°N, -74.01215°W
 * Subway: 2, 3 to Park Place; A, C to Chambers Street; E to World Trade Center; R to Cortlandt Street; 4, 5 or J, Z to Fulton Street


 * Hashtag: #WomenSciWiki


 * Etherpad link

Please bring a laptop with you!
 * Bring your laptop, power cord and ideas for entries that need updating or creation. Virtual participation welcome and encouraged.

Participate virtually!
 * Space at the live event is really limited, but we encourage you to join us virtually. Just add your signature to the participants list and edit away! If you're new to Wikipedia there are resources at the bottom of this page to help you learn the ropes.

Confirmed
If you are able, please also add your Wikipedia username below (signatures are created by saving four tildes [~] in a row). If you haven't edited Wikipedia before, we will help you register for a new Wikipedia editing account on the day of the session.


 * Note that seating is limited for the Women in Science event, as well as signing up on-wiki, please RSVP by email.
 * Also sign up at the NYAS site here (there is a limit of ~10): nyas.org/wikiwomensciedit


 * 1) Alexisclements (talk) 19:19, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
 * 2) Pharos (talk) 02:08, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
 * 3) Jim.henderson (talk) 23:34, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
 * 4) Frank.manus (talk) 23:34, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
 * 5) Mpgroome (talk) 19:05, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
 * 6) Recordslinger (talk) 19:10, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

Tentative

 * 1)  DGG  ( talk ) 23:39, 7 November 2015 (UTC) (possibly for an hour or two, time uncertain) 4PM)

Remote

 * 1) DThomsen8 (talk) 14:16, 20 November 2015 (UTC) (but entirely from home.)
 * 2) Rosiestep (talk) 15:02, 20 November 2015 (UTC) (virtually from Nevada)
 * 3) SusunW (talk) 06:29, 21 November 2015 (UTC) (virtually from Mérida, Mexico)
 * 4) Penny Richards (talk) 17:40, 21 November 2015 (UTC) (virtually from California)
 * 5)  gobonobo  + c (virtually from Minnesota)
 * 1)  gobonobo  + c (virtually from Minnesota)

Historic and/or Prominent Female Members of The New York Academy of Sciences
[List under development]


 * Antje Baeumner (reference)
 * Daphne Bavelier
 * Elizabeth Billings
 * Helen Blackwell (reference)
 * Rachel Bodley
 * Margaret Burbidge
 * Esther Byrnes (reference)
 * Mary Letitia Caldwell
 * Elsie Clews Parsons
 * Dilek Colak (reference)
 * Esther M. Conwell
 * Bianxiao Cui (reference)
 * Marie Maynard Daly
 * Mildred Dresselhaus
 * Winifred Edgerton Merrill
 * Elza Erkip
 * Elaine Fuchs
 * Julia A. Gallaher (reference)
 * Alison P. Galvani (reference)
 * Carmala Garzione (reference)
 * Anna Goldfeder
 * Emily Hodges (reference)
 * Valerie Horsley (reference)
 * Xiaowei Hou (reference)
 * Christine Jacobs-Wagner (reference)
 * Martha J. Lamb
 * Laura F. Landweber (reference)
 * Eleanor Leacock
 * Michal Lipson
 * Mariangela Lisanti (reference)
 * Mary Kay Lobo (reference)
 * Yueh-Lin Loo (reference)
 * Mary Jeanne Kreek (reference)
 * Eunice Thomas Miner (President of the New York Academy of Sciences for 32 years) (reference)
 * Emily C. Noyes Vanderpoel (reference)
 * Teri W. Odom
 * Rebecca Oppenheimer
 * Elisa Oricchio (reference)
 * Elsie Clews Parsons
 * Helen T. Parsons (reference 1, reference 2)
 * Eva Pastalkova (reference)
 * Catharine Patrick (reference)
 * Nellie M. Payne (reference
 * Catherine J. Personius (reference)
 * Grace E. Pickford
 * Anna Randall-Diehl (reference)
 * Anne Roe (Author and psychologist who studied topics ranging from creativity and intelligence to occupational choice and alcoholism; the ninth woman to become a tenured faculty member at Harvard University, and the first to do so in the Harvard Faculty of Education)
 * Rachel Rosen (reference)
 * Melanie Sanford
 * Maxine Lazarus Savitz (reference)
 * Daniela Schiller
 * Agnel Sfeir (reference)
 * Erminnie A. Smith (first female member of the Academy) (reference - will have copy of this book on hand at the live event)
 * Agata Smogorzewska (reference)
 * Hildegard Stücklen (reference)
 * Florence S. Tabor
 * Helen B. Taussig
 * Alice Y. Ting
 * Olga Troyanskaya
 * Lois E. Tewinkel
 * Doloretta Thorn
 * Alice B. Tweedy (science journalist) (reference)
 * Doris Twitchell Allen
 * Mary Upshur Von Isakovics (reference)
 * Kathryn Uhrich
 * Ruth Van de Water (reference)
 * Florence van Straten
 * Shobha Vasudevan (reference)
 * Emilia M. Vicari (reference)
 * Leslie B. Vosshall
 * Amy T. Weld (poet)
 * Rachel Wilson (neurobiologist) (reference)
 * Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
 * Yi Zuo (reference)

Other Lists

 * View the Women in Red list of Women in Science and Technology

New articles created
Alphabetical order
 * 1) Esther Byrnes --
 * 2) Mary Jeanne Kreek --
 * 3) Eunice Thomas Miner --
 * 4) Helen T. Parsons --
 * 5) Elisa Oricchio --
 * 6) Nellie M. Payne --
 * 7) Anne Roe --

Articles improved
Alphabetical order
 * 1) A Book of Mediterranean Food --
 * 2) Agatha Christie: An Autobiography --
 * 3) Alan Alda --
 * 4) Sonia Álvarez Leguizamón --
 * 5) Carmen de Burgos --
 * 6) Chromosomal crossover --
 * 7) Cornell University --
 * 8) Melania Cristescu --
 * 9) Joan Maie Freeman --
 * 10) Dolores Guadalupe García Escamilla --
 * 11) Dena Hankins --
 * 12) List of 21st-century women scientists --
 * 13) List of Kansas State University people --
 * 14) List of University of Denver alumni --
 * 15) Elena Arizmendi Mejia --
 * 16) Murder of Anni Dewani --
 * 17) Belinda Nash --
 * 18) New York Academy of Sciences --
 * 19) Barbara Newhall Follett --
 * 20) Nucleic acid sequence --
 * 21) Yueh-Lin Loo --
 * 22) Christine Mannhalter --
 * 23) Grace Manson --
 * 24) Marie Maynard Daly --
 * 25) Nellie M Payne --
 * 26) Dorothy Ann Purser --
 * 27) Anne Roe --
 * 28) Erminnie A. Smith --

Editing Wikipedia resources
Listed here for quick reference. N.B. Also located on the Resources page referenced above under Editor Resources See Meetup/ArtAndFeminism/Resources
 * Tutorial: Getting Started Guide (Presentation in DC)
 * 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)

Tools and templates

 * Cheatsheet for editing Wikipedia
 * Infobox template - person
 * Biographies of living persons
 * Writing an article
 * About the Sandbox


 * N.B. There is an IRC channel if online participants need help:
 * IRC/wikipedia-en-help