Wikipedia:New York Academy of Sciences/Women in Science Editathon 2016

The New York Academy of Sciences is excited to welcome new and experienced Wikipedians to join us for our second annual Women In Science Edit-a-thon, taking place Saturday, November 12, 2016, 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm in New York City. This month-long Wikipedia editing campaign aims 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. This event also coincides with the year-long celebration of the Academy's 200th Anniversary.

With this effort we're also supporting the Year of Science, WikiProject Women in Red, and WikiProject Women scientists.

Everyone is welcome to participate live on November 12 or virtually throughout the month of November.

Learn more about our 2015 edit-a-thon here.

Thank you to the Wikimedia Foundation for supporting this event.

Please register for this event on Wikipedia!

Event information

 * Date: Saturday, November 12, 2016
 * Time: 12:00 pm - 4:00 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
 * Registration for Live Event: www.nyas.org/WikiEdit2016

Please bring a laptop with you!
 * Bring your laptop, power cord and ideas for entries that need updating or creation. We'll also have a few laptops on hand for participants to use during the live event.

You can also participate virtually!
 * If you aren't able to join us on the 12th, we encourage you to join us virtually throughout the month of November. 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.

We'll have a selection of print materials and sources on hand at the event.
 * We're going to get copies of some printed reference materials to have on hand at the event for participants to use during the live event.

Wiki pages on Women in Science

 * Women in science
 * Women in climate change
 * Women in chemistry
 * Women in Red list of Women in Science and Technology

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


 * Antje Baeumner (reference)
 * Daphne Bavelier (reference)
 * Elizabeth Billings (references 1 2 3 4)
 * Helen Blackwell (reference)
 * Rachel Bodley
 * Irina Bokova
 * Jeanne Brooks-Gunn (reference)
 * Linda Buck
 * Margaret Burbidge
 * Karen E. Burke (reference)
 * Esther Byrnes (reference)
 * Mary Letitia Caldwell
 * Nancy Cantor
 * B. J. Casey (references 1 2)
 * Elsie Clews Parsons
 * Chelsea Clinton
 * Dilek Colak (reference)
 * Esther M. Conwell
 * Virginia W. Cornish (reference)
 * Bianxiao Cui (reference)
 * Marie Curie
 * Marie Maynard Daly
 * Titia de Lange
 * Mildred Spiewak Dresselhaus
 * Winifred Edgerton Merrill
 * MaryEllen Elia (reference)
 * Gertrude Elion
 * Elza Erkip
 * Elaine Fuchs
 * Charlotte Friend (first female president of the Academy)
 * Allyson Friedman (reference)
 * Julia A. Gallaher (reference)
 * Alison P. Galvani (reference)
 * Carmala Garzione (reference)
 * Alice P. Gast
 * Anna Goldfeder
 * Glenda Greenwald (reference)
 * Gro Harlem Brundtland
 * Emily Hodges (reference)
 * Valerie Horsley (reference)
 * Xiaowei Hou (reference)
 * Christine Jacobs-Wagner (reference)
 * Lisa Klein (engineer) (reference)
 * Martha J. Lamb
 * Laura F. Landweber (reference)
 * Eleanor Leacock
 * Michal Lipson (reference)
 * Mariangela Lisanti (reference)
 * Mary Kay Lobo (reference)
 * Yueh-Lin Loo (reference)
 * Mary Jeanne Kreek (reference)
 * Margaret Mead (was Vice-President of the Academy for a time)
 * Barbara McClintock
 * Roberta B. Miller (reference)
 * Eunice Thomas Miner (President of the New York Academy of Sciences for 32 years) (reference)
 * Heather Munroe-Blum
 * Emily C. Noyes Vanderpoel (reference)
 * Teri W. Odom
 * Rebecca Oppenheimer (reference)
 * 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)
 * Shirley Raps (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)
 * Vera Rubin
 * Nancy Russo (reference)
 * Florence Rena Sabin
 * Melanie Sanford
 * Maxine Lazarus Savitz (reference)
 * Daniela Schiller (reference)
 * Saw-Teen See (reference)
 * Agnel Sfeir (reference)
 * Carol Shoshkes Reiss (references 1 2)
 * Sydel Silverman (references 1 2) (being worked on by Emjackson42 (talk) 17:20, 12 November 2016 (UTC))
 * Anna Marie Skalka (references 1 2
 * 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
 * Lois E. Tewinkel (reference)
 * Shirley Tilghman
 * Alice Y. Ting
 * Doloretta Thorn (references 1 2 3)
 * Olga Troyanskaya (reference)
 * Alice B. Tweedy (science journalist) (reference)
 * Doris Twitchell Allen
 * Mary Upshur Von Isakovics (reference)
 * Kathryn Uhrich (reference)
 * Ruth Van de Water (reference)
 * Florence van Straten
 * Shobha Vasudevan (reference)
 * Emilia M. Vicari (reference)
 * Leslie B. Vosshall (reference)
 * Amy T. Weld (poet)
 * Myrna Weissman (reference)
 * Rachel Wilson (neurobiologist) (reference)
 * Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
 * Nancy L. Zimpher
 * Yi Zuo (reference)

Other Lists

 * Crowd-sourced list of female scientists on Twitter
 * Eastern Illinois University's Biographies of Women in Science

Outcomes
Alphabetical by first letter

Articles improved

 * 1) Alice Hamilton --
 * 2) California Academy of Sciences --
 * 3) Eleanor Leacock --
 * 4) Elliott Fitch Shepard --
 * 5) Eunice Thomas Miner --
 * 6) Garvan–Olin Medal --
 * 7) Gertrude B. Elion --
 * 8) Gertrude Neumark --
 * 9) Lego Modular Buildings --
 * 10) Madam C. J. Walker --
 * 11) Margaret Mead --
 * 12) Michal Lipson --
 * 13) Mossi language --
 * 14) New York Academy of Medicine --
 * 15) Pasteurization --
 * 16) Rachel Bodley --
 * 17) Rebecca Oppenheimer --
 * 18) Skybucket Records --
 * 19) Sylvia Earle --
 * 20) The Dexateens --
 * 21) United States Congress --

New articles created

 * 1) Catherine J. Personius --
 * 2) Dorothy Virginia Nightingale --
 * 3) Sydel Silverman --

Wikidata items improved

 * 1)  --  - consolidated disambiguation
 * 2)  --  - consolidated disambiguation
 * 1)  --  - consolidated disambiguation
 * 2)  --  - consolidated disambiguation
 * 1)  --  - consolidated disambiguation
 * 2)  --  - consolidated disambiguation
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 * 2)  --  - consolidated disambiguation

Images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons

 * NYAS WomenSciWiki2016-01 jeh.jpg --
 * Woolworth Building from 7 World Trade Center (2007).jpg --

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

Regrets

 * 1)  DGG ( talk ) 20:07, 11 November 2016 (UTC) -  unfortunately; conflict with something else
 * 2) Mozucat (talk) 20:55, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

Tentative

 * 1) BrillLyle (talk) 21:37, 9 November 2016 (UTC)

Confirmed
Please note: Registration is required at NYAS website: www.nyas.org/WikiEdit2016 Please 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.
 * If you are attending the live event, please also register on the NYAS site to make it easier to get into the building: www.nyas.org/WikiEdit2016
 * 1) Alexisclements (talk) 19:03, 27 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 2)   Blue Rasberry   (talk)  16:55, 23 August 2016 (UTC) (event slides, if I present)
 * 3) Jim.henderson (talk) 05:42, 7 November 2016 (UTC)
 * 4) Asdklf&#59; (talk) 17:28, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
 * 5)  ɱ  (talk) · vbm  · coi) 21:58, 11 November 2016 (UTC) +1
 * 6) Emjackson42 (talk) 17:14, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
 * 7) Mnilsson2016 (talk) 17:21, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
 * 8) Aude (talk) 18:09, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
 * 9) Hannah Silverman (talk) 18:15, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
 * 10) Adeodat123 (talk) 18:27, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
 * 11) Frank.manus (talk)
 * 12) Jeremyb (talk) 00:48, 17 November 2016 (UTC)
 * 13) Adeodat123
 * 14) Daloia1
 * 15) Drckulkarni
 * 16) Flyran
 * 17) Sedasalar
 * 18) BrillLyle