Wikipedia:Queen's University Belfast/Women in Red/IWD 2023

To celebrate International Women's Day, Wikimedia Community Ireland and the SMDBS SWAN Gender Equality Committee invites you to celebrate the work of women scientists through a Wikipedia Women in Red Editathon.

Women in Red is a Wikipedia editathon celebrating the lives and contributions of all the inspiring women scientists missing from the world's go-to site for information.


 * Wikipedia is the fifth most visited website in the world but lacks diversity in its editors and its articles.
 * Only 19.3% of biographies on English Wikipedia, the world's go-to source of information, are about women.
 * This event will focus on improving the representation of inspiring women online.

Wikipedians of all experience levels are welcome to join us! No prior knowledge required as training will be provided for those with no Wikipedia editing experience. We will copyedit, source, and write articles and can teach you how to do these things too!

Participants will learn how to edit Wikipedia pages during this event and will be supported over the afternoon to help create new pages for notable individuals who are not currently on Wikipedia. Each participant will be assigned a women scientist together with appropriate references.

(We'll also ensure that you are sustained with tea, coffee and traybakes.)

Rebecca O'Neill will be lead trainer.

Booking
Everyone is welcome! Just book your place on Eventbrite.

How to Prepare

 * CREATE A WIKIPEDIA ACCOUNT (if you don't already have one)

Please set up an account before the event if at all possible. Very few details are needed: a Username, password, and we recommend giving your email, if only to be reminded of your password when you forget it. The short Tutorial/Registration explains why this is a good idea.

If you like, you can also learn a little about editing ahead of time here: w:en:Wikipedia:Tutorial, or see Getting started on Wikipedia for more information

Participants
If you have made at least one edit, please sign your name below using the signature tool or using ~

Attendees (in person)
Please Sign your name below using the signature tool or using ~


 * 1) Smirkybec (talk) 11:29, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
 * 2) Sweary mary (talk) 12:09, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
 * 3) ItsTheDrE (talk) 11:17, 10 February 2023 (UTC)

Online participants
Online participants from anywhere are very welcome, whether experienced or not. For a basic editing tutorial see Tutorial, and Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia is short, and full of good advice. Or try this one - four modules, taking one hour it says. Online participants who can't join us in person are welcome to list themselves below with # ~



Disability access

 * step free access yes
 * wheelchair access yes

Women in STEM resources

 * Please feel free to bring along some of books so that there will be a variety of reference books.

Note: Wikipedia pages that include lists of important women are all missing plenty of key people, so feel free to add to those lists
 * Lists on Wikipedia


 * List of female mathematicians
 * List of women scientists
 * Women in computing
 * Women in engineering
 * List of women astronomers and 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


 * External resources
 * Biographies of Women Mathematicians
 * Encyclopedia of Women in Medicine
 * Indian Academy of Sciences - List of Women Scientists
 * Lilavati's daughters
 * 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)
 * Archives of Women in Science and Engineering at Iowa State University
 * Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing (applies to other subjects as well)
 * Dictionary of Irish Biography