Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/Events and Workshops/Ada Lovelace Day 2018





About the event
On Tuesday 9th October 2018, the University's Information Services team are running an edit-a-thon to celebrate Ada Lovelace Day 2018 which is an international celebration day of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM).

Starting at 11am, there will be a range of guest speakers in the morning followed by fun technology activities from 12:30pm to 5:30pm. Full Wikipedia editing training will be given at 2:30pm. Thereafter the afternoon's editathon from 2:30pm-5:30pm from will focus on improving the quality of articles related to contemporary Women in STEM!  Submit your STEM heroine nomination (Google Form)  Have you ever wondered why the information in Wikipedia is extensive for some topics and scarce for others? Did you know that, as of 1st October 2018, approximately only 17.82% of the biographies on Wikipedia relate to notable women? Working together with liaison librarians, archivists & academic colleagues we will provide training on how to edit and participate in an open knowledge community. New editors are very welcome and participants will be supported to develop Wikipedia articles; creating new role models for young and old alike.

Come along to learn about how Wikipedia works and contribute a greater understanding of Women in STEM!

Attendees

 * User:Stinglehammer

Booking
The day is split in three parts: All events are open to staff, student and members of the public. Book to attend one session, two, or all three.
 * 1) Talks & technology activities from 11am to 2:30pm in the Murchison House building (Room G.07).
 * 2) Contemporary Women in STEM Wikipedia editathon from 2:30pm to 5:30pm in the Murchison House building (Room G.07).
 * 3) Networking event from 5:45pm-7:30pm approx in the Joseph Black Building museum space.

11am to 2:30pm: Talks and Fun Tech activities
Booking is now open!
 * If coming from the university, please book your place through MyEd.
 * If coming from outside the university, then please book your place through Eventbrite.

2:30pm to 5:30pm: a Wikipedia editathon celebrating Women in STEM
Booking is now open!
 * If coming from the university, please book your place through MyEd.
 * If coming from outside the university, then please book your place through Eventbrite.

5:45pm to 7:30pm: Evening networking event at the Joseph Black building
Booking is now open!
 * If coming from the university, please book your place through MyEd.
 * If coming from outside the university, then please book your place through Eventbrite.

1. Talks and Fun Science/Tech activities in the Murchison House building
12:15pm to 12:30pm - Elevator pitches for activities Various - Elevator Pitches for the afternoon activities.
 * '11am to 11.15am – Tea and coffee.
 * 11:15am-11:20am - Housekeeping and welcome from Anne-Marie Scott,Deputy Director of Learning, Teaching and Web Services.
 * 11.15am to 12:15pm - Ten minute talks.
 * Women in High Performance Computing - Athina Frantzana, PhD student at the School of Physics and Astronomy.
 * Introduction to the Gender and Equality Images Internship - Francesca Vavotici.
 * The Women in STEM Society - Yvonne Anderson and Charlie.
 * Wellcomm Kings – Rosie and Izzy
 * Knitting Ada - Find out about how Madeleine Shepherd hacked her knitting machine to create a portrait of Ada Lovleace in yarn
 * The University of Edinburgh Physics Society - Olivia Jackson

'''12:30pm to 2:30pm. – Fun drop-in Activities''' David Henty, Weronika Filinger, Clair Barrass Edinburgh University hosts the UK national supercomputer, ARCHER, and many other machines available to Edinburgh researchers. This hands-on session will explain what High Performance Computing (HPC) is, what a supercomputer is, how to use it and what you can get out of it. We have run similar workshops previously under the "Women in HPC" initiative in UK and abroad and are keen to repeat the workshop for a local audience. Liam Duffy and Stephen Donnelly. Introductory talk on DIY Film School and then practising & recording of the below activities.
 * 12:30pm-5:50pm: HPC Carpentry: a hands-on introduction to Supercomputing
 * 12:30pm-1:30pm: DIY Film School

Edinburgh University Women in STEM Society Committee members: Yvonne Anderson, Charlie Simms, Sarah Aitkin, Lyndsey Scott, Serene Messai Aim: To allow students to share and discuss their experiences at university, particularly women in STEM. All participants are given postcards on which they can write a good or bad experience they have had during university to do with equality and diversity. We will have a whiteboard split into good and bad and will get people to put their postcard on the side that applies to them. Outcome: Bringing up subjects such as unconscious bias and making people aware that sexism is a current problem within stem subjects. Focusing on positive stories but also ways of addressing the negative ones.
 * 12:30pm-2:30pm: STEM stories

Edinburgh University Women in STEM Society Committee: Yvonne Anderson, Charlie Simms, Sarah Aitkin, Lyndsey Scott, Serene Messai Audience given cupcake and bio about a famous women in STEM and decorate their cake to represent her. The aim is simply to educate people on the important female figures within STEM.
 * 12:30pm-2:30pm:Cake decorating

2. The Wikipedia editathon in G.07, Murchison House
[|Book here to attend the editathon.]
 * 2:30pm – Wikipedia training begins.
 * 3:35pm to 5:15pm – Editing (see suggested worklist of articles to create/improve below).
 * 5.15pm to 5:30pm - Transferring to Wikipedia's live space.

3. Evening networking event on the Joseph Black Building - Museum Space
'5:45pm to 7:30pm – Women in STEM speakers from a variety of career stages will be invited to create an informal panel discussion of some of the issues around low participation of women in STEM fields.



Trainers
Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Edinburgh

Hit list of articles to be created or improved
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.

All are welcome to add names to the list which is intended to serve as a basis for creating new articles in this important but somewhat neglected sector on the English Wikipedia.

The following is a small sample of topics to work on. Feel free to come up with your own ideas!

Contemporary Women in STEM - nominations for pages
Check the notability criteria for academics. Join the International Ada Lovelace Day editathon event page here. Example articles: Antonella De Santo and Wendy Atkin


 * 1) Audrey Watters
 * 2) Maria Yazdanbakhsh
 * 3) Jean Langhorne
 * 4) Rose Zamoyska
 * 5) Natasha Sayce-Zelem CHARLIE, , , , ,
 * 6) Liz Rogers
 * 7) Hannah Critchlow
 * 8) Irene Tracey ,,, , , , ,
 * 9) Erin Schuman,, , ,
 * 10) Tara Spires-Jones LORNA, , , , , , ,
 * 11) Eleanor Riley ANGELA, , ,
 * 12) Alice Balfour
 * 13) Rowena Lamy
 * 14) Janet S.S. Blyth
 * 15) Margaret M. Perry - CLARE, , , ,
 * 16) Helena Śliżyńska (née Gworek)
 * 17) Mary Etherington - VICKI
 * 18) Pippa Goldschmidt - LISA, , , ,
 * 19) Francisca Mutapi RUTH, , , , ,
 * 20) Annette MacLeod KATIE, , , , , , , ,

Biology

 * Lilian Alcock
 * Sheila Mahala Andrews
 * Evelyn Baxter
 * Isobel Wylie Hutchison
 * Agnes McDouall
 * Anna MacLeod
 * Charlotte Murray
 * Mary Pirie
 * Olga Stewart

Engineering

 * Molly Fergusson

Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics

 * Ruth Pirret
 * Flora Sadler

Pages from Quicksilver

 * Short summaries of notable scientists are a sample of output from Quicksilver, a self-updating knowledge base.

Articles to be improved

 * Donna Strickland - Canadian optical physicist and pioneer in the field of pulsed lasers. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018. Can the page be improved further?
 * Polly Arnold - Professor of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh in the School of Chemistry so be aware of Conflict of Interest if the person doing the editing is closely associated..
 * Lesley Yellowlees - British inorganic chemist and was the first female president of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Another to be aware of in terms of Conflict of Interest if the person doing the editing is closely associated.
 * Mary Bownes - Royal Society Edinburgh lectureIndependent article on a review carried out by Professor Mary Bownes
 * Athena SWAN
 * Elizabeth Blackwell (illustrator) - NLS page on her life (1700-1758) About Elizabeth Blackwell, Botanical Art and Artists, comprehensive biography and lots of useful links
 * Flora Philip -
 * Nora Calderwood -
 * Marion Gray
 * Unconscious bias - Redirects to Cognitive Bias page - maybe worthwhile leaving message on Talk page as to whether to create a new page or a new section related to 'Unconscious bias'.
 * Wider Opportunities for Women - historical- funding given to universities (including Edinburgh) and colleges by Manpower services commission
 * STEM- add a UK section?
 * WISE Campaign- needs improvement
 * Harpies and Quines
 * Marion Ross_(physicist)
 * Charlotte Auerbach
 * Ruth Aylett
 * Elizabeth Blackwell
 * Kim Binsted
 * Susan Brown (professor)
 * Mary Brück
 * Dorothy Buchanan
 * Ethel Currie
 * Judy Delin
 * Ursula Duncan
 * Victoria Drummond
 * Elizabeth Fennema
 * Erica Flapan
 * Grace Frankland
 * Elizabeth Fulhame
 * Isabella Gordon
 * Philippa Gardner
 * Judith Grabiner
 * Jane Hillston
 * Sheina Marshall
 * Sheila Macintyre
 * Chrystal Macmillan
 * Christina Miller
 * Johanna Moore
 * Noreen Murray
 * Mary Noble
 * Dorothée Pullinger
 * Christian Ramsay
 * Marion Ross
 * Mary Ellen Rudin
 * Jo Shaw
 * Eleanor Sidgwick
 * Mary Somerville
 * Annie Lorrain Smith
 * Agata Smoktunowicz - Needs a pic & infobox.
 * Kim_Jones_(Sun)
 * Veronica van Heyningen
 * Rosemary Wyse

Looking for ideas?

 * Google Drive folder of resources compiled by Dr. Michael Seery.
 * Additional worklist including list of Female Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
 * List of individuals on Wikipedia in the field of science
 * List of individuals working as scientists educated at Edinburgh University
 * List of individuals working in the field of science with UK as their country of citizenship.
 * List of female biologists in the UK
 * List of female chemists in the UK
 * List of female physicists in the UK
 * List of female computer scientists in the UK
 * List of female engineers in the UK
 * List of female mathematicians in the UK
 * List of female technologists in the UK
 * Category:Women mathematicians
 * Category:Women in technology
 * Women in Computing
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Climate change researchers
There is a list of women working in the field of climate change - any name with a little external link square beside it probably indicates a person who doesn't have a Wikipedia page yet!

"Fearless Pioneers"
Surprisingly, the pages for a number of the women in Rachel Ignotofsky's excellent book Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers who Changed the World are quite sparse. It would be great if some of these could be improved to help those looking for more information after reading: • Edith Clarke

• Mamie Phipps Clark

• Katia and Maurice Krafft

• Esther Lederberg

• Tessy Thomas

• Nettie Stevens

• Florence Bascom

• Mary Agnes Chase

• Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

• Annie Easley

• Patricia Bath

• May-Britt Moser

• Edith M. Flanigen

• Alice Ball

• Jane C. Wright

• Gertrude B. Elion

• Wang Zhenyi (astronomer)

• Sau Lan Wu

• Elizabeth Blackwell (needs an infobox)

Women chemists past and present
This table contains notable women chemists from history (mostly found in the Chemistry Was Their Life book if you need a source to get you started!) and from the present day (most of whom are winners of big prizes or Fellows of societies, for whom you can find university websites and news stories about their award/fellowship).

Browsing for sources

 * - Biography
 * - Biography
 * - Biography

General

 * DiscoverEd to find books, ebooks, journals, ejournals and more.

News sources

 * Factiva
 * British Newspaper Archive
 * More at: Edinburgh University Library - Newspaper database

Theses databases

 * Edinburgh Research Archive. For theses produced at the University of Edinburgh Edinburgh Research Archive
 * Proquest Dissertations
 * More at: Edinburgh University Library - Theses database

Articles created 2016

 * Margaret Marrs
 * Ann Katharine Mitchell (née Williamson)
 * Code First: Girls.
 * Anne Strachan Robertson
 * Dr. Mary Noble.
 * Professor Anne Ferguson (physician) (née Glen)
 * Katherine Clerk Maxwell
 * Sheila Edmonds

Articles created 2017

 * 1904 petition to the Chemical Society
 * Sibyl Taite Widdows
 * Hilda Hartle
 * Emily Comber Fortey
 * Katherine Isabella Williams
 * Clare de Brereton Evans
 * Margaret Seward
 * Elizabeth Eleanor Field
 * Katharine Alice Burke
 * Alice Emily Smith
 * Elizabeth Slater
 * Ruth Pirret
 * Mary Beatrice Thomas

Articles improved 2017

 * Dorothy Marshall
 * Edith Humphrey

What can I do after the event?



 * Join WikiProject Women in Technology
 * Join WikiProject Women Scientists

Helpful links
Once you've learned the basics of editing using Wikipedia’s Visual Editor, I hope that you'll stay logged in and edit or create more articles. I've added some booklets and some links below that you may find useful. As a first step you may like to check out what What Wikipedia is not along with its 5 guiding principles: The 5 pillars.


 * The Wikipedia Adventure Start Page - a fun tutorial introducing new editors to Wikipedia
 * Visual Editor user guide
 * Questions – a guide on where to ask questions
 * The Teahouse new editor help space
 * Wikipedia Help pages
 * Article wizard – a Wizard to help you create articles
 * The simplified ruleset – a summary of Wikipedia's most important rules
 * Guide to Wikipedia – a thorough step-by-step guide to Wikipedia
 * Is your topic notable enough for an article?
 * Be Bold!
 * Don't let grumpy users scare you off.
 * Learn from others
 * How to write a great article
 * A simplified manual of style

You may find these useful if you want to learn further about editing:
 * Please sign your messages on talk pages with four tildes ( ~ ). This will automatically insert your "signature" (your username and a date stamp). The [[File:Button sig.png]] or [[File:Insert-signature.png]] button, on the tool bar above Wikipedia's text editing window, also does this.
 * If you would like to play around with your new Wiki skills without changing the mainspace, the Sandbox is for you.
 * Video tutorials
 * Instructional videos on using Wikipedia

Video guides to editing Wikipedia

 * Wikipedia - It's main policies & guidelines
 * Navigating Wikipedia's front page
 * How to structure an article on Wikipedia: the Featured Article
 * Wikipedia editing in under 25 mins
 * How to edit using with Visual Editor Part 1: Creating an Account
 * Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 1.1 Adding Headings
 * Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 1.2 Adding bold & italics
 * Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 1.3 Adding bullet points
 * Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 1.4 Adding links
 * Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 2.1 Adding citations and references
 * Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 2.2 Further practice with citations (DOI and Pubmed IDs)
 * Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor:Part 2.3 Adding an image
 * Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 2.4 Adding categories
 * Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 3 Creating a new article in the Sandbox
 * Editing Wikipedia: Communicating with others using the Talk page and Help Desk

Tutorials on Wikipedia editing

 * Visual Editor User Guide
 * manual of style
 * Wikipedia cheat sheet (Bookshelf), another markup cheatsheet
 * Training for students, a tutorial for beginners
 * Beginners' guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
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 * AthinaF (talk) 09:55, 22 June 2017 (UTC)