Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/Events and Workshops/Ada Lovelace Day 2022





About the event
On Tuesday 11th October 2022, the University's Information Services team are running a Wikipedia 'edit-a-thon' to celebrate Ada Lovelace Day 2022 which is an international celebration day of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM).

From 1pm-2pm, we'll have the following STEM speakers:
 * Dr. Melissa Highton on why we celebrate Ada Lovelace Day
 * Karen Howie on ' Approaching Imposter Syndrome : False Starts and Reflections from a Woman in Tech.'
 * Prof. Emma Hart on how she takes inspiration from the natural world to build computer algorithms and evolving robots
 * Ben McConville, President of the University's Computer Science Society, CompSoc, on Scotland's largest tech society - run by students of the University of Edinburgh. CompSoc is a diverse community of computer scientists, programmers, and people who are passionate about all things Tech.

Then at 2pm, the afternoon's editathon from 2pm-5pm will focus on improving the quality of articles related to historic and contemporary Women in STEM!  Submit your STEM heroine nomination  Have you ever wondered why the information in Wikipedia is extensive for some topics and scarce for others? Did you know that, as of September 2022, approximately only 19.33% 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!

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

2pm to 5pm: a Women in STEM editathon at the University of Edinburgh Main Library, Room 1.07
A Wikipedia editing event celebrating Women in STEM from 2pm to 5pm in Room 1.07, University of Edinburgh Main Library at 30 George Square.
 * Book your place here.

Full Programme
Join us to craft multi-coloured Ada Lovelace and Mary Somerville designs and make your own pin badges and laptop stickers  Getting started editing this Ada Lovelace Day  The Wikipedia training NB: I train people every month and essentially say much the same thing. Here is one such recording but don’t worry we will make sure you get full training. Main training tutorial: How to begin editing Wikipedia (53 mins)  Some short video tutorials
 * 11am-1pm - ‘No circumstance in the natural world is more inexplicable than the diversity of form and colour in the human race’
 * 1pm-2pm Women in STEM snacks and talks
 * Dr. Melissa Highton on why we celebrate Ada Lovelace Day
 * Karen Howie on ' Approaching Imposter Syndrome : False Starts and Reflections from a Woman in Tech.'
 * Prof. Emma Hart on how she takes inspiration from the natural world to build computer algorithms and evolving robots
 * Ben McConville, President of the University's Computer Science Society, CompSoc, on Scotland's largest tech society - run by students of the University of Edinburgh. CompSoc is a diverse community of computer scientists, programmers, and people who are passionate about all things Tech.
 * 2pm to 3pm – Wikipedia training begins.
 * 3pm to 3:15pm – Tea break!
 * 3:15pm to 4:30pm – Editing (see suggested worklist of articles to create/improve]] below).
 * 4.30pm to 5pm - Publishing to Wikipedia's live space.
 * 5pm - Showing off your brand new page and event close
 * 1) Please create an account on Wikipedia if you have not done so as yet (having problems? see below) and  join the dashboard page  for today's workshop.
 * 2) Have a look at the suggested hitlist of articles below or in our monthly   Women in Red worklist of pages to create/improve below and decide who you want to work on. More redlinks can be found on WikiProject Women in Red's crowdsourced and Wikidata-driven  Redlist index. Once you have decided who to work on Add your chosen page here.
 * 3) Join WikiProject Women in Red and signup for our next event on Fri 28th October here.
 * 1) Please visit My personal sandbox page
 * 2) Copy the text
 * 3) Click on your username link at the top of the screen.
 * 4) Click the Create tab to open your userpage up in Visual Editor mode if your link is in red. This is next to the search bar on Wikipedia. Please click the Edit tab if your page is in blue.
 * 5) Once into your userpage and the dropdown menus are available, paste the copied text into your userpage.
 * 6) Then click the blue Publish page button to save the page with an edit summary of added text to my user page.
 * 1) 	Exploring the main page of Wikipedia (4 mins)
 * 2) 	How to create an account on Wikipedia (1 min 30 secs)
 * 3) 	How to switch on the (easier to use) Visual Editor interface (1 min 20secs)
 * 4) 	How to create a user page and play around with formatting (4 mins)
 * 5) 	How to create an article on Wikipedia (7 mins)
 * 6) 	How to move your drafted article to the main article space on Wikipedia (2 mins)
 * 7) 	How to add bold, headings, links, italics to a Wikipedia page (3 mins)
 * 8) 	How to add citations and references to a Wikipedia page (3 mins)
 * 9) 	How to upload an image to Wikimedia Commons (Wikipedia’s sister project) - 4 mins
 * 10) 	How to insert an image from Wikimedia Commons onto a Wikipedia page (3 mins)
 * 11) 	How to edit existing pages on Wikipedia (4 mins)
 * 12) 	 Some printable resources are here.

These are all embedded in our student-created Wikimedian in Residence website here to make the how & why of editing Wikipedia much easier to engage with. Undergraduate student Hannah Rothmann’s work creating this website and the video resources above in lockdown Summer 2020 won an Open Education Global award recently. Because we felt that students, educators and everyone should be able to do this much more simply and have this ‘need to know’ information readily and openly available so I hope this is of use to you.

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!

Women in STEM - nominations for pages
Check the notability criteria for academics. Exemplar articles: Antonella De Santo and Wendy Atkin

NEW suggestions for 2022
and in Scotland there was:
 * View Chemistry was their life: Pioneering British Women Chemists, 1880-1949 - LOTS of great information and new pages to be written using this source inc. biochemists:
 * Kamala Bhagwat
 * Edith Willcock
 * Muriel Wheldale
 * Marjory Stephenson
 * Dorothy Jordan Lloyd
 * Dorothy Moyle
 * Agnes Moodie LornaMCampbell (talk) 14:40, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Ettie Stewart Steele
 * Ishbel Campbell
 * Helen Simpson Gilchrist - reserved for Ben McConville
 * Nellie Walker
 * Isobel Agnes Smith
 * Ethel Luis
 * Heather Beveridge
 * Ada Hitchins
 * Beatrice Simpson
 * Marion Richards
 * Alice Bain
 * Edith Pechey
 * Christina Miller
 * Elizabeth Percival
 * Margaret Sutherland
 * Ruth Pirret
 * Mary Andross
 * Jo Leen Yap - Zoology, Primatology, Human-Primate Interaction. Nominated because... Jo Leen is the founder of Langur Project Penang, an organisation that focuses on the research of Dusky leaf monkeys (Trachypithecus obscurus), a highly poached and endangered primate species endemic to Penang island in Malaysia. Her work and perseverence under this organisation has led to the putting up of road canopy bridges that reconnects fragmented parts of Penang forests which has long threatened many of the island's precious arboreal species. She has also led and designed outreach programs to get local people of all ages and backgrounds (including school children, university students and retirees) to reconnect with the Malaysian forests and be involved in conservation work and citizen science, which is unheard of in the current Malaysian landscape where the idea of conservation and ecological research is not hugely celebrated or understood by locals. She is a scientist that has jumped over extremely difficult hurdles to get an understudied species as well as underappreciated wildlife and natural habitats to be protected and appreciated by Malaysian locals and internationals. I believe she deserves a Wikipedia page showcasing her work so that young Asian women like me can see that young passionate Asian female scientists and conservationists like Joleen exist, and that there is a place for them in conservation science, a stereotypically white-dominated space. Furthermore, her Wikipedia page would allow people like me to show their reluctant parents that you can have a career in conservation as a young Asian woman and thrive in life. Publication:, BBC interview,
 * Dr Siti Khayriyyah Mohd Hanafiah - Medical Microbiology, Public Health, Science Communication. Nominated because... Dr Khayriyyah's work in tuberculosis, a disease that still plagues a lot of the world, is incredibly important. Her work in science communication is incredibly inspirational. In 2018, she was the winning speaker at FameLab, the world's biggest science communication competition (link to her talk below). Her column "Science, she wrote" in the Malaysian newspaper The Star is an excellent documentation of science and reflections during the COVID-19 pandemic. I personally would love to see more Muslim hijab-wearing women in STEM like her on the world's go-to source of information. List of publications:, Newspaper articles: , FameLab Talk:

From previous years

 * 1) Talat Yaqoob - Equality STEM.
 * 2) Sarah Cunningham-Burley - Professor of Medical and Family Sociology / Dean of Molecular, Genetic and Population Health Sciences.
 * 3) Jane Norman (professor) - Maternal and Fetal Health.
 * 4) Gillian Raab - Statistician.
 * 5) Beata Nowok - Statistician.
 * 6) Devi Sridhar - Lancet profile:
 * 7) Linda Bauld
 * 8) Maria Yazdanbakhsh -
 * 9) Jean Langhorne
 * 10) Rose Zamoyska
 * 11) Liz Rogers
 * 12) Hannah Critchlow
 * 13) Irene Tracey ,,, , , , ,
 * 14) Erin Schuman,, , ,
 * 15) Alice Balfour
 * 16) Rowena Lamy
 * 17) Janet S.S. Blyth LJS working on
 * 18) Helena Śliżyńska (née Gworek)

Use the PrepBio tool

 * The PrepBio tool is very handy for creating stub entries on Wikipedia using the structured data information in Wikidata.
 * Employed by Edinburgh University list
 * Women educated at the University of Edinburgh with no Wiki article
 * Women born in Edinburgh
 * Women who died in Edinburgh
 * Women employed by Edinburgh University without an article
 * Female Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Articles to create

 * 1) Anne Harper Anderson (social sciences) -
 * 2) Toni Scullion
 * 3) Catherine Price (neuroscientist)
 * 1) Catherine Price (neuroscientist)

Articles to edit

 * 1) Leopoldo Pando Zayas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopoldo_Pando_Zayas)
 * 2) Sharon Ashbrook (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Ashbrook)
 * 3) Carol Prives (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Prives)
 * 4) Marian Holness (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Holness)
 * 5) Else Marie Friis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Else_Marie_Friis)
 * 6) Barbara Sherwood Lollar(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Sherwood_Lollar)
 * 7) Lucy Carpenter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Carpenter)
 * 8) Judy Hirst (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Hirst)
 * 9) Angela Strank (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Strank)
 * 10) Sheila Rowan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Rowan_(physicist))
 * 11) Ingrid Scheffer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingrid_Scheffer)
 * 12) Wendy Bickmore (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Bickmore)

Women in Medicine

 * 1) Elizabeth Innes ✅BMJ obit BMJ. ObituaryScotsman. Obituary RCPE. Obituary

Women in Chemistry

 * 1) May Badger - Being worked on by Ewan

Biology

 * Lilian Alcock
 * Sheila Mahala Andrews
 * Evelyn Baxter
 * Isobel Wylie Hutchison
 * Agnes McDouall
 * Anna MacLeod
 * Lady 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.

Useful links to help with your editing
Here are some useful links to help you with your editing:
 * Read up to find out more about sources and verifiability.
 * Check out the notability guidelines and what topics can be written about on Wikipedia.
 * Consider whether you have any conflicts of interest.
 * You can find advice on how to search for relevant sources on any scientist here.
 * All sorts of helpful guides and online resources can be found below:


 * You can add pictures for use on Wiki-pages and beyond on Wikimedia Commons. Your Wikipedia account will work on Commons too - as well as all the other Wiki-projects and different language versions of Wikipedia.

Here are some ways to keep track of your edits:
 * You can view all your contributions to Wikipedia by clicking "Contributions" (in the top right of this page).
 * The Pageviews tool is a great way of measuring how many people are looking at the page you created/edited. You can even export the data if you'd like it for reports, etc.

Articles to be improved

 * 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

Add Christina Miller Fellows to Christina Miller page?
 * 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
 * Ethel Houston - Edinburgh Bletchley code breaker.
 * 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 Donaldson 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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 * [http://www.histropedia.com/showcase/wikidata-viewer.html?query=SELECT%20?person%20?personLabel%20(SAMPLE(?birth_date)%20AS%20?birth_date)%20(SAMPLE(?death_date)%20AS%20?death_date)%20(SAMPLE(?birth_place_label)%20AS%20?birth_place_label)%20(SAMPLE(?birth_place_coords)%20AS%20?birth_place_coords)%20(SAMPLE(?image)%20AS%20?image)%20(SAMPLE(?country)%20AS%20?country)%20(COUNT(?article)%20AS%20?rank)%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20?person%20wdt:P69%20wd:Q160302.%0A%20%20?person%20wdt:P31%20wd:Q5.%0A%20%20?person%20wdt:P21%20wd:Q6581072.%0A%20%20%7B?person%20wdt:P106%20wd:Q81096%7D%20UNION%20%7B?person%20wdt:P106%20wd:Q170790%7D.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20?person%20wdt:P18%20?image.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20?person%20wdt:P18%20?image.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20?person%20wdt:P569%20?birth_date.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20?person%20wdt:P27%20?countryItem.%0A%20%20%20%20?countryItem%20rdfs:label%20?country.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER((LANG(?country))%20%3D%20%22en%22)%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20?person%20wdt:P19%20?birth_place.%0A%20%20%20%20?birth_place%20wdt:P625%20?birth_place_coords.%0A%20%20%20%20?birth_place%20rdfs:label%20?birth_place_label.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER((LANG(?birth_place_label))%20%3D%20%22en%22)%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20?person%20wdt:P570%20?death_date.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20?article%20schema:about%20?person.%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase:label%20%7B%20bd:serviceParam%20wikibase:language%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20?person%20?personLabel%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC(?rank)&url=person&title=personLabel&from=birth_date&imageUrl=image&rank=rank&view=timeline Histropedia timeline showing female mathematicians and engineers educated at the University of Edinburgh]

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

Outcomes - Content created
To be determined.

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
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 * 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:
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 * 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)
 * Five pillars of Wikipedia, philosophical guidelines and best practices for editing
 * Tutorial
 * How to edit a page
 * Wiki markup quick reference, PDF version of printed handout
 * Article development
 * Your first article (using the Article Wizard, if you wish)
 * Bookshelf, additional "getting started" resources
 * Biographies of Living Persons

Talkpage templates

 * If the woman was born before 1950 use:
 * If the woman was born after 1950 use:
 * Add to Biography with:
 * Add to WikiProject Women scientists: ==Templates==

Project
WikiProject Women scientists

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