Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/Events and Workshops/Engineering Editathon
 | Engineering 150 edit-a-thon in a nutshell:
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Booking[edit]
- To book your place, please book through MyEd Event Booking here.
- Email me: ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk if you are coming from outside the university (and you'd be very welcome to join us!).
About the event[edit]
Have you ever wondered why the information in Wikipedia is extensive for some topics and scarce for others? On Wednesday 11th January 2017, the University's Information Services team will run an edit-a-thon at Kings Buildings. Full Wikipedia editing training will be given. Thereafter the afternoon's editathon will focus on improving the quality of articles about the history of engineering.
Working together with Academic Support librarians, archivists & academic colleagues we will provide training on how to edit and participate in an open knowledge community. Participants will be supported to develop articles covering areas which could stand to be improved; including distinguished Edinburgh alumni, historic locations etc.
Come along to learn about how Wikipedia works and contribute a greater understanding of the history of engineering!
How do I prepare?[edit]
- Sign up for the event
- Create a Wikipedia account
- Bring a laptop (wi-fi will be provided)
- Learn about editing if you like: Tutorial, or Getting started on Wikipedia for more information
- Think about what you would like to edit - please prepare some materials to bring with you on the day
- Consult the style guide for university articles.
Wikipedia's Manual of Style[edit]
- The Wikipedia Manual of Style has a lot of great information on the formatting & style of an article so please do consult it, especially if you are not sure how or where to begin & looking for help with writing the lead section.
- There is a more specific Manual of Style for Writing Biographies which is worth consulting too.
- There are featured articles related to Engineering and Technology which you can use as a base guideline.
- WikiProject Universities link.
Programme[edit]
- 1:00 pm – 1:15 pm: Housekeeping and Welcome
- 1:15 pm – 2:30 pm: Wikipedia training
- 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm: Research and editing
- 4:30 pm – 5:00 pm: Transferring drafted text to Wikipedia's live space.
Trainers[edit]
Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Edinburgh
Hit list of articles to be created or improved[edit]
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.
The following is a small sample of topics to work on. Feel free to come up with your own ideas!
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.
Wikipedia Editathon - Engineering 150 Proposed edits
FOR REFERENCE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_University_of_Edinburgh_people#Mathematics.2C_physics_and_engineering
Members of staff (NB: Current staff – conflict of interest issue)[edit]
- George Wilson (chemist)
- Fleeming Jenkin - Some further citations needed.
- George Frederick Armstrong
- Thomas Hudson Beare - Billy Rosendale editing
- Major John B Todd (1883 – 1954). Appointed Head of dept Engineering 1940 - (needs additional citations for verification.)
- Ronald Arnold (1908 – 1963)
Chemical Engineering[edit]
- Kenneth Denbigh FRS (1911 - ) – Appointed Professor of Chemical Technology 1955
Obituary [1]
- Philip Calderbank (1919 - ) First professor of Chemical Engineering. Retired 1980. (needs additional citations for verification.)
- Jack Ponton (1943 - ). ICI Professor of Chemical engineering
- Dr Colin Pritchard (1943 - )
Civil Engineering[edit]
- Arnold Hendry FRSE (1921 - ) – appointed first Professor of Civil Engineering 1964. (needs additional citations for verification.)
Obituary, Cockburn Association [3] Obituary, RSE [4]
- J Michael Rotter (1948 - ) appointed second Professor of Civil Engineering 1989
- Michael C Forde (1945 - ) appointed Tarmac Professor of Civil Engineering Construction 1990
- Dougal Drysdale (1939 - ) appointed Reader in Fire Safety Engineering and Director of the Unit of fire Safety Engineering 1990
Wikipedia entry at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dougal_Drysdale
Electrical Engineering[edit]
- Professor William Farvis - WEJ (Ewart) Farvis. Full name William Ewart John Farvis, FRSE, OBE. Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Edinburgh. First Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University (appointed 1961).
RSE obituary [5] Scotsman obituary [6] Listed in the 1978 Honours List [7]
- Jeffery Collins FRSE (1930 - ) 1970 appointed SRC Research Professor; 1973 Personal Chair of Industrial Electronics; 1977 appointed Professor of Electrical Engineering (succeeding Ewart Farvis).
- John Mavor FRSE (1942 - ). Appointed Lothian Chair of Microelectronics 1980. Appointed third Professor of Electrical Engineering 1986.
No Wikipedia entry. (needs additional citations for verification.)
- Alan Owen FRSE (1928 - ). Appointed to a Personal Chair in Physical Electronics 1981. No Wikipedia entry. (needs additional citations for verification.)
- Peter B Denyer(1953 - ).
- John Robertson (1943 - ). Appointed Director of the Edinburgh Microfabrication Facility 1981. Appointed to the Chair of Microelectronics 1986.
- Peter Mitchell Grant FRSE, FRSEng, FIET, FIEEE (1944 - )
- Mervyn Jack (1949 - ). Appointed to Chair of Electronic Systems 1987.
- James R Jordan ( (1938 - ). Full name James R (Jim) Jordan. Appointed Professorial Fellow Electrical Engineering 1989. Appointed to the Chair of Electrical Instrumentation 1991.
- Ian Bryden -[10]
- Bernard Mulgrew
- Harald Haas (engineer) - needs expanded.
- Don Glass
Alumni[edit]
- Check for existing articles of Edinburgh alumni and add link in if link has not been established. Check Wikidata for 'place of education' data.
- Create new articles for distinguished alumni not yet on Wikipedia.
Women in engineering (List from WikiProject Women in Red)[edit]
Engineers[edit]
Australia[edit]
- Jean Armstrong, engineer, Victorian Honour Roll of Women
- Maria Forsyth, materials scientist [12] [13] [14]
- your redlink here
Israel[edit]
- Maxine Fassberg, Vice President, Technology and Manufacturing Group, Fab 28 Plant Manager; General Manager, Intel Israel[1][2][3]
- Zdenka Samish (b. 1904), Czech-Israeli food technology researcher
- your redlink here
Syria[edit]
UK[edit]
- Helen Ballard ? Ballard, Stephen (1804–1890), civil engineer ODNB
- Wendy McMillan, startup cloud-based consulting, engineer, [15], [16], [17], [18], [19]
- Dorothy Spicer Spicer [married name Pearse], Dorothy Norman (1908–1946), aviator and aeronautical engineer ODNB
- Henrietta Vansittart Vansittart [née Lowe], Henrietta (1833–1883), engineer ODNB
- Rose Cannan wife of Dennis Cannan - details, possible source
- Top 50 Influential Women in Engineering, a 2016 selection by the Women's Engineering Society which contains the following red links:
- Roma Agrawal CEng, MIStructE, MIET, FRICS Structural Engineer, Interserve
- Danella Bagnall Chief Product Engineer, Jaguar Land Rover
- Faye Banks FIET, FCMI, FinstLm, CEng, Cmgr Head of Operations North East, National Grid
- Alison Baptiste CEng, FICE, BEng, MSc, MCIWEM Director of Strategy and Investment, Flood and Coastal Risk Management, Environment Agency
- Jayne Bryant FREng, CEng, FIET, FWES Engineering Director Defence Information, BAE Systems
- Liv Carroll DIC, CGeol, FGS, FIMMM Chartered Geologist, Geological Society
- Jacqueline Castle CEng, FIMechE, FRAeS Chief Engineer A330neo Wing, Airbus UK
- Susan Dio Chief Executive Officer, BP Shipping Limited
- Dr Michèle Dix CBE, CEng, FICE, FCIHT, FCILT Managing Director, Crossrail 2, Transport for London (TfL)
- Elizabeth Eastaugh Global Head - Customer Experience, Expedia
- Dawn Elson CEng, FICE, FIMechE, FRAeS, FWES Group Engineering Director, Merlin Entertainments Group
- Jane Gartshore FInstR Director, Cool Concerns Ltd
- Dr Paulina Bohdanowicz-Godfrey Director Energy and Environment, Hilton Worldwide
- Eur Ing Louise Hardy CEng, FICE, CMgr, FCMI, FWES Non Executive Director, Sirius Minerals Plc
- Professor Caroline Hargrove CEng, FIMechE Technical Director, McLaren Applied Technologies
- Ying Hu Manufacturing Systems Engineer, Rolls Royce Plc
- Ailie MacAdam FICE, MIChemE Managing Director, Europe and Africa, Infrastructure, Bechtel
- Dr Cathy McClay Head of Commercial, Electricity, National Grid
- Linda Miller PEng (USA) Senior Project Manager, Bechtel
- Dervilla Mitchell CBE Director, Arup
- Heidi Mottram OBE Chief Executive Officer, Northumbrian Water Group
- Belinda Oldfield FICE, AMIoW General Manager, Scottish Water
- Dr Haifa Ross Head of School of Engineering, Solihull College and University Centre
- Helen Samuels United Utilities
- Dr Angela Seeney FEI, CEng, CEng, CPet Eng Director Technology, Supply Chain and Decommissioning, Oil & Gas Authority
- Dr Nina Skorupska CBE, FEI Chief Executive, Renewable Energy Association
- Jane Simpson Chief Engineer, Network Rail
- Dana Skelley OBE Director of Asset Management, Transport for London
- Rachel Skinner CEng, FICE, TPP, MCIHT Director, Development, WSP Parsons Brinckerhoff
- Dr Debbie Smith OBE, FIFE, CPhys, MInstP Managing Director, BRE Global
- Vicky Stewart MIOA, MWED Associate Acoustic Consultant, Atkins
- Professor Eleanor Stride Professor of Engineering Science, University of Oxford
- Dr Alison Vincent Chief Technology Officer, Cisco International Ltd
- Katherine Ward CEng, MICE Group Head, Offshore Wind, Atkins
- your redlink here
US[edit]
- Alicia Abella, Ph.D., Executive Director, Innovative Services Research, AT&T Labs;[4] Member, President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics[5][6][7]
- Janet Petra Bonnema, Transportation engineer for the Colorado Highway Department, Colorado Women's Hall of Fame
- Elizabeth Bragg, first woman in the US to earn a civil engineering degree in 1876, [20], [21] --may be hard to do unless more sources are turned up.
- Diane Bryant (Intel) Intel VP - Led Itanium Development team, currently runs datacenter group. [22].
- Margarita H. Colmenares/Margarita Colmenares/Margarita Hortensia Colmenares (b. 1957), environmental engineer, founding president of SHPE[23]
- Melba Crawford/Melba M. Crawford, Chair of Excellence in Earth Observation, [24], [25]
- Rossana D'Antonio, Assistant Deputy Director at LA County Dept of Public Works, interview
- Nahid Khazenie, mechanical engineer, [26]
- Nelda Lee, Boeing design and flight test engineer, [27], [28], [29]
- Elizabeth G. Loboa Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Missouri
- Joanne Martin, Ph.D. (1947–). Served on management team that developed and delivered IBM's first supercomputer, with specific responsibility for the performance measurement and analysis of the system.[8][9] Distinguished Engineer and VP of Technology, IBM Corporation
- Patricia L. Mokhtarian, transportation engineer gscholar
- Irene Carswell Peden (b. 1925), US electrical engineer
- Nor Rae Spohn, former SVP Hewlett-Packard LaserJet Printing Business[10][11]
- Neerja Raman, global manufacturing and poverty. Senior Research Fellow, Stanford University; Advisor, Committee for Cyber-Infrastructure, National Science Foundation; formerly HP Labs[12]
- Laura Sanders, General Manager of Delivery Engineering & Technology and CTO for Global Technology Services, IBM Corporation
- Linda Sanford, Women in Technology International Hall of Fame, IBM Enterprise Transformation
- Myriam P. Sharachik (USA): "For important experiments on electrical conduction and transitions between metals and insulators."
- Claudine Simson, former Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, LSI Corporation; current Director & Business Development Executive, Research and IP, Worldwide Growth Markets, IBM Corporation
- Darlene Solomon, Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, Agilent Technologies[13] specializing in Bio-analytical and electronic measurement
- Shaunna Sowell, vice president and manager of Worldwide semiconductor facilities at Texas Instruments, women in tech international hall of fame.
- Carolyn Turbyfill, VP Engineering, Stacksafe[14]
- Jill Tietjen, (b. 1954), Engineer, Colorado Women's Hall of Fame
- Sophie V. Vandebroek, Ph.D., CTO and President, Xerox Innovation Group, Xerox Corporation[15][16][17][18]
- Patricia Wallington, vp at Xerox, women in tech international hall of fame.
- Been-Jon Woo, Director, Technology Integration & Development, Intel[19]
- add your link here
Sources[edit]
- Wikipedia is a tertiary resource, which relies upon secondary sources. Wikipedia is not a place for original research.
- For more guidance on the use of sources, see this guide here.
- We will provide a variety of reference books on the day.
- Editors will also have access to some University of Edinburgh e-resources.
- Search for articles on Google Scholar
- Try the Wikipedia Library's list of free resources
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- The Hathi Trust Digital Library - 100s of novels & other assorted texts
- Shareable Images can be found through a Creative Commons search(which includes Google, Flickr & Wikicommons in its search).
- Images from Edinburgh University's collections - http://images.is.ed.ac.uk/
Suggested sources:[edit]
General[edit]
- DiscoverEd to find books, ebooks, journals, ejournals and more.
News sources[edit]
Theses databases[edit]
- Edinburgh Research Archive. For theses produced at the University of Edinburgh Edinburgh Research Archive
- Proquest Dissertations
- More at: Edinburgh University Library - Theses database
Outcomes[edit]
- Jeffery Collins - page improved.
- Arnold Hendry - page began in User:JennyFlemington/sandbox2.
- Hudson Beare - link fixed.
- School of Engineering page redrafted at User:Billy_Rosendale/sandbox
- Histropedia Wikidata timeline created of engineers & civil engineers educated at the University of Edinburgh (colour coded by place of birth)
- Histropedia timeline showing the Regius Professors of Engineering at Edinburgh University.
What can I do after the event?[edit]
You may find these useful if you want to learn further about editing:
External links[edit]
Participants - Sign Up Here![edit]
Prior to the event:
- RSVP: ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk
- Do you have a Wikipedia User Name?
- No? Create a Wikipedia account
- Yes? Go to Step #2
- Sign up! Add your Wikipedia User Name to this section by clicking the blue button below (follow instructions). Your name will be added to the bottom of this page
To sign up for this event: Log in or create an account.
- Billy Rosendale (talk) 12:04, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
References[edit]
- ^ Shelach, Shmulik (29 January 2012). "Maxine Fassberg ousted as Intel Israel chief: Fassberg will be responsible for obtaining Israeli government grants, working under new general manager Mooly Eden". Globes [Online], Israel business news. Retrieved 28 April 2013.
- ^ Shamah, David (20 March 2012). "Israeli-made processor responsible for 40% of Intel's 2011 sales: The company and the country have a deeper relationship than most realize". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 28 April 2013.
- ^ Heruti-Sover, Tali (29 January 2013). "Intel Israel: Pioneer Employer of Women". Al-Monitor Israel Pulse. Retrieved 28 April 2013.
- ^ "people:labs research: Alicia Abella". Retrieved 3 May 2013.
- ^ Office of the Press Secretary (26 May 2011). "President Obama Announces Members of the President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics". The White House. Retrieved 3 May 2013.
- ^ Hopkins, Katy (10 July 2012). "How to Encourage Women to Consider STEM Majors". U.S.News & World Report. Retrieved 3 May 2013.
- ^ "Empowering Future Scientists | Alicia Abella MS'93, MPhil'94, PhD'95". Columbia Engineering. Spring 2013. Retrieved 3 May 2013.
- ^ Martin, edited by Joanne L.; Lundstrom, Stephen F. (1989). Proceedings, supercomputing '88. science and applications. Washington, D.C.: IEEE Computer Society Press. ISBN 978-0818689239.
{{cite book}}:|first=has generic name (help) - ^ Martin, Joanne L.; Mueller-Wichards, Dieter (1 January 1987). "Supercomputer performance evaluation: Status and directions". The Journal of Supercomputing. 1 (1): 87–104. doi:10.1007/BF00138607.
- ^ Kovsky, Eddie (27 November 2006). "Q & A with Hewlett-Packard's Nor Rae Spohn". Long Island Business News.
- ^ Hagadone, Zach (20 June 2008). "Boise HP exec announces retirement as company gears up for reorganization". Idaho Business Review.
- ^ "Stanford Entrepreneurship Network: Neerja Raman, Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Media X". Retrieved 28 April 2013.
- ^ "Agilent Company Information, Executives, Darlene J. S. Solomon". Retrieved 27 April 2013.
- ^ Turbyfill, Dr. Carolyn (November 2011). "Risk-Based Metrics for Software System Design, Development, and Test". IEEE USA's Today's Engineer. Retrieved 3 May 2013.
- ^ "Xerox: Innovation Home > Inside Innovation at Xerox: Sophie Vandebroek". Retrieved 3 May 2013.
- ^ Mayor, Tracy (19 November 2012). "Women in IT: How deep is the bench?". Computerworld. Retrieved 3 May 2013.
- ^ Cooley, Brian. "What's next from the people who invented the PC?". CNET. Retrieved 3 May 2013.
- ^ "Dr. Sophie Vandebroek". A Field Guide to Female Leaders, Influencers & Deal Makers. Retrieved 3 May 2013.
- ^ "Dr. Been-Jon Woo: Silicon Technology Pioneer". A Culture Research Project for Women Studies 320: Gender and Technology, Steven Haskell: 2008, Oregon State University. Retrieved 28 April 2013.