Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/Events and Workshops/Engineering Editathon

Booking

 * 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
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?

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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
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.

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)

 * 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
Obituary 
 * Kenneth Denbigh FRS (1911 - ) – Appointed Professor of Chemical Technology 1955
 * 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
Obituary, Cockburn Association Obituary, RSE Wikipedia entry at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dougal_Drysdale
 * Arnold Hendry FRSE (1921 - ) – appointed first Professor of Civil Engineering 1964. (needs additional citations for verification.)
 * 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

Electrical Engineering
RSE obituary Scotsman obituary Listed in the 1978 Honours List No Wikipedia entry. (needs additional citations for verification.)  
 * 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).
 * 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.
 * 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 -
 * Bernard Mulgrew
 * Harald Haas (engineer) - needs expanded.
 * Don Glass

Alumni

 * 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.

Engineers

 * Sharon A. Keillor Award for Women in Engineering Education,

Australia

 * Jean Armstrong, engineer, Victorian Honour Roll of Women
 * Maria Forsyth, materials scientist
 * your redlink here

Israel

 * Maxine Fassberg, Vice President, Technology and Manufacturing Group, Fab 28 Plant Manager; General Manager, Intel Israel
 * Zdenka Samish (b. 1904), Czech-Israeli food technology researcher
 * your redlink here

Syria

 * Sirin Hamsho - details

UK

 * Helen Ballard ? Ballard, Stephen (1804–1890), civil engineer ODNB
 * Wendy McMillan, startup cloud-based consulting, engineer,, , , ,
 * 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

 * Alicia Abella, Ph.D., Executive Director, Innovative Services Research, AT&T Labs; Member, President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics
 * 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,, --may be hard to do unless more sources are turned up.
 * Diane Bryant (Intel) Intel VP - Led Itanium Development team, currently runs datacenter group..
 * Margarita H. Colmenares/Margarita Colmenares/Margarita Hortensia Colmenares (b. 1957), environmental engineer, founding president of SHPE
 * Melba Crawford/Melba M. Crawford, Chair of Excellence in Earth Observation, ,
 * Rossana D'Antonio, Assistant Deputy Director at LA County Dept of Public Works, interview
 * Nahid Khazenie, mechanical engineer,
 * Nelda Lee, Boeing design and flight test engineer,, ,
 * 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. 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
 * Neerja Raman, global manufacturing and poverty. Senior Research Fellow, Stanford University; Advisor, Committee for Cyber-Infrastructure, National Science Foundation; formerly HP Labs
 * 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 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
 * Jill Tietjen, (b. 1954), Engineer, Colorado Women's Hall of Fame
 * Sophie V. Vandebroek, Ph.D., CTO and President, Xerox Innovation Group, Xerox Corporation
 * Patricia Wallington, vp at Xerox, women in tech international hall of fame.
 * Been-Jon Woo, Director, Technology Integration & Development, Intel
 * add your link here''

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

 * 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
 * [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%7B?person%20wdt:P106%20wd:Q13582652%7D%20UNION%20%7B?person%20wdt:P106%20wd:Q81096%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&colourCodeBy=country&view=timeline 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?


You may find these useful if you want to learn further about editing:
 * Video tutorials
 * Instructional videos on using Wikipedia

Participants - Sign Up Here!
Prior to the event: Don't worry! If you haven't edited Wikipedia before and don't have a Wikipedia User Name yet, we will help you on the day of the event! And remember to have fun!
 * 1) RSVP: [mailto:ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk] 
 * 2) Do you have a Wikipedia User Name?
 * No? Create a Wikipedia account
 * Yes? Go to Step #2
 * 1) 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


 * Billy Rosendale (talk) 12:04, 5 December 2016 (UTC)