Wikipedia:WikiProject Ireland/HSTM Conference November 2016

About the event


Interested in learning more about editing and contributing to Wikipedia? Why not make your first few edits whilst tucking into a sandwich from 1-2:30pm Saturday 12 November. Rebecca O'Neill will be lead trainer, all you need is a laptop to take part.

No editing experience is necessary!

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

To participate you will need to bring along a laptop or tablet, WIFI will be provided.

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


 * 1) Smirkybec (talk) 01:48, 19 October 2016 (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 # ~



Suggested articles

 * Thomas Allin (Anglican) botanist.
 * William Allman botanist.
 * Mary Andrews Northern Irish geologist.
 * Edward Alexander Newell Arber botanist and paleontologist.
 * William Archer (naturalist).
 * Robert Ball (naturalist).
 * Richard Barrington naturalist.
 * Sophie Bryant mathematician, educator, feminist and activist.
 * Phyllis Clinch an Irish botanist most recognised for her work in the field of plant viruses.
 * Grenville Cole geologist.
 * Arthur Disbrowe Cotton plant pathologist, mycologist, phycologist, and botanist.
 * William Francis de Vismes Kane entomologist.
 * George Philip Farran zoologist.
 * Arthur C. Forbes forestry expert.
 * Percy H. Grimshaw entomologist and zoogeographer.
 * James Nathaniel Halbert entomologist.
 * Gerald Edwin Hamilton Barrett-Hamilton naturalist.
 * Margaret Lindsay Huggins scientific investigator and astronomer.
 * Ellen Hutchins botanist.
 * Henry Lyster Jameson zoologist.
 * William Frederick Johnson naturalist.
 * Helena Lefroy botanist.
 * Henry William Lett botanist.
 * Claude Morley entomologist.
 * Albert Russell Nichols zoologist.
 * Charles J. Patten anatomist and ornithologist.
 * Eva Philbin chemist.
 * Florence Stoney radiologist.
 * Richard J. Ussher ornithologist.
 * William West (botanist).

Disability access

 * step free access yes
 * wheelchair access yes

Resources

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


 * 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
 * Some Irish Naturalists by Robert Lloyd Praeger
 * Biographies of Women Mathematicians
 * Encyclopedia of Women in Medicine
 * Indian Academy of Sciences - List of Women Scientists
 * Lilavati's daugters
 * 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