Wikipedia:WikiProject Royal Society/Diversity in Science Edit-a-thon, Royal Society, March 25, 2014



Diversity in Science Edit-a-thon, Royal Society, March 25, 2014

This is an afternoon and evening event for people who want to edit Wikipedia, in particular topics relating to diversity in science in relation to geography, culture, gender, ethnicity and disability. New and experienced editors are welcome; there will be training sessions for those new to editing, and experienced helpers will be available. There will be a number of suggested topics for editing, but please bring your own thoughts on this.


 * NEW The Royal Society Library (1st floor) will be holding an open house session for you (or anyone else) from 5.30 to 6pm, between the sessions, with Rupert Baker. Rupert will also give a brief talk on the library and its unique historic holdings during the afternoon session.


 * 66 photos taken on the day of the editathon are available here.

Event
This will follow the pattern of our last event Women in science Edit-a-thon on March 4th, though the structure has been revised in the light of that experience.

Please bring a laptop if possible, though some will be available, as will wifi internet access. Also please bring any books you have to use as references, though the resources of the Royal Society library will be available until shortly before 5pm, and we will some print sources on hand. We also should have access to Royal Society publications normally behind a paywall. We envisage that most people will come either for the afternoon session, starting at 2pm or the evening one, starting at 6pm, with the changeover around 5.30-6pm, but there is room for some to span both sessions; if you think you want to go to both please register for the afternoon event only.

There will be light refreshments laid on. There will be presentations on editing for new editors at about 2.15 and 6.1.15, lasting about 40 minutes, and there will be experienced editors on hand throughout to give assistance. The event is held during International Women's Month.

Please sign-up at the Eventbrite pages (links here soon), or below if you are able to help the mainly new editors as they edit, or would like to participate remotely. The event is being offered first to the Royal Society's mailing lists and other contacts.

The Royal Society is the UK's national academy for the sciences, a fellowship of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence, founded in 1660. The position of Wikimedian in Residence at the Royal Society, a pilot scheme running until early July 2014, is supported by Wikimedia UK, the registered charity that is the UK support group for Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement.

Booking
Please register on Eventbrite for free tickets. The event is now sold out for the afternoon session, but last time there were last minute drop-outs, and the waiting lists are still short.

For the afternoon session (2.00 to 5.30 pm) register on this page.

For the evening session (6.00 to 9.00 pm) register on this page.

Arriving
Bringing your ticket is not important, though it does have the map etc. Tell Reception you have come for the Wikipedia event, then follow the signs to "Mercer Suite 1" in the basement. Name badges will be waiting for you there and should be worn.

Programme

 * 2:00 Afternoon attendees arrived, sort out laptops, wi-fi, register Wikipedia accounts if not (which is better) done so before
 * 2:15 Short tutorial on the very basic editing process
 * 2:35 Questions, discuss potential subjects and sources
 * 2:45 Start editing
 * 4:00 Break and cakes; short talk on the Royal Society Library by Rupert Baker
 * 4:20 A wider view of Wikipedia, questions
 * 4:35 Back to editing
 * 5:20 Review of editing we have done, complete feedback forms
 * 5:25 Wind-up by Polly Williams, the Royal Society and Diversity
 * 5:30 End afternoon session


 * 5:30-6:00 Open house in the Royal Society Library (for both sessions), Rupert Baker


 * 6:00 Evening attendees arrived, sort out laptops, wi-fi, register Wikipedia accounts if not (which is better) done so before
 * 6:10 Welcome by Polly Williams, the Royal Society and Diversity
 * 6:15 Short tutorial on the very basic editing process, sandwiches
 * 6:35 Questions, discuss potential subjects and sources
 * 6:45 Start editing
 * 7:45 Break
 * 7:50 A wider view of Wikipedia, questions
 * 8:10 Back to editing
 * 8:55 Review of editing we have done, complete feedback forms
 * 9:00 End (we need to be out promptly); to pub (Wetherspoons in Whitehall)

Helpers
We will need several experienced Wikipedians (but no training in training needed). The key times will be from about 3 - 5 and 7 and 9, after the basic editing presentations. Please sign up below, indicating the times you think you will be available:
 * 1) Being a helper in the afternoon would suit me best. Andrew (talk) 17:36, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
 * 2) Can do either or both as needed. Thryduulf (talk) 19:46, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
 * 3) I can probably do the 3-5 slot, possibly 7-9 too. Edwardx (talk) 13:36, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
 * 4) Hope to be there some time after 6pm  Ϣere  Spiel  Chequers  13:54, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
 * 5) I can probably do the 3-5 slot Gordo (talk) 14:35, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
 * 6) I can help in the evening slot - AdamBMorgan (talk) 12:06, 24 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Many thanks to all our helpers!

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, written for scientists, and full of good advice. Or try this one - four modules, taking one hour it says.
 * 1) Chemistbychoice
 * 2) sign here please

Attendees

 * Greatanarch (talk) 19:58, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Pasieka13 (talk) 19:57, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Grahameboyes (talk) 19:54, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Linmao (talk) 19:53, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Microbins (talk) 19:49, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
 * MargRouk (talk) 17:23, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Richard Case2014 (talk) 17:00, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Lagosman 17:16, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Ron Whitehand User talk:rwhiteha
 * KassSchmitt (talk) 17:05, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Macedith (talk) 17:06, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
 * David Jolly 2808 (talk) 17:07, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Dadamama3 (talk) 17:08, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Maharaniofcoochnahi (talk) 17:15, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Brendan blake (talk) 17:19, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Odonnellpnf (talk) 17:23, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Boon1234boon (talk) 17:37, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Notap 20:44, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
 * GeoffKelly (talk) 20:44, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Emmabell42 (talk) 20:52, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Bewel2014 (talk) 20:53, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Ciararachel (talk) 21:03, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
 * KemetMaat (talk)

Articles worked on

 * Superflare Greatanarch (talk) 20:39, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Petroleum engineering
 * simple:Isaac Newton
 * Science and_technology_in_Malaysia


 * Nicholas Saunderson
 * Felipe Bauza
 * Raanan Gillon (also an attendee)
 * National Astronomy Week
 * Quercus suber

New articles created

 * Saiful Islam (professor)
 * Jane M. Olson Emmabell42 (talk) 21:00, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Hiba Mohamed draft in my sandbox KassSchmitt (talk) 17:22, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Suggested topics
Please feel free to edit on any topic, but the following are some suggestions, mainly individual scientists. If you are working on an article on this list, please make a note below to avoid conflicting edits. Anyone is welcome to add their own at "More suggestions" below.

Apart from biographies of scientists, I hope to see some contributions on general topics such as science in Africa and the developing world. We will have copies of RS reports on science in Egypt, Jordan and Malaysia at the event.


 * Professor Harry Bhadeshia, FRS – Materials science
 * Dr Mark Richards (redlink in fact; links to someone else) – Physics
 * Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, MBE – Physics/Space - decent length already
 * Dr Donald Palmer(redlink in fact; links to someone else) – Immunology
 * Professor Varinder Aggarwal, FRS – Chemistry (organic)
 * Dr Mah Hussian-Gambles, MBE – Pharmacology/Industry
 * Dr Jo Shien Ng, URF, – Electrical Engineering
 * Professor Saiful Islam (redlink in fact; links to someone else), Wolfson Research Merti Award (2013) - editing


 * The Royal Society Pfizer Award has been awarded by the Royal Society since 2006 to African-based researchers at the start of their career who are making innovative contributions to the biological sciences in Africa. Only one winner has a wikipedia biography, created at our last event. See the article for the others, and links. Probably all notable.


 * Diverse chemists, list from the Royal Society of Chemistry - most of these will not be notable though
 * blind scientists with Wikipedia articles - most pretty short, except for Euler, which is mostly inaccessible for non-mathematicians. Nicholas Saunderson FRS, math. d. 1739, has little on his actual maths.

Historical Fellows of the Royal Society who were non-northern Europe and non-US

 * Francesco Travagino	c 1613 -	Croatian
 * Eugenius Bulgaris	1716 - 1806	Greek
 * Samuel Koleseri	1663 - 1732	Hungarian
 * Egon Orowan	1902 - 1989	Hungarian
 * Shanti Swarupa Bhatnagar	1895 - 1955	Indian
 * Jagadis Chunder Bose	1858 - 1937	Indian
 * Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar	1930 - 2004	Indian
 * Ardaseer Cursetjee	1808 - 1877	Indian
 * Harish-Chandra	1923 - 1983	Indian
 * Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan	1898 - 1961	Indian
 * Sisir Kumar Mitra	1890 - 1963	Indian
 * Autar Singh Paintal	1925 - 2004	Indian
 * Vulimiri Ramalingaswami	1921 - 2001	Indian - nothing much on his research
 * Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman	1888 - 1970	Indian
 * Srinivasa Aaiyangar Ramanujan	1887 - 1920	Indian
 * Meghnad N Saha	?1893 - 1956	Indian
 * Thiruvenkata Rajendra Seshadri	1900 - 1975	Indian
 * Obaid Siddiqi	1932 -2013	Indian- nothing much on his research
 * Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia	1883 - 1969	Indian
 * Yasutomi Nishizuka	1932 - 2004	Japanese
 * Shosaku Numa	1929 - 1992	Japanese
 * Ephraim Katchalski-Katzir	1916-2009	Israeli
 * Cassem Algiada Aga	fl 1728 - 1738	Libyan
 * Mohammed Ben Ali Abgali	fl 1726 - 1737	Moroccan ambassador - very short, though it's not clear how much of a scientist he was.
 * Muhammad ibn Haddu	fl 1682	Moroccan - another ambassador
 * Daniel Ernest Jablonski	1660 - 1741	Polish
 * Alfred Alexander Peter Kleczkowski	1908 - 1970	Polish
 * Benjamin von Munchausen	fl 1684	Polish
 * Julius von Sachs	1832 - 1897	"Polish" - well from Breslau; German botanist, bio seems all Encyc Brittanica 1911
 * Eduard Adolf Strasburger	1844 - 1912	Polish
 * Paul Edmund de Strzelecki	1797 - 1873	Polish geologist, explorer of Australia
 * Sebastian Joseph de Carvalho e Mello	1699 - 1782	Portuguese
 * Vladimir Igorevich Arnold		Russian
 * Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch	1891 - 1970	Russian
 * Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg	1916 - 2009	Russian - little on research
 * Alexander Danilovich Menzicoff	? 1673 - 1729	Russian
 * Evgeny Konstantinovich Sklyanin		Russian
 * Nicholas Ivanovich Vavilov	1887 - 1943	Russian - plant genetics
 * Basil Ferdinand Jamieson Schonland	1896 - 1972	South African
 * Alexander Logie Du Toit	1878 - 1948	South African
 * Felipe Bauza	1764 - 1834	Spanish - geographer & astronomer, short bio
 * Jorge Juan-y-Santacilia	? 1713 - 1773	Spanish
 * Joseph Mendoza y Rios	? 1762 - ? 1815	Spanish
 * Marques de Monte Leone	fl 1716 - 1718	Spanish
 * Jacob Rodrigue Pereira	1715 - 1780	Spanish
 * Pedro Alonzo Perez de Guzman	1724 - 1779	Spanish
 * Antonio de Ulloa	1716 - 1795	Spanish

More suggestions
Please add your own here, with suggested sources, ideally as links:

Specially GLOBALLY AVAILABLE 25th and 26th of March
FULLY AVAILABLE GLOBALLY from 1am (GMT/UTC) on 25th March 2014 until 11pm (GMT/UTC) on 26th March 2014
 * Notes and Records: the Royal Society journal of the history of science
 * Biographical Memoirs of the Fellows of the Royal Society - a selection of "Women in science"

Online References, always available

 * Library of Congress, Science Reference Guides, Women and Minorities in Science and Technology: A Guide to Selected Resources
 * See below for RS "Atlas" Reports

Print references we will have at the event

 * Royal Society "Atlas" Series of reports on Science and Technology in the Islamic World. Printed copies are available (which you can keep), and they are also online: Jordan country study, 2013, Egypt country study, 2012, Malaysia country study, 2011, A new golden age? The prospects for science and innovation in the Islamic world, 2010


 * Weisgerber, Robert A; The challenged scientists: disabilities and the triumph of excellence, 1991, Praeger, New York, ISBN 0275938735


 * Are there any books in the Royal Society Library we should have? Search on "Printed works" here and add below.