Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's History/Ada Lovelace Day 2012

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 * Coordination page for the 2012 Ada Lovelace Day editing events on Wikipedia.
 * Coordination page for the 2012 Ada Lovelace Day editing events on Wikipedia.

London event - created or significantly expanded the day of

 * Hertha Marks Ayrton
 * Anne Elizabeth Ball (DYK)
 * Mary Barber (natural historian) (DYK)
 * Rosa Beddington
 * Lucy Everest Boole
 * Phyllis Clinch
 * Aline Ehrlich
 * Alice Everett
 * Ida Freund (DYK)
 * Florence Sarah Lees
 * Mary Edwards (human computer)
 * Sylvia Lawler
 * Margaret Meyer (DYK)
 * Janet Niven
 * Eva Philbin
 * Eliza Phillips (DYK)
 * Rosalind Pitt-Rivers (DYK)
 * Sydney Mary Thompson (DYK)
 * Nanny Wermuth
 * Emily Williamson (DYK)

Online - created or expanded

 * June Almeida ODNB - left school at 16 and became a Doctor of Science
 * Ann Bishop (biologist) (DYK, )
 * Beatrice Blackwood (DYK)
 * Edith Bülbring (DYK)
 * Frances Hardcastle, mathematician
 * Anna J. Harrison, chemist
 * Martha Haynes, astronomer
 * Lisa Kaltenegger, astronomer
 * Cecilia Lindquist, Swedish Chinese music and writing expert
 * Eleanor Maguire, neuroscientist (DYK)
 * Helen Megaw, crystallographer
 * Marietta Pallis, ecologist (DYK)
 * Isis Pogson, astronomer (DYK)
 * Kamal Ranadive, biomedical researcher
 * Darshan Ranganathan, organic chemist (DYK)

Before the event

 * Mary Andrews, geologist (daughter of Thomas Andrews)
 * Charlotte Auerbach FRS FRSE
 * María Ignacia Benítez Chilean Engineer and Minister
 * Mary Buckland (DYK)
 * Astrid Cleve - Swedish scientist
 * Daphne Jackson - 1st British Prof.
 * Doris Löve
 * May Mellanby
 * Lilian Vaughan Morgan
 * Antonina Pojarkova - Russian botanist
 * Christine Petit - French scientist
 * Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen - Norwegian botanist
 * Thekla Resvoll - Norwegian botanist
 * Nelly de Rooij - Dutch Zoologist
 * Maria Teresa Ruiz - Chilean Astronomer
 * Marjory Stephenson FRS
 * Ana Lya Uriarte - 12 yr old mum & Chilean Environment Minister
 * Elsie Widdowson FRS

Harvard event

 * Harvard event results
 * Blog post

London event
Wikimedia UK and the Royal Society organised a Women in Science themed editing event for Ada Lovelace Day on Friday 19 October 2012 in London.


 * Date: Friday 19 October, in two sessions - 2:30pm-6pm, 6:30pm-8pm
 * Venue: The library of the Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace London SW1Y 5AG
 * Cost: Free
 * Etherpad: http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/Ada
 * Twitter hashtag: #WomenSciWP
 * IRC: #wikimedia-uk
 * Resources to edit: http://rsbm.royalsocietypublishing.org/site/misc/women_in_science.xhtml
 * Participants: The afternoon session was for Wikipedia newcomers to learn how to edit. Evening panel discussion was open to anyone with the interest in the topic.
 * Photos from the day: here

We had an afternoon editathon bringing in new contributors from academia, and some existing volunteers. Female editors were particularly encouraged to attend. It was hosted by the Royal Society, who have a very strong history-of-science and biographical library which they made available to us for the day. The Society's library holds a rich collection of printed works about women in science, including biographies and works authored by scientists. At the event the Society's librarians were able to explain more about the collections and provide guidance on finding sources.

London participants

 * (interested in Elizabeth Brown (astronomer), Alice Everett, Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Mary Rosse, Annie Scott Dill Maunder)
 * (interested in Jane Squire)
 * (interested in Arabella Buckley, Sally Floyd, Lilian Bland, Daphne Jackson, Naomi Datta, Cecily Tanner, Anne Warner)
 * (interested in Florence Lees)
 * (interested in Dorothy Needham, Muriel Wheldale Onslow, Dorothy Jordan Lloyd, Marjorie Stephenson.)
 * (interested in Emily Williamson, Emmeline Moore and Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards)
 * (interested in Sylvia Lawler, Mary Barber, Carmel Humphries, Annie Porter)
 * (starting off with Sydney Mary Thompson, geologist & botanist)
 * (Editing Phyllis Clinch, Ida Freud and Sylvia Lawler)
 * (interested in Emily Williamson, Emmeline Moore and Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards)
 * (interested in Sylvia Lawler, Mary Barber, Carmel Humphries, Annie Porter)
 * (starting off with Sydney Mary Thompson, geologist & botanist)
 * (Editing Phyllis Clinch, Ida Freud and Sylvia Lawler)
 * (starting off with Sydney Mary Thompson, geologist & botanist)
 * (Editing Phyllis Clinch, Ida Freud and Sylvia Lawler)
 * (starting off with Sydney Mary Thompson, geologist & botanist)
 * (Editing Phyllis Clinch, Ida Freud and Sylvia Lawler)
 * (starting off with Sydney Mary Thompson, geologist & botanist)
 * (Editing Phyllis Clinch, Ida Freud and Sylvia Lawler)

Online participation
Online participants were encouraged to pick an article below. We have tried to list online resources for individual articles below, to make it easy to participate without needing to be in the library.

We welcomed participants to communicate with us online:
 * Twitter hashtag: #WomenSciWP
 * @wikimediauk, @royalsociety
 * Etherpad: http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/Ada
 * IRC: #wikimedia-uk


 * Useful links for new contributors:
 * Getting started on Wikipedia
 * Editing toolbar help


 * Useful resources for editing articles about the Royal Society Fellows are here.
 * A general useful resource is the Archives of Women in Science and Engineering at Iowa State University

Online participants

 * -- SarahStierch (talk) 16:56, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
 * -- Cindy  ( talk to me ) 20:22, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
 * -- Netha   (talk)  09:28, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
 * -- Dsp13 (talk) 11:54, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
 * -- NStoletzki
 * -- AudreyMurray (talk) 14:45, 11 October 2012 (UTC) (c. 7:30-9:00pm UCT)
 * -- Raystorm   (¿Sí?)  18:14, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
 * -- Victuallers (talk) 21:58, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
 * -- Digsy93
 * -- AlxRc (interested in Sally Floyd, Edith Bulbring, Arabella Buckley and Cécile Vogt-Mugnier)
 * -- Russian feminists community
 * -- Gobōnobo  + c 05:14, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
 * -- Gordo (talk)
 * -- Vickytnz (talk) 13:54, 19 October 2012 (UTC) (would like to do a Down Under woman, right now the only person even close seems to be Natalie Jeremijenko)
 * --MrsMilfyMoo (talk) 14:11, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
 * -- Frank Norman (talk) 08:17, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
 * -- Elizabeth Bruton (talk) 17:03, 19 October 2012 (UTC) (interested in Hertha Marks Ayrton)
 * -- linklan (talk) 14:02, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
 * -- Amanda Pappin (talk) 14:07, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
 * -- CocoChanel (talk) 14:11, 19 October 2012 (EST)
 * -- MartinPoulter (talk) 22:33, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
 * -- KarenLMasters
 * -- GavinThomas 19 October 2012

Oxford
A supporting event in Oxford, United Kingdom, attracted contributions to expand or improve Mary Somerville, Bertha Swirles, The Million Women Study, Cynthia Longfield, Thekla Resvoll, Sydney Mary Thompson, Edith Bülbring, Marthe Vogt, Ida Mann, Joyce Lambert, Rosalind Pitt-Rivers, and June Almeida, and create Julia Bodmer.

India
On Ada Lovelace day, Indian women organised an online edit-a-thon in association with Wikimedia UK and Royal Society.
 * Date: Friday 19 October, full day IST
 * Etherpad: http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/Ada
 * Twitter hashtag: #WomenSciWP
 * Participants: Women, new editors, all those who relate to women's history or women's issues, those who want to learn how to edit or can teach others how, and anyone with an interest in women's history were particularly encouraged to attend.

Participants

 * 1) --  Netha   (talk)  17:52, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
 * 2) -- SarahStierch (talk) 16:48, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
 * 3) -- Bishdatta (talk) 14:43, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
 * 4) -- Raystorm    (¿Sí?)  18:16, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
 * 5) -- Djembayz (talk) 11:47, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
 * 6) -- Nineran (talk) 19:01, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

Outcomes
Report by Netha Hussain, 24 October 2012

The Ada Lovelace Day Edit-a-thon was conducted on 19th October 2012. Six users signed up for the event. 6 articles were created, and one article was copy-edited and expanded. User:Bishdatta created the article about Kamal Ranadive. User: Hisham created the article about Shubha Tole. User: Djembayz created the biography article about Darshan Ranganathan. User: Netha Hussain created articles about Anna Mani, Bindu Bambah and Kamala Sohonie, and copy edited the article Janaki Ammal.

User:Gobonobo added images to these articles. User: Victuallers copy-edited the articles. Razibot, operated by User:Razimantv added interwiki links to the articles in English and other languages. Administrators and other interested users also joined the edit-a-thon by adding categories, references and inter-wiki links. A new category, Category: Indian women scientists, was created.

A similar event happened in Malayalam Wikipedia, which spanned over 3 days from 19 October to 21 October, during which 9 articles about women scientists were created or expanded. User:Georgekutty created or expanded 6 articles and User: Netha Hussain created 2 articles. Administrators joined the participants by adding interwiki links, categories and infoboxes. A new category, Category: Women scientists (വർഗ്ഗം: സ്ത്രീ ശാസ്ത്രജ്ഞർ), was created.

The articles created/expanded in Malayalam (ml) Wikipedia are:
 * ഹൈപ്പേഷിയ (Hypatia of Alexandria)
 * അഗ്നോഡീസ് (Agnodice)
 * അഗ്ലയോനിക്കി (Aglaonike)
 * ജൂതത്തി മേരി (Mary the Jewess)
 * മേരി ആനിങ്ങ് (Mary Anning)
 * അന്ന മാണി (Anna Mani)
 * റോസാലിന്റ് ഫ്രാങ്ക്ലിൻ (Rosalind Franklin)
 * സോഫിയ ബ്രാഹെ (Sophia Brahe)
 * ജാനകി അമ്മാൾ (Janaki Ammal)

Russia
Led by Анастасия Львова, the following articles have been created:
 * ru:Вильпрё-Пауэр,_Жанна, (Jeanne Villepreux-Power)
 * ru:Тротула_Салернская, (Trotula)
 * ru:Басси,_Лаура, (Laura Bassi)
 * ru:Куниц,_Мария (Maria Cunitz) and
 * ru:Де_Мит,_Петронилла (Petronilla de Meath) and
 * ru:Де_Боде,_София as bonuses

Other regional events

 * Harvard, 16th October
 * Date: Tuesday, October 16th, 3:00pm to 8:30pm
 * Venue: Harvard University Law School, Wasserstein Hall/Caspersen Student Center, Room 4062; 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, USA
 * Registration: Space for the physical gathering is limited. To register, please email maiaw@nasw.org.


 * Stockholm, 16th October
 * Date: Tuesday, October 16th, 16.00-21.00
 * Venue: Solidaritetshuset, Tegelviksgatan 40, Södermalm, Stockholm
 * Registration: eventbrite.


 * Oxford, 26th October
 * Date: Friday, October 26th, 13:00-17:00
 * Venue: Radcliffe Science Library training room, Oxford, UK
 * Registration: Oxford IT

Suggested topics
These are themed by event (RS people are predominantly UK and Irish, etc) but please feel free to add suggestions or add new sections!

See also


 * a US-focused list here.


 * Prominent women in science without articles


 * Recent changes to these articles

Articles needing creation

 * June Almeida ODNB
 * Brigid Balfour, immunologist
 * Anne Elizabeth Ball (I started one but do feel free to improve it! --User:e_bruton (20:30, 19 October 2012 (UTC))
 * Mary Barber (bacteriologist) ODNB
 * Eileen Barnes, botanical illustrator
 * Rosa Beddington FRS Who Was Who ODNB RSBM (I started one at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Rosa_Beddington feel free to improve it! --Miamelba (talk) 15:00, 19 October 2012 (UTC))
 * Ethel Bellamy ODNB
 * Ann Bishop (biologist) FRS Who Was Who ODNB RSBM
 * Lilian Bland, first woman in the world to build & fly her own aircraft (1910) Flight - draft
 * Veronica Conroy Burns, geologist
 * Lucy Everest Boole, chemist
 * Evelyn Mary Booth, botanist
 * Eliza Brightwen ODNB
 * Elizabeth Brown (astronomer) ODNB Raystorm   (¿Sí?)  16:06, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Jessie Hill Buchan ODNB
 * Anne Beloff-Chain ODNB
 * Marjorie Chandler ODNB
 * Muriel Chapman ODNB
 * Phyllis Clinch, plant virologist UCD
 * Margaret Crosfield, geologist ODNB
 * Maude Jane Delap, marine biologist
 * Florence Margaret Durham 1869- 1949, mouse geneticist
 * Mary Edwards (human computer)
 * Alice Everett, astronomer
 * Mary Evershed, astronomer and literary scholar - this existed as Mary Ackworth Orr Evershed. How does wikipedia deal with maiden name abiguity? ODNB
 * Marian Farquharson, naturalist ODNB
 * Una Fielding, neuroanatomist ODNB
 * Margaret Fishenden, industrial researcher ODNB
 * Grace Frankland Who Was Who ODNB
 * Ida Freund ODNB
 * Mildred Gostling ODNB
 * Elizabeth Gray (fossil collector) ODNB
 * Jean Hanson FRS Who Was Who ODNB RSBM
 * Frances Hardcastle, mathematician ODNB
 * Mathilde Hertz, physiologist ODNB
 * Carmel Humphries, zoologist and ecologist UCD
 * Mary Impey ODNB
 * Hilda Ingold ODNB
 * Daphne Jackson, first female professor of physics in the UK ODNB (see also Daphne Jackson Trust)
 * Maria Jacson, botanist ODNB
 * Sidney Kennon, midwife and collector ODNB
 * Elizabeth Kent, botanist ODNB
 * A. L. Kathleen King, biologist
 * Mary Kirby & Elizabeth Kirby, writers on botany ODNB
 * Matilda Cullen Knowles, biologist ODNB
 * Phebe Lankester, writer on botany ODNB
 * Sylvia Lawler, geneticist ODNB
 * Florence Lees, nursing pioneer ODNB
 * May Leslie, chemist ODNB
 * Gulielma Lister, mycologist ODNB
 * Jane Longstaff, biologist ODNB
 * Elizabeth Macgregor, cytologist ODNB
 * Doris Mackinnon, protozoologist ODNB
 * Ida Maclean, biochemist ODNB
 * Annie Massy, marine biologist
 * Sarah Mawe, mineralogist to Queen Victoria (!) ODNB
 * Barbara Mawer, biochemist ODNB
 * Mary McKillop ODNB
 * Helen Megaw, crystallographer ODNB
 * Mary Merrifield, algologist ODNB
 * Margaret Meyer, mathematician ODNB
 * Lady Anne Monson, botanist ODNB
 * Charlotte Murchison, geologist ODNB
 * Marion Newbigin, biologist ODNB
 * Janet Niven, histologist
 * Mary Parke FRS Who Was Who ODNB (created after the event but only cos I've got the knack of it now!) --Miamelba (talk) 17:08, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Innes Pearse, biologist ODNB
 * Winifred Pennington, botanist ODNB
 * Dorothea Pertz, botanist ODNB
 * Eva Philbin, chemist UCD
 * Eliza Phillips, cofounder of the RSPB ODNB
 * Mary Pickford (physiologist) FRS Who Was Who ODNB
 * Antoinette Pirie, biochemist ODNB
 * Rosalind Pitt-Rivers FRS Who Was Who ODNB
 * Helen Porter FRS Who Was Who ODNB
 * Dorothy Stopford Price, physician
 * Catherine Raisin, geologist ODNB
 * Christian Ramsay (Lady Dalhousie), botanist ODNB
 * Eleanor Reid, palaeobotanist ODNB
 * Doris Livesey Reynolds, geologist
 * Gertrude Maud Robinson, chemist and wife of Robert Robinson (organic chemist) ODNB
 * Pamela Robinson, vertebrate paleontologist ODNB
 * Anna Russell (botanist), botanist ODNB
 * Edith Saunders, botanist ODNB
 * Lydia Shackleton (1828–1914), botanical artist ODNB
 * Anne Sheepshanks, astronomical patron ODNB
 * Lydia Pasternak Slater, biochemist, translator and poet ODNB
 * Audrey Ursula Smith, cryobiologist ODNB
 * Marion Delf-Smith, botanist ODNB
 * Jane Squire, mathematician and astronomer
 * Sylvia Tait (scientist) (Sylvia Agnes Sophia Tait) FRS Who Was Who ODNB, RSBM
 * Cecily Tanner, mathematician and historian of mathematics ODNB
 * Ethel Thomas, biologist ODNB
 * Sydney Mary Thompson, geologist Geological Magazine -
 * Brigid Lyons Thornton, physician
 * Miriam Tildesley, anthropologist ODNB
 * Winifred Tutin FRS Who Was Who ODNB
 * Anne Walker (astronomer), astronomical computer ODNB
 * Annie Purcell Walker, Lady Walker ODNB
 * Martha Whiteley, chemist Who Was Who ODNB
 * Lilly Wigg, botanist ODNB
 * Elizabeth Williams (educationist), mathematician and educationist ODNB
 * Emily Williamson, ornithologist ODNB
 * Henrietta Wilson, botanist and writer ODNB
 * Florence Yeldham, schoolteacher and historian of arithmetic ODNB

Articles needing expansion

 * Hertha Marks Ayrton DSB (subscription required)
 * Mary Ball ODNB
 * Margaret Benson ODNB
 * Edith Berkeley ODNB
 * Arabella Buckley (science writer) ODNB
 * Priscilla Susan Bury ODNB
 * Beatrice Mabel Cave-Browne-Cave & Frances Cave-Browne-Cave ODNB
 * Patricia Clarke FRS Who Was Who
 * Aleen Cust, first female vet to practice in the UK
 * Naomi Datta FRS Who Was Who ODNB
 * Kathleen Mary Drew-Baker ODNB
 * Gertrude B. Elion FRS, biochemist RSBM NAS
 * Gertrude Elles ODNB
 * Philippa Fawcett ODNB
 * Sally Floyd, computer scientist
 * Mary Frampton ODNB
 * Elizabeth Fulhame ODNB
 * Eleanor Glanville ODNB
 * Maria Gordon ODNB
 * Maria Emma Gray ODNB
 * Amelia Griffiths ODNB
 * Margaret Hasluck ODNB
 * Hilda Phoebe Hudson ODNB
 * Margaret Lindsay Huggins, astronomer ODNB
 * Ellen Hutchins, botanist ODNB
 * Agnes Ibbetson, vegetable physiologist ODNB
 * Janet Kear ODNB
 * Maria Margarethe Kirch, astronomer
 * Joyce Lambert, botanist and ecologist ODNB
 * Cynthia Longfield, entomologist
 * Kathleen Lonsdale FRS Who Was Who RSBM ODNB
 * Kathleen Lynn, physician
 * Lucy Mair ODNB
 * Irene Manton FRS Who Was Who RSBM ODNB
 * Sidnie Manton FRS Who Was Who ODNB
 * Sheina Marshall ODNB
 * Annie Scott Dill Maunder, astronomer ODNB -
 * Louise McIlroy, first female medical professor in the UK
 * Helen Muir FRS, biochemist Who Was Who ODNB (one line!)
 * Rosemary Murray, chemist, first female VC at Cambridge ODNB
 * Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze
 * Dorothy M. Needham FRS RSBM ODNB
 * Muriel Wheldale Onslow ODNB
 * Annie Porter, zoologist ODNB
 * Mary Proctor ODNB
 * F. Gwendolen Rees Who Was Who
 * Muriel Robertson FRS
 * Mary Rosse, astronomer and photographer ODNB
 * Arabella Elizabeth Roupell ODNB
 * Ruth Sanger FRS Who Was Who RSBM
 * Ethel Sargant ODNB
 * Charlotte Scott ODNB
 * Ethel Shakespear Who Was Who ODNB
 * Annie Lorrain Smith ODNB
 * Alicia Boole Stott, mathematician
 * Marjorie Sweeting ODNB
 * Bertha Swirles (Bertha Jeffreys), mathematician ODNB
 * Janet Vaughan FRS Who Was Who
 * Mary Ward, astronomer and microscopist
 * Anne Warner (scientist) FRS Who Was Who
 * Winifred Watkins FRS Who Was Who
 * Elsie Widdowson FRS
 * Cécile Vogt-Mugnier (neurologist)
 * Marthe Vogt FRS RSBM

Articles needing creation

 * Category: Indian women scientists
 * Indian Women Scientists' Association (Link)
 * Kamala Sohonie (Biochemist) (Link)
 * Anna Mani (physicist) (Link)
 * Kamal Ranadive (Link)
 * Darshan Ranganathan (Link)
 * Bindu Bambah (Link)
 * Maharani Chakravorty (Link)
 * B Vijayalakshmi (Link)
 * Shubha Tole (Link)
 * Ramanathan Sowdhamini (Link)

Articles needing expansion

 * Tessy Thomas (missile scientist)
 * Janaki Ammal (Botanist) (Link)
 * Rani Bang (Medical doctor)

Resources

 * Indian Academy of Sciences - List of Women Scientists
 * Lilavati's daughters
 * Model article