Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's History/Ada Lovelace Festival of Wikipedia workshop

BCS Women joined forces with Wikimedia UK and Suw Charman-Anderson of Finding Ada, to celebrate Ada Lovelace day in 2013. In general, the day exists to celebrate the contributions of women in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, especially since Ada Lovelace is considered the first programmer, due to her work on Charles Babbage's analytical engine. As well as the usual events on Ada Lovelace Day, October 15, this year BCS Women run a Festival of Wikipedia to add/update/ improve Wikipedia entries of Women In Computing. There was a series of informal events in various locations, details of which you can find below.

General contact: WMUK, Daria Cybulska on daria.cybulska (at) wikimedia.org.uk, telephone 0207 065 0994. Finding Ada, please contact Suw on suw.charman (at) gmail.com.

Preparation for the participants

 * Laptop
 * Details of your Wikipedia username
 * Ideas of topics to edit

Training was given by the leader and a Wikipedia volunteer at each event.

Additional resources
For people joining us online, and those wanting to learn more before the event, following help pages were suggested:
 * Tutorial
 * Help:Editing - traditional wiki mark up help
 * VisualEditor/User guide - new Visual Editor help
 * There is an information leaflet created to support Women in Science events - File:How to edit - International Women's Day 2013.pdf
 * Some information on women in computing could be found here

Joining online



 * Twitter: #WISWIKI, @wikimediauk, @bcswomen, @FindingAda
 * Chat room: #wikimedia-uk channel - this was supported by Cornelia Boldyreff.

I'm attending online

 * Gobōnobō + c

London

 * Date: Thursday 3 October 2013
 * Time: 3.30pm-7.30pm; plus food and networking until 8.45pm
 * Venue: BCS, 1st Floor, The Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London, WC2E 7HA
 * More information - Here
 * BSC lead - Sarah Burnett, sarah.burnett@bcs.org

Computer Science
• Wendy Hall

• Grace Murray Hopper

• Nicola Pellow

• Shafi Goldwasser

• Neri Oxman

• Meg Whitman

• Carly Fiorina

• Anita Borg

• Frances E. Allen

• Betsy Ancker-Johnson

• Anousheh Ansari

• Ruzena Bajcsy

• Carol Bartz

• Marsha Berger

• Fran Berman

• Lenore Blum

• Anita Borg

• Cynthia Breazeal

• Ursula Burns

• Safra A. Catz

• Rosemary Candlin

• Weili Dai

• Ruth M. Davis

• Susan Dumais

• Cynthia Dwork

• Deborah Estrin

• Carly Fiorina

• Adele Goldberg

• Shafi Goldwasser

• Susan Graham

• Diane Greene

• Irene Greif

• Helen Greiner

• Laura Haas

• Erna Schneider Hoover

• Mary Jane Irwin

• Leah Jamieson

• Mary Lou Jepsen

• Katherine Johnson

• Kristina Johnson

• Anita Katherine Jones

• Karen Spärck Jones

• Mary Kenneth Keller

• Maria Klawe

• Hedy Lamarr

• Susan Landau

• Duy-Loan Le

• Henrietta Swan Leavitt

• Barbara H. Liskov

• Nancy Lynch

• Kay McNulty

• Betty Snyder

• Marlyn Wescoff

• Ruth Lichterman

• Betty Jennings

• Fran Bilas

• Evi Nemeth

• Ellen Ochoa

• Radia Perlman

• Linda Petzold

• Rosalind W. Picard

• Martha Pollack

• Ginni Rometty

• Daniela Rus

• Jean E. Sammet

• Lucy Sanders

• Barbara Simons

• Yafeng Sun

• Eva Tardos

• Janie Tsao

• Dana Ulery

• Sophie Vandebroek

• Manuela Veloso

• Padmasree Warrior

• Elaine Weyuker

• Meg Whitman

• Jennifer Widom

• Mary Allen Wilkes

• Sophie Wilson

• Jeannette Wing

• Beatrice Helen Worsley

• Jane Xu

• Kathy Yelick

• Lixia Zhang

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• Karen Petrie

• Anne Moffat - will need a disambiguation

• Mary Combes

• Anne Budge

• Trudy Norris-Grey

• Rebecca George

• Sue Sumner - Barclays director for women in IT

• Theresa Schofield

• Jacqui Hogan

• Krystyna Gadd

• Christine Alexander-Smith

• Eileen Brown

• Cornelia Boldyreff

• Hannah Dee

• Kay Dudman

• Sarah Burnett

• Margaret Ross - disambiguation done

• Kate Craig-Wood

• Sue mcDougal (ex IBM - started the UK Womens Leadership team in the UK and later ran the EMEA Womens Leadership team )

• Nikki Walker  (ex IBM and ex cisco - big on women in IT) - will need a disambiguation

• Mandy Chessell, (IBM Distinguished Engineer, Master Inventor, Chief Architect for InfoSphere Solutions, IBM)

• Sarah Greasley (Distinguished Engineer and Technical Director, IBM UK Ltd)

Trainers

 * John Cummings (talk) 15:25, 17 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Thoughtfortheday (talk) 20:51, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

Edinburgh

 * Date: Thursday 3 October 2013
 * Time: 4.00pm-8.00pm
 * Venue: IBM, 21 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh, EH2 1AY
 * More information and how to book (free) - Here
 * BCS lead - Sharon Moore, sharon.moore@undefinedbcs.org

Resources
''In addition to publicly accessible on-line resources, participants may wish to register for a National Library of Scotland digital readership in advance of the event. If you already hold a valid NLS library card then you will simply need to register for online access; if you do not have an NLS library card, you can still register for a digital readership so long as your residential address is in Scotland. Simply fill out the online registration form for either new or existing customers, activate your account, and set up your password. This will give you access to a wealth of knowledge and online resources:
 * Hundreds of thousands of digitised books, periodicals and manuscripts spanning over five centuries
 * Millions of records and abstracts via online services and databases
 * Thousands of full-text newspapers, journals and reports
 * Hundreds of full-text reference works.''

''You can then browse these collections or search for keywords during the edit-a-thon and during any other Wikipedia contributions you may make in the future! A step-by-step, detailed guide to digital registration with the NLS is also available. ''

Suggested topics for the editathon
• Fran Bilas

• Karen Spärck Jones

• Mary Kenneth Keller

• Nikki Walker (ex IBM and ex cisco - big on women in IT) - will need a disambiguation

• Karen Petrie

• Trudy Norris-Grey

• Maria Klawe

• Susan Landau

• Daniela Rus

• Jean E. Sammet

• Sophie Wilson

• Susan Landau

• Sarah Greasley (Distinguished Engineer and Technical Director, IBM UK Ltd)

• Ruth Lichterman

• Nancy Lynch

• Jennifer Widom

• Mary Allen Wilkes

• Sophie Wilson

• Eva Tardos

• Hannah Dee

• Marlyn Wescoff

• Cornelia Boldyreff

Trainers

 * User:ACrockford

Participants

 * User:Triptropic
 * User:Samtheeditor
 * User:Fionamcneill
 * User:Graeme_Arnott

Southampton

 * Date: Saturday 5 October 2013
 * Time: 11am – 3pm
 * Venue: Southampton Solent University, Reginald Mitchell Building, RM 326 3rd Floor, 326 East Park Terrace, Southampton, SO14 0YN
 * More information - Here
 * BCS lead - Margaret Ross, margaret.ross@undefinedsolent.ac.uk; arranged jointly with BCS Women, Open Source SG and Hampshire Branch

Trainers

 * John Cummings

Outcome
The event was attended by a small but very capable group of BCS women members new to Wikipedia who learned how to contribute to Wikipedia and started articles on women in computer science.

Press

 * http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/witsend/2013/09/bcs-women-invites-you-to-their-festival-of-wikipedia-for-ada-lovelace-day.html

Further outcomes
BSC Women were keen to continue with the events, setting up sessions for or around 10th December 2013, the birthday of Ada Lovelace. The cooperation continued in 2014.