Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's History/NIH Women’s History Month Edit-a-Thon 2015



In honor of Women’s History Month, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is organizing and hosting an edit-a-thon to improve coverage of women in science in Wikipedia. The focus will be on women in science from or supported by NIH, or the NIH’s historical holdings of women in science.
 * Update See report - "NIH Marks Women’s History Month with All-Day Wikipedia Edit"

Activities will include new editor orientation and training, organized with Wikimedia DC. There will be a morning session, with a repeat in the afternoon. People are welcome to join for one or both sessions. Refreshments generously supplied by Wikimedia DC.

If you get stuck at security and need help, call Office of Communications and Public Liaison, 301-496-5787: someone will be there to help you out!

'''A giant thank you to everyone who pitched in to prepare for Friday and/or to participate on the day! Keep editing - there's still plenty of time in Women's History Month!|'''

NIH sponsors

 * NIH Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)
 * National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI/National Library of Medicine)
 * NIH Office of Communications & Public Liaison (OD/OCPL)

Participation details

 * When
 * Friday, March 13th, 2015
 * 9:00am – 4:00pm


 * Who
 * NIH community and Wikipedians (see NIH guidelines below)
 * No advanced technical skills required – those with experience will help


 * What to bring
 * Government-issued photo ID (allow time for security at the NIH entrance)
 * Laptop computer with power cable
 * If you’ve been part of the data-gathering exercise leading up to the edit-a-thon, bring your files and photos
 * If you have not been part of the preparatory research work, there will be an ambitious task list for you to work on.


 * Where
 * Wilson Hall
 * Building 1, 3rd floor
 * Main NIH entrance (at Medical Center Metro)
 * 9000 Rockville Pike
 * Bethesda MD
 * directions for visitors
 * Map of campus


 * RSVP
 * Sign up directly below or email edi.women@nih.gov
 * This event is free of charge but we need an advance count of attendees.

Interpreters and reasonable accommodations
Individuals with disabilities who need reasonable accommodation or sign language interpreting to participate in this event should contact Sarah Williams, Strategist for the Women’s Portfolio, Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, at sarah.williams2@nih.gov, or 301-402-4157 and/or the Federal Relay (1-800-877-8339).

Goals

 * To make a substantive improvement to the representation of women in science in Wikipedia, both at the edit-a-thon, through the rest of Women’s History Month and beyond
 * To encourage the NIH community to learn how to contribute to Wikipedia

Schedule
If you don’t need the tutorials, you can just start/keep editing!

Guidelines for Participating in Wikipedia from NIH

 * Guidelines for Participating in Wikipedia from NIH

Wikipedia Editing Resources

 * Wikipedia's criteria for academics
 * Biographies of Living Persons on Wikipedia
 * Wikipedia's Manual of Style for Biographies
 * Wikipedia Image use policy
 * Wikipedia Editing Cheatsheet

Resources on Scientists at the NIH

 * Early Women Scientists at the NIH
 * Profiles in Science at the National Library of Medicine (NLM)
 * Lists of major Honors awarded to NIH's intramural scientists
 * The Office National Institutes of Health History
 * Images from the History of Medicine, National Library of Medicine (NLM) (Check copyright details)
 * The Office of NIH History and Stetten Museum on flickr
 * NIH Image Bank
 * The National Library of Medicine (NLM)
 * National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division
 * The National Library of Medicine (NLM) Circulating Now - blog drawing from the historical collections
 * Physicians and Surgeons of America (1896)

See also other U.S. Government image sources.

Attendees
We will need a list of attendees before the event, although staff can take their chances on a walk-in for parts of the day.


 * 1) Hildabast (talk) 02:51, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
 * 2) Sparke13 (talk) 12:50, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
 * 3)   Blue Rasberry   (talk)  14:33, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
 * 4) Cognito7 (talk) 14:57, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
 * 5) CunningV  (talk) 09:49, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 6) Harej (talk) 05:04, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 7) Wordsmith17 (talk) 20:38, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 8) Biochembelle (talk) 20:39, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 9) Unicorn Evodevo (talk) 20:40, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 10) DcrisJ (talk) 20:41, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 11) Duckduckstop (talk) 19:48, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 12) Djembayz (talk) 22:21, 11 March 2015 (UTC) (later)
 * 13) Chandler wiland
 * 14) ChandniJP (talk) 13:42, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 15) Miriam.magana.lopez1992 (talk) 13:53, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 16) Cmstile (talk) 13:45, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 17) CGarn965 (talk) 13:50, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 18) Iluvicedtea (talk) 13:52, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 19) bofro1 (talk) 14:02, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 20) CDJNIMHD (talk) 13:56, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 21) Bleuzebra (talk) 14:52, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 22) LSC124 (talk) 14:52, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 23) Starchildwikipedian (talk) 16:06, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 24) Eagleincatskills (talk) 17:48, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 25) Godimas (talk) 17:48, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 26) Pharos (talk) 17:51, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 27) wordscientist (talk) 17:51, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 28) --Jabirc (talk) 18:40, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 29) SavannahMarie32 (talk) 14:30, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 30) ChristenSandoval (talk) 16:27, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 31) AmyEBHC (talk) 16:27, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
 * 32) Daniel Mietchen (talk) 00:10, 28 April 2015 (UTC) &mdash; signing up now to be pinged for the next shinding

List of Tasks
Pages which could be improved:


 * Josephine Briggs - improved stub
 * Linda Buck
 * Carol Greider
 * Ruth Kirschstein
 * Story Landis
 * Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz
 * Rita Levi-Montalcini
 * Elizabeth Nabel
 * Yoke Peng Loh
 * Elizabeth Neufeld
 * Candace Pert
 * Margaret Pittman
 * Anita Roberts
 * Maxine Singer
 * Thressa Stadtman
 * Gladys Tantaquidgeon
 * Hannah Valantine
 * Nora Volkow

For new pages (14):


 * Marie Bernard
 * Nina Braunwald
 * Susan Gottesman
 * Patricia A. Grady
 * Elaine Jaffe
 * Yvonne Maddox
 * Keiko Ozato
 * Vivian Pinn CGarn965 (talk) 16:04, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Clarice Reid
 * Rachel Schneerson
 * Julie Segre
 * Martha Somerman
 * Kathryn Zoon
 * Judith Vaitukaitis

New pages

 * 1) Nina Braunwald
 * 2) Keiko Ozato
 * 3) Martha Somerman
 * 4) Marie Bernard
 * 5) Elaine Jaffe
 * 6) Yvonne Maddox
 * 7) Vivian Pinn
 * 8) Clarice Reid
 * 9) Rachel Schneerson
 * 10) Kathryn Zoon
 * 11) Judith Vaitukaitis
 * 12) Patricia A. Grady
 * 13) Susan Gottesman
 * 14) Julie Segre
 * 15) Margaret Morgan Lawrence

Improved pages

 * 1) Ida A. Bengtson - added infobox
 * 2) Gladys Tantaquidgeon - added image of the museum she founded, and link to NLM holding of her original work
 * 3) Maxine Singer - updated & added inline citations
 * 4) Anita Roberts - added photo and info box, references, inline citations; updated info
 * 5) Hannah Valantine - Updated photo, added content
 * 6) Josephine Briggs - Added photo, expanded content
 * 7) Linda Buck - added content
 * 8) Carol Greider - added content
 * 9) Ruth L. Kirschstein - added photos, expanded content
 * 10) Story Landis - added content
 * 11) Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz - Added photo, expanded content
 * 12) Elizabeth Neufeld - Added photo, added content
 * 13) Candace Pert - added content
 * 14) Margaret Pittman - Photo and info box added, content expanded
 * 15) Maxine Singer - expanded content
 * 16) Thressa Stadtman - Corrected name, added photo
 * 17) Nora Volkow - Added photos, expanded content
 * 18) Sarah E Stewart - expanded content
 * 19) Yoke Peng Loh - Added photo and info box, added citations to independent sources, added content
 * 20) Roger Arliner Young - Added key historical publication from NLM, added content
 * 21) Sara Elizabeth Branham Matthews - Added photos and content

Improving visibility of Hispanic/Latino women scientists

 * 1) List of Latin Americans – Science and technology: increased content from 1 woman/48 scientists to 6 women/53 scientists
 * 2) List of Hispanic and Latino Americans - Added category Scientists, including 5 notable Hispanic/Latino women
 * 3) List of female scientists before the 21st century - Listed 5 Hispanic/Latino women, adding to the one Latina listed in the 20th century section
 * 4) Included 5 notable Hispanic/Latino women in the Category: Hispanic and Latino-American people
 * 5) Expanded content of Dr. Sarah Stewart's page
 * Women included in these lists: Martha E. Bernal, Helen Rodríguez Trías, Sarah Stewart, Lydia Villa-Komaroff, Antonia Novello

Photos added to Wikimedia Commons
+ See below for additional unused photos previously available in Wikimedia Commons.

See them all!


 * 1) Marie Bernard
 * 2) Sara Elizabeth Branham, 1937
 * 3) Sara Elizabeth Branham, ca 1938
 * 4) Sara Elizabeth Branham, 1955
 * 5) Nina S Braunwald
 * 6) Josephine P Briggs
 * 7) Linda B Buck +
 * 8) Patricia A Grady
 * 9) Story Landis ++
 * 10) Margaret Morgan Lawrence
 * 11) Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz
 * 12) Lippincott-Schwartz lab
 * 13) Yoke Peng Loh
 * 14) Yvonne Maddox, early career
 * 15) Yvonne Maddox with Francis Collins
 * 16) Elizabeth F Neufeld
 * 17) NIH Division of Biologics Control in 1938, including Margaret Pittman, Sarah Stewart, Sara Branham
 * 18) Keiki Ozato
 * 19) Vivian Pinn (undated)
 * 20) Vivian Pinn with Duchess of York (1998)
 * 21) Vivian Pinn with Senator Olympia Snowe (2005)
 * 22) Vivian Pinn (2008)
 * 23) Vivian Pinn (2010)
 * 24) Vivian Pinn at the 20th Anniversary of ORWH
 * 25) Vivian Pinn and Geena Davis
 * 26) Margaret Pittman
 * 27) Clarice Reid
 * 28) Anita B. Roberts
 * 29) Rachel Schneerson
 * 30) Julie Segre
 * 31) Martha J Somerman
 * 32) Theresa Stadtman (and others)
 * 33) Judith Vaitukaitis (1971)
 * 34) Judith Vaitukaitis with Griff Ross
 * 35) Judith Vaitukaitis (2005)
 * 36) Hannah Valentine (1)
 * 37) Hannah Valentine (2)
 * 38) Nora Volkow (2005)
 * 39) Nora Volkow (2013)
 * 40) Ruth Kirschstein (cover photo)
 * 41) Ruth Kirschstein (family photo)
 * 42) Ruth Kirschstein (Honorary degree - Tulane)
 * 43) Ruth Kirschstein (teenager)
 * 44) Ruth Kirschstein and Alan Rabson
 * 45) Ruth Kirschstein (working with microscope)
 * 46) Ruth Kirschstein and Tony Fauci
 * 47) Ruth Kirschstein (Asilomar Conference)
 * 48) Ruth Kirschstein (1957)
 * 49) Ruth Kirschstein (first female director of an NIH Institute)
 * 50) Ruth Kirschstein (at work in lab)

Additional + unused photos previously available in Wikimedia Commons for the 32 women for 2015:


 * Linda B Buck
 * Susan Gottesman
 * Elaine Jaffe
 * Ruth Kirschstein
 * Story Landis (1), (2)
 * Yvonne Maddox (1), (2)
 * Kathryn Zoon

Template for Creating Info Box with Image
Cut and paste this example from the edit page here - replace the placeholder text with info for your scientist and a photo file from Wikimedia Commons, and you're good to go. (Having the birthdate means it will calculate age automatically.)

An example of what these info boxes look like is here: Linda Buck

Be careful that you don't leave any of the filler explanatory text there (the words in all capital letters). Always add "alternative image text" - that will show in rollover text and for people who use machines to read (e.g. because of visual impairment). It should be a short caption explaining the image. The template is everything from here to the end of this section: