Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Royal Society/Women in Science Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at the Royal Society, March 2014

Sister events
We are having a sister event on March 4 in Davis, California; details are here! Join us if you're in the area, and we look forward to collaborating! -- phoebe / (talk to me) 23:47, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Great! Please get your people to make a note by any articles on the lists here that they are working on, for records and to avoid edit conflicts etc, though the time difference will largely prevent that. Hope it goes well! Wiki at Royal Society John (talk) 14:27, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

Articles linked to from an outside site
The reddit Men's Rights subreddit has linked to some of the related articles in this edit-a-thon, with requests for that group to edit them.

http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/1z077g/online_action_feminists_rewrite_scientific/ and http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/1yuxiz/feminist_input_into_wikipedia_trying_to_rewrite/ --Zx80 (talk) 08:25, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

Wot I told the Economist
Re their mention of the event: As the Wikimedian in Residence at the Royal Society in London, and organizer of the Women in Science event on March 4th (fully booked but online participants welcome - see the event page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Royal_Society/Women_in_Science_Wikipedia_Edit-a-thon_at_the_Royal_Society,_March_2014) I'm grateful for your mention of it. But your description of "articles on women scientists, which tend to be incomplete or even non-existent" is not very accurate. All articles on Wikipedia might be called "incomplete" to some degree, as the nature of the beast, unlike other encyclopedias, is that there is no agreed level of "completion". Of course many articles are short, but this is just as true of those on male scientists. That is why I'm still up at 3.40 am finding enough suggestions to keep the 36 attendees busy, which is not an easy task. Anyone with suggestions can add them to the "Other suggestions" section on the page. Eminent women scientists with "non-existent" articles are actually hard to find, though I have found a few; thanks to previous events like next week's, all the women FRS's there have ever been have a Wikipedia biography, which is certainly not the case for the men (admittedly a much larger group). For example, James Tait FRS, who died recently, has no biography [redirects to his wife], but his wife Sylvia Tait FRS has a decent-sized one. The under-recognition of women in science has been a general problem, but Wikipedians are determined to make sure we are part of the solution. Johnbod (talk) 03:54, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

Photographs on the day

 * 28 more photos just uploaded  Edwardx (talk) 13:35, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Many thanks! Some used already, here & for the next time. Wiki at Royal Society John (talk) 18:55, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

Ann Budge
I got into a conversation about this article on the day, but it seems not to have happened. Just a stub so far. Charles Matthews (talk) 21:58, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

Requesting Editathon Info for Program Learning
Hello organizers and attendees of the Women in Science Editathon. The WMF Program Evaluation and Design team are finishing up the second round of program data collection on November 26th and we would love to include information on your editathon. Below are the questions which still need answers--could you please contribute any answers you know? Critical questions are highlighted in yellow; it should take about 3 minutes to fill in all the missing critical data. This voluntary program reporting helps us build an overview of programs and really helps with shared learning and capacity building for future editathons. If you have any questions, I would be very happy to chat, either through my talk page or at abittaker at wikimedia dot org. Many thanks! --Abittaker (WMF) (talk) 23:22, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

Melanie Lee
I picked up the baton and Melanie Lee is now live. Fences &amp;  Windows  20:39, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

Meg Patterson AFD : neurosurgeon with MBE less notable than her husband (sans MBE)
I recently started an article on the neurosurgeon Meg Patterson and it was immediately AFDd. I do not initiate many biog articles on women, but I cannot remember any of my stubs on men being treated so harshly, with referenced material being slashed, and somebody at the AFD suggesting that she is only notable because of her husband! Mais oui! (talk) 12:12, 21 September 2017 (UTC)


 * What was said at the AFD was that the only inline citation that was in the article (at the time of the post was posted) was to her husbands obituary, and that this was not enough to establish notability.Slatersteven (talk) 14:52, 21 September 2017 (UTC)