This user is or was a participant in Wiki Education's Scholars & Scientists Program.
I am part of a course taught by Wiki Education that trains scholars in how to edit Wikipedia. Learn more at wikiedu.org. All of my contributions are my own and I take responsibility for them.
I find one of my instructors Elysia's page to be very useful. She created a compilation of resources here that has useful information on editing Wikipedia including talk page conventions and the basics of editing wikicode.
I am working on biographies of women in physics from the women in red project page on women in physics.
following guidelines from my WikiEdu Scholars + Scientist program, I'm currently using an ORES based script for the quality rankings listed on the talk page of new articles I work on. ORES uses machine learning to help automate assessments of edits on wikipedia. You can learn more about useful tools you may want to utilize on wikipedia based on ORES here.
my new #women4wiki biographies will typically include the following sections: "Introduction (or lede)", "Education, career and service", "Select Publications", "Notable Awards", and "References".
on the right is an infobox you can edit and paste to the start of an article about a scientist
Name
Alma mater
Undergrad + graduate education (can also include postdoc)
Known for
Brief notability
Awards
Notable Prizes
Scientific career
Fields
Research Field(s)
Institutions
Current institutional affiliation
these are some templates which may be useful to add to a talk page when developing or improving a biography
Women in Red Biography 2019 {{WIR-00-2019}}
WikiProject Women {{WikiProject Women|living=yes|listas= Name Here |class=Start}}
WikiProject Women Scientists {{WikiProject Women Scientists|living=yes|listas= Name Here|class=Start|needs-image=yes}}
University of California {{WikiProject University of California|class=C|UCB=yes}}
when putting together references section, should include the references template and also in the ref section add some templates to assist with organization and flagging with WikiData collection: {{Reflist}} + {{Authority control}}
additional info about editing + scientific biographies if you are new to wikipedia[edit]
Wikipedia is edited collaboratively by volunteers. You can see all volunteer wikipedia editors who have contributed to any given article and their specific contributions by clicking the "View History" tab of an article.
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