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Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: Ada Lovelace Day Edition
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Presented by 500 Women Scientists DC with support from Wikimedia DC.
Ada Lovelace Day is an international day to celebrate the contributions of self-identifying women to science, technology, engineering, and math. So to celebrate their achievements, 500 Women Scientists and our allies, as well as the DC Science Writer's Association, are gathering at the West End DC Public Library on Saturday, October 13th to share their work on Wikipedia's pages.
While Wikipedia is the fifth most popular website in the world, notching up more than 32 million views a day, less than 18% of its English-language biographies are about women. So in honor of Ada Lovelace—and her contributions to mathematics and computing—we'll work to add more entries to Wikipedia and give you the tools to keep making the Internet less sexist after our Wiki-thon. All you have to do is come armed with a laptop or tablet!
We ask participants to only do a few things before October 13th:
- Come with your laptop or tablet.
- Create a Wikipedia account here.
- Make your edits count! Register on our dashboard to track our collective edits and measure our impact as Wiki-thons take place around the world over the week.
Training will be provided. No experience necessary.
(Optional) If you’d like to do some training on how to edit beforehand to familiarize yourself, you can check out a tutorial here. Of course, we’ll go over the ins and outs of editing during the event as well so this is totally optional!
To read more about why editing Wikipedia is such a powerful tool to combat gender inequity in science, you can check out this editorial in Nature.
When
- Saturday, October 13, 2018 12PM-2PM
Where
- West End Neighborhood Library
- 2301 L Street Northwest
- Washington, DC 20037
Sign-up
- Sign-up here with Eventbrite'
Coordination
[edit]Please use the dashboard to share what you are currently editing.
Presentation
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Policies, Quick Tips and Other Wikimedia Resources
[edit]- Wikipedia:Five pillars
- Wikipedia:Core content policies
- Wikipedia:General notability guideline
- Wikipedia:Verifiability
- Wikipedia:Conflict of interest
- Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources
- Wikipedia:No original research (Examples of Original Research)
- Wikipedia:Citing sources
- Wikipedia:Identifying and using primary sources
Your first article
Tips
- Creating Redirects with Visual Editor
- Creating Redirector with Source Editor
- Using categories
- Cheatsheet for Wiki markup
- Wiki Ed Foundation's online training modules
Wikimedia and other related projects
Suggested Work List
[edit]Articles in blue already exist. Articles in red have yet to be created.
Articles to Edit
[edit]Anthropology
- Kathryn Clancy - biological anthropologist, sexual harassment in fieldwork[1][2]
- Polly Wiessner - anthropologist[3]
- Karen Strier
Astronomy/Astrophysics
- Louisa Wells - astronomer
- Florence Cushman - astronomer
- Pauline Harris (astronomer) - first(?) Maori astronomy PhD, astronomer
- Jacqueline Hewitt[4][5]
- Jedidah Isler
- Evelyn Leland - astronomer
- Elizabeth Kent (a.k.a. Isis Pogson) - astronomer
- Charlotte Moore Sitterly - astronomer[6][7]
- Eleanor F. Helin - astrophysicist
- Katharine Blodgett Gebbie
- Pamela M. Kilmartin - planetary astronomer
- Rebecca Oppenheimer - astrophysicist
- Vera Rubin
Anatomy/Physiology/Organismal Biology
Biochemistry / Chemical Biology
- Rachel Green[9]
- Cecilia Unson
- Mandë Holford (also science diplomacy)[10]
- Carolyn Bertozzi
- Elizabeth Blackburn
Biology
- Lynn Riddiford
- Juliana Machado Ferreira
- Kristen Marhaver - Marine biologist, coral reef
Biophysics
- Jue Chen
- Catherine Drennan -biophysics[11]
Botany
- Grace Gobbo
- Mary Arroyo - academy member, chilean, important work on plant reproduction, alpine
- Vivian Irish - floral evolutionary biologist, important work on floral development
- Jeannine Cavender-Bares- phylogenetic patterns of plant traits, 14000 citations
- Pamela Soltis - major figure in plant and floral evolution
- Katherine Furbish - Maine botanist, strong influence in NE flora, 4000+ specimens
- Estella Leopold - pollen, paleobotany, Aldo Leopold’s daughter
Cell & Molecular Biologist
- Jill Bargonneti[12]
- Agata Smogorzewska
- Dafna Bar-Sagi
- Clare Waterman[13]
- Karen James - DNA barcoding[14]
- Nina Papavasiliou
- Bonnie Bassler
- Emmanuelle Charpentier (CRISPR)
- Jennifer Doudna (CRISPR)
- Ruth Hubbard
- Titia de Lange
- Ruth Lehmann
- Susan Lindquist (protein folding)
- Elaine Fuchs
- Cynthia Kenyon
- Mary-Claire King
- Shirley Tilghman
- Fiona Watt - stem cell biologist
Chemistry
- Irma Goldberg - organic chemist
- Anna J Harrison - organic chemist
- Clare Hunsdiecker - organic chemist
- Eva Philbin - organic chemist
- Mildred Rebstock - organic chemist
- Yajaira Sierra Sastre - materials chemistry & nanotechnology
- Ada Yonath - organic chemist
- Jacqueline Barton
- Madeleine M. Joullié
Computer Science
- Cynthia Breazeal - computer scientist
- Ann Caracristi - more accurately cryptology
- Leah Culver - computer science
- Julia Hirschberg
- Irma Wyman - computer scientist
- Sheila Greibach - computer scientist
- Tal Malkin - computer scientist
- Gail Kaiser - computer scientist
- Kathleen McKeown - computer scientist
Engineering
- Biomedical / Biotechnology engineering
- Lisa E. Freed[15][16]
- Monique Frize - biomedical engineer
- Jemma Redmond - biotechnology
- Chemical Engineering
- Lynn Gladden - chemical engineer
- Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau - chemical engineer
- Electrical Engineer
- Edith Clarke - electrical engineer
- Mechanical Engineering
- Marta Bohn-Meyer - flight engineer[17][18]
- Verena Holmes - engineer
- Margaret Ingels - mechanical engineer
- Nancy J. Currie - engineer and astronaut
Ecology
- Liza Comita - 12 yrs post-PhD, 5000 citations. Tropical forest dynamics
- Jane Lubchenco - marine ecologist, academy member, ran NOAA for obama
Evolutionary Biology
- Brigitte Baptiste ecologist, science diplomacy in Colombia (Spanish language Wikipedia article. Can be translated to English Wikipedia)[19]
- Li Zhao[20]
- Nancy Moran - academy member, symbiosis, microbiome, bees
- Amy McCune (Cornell)
- Alison G. Power
- Hopi Hoekstra[21][22]
- Nicole King
- Susan Alberts
- Danielle N. Lee - behavioral ecology
- May Berenbaum - entomologist, national medal of science, academy member
- Mary Jane West-Eberhard - phenotypic plasticity
- Lynn Margulis - significance of symbiosis in evolution, e.g. mitochondria.
- Mary-Claire King - discovered brca1 gene, genomic sequencing to identify human rights abuses
- Barbara McClintock - discovered transposable elements
Food Scientist
- Carey Miller - food scientist[23][24]
Geologist / Geochemist / Earth Scientist
- Tracey Holloway[25]
- Hope Jahren
- Marie Tharp - geologist and oceanographic cartographer
- Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu - engineer
- Victoria Orphan - geobiologist
Immunology
- Maggi Witmer Pack
- Yasmine Belkaid - Immunologist
Mathematics
- Eugenia Cheng - mathematician and pianist[26]
- Maryam Mirzakhani - mathematician
- Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat - mathematician[27]
- Ida Rhodes - mathematician
- Tracy Camp - mathematician[28]
Mathematics Education
- Carolyn A. Maher
- Miriam Amit
- Brenda Strassfeld
- Susan Pirie
- Mary Baratta-Lorton
- Nel Noddings
- Alice S. Alston
- Elena Steencken
- Jo Boaler
Medicine
- Kris Ebi - Climate Change and Health[29]
- Susan F. Wood[30][31]
- Harriet P. Dustan[32]
- Irene D. Long - physician at NASA
- Helen Hobbs
- Huda Zoghbi
- Yvette Fay Francis-McBarnette
- Edith Quimby - medical researcher and physicist
- Mae Jemison
- Hope Rugo
Meteorology/Climate Science
- Women in climate change
- Kirstin Dow - Climate Impacts, Vulnerability, and Adaptation[33]
- Mary Glackin[34][35]
- Beate Liepert - global dimming
- Linda Mearns - Regional Climate Modeling[36]
- Cynthia Rosenzweig - Climate Impacts[37]
Neuroscience / Neurobiology
- Adrienne Fairhall
- Mary E. Hatten[38][39]
- Priya Rajasethupathy[40][41]
- Sarah Woolley[42]
- Catherine Woolley[43]
- Nancy Bonini - academy member, drosophila as a tool for human brain disease
- Elizabeth Adkins-Regan - Neuroendocrinology
- Josephine Ball - Neuroendocrinology
- Rae Silver - Neuroendocrinology
- Alison Fleming - Neuroendocrinology
- Barbara Finlay - Evolutionary Neuroscience
- draft:Lauren A. O’Connell
- Margaret McCarthy
- Emilie Rissman
- Laura Smale
- Tracy L. Bale
- Joan Stiles[44]
- Stacia Sower
- Ann B. Butler - Comparative neuroanatomy (George Mason University)
- Alice Powers - Comparative neuroanatomy (Stony Brook)
- Melina Hale
- Sari van Anders
- Mei-Fang Cheng (Rutgers)
- Anne Churchland[45][46][47]
- Cecilia Heyes
- Ellen Ketterson
- Vanessa Ruta
- Leslie B. Vosshall
- Andrea Gore
- Cornelia Bargmann
- Mary Jeanne Kreek
- Catherine Dulac
- Eve Marder[48]
- Lily Jan
- May-Britt Moser
- Frances Champagne
- Berta Scharrer[49]
- Rachel Wilson[50]
- Linda Buck
- Suzanne Corkin
- Ann Graybiel
Planetary Science
- Maria Zuber
- Lori Glaze
- Rosaly Lopes
- Louise Prockter
- Faith Vilas
- Zibi Turtle
- Caroline Smith (scientist)
Physicist
Science Diplomacy
- Melody Brown Burkins (also geology)
- Marga Gual Soler
- Sherryl Broverman (Science Education)[51][52]
- Jalonne White-Newsome (Environmental Justice/Health)[53]
- Frances A. Colón
- Nina Fedoroff
- Margaret Hamburg
- Naomi Oreskes Science historian, wrote Merchants of Doubt, how science has been corrupted by money & politics
Social Science
- Maria Carmen Lemos - human dimensions of global change[54]
Technology
- Alicia Asín - engineer and entrepreneur, founder of Libelium[55]
- Helen Greiner - engineer, co-founder iRobot
- Ashawna Hailey - engineer
- Beulah Louise Henry - inventor
- Madison Maxey wearable technology[56]
Potential Sources
[edit]- ^ "Kathryn Clancy".
- ^ "Kathryn Clancy".
- ^ "Polly Wiessner".
- ^ "Jacqueline Hewitt".
- ^ "Jacqueline Hewitt".
- ^ "Charlotte Moore Sitterly".
- ^ "Charlotte Moore Sitterly" (PDF).
- ^ "Charlotte Mangum".
- ^ "Rachel Green".
- ^ "Mandë Holford".
- ^ "Catherine Drennan".
- ^ "Jill Bargonneti".
- ^ "Clare Waterman".
- ^ "Karen James".
- ^ "Lisa E. Freed".
- ^ "Lisa E. Freed".
- ^ "Marta Bohn-Meyer".
- ^ "Marta Bohn Meyer".
- ^ "Brigitte Baptiste".
- ^ "Li Zhao".
- ^ "Hopi Hoekstra".
- ^ "Hopi Hoekstra".
- ^ "Carey MIller".
- ^ "Carey Miller".
- ^ "Tracey Holloway".
- ^ "Eugenia Cheng".
- ^ "Yvonne Choqust-Bruhst".
- ^ "Tracy Camp".
- ^ "Kris Ebi".
- ^ "Susan F. Wood".
- ^ "Susan F. Wood".
- ^ "Harriet P. Dustan".
- ^ "Kirstin Dow".
- ^ "Mary Glackin".
- ^ "Mary Glackin".
- ^ "Linda Mearns".
- ^ "Cynthia Rosenzweig".
- ^ "Mary E. Hatten".
- ^ "Mary E. Hatten".
- ^ "Friya Rajasethupathy".
- ^ "Friya Rajasethupathy".
- ^ "Sarah Wooley".
- ^ "Catherine Woolley".
- ^ "Joan Stiles".
- ^ "Anne Churchland" (PDF).
- ^ "Anne Churchland".
- ^ "Anne Churchland".
- ^ "Eve Marder" (PDF).
- ^ "Berta Scharrer".
- ^ "Rachel Wilson".
- ^ "Sherryl Broverman".
- ^ "Sherryl Broverman".
- ^ "Jalonne White-Newsome".
- ^ "Maria Carmen Lemos".
- ^ "Alicia Asin".
- ^ "Madison Maxey".