Wikipedia:GLAM/University of California Davis Libraries/March 4

UCD Library edit-a-thons: Women in Science

• March 4, 2014
• 1:00pm-3:00pm, Shields Library Instruction Lab

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On March 4, the Royal Society in London is hosting a Wikipedia edit-a-thon to promote diversity in science and engineering to celebrate International Women's Day (and as a part of Wikipedia:WikiWomen's History Month). There is a long list of biographies of women scientists on Wikipedia that either don’t exist or need to be improved, as well as articles about their discoveries and work. More information about the event is in this recent article from the Guardian.

Professors Jonathan Eisen and Dawn Sumner of UC Davis proposed that we should have a “sister event” here at Davis to join in, and we are happy to host it at the library as part of our year-long Wikipedia project! Please join us to help make March 4 a world-wide Wikipedia editing effort to improve coverage of women scientists.

What to expect:

• Library computers are available or bring your laptop
• We will also have reference books featuring biographies of women scientists available to help add references to articles, and can give help searching library resources as well
• Everyone is welcome
• No Wikipedia editing experience is fine — we will help you get set up with an account and can give tutorials on getting started

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Women scientists
• lists of scientists by field
• List of female scientists before the 21st century
• UC Davis faculty on Wikipedia and UC faculty who are also in the "women scientists" category (not comprehensive, obviously)
• Guide to UC Davis library resources about women in science

• to-do list from the project
  • some women scientist articles that need sources and articles that need additional sources (these are often a good place to start contributing)
• another to-do list of missing biographies
• list from a past event
  -- these articles are already created, but may need additional work and info added
• Royal Society event list of missing biographies

Specific ideas for articles to work on, if you're feeling lost:

• Add some sources to Alice Middleton Boring
• Expand Marjorie Sweeting (add more info on her life, references & bibliography)
• Add footnotes to the sources listed and additional sources to Tanya Atwater
• Expand and add sources to Cristina Lopes
• Add a bibliography to Marie Morisawa
• List the rest of Katherine Esau's books under "works"
• expand Kathleen Miller
• copyedit Helen Belyea
• copyedit and add sources to Mary F. Lyon
• expand
  Margaret Kivelson
  (add more info on her actual research and life)
• expand Susan Kieffer
• copyedit User:Dysumner/sandbox/Isabel P. Montañez
• write
  Susan E. Trumbore
  (UC Irvine; Member, US National Academy of Sciences; Director, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry)
• write
  Barbara Finlayson-Pitts, Judith Lean, Susan Brantley
  ; also see to-do lists above).

• Workshops will be held in the Shields Library Instruction Lab, in the far back corner of the library: [1]
• Here is a map of where Shields is: [2]
• The Shields Instruction Lab is a computer classroom, so you don't need to bring your own. If you want to, however, campus wifi works in the room.
• Workshops are drop-in: Just show up! All members of the campus and community are welcome.
• detailed notes from past workshops
• Questions? Contact Phoebe Ayers, psayers<at>ucdavis.edu.

If you are brand-new to editing Wikipedia, or want a refresher, here are some useful resources:

• The Wikipedia editing tutorial
  , for getting started with editing
• The Wikipedia Teahouse, a forum for new editors to ask questions
• The Article Wizard will walk you through creating a brand-new article.

Before the edit-a-thon, go ahead and

• your name here
• 169.237.93.133 (talk) 17:57, 27 February 2014 (UTC)Magali Billen (Prof. Geophysics)[reply]
• Dysumner (talk) 22:00, 27 February 2014 (UTC) (remote participation)[reply]
  • Work in progress: User:Dysumner/sandbox/Isabel P. Montañez
  • Other pages I want to do: Janine Sarfati, Kathlene Grey, and Judith McKenzie
• Narkissos (talk) 22:15, 4 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Helen Belyea -- cleaned up text, added citations, added to list of geologists, removed orphan notation
• Alice Middleton Boring -- sources!
• Katherine Esau -- added info and refs
• Alice Catherine Evans -- formatting and grammar
• Susan Kieffer -- added info and refs
• Mary F. Lyon -- wording and added ref
• Leonora A. Hohl -- page created
• Clara Eaton Cummings -- page created
• Isabel P. Montañez -- page created (remote contribution)

Sandbox articles that need to be finished:

• began bio of Elvira Wood