Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/9

Dates	April-December, 2016
Location	This is a virtual, global event... you can participate from anywhere in the world
Collaborators	WikiProject Women scientists
Institutional support	WikiEdu
Co-organizers	Keilana (talk); Rosiestep (talk); add your name here

Women Scientists Online Editathon: Apr-Dec 2016

Aug-Dec: Philosophers Apr-Dec: Scientists

December: Women in Aviation December: Women in the Military December: Caribbean Women

January: Women Philosophers January: Women in Education

Participants

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Rosiestep (talk)
Megalibrarygirl (talk)
Victuallers (talk)
Girona7 (talk)
Penny Richards (talk)
FloNight (talk)
T. Anthony (talk)
Dgorsline (talk)
97198 (talk)
Grand'mere Eugene (talk)
Nvvchar. 12:24, 1 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Alafarge (talk) 14:41, 1 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Ozhu (talk · contribs)
Animalparty (talk)
Keilana (talk · contribs)
talk · contribs
)

SusunW (talk) 21:30, 3 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Cypherquest (talk) 01:18, 7 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Iamthecheese44 (talk)
Jocelyndurrey (talk)
Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk · contribs)
Rhododendrites (talk)
Cypherquest (talk) 10:09, 20 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Howkafkaesque (talk) 23:56, 22 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Threefinnsjims (talk · contribs) 00:04, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nattes à chat (talk · contribs) --Nattes à chat (talk) 16:06, 9 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Lange.lea (talk) 16:12, 19 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Lutzv (talk) 19:38, 19 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Lizzius (talk · contribs)
Fouetté rond de jambe en tournant 07:45, 26 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 17:45, 28 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Alybrarian (talk)
Lange.lea (talk) 22:52, 7 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
PamD 10:41, 1 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Ennegma (talk) 15:31, 5 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Zeromonk (talk) 08:47, 20 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
MWright96 (talk) 19:55, 16 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Chogg (talk · contribs) 23 August 2016
Rich Farmbrough (talk · contribs)
— Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:45, 1 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Vanamonde93 (talk · contribs)
Camelia (talk), wikifacilitator on the italian WikiDonne's editathon page

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Redlists

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Wikidata redlink list of women scientists

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Stub templates: See Category:Scientist stubs; use most specific stub template(s).

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Outcomes

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Gadis Arivia
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Photograph of Toeti Heraty
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Photograph of Gadis Arivia
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Photograph of Karlina Leksono Supelli
Gillian Lovegrove tweeted
Syliva Anie
Caroline Langat Thoruwa
Bertha Stoneman

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Did You Know? articles

This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by

WP:RECOG

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... that
Kitty O'Brien Joyner (pictured) was the first woman engineer at NACA, the predecessor to NASA
? (2019-06-10)

... that epidemiologist Yasmin Altwaijri encourages other Saudi Arabian women to become scientists, arguing that this need not "cross the boundaries of our societal norms and customs"? (2017-01-15)
... that Salinee Tavaranan and her Border Green Energy Team installed solar panels and micro-hydro turbines at the Mae La refugee camp? (2017-01-15)
... that
Bronx High School of Science graduate Naomi Amir
is credited as "the founder of modern child neurology in Israel"? (2017-01-10)

... that although Susan Reeve Lyon could not own property while a married woman, she was able to run her own apothecary shop as a widow? (2017-01-02)
... that Nancy Sottos helped create the first polymeric self-healing material, announced in Nature in 2001? (2017-01-01)
... that the labour studies scholar Kendra Coulter calls for interspecies solidarity between human and animal workers? (2016-12-14)
... that 18th-century chemist Claudine Picardet translated scientific articles from Swedish, English, German, and Italian into French? (2016-10-27)
... that Gadis Arivia established Indonesia’s first journal of feminist theory? (2016-10-09)
... that the entomologist Alice Gray became known as the "Bug Lady" for her work with the public at the American Museum of Natural History? (2016-09-17)
... that in 2010 Joanne M. Maguire became the first woman to receive the International von Kármán Wings Award? (2016-08-23)
... that in 1974 the anthropologist Reina Torres de Araúz was the first woman distinguished as a full member of the Panamanian Academy of History? (2016-08-18)
... that botanist Dame Margaret Blackwood studied pine trees and maize, and had a species of fungus named after her? (2016-08-07)
... that Priscilla Nzimiro was the first woman from Igboland, Nigeria, to qualify as a medical doctor? (2016-07-23)
... that Jeanne Burbank designed batteries for the first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus (SSN-571)? (2016-07-21)
... that the botanist Ethel Thomas designed the University of London's botany garden in Regent's Park? (2016-07-20)
... that the Medical Women's Federation was formed in the UK in 1917 and has acted to address workplace and educational grievances of female doctors? (2016-07-07)
... that Lois Jones led the first all-woman science team to Antarctica in 1969? (2016-07-06)
... that In-Young Ahn (pictured) was the first Korean woman to visit Antarctica? (2016-06-28)
... that Felicity Okpete Ovai was the first female commissioner of the Rivers State Ministry of Works? (2016-06-28)
... that after retiring as dean of the College of Home Economics at the University of Rhode Island, Elizabeth W. Crandall became an environmental and women's rights activist in Maine? (2016-06-22)
... that Ukrainian-American
Saint Vincent's Hospital
offered her a job which they later retracted when they discovered she was a woman? (2016-06-19)
... that University of Heidelberg
, had to get special permission from her professors to attend their classes? (2016-06-18)

... that Utako Okamoto, discoverer of tranexamic acid, worked with her infant daughter on her back in the laboratory, as she could not find child care? (2016-06-16)

... that Ora Mendelsohn Rosen and her colleagues achieved a scientific breakthrough by cloning the human insulin receptor gene? (2016-06-14)

... that Louise Stevens Bryant, a secretary for the Girl Scouts, also worked with the English sexologist Havelock Ellis? (2016-06-13)

... that Mary Cabot Wheelwright (pictured as a child) recorded details about Navajo ceremonies in the early 20th century from medicine man Hosteen Klah? (2016-06-02)

... that Josephine Nesbit, an American army nurse and second-in-command of the Angels of Bataan, was credited with their survival through internment at Santo Tomas? (2016-05-18)

... that forensic chemist Mary Louisa Willard was referred to as "Lady Sherlock" for assisting law enforcement officials? (2016-04-30)

... that biologist Katherine Sanford was the first person to successfully clone a mammal cell in vitro? (2016-04-20)

... that
woman elected Fellow of the Royal Society
was turned down on the basis that as a married woman she had no standing in law? (2012-11-08)
... that biochemist Rosalind Pitt-Rivers co-discovered the thyroid hormone triiodothyronine in 1952? (2012-11-04)

Featured pictures

Chien-Shiung Wu
Alice Paul
Barbara McClintock
(1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
Alice C. Evans
Carol Greider
(2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
)

Press about the event

Not press, but here's the Pinterest board for this editathon. I'll update it periodically through the end of the year.Penny Richards (talk) 14:03, 29 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Event templates

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Science events

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May

5/9: Transit of Mercury
5/26: 23rd Annual APS-STP Teaching Institute: Implementing the APS Wikipedia Initiative in General Education Coursework, 3:45pm to 4:45pm, Chicago, IL
5/31: Science Outreach Working to Inspire the Next Generation: 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm, Simons Foundation, 160 Fifth Avenue (at 21st Street), 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10010

June

6/15: American Astronomical Society edit-a-thon, San Diego
6/19: American Society for Microbiology edit-a-thon, Boston

September

9/21: Science Literacy Week edit-a-thon, "Local Women in Science', Vancouver, Canada

November

11/14: Edit-a-thon vol.2: Women in science, Prague, Czech Republic

December

12/15: Edit-a-thon, AGU 2016 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California

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