Wikipedia:GLAM/Wellcome/Events and Workshops/UCL

Share of female researchers by country, 2013 or closest year, taken from the UNESCO Science Report: Towards 2030

Info about the event

University College London (Women in Physics Group) and Wellcome Collection are joining forces to host a Women in STEM Wikithon. Join us to celebrate the women in science that deserve a more prominent place in the online historical record. You'll learn how to edit Wikipedia in order to harness the power of the web to share your knowledge.

How do I prepare?

• Sign up for the event!
• Create a Wikipedia account (look at the top right of this page for the link). You don't need to do anything else, but it'll speed things up on the day if you've already signed up for an account.
• Learn about editing if you like: see Visual Editor user guide for more information.
• Think about what you would like to edit about - you can even prepare some materials to bring with you on the day (to help with verifiability).
• Check out the notability guidelines and what topics can be written about on Wikipedia.
• Think about whether you have any conflicts of interest.
• Take a look at the list of Women Climate Researchers or Wikiproject Women Scientists or Women Scientists in Africa to help you find a person for whom you'd like to create/improve a page - or search for another scientist to see if their page needs to be added/improved! If you choose to create a new bio, please note it down below!
• Bring along a laptop and enjoy the day!

Participants

Participating wiki-editors can add their names here...

• Zeromonk
• Jesswade88
• Opto kitty
• LyraSilvertongue29
• Floscampi
• FranziSchmidt
• Teknoteacher
• IsaLamp

Useful links

Here are some useful links to help you with your editing:

• All sorts of helpful guides and online resources can be found on the Wellcome Library Wikimedian in Residence Project Page. Here's a selection:

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  A speedy guide on where to find the different buttons on Wikipedia, and explaining what they do - useful for complete beginners!
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  Very straightforward step-by-step instructions on how to add a piece of information to an existing Wikipedia page - useful for complete beginners!
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  A guide to elements to include in a wiki-biography, with a checklist to ensure you include as many as you can when editing.

• You can add pictures for use on Wiki-pages and beyond on Wikimedia Commons. Your Wikipedia account will work on Commons too - as well as all the other Wiki-projects and different language versions of Wikipedia.
• If you're interested in joining a community of editors passionate about women in science, take a look at Wikiproject Women Scientists. You can also view useful resources on adding pages for women at Wikiproject Women in Red, plus find links to news articles and view worklists highlighting articles/topics that are the current focus of improvement.

Here are some ways to keep track of your edits:

• You can view all your contributions to Wikipedia by clicking "Contributions" (in the top right of this page).
• The Pageviews tool is a great way of measuring how many people are looking at the page you created/edited. You can even export the data if you'd like it for reports, etc.

Pages created

A woman working for the US Department of Energy

Add the name of any new bio's that have been created here (to avoid overlaps):

• Elena Long
• Emily Shuckburgh

Pages to create/improve

Take a look at the list of 20th-century women scientists and 20th-century women engineers for lots of examples of pages.

Some that especially need improving are here:

• Mid importance stubs.
• Low importance stubs.

Also here:

• Women Climate Researchers
• Wikiproject Women Scientists
• Women Scientists in Africa
• Nature's 10: Ten people who mattered this year (check past years too).

Suggested individuals:

• Minna Palmroth
• Helena Aksela (page already started)