Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Kensho Edit-a-thon
Kensho Technologies Impact-a-thon: Wikipedia Edit-a-thon presented with support from Wikimedia DC
When
- September 21, 2021
Registration
- Private
Event Dashboard
Safe Space Policy[edit]
Presentation[edit]
Sign in: Outreach Dashboard[edit]
Step 1: Go to the Dashboard
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Articles Created[edit]
Mainspace
Madeline Bell (hospital executive) - Nurse, President and CEO of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia [1] [2] [3]
Melanie R. Bond - Biologist and primate keeper at the Smithsonian National Zoo [4][5]
Martina Angela Caretta - Geographer [6] [7] [8]
Doris Davis Centini - Food Scientist, developed food for NASA [9] [10]
Marnie Halpern - Biologist
Barbara Harland - Nutritionist, professor [11] [12]
Vera Huckel - Mathematician, aerospace engineer, and supervisory mathematician, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NASA) [13] [14] [15]
Lillian Baumbach Jacobs - First woman master plumber [16] [17] [18]
Neha Parikh - CEO, Waze [19] [20] [21] [22]
Mareena Robinson Snowden - Nuclear engineer, first black woman to earn a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from MIT [23][24]
Julie Stewart (food scientist) [25] [26]
Mary E. Tusch AKA Mother Tusch - Aviation enthusiast, collector, Smithsonian donor [27] [28] [29]
Jasmine Zapata - Physician, equity and diversity activist [30] [31] [32] [33]
Aileen Yingst - Geologist and Senior Scientist at the Planetary Science Institute. Currently working with NASA to explore Mars [34] [35] [36] [37]
Michelle Zatlyn- Co-founder of CloudFlare [38] [39] [40]
Eleanor Krawitz Kolchin - Computer, Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory and more [41] [42] [43] [44]
Jess Phoenix - Volcanologist [45] [46] [47]
Janice Nevin - Physician, CEO ChristianaCare [48] [49] [50]
Arquay Harris - Director of Engineering, Growth at Slack [51] [52]
Drafts
Draft:Mary Mauchly - Mathematician who trained ENIAC's human computers alongside Adele Goldstine [53] [54] [55]
Draft:Dana Bolles - NASA engineer [56] [57] [58] [59]
Draft:Natalia Brzezinski - Head Of Strategy at Klarna [60] [61] [62]
Draft:Amy Chang - IT executive [63] [64] [65] [66]
Draft:Ashley N. Egan- Research botanist at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History[67][68]
Draft:Susan Ehrlich (hospital executive) - Physician, CEO Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center [69] [70] [71]
Draft:Yanping Guo - Mission design leader New Horizon's Team (mission to Pluto) [72] [73] [74]
Draft:Alyssa Henry - EVP, Square [75] [76] [77] [78]
Draft:Teresa Hodge - Co-founder, CEO R3 Score Technologies and Mission Launch [79] [80] [81]
Draft:Mattiedna Johnson Nurse, founder of the National Black Nurses Association, original penicillin researcher [82] [83] [84]
Draft:Ali Guarneros Luna - Senior NASA aerospace engineer [85] [86] [87] [88]
Draft:Alicia Odewale - Professor and African Diaspora Archaeologist [89] [90]
Draft:Tammarrian Rogers - Director of Engineering at Snap Inc. [91] [92] [93]
Draft:Diana Sierra - Industrial designer [94] [95] [96]
Draft:Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan - Data scientist, founder of Drawbridge [97] [98] [99]
Suggested Article Work List[edit]
RED links = Articles that don't yet exist, BLUE links = Existing articles needing improvement
Don't forget to reserve your article using the Google sheet
See also: WikiProject: Women scientists
For creation
Draft:Noris Salazar Allen - First researcher in Panama to specialize in the study of bryophytes [100][101][102] Wikidata property[103] Wikispecies[104]
Draft:Yesenia Madrigal Bedoya - Biologist [105] [106] [107]
Draft:Emma Benn - Statistician, Associate Professor and Founding Director, Center for Scientific Diversity[108][109][110]
Draft:Antionette Carroll - Designer, founder Creative Reaction Lab [111] [112] [113] [114]
Draft:Jazyn L. Carvajal - Cofounder, Latinas in STEM [115] [116] [117] [118]
Draft:Isabel Castilla - Landscape architect, lead designer of the High Line's section three snd other high-profile projects [119] [120] [121] [122]
Draft:Evelyn Cortez-Davis - Civil engineer, activist [123] [124] [125]
Draft:Audrei Drummond - Application engineer [126] [127] [128] [129]
Draft:Rosanna Esparza - Environmentalist and activist [130] [131] [132]
Draft:Ayana Omilade Flewellen - Archaeologist [133] [134] [135]
Draft:Celeste Fralick - Chief Data Scientist and Senior Principal Engineer [136] [137]
Draft:Lucía Gallardo - Honduran businesswoman, Founder and CEO of Emerge [138] [139]
Draft:Alyce McLaine Hall - Mathematician and 'computer'. Only African American woman known to have worked on ENIAC. [140] [141] [142]
Draft:Lori Hotz - CEO, Lobus (Asset management platform) [143] [144] [145]
Draft:Clennita Justice - Social Engineering program manager [146] [147] [148] [149] [150]
Draft:Komal Mangtani- Engineering leader at Uber [151] [152] [153]
Draft:Laura Mather - Technologist [154] [155]
Draft:Barbara McAneny - Former president, American Medical Association [156] [157] [158]
Draft:Gina Orozco-Mejia - First Latina executive, SoCalGas [159] [160] [161]
Draft:Olga Potapova (paleontologist) [162] [163] [164] [165]
Draft:Kathryn Peddrew - Chemist, aeronautical and aerospace research at NASA [166] [167] [168] [169]
Draft:Michele Perchonok - NASA food scientist [170] [171] [172]
Draft:Maria Elena Pombo - Artist who creates/uses natural dyes [173] [174] [175]
Draft:Yashica Robinson - Obstetrician and gynecologist, women's healthcare advocate [176] [177] [178]
Draft:Audrey Rust - Conservationist [179] [180] [181]
Draft:Josephine Santiago-Bond - head of (and helped create) the Advanced Engineering Development Branch at NASA[182][183]
Draft:Suman Sorg - Architect [184] [185] [186]
Draft:Eileen Vélez-Vega - Puerto Rico’s First Woman Secretary of Transportation and Public Works [187] [188] [189] [190]
Draft:Mildred Mott Wedel - Archaeologist and ethnohistorian [191] [192] [193]
Draft:Hannah English Williams, (d. 1722) - Naturalist, first female in the American British colonies to gather plant and animal specimens for scientific collections [194][195][196][197][198][199]
Draft:Amy Winebarger - Astrophysicist [200] [201]
Draft:Tracy Young (engineer) - Construction engineer and CEO [202] [203] [204]
REJECTED due to previous deletion. Please do not reattempt.
- Draft:Angela Gronenborn - Biophysicist
REJECTED due to notability concerns. Please do not reattempt.
- Draft:Lisa Mae Brunson - Founder, Wonder Women Tech
[208] [209] [210] [211] [212] [213]
Existing Draft Articles
Draft:Jennifer Eigenbrode - Astrobiologist [214] [215] [216]
- Photo from Commons
- To do: Replace flowery language, i.e. "Eigenbrode's family of engineers and technicians helped foster her enjoyment of science and her naturally inquisitive nature"
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Draft:Laura I. Gomez - Founder and CEO of Atipica, Inc. [217] [218] [219]
- To do: Delete text and rewrite article
Draft:Deborah Kamin Mukaz - Cardiologist [220] [221] [222] [223] [224] [225] [226] [227] [228] [229] [230] [231] [232] [233]
- To do: Edit, add sections, etc.
Stub Articles
- To do: Add more bio info and references. Restate text so it's not too similar to the reference currently used. Go to the Ninety-Nines article. Add and hyperlink her name under 'members'. Remove 'orphan' template on top of her article when done.
Susan Cachel To do: Expand. Add additional external links.
- To do: Create page title Nettie Gourlay and redirect to Janet Gourlay. Add missing content from sources.
Hildegard Korf Kallmann-Bijl [238] [239]
- To do: Add more bio info from the SOVA finding aid.
Jean Kathleen Trainum McKay [240]
- To do: Add more bio info from the SOVA finding aid. Remove extra infobox (the one with the birth/death dates). Remove bullet in career sections.
Start articles
- To do: Add sections with headers.
- To do: Add lead paragraph
- To do: Find and add more references. Remove template tag when ready.
- To do: Expand lead paragraph with content found in sections
- To do: Add sections with headers.
- To do: Create lead paragraph, create sections headers and add content
- To do: Add sections with headers. Remove warning template
- To do: Fix formatting of external links, add more reference if possible, and remove outdated warning template
Cathy Marshall (hypertext developer)
- To do: Add sections, rewrite to not sound like CV. Add reference to Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet if applicable.
- To do: Fix layout.
Marla Rausch - Founder, Animation company
- To do: Fix orphan article issue by going to a related article (her university, etc.). Enter her name under notable alumni and link to her article. Once done, delete the orphan and notability tags.
- To do: Add sections with headers. Change 'External links' to a header font
- To do: Add sections with headers.
- To do: Add infobox
- To do: Rewrite to seem less like a resume. Find additional sources to support what's there or what you add. Remove template tags when ready including 'use of too many primary sources' tag which is inaccurate.
- To do: Add some more recent sources
- To do: Create external links section. Add link to Science Institute's oral history]
Elisabeth Vrba - Paleontologist
- To:do: Add sections (education, research, etc.), and rewrite lead paragraphs so that it summarizes the article.
- To do: Expand infobox
- To do: Expand, add sections
C class articles
- To do: Add infobox.
Agnes Meyer Driscoll - Cryptanalyst
- To do: Add infobox.
- To do: Add infobox. Move first photo into infobox. Add hyperlinks
- Fix research section
GA class articles
- To do: Add the following to External links section:
- “What Matters; Katherine Johnson: NASA Pioneer and "Computer",” WHRO, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC
- then hyperlink it to
- https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-535-7940r9nd42
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