Wikipedia:GLAM/Wellcome/Events and Workshops/WES&HODS

Women Engineers Go To War, England, 1942. A view of women at work at rows of benches in the cartridge fuse shop at this electrical engineering works, somewhere in the Midlands. This image is one of millions uploaded to Wikimedia Commons.

About the event

The Women's Engineering Society, Heritage Open Days and Wellcome Collection are joining forces to host a Women Engineers Wikithon. Drop in at any point over the session to join in and celebrate the women engineers that deserve a more prominent place in the online historical record. You'll develop your digital skills and learn how to edit Wikipedia in order to harness the power of the web to share knowledge. And there will be cake - in the best Heritage Open Days fashion!

Experienced Wikipedia editors and complete beginners are both welcome to attend - we'll provide training for anyone new to editing. If you’ve spotted an article that needs improving, bring along your queries and we’ll see what we can do to help!

This will be the first Wikithon of many in the Women's Engineering Society's Centenary Year! Our WES Centenary Trail is all about putting women from history onto Wikipedia, so their achievements aren't overlooked or forgotten. Take a look at WES on Twitter or on Instagram to get inspired by the brilliant women engineers who don’t have a Wikipedia page … yet! Or perhaps be inspired to add one of the Extraordinary Women who featured in HODS 2018 programme - take a look at the HODS hashtags #XWomen and #PutHerForward for some great suggestions. And you can find out more about Heritage Open Days on their website, on Twitter or on Instagram.

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.
• Check out the notability guidelines and what topics can be written about on Wikipedia.
• Think about whether you have any conflicts of interest.
• Bring a laptop (or a tablet, but keyboards make things easier!) and enjoy the session!

Editing

Click here to go to the Dashboard and find an article to create or edit

Sources to get you started

There are lots of very useful entries in The Woman Engineer journal. You can view the digitised version of The Woman Engineer on the IET website. There's a really helpful index so you can locate issues relevant your person.

Also, here are some specific sources we've found for some people:

• Annette Ashberry
• Asta Hampe, plus this and this (if you speak German)
• Emma Strada (ideal for Italian-speakers!)
• Florence Blenkiron
• Isabel Hardwich
• The Electrical Association for Women
• Theresa Wallach, and this
• Women's Gas Council

And MORE names! These are from the HODs "Put Her Forward" statue campaign:

• Heritage Open Days (very out of date!)
• Non zero one (no mention of PHF)
• Christine Burns MBE (multiple issues)
• Professor Jean Golding OBE (no mention of her sculpture!)
• Dr Leyla Hussein (no mention of her sculpture!)
• Phyllis Opoku-Gyimah (no mention of PHF)
• Taban Shoresh (doesn't mention HODs)
• Carly Jayne Jones MBE
• Catrina McHugh MBE
• Ciara Eastell OBE
• Cleo Lake
• Chrisann Jarrett
• Emma Back
• Fiona Broadfoot
• Iby Knill (see also Scratching Shed Publishing)
• Jean Bishop
• Lisa O'Donoghue
• Myroslava Coates
• Natasha Coates
• Paige Hunter
• Dr Robina Shah
• Ruth Ibegbuna
• Siobhan Fennell
• Veronica Barnes
• Yvonne Hopper
• Mary Sykes
• Mary Victor Bruce

Useful links

Here are some more useful links to help you with your editing and with keeping track of your edits:

• All sorts of helpful guides and online resources can be found on the Wellcome Library Wikimedian in Residence Project Page. For instance, there are links to digitised material from the Wellcome Library.
• You can view all your contributions to Wikipedia by clicking "Contributions" (in the top right of this page).
• 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 STEM broadly, take a look at Wikipedia:WikiProject Women scientists. You can view useful resources, "to do" lists of pages that need creating, and view metrics highlighting featured articles and articles in need of improvement.
• If you're interested in joining a community of editors passionate about engineering, take a look at Wikipedia:WikiProject Engineering. You can view useful resources and view metrics highlighting featured articles and articles in need of improvement.
• 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.