Now in its fifth year, Ada Lovelace Day is an international celebration of women in science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM ). Participants from around New England are invited to gather at Brown University to edit and create Wikipedia entries on women who have made significant contributions to the STEM fields. (If you'd like to also participate in Earth Science Week and International Archaeology Day , we encourage edits/additions to articles on women in paleontology, archaeology, and the geosciences.)
This event is co-organized by Wikimedia New England and the Science and Technology Studies Program ; Science Center ; and Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women at Brown.
Date: Tuesday, October 15th, 3:00pm to 8:30pm. Can’t be there the whole time? No problem. Join us for as little or as long as you like.
Venue: Room 305, Pembroke Hall, Brown University. Address: 172 Meeting Street, Providence, RI, USA
Cost: Free
Speakers: Anne Fausto-Sterling of Brown University; Maia Weinstock of Wikimedia New England; Michael Umbricht of the Ladd Observatory (slides from Mike's Wikipedia:GLAM talk are available online )
Participants: The event is open to anyone who wishes to help preserve women’s STEM history! No Wikipedia editing experience necessary; the first hour will be devoted to the fundamentals of Wiki editing. As needed throughout the event, tutoring will be provided for Wikipedia newcomers. Female editors are particularly encouraged to attend.
Registration: To register, please sign up via one of the following avenues: add your Wikipedia username to the guest list below; RSVP to our Facebook event page ; or send an email to maiaw@nasw.org
What to Bring: Attendees should bring their own laptops and power cords. Light snacks and drinks will be provided.
Etherpad: http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/AdaWikithon
Twitter Hashtag: #AdaWikithon
Confirmed Wikipedians attending[ edit ]
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If you cannot make it to Brown in person but would still like to participate, you are more than welcome to do so remotely. So that we can count you as having taken part, please add your name to the participant list below and also add any and all contributions under the #Results section. (Note: There will not be a webinar aspect for online participants; simply log in and log your contributions below to have them recorded.) And be sure to use the Twitter hashtag #AdaWikithon if you tweet about the event!
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The following is a sampling of suggested articles to create or add upon. However, feel free to come up with your own ideas! In addition to the suggestions below, editors may consider cleaning up articles on more well-known women STEMmers, such as Rosalind Franklin , Marie Curie , Jane Goodall , Grace Hopper , Elizabeth Blackwell , Emmy Noether or Ada Lovelace herself. Helpful updates could be as simple as: Making sure reference links are still appropriate and functional; Adding new inline citations/references; Adding a photo; Adding an infobox; Adding data to more fields in an existing infobox; Creating headings; Adding categories; etc. Editors may also choose to focus on women in archaeology, paleontology, and geology as part of Earth Science Week and International Archaeology Day .
Articles needing creation[ edit ]
Recipients of the following awards:
Geophysics
Articles needing expansion and/or cleanup[ edit ]
Virginia Alexander (Obstetrics and gynecology)
Rosa Beddington (developmental biologist) -- some fresh substantive additions made Oct 12
Evelyn Berezin (computer scientist) -- working on this TechGeisha (talk ) 21:26, 15 October 2013 (UTC) [ reply ]
JudyAnn Bigby (Internal Medicine)
Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (mathematician) -- added infobox, fleshed out biography
Alexa Canady (neuroscience)
Gertrude Cox (statistician) NAS Relatively full article but needs sections w/headings and inline citations
Mary Letitia Caldwell (chemist) - added infobox, info, fixes. Needs photo, more info
Susan Jane Cunningham (mathematician)
Marie Maynard Daly (biochemist) Needs proper scientist infobox (done , still needs to be more fully filled in) & image, plus inline citations
Margaret Davis (paleoecologist)
Sylvia Earle (oceanographer) Good length but needs general cleanup/reorganization
Annie Easley (computer engineer) Needs photo, infobox, inline citations -- working on this. Lightbreather (talk ) 15:24, 16 October 2013 (UTC) [ reply ]
Caroline Endres Diescher (civil engineer)
Helen T. Edwards (physicist) - added scientist infobox, cleaned up references; text needs to be rewritten due to plagiarism
Katherine Esau (botanist)
Debra Fischer (astronomer) - infobox added; needs expansion
Dorothy Celeste Boulding Ferebee (medical doctor) Needs more inline citations
Charlotte Friend (virologist) Needs more inline citations
Alyssa A. Goodman (astronomer)
Mary W. Gray (mathematician)
Sheila Greibach (computer scientist) Needs to be reformatted; needs an infobox
Alice Hamilton (toxicology) Article is good but needs inline citations, reference cleanup
Emmeline Jean Hanson (physiologist)
Dorrit Hoffleit (astronomer) - infobox added; needs photo and expansion of text
Hildegarde Howard (paleornithologist) Infobox added, citations formated; needs photo; could use more detail. Edit 10/15: detail and biographical subhead added; needs photo.
Ruth Hubbard (biologist) infobox added, needs photo and more fleshing out
Margaret Ingels (engineer)
Barbara Crawford Johnson (aerospace engineer)
Mary Ellen Jones (biochemist)
Emeline Roberts Jones (dental scientist)
Maria Klawe (computer scientist)
Rebecca Lancefield (biochemist)
Martha L. Ludwig (crystallographer)
Sidnie Manton
Ann McKee (neuropathologist)
Carla Meninsky (computer engineer)
Mary Parke (algae expert)
Carle M. Pieters ( planetary scientist)
Edith Quimby (physicist)
Helen Quinn (particle physicist) Could use additional detail and section headings. Also needs inline citations and a scientist infobox.
Sarah Ratner (chemist) Infobox could use updating; consolidation of book ref with multiple page citations. Again, see Henrietta Swan Leavitt for this.
Nancy Roman (astronomer) - added infobox
Margaret W. Rossiter (historian of science) Done -- Significantly Expanded
Carolyn Rovee-Collier (psychologist/cognitive scientist)
Elizabeth S. Russell (geneticist) Infobox needs to be filled out
Ruth Sager (geneticist)
Ruth Sanger
Carolyn Jean Spellmann Shoemaker (astronomer)
Sylvia Agnes Sophia Tait (biochemist) Article is good, but needs inline citations and ref reformatting
Elizabeth Thomas (Egyptologist)
Monica Turner (ecologist) Could use overall formatting updates (eg, more line spaces to create shorter paragraphs); Infobox could use more detail
Mary Walton (engineer)
Mary Wheeler (mathematician)
Sylvia Wiegand (mathematician) Added infobox, but could probably use more detail
Mary Lou Zoback (geophysicist)
Inge Lehmann (seismologist) Added infobox, citations
Good Article nominees[ edit ]
Maria Goeppert-Mayer - listed as a Natural sciences good article!
Women in STEM Resources[ edit ]
Note: Wikipedia pages that include lists of important women are all missing plenty of key people, so feel free to add to those lists
Editing Wikipedia Resources[ edit ]
Articles created or expanded (includes remote contributions from Oct 8 - Oct 18):
New articles created[ edit ]
Articles expanded, improved, or cleaned up[ edit ]
Nora Lilan Alcock (plant pathologist) Redwellie14 (talk ) 00:47, 16 October 2013 (UTC) general editing and citation reformatting[ reply ]
Rosa Beddington
Sophia Hayden Bennett (architect) BrillLyle (talk ) 01:42, 16 October 2013 (UTC) added photo of Bennett and building she designed, added some content[ reply ]
Amanda Adams
Virginia M. Alexander
Evelyn Berezin
Dorothy Lewis Bernstein
Anita Borg
Dorothy Donaldson Buchanan
Mary Letitia Caldwell
Eleanor Campbell
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Joanne Chory
Patricia Cladis
Gertrude Mary Cox
Marie Maynard Daly
Elvira de Mejia
Nance Dicciani Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk ) 11:13, 15 October 2013 (UTC) [ reply ]
Sylvia Earle
Annie Easley
Helen T. Edwards
Gladys Anderson Emerson
Katherine Esau
Anne Fausto-Sterling
Mary Fergusson
Mabel Purefoy FitzGerald
Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser
Cecilia Glaisher
Mary W. Gray
Sheila Greibach
Anna Jane Harrison
Dorrit Hoffleit
Hildegarde Howard
Ruth Hubbard
Clara Immerwahr
Margaret Ingels
Barbara Crawford Johnson
Louise Johnson
Karen Spärck Jones
Maria Klawe
Rebecca Lancefield
Inge Lehmann
Katharine McCormick
Kaisa Nyberg
Mary Parke
Lulu Hunt Peters (calorie counting) Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk ) 18:33, 17 October 2013 (UTC) [ reply ]
Helen Kemp Porter (botanist) BrillLyle (talk ) 19:59, 15 October 2013 (UTC) Citation reformatting[ reply ]
Margaret W. Rossiter
Liane Russell
Eleni Sikelianos
Monica Turner
Dana Ulery (computer scientist) Verbistheword (talk ) 12:28, 16 October 2013 (UTC) More detailed citations, additional citation, additional publications, infobox[ reply ]
Mary Wheeler
Telle Whitney
Grace Olive Wiley
Deirdre Wilson
Chien-Shiung Wu
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