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About the event

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On Tuesday 11th October 2022, the University's Information Services team are running a Wikipedia 'edit-a-thon' to celebrate Ada Lovelace Day 2022 which is an international celebration day of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM).

From 1pm-2pm, we'll have the following STEM speakers:

  • Dr. Melissa Highton on why we celebrate Ada Lovelace Day
  • Karen Howie on ' Approaching Imposter Syndrome : False Starts and Reflections from a Woman in Tech.'
  • Prof. Emma Hart on how she takes inspiration from the natural world to build computer algorithms and evolving robots
  • Ben McConville, President of the University's Computer Science Society, CompSoc, on Scotland's largest tech society - run by students of the University of Edinburgh. CompSoc is a diverse community of computer scientists, programmers, and people who are passionate about all things Tech.

Then at 2pm, the afternoon's editathon from 2pm-5pm will focus on improving the quality of articles related to historic and contemporary Women in STEM!

Submit your STEM heroine nomination

Ada Lovelace portrait
Mary Somerville

Have you ever wondered why the information in Wikipedia is extensive for some topics and scarce for others?
Did you know that, as of September 2022, approximately only 19.33% of the biographies on Wikipedia relate to notable women? Working together with liaison librarians, archivists & academic colleagues we will provide training on how to edit and participate in an open knowledge community. New editors are very welcome and participants will be supported to develop Wikipedia articles; creating new role models for young and old alike.

Come along to learn about how Wikipedia works and contribute a greater understanding of Women in STEM!

Trainer

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Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Edinburgh

Booking

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2pm to 5pm: a Women in STEM editathon at the University of Edinburgh Main Library, Room 1.07

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A Wikipedia editing event celebrating Women in STEM from 2pm to 5pm in Room 1.07, University of Edinburgh Main Library at 30 George Square.

Full Programme

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  • 11am-1pm - ‘No circumstance in the natural world is more inexplicable than the diversity of form and colour in the human race’

Join us to craft multi-coloured Ada Lovelace and Mary Somerville designs and make your own pin badges and laptop stickers

  • 1pm-2pm Women in STEM snacks and talks
    • Dr. Melissa Highton on why we celebrate Ada Lovelace Day
    • Karen Howie on ' Approaching Imposter Syndrome : False Starts and Reflections from a Woman in Tech.'
    • Prof. Emma Hart on how she takes inspiration from the natural world to build computer algorithms and evolving robots
    • Ben McConville, President of the University's Computer Science Society, CompSoc, on Scotland's largest tech society - run by students of the University of Edinburgh. CompSoc is a diverse community of computer scientists, programmers, and people who are passionate about all things Tech.
  • 2pm to 3pm – Wikipedia training begins.
  • 3pm to 3:15pm – Tea break!
  • 3:15pm to 4:30pm – Editing (see suggested worklist of articles to create/improve]] below).
  • 4.30pm to 5pm - Publishing to Wikipedia's live space.
  • 5pm - Showing off your brand new page and event close
What do we want the modern graduate to be - interview with Dr. Jenni Garden and Dr. Michael Seery on Wikipedia in education
Emily Temple-Wood - Writing Diversity back into History (2minutes27seconds)

Getting started editing this Ada Lovelace Day

Women in Red
Building a Biography - simplified
Creating a Wikipedia Userpage
  1. Please create an account on Wikipedia if you have not done so as yet (having problems? see below) and join the dashboard page for today's workshop.
  2. Have a look at the suggested hitlist of articles below or in our monthly Women in Red worklist of pages to create/improve below and decide who you want to work on. More redlinks can be found on WikiProject Women in Red's crowdsourced and Wikidata-driven Redlist index. Once you have decided who to work on Add your chosen page here.
  3. Join WikiProject Women in Red and signup for our next event on Fri 28th October here.

The Wikipedia training

  1. Please visit My personal sandbox page
  2. Copy the text
  3. Click on your username link at the top of the screen.
  4. Click the Create tab to open your userpage up in Visual Editor mode if your link is in red. This is next to the search bar on Wikipedia. Please click the Edit tab if your page is in blue.
  5. Once into your userpage and the dropdown menus are available, paste the copied text into your userpage.
  6. Then click the blue Publish page button to save the page with an edit summary of added text to my user page.

NB: I train people every month and essentially say much the same thing. Here is one such recording but don’t worry we will make sure you get full training. Main training tutorial: How to begin editing Wikipedia (53 mins)

Some short video tutorials

  1. Exploring the main page of Wikipedia (4 mins)
  2. How to create an account on Wikipedia (1 min 30 secs)
  3. How to switch on the (easier to use) Visual Editor interface (1 min 20secs)
  4. How to create a user page and play around with formatting (4 mins)
  5. How to create an article on Wikipedia (7 mins)
  6. How to move your drafted article to the main article space on Wikipedia (2 mins)
  7. How to add bold, headings, links, italics to a Wikipedia page (3 mins)
  8. How to add citations and references to a Wikipedia page (3 mins)
  9. How to upload an image to Wikimedia Commons (Wikipedia’s sister project) - 4 mins
  10. How to insert an image from Wikimedia Commons onto a Wikipedia page (3 mins)
  11. How to edit existing pages on Wikipedia (4 mins)
  12. Some printable resources are here.

These are all embedded in our student-created Wikimedian in Residence website here to make the how & why of editing Wikipedia much easier to engage with. Undergraduate student Hannah Rothmann’s work creating this website and the video resources above in lockdown Summer 2020 won an Open Education Global award recently. Because we felt that students, educators and everyone should be able to do this much more simply and have this ‘need to know’ information readily and openly available so I hope this is of use to you.

Hit list of articles to be created or improved

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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.

All are welcome to add names to the list which is intended to serve as a basis for creating new articles in this important but somewhat neglected sector on the English Wikipedia.

The following is a small sample of topics to work on. Feel free to come up with your own ideas!

Articles to be created

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Women in STEM - nominations for pages

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Check the notability criteria for academics.

Exemplar articles: Antonella De Santo and Wendy Atkin

NEW suggestions for 2022

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and in Scotland there was:

  • Jo Leen Yap - Zoology, Primatology, Human-Primate Interaction. Nominated because... Jo Leen is the founder of Langur Project Penang, an organisation that focuses on the research of Dusky leaf monkeys (Trachypithecus obscurus), a highly poached and endangered primate species endemic to Penang island in Malaysia. Her work and perseverence under this organisation has led to the putting up of road canopy bridges that reconnects fragmented parts of Penang forests which has long threatened many of the island's precious arboreal species. She has also led and designed outreach programs to get local people of all ages and backgrounds (including school children, university students and retirees) to reconnect with the Malaysian forests and be involved in conservation work and citizen science, which is unheard of in the current Malaysian landscape where the idea of conservation and ecological research is not hugely celebrated or understood by locals. She is a scientist that has jumped over extremely difficult hurdles to get an understudied species as well as underappreciated wildlife and natural habitats to be protected and appreciated by Malaysian locals and internationals. I believe she deserves a Wikipedia page showcasing her work so that young Asian women like me can see that young passionate Asian female scientists and conservationists like Joleen exist, and that there is a place for them in conservation science, a stereotypically white-dominated space. Furthermore, her Wikipedia page would allow people like me to show their reluctant parents that you can have a career in conservation as a young Asian woman and thrive in life. Publication: [1], BBC interview,[2]
  • Dr Siti Khayriyyah Mohd Hanafiah - Medical Microbiology, Public Health, Science Communication. Nominated because... Dr Khayriyyah's work in tuberculosis, a disease that still plagues a lot of the world, is incredibly important. Her work in science communication is incredibly inspirational. In 2018, she was the winning speaker at FameLab, the world's biggest science communication competition (link to her talk below). Her column "Science, she wrote" in the Malaysian newspaper The Star is an excellent documentation of science and reflections during the COVID-19 pandemic. I personally would love to see more Muslim hijab-wearing women in STEM like her on the world's go-to source of information. List of publications: [3], Newspaper articles: [4][5], FameLab Talk: [6]

Use the PrepBio tool

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Articles to create

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  1. Anne Harper Anderson (social sciences) - [55]
    1. Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs· FENS · JSTOR · TWL
  2. Toni Scullion [56]
  3. Catherine Price (neuroscientist) [57]

Articles to edit

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  1. Leopoldo Pando Zayas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopoldo_Pando_Zayas)
  2. Sharon Ashbrook (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Ashbrook)
  3. Carol Prives (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Prives)
  4. Marian Holness (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Holness)
  5. Else Marie Friis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Else_Marie_Friis)
  6. Barbara Sherwood Lollar(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Sherwood_Lollar)
  7. Lucy Carpenter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Carpenter)
  8. Judy Hirst (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Hirst)
  9. Angela Strank (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Strank)
  10. Sheila Rowan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Rowan_(physicist))
  11. Ingrid Scheffer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingrid_Scheffer)
  12. Wendy Bickmore (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Bickmore)

Women in Medicine

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  1. Elizabeth Innes checkYBMJ obit [58]BMJ. Obituary[59]Scotsman. Obituary [60]RCPE. Obituary [61]

Women in Chemistry

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  1. May Badger - Being worked on by Ewan
    1. Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs· FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women

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Biology

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Engineering

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Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics

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Pages from Quicksilver

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

  • Read up to find out more about sources and verifiability.
  • Check out the notability guidelines and what topics can be written about on Wikipedia.
  • Consider whether you have any conflicts of interest.
  • You can find advice on how to search for relevant sources on any scientist here.
  • All sorts of helpful guides and online resources can be found below:
  • 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.

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.

Articles to be improved

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[99][100]

Add Christina Miller Fellows to Christina Miller page?

Looking for ideas?

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Climate change researchers

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There is a list of women working in the field of climate change - any name with a little external link square beside it probably indicates a person who doesn't have a Wikipedia page yet!

"Fearless Pioneers"

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Surprisingly, the pages for a number of the women in Rachel Ignotofsky's excellent book Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers who Changed the World are quite sparse. It would be great if some of these could be improved to help those looking for more information after reading:

Women chemists past and present

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This table contains notable women chemists from history (mostly found in the Chemistry Was Their Life book if you need a source to get you started!) and from the present day (most of whom are winners of big prizes or Fellows of societies, for whom you can find university websites and news stories about their award/fellowship).

Historic or modern? Name Field Keywords Notability Claimed by...
M Carol V. Robinson Chemistry, Mass Spectrometry Oxford, Cambridge, proteins First woman appointed chemistry professor at the University of Oxford. Page exists but very brief on her actual work.
H Draft:Isabel Hadfield Analytical chemistry WWI, NPL, Aeronautics Microchemicals Development of microanalytical measurements
H Emily Lloyd (chemist) Analytical chemistry Aberystwyth, education, University of Birmingham First woman associate at the Royal Institute of Chemistry
H Draft:Margaret Seward Chemical reactions Natural Science, Somerville, nutrition First Oxford woman student to be entered for honour school of Mathematics, founding lecturer of Royal Holloway College, MBE
H Draft:Cecilie French Magnetochemistry UCL, ICI, Bedford College, Queen Mary College Senior Lecturer at QMC, extensive research into electrochemistry of nonaqueous solvents, synthesised novel boron compounds, Invited to give the Marie Curie Lecture at Penn. State.
H Draft:Mary Corner Microanalysis Fabric (cotton & leather) industry research Head of the Microanalytical Section of the Chemical Research Laboratory
H Martha Annie Whiteley Research chemistry Editor of the Dictionary of Applied Chemistry (3rd Edition), mustard gas President of the Imperial College Women Students' Association, OBE
H Frances Micklethwait Research chemistry Mustard gas, Boots, Principal at Swanley Horticultural College Prolific author of chemistry publications, MBE
H Sibyl Taite Widdows Chemistry education Education, Royal Holloway College Head of the Chemistry Department at London School of Medicine for Women
H Draft:May Badger Inorganic analysis Glass, pottery and coal Head of the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratories at the University of Manchester
H May Sybil Leslie Industrial chemistry Nitric acid, explosives, A Textbook of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Leeds Author of key text on kinetics of the iodination of acetone, Chemist in Charge of Laboratory at His Majesty's Factory in Litherland
H Evelyn Hickmans Blood chemistry Phenylketonuria, Horst Bickel, University of Birmingham, University of Toronto Awarded the John Scott Medal, Head of Children's Diseases Department in the Children's Hospital, Birmingham.
H Clara Millicent Taylor Organic chemistry β-eucaine, University of Bristol One of the first women admitted to the Chemical Society, Head of Science at Cheltenham Ladies' College
H Delia Simpson Spectroscopy Cambridge Chemistry Laboratories, energy fuels, fluorescence and infrared. Director of Studies in Natural Sciences, Newnham
H Draft:Soshelia Ram Analytical chemistry Lady Hardinge Medical College for Women, University of Delhi, University of Cambridge Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chemistry
H Rosemary Murray Already quite a full page, but needs some citations, etc.
H Catherine Steele Biochemistry Page exists though very short, might be tricky to find information to expand it.
H Ishbel Campbell Organometallic compounds University of Southampton, chemical warfare, St Andrews University One of the first women to receive a Commonwealth Fellowship, key figure in organometallic compounds of groups V and VI with numerous publications.
H Christina Miller Analytical chemistry Diffusion, Carnegie Research Fellowship, tetraphosphorus hexaoxide. Key studies in phosphorous and luminescence, Keith Prize from the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Director of the Inorganic Laboratory at the University of Edinburgh
H Elizabeth Kempson Biochemistry University of Edinburgh, carbohydrates, polysaccharide chemistry, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, issue of Carbohydrate Research journal dedicated to her
H Ruth Pirret Radiochemistry Ellen Gleditsch, Frederick Soddy, University of Manchester, metal corrosion First woman graduate in Science from the University of Glasgow, discovery of uranium isotopes
H Draft:Mary Andross Food chemistry Nutritional value of food, vitamin C, Society for Chemical Industry Fellow of the Institute of Food Science Technology, creator of first courses for training dieticians
H Edith Willcock Food chemistry Iodoform, radiation, tryptophan (& Frederick Gowland Hopkins) First studies to show the damaging effects of exposure to radioactive elements, work on vitamins, popular author
H Muriel Wheldale Onslow Biochemistry Pigments, plant breeding, genetics, artist, University of Cambridge Landmark work on pigmentation and genetics, one of the first three women elected to the Biochemical Club, Fellowship from the British Federation of University Women
H Rose Scott-Moncrieff Biochemistry Page exists but is quite short considering her achievements
H Dorothy Jordan Lloyd Biochemistry Page exists but no references really, and no infobox
H Polly Porter Crystallography Mentor to Dorothy Hodgkin, National Museum in Washington DC, Oxford Museum & University of Oxford, X-ray crystallography, The Barker Index of Crystals. Member of Council of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain, authored classic work, published some of earliest work on x-ray crystallography
H Ellie Knaggs Crystallography University of Cambridge, Imperial College, Royal Institution, Burroughs Wellcome. Hertha Ayrton Fellowship, determined crystal structures such as that of cyanuric triazide, elected Visitor to the Royal Institution
H Agnes Pockels Physical chemistry Surface science Page exists but more could be added from Women in Chemistry
H Dorothy Cayley Mycology Tulips, Page exists but rather brief.
H Draft:Caroline Pellew Genetics Flower colour, peas, chromosome theory, William Bateson, Genetical Society Extensive work on the genetics of peas and primula, "right hand man" to Bateson, first Secretary of the Genetical Society
H Muriel Bristol Mycology Algae, tea, Involvement in pioneering statistical work
M Margaret Buckingham Developmental biology Muscles, genetics, Pasteur Institute ForMemRS
H Charlotte Kipling Biology Fish, University of Cambridge, computing Fellow of the Statistical Society
H Patricia H. Clarke Biochemistry The Rising Tide, microbiology, UCL, bacteria FRS
H Bella MacCallum Botany Wetlands, fungi, New Zealand (see Ladies in the Laboratory III) Fellow of the Linnean Society
H Elizabeth Lomax Botany Botanical Exchange Club, Torquay, collecting Herbarium donated to Manchester
H Elsie M. Burrows Botany Phycology, Liverpool University, macroalgae Page exists but needs information on the importance of her work
H Ethel Sargant Cytology and morphology Synaptic phase, triple fusion, Royal Society President of the Botanical Section of the British Association. Page exists but not many details of her work, no infobox.
H Frances Adams Le Sueur Botany and conservation Jersey, flowers, source, source. Page exists but much more could be added from sources and especially from International Women in Science (see Google books)
M Judith Howard Structural chemistry X-ray crystallography, five-star department head, Page exists but very brief and no explanation of her work
H Una Ledingham Biology Diabetes, pregnancy, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians
M Anne Walton (chemist) Inorganic chemistry CChem, FRSC
M Madeline Jacobs Science communication CEO of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents, former CEO of the American Chemical Society
M Suze Kundu Nanochemistry MRSC
M Ifat Shah Biochemistry MRSC
M Motaza Khater Analytical chemistry Founder of the Federation of African Societies of Chemistry, FRSC
M Eleanor Schofield Materials science Conservation manager for the Mary Rose
M Denise Conner Analytical chemistry Plastic pigments, LGBT campaigner Founder of Out in Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (oSTEM)
M Lorelly Wilson Science education CSci, CChem, FRSC, founder of Chemistry with Cabbage
M Hala Sultan Saif Al-Easa Organic chemistry Photochemistry, medicinal plants, Qatar University Head of Chemistry at Qatar University, President of Qatar Chemical Society
M Mary Garson Biochemist Page exists but no infobox
M Reiko Kuroda Materials chemistry L’Oréal–UNESCO prizewinner 2013, stereochemistry, chirality Page exists but very brief
M Zanariah Binti Abdullah Organic chemistry University of Malaya, Queen Mary University, outreach FRSC
M Sylvia Anie Healthcare and chemistry Commonwealth Secretariat, HIV and AIDS CSci, CChem, FRSC
M Geetha Srinivasan Physical chemistry Polymers, petrochemistry, electrochemistry CSci, CChem, MRSC, L’Oréal-UNESCO award-winner
M Ellen Kooijman Microanalysis Head of the Vegacenter for Microanalysis, inspiration behind the LEGO 'Research Institute'
M Romeela Mohee Environmental engineering University of Mauritius, waste reduction, biochar FRSC
M Helen Neville (chemist) Product research and development Proctor & Gamble FRSC, Vice-President of Research and Development at P&G
M Mah Hussain-Gambles Pharmacology Skincare, Sutherland University, University of Leeds, halal MBE, CChem, MRSC, founder of Saar Pure Skincare
M Katriona Methven Cosmetovigilance L’Oréal, regulation, cosmetics CChem, MRSC, judge of the L’Oréal-UNESCO awards
M Sue Gibson (chemist) Synthesis Rosalind Franklin Award, Royal Society, OBE, diversity campaigner Page exists but brief
M Bernadette Modell Genetics Blood, WHO, UCL, University of Cambridge Wellcome Trust PRF
M Cathy Price Neuroscience Language, MRI, UCL Wellcome Trust PRF
M Heidi Johansen-Berg Neuroscience Plasticity, rehabilitation, ageing Wellcome Trust PRF
M Patricia Simpson Biology Insects, evolution FRS, Wellcome Trust PRF, page exists but stub
M Linda Wicker Immunogenetics Diabetes, genetics Wellcome Trust PRF
M Patricia Jacobs Genetics Chromosomes, University of Southampton, abnormalities, Klinefelter syndrome FRS, Wellcome Trust PRF, page exists but relatively short
M Doreen Cantrell Immunology Winner of the 2017 Novartis Medal and Prize, page exists but short
M Bonnie Wallace (biochemist) Molecular biophysics Winner of the 2010 AstraZeneca Award, FRSC, FAAAS, FIOB, FIUPAC
M Helen Walden Biochemistry Winner of the 2015 Colworth Medal,
M Wendy Bickmore FRS
M Yvonne Jones FRS, page exists but stub
M Anne Neville (engineer) FRS, page exists but nothing on her work
M Josephine Pemberton FRS, page exists but not much on her work
M Sarah (Sally) Price FRS, page exists but nothing on her work
M Susanne von Caemmerer FRS, page needs infobox
M Kate Storey Cell biologist Neural cells, University of Dundee Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences
M Susan Michie Psychologist Health psychology, King's College FMedSci, page exists but needs citations and infoxbox
M Giovanna Mallucci Neuroscientist Toxicology, neuroscience, University of Cambridge FMedSci, page exists but is tiny
M Tracy Hussell Immunologist FMedSci
M Jane Apperley Haematologist FMedSci
M Dorothy C Bennett Geneticist FMedSci
M Anne Bertolotti Neurobiologist FMedSci, 2018 winner of the GlaxoSmithKline Award
M Azra Ghani Epidemiologist FMedSci
M Linda Greensmith Neurologist FMedSci
M Alison Holmes Microbiologist FMedSci
M Jill Pell Epidemiologist FMedSci
M Rhian Touyz Cardiologist FMedSci, page exists but no infobox
M Christine J. Watson Pathologist FMedSci, might be harder to source though
M Margaret Whitehead Public health adviser DBE, FMedSci, page exists but brief and no infobox
M Sheila Hollins, Baroness Hollins Psychiatrist learning disabilities Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry of Disability, St George’s, University of London. Page exists, no infobox
M Gill McGauley Forensic Psychiatrist Professor of Forensic Psychotherapy and Medical Education at St George’s, University of London (until her death in July 2016). She was also a Consultant Psychiatrist in Forensic Psychotherapy. (no page)
M Pippa Oakeshott General Practice Professor of General Practice at St George’s, University of London. Also a practising GP in Lambeth, London. (no page)
M Emma Baker (clinical pharmacologist) Clinical Pharmacology & General Medicine Professor of Clinical Pharmacology at St George's, University of London and Consultant Physician in Clinical Pharmacology and General Medicine at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Sources

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Browsing for sources

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Suggested sources:

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General
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  • DiscoverEd to find books, ebooks, journals, ejournals and more.
News sources
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Theses databases
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Outcomes - Content created

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To be determined.

What can I do after the event?

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Join us for the event!
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Once you've learned the basics of editing using Wikipedia’s Visual Editor, I hope that you'll stay logged in and edit or create more articles. I've added some booklets and some links below that you may find useful. As a first step you may like to check out what What Wikipedia is not along with its 5 guiding principles: The 5 pillars.

  • Please sign your messages on talk pages with four tildes (~~~~). This will automatically insert your "signature" (your username and a date stamp). The or button, on the tool bar above Wikipedia's text editing window, also does this.
  • If you would like to play around with your new Wiki skills without changing the mainspace, the Sandbox is for you.

You may find these useful if you want to learn further about editing:

Resources

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Join us for the event!

Video guides to editing Wikipedia

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Tutorials on Wikipedia editing

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One page handouts

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Talkpage templates

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  • If the woman was born before 1950 use: {{WikiProject Women's history}}
  • If the woman was born after 1950 use: {{WikiProject Women}}
  • Add to Biography with:{{WikiProject Biography|class=|s&a-priority=|living=|s&a-work-group=yes}}
  • Add to WikiProject Women scientists:{{WikiProject Women scientists}}==Templates==

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Participants - Sign Up Here!

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Prior to the event:

  1. RSVP: Book your place here
  2. Do you have a Wikipedia User Name?
    No? Create a Wikipedia account
    Yes? Go to Step #2
  3. Sign up! Add your Wikipedia User Name to this section by clicking the blue button below (follow instructions). Your name will be added to the bottom of this page
Don't worry! If you haven't edited Wikipedia before and don't have a Wikipedia User Name yet, we will help you on the day of the event! And remember to have fun!
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Photos from past Ada Lovelace Day celebrations

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