Wikipedia:WikiProject Ireland/HSTM Conference November 2016
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About the event
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Interested in learning more about editing and contributing to Wikipedia? Why not make your first few edits whilst tucking into a sandwich from 1-2:30pm Saturday 12 November. Rebecca O'Neill will be lead trainer, all you need is a laptop to take part.
No editing experience is necessary!
How to Prepare
[edit]- CREATE A WIKIPEDIA ACCOUNT (if you don't already have one)
Please set up an account before the event if at all possible. Very few details are needed: a Username, password, and we recommend giving your email, if only to be reminded of your password when you forget it. The short Wikipedia:Tutorial/Registration explains why this is a good idea.
If you like, you can also learn a little about editing ahead of time here: w:en:Wikipedia:Tutorial, or see Getting started on Wikipedia for more information
To participate you will need to bring along a laptop or tablet, WIFI will be provided.
Attendees (in person)
[edit]Please Sign your name below using the signature tool or using ~~~~
Online participants
[edit]Online participants from anywhere are very welcome, whether experienced or not. For a basic editing tutorial see Wikipedia:Tutorial, and Wikipedia:Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia is short, and full of good advice. Or try this one - four modules, taking one hour it says. Online participants who can't join us in person are welcome to list themselves below with # ~~~~
Suggested articles
[edit]- Thomas Allin (Anglican) botanist.
- William Allman botanist.
- Mary Andrews Northern Irish geologist.
- Edward Alexander Newell Arber botanist and paleontologist.
- William Archer (naturalist).
- Robert Ball (naturalist).
- Richard Barrington naturalist.
- Sophie Bryant mathematician, educator, feminist and activist.
- Phyllis Clinch an Irish botanist most recognised for her work in the field of plant viruses.
- Grenville Cole geologist.
- Arthur Disbrowe Cotton plant pathologist, mycologist, phycologist, and botanist.
- William Francis de Vismes Kane entomologist.
- George Philip Farran zoologist.
- Arthur C. Forbes forestry expert.
- Percy H. Grimshaw entomologist and zoogeographer.
- James Nathaniel Halbert entomologist.
- Gerald Edwin Hamilton Barrett-Hamilton naturalist.
- Margaret Lindsay Huggins scientific investigator and astronomer.
- Ellen Hutchins botanist.
- Henry Lyster Jameson zoologist.
- William Frederick Johnson naturalist.
- Helena Lefroy botanist.
- Henry William Lett botanist.
- Claude Morley entomologist.
- Albert Russell Nichols zoologist.
- Charles J. Patten anatomist and ornithologist.
- Eva Philbin chemist.
- Florence Stoney radiologist.
- Richard J. Ussher ornithologist.
- William West (botanist).
Disability access
[edit]- step free access yes
- wheelchair access yes
Resources
[edit]- Please feel free to bring along some of books so that there will be a variety of reference books.
- Lists on Wikipedia
- List of female mathematicians
- List of women scientists
- Women in computing
- Women in engineering
- List of women astronomers and List of astronomers
- Women in medicine
- Women in geology
- List of female Nobel laureates
- History of women in engineering
- Timeline of women in dentistry
- Women and the environment through history
- External resources
- Some Irish Naturalists by Robert Lloyd Praeger
- Biographies of Women Mathematicians
- Encyclopedia of Women in Medicine
- Indian Academy of Sciences - List of Women Scientists
- Lilavati's daugters
- Biographical Memoirs of the National Academies of Science
- Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
- Women in Aviation and Space History
- Changing the face of Medicine (women in medicine)
- Archives of Women in Science and Engineering at Iowa State University
- Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing (applies to other subjects as well)
- Dictionary of Irish Biography