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WikiProject Women in Technology
A WikiProject dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of women in technology, and to address systemic bias in Wikipedia's coverage of technology-related subjects.
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Requests edit
- Women in Technology Task Force
- List of Women in Technology International Hall of Fame inductees (see also: Women in Technology International)
- Draft:African American women in computer science - many to add
- Add bio pages to Category:Women in technology sub-categories (and maybe "Women in technology" itself) -- for example, there are only 18 pages in Category:Women Internet pioneers.
- Tech LadyMafia | Which leads me to ask - Can we even edit pages we're associated with? Is this something we can touch on for us newbies?
- Copy some items over from Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's History/Taskforces/Women in technology, under "Work to be done > Biographies," probably starting from "ENIAC Programmers and Developers - 1940s" on down (?)
- Girl Scouts "Intellectual Property" patch – add a mention of the IP patch to the Girl Scouts of the USA or GSCNC article (I think this patch deserves a couple of sentences in the GSUSA or GSCNC article, but I'm not positive, just wanted to make the suggestion) (and/or sthg about GSUSA "innovation badges"...?)
- (doesn't have a page) 2010 documentary Top Secret Rosies: The Female "Computers" of WWII by LeAnn Erickson (mentioned here: ENIAC: Recognition), about the six women who were the main programmers for "the first electronic general-purpose computer."
- Frances Spence – lacks a portrait-y photo
- Betty Holberton – lacks a portrait-y photo
- Marlyn Meltzer – lacks a portrait-y photo (also this article is pretty short)
- Ruth Teitelbaum – lacks a portrait-y photo (also this article is pretty short)
- Adele Goldstine – lacks a portrait-y photo
- Are there women in Category:Women computer scientists who aren't in Category:American computer programmers? (obviously not all of these individuals belong in both, but maybe some are missing -- just an idea to check)
- Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
- Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference – says "The 2011 conference will be held in Portland, Oregon." – update or simply remove this detail b/c there's a link to the main article for this conference anyway.
- Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Awards – lists award recipients but list is out of date – update or simply remove list b/c there's a link to the main article for these awards anyway.
- Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Awards – table of award recipients is out of date; also, I think they've changed the award categories and renamed the overall awards to "Women of Vision ABIE Awards."
- Resources:
past award winners are listed on anitaborg.org and on women-of-vision.org
here's general info about the awards
- Resources:
- Women in nanotechnology (these may be featured in Portal:Nanotechnology if expanded enough)
- Alessandra Ricca (1997 Feynman Prize in Theory) [1] [2]
- Yue Qi (1997 Feynman Prize in Theory) [3] [4]
- Mildred Dresselhaus (2012 Kavli Prize) - several redlinks are good candidates for new articles
- Laura Landweber (2001 Tulip Award) [5]
- Anne Condon (2003 Tulip Award) [6]
- Natasha Jonoska (2007 Tulip Award) [7]
- Yan Liu (chemist) (2013 Tulip Award) [8] - this is Yan Liu at Arizona State, not to be confused with another Yan Liu at USC
- Naomi Halas (2008 UPenn Award)
- Angela Belcher (2010 UPenn Award)
Resources edit
Online sources edit
The following sources are sufficiently reliable to use as references, and may be of use:
- SWE Pioneers, oral histories from the Society of Women Engineers
- Institution of Engineering and Technology archives -- biographies
- WITI (Women in Technology International) Hall of Fame
Books etc edit
- Willard, Frances E., and Livermore, Mary A., Eds. American Women: Fifteen Hundred Biographies with over 1,400 Portraits. New York, Chicago, and Springfield, Ohio: Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick, 1897.