The summer school is part of the Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership ‘Diversity in the Cultures of Physics‘ between Freie Universität Berlin, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, Uppsala Universitet, The University of Manchester, and the University of Sheffield.[1]
This workshop is organized by Wikimujeres User Group, Viquidones UPF and Art+Feminisme Barcelona.
Introducció:
editWhat is Wikipedia?
editWikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.
Rang | Country | Language | Articles | Users | Active User | |
3 | Swedish | Svenska | sv | 3,781,655 | 620,293 | 2,204 |
- Frist hand experiences from Wikipedia users: Great_Feeling.ogv
- Wikipedian specialized in women and science: Keliana
Some stats and numbers
edit- Comparison of pageviews across multiple pages
- Top 100 most visited articles
- Real-time edition counter https://tools.wmflabs.org/wmcounter/
Gender Gap and Systemic Bias in Wikipedia
edit- In Wikimedia projects, when we talk about “Gender Gap” in participation we are refering to the infra-representation of users who identified as women, genderfuid or gender non-conforming.
- Gender gap in content has already been studied and evaluated mainly in English Wikipedia Data about Gender Gap in Wikidata http://tools.dicare.org/gaps/gender.php (gràfics verd̠-taronja)
- The annual report of the WMF 2016 reports that only 13% of the total number of people who edit Wikipedia are women, a gender gap that leaves an inevitable footprint in Wikipedia's content. When biographies and concepts are edited and published by people who has little aware of the importance of the gender perspective to address the well reported gap in content and participation, those biographies and concepts keep reproducing biases that are not helping build the sum of all knowledge. In addition only 10% of wikipedia users identify as women
- The Wikipedia project strives for a neutral point of view in its coverage of subjects, both in terms of the articles that are created and the content, perspective and sources within these articles. However, this goal is inhibited by systemic bias created by the shared social and cultural characteristics of most editors, and it results in an imbalanced coverage of subjects and perspectives on the encyclopedia (read more about Systemic Bias in Wikipedia)
Causes
edit- The Wikimedia Foundation executive director Sue Gardner cited nine reasons why women don't edit Wikipedia, culled from comments by female Wikipedia editors:
- A lack of user-friendliness in the editing interface
- Not having enough free time
- A lack of self-confidence
- Aversion to conflict and an unwillingness to participate in lengthy edit wars
- Belief that their contributions are too likely to be reverted or deleted
- Some find its overall atmosphere misogynistic
- Wikipedia culture is sexual in ways they find off-putting
- Being addressed as male is off-putting to women whose primary language has grammatical gender
- Fewer opportunities than other sites for social relationships and a welcoming tone
- In a recent research on Gender Diversity Mapping lead by the well-known American Wikipedian Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, five themes emerged:
- Gender is highly culturally contextualized and can only be understood through a person’s cultural context
- The wikimedia community is not as inclusive as it could be, although issues of inclusion and gender fluidity are complex
- Implicit biases “permeates everything” and create a false sense of neutrality
- It is important to acknowledge various degrees of participation and to not not creating a hierarchy
- It is important narrating own stories through women’s voices and countering bias
Stephenson-Goodknight presented the first research findings in the Wikipedia Diversity Conference 2017, along with different participant contributions from where the themes that she were presenting emerged. One of the participants argued that “There is no such thing as voiceless, you are just denied hearing [our voices], [their voices], amplifying them”.
What are we doing to address the gender gap in participation and content?
edit- Exemple The Art & Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
- Weekly monitoring of the increase in women's biographies (WH-GI)
- Gender Gap by occupation
- Why I write about women on Wikipedia
- Kit Art+Feminism: Quick guides, short instructional videos and slide decks to get you started contributing to Wikipedia. Learn about the gender gap, best practices for editing, and more.
Let's get hands on
editSuggested actvities
editWomen scientitst / Kvinnor inom vetenskapen
editWP-EN | Birth | Death | Field | WP-CA | WP-SV | Contributions |
Tatyana Afanasyeva | 1876 | 1964 | Physics | NO | statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics | |
Elizabeth Alexander | 1908 | 1958 | Geology Physics | NO | NO | Radioastronomy |
Betsy Johnson | 1929 | Physics | NO
Irina |
NO | Plasmas in solids | |
Maria Angela Ardinghelli | 1730 | 1825 | Physics, Mathematics, Translator | improve | ||
Milla Baldo-Ceonlin | 1924 | 2011 | Física de partícules | NO | NO | |
Ida Barney | 1886 | 1982 | Astronomy | ilvias | NO | |
Laura Bassi | 1711 | 1778 | Física | First professor an European university | ||
Amanda Bauer | 1979 | Astronomy | Agnès | NO | ||
Jocelyn Bell Burnell | 1943 | Astrofísica | Descrobriment púlsars | |||
Mary Adela Blagg | 1858 | 1944 | Astronomy | |||
Marietta Blau | 1894 | 1970 | Nuclear physics | NO | Used nuclear emulsions to detect neutrons | |
Lili Bleeker | 1897 | 1985 | Optics | alba | NO | designs and manufacturing of optical devices |
Erika Böhm-Vitense | 1923 | 2017 | Astrophysics | improve | NO | Known for Cepheid variables and convection in stellar atm. |
Sophia Brahe | 1556 | 1643 | horticulturalist, astronomy, medicine | improve | NO | Assisted her brother, Tycho Brahe |
Harriet Brooks | 1876 | 1933 | Nuclear physics | aina | Research on nuclear transmutations | |
Elizabeth Brown | 1830 | 1899 | Astronomy | marta | NO | Es va especialitzar en observacions del sol |
Yevgenia Bugoslavskaya | 1899 | 1960 | Astronomy | nika | NO | |
Margaret Burbidge | 1919 | Astrophysics | improve | |||
Katharine Burr Blodgett | 1898 | 1979 | Physics Chemistry | Known for her work on surface chemistry | ||
Sidney C. Wolff | 1941 | Astrophysics | NO | NO | ||
Marcela Carena | 1962 | Theoretcal Physics | NO | NO | ||
Mary Lucy Cartwright | 1900 | 1998 | Physics | NO | NO | Forced nonlinear oscillators |
Yvette Cauchois | 1908 | 1999 | Physics | NO | NO | Contributions to x-ray spectroscopy and x-ray optics |
Catherine Cesarsky | 1943 | Astronomy | NO | |||
Anja Cetti Andersen | 1965 | Astronomia & Astrofísica | NO | |||
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat | 1923 | Maths and Physics | NO | Maths to provide a basis for the classical field equations of physics | ||
Katherine Clerk Maxwell | 1824 | 1886 | Physics | NO | Observations which supported and contributed to the discoveries of her husband | |
Agnes Mary Clerke | 1842 | 1907 | Astronomy | She was astronomer and writer | ||
Fanny Cook Gates | 1872 | 1933 | Nuclear physics | NO | Studied radioactivity | |
Joan Elizabeth Curran | 1916 | 1999 | Physics | NO | Worked in Radar and Nuclear bomb | |
Sanja Damjanović | 1972 | Physics | NO | NO | ||
Louise Dolan | 1950 | Mathematical Physics | NO | NO | ||
Émilie du Châtelet | 1706 | 1749 | Mathematics-Physics-Natural philosopher | improve | Translation Principia (Newton) | |
Jo Dunkley | 1979 | Astrophysics | NO | NO | ||
Eva Ekeblad | 1724 | 1786 | Scientist | improve | Swedish countess who was a salon hostess, agronomist and scientist | |
Debra Elmegreen | 1952 | Astronomy | NO | 1st woman graduated in Princeton in astrophysics | ||
Amalia Ercoli Finzi | 1937 | Astrophysics | NO | NO | Va treballar amb la sonda Philae | |
Priscilla Fairfield Bok | 1896 | 1975 | Astronomy | NO | NO | |
Joan Feynman | 1927 | Astrophysics | NO | NO | ||
Rosalind Franklin | 1920 | 1958 | Chemist, X-ray crystalographer | improve | DNA structure | |
Helen Freedhoff | 1940 | 2017 | Physics | NO | NO | Interaction of light with atoms |
Wendy Freedman | 1957 | Astronomy | NO | Measurement of Hubble constant | ||
Charlotte Froese Fischer | 1929 | Mathematics and comuter sciences | NO | NO | ||
Charlotta Frölich | 1698 | 1770 | Writer agronomist historian poet | |||
Mary Katherine Gaillard | 1939 | Theoretcal Physics | NO | NO | ||
María José García Borge | 1956 | Física Nuclear | NO | |||
Fanny Gates | 1872 | 1931 | Physics | NO | NO | Radioactive materials |
Sophie Germain | 1776 | 1831 | Maths Physics Philosophy | improve | ||
Naomi Ginsberg | 1979 | Physics and Chemistry | NO | NO | ||
Ellen Gleditsch | 1879 | 1968 | Nuclear physics | |||
Maria Goeppert Mayer | 1906 | 1972 | Theoretcal Physics | NO | Estructura capes nuclears | |
Daphne Jacson Trust | 1936 | 2001 | Nuclear physics | NO | NO | |
Margherita Hack | 1922 | 2013 | Astrophysics | |||
Jane Hamilton Hall | 1915 | 1981 | Physics | NO | NO | Worked on the Manhattan Project |
Margrete Heiberg Bose | 1865 | 1952 | Física | NO | NO | |
Grete Hermann | 1901 | 1984 | Maths Physics Philosophy | NO | ||
Shirley Ann Jackson | 1946 | Physics | improve | |||
Katherine Johnson | 1918 | Maths | Calculations of orbital mechanics | |||
Irène Joliot-Curie | 1879 | 1956 | Physics | improve | NO | Estudis sobre radioactivitat |
Lorella Jones | 1943 | 1995 | Physics | NO | NO | |
Christine Jones Forman | Physics nuclear | NO | NO | |||
Annie Jump Cannon | 1863 | 1941 | Astronomy | improve | cataloged stars | |
Renata Kallosh | 1943 | Physics | NO | Supergravity, String theory and Inflationary cosmology | ||
Vassiliki Kalogera | Astrophysics | NO | NO | |||
Lisa Kaltenegger | 1977 | Astronomy | NO | |||
Elizaveta Karamihailova | 1897 | 1968 | Nuclear physics | NO | NO | Pioneer at the begining of the 20th century |
Berta Karlik | 1904 | 1990 | Physics | NO | NO | |
Marcia Keith | 1859 | 1950 | Physics | NO | NO | |
Hedwig Kohn | 1887 | 1964 | Physics | NO | ||
Pamela L. Gay | 1973 | Astronomy, Education | NO | NO | ||
Inge Lehmann | 1885 | 1993 | Seismologist | |||
Hilde Levi | 1909 | 2003 | Radioactivity | NO | NO | Used radioactive isotopes in biology and medicine |
Kathleen Lonsdale | 1903 | 1971 | Physics | NO | Benzene ring is flat | |
Margaret Eliza Maltby | 1860 | 1944 | Physics | NO | NO | |
Mileva Maric | 1875 | 1948 | Physics Mathematics | improve | ||
Nergis Mavalvala | 1968 | Physics | NO | Important role in the 1st observation of gravitational waves | ||
Lise Meitner | 1878 | 1968 | Nuclear physics | improve | Estudis sobre radioactivitat i física nuclear | |
Andrea Mia Ghez | 1965 | Astronomy | NO | |||
Ann Elizabeth Nelson | 1958 | Física | NO | NO | ||
Emmy Noether | 1882 | 1935 | Mathematics-Physics | Teorema de Noether | ||
Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen | 1751 | 1827 | Astronomy | Ebba | ||
Mazlan Othman | 1951 | Astrophysics | NO | NO | ||
Hiranya Peiris | Astrophysics | NO | NO | |||
Agnes Pockels | 1862 | 1935 | Chemistry Physics | NO | ||
Edith Quimby | 1891 | 1982 | Physics and Medical research | NO | founder of nuclear medicine | |
Helen Quinn | 1943 | Particle Physics | improve | Nadia | ||
Lisa Randall | 1962 | Theoretcal Physics | improve | |||
Charlotte Riefenstahl | 1899 | 1993 | Physics | NO | NO | |
Vera Rubin | 1928 | Astronomia | improve | 1a observar evidències matèria fosca | ||
Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber | 1911 | 1998 | Nuclear physics | improve | NO | Neutrons are emitted in spontaneous fission |
Deborah Shiu-Ian Jin | 1968 | 2016 | Physics | NO | ||
Eva Silverstein | 1970 | Theoretcal Physics, Cosmology | NO | NO | ||
Marie Sklodowska-Curie | 1867 | 1934 | Nuclear physics | Pionera en radioactivitat | ||
Maria Spiropulu | Experimental Physics | NO | ||||
Rosalynd Sussman Yalow | 1921 | 2011 | Medical Physics | improve | NO | |
Bertha Swirles | 1903 | 1999 | Quantum Theory | NO | NO | |
Valery Troitskaya | 1917 | 2010 | Geophysics | NO | NO | |
Anne Barbara Underhill | 1920 | 2003 | Physics | NO | NO | |
Hendrika Johanna van Leeuwen | 1887 | 1974 | Physics | NO | NO | Early contributions to the theory of magnetism |
Chien-Shiung Wu | 1912 | 1997 | Experimental Physics | |||
Toshiko Yuasa | 1909 | 1980 | Nuclear physics | NO | Julia | |
Agloanice | 2nd-1st BC | Astronomy | Greek astronomer |
Other activities
edit- Wikiproject: Women in Red
- ǃ00 BBC
- List_of_women_writers
- Biographies of Exemplary Women
- Dinner Party (place setting)
- Dinner Party (floor)
- Women Hall of Fame
- Women's_Library
Women scientists anniversaries
editIf you want to know which woman scientist was born today, in this link click on the RUN button to generate an updated list (wait a few seconds
Guidelines
editWriting biographies
edit- The Manual of Style for biographies
- Biographies of living persons
- Writing about women
- Primer for creating women's biographies
- Also consider taking into account: the Finkbeiner test for writing biographies of women in science
Notability
edit- Notability (academics)
- Notability (people)#Creative professionals — includes scientists & academics
Tools
editTranslatorː https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3btQ5fpn4sA
References
edit- ^ "Diversity in the Cultures of Physics Summer School Barcelona – Uppsala, 2018". Department of Physics UAB.
External links
editSummer School 2018 UAB Upsala University:
Inscriptions: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/training