Wikipedia:Meetup/Harvard Women's Week 2015

Welcome! The Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America and Harvard Women in Computer Science are hosting an edit-a-thon for Harvard Women's Week.

When: Monday, March 2, 2015 from 4:00-6:00 PM Where: Radcliffe Room, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Yard. Focus: Did you know that many prominent women in STEM fields are entirely absent in Wikipedia? Did you know that Wikipedia is highly ranked in Google search results? Did you know that there are over 5000 Wikipedia entries on women’s history are just stubs? Call to action: Join us and help write Women in STEM Fields into Wikipedia!

Event Details

The Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America and Harvard Women in Computer Science are co-hosting an edit-a-thon to help make women's history and women in STEM fields more visible on Wikipedia. The event is open to all students, faculty, staff, alumnae, and community members. Join us whether or not you have any Wikipedia experience.

Wikipedia experts and research librarians will be available to help you write and edit your entries. A behind-the-scenes tour of the Schlesinger Library will also be provided.

Schedule

4:00-6:00PM - specifics to come

Logistics

• Locations, directions, maps:
  • Schlesinger Library is located in Radcliffe Yard, 3 James Street, Cambridge, MA. Directions, a map, and parking information is available here.
• Twitter: Hashtag TBD
• WiFi: Harvard Guest
• What to Bring: laptop and extension cord
• Contact the organizer: Amanda Strauss (Amandastra)

Sign Up and Guest List

If you do not have a Wikipedia account, please create one in advance of the event. It should take less than five minutes:User Login

Attending

*Amanda Strauss (Amandastra)

• Jilan Shimberg
• Missy McIntosh
• Danielle Frostig
• Shaun Chaudhuri
• Amanda Milunovich
• Rosa Bonilla
• Fernando Berdion (User:TodrosAbulafia)
• Sanchita Raychaudhuri (User:gunjwiki)
• Belinda Zeng (User:belindazeng)
• Abbie Higgins
• Celena Wang
• Carrie Tian (User:carrieoke)
• Girona7 (talk) 22:16, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
• Magdalene Zier

Suggested Topics

Biographies Needing Improvement

• Rachel Fuller Brown (insufficient inline citations)
• Esther Dyson (needs links to archival materials)
• Alice Hamilton (needs additional citations)
• Margaret Harwood (short article; can be expanded)
• Dorrit Hoffleit (short article; can be expanded)
• Evelyn Fox Keller (short article; can be expanded)
• Helen Brewster Owens (very short article; can be expanded)
• Judith Meuli (short article; can be expanded)
• Ellen Silbergeld (short article; can be expanded)
• Joanne Simpson (short article; can be expanded)
• Henrietta Hill Swope (needs additional citations)
• Naomi Weisstein (needs additional citations)
• Berta Lutz (needs additional citations)
• Cynthia Roberta McIntyre (needs additional biographical information; stub; can be greatly expanded)

Radcliffe Bunting Institute Fellows:

• Katherine Ralls (short article, can be expanded, 1973-1974 Bunting Institute fellowship added)
• Rebecca Elson
• Lesley Sibner
• Rhonda Hughes (1977-1979 Bunting Institute fellow)
• Margaret G. Kivelson (1965-1966 Bunting Institute fellow)

Other Subjects Needing Improvement

• STEM Fields - Women
• Feminisation of the workplace-science and technology
• Women in Science

New Entries to be Written (Organizations)

• Harvard Women in Computer Science (Needs improvement)
• Genes and Gender Collective
• Silent Spring Institute (Needs improvement: add categories)

New Entries to be Written (People)

Note that the Schlesinger Library holds the papers of the women listed below.

• Elizabeth Lawrence Clarke Plant pathologist; participated in the Women's Land Army
• Cornelia Mitchell Downs Professor of bacteriology; helped perfect the fluorescent antibody technique, a diagnostic method of identifying viruses
• Madeleine Parker Grant A teacher of biology and zoology
• Vilma Rose Hunt Dentist, scientist, researcher, writer, environmental activist and feminist.
• Sharon Leijoy Johnson Appointed Assistant Professor of biochemistry at the University of Pittsburgh Medical School in 1967. When denied tenure in 1973, she sued the university on the grounds of sex discrimination
  • finding aid
  • Obituary
  • Obituary
  • Other resources
• Adele Mildred Koss Computer programmer
• Robin Ruth Linden Sociologist; works on women's health and the philosophy of science
• Dinah Levine Moché Physicist, filed sex discrimination suits against Queensborough Community College and City University of New York
• Alice Rich Northrop Botanist
• Joanne Henderson Pratt Physical chemist
• Freda Friedman Salzman Physicist
• Cecily Cannan Selby Scientist, educator, and consultant
• Jolane Baumgarten Solomon Biologist; first female full professor in the natural sciences
• Helen Meriwether Lewis Thomas Astronomer; the first woman and second American to earn a Ph.D in History of Science
• Sheila Tobias Author of Overcoming Math Anxiety," which discusses gendered attitudes towards math
• Elga Wasserman Organic chemist; oversaw the advent of coeducation at Yale
• Agnes Ermina Wells Dean of Women at Indiana University and professor of mathematics and astronomy
• Pupa Gilbert Biophysicist, Radcliffe fellow 2014-2015

Former Radcliffe Bunting Institute Science Fellows

• Marie Esther Machecek Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; Bunting Institute Science Fellow and Radcliffe Institute Fellow
  • 2003 Radcliffe Institute project description
• Roseanne Di Stefano Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; Bunting Institute Science Fellow
  • Astronomy department biography
• Anne Goldizen animal behaviorist, has studied female social networks in animals; Bunting Institute Science Fellow
  • University of Queensland biography
• Gladys Friedler developmental pharmacologist, Bunting Institute Science Fellow
  • Cambridge Women's Heritage Project biography
• Barbara L. Thorne evolutionary biologist studying termites, Harvard PhD, Bunting Institute Science Fellow
  • University of Maryland faculty page
  • Nasutitermes corniger species on which Thorne has published
• Constance M. Soja geologist, Bunting Institute Science Fellow
  • Denison University award citation
• Martine Vuillaume-Randriamanantena paleobiologist specializing in lemurs, Bunting Institute Science Fellow
  • Archaeoindris extinct lemur Vuillaume-Randriamanantena studies
• Cynthia Roberta McIntyre theoretical physicist, businesswoman, Bunting Institute Science Fellow
  • Council on Competitiveness biography
  • Physicists of the African Diaspora biography

Topical Resources

Women in STEM

• Biographical Memoirs of the National Academies of Science
• Biographies of Women Mathematicians
• Category:Women astronomers
• Category:Women physicists
• Category:Women scientists
• Celebrate Women in STEM timeline
• Changing the face of Medicine (women in medicine)
• Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics
• Encyclopedia of Women in Medicine
• History of Women in Astronomy
• Black Women Scientists in the US
• History of women in engineering
• Indian Academy of Sciences - List of Women Scientists
• Issues Affecting Women in STEM
• Lilavati's daugters
• List of female mathematicians
• List of female Nobel laureates
• List of women astronomers
• List of notable women in computer science
• List of women scientists
• List of L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science
• Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
• Timeline of women in dentistry
• Women in Aviation and Space History
• Women in computing - Wikipedia article that needs additional citations for verification
• Women in geology
• Women in engineering
• Women and the environment through history
• Women in medicine

Wikipedia & the Gender Gap

Wikipedia logo with feminist symbol.

• If you care about women, you should edit Wikipedia differently
• Wikimedia Foundation: Gender Gap
• Unlocking the Clubhouse: Five Ways to Encourage Women to Edit Wikipedia
• Wikimedia Foundation: Gender Gap Manifesto
• Wikipedia's gender gap and the complicated reality of systemic gender bias
• How To Be A Woman On The Internet

Women's History

E-books

• Google Books
• Project Gutenberg
• Internet Archive
• Digital Public Library of America
• HathiTrust

Databases

• Women and Social Movements International
• Women and Social Movements in the United States
• Newspaper databases

Books & Encyclopedias

• Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers
• Readers' Companion to U.S. Women's History
• Women in the Middle Ages
• Notable American women, 1607-1950 a biographical dictionary
• Notable American women : the modern period : a biographical dictionary
• Notable American women : a biographical dictionary completing the twentieth century
• The Grounding of Modern Feminism
• No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women
• Lesser-Known Women: A Biographical Dictionary
• Women's Firsts

Public Domain Images

• Schlesinger Library: Public Domain images on Flickr Commons
• Finding Public Domain Images
• Creative Commons Image Search
• Wikimedia Commons

Wikiproject Templates

• If your article fits the projects' criteria, add the template to the article's Talk page. There are many Wikiprojects, here are two examples.
  • WikiProject: Women's History Template
  • WikiProject: Feminist Taskforce Template
  • WikiProject: Women Scientists Template

Wikipedia Help

These are just to get you started -- feel free to add to this list.

About Wikipedia

• Five Pillars of Wikipedia
• GLAM Beginners Guide
• Wikipedia Tutorial
• Wiki Project: Women's History

Article Examples

• Wikipedia quality scale
• Here is an article that Wikipedia rated as "good" Lowell Mill Girls
• Here is another article that Wikipedia rated as "good" Feminism
• Here is a "featured" article List of First Ladies of the United States

Formatting Shortcuts

• Help:Cheatsheet
• Starting an Article
• Citation Guide
• Wiki Markup Quick Reference
• Text Formatting
• Section Headers, Indents, and Lists
• Links
• Infobox templates

Results

New articles created

• Cynthia Roberta McIntyre
• Alice Rich Northrop
• Helen Meriwether Lewis Thomas
• Pupa Gilbert

Articles improved

• Radhika Nagpal
• Naomi Weisstein
• Margaret Harwood
• Berta Lutz