Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/Events and Workshops/Ada Lovelace Day 2016
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About the event
[edit]Have you ever wondered why the information in Wikipedia is extensive for some topics and scarce for others? Did you know that approximately only 16% of the biographies on Wikipedia relate to notable women?
On Tuesday 11th October 2016, the University's Information Services team are running an edit-a-thon to celebrate Ada Lovelace Day 2016 which is an international celebration day of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM).
There will be a range of guest speakers in the morning followed by fun technology activities from 11am to 1pm. Full Wikipedia editing training will be given at 1-2pm. Thereafter the afternoon's editathon will focus on improving the quality of articles related to Women in STEM!
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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!
Booking
[edit]The day is split in two parts: talks & technology activities in the morning and the Women in STEM Wikipedia editathon in the afternoon.
You can attend both morning and afternoon sessions or just one.
- To book a place for the morning activities (10am to 1pm):
- To book a place for the afternoon editathon (1pm to 5pm):
Worried about time for lunch? The fun technology activities from 11am to 1pm can be dropped in and out of and there is the Library Cafe downstairs where you can get refreshments and a bite to eat.
Not a student or staff member of the university? You can book tickets through Eventbrite.
- To book a place for the morning activities (10am to 1pm):
- To book a place for the afternoon editathon (1pm to 5pm):
How do I prepare?
[edit]- Sign up for the event
- Create a Wikipedia account
- Bring a laptop (wi-fi will be provided)
- Learn about editing if you like: Tutorial, or Getting started on Wikipedia for more information
- Think about what you would like to edit - please prepare some materials to bring with you on the day
- Consult the Manual of Style for Biographies on Wikipedia
Programme
[edit]- 10am to 10.10am – Housekeeping and welcome.
- 10.10am to 11am - Talks.
- Melissa Highton – Welcome and intro about Ada Lovelace & Mary Somerville
- Kirsty Robertson – The mentoring programme at Edinburgh University
- Christopher D. Hollings - The maths of Ada Lovelace.
- Stewart Cromar – The Lego Lovelace project.
- 11am to 1pm. – Drop-in Activities
- Metadata games (Charlie Farley & Gavin Willshaw)
- Creating a Lego calculator/adder
- Fun with BBC Microbit
- Fun with Sonic Pi.
- Colour in Ada Lovelace and Grace Hopper
- 1pm to 2pm – Wikipedia Training.
- 2pm to 5pm – Editing.
- 4.30 to 5pm – Transferring to Wikipedia's live space.
- 5pm - Close.
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Trainers
[edit]Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Edinburgh
Hit list of articles to be created or improved
[edit]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
[edit]- Gillian Raab
- Maude Elizabeth Newbigin
- Amelia Hutchison Stirling
- Ann Moffatt (née Hill; Ann Leach from 1961)
[4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18]
- Margaret E. Boyle - [19]
- Joyce Wheeler (née Blackler)
[20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] Joyce Wheeler shares her story (video)
- Margaret Marrs - [31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39]
- Ann Katharine Mitchell (née Williamson)
- Eileen McLaren - Vice President Engeering, Fanduel.
- Women of Worth - no page? create one?
- Code First: Girls- notable enough?
- Equality Challenge Unit
- Patricia Hiddleston - [45]
- Dr. Nina Baker
- Anne Strachan Robertson [46][47][48][49][50]Obit in the Independent
- Dr. Mary Noble (full name: Mary Jessie McDonald Noble) - [51][52][53][54][55][56]
- Professor Anne Ferguson (physician) (née Glen) - Herald obit[57][58]
- Katherine Clerk Maxwell
- Sheila Edmonds - Senior Cambridge mathematician. [59][60][61][62][63]
Articles to be improved
[edit]- Mary Bownes - [64]Royal Society Edinburgh lectureIndependent article on a review carried out by Professor Mary Bownes[65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72]
- Athena SWAN
- Elizabeth Blackwell (illustrator) - NLS page on her life (1700-1758)[75] About Elizabeth Blackwell, Botanical Art and Artists, comprehensive biography and lots of useful links[76][77][78][79][80][81][82][83][84][85][86][87][88][89][90]
- Flora Philip - [91]
- Nora Calderwood - [92][93][94][95]
- Marion Gray
- Unconscious bias - Redirects to Cognitive Bias page - maybe worthwhile leaving message on Talk page as to whether to create a new page or a new section related to 'Unconscious bias'.
- Wider Opportunities for Women - historical- funding given to universities (including Edinburgh) and colleges by Manpower services commission
- STEM- add a UK section?
- WISE Campaign- needs improvement
- Harpies and Quines
- Marion Ross_(physicist)
- Charlotte Auerbach
- Noreen Murray
- Chrystal Macmillan
- Christina Miller
- Mary Brück[96][97][98]
- Johanna Moore[99]
- Judy Delin
- Kim Binsted
- Philippa Gardner
- Jane Hillston
- Mary Ellen Rudin
- Elizabeth Fennema
- Judith Grabiner
- Erica Flapan
- Susan Brown (professor)
- Ruth Aylett
- Kim_Jones_(Sun)
- Rosemary Wyse
- Jo Shaw
- Veronica van Heyningen
- Agata Smoktunowicz - Needs a pic & infobox.
Looking for ideas?
[edit]- Additional worklist including list of Female Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- List of individuals on Wikipedia in the field of science
- List of individuals working as scientists educated at Edinburgh University
- List of individuals working in the field of science with UK as their country of citizenship.
- List of female biologists in the UK
- List of female chemists in the UK
- List of female physicists in the UK
- List of female computer scientists in the UK
- List of female engineers in the UK
- List of female mathematicians in the UK
- List of female technologists in the UK
- Category:Women mathematicians
- Category:Women in technology
- Women in Computing
- Wikidata query showing female mathematicians educated at the University of Edinburgh
- Histropedia timeline for the above Wikidata query.
- Wikipedia query showing female mathematicians and engineers educated at the University of Edinburgh
- Histropedia timeline showing female mathematicians and engineers educated at the University of Edinburgh
Sources
[edit]- Wikipedia is a tertiary resource, which relies upon secondary sources. Wikipedia is not a place for original research.
- For more guidance on the use of sources, see this guide here.
- We will provide a variety of reference books on the day.
- Editors will also have access to some University of Edinburgh e-resources.
- Search for articles on Google Scholar
- Try the Wikipedia Library's list of free resources
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- The Hathi Trust Digital Library - 100s of novels & other assorted texts
- Shareable Images can be found through a Creative Commons search(which includes Google, Flickr & Wikicommons in its search).
- Croptool
Browsing for sources
[edit]- Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
- Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
- Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL - Biography
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Suggested sources:
[edit]General
[edit]- DiscoverEd to find books, ebooks, journals, ejournals and more.
News sources
[edit]Theses databases
[edit]- Edinburgh Research Archive. For theses produced at the University of Edinburgh Edinburgh Research Archive
- Proquest Dissertations
- More at: Edinburgh University Library - Theses database
Outcomes - Content created
[edit]Articles created
[edit]- Mary_Bownes - molecular and developmental biologist; she is Vice Principal Community Engagement and Emerita Professor of Developmental Biology at the University of Edinburgh. She has taught genetics, molecular biology and developmental biology at all levels and was previously Head of the Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology at the University from 1998-2001.
- Sheila May Edmonds - British mathematician, a Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, and Vice-Principal of Newnham College from 1960 to 1981.
- Ann Katharine Mitchell - Decrypted messages encoded in the German Enigma cypher at Bletchley Park. Wrote several academic books about the psychological effects of divorce on children. Won a place to study maths at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford (1940–1943). At the time relatively few women went to Oxford and even fewer studied maths. There were only 5 women in Ann Williamson's year at Oxford and she remarked that the men coming to university had been taught maths much better at school than the girls. Indeed, it was suggested to her by the headmistress of her school that studying maths was "unladylike" and her parents had to overrule her school to allow her to take up her place at Oxford. Returned to university in 1970s to study social policy and in 1980 she graduated with a Master of Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh.
- Margaret Marrs - Senior Operator of the original Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Computer (EDSAC). EDSAC was an early British computer constructed at the University of Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory in England, and the second electronic digital stored-program computer to go into regular service.
- Code First: Girls - Not for Profit Social Enterprise that works exclusively with women in Britain to develop coding skills. The organisation promotes gender diversity and female participation in the technology sector by offering free and paid training and courses for students and professional women. It also supports businesses to train staff and develop talent management policies. As of June 2016, Code First: Girls is reported to have provided in excess of £1.5 million worth of free coding courses to more than 1,500 women since 2013.
- PLUS another 5 Wikipedia articles were translated from English Wikipedia to Portuguese Wikipedia by Lucy Viegas using Wikipedia's new Content Translation tool.
- Tamar Ziegler translated to Tamar Ziegler here. Ziegler is an Israeli mathematician known for her work in ergodic theory and arithmetic combinatorics. Much of her work has focused on arithmetic progressions, in particular extensions of the Green–Tao theorem.
- Vyjayanthi Chari translated to Vyjayanthi Chari here. Chari is an Indian–American professor of mathematics at the University of California, Riverside, known for her research in representation theory and quantum algebra. In 2015 she was elected as a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
- Stefanie Petermichl translated to Stefanie Petermichl here. German mathematical analyst who works as a professor at the University of Toulouse, in France. Topics of her research include harmonic analysis, several complex variables, stochastic control, and elliptic partial differential equations. She became a member of the Institut Universitaire de France in 2013.
- Cornelia Druțu translated to Cornelia Druțu here. Romanian mathematician working in the areas of geometric group theory, topology, and ergodic theory and its applications to number theory. She is a fellow and a tutor in pure mathematics at Exeter College, and lecturer in the Oxford University's mathematical institute.
- Mildred Sanderson translated to Mildred Sanderson here. American mathematician, best known for her mathematical theorem concerning modular invariants. She is mentioned in the book Pioneering women in American mathematics. A Mildred L. Sanderson prize for excellence in mathematics was established in her honor in 1939 at Mount Holyoke College.
Articles improved
[edit]- Fpapado added place of education data (University of Edinburgh) to Mary Fergusson (Q37215) and created new improved Histropedia timeline of female graduates of University of Edinburgh working in mathematics and engineering.
- FleetWolf added an infobox and added information to the early life and academic career sections of Nora Calderwood's page.
- Catkop fixed links, references & formatting in Margaret Rock's page - Rock was an English cryptoanalyst who worked as a code-breaker at Bletchley Park during World War II.
- Hwedinburgh doubled the size of the Athena SWAN page.
- Strollerman improved links from Joan Robinson (British economist well known for her work on monetary economics) linked to John Eatwell(British economist and the current President of Queens' College, Cambridge) and then Nicholas Kaldor(Cambridge economist in the post-war period) linked to Joan Robinson. Text has been drafted in sandbox to improve the Cathie Marsh page. Marsh was a sociologist and statistician who lectured at the University of Cambridge and University of Manchester. The Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research (CMIST) at the University of Manchester was named following her early death from breast cancer, aged 41.
- Spelling mistake fixed on the Sue Black (computer scientist) page.
- Hut 6 linked to Ann Katharine Mitchell's page.
- Mafrado learnt about Wikidata and improved the Wikidata list on female mathematicians. She also identified sources to create the Katherine Clerk Maxwell page.
- LornaMCampbell expanded the 'Sweden' section in the Elizabeth Blackwell (illustrator) page which covers the fact that Blackwell has a genus of plants named after her.
- Entrepreneur First improved by ETwomey making link to Code First: Girls
What can I do after the event?
[edit]Helpful links
[edit]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.
- The Wikipedia Adventure Start Page - a fun tutorial introducing new editors to Wikipedia
- Visual Editor user guide
- Questions – a guide on where to ask questions
- The Teahouse new editor help space
- Wikipedia Help pages
- Article wizard – a Wizard to help you create articles
- The simplified ruleset – a summary of Wikipedia's most important rules
- Guide to Wikipedia – a thorough step-by-step guide to Wikipedia
- Is your topic notable enough for an article?
- Be Bold!
- Don't let grumpy users scare you off.
- Learn from others
- How to write a great article
- A simplified manual of style
- 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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Wikipedia - Working with Images
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Wikipedia - Writing about people
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Wikipedia - Writing about Places
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Wikipedia - Making Connections
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Editing Wikipedia brochure (Wiki Education Foundation)
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Illustrating Wikipedia brochure (Wiki Education Foundation)
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Theories: Wikipedia and the production of knowledge
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Evaluating Wikipedia brochure (Wiki Education Foundation)
Video guides to editing Wikipedia
[edit]- Wikipedia - It's main policies & guidelines
- Navigating Wikipedia's front page
- How to structure an article on Wikipedia: the Featured Article
- Wikipedia editing in under 25 mins
- How to edit using with Visual Editor Part 1: Creating an Account
- Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 1.1 Adding Headings
- Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 1.2 Adding bold & italics
- Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 1.3 Adding bullet points
- Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 1.4 Adding links
- Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 2.1 Adding citations and references
- Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 2.2 Further practice with citations (DOI and Pubmed IDs)
- Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor:Part 2.3 Adding an image
- Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 2.4 Adding categories
- Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 3 Creating a new article in the Sandbox
- Editing Wikipedia: Communicating with others using the Talk page and Help Desk
Tutorials on Wikipedia editing
[edit]- Visual Editor User Guide
- manual of style
- Wikipedia cheat sheet (Bookshelf), another markup cheatsheet
- Training for students, a tutorial for beginners
- Beginners' guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
- Five pillars of Wikipedia, philosophical guidelines and best practices for editing
- Tutorial
- How to edit a page
- Wiki markup quick reference, PDF version of printed handout
- Article development
- Your first article (using the Article Wizard, if you wish)
- Bookshelf, additional "getting started" resources
- Biographies of Living Persons
One page handouts
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Using talk pages
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Choosing an article
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Citing your sources
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Avoiding plagiarism
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Classroom handout - moving out of your sandbox
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Polishing your articles
Talkpage templates
[edit]- 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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External links
[edit]Participants - Sign Up Here!
[edit]Prior to the event:
- RSVP: Book your place here
- Do you have a Wikipedia User Name?
- No? Create a Wikipedia account
- Yes? Go to Step #2
- 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
- LoopZilla (talk) 22:42, 11 June 2016 (UTC) (remote!)