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Diversity in Science Edit-a-thon, Royal Society, March 25, 2014
This is an afternoon and evening event for people who want to edit Wikipedia, in particular topics relating to diversity in science in relation to geography, culture, gender, ethnicity and disability. New and experienced editors are welcome; there will be training sessions for those new to editing, and experienced helpers will be available. There will be a number of suggested topics for editing, but please bring your own thoughts on this.
- NEW The Royal Society Library (1st floor) will be holding an open house session for you (or anyone else) from 5.30 to 6pm, between the sessions, with Rupert Baker. Rupert will also give a brief talk on the library and its unique historic holdings during the afternoon session.
Event
This will follow the pattern of our last event Women in science Edit-a-thon on March 4th, though the structure has been revised in the light of that experience.
Please bring a laptop if possible, though some will be available, as will wifi internet access. Also please bring any books you have to use as references, though the resources of the Royal Society library will be available until shortly before 5pm, and we will some print sources on hand. We also should have access to Royal Society publications normally behind a paywall. We envisage that most people will come either for the afternoon session, starting at 2pm or the evening one, starting at 6pm, with the changeover around 5.30-6pm, but there is room for some to span both sessions; if you think you want to go to both please register for the afternoon event only.
There will be light refreshments laid on. There will be presentations on editing for new editors at about 2.15 and 6.1.15, lasting about 40 minutes, and there will be experienced editors on hand throughout to give assistance. The event is held during International Women's Month.
Please sign-up at the Eventbrite pages (links here soon), or below if you are able to help the mainly new editors as they edit, or would like to participate remotely. The event is being offered first to the Royal Society's mailing lists and other contacts.
The Royal Society is the UK's national academy for the sciences, a fellowship of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence, founded in 1660. The position of Wikimedian in Residence at the Royal Society, a pilot scheme running until early July 2014, is supported by Wikimedia UK, the registered charity that is the UK support group for Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement.
Booking
Please register on Eventbrite for free tickets. The event is now sold out for the afternoon session, but last time there were last minute drop-outs, and the waiting lists are still short.
For the afternoon session (2.00 to 5.30 pm) register on this page.
For the evening session (6.00 to 9.00 pm) register on this page.
Arriving
Bringing your ticket is not important, though it does have the map etc. Tell Reception you have come for the Wikipedia event, then follow the signs to "Mercer Suite 1" in the basement. Name badges will be waiting for you there and should be worn.
Programme
- 2:00 Afternoon attendees arrived, sort out laptops, wi-fi, register Wikipedia accounts if not (which is better) done so before
- 2:15 Short tutorial on the very basic editing process
- 2:35 Questions, discuss potential subjects and sources
- 2:45 Start editing
- 4:00 Break and cakes; short talk on the Royal Society Library by Rupert Baker
- 4:20 A wider view of Wikipedia, questions
- 4:35 Back to editing
- 5:20 Review of editing we have done, complete feedback forms
- 5:25 Wind-up by Polly Williams, the Royal Society and Diversity
- 5:30 End afternoon session
- 5:30-6:00 Open house in the Royal Society Library (for both sessions), Rupert Baker
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- 6:00 Evening attendees arrived, sort out laptops, wi-fi, register Wikipedia accounts if not (which is better) done so before
- 6:10 Welcome by Polly Williams, the Royal Society and Diversity
- 6:15 Short tutorial on the very basic editing process, sandwiches
- 6:35 Questions, discuss potential subjects and sources
- 6:45 Start editing
- 7:45 Break
- 7:50 A wider view of Wikipedia, questions
- 8:10 Back to editing
- 8:55 Review of editing we have done, complete feedback forms
- 9:00 End (we need to be out promptly); to pub (Wetherspoons in Whitehall)
Helpers
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We will need several experienced Wikipedians (but no training in training needed). The key times will be from about 3 - 5 and 7 and 9, after the basic editing presentations. Please sign up below, indicating the times you think you will be available:
- Being a helper in the afternoon would suit me best. Andrew (talk) 17:36, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
- Can do either or both as needed. Thryduulf (talk) 19:46, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
- I can probably do the 3-5 slot, possibly 7-9 too. Edwardx (talk) 13:36, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
- Hope to be there some time after 6pm ϢereSpielChequers 13:54, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
- I can probably do the 3-5 slot Gordo (talk) 14:35, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
- I can help in the evening slot - AdamBMorgan (talk) 12:06, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
- Many thanks to all our helpers!
Online participants
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, written for scientists, and full of good advice. Or try this one - four modules, taking one hour it says.
- Chemistbychoice
- sign here please
Attendees
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- Greatanarch (talk) 19:58, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
- Pasieka13 (talk) 19:57, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
- Grahameboyes (talk) 19:54, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
- Linmao (talk) 19:53, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
- Microbins (talk) 19:49, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
- MargRouk (talk) 17:23, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
- Richard Case2014 (talk) 17:00, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
- Lagosman 17:16, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
- Ron Whitehand User talk:rwhiteha
- KassSchmitt (talk) 17:05, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
- Macedith (talk) 17:06, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
- David Jolly 2808 (talk) 17:07, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
- Dadamama3 (talk) 17:08, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
- Maharaniofcoochnahi (talk) 17:15, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
- Brendan blake (talk) 17:19, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
- Odonnellpnf (talk) 17:23, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
- Boon1234boon (talk) 17:37, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
- Notap 20:44, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
- GeoffKelly (talk) 20:44, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
- Emmabell42 (talk) 20:52, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
- Bewel2014 (talk) 20:53, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
- Ciararachel (talk) 21:03, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
- KemetMaat (talk)
Articles worked on
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- Superflare Greatanarch (talk) 20:39, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
- Petroleum engineering
- simple:Isaac Newton
- Science and_technology_in_Malaysia
- Nicholas Saunderson
- Felipe Bauza
- Raanan Gillon (also an attendee)
- National Astronomy Week
- Quercus suber
New articles created
- Saiful Islam (professor)
- Jane M. Olson Emmabell42 (talk) 21:00, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
- Hiba Mohamed draft in my sandbox KassSchmitt (talk) 17:22, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
Suggested topics
Please feel free to edit on any topic, but the following are some suggestions, mainly individual scientists. If you are working on an article on this list, please make a note below to avoid conflicting edits. Anyone is welcome to add their own at "More suggestions" below.
Apart from biographies of scientists, I hope to see some contributions on general topics such as science in Africa and the developing world. We will have copies of RS reports on science in Egypt, Jordan and Malaysia at the event.
- Professor Harry Bhadeshia, FRS – Materials science
- Dr Mark Richards (redlink in fact; links to someone else) – Physics
- Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, MBE – Physics/Space - decent length already
- Dr Donald Palmer(redlink in fact; links to someone else) – Immunology
- Professor Varinder Aggarwal, FRS – Chemistry (organic)
- Dr Mah Hussian-Gambles, MBE – Pharmacology/Industry
- Dr Jo Shien Ng, URF, – Electrical Engineering
- Professor Saiful Islam (redlink in fact; links to someone else), Wolfson Research Merti Award (2013) - editing
- The Royal Society Pfizer Award has been awarded by the Royal Society since 2006 to African-based researchers at the start of their career who are making innovative contributions to the biological sciences in Africa. Only one winner has a wikipedia biography, created at our last event. See the article for the others, and links. Probably all notable.
- Diverse chemists, list from the Royal Society of Chemistry - most of these will not be notable though
- blind scientists with Wikipedia articles - most pretty short, except for Euler, which is mostly inaccessible for non-mathematicians. Nicholas Saunderson FRS, math. d. 1739, has little on his actual maths.
Historical Fellows of the Royal Society who were non-northern Europe and non-US
- Francesco Travagino c 1613 - Croatian
- Eugenius Bulgaris 1716 - 1806 Greek
- Samuel Koleseri 1663 - 1732 Hungarian
- Egon Orowan 1902 - 1989 Hungarian
- Shanti Swarupa Bhatnagar 1895 - 1955 Indian
- Jagadis Chunder Bose 1858 - 1937 Indian
- Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar 1930 - 2004 Indian
- Ardaseer Cursetjee 1808 - 1877 Indian
- Harish-Chandra 1923 - 1983 Indian
- Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan 1898 - 1961 Indian
- Sisir Kumar Mitra 1890 - 1963 Indian
- Autar Singh Paintal 1925 - 2004 Indian
- Vulimiri Ramalingaswami 1921 - 2001 Indian - nothing much on his research
- Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman 1888 - 1970 Indian
- Srinivasa Aaiyangar Ramanujan 1887 - 1920 Indian
- Meghnad N Saha ?1893 - 1956 Indian
- Thiruvenkata Rajendra Seshadri 1900 - 1975 Indian
- Obaid Siddiqi 1932 -2013 Indian- nothing much on his research
- Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia 1883 - 1969 Indian
- Yasutomi Nishizuka 1932 - 2004 Japanese
- Shosaku Numa 1929 - 1992 Japanese
- Ephraim Katchalski-Katzir 1916-2009 Israeli
- Cassem Algiada Aga fl 1728 - 1738 Libyan
- Mohammed Ben Ali Abgali fl 1726 - 1737 Moroccan ambassador - very short, though it's not clear how much of a scientist he was.
- Muhammad ibn Haddu fl 1682 Moroccan - another ambassador
- Daniel Ernest Jablonski 1660 - 1741 Polish
- Alfred Alexander Peter Kleczkowski 1908 - 1970 Polish
- Benjamin von Munchausen fl 1684 Polish
- Julius von Sachs 1832 - 1897 "Polish" - well from Breslau; German botanist, bio seems all Encyc Brittanica 1911
- Eduard Adolf Strasburger 1844 - 1912 Polish
- Paul Edmund de Strzelecki 1797 - 1873 Polish geologist, explorer of Australia
- Sebastian Joseph de Carvalho e Mello 1699 - 1782 Portuguese
- Vladimir Igorevich Arnold Russian
- Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch 1891 - 1970 Russian
- Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg 1916 - 2009 Russian - little on research
- Alexander Danilovich Menzicoff ? 1673 - 1729 Russian
- Evgeny Konstantinovich Sklyanin Russian
- Nicholas Ivanovich Vavilov 1887 - 1943 Russian - plant genetics
- Basil Ferdinand Jamieson Schonland 1896 - 1972 South African
- Alexander Logie Du Toit 1878 - 1948 South African
- Felipe Bauza 1764 - 1834 Spanish - geographer & astronomer, short bio
- Jorge Juan-y-Santacilia ? 1713 - 1773 Spanish
- Joseph Mendoza y Rios ? 1762 - ? 1815 Spanish
- Marques de Monte Leone fl 1716 - 1718 Spanish
- Jacob Rodrigue Pereira 1715 - 1780 Spanish
- Pedro Alonzo Perez de Guzman 1724 - 1779 Spanish
- Antonio de Ulloa 1716 - 1795 Spanish
More suggestions
Please add your own here, with suggested sources, ideally as links:
Online references
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Specially GLOBALLY AVAILABLE 25th and 26th of March
FULLY AVAILABLE GLOBALLY from 1am (GMT/UTC) on 25th March 2014 until 11pm (GMT/UTC) on 26th March 2014
- Notes and Records: the Royal Society journal of the history of science
- Biographical Memoirs of the Fellows of the Royal Society - a selection of "Women in science"
Online References, always available
- Library of Congress, Science Reference Guides, Women and Minorities in Science and Technology: A Guide to Selected Resources
- See below for RS "Atlas" Reports
Print references we will have at the event
- Royal Society "Atlas" Series of reports on Science and Technology in the Islamic World. Printed copies are available (which you can keep), and they are also online: Jordan country study, 2013, Egypt country study, 2012, Malaysia country study, 2011, A new golden age? The prospects for science and innovation in the Islamic world, 2010
- Weisgerber, Robert A; The challenged scientists: disabilities and the triumph of excellence, 1991, Praeger, New York, ISBN 0275938735
- Are there any books in the Royal Society Library we should have? Search on "Printed works" here and add below.