Wikipedia:Meetup/Montréal/WomenInScience
| When and Where | |
|---|---|
| Date | Wednesday, September 21, 2016 |
| Time | 2 pm - 5 pm |
| Concordia University Location | Webster Library, Room LB-322 |
| McGill Library Location | Research Commons Room A - Data Visualization lab Redpath Library, 3459 rue McTavish |
Join us at Concordia Library and McGill Library during Science Literacy Week on Wednesday September 21st, 2016. This inclusive, hands-on, drop-in event will show you how to create your own Wikipedia account and edit articles related to science, and more. The theme is Women in Science.
2016 is the Wikipedia Year of Science[1] an initiative to improve Wikipedia’s science coverage.
The drop-in event will take place at across two institutions in Montreal: Concordia University and McGill University Library.
Concordia University Library Event information
[edit]- Date: Wednesday, September 21st, 2016 (and continuing through week of Sept 19-25)
- Time: 2pm - 5pm
- Location: Webster Library, LB-322
- Participants: No Wikipedia editing experience necessary. Help will be provided for Wikipedia newcomers as needed throughout the event.
- Twitter hashtags: #Scilit16 #womensciwiki #culibrary
Please bring a laptop with you! (or borrow one from the Circulation desk)
McGill University Library Event information
[edit]- Date: Wednesday, September 21st, 2016
- Time: 2pm - 5pm
- Location: Research Commons Room A - Data Visualization lab Redpath Library, 3459 rue McTavish
- Participants: No Wikipedia editing experience necessary. Workshop will open with a 30 minute tutorial and there will be individual help available as needed.
- Twitter hashtags: #Scilit16 #womensciwiki
Please bring a laptop with you if you have one. A few loaners will be available as well.
Participants
[edit]- PGLib
- Librarianpam
- Viola-Ness (talk) 22:13, 8 September 2016 (UTC)
- MayMarian
- ka_lib
- Lizzybirch
- Broomgrass
- Vienna verde
- DR.DYD
- George Williams
- Yashastew
What can I work on?
[edit]The theme for this Edit-a-Thon is Women in Science based on the WikiProject: Women Scientists. There are a number of ways you can contribute to Wikipedia . You can create or enhance Wikipedia articles, add external links, verify and update citations, provide resources to help those writing articles, and assist with research.
Articles needing citation or authority control
[edit]- Carrie_Derick - needs additional citations for verification - Source
- Harriet_Brooks - insufficient inline citations - - Thesis
- Berzowska, Joanna This biography of a living person does not include any references or sources.
Articles needing expansion, updating and/or cleanup
[edit]Articles needing categorization
[edit]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_scientists/missing_articles
Articles needing creation
[edit]If you don't have time to create a full article make sure you mark it as a stub. You can also help out by categorizing existing stub articles
Concordia scientists
[edit]- Catherine Mulligan (132 publications, cited by 4432 documents (Scopus))
- Virginia Penhune (64 publications, cited by 3608 documents (Scopus))
- TBD
McGill scientists
[edit]- Annie Macleod - 1910: becomes the first woman to earn a McGill PhD - (Chemistry)
http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/-?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=142701&silo_library=GEN01
Born 1883 (LC Authority record) https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchArg=Macleod,%20Annie%20Louise,%201883-&searchCode=NAME%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25
Canadian scientists
[edit]These female Canadian scientists have each been cited more than 1000 times and currently do not have a biography in Wikipedia.
| Last name | First name | Affiliation | Times cited | Publications |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cook | Deborah J. | McMaster University | 56917 | 731 |
| Bombardier | Claire J. | Mount Sinai Hospital of University of Toronto | 37577 | 369 |
| Shepherd | Frances A. (Broomgrass has a draft of this waiting for review!) | The Ottawa Hospital | 22962 | 470 |
| Pritchard | Kathleen Isabel | Odette Cancer Centre | 20519 | 366 |
| Tetzlaff | Jennifer | Ottawa Hospital Research Institute | 20116 | 36 |
| Gladman | Dafna D. | University of Toronto | 19058 | 768 |
| Rommens | Johanna M. | University of Toronto | 18937 | 148 |
| Seymour | Leslie Katie | Institut national du cancer du Canada | 12225 | 176 |
| Rogaeva | Ekaterina A. | University of Toronto | 10960 | 208 |
| Beaton | Dorcas Eleanor | University of Toronto | 10883 | 204 |
| Gertsenstein | Marina | Mount Sinai Hospital of University of Toronto | 10138 | 59 |
| Hawkins | Cynthia Elaine | Hospital for Sick Children University of Toronto | 9524 | 210 |
| Wood-Dauphinee | Sharon Lee | McGill University | 9127 | 126 |
| Kahn | Susan R. | Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital | 8674 | 224 |
| Frasure-Smith | Nancy E. | McGill University | 7044 | 119 |
| Thompson | Wendy Grant | University of Ottawa | 6838 | 108 |
| Shea | Beverley J. | Ottawa Hospital Research Institute | 6037 | 173 |
| Lepage | Leah | Centre hospitalier pour enfants de l'est de l'Ontario | 5534 | 7 |
| Trudeau | Maureen Elizabeth | Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre | 5492 | 147 |
| Diorio | Josie C. | Douglas Mental Health University Institute | 5317 | 43 |
| Olmsted | Marion Patricia Atricia | University of Toronto | 4734 | 97 |
| Morshead | Cindi Marie | University of Toronto | 4552 | 76 |
| McDonald | Heather P. | McMaster University | 4417 | 36 |
| O'Brien | Mary Ann Thomson | University of Toronto | 4241 | 51 |
| Malo | Danielle | McGill University | 4050 | 109 |
| Cervoni | Nadia | McGill University | 4036 | 8 |
| Yetisir | Elizabeth | University of Ottawa Heart Institute | 3998 | 28 |
| Byrne | Barbara M. | University of Ottawa | 3894 | 52 |
| Loo | Vivian | McGill University | 3892 | 50 |
| Berg | Katherine Olga | University of Toronto | 3879 | 64 |
| Phillips | Natalie Anne | Concordia University | 3853 | 59 |
| Rock | Gail A. | Canadian Apheresis Group | 3535 | 410 |
| Buchanan | Janet A. | Hospital for Sick Children University of Toronto | 3284 | 32 |
| O'Brien | Catherine Adell | University of Toronto | 3173 | 20 |
| Craig | Constance G. | Aegera Oncology Inc. | 2781 | 10 |
| Tannenbaum | Beth Marla | Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital | 2766 | 14 |
| Oxley | Joanne E. | University of Toronto | 2755 | 22 |
| Abramow-Newerly | Wanda | The Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of University of Toronto | 2733 | 14 |
| Haley | Susan | McMaster University | 2663 | 14 |
| Rabi | Doreen Marie | University of Calgary | 2324 | 58 |
| Taylor-Vaisey | Anne L. | University of Ontario Institute of Technology | 2202 | 35 |
| MacKinnon | Betsy A. | Henderson Research Centre | 2130 | 17 |
| Dion | Karen Kisiel | University of Toronto | 2062 | 30 |
| Flintoft | Virginia | University of Toronto | 1955 | 18 |
| Poirier | Louise P. | Universite de Montreal | 1878 | 23 |
| Sam | Justina | University of Toronto | 1789 | 10 |
| Michaliszyn | Eva | McGill Cancer Centre | 1781 | 6 |
| Tsilfidis | Catherine | University of Ottawa | 1770 | 50 |
| Sasaki | Aya | University of Toronto | 1665 | 9 |
| Lariviere | Line | McGill University | 1431 | 13 |
| Orpana | Heather M. | University of Ottawa | 1169 | 26 |
| Haddad | Elizabeth | Western University | 1164 | 5 |
| Fitz-Gibbon | Linda | University of Toronto | 1055 | 12 |
More notable female Canadian scientists
[edit]| Name | Wikipedia page | Concordia? | Quebec | Field? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baird, Patricia | Y | N | Y | Genetics |
| Berzowska, Joanna | Y | Y | Y | Engineering/Design |
| Brooks, Harriet | Y | N | Y | Nuclear Physics |
| Daou, Doris | Y | N | Y | Astronomy |
| Derick, Carrie | Y | N | Y | Genetics/Botany |
| Eaves, Connie | Y | N | N | Genetics |
| Elvin-Lewis, Memory | Y | N | N | Microbiology/Ethnobotany |
| Farrell, Leone N | N | N | N | Biochemistry |
| Hickson, Catherine | Y | N | N | Geology |
| Kallin, Catherine | N | N | N | Physics |
| Kelly, Shana O. | Y | N | N | Biochemistry |
| Kenney-Wallace, Geraldine A | Y | N | N | Chemistry/Physics |
| Keshet, Lean | Y | N | N | Mathematical Biology |
| McGill, Frances Gertrude | Y | N | N | Forensic Pathology |
| Mulligan, Catherine | N | Y | Y | Environmental Engineering |
| Nemer, Mona | Y | N | Y | Cardiovascular Science |
| Pielou, E.C. | Y | N | N | Statistical Ecology |
| Schoicet, Molly | Y | N | N | Biomedical Engineering |
| Scriver, Jessie Boyd | N | N | Y | Medicine |
| Sherwood Lollar, Barbara | Y | N | N | Geology |
| Simard, Susan | Y | N | N | Forest Ecology |
| Warburton, Dorothy | Y | N | Y | Genetics |
| Wilson, Alice | Y | N | N | Geologist |
| Wilson, Christine | N | N | N | Astronomy |
Articles created/improved
[edit]List or Wikipedia articles attendees have worked to improve.
- Patricia Baird
- Frances Gertrude McGill
- Suzanne Simard
- Index of women scientists articles
- Geraldine Thomas
- Geraldine A. Kenney-Wallace
- Carrie Derick
- Joanna_Berzowska
Resources for editing
[edit]Wikipedia articles should be based on reliable, published sources that have a neutral point of view
Baird, Patricia
[edit]- Canadian Academy of Health Sciences
- (2014) Harry R. Painton Award 2013, to Hope M. Draheim, Patricia Baird, and Susan M. Haig. The Condor: February 2014, Vol. 116, No. 1, pp. 148.
- Elizabeth Lumley. Canadian Who's Who 2002. University of Toronto Press. p. 55.
Brooks, Harriet
[edit]- Rayner-Canham, M. F., & Rayner-Canham, G. (1992). Harriet Brooks: Pioneer nuclear scientist. Montréal [Que.: McGill University Press.]
- Dictionary of women worldwide [electronic resource : 25,000 women through the ages / Anne Commire, editor ; Deborah Klezmer, associate editor]
Daou, Dorris
[edit]Derick, Carrie
[edit]- We walked very warily : a history of women at McGill / by Margaret Gillett
- Despite the odds : essays on Canadian women and science / edited by Marianne Gosztonyi Ainley
- Montreal Gazette - Honouring Carrie Derrick, Canada's first female professor on International Women's Day
Farrell, Leone N.
[edit]Hickson, Catherine
[edit]O'Kelley, Shana
[edit]McGill, Frances Gertrude
[edit]- 100 more Canadian heroines : famous and forgotten faces / by Merna Forster
- Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan
Pielou, E.C.
[edit]Shoichet, Molly
[edit]Scriver, Jesse Boyd
[edit]- We walked very warily : a history of women at McGill / by Margaret Gillett
- National Library of Medicine
Sherwood Lollar, Barbara
[edit]Simard, Suzanne
[edit]Wilson, Alice
[edit]- Science.ca
- Despite the odds : essays on Canadian women and science / edited by Marianne Gosztonyi Ainley
Canadian female scientists
[edit]Open Access (OA) resources
[edit]- OPANEN - Open monographs
- Directory of Open Access books
- JURN - OA search engine (journals primarily and some theses)
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
Women in STEM fields
[edit]- Women in STEM fields (Wikipedia article)
- Gender differences in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and computer science (STEM) programs at university. Statistics Canada report.
Helpful Wikipedia tools
[edit]
Tutorials on Wikipedia editing
[edit]- Visual Editor User Guide
- 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
- Guide to Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing by Susan H. Rodger (applicable to any biography)
- Article development
- Your first article (using the Article Wizard, if you wish)
- manual of style
- Citation templates
- Infobox templates
- Bookshelf, additional "getting started" resources
- Writing about women
- Biographies of Living Persons
Art+Feminism video tutorials
[edit]- Beginner Training Video: The Gender Gap
- Beginner Training Video: Basic Rules of Wikipedia Editing
- Beginner Training Video: Anatomy of a Page
- Beginner Training Video: Userpages and the Sandbox
- Beginner Training Video: Meet-Up Pages
- Beginner Training Video: Adding Citations
- Beginner Training Video: Adding Images to Articles
- Beginner Training Video: Creating New Articles
- Intermediate Training Video: Adding Images to Wikimedia Commons
- Intermediate Training Video: Adding Infoboxes to Wikipedia Articles
The Wikipedia Adventure
[edit]The Wikipedia Adventure Learn to edit Wikipedia in under an hour. Interactive, "Choose Your Own Adventure" style learning adventure.
Best Practices
[edit]- Include Category Codes to improve findability of Wikipedia content e.g. [University_of_British_Columbia_faculty]
References
[edit]- ^ "Wikipedia Year of Science 2016". 2015-06-19. Retrieved 2016-06-30.
External links
[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Women in Science.
- Science Literacy Week
- Concordia University Libraries (Wikipedia edit-a-thon being held at SGW Campus)
- McGill University Library Wikipedia edit-a-thon being held at Downtown Campus
- Wiki Project: Women in Science