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Women in Science
World Virtual Edit-a-thon
	Lobby, New York Academy of Sciences
Dates	Sunday, November 8 to Sunday, November 29, 2015
Location	This is a virtual, global event... you can participate from anywhere in the world
Sponsor	New York Academy of Sciences
Hosts	Women in Red & Women scientists
Facilitators	Rosiestep, Pharos, Keilana
Twitter hashtags	#WomenSciWiki & #wikicontentgendergap

Women in Red

Did you know that 15.89% of the biographies on Wikipedia are about women? Not impressed? Women in Red (WiR) focuses on "content gender gap". If you'd like to help contribute articles on women and women's works, we warmly welcome you!

Official NYAS flyer

The New York Academy of Sciences is sponsoring a Women in Science Wikipedia edit-a-thon, an editing event for improving and increasing the coverage of historic, technical and biographical information on Wikipedia pertaining to the lives and works of women in science. The event is to be launched in the afternoon of Sunday, November 22 in New York City and will continue over the following week.

In this connection, Women in Red, in close cooperation with WikiProject Women scientists, is running a three-week virtual editathon from November 8 to 29. Anyone can take part whatever their previous experience. We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies of some of the many past and present notable women in science who are still red-linked on the English Wikipedia. The virtual edit-a-thon allows enthusiasts from around the globe to participate in the work. See the List of red-linked articles to be created for guidance.

The main goals of the edit-a-thon are:

to encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia by creating biographies of some of the world's most prominent women
to draw the attention of more experienced editors to the need for concerted action on a specific area
to support Wikipedia in combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women and women's works

Articles to be created[edit]

There is a list of historic and/or prominent female members of the New York Academy of Sciences →here←.
And there is an evolving, crowd-sourced list of red-linked articles broken down by scientific sectors and countries →here←.
Or create an article about one of the redlinked women whose photographs appears in this section (hint: each has an article on another language Wikipedia).
Or pick from one of these (references provided):

Jean Dollimore (b. 1934) UK, taught FORTRAN and involved in COSMOS project, oral history
Alix Generous, biology researcher, advocate for Asperger's Syndrome, co-owner of Autism Sees, [1], [2], [3], [4]
Helen Matusevich Oujesky, microbiology and environmental pollution, [5], [6], [7]
Elisabeth Schiemann, German botanist/geneticist [8], [9], [10], [11]
Natalie Shlomo, Professor of Social Statistics [12]

Participants[edit]

Add your name here ...

Rosiestep (talk) 00:47, 27 October 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]
SusunW (talk) 02:37, 27 October 2015 (UTC) (maybe just the first week, but we'll see how my schedule shakes out)Reply[reply]
Ipigott (talk) 07:24, 27 October 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Megalibrarygirl (talk) 15:01, 27 October 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Keilana (talk) 15:15, 27 October 2015 (UTC) (I'll be dedicating my #100wikidays articles in November just to women scientists!)Reply[reply]
gobonobo ⁺ ^c 19:13, 27 October 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Sydney Poore/FloNight ♥♥♥♥ 02:37, 28 October 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Nvvchar. 10:00, 28 October 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]
♦Definitely, one of the weakest areas on wikipedia, women in science.♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:23, 28 October 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Pharos (talk) 19:20, 28 October 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]
97198 (talk) 12:48, 30 October 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 10:50, 31 October 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Dgorsline (talk) 12:07, 31 October 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Penny Richards (talk) 14:01, 31 October 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Duncan.Hull (talk) 14:11, 31 October 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]
T. Anthony (talk) 14:57, 31 October 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]
LovelyLillith (talk) 17:12, 31 October 2015 (UTC) This is an area close to my heart, I'm in!Reply[reply]
Rich Farmbrough 17:29, 31 October 2015 (UTC) I'll be there! (Virtually.)Reply[reply]
Ambrosia10 (talk) 18:15, 31 October 2015 (UTC) Will definitely participate!Reply[reply]
Zpeopleheart (talk) 02:21, 1 November 2015 (UTC) lovelyReply[reply]
Psanchez820 (talk) 14:21, 1 November 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Alexisclements (talk) 17:23, 1 November 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Alafarge (talk) 17:37, 1 November 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]
--Animalparty! (talk) 18:19, 1 November 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]
jaldous1 (talk) 19:22, 1 November 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 23:20, 1 November 2015 (UTC) Virtually yours... :-)Reply[reply]
Fuzchia (talk) 20:44, 2 November 2015 (UTC) Can't wait!Reply[reply]
Big_iron (talk) 11:08, 3 November 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]
The Vintage Feminist (talk) 12:03, 4 November 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Sam Walton (talk) 16:06, 8 November 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Victuallers (talk) 17:52, 8 November 2015 (UTC) Written a few - working on a few moreReply[reply]
Opabinia regalis (talk) 19:36, 8 November 2015 (UTC) (virtually, but jealous of people who get to visit NYAS :)Reply[reply]
Jocelyn^{Talk to me} 00:31, 9 November 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Djembayz (talk) 04:14, 11 November 2015 (UTC), gnoming on this listReply[reply]
PamD 17:00, 11 November 2015 (UTC) - will just chip in remotely, starting off with Christine Williams (professor) as she's from the same side of the pond.Reply[reply]
Afernand74 (talk) 13:08, 15 November 2015 (UTC) mainly translating from ES, FR and NL wikipedia.Reply[reply]
GorillaWarfare (talk) 00:15, 16 November 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Blythwood (talk) 21:51, 25 November 2015 (UTC) (might do something this weekend if I have time)Reply[reply]

Outcomes[edit]

Toshiko Yuasa, Japanese nuclear physicist

Andrea Ablasser, German immunologist

Charlotte Sahl-Madsen, Danish Minister of Science, Technology and Development

Olga Fedchenko, Russian botanist

Josefa Celsa Señaris, Venezuelan herpetologist

During the editathon...

Add the titles of your new or upgraded articles here – most recent at the top
Add {{Authority control}} at the foot of every biography; it will remain hidden until relevant identifiers have been added to Wikidata.
Add to talk page: {{WikiProject Biography|s&a-work-group=yes|s&a-priority=}} and {{WikiProject Women scientists}}.
As appropriate, add to the List of female scientists before the 21st century or the List of 21st-century women scientists.