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!
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
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).
... that Victoria Bricker has studied the languages, astronomy, and ethnobotany of the
Maya? (2016-01-06)
... that cell biologist Margaret Reed Lewis may have been the first person to successfully grow mammalian tissue in vitro? (2015-12-27)
... that the British orthopaedic surgeon Samantha Tross made long jumps during her education? (2015-12-23)
... that of the more than 3,000
midwives working in the state of
Florida in the early 1920s, Victoria Joyce Ely was the only one who was trained and licensed? (2015-12-21)
... that while working on her graduate degree in chemistry, Emīlija Gudriniece won the Latvian Women's Motorcycle Championship in 1949, and then won it again in 1953? (2015-12-20)
... that conservationist Rose Gaffney, known as "The Belle of Bodega Bay," helped halt the construction of a nuclear power plant in
Bodega Bay, California? (2015-12-18)
... that May Owen discovered that the talcum powder used on surgical gloves caused infection and
peritoneal scarring? (2015-12-14)
... that Lidija Liepiņa worked with a team of other scientists in a mobile laboratory in a train boxcar, testing filters to create Russia's first functional
gas mask? (2015-12-13)
... that Catherine Feuillet led a team to successfully map the largest
wheat chromosome, 3B? (2015-12-13)
... that Vera Faddeeva's 1950 book Computational methods of linear algebra was one of the first publications in that
field of mathematics? (2015-12-10)
... that Singaporean
fungi expert Gloria Lim was once summoned by her country's
Ministry of Defence when their storage area developed
mold? (2015-12-10)
... that Tebello Nyokong is helping to pioneer a safer method of cancer detection and therapy that does not have the harmful side effects of chemotherapy? (2015-12-02)
... that Omowunmi Sadik has developed highly sensitive microelectrode biosensors that can detect
explosives? (2015-12-02)
... that Frances Gertrude McGill, a Canadian forensic pathologist, was referred to as the "Sherlock Holmes of Saskatchewan"? (2015-12-02)
... that Tsuruko Haraguchi, the first Japanese woman to receive a PhD, helped establish an experimental psychology laboratory at
Japan Women's University? (2015-11-30)
... that Soviet physician Vera Lebedeva instituted a successful program to reduce
infant mortality in her country? (2015-11-29)
... that Marie Lebour studied the life cycles of marine animals until she was 88? (2015-11-28)
... that biologist Kono Yasui was only allowed to study outside of Japan if she listed "home economics research" alongside "scientific research" on her application and agreed not to marry? (2015-11-26)
... that Ragnhild Sundby's doctoral thesis concluded that fluctuations of
miner moth populations were mainly caused by parasitic wasps? (2015-11-25)