Wikipedia:GLAM/Wellcome/Events and Workshops/ImpWiSTEM
Imperial College Women in STEM Wikithon in a nutshell:
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About the event
editImperial College, Wellcome Collection and the IET are joining forces to host a Women in STEM Wikithon. Join us to celebrate the women in science that deserve a more prominent place in the online historical record. You'll hear inspirational talks, then develop your digital skills and learn how to edit Wikipedia in order to harness the power of the web to share your knowledge.
Complete beginners and experienced editors are both welcome to attend - we'll provide training for anyone new to editing. If you’ve spotted an article that needs improving, bring along your queries and we’ll see what we can do to help!
How do I prepare?
edit- Sign up for the event!
- Create a Wikipedia account (look at the top right of this page for the link). You don't need to do anything else, but it'll speed things up on the day if you've already signed up for an account.
- Learn about editing if you like: see Visual Editor user guide for more information.
- Think about what you would like to edit about - you can even prepare some materials to bring with you on the day (to help with verifiability).
- Check out the notability guidelines and what topics can be written about on Wikipedia.
- Think about whether you have any conflicts of interest.
- Take a look at the list of Women Climate Researchers or Wikiproject Women Scientists to help you find a person for whom you'd like to create/improve a page - or search for another scientist to see if their page needs to be added/improved!
- Bring along a laptop and enjoy the day!
Participants
editParticipating wiki-editors can add their names here...
- Zeromonk
- Jesswade88
- Andrew D. (talk)
- WereSpielChequers
- ClemRutter (talk)
- Volpesofi
- Edwardx (talk) (probably a bit late)
- Ietlibarch
- BenBritton
- bluebananna
- LarissaKT
- Tetragram
- MumphingSquirrel
- Liroel
- Lexierwf
- ChaSingb0b
- SCurry
- Wwyf
- Hnhjw
- Wesweetlegend
- BenBritton
- Wombatbutt1123
- Member1195
- Eolaíocht
Geninot going to make it
Articles edited and created
editUseful links
editHere are some useful links to help you with your editing:
- All sorts of helpful guides and online resources can be found on the Wellcome Library Wikimedian in Residence Project Page.
- You can find out more about the IET on their website and on the Wikipedia page for the organisation.
- You can add pictures for use on Wiki-pages and beyond on Wikimedia Commons. Your Wikipedia account will work on Commons too - as well as all the other Wiki-projects and different language versions of Wikipedia.
- If you're interested in joining a community of editors passionate about women in science, take a look at Wikiproject Women Scientists. You can also view useful resources on adding pages for women at Wikiproject Women in Red, plus find links to news articles and view worklists highlighting articles/topics that are the current focus of improvement.
Here are some ways to keep track of your edits:
- You can view all your contributions to Wikipedia by clicking "Contributions" (in the top right of this page).
- The Pageviews tool is a great way of measuring how many people are looking at the page you created/edited. You can even export the data if you'd like it for reports, etc.
Pages to create/improve
editThe main pages that we're hoping to target are in the table below, but for more existing pages to improve beyond those in this table, take a look at the list of 20th-century women scientists and 20th-century women engineers
Table of Women in STEM
editName | Field | Link to website / improvement suggestions for Wiki |
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Celia Mary Oakley | Cardiology | http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/7006 |
Jane Wadsworth | Statistics | http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-jane-wadsworth-1251436.html |
Elen Elaine Austin | Meteorology | https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=OPutDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA191&lpg=PA191&dq=Elen+Elaine+Austin&source=bl&ots=U_dOo3kOD6&sig=eFf1a5GPaYNQdZiFwhEFaEm2AgA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjQhcyl-pDZAhWIJsAKHaUpBW4Q6AEIMjAC#v=onepage&q=Elen%20Elaine%20Austin&f=false |
Anne Thorne | Spectroscopy | http://www.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~julietp/FTS/apt/apt.htm & https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=x4u4ikoj1M8C&pg=PA371&lpg=PA371&dq=ANNE+PATRICIA+THORNE&source=bl&ots=_JbKtV_US_&sig=6Dbp9e2dYeSzyxSkCipPTVAoovg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjomNj-hpHZAhXOyaQKHXs2Ap4Q6AEINTAC#v=onepage&q=ANNE%20PATRICIA%20THORNE&f=false |
Sue Birley | Entrepreneurship | https://www.imperial.ac.uk/college.asp?P=712 |
Kate Barratt | Botany | http://www.imperial.ac.uk/equality/support-for-staff/imperial-women/womenatimperialweek/pioneering-women/ |
Debra Humphris | Vice-Chancellor & medical policy researcher | https://www.brighton.ac.uk/about-us/governance-and-structure/leadership/university-executive-board/professor-debra-humphris.aspx |
Julia Buckingham | Pro Rector & Pharmacology | https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/j.buckingham |
Mary Ritter | Pro Rector & Immunology | http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/m.ritter |
Maggie Dallman | Associate Provost & Immunology | https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/m.dallman |
Sarah Waterbury | Finance & fundraising, Vice President | https://www.imperial.ac.uk/about/leadership-and-strategy/president/vice-president-advancement/ |
Sue Grimes | Engineering & waste management | http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/s.grimes |
Anna Hansel | Epidemiology & statistics | http://www.sahsu.org/content/dr-anna-hansell |
Tina van de Flierdt | Geochemistry, co-leads the MAGIC isotope | http://wwwf.imperial.ac.uk/blog/prettycoralsrockyseas/meet-tina-van-de-flierdt/ |
Susan Hodgson | Epidemiology, children's exposure to harmful substances | https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/susan.hodgson |
Audrey de Nazelle | Environmental science, leads the London-based case study for the EU-FP7 project Physical Activity through Sustainable Transport Approaches (PASTA), was named one of the "50 Most Influential Female Scholars" by SuperScholar | https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/anazelle |
Heather Graven | Climate physics, consulted by BBC & CNN journalists on the effect of climate change | https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/h.graven |
Mirabelle Muûls | Economics & climate change, work quoted in the FT, recipient of Erik Kempe Award, Robert Mundell Prize | https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/m.muuls |
Florence Gschwend | Green chemistry, co-founder of Chrysalix Technologies (commercialising the ionic liquid based biomass fractionation process) | https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/f.gschwend12 |
Rebecca Kordas | Climate change, extensive reporting of herbivore research in the press, recipient of Imperial College Research Fellowship (2016) and the NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship (2014) | http://www.rebeccakordas.com/ |
Katrin Glatzel | Agriculture, program leader of the Malabo Montpellier Panel. | http://www.ifpri.org/profile/katrin-glatzel |
Zoe Harris | Vertical farming, Higher Executive Officer and policy lead on carbon leakage and benchmarking for the EU Emissions Trading Team (ETS) | https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/z.harris |
Michelle Jackson | Ecology & climate change, quoted extensively in press (see News section of her website) | https://sites.google.com/site/michellecjacksonresearch/ |
Dorothy Griffiths | Sociologist, Provost’s Envoy for Gender Equality, Chair of Central North West London NHS Foundation Trust. | http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/d.griffiths |
Sue Percy | CEO of Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation | http://www.ciht.org.uk/en/about-us/whos-who/chief-executive.cfm |
Louise Kingham | CEO Energy Institute | https://www.energyinst.org/about-us/Leadership |
Julia Cartwright | CEO of Institute of Cast Metals Engineers | |
Libby Meyrick | CEO of Institution of Engineering Designers | https://uk.linkedin.com/in/libby-meyrick-53508015 |
Lynn Cooper | CEO of Institute of Water | https://www.instituteofwater.org.uk/our-team/ |
Rosemary Cook | CEO of Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine | https://www.ipem.ac.uk/AboutIPEM/ContactUs/StaffMembers.aspx |
Sarah Beacock | Nuclear Institute | http://www.nuclearinst.com/HQ-Team |
Caroline Bull | President of British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing | https://www.lavender-ndt.com/news-and-events/international-women-in-engineering-day-2017/ |
Angela Gray | President of Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management | |
Sheila Lauchlan | President of Institution of Gas Engineers & Managers | http://www.igem.org.uk/about-igem/president.aspx |
Carolyn Griffiths | President of Institute of Mechanical Engineers | https://www.imeche.org/about-us/our-people/carolyn-griffiths |
Jo Webb | President of Institute of Acoustics | http://www.ioa.org.uk/news/jo-webb-new-ioa-president |
Elizabeth Tanner OBE FREng FRS | Biomedical engineer who developed and set up Scotland’s first undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering. Sits on the editorial board of Ingenia. | https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/engineering/staff/ktanner/#/researchinterests |
Faith Wainwright MBE FREng | Appointed President of the Institution of Structural Engineers earlier this year and has worked on some well-known buildings, including the Tate Modern. Sits on the editorial board of Ingenia. | https://www.istructe.org/news-articles/2018/institution-news/faith-wainwright-appointed-2018-president-of-the-i |
Professor Dame Jane Jiang MBE FREng | Heads the EPSRC’s Future Metrology Hub at the University of Huddersfield. Also has an interesting career path – she started out at age 15 working on a production line assembling buses. | http://www.ingenia.org.uk/Ingenia/Articles/1008 |
Jenny Body OBE | In 2013 became the first-ever female President of the Royal Aeronautical Society of which she is a Fellow. Started her career as a Mechanical Engineering undergraduate apprentice with British Aerospace. | https://royalsociety.org/people/jenny-body-8825/ |
Margarent Fishenden | Meteorology | Page exists but could stand some expansion, image, has no reference to Imperial |
Sandra Dawson | Management | Page exists but needs infobox, image, etc. |
Julia Polak | Pathology | Page exists but needs citations, infobox, image, etc. |
Martha Annie Whiteley | Chemistry | Page exists but needs expansion, citations, image, etc. |
Winifred Watkins | Biochemistry | Page exists but could stand some expansion |
Margaret Turner-Warwick | Thoracic medicine | Page exists but needs expansion, infobox, image, etc. |
Josephine Barnes | Obstetrics | Page exists but needs some citations in one section |
Averil Mansfield | Vascular surgery | Page exists but could stand some expansion, needs a picture |
Dorothy Wedderburn | Principal of Bedford College | Page exists but needs expansion, infobox, image, etc. |
Jenny Higham | Principal of St George's, University of London & Chair of the Medical Schools Council | Page exists but needs infobox, image, etc. |
Lesley Regan | Professor and Head of Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists | Page exists but needs expansion, infobox, image, etc. |
Edith Summerskill | Physician & politician | Page exists but doesn't mention her link to Imperial |
Constance Tipper | Crystallography | Page exists but doesn't mention her link to Imperial, could use expansion, image, etc. |
Lady Rachel Workman MacRobert | geologist, cattle breeder & feminist | Page exists but needs infobox, etc. |
Helen ApSimon | Air pollution & climate | Page exists but could stand some expansion |
Gwen Alston | Aerodynamicist | http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-gwen-alston-1487478.html |
Ethel Bailey | Automotive and aeronautical engineer | https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QRa6fTwRcwwC&pg=PA93&lpg=PA93&dq=ethel+H+bailey&source=bl&ots=PZLs9gCr2n&sig=RJ5dWPndNYD6cwKm_bo_ao4dIJE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiYtpvZzfHTAhVICsAKHYR7DZUQ6AEIUjAI#v=onepage&q=ethel%20H%20bailey&f=false + WES Journal Vols 2, 3, 5, 6 |
Marjorie Bell | WES President 1957. 1st woman on Northampton Institute Electrical Engineering course, Lectured at Woolwich Technical College, HM inspector of factories, factory inspector in Palestine | WES Journal Vol 8, Information in the WES Register (we've got a printed copy!) |
Jonathan Ferguson | Born Irene Joy, transitioned in 1950s. Began career as electrical demonstrator, trained as pilot, position in Ministry of Aircraft Production, member of Air Transport Auxiliary, directorate of aircraft research and development at the Ministry of Supply | WES Journal Vols 5-8, https://lgbthistoryuk.org/wiki/Jonathan_Ferguson, search for joy jonathan ferguson air transport auxiliary for more on the web |
Mary George (Engineer) | WES memorial prize named in her honour. Principal Information Officer for Ministry of AFF, director of EAW | WES Journal Vols 8-13 |
Isabel Helen Hardwich | Metropolitan & Vickers, photometrics / spectrometry. WES Medal named after her. | WES Journal Vols 6-14, 17, 18. Might also be in Physics Bulletin if you have access. |
Norah Jeans | Automobile engineering, switched to engineering publicity, Treasurer WES | WES Journal Vols 2-7, 15. Information in the WES Register (we've got a printed copy!) |
Elizabeth M. Kennedy | WES President 1933. Tool manufacturing, managing director Messrs J B Stone & Co. | WES Journal Vols 1-5, 7, 8, Information in the WES Register (we've got a printed copy!) |
Sheila Leather | President WES 1950, mechanical engineer | WES Journal Vols 5-13. |
Sheila McGuffie (Mrs L.D. Anscombe) | Jet engines | WES Journal Vols 3-5, 15. Information in the WES Register (we've got a printed copy!) |
Madeleine Nobbs (D Moody) | President WES 1959. Heating and ventilating engineer | WES Journal Vols 5-10, 18. |
Anne Gillespie Shaw | Engineer and businesswoman who worked in time and motion studies. | Has a brief page, could be slightly expanded: WES Journal Vols 4-10, 12, 13. Information in the WES Register (we've got a printed copy!) |
Dorothy Spicer | Aviatrix, first woman to obtain an advanced qualification in aeronautical engineering. | Has a tiny stub of a page, ripe for expanding: WES Journal Vols 3-6, 8. Information in the WES Register (we've got a printed copy!) |
"Fearless Pioneers"
editSurprisingly, the pages for a number of the women in Rachel Ignotofsky's excellent book Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers who Changed the World are quite sparse. It would be great if some of these could be improved to help those looking for more information after reading:
- Edith Clarke
- Mamie Phipps Clark
- Katia and Maurice Krafft
- Esther Lederberg
- Tessy Thomas
- Nettie Stevens
- Florence Bascom
- Mary Agnes Chase
- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
- Annie Easley
- Patricia Bath
- May-Britt Moser
- Edith M. Flanigen
- Alice Ball
- Jane C. Wright
- Gertrude B. Elion
- Wang Zhenyi (astronomer)
- Sau Lan Wu
- Elizabeth Blackwell (needs an infobox)