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Women in Science Oxford Editathon: Ada Lovelace Day 2013

About the Event

The University of Oxford’s IT Services, Bodleian Libraries and Wikimedia UK are organising an editathon focused on women in science to celebrate Ada Lovelace Day on 14 October 2014. The editathon will take place at IT Services on Banbury Road, Oxford, and will include some basic training by a trainer from Wikimedia UK.

Ada Lovelace is widely held to have been the first computer programmer, and Ada Lovelace Day aims to raise the profile of women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) by encouraging people around the world to talk about the women whose work they admire. This international day of celebration helps people learn about the achievements of women in STEM, inspiring others and creating new role models for young and old alike.

A Wikipedia editathon celebrates the spirit of Ada Lovelace Day by helping people learn about the contribution of individual women to the world of science, and the aim of our editathon is to add to and improve the coverage of individuals, events and resources related to women in science.

Come along to learn about how Wikipedia works and contribute a greater understanding of the role of women in science!

Date: 2-5pm, Tuesday 15 October 2014
Venue: IT Services, University of Oxford (directions)
Participants: All welcome! The event is open to anyone who wishes to help preserve women’s science history. No Wiki editing experience is necessary, though experienced editors are very welcome; tutorials will be provided for Wikipedia newcomers. Female editors are particularly encouraged to attend. Can’t be there the whole time? No problem. Join us for as little or as long as you like.
Can’t get to Oxford? Virtual participation is welcome. Stay tuned for details of how to chat with us on the day.
Register to attend in Oxford: Sign up at http://courses.it.ox.ac.uk/detail/TWOE. You're welcome to add your name below as well.
Cost: Free!
More info: http://blogs.it.ox.ac.uk/adalovelace/.

On the day

We will be based in a computer lab, so there is no need to bring your own laptop (though you are very welcome to do so; wifi will be available).

Approximate Timetable

1.50-2.00pm Registration, housekeeping
2.00-2.15pm Introduction by Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell and welcome to IT Services, Professor Anne Trefethen, Head of IT Services
2.15pm Introduction from a Wikimedia trainer
2.30pm-4.30pm Edit, research, basic training
4.30pm-4.40pm Summary and closedown
4.40pm-5.00pm Cake and refreshments

Participants

Add your name here if you are planning to come along or participating remotely.

Want to learn more about editing?

If you want to learn more about editing before you come, try these introductions: • Wikipedia:Tutorial • Help:Editing - traditional wiki mark up help • Wikipedia:VisualEditor/User guide - new Visual Editor help

Looking for ideas?

The following is a small sample of topics and women to work on. Feel free to come up with your own ideas! Helpful updates could be as simple as: Making sure reference links are still appropriate and functional; Adding new inline citations/references; Adding a photo; Adding an infobox; Adding data to more fields in an existing infobox; Creating headings; Adding categories; etc.

Suggestions for this year include (but are certainly not limited to!):

Articles needing creation:

Audrey Arnott, a medical illustrator who worked with the neurosurgeon Hugh Cairns at the London Hospital and followed him to Oxford when he was appointed Nuffield Professor of Surgery in 1936/37. She founded the Medical Artists’ Association of Great Britain from her home in Wolvercote in 1949.
Mabel Purefoy Fitzgerald, a physiologist and clinical pathologist.
Cecilia Glaisher, who was married to meteorologist James Glaisher and did botanical photography in the Victorian period.
Margaret Jennings, a member of the Oxford team working on penicillin under Howard Florey (see the Dictionary of National Biography article on 'Discoverers and developers of penicillin')
Bronwen Loder, Human Genome Project
Antoinette Pirie, a biochemist, who worked with Ida Mann.

Articles for expansion and/or cleanup:

Louise Johnson, molecular biophysicist
Helen Wallis, cartographer and Map Curator at the British Library
Mary Ward, Irish biologist

Plenty of opportunity for new articles and expansion at List of female Fellows of the Royal Society. As of 6 October 2013, there are 15 Fellows and 3 foreign members without articles.

Women in STEM resources

We will provide a variety of reference books on the day. Editors will also have access to some University of Oxford e-resources, including the Dictionary of National Biography.
We have a selection of Women in Science podcasts [1]
Some of these women's papers are in the Bodleian Library. Although not all are available to researchers yet, we will provide some reproductions of archival material for those interested in working on related articles. Editors are welcome to make use of the Bodleian Library's collections before or after the event but will need to ensure they have a Bodleian Reader's Card (see Bodleian Admissions for information).

Note: Wikipedia pages that include lists of important women are all missing plenty of key people, so feel free to add to those lists

In previous years, a similar events in Oxford attracted contributions to expand or improve Mary Somerville, Bertha Swirles, The Million Women Study, Cynthia Longfield, Thekla Resvoll, Sydney Mary Thompson, Edith Bülbring, Marthe Vogt, Ida Mann, Joyce Lambert, Rosalind Pitt-Rivers, and June Almeida, and create Julia Bodmer.