Trowel Blazers event

• Date: Saturday 19th October 2013
• Time: 10:30am - 5.00pm
• Venue: Dorothea Bate Room, Natural History Museum
• More information and how to book (free) : Here

Celebrate women in archaeology, palaeontology and geology – by creating and improving Wikipedia articles!

Join TrowelBlazers in a one-day Wikipedia editathon dedicated to improving the Wikipedia pages of key women in archaeology, palaeotology and geology. There will be practical training in how to edit a wikipedia page, support and resources on-hand to make editing easier, and we’ve even lined up a team of experts (biographers and historians) to give talks about trowelblazing women and to lend their expertise. This event is open to those new to Wikipedia and to experienced contributors. Female editors are especially encouraged to attend. Help us improve the visibility of a host of forgotten women in science! We can think of no better way to celebrate International Archaeology Day, Earth Science Week AND Ada Lovelace Day.

Refreshments will be provided.

For more information contact: Tori Herridge from Team TrowelBlazers (teamtrowelblazers@gmail.com) or John Cummings, Wikimedian in Residence at the Natural History Museum (j.cummings@nhm.ac.uk)

What to bring

• Laptop
• Details of your Wikimedia username (create one now! - by clinking on the link on the top right)
• Ideas of topics you want to edit on
• Reference material

Joining online

Feel free to pick a topics from the target list and join in! Before the event, you can get in touch with us for support materials.

I'm attending online

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Topics for the editathon

Women we intend to focus on include:

• Dorothea Bate
• Dorothy Garrod
• Gertrude Caton-Thompson
• Elinor W. Gardner (Currently no article)
• Etheldred Benett
• Nina Layard
• Margaret Murray
• Helen Muir-Wood (Currently no article)
• Grace Crowfoot (Currently no article)
• Annette Coleman (biologist)
• Susan Gerbi (molecular biologist)
• Vera Kistiakowsky (nuclear physicist)
• Marie Morisawa (geologist) - See Geological Society of America: Memorials, March 1, 1996, page 15.
• Sharon Mosher (geologist)
• Rosa Beddington (developmental biologist)
• Margaret Davis (paleoecologist)
• Sylvia Earle (oceanographer) Good length but needs general cleanup/reorganization
• Katherine Esau (botanist)
• Emmeline Jean Hanson (physiologist)
• Ruth Hubbard (biologist) Needs an infobox
• Mary Ellen Jones (biochemist)
• Sidnie Manton
• Helen Kemp Porter (botanist) .
• Margaret W. Rossiter (historian of science)
• Elizabeth S. Russell (geneticist) Infobox needs to be filled out
• Ruth Sager (geneticist)
• Ruth Sanger
• Sylvia Agnes Sophia Tait (biochemist)
• Monica Turner (ecologist)
• Mary Lou Zoback (geophysicist)