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== Potential topics for the editathon ==
== Potential topics for the editathon ==
=== Articles to be created ===
* See [[:en:Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's History/Kingston University 2013]]
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* [[:en:Jenny Graves|Jenny Graves]]
* [[:en:Elizabeth Robertson|Elizabeth Robertson]] FRS
* [[:en:Karen Steel|Karen Steel]] FRS
* [[:en:Eleanor Campbell (chemist)|Eleanor Campbell]] FRS
* [[:en:Nicola Clayton|Nicola Clayton]] FRS
* [[:en:Elizabeth Simpson (biologist)|Elizabeth Simpson]] FRS
* [[:en:Doreen Cantrell|Doreen Cantrell]] FRS
* [[:en:Clare Grey|Clare Grey]] FRS
* [[:en:Janet Hemingway|Janet Hemingway]] FRS
* [[:en:Margaret Robinson|Margaret Robinson]] FRS
* [[:en:Gillian Griffiths|Gillian Griffiths]] FRS
* [[:en:Edith Heard|Edith Heard]] FRS
* [[:en:Anne Mills|Anne Mills]] FRS
* [[:en:Maria Grazia Spillantini|Maria Grazia Spillantini]] FRS
* [[:en:Brigitta Stockinger|Brigitta Stockinger]] FRS
* [[:en:Julia Yeomans|Julia Yeomans]] FRS
* [[:en:Barbara Hohn|Barbara Hohn]] ForMemRS
* [[:en:Joanne Chory|Joanne Chory]] ForMemRS
* [[:en:Margaret Buckingham|Margaret Buckingham]] ForMemRS
* [[:en:Ethel Bellamy|Ethel Bellamy]]
* [[:en:Veronica Conroy Burns|Veronica Conroy Burns]]
* [[:en:Evelyn Mary Booth|Evelyn Mary Booth]]
* [[:en:Jessie Hill Buchan|Jessie Hill Buchan]]
* [[:en:Anne Beloff-Chain|Anne Beloff-Chain]]
* [[:en:Marjorie Chandler|Marjorie Chandler]]
* [[:en:Muriel Chapman|Muriel Chapman]]
* [[:en:Margaret Crosfield|Margaret Crosfield]]
* [[:en:Una Fielding|Una Fielding]]
* [[:en:Margaret Fishenden|Margaret Fishenden]]
* [[:en:Mildred Gostling|Mildred Gostling]]
* [[:en:Elizabeth Gray (fossil collector)|Elizabeth Gray]]
* [[:en:Mathilde Hertz|Mathilde Hertz]]
* [[:en:Hilda Ingold|Hilda Ingold]]
* [[:en:Maria Jacson|Maria Jacson]]
* [[:en:Sidney Kennon|Sidney Kennon]]
* [[:en:Elizabeth Kent|Elizabeth Kent]]
* [[:en:Matilda Cullen Knowles|Matilda Cullen Knowles]]
* [[:en:Phebe Lankester|Phebe Lankester]]
* [[:en:May Leslie|May Leslie]]
* [[:en:Gulielma Lister|Gulielma Lister]]
* [[:en:Jane Longstaff|Jane Longstaff]]
* [[:en:Elizabeth Macgregor|Elizabeth Macgregor]]
* [[:en:Doris Mackinnon|Doris Mackinnon]]
* [[:en:Ida Maclean|Ida Maclean]]
* [[:en:Sarah Mawe|Sarah Mawe]]
* [[:en:Barbara Mawer|Barbara Mawer]]
* [[:en:Mary Merrifield|Mary Merrifield]]
* Lady [[:en:Anne Monson|Anne Monson]]
* [[:en:Charlotte Murchison|Charlotte Murchison]]
* [[:en:Marion Newbigin|Marion Newbigin]]
* [[:en:Innes Pearse|Innes Pearse]]
* [[:en:Dorothea Pertz|Dorothea Pertz]]
* [[:en:Antoinette Pirie|Antoinette Pirie]]
* [[:en:Christian Ramsay|Christian Ramsay]]
* [[:en:Eleanor Reid|Eleanor Reid]]
* [[:en:Gertrude Maud Robinson|Gertrude Maud Robinson]]
* [[:en:Pamela Robinson|Pamela Robinson]]
* [[:en:Anna Russell (botanist)|Anna Russell]]
* [[:en:Edith Saunders|Edith Saunders]]
* [[:en:Lydia Shackleton|Lydia Shackleton]]
* [[:en:Marion Delf-Smith|Marion Delf-Smith]]
* [[:en:Ethel Thomas|Ethel Thomas]]
* [[:en:Miriam Tildesley|Miriam Tildesley]]
* Lady [[:en:Annie Purcell Walker|Annie Purcell Walker]]
* [[:en:Martha Whiteley|Martha Whiteley]]
* [[:en:Lilly Wigg|Lilly Wigg]]
* [[:en:Henrietta Wilson|Henrietta Wilson]]
* [[:en:Florence Yeldham|Florence Yeldham]]
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=== Articles to be expanded or improved ===
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* [[:en:Women in computing|Women in computing]]
* [[:en:Wendy Hall|Wendy Hall]]
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==== See also ====
* [[:en:List of female Fellows of the Royal Society|List of female Fellows of the Royal Society]]
* [[:en:Wikipedia:WikiProject Women scientists/Worklist|Wikipedia:WikiProject Women scientists/Worklist]]


== Resources ==
== Resources ==

Revision as of 11:14, 25 October 2013

Wikimedia UK and Kingston University are organising a Women in Science themed editing event on Monday 28 October in London.

  • Date: Monday 28 October 2013
  • Venue: Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing, Kingston University, Games Lab, Sopwith Building SB1026, Penrhyn Road Campus, Kingston upon Thames, KT1 2EE.
  • Book: Here - there are up to approximately 45 places
  • Cost: Free
  • Twitter hashtag: #WISWIKI
  • Resources to edit: see below
  • Participants: The editing session is for Wikipedia newcomers to learn how to edit or anyone wanting to contribute.

Agenda

  • 09:30 – Registration and refreshments
  • 10:00 – Guidance on how to edit Wikipedia
  • 11:00 – Message from Professor Edith Sim
  • 11:15 – Editathon
  • 13:00 - Light lunch
  • 13:30-14:00 - Close and peer feedback

At the workshop, representatives from Wikimedia UK will explain how Wikipedia works and answer questions about editing and improving Wikiepdia articles. Staff will be on hand to introduce available resources and provide guidance on finding information.

The day will begin with a tutorial on how to edit Wikipedia, and the attendees will be able to put this into practice afterwards, creating and editing articles.

How to get there?

What to bring

  • Details of your Wikipedia username (create one now! - by clicking on here)
  • Ideas of topics you want to edit on
  • There will be computers at the venue, though wifi access is available and you are welcome to bring and use your own laptops

London participants

Please register here. If you cannot attend, you are welcome to participate online.

Online participation

We welcome participants to communicate with us online:

Online participants

  1. please add your name here

Potential topics for the editathon

Resources

Trainers

Please email volunteeringatwikimedia.org.uk if you are interested in helping out.


Further information

For further information about the programme, please contact Katie at katie.chanatwikimedia.org.uk, 020 7065 0990.

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