Wikipedia:New York Academy of Sciences/GSA Summit 2017 Next Scholars Editathon

GSA Summit 2017 Next Scholars Editathon

New York Academy of Sciences, 40th floor
When and Where
When:	Wednesday, July 19, 2017
Time	2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Where:	7 World Trade Center 250 Greenwich Street 40th Floor New York, NY 10007-2157
Twitter hashtag	#WomenSciWiki
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The New York Academy of Sciences is hosting the GSA Summit 2017 Next Scholars Editathon taking place Wednesday, July 19, 2017, 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm in New York City. This Wikipedia editing campaign aims to create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to the lives and works of women scientists, working to highlight undercovered science stories in the encyclopedia.

This is a private event for students participating in programs at the New York Academy of Sciences. This event is unable to offer public access.

With this effort we're also supporting WikiProject Women in Red, and WikiProject Women scientists.

Please register for this event on Wikipedia!

Agenda

0:00-0:05 - Welcome and introductions

0:05-0:20 - presentation on Wikipedia - slides

0:20-0:25 - Discussion and demos

0:25-1:30 - Wikipedia editathon!

1:30-2:00 - Let's share what we edited

2:00-3:00 - Continued editing and wrap up

The event will start with a presentation which gives the Wikipedia community perspective on the following:

1. To what extent does Wikipedia matter in science communication?
2. How does one edit Wikipedia?
3. What is Wikipedia's quality control system?

Following the presentation, anyone may ask any question about Wikipedia to get answers or demonstrations. Following this, it will be time for a Wikipedia "editathon", which is an event in which a group of people edit together. Desktop view, not mobile access, is preferred for this exercise, but come regardless. At the editathon, this is the goal:

1. Come to the event with some published source of good information
2. Identify a Wikipedia article where you think information from that source should go
3. In your own words, take information from your source and add it to the Wikipedia article
4. Cite your source. See referencing for beginners or better, learn at the event

Hopefully everyone at the event will add at least 1-3 sentences in the time we have. After making additions, since Wikipedia is public, participants will review the accuracy and quality of other participants' edits. As we leave, participants will be invited to check back on Wikipedia after some time (3-7 days) to see if there is any online community response to anyone's contributions.

Suggested articles to edit

The following is a list of prominent women members of the New York Academy of Sciences. If you are looking for a suggestion of what to edit, consider any of these.

• Antje Baeumner (reference)
• Daphne Bavelier (reference)
• Elizabeth Billings (references 1 2 3 4)
• Helen Blackwell (reference)
• Rachel Bodley
• Irina Bokova
• Jeanne Brooks-Gunn (reference)
• Linda Buck
• Margaret Burbidge
• Karen E. Burke (reference)
• Esther Byrnes (reference)
• Mary Letitia Caldwell
• Nancy Cantor
• B. J. Casey (references 1 2)
• Elsie Clews Parsons
• Chelsea Clinton
• Dilek Colak (reference)
• Esther M. Conwell
• Virginia W. Cornish (reference)
• Bianxiao Cui (reference)
• Marie Curie
• Marie Maynard Daly
• Titia de Lange
• Mildred Spiewak Dresselhaus
• Winifred Edgerton Merrill
• MaryEllen Elia (reference)
• Gertrude Elion
• Elza Erkip
• Elaine Fuchs
• Charlotte Friend (first female president of the Academy)
• Allyson Friedman (reference)
• Julia A. Gallaher (reference)
• Alison P. Galvani (reference)
• Carmala Garzione (reference)
• Alice P. Gast
• Anna Goldfeder
• Glenda Greenwald (reference)
• Gro Harlem Brundtland
• Emily Hodges (reference)
• Valerie Horsley (reference)
• Xiaowei Hou (reference)
• Christine Jacobs-Wagner (reference)
• Lisa Klein (engineer) (reference)
• Martha J. Lamb
• Laura F. Landweber (reference)
• Eleanor Leacock
• Michal Lipson (reference)
• Mariangela Lisanti (reference)
• Mary Kay Lobo (reference)
• Yueh-Lin Loo (reference)
• Mary Jeanne Kreek (reference)
• Margaret Mead (was Vice-President of the Academy for a time)
• Barbara McClintock
• Roberta B. Miller (reference)
• Eunice Thomas Miner (President of the New York Academy of Sciences for 32 years) (reference)
• Heather Munroe-Blum
• Emily C. Noyes Vanderpoel (reference)
• Teri W. Odom
• Rebecca Oppenheimer (reference)
• Elisa Oricchio (reference)
• Elsie Clews Parsons
• Helen T. Parsons (reference 1, reference 2)
• Eva Pastalkova (reference)
• Catharine Patrick (reference)
• Nellie M. Payne (reference
• Catherine J. Personius (reference)
• Grace E. Pickford
• Anna Randall-Diehl (reference)
• Shirley Raps (reference)
• Anne Roe (Author and psychologist who studied topics ranging from creativity and intelligence to occupational choice and alcoholism; the ninth woman to become a tenured faculty member at Harvard University, and the first to do so in the Harvard Faculty of Education)
• Rachel Rosen (reference)
• Vera Rubin
• Nancy Russo (reference)
• Florence Rena Sabin
• Melanie Sanford
• Maxine Lazarus Savitz (reference)
• Daniela Schiller (reference)
• Saw-Teen See (reference)
• Agnel Sfeir (reference)
• Carol Shoshkes Reiss (references 1 2)
• Sydel Silverman (references 1 2) (being worked on by Emjackson42 (talk) 17:20, 12 November 2016 (UTC))
• Anna Marie Skalka (references 1 2
• Erminnie A. Smith (first female member of the Academy) (reference - will have copy of this book on hand at the live event)
• Agata Smogorzewska (reference)
• Hildegard Stücklen (reference)
• Florence S. Tabor
• Helen B. Taussig
• Lois E. Tewinkel (reference)
• Shirley Tilghman
• Alice Y. Ting
• Doloretta Thorn (references 1 2 3)
• Olga Troyanskaya (reference)
• Alice B. Tweedy (science journalist) (reference))
• Doris Twitchell Allen
• Mary Upshur Von Isakovics (reference)
• Kathryn Uhrich (reference)
• Ruth Van de Water (reference)
• Florence van Straten
• Shobha Vasudevan (reference)
• Emilia M. Vicari (reference)
• Leslie B. Vosshall (reference)
• Amy T. Weld (poet)
• Myrna Weissman (reference)
• Rachel Wilson (neurobiologist) (reference)
• Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
• Nancy L. Zimpher
• Yi Zuo (reference)

External links

• The New York Academy of Sciences
• Wikipedia Meetup - NYC (main events page)
• Wikimedia New York City
• Free Culture Alliance NYC