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This user is or was a participant in Wiki Education's Scholars & Scientists Program.
This user is or was a participant in Wiki Education's Scholars & Scientists Program.

Welcome to my user page! My name is Alexandra Courtis and on wikipedia I've been working on increasing coverage and visibility of diverse scientists in academia.

My wikipedia training and project involvement to-date includes:


scientific biographies: editing progress

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  • Since starting my WikiEdu class and attending the 2019 American Physical Society edit-a-thon, I have been working on improving coverage of scientists on wikipedia.

quick overview of contributions and ongoing editing

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completed contributions to scientific biographies scientific biographies I am currently working on (new or improving)
  1. Kai-Mei Fu
  2. Sara E. Skrabalak
  3. Evelyn Roberts (physicist)
  4. Alessandra Lanzara
  5. Delia Milliron
  6. Susan M. Kauzlarich
  7. Laura B. Eisenstein
  8. Anne M. Andrews
  9. Adriana Briscoe
  10. Elisabeth Gwinn
  11. Angelica Stacy
  12. Tsu-Jae King Liu
  13. K. Birgitta Whaley
  14. Sandra J. Rosenthal
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  • link to an article by Ed Yong about diverse voices and sources.
  • link to the Timeline of women in science
  • following guidelines from my WikiEdu Scholars + Scientist program, I'm currently using an ORES based script for the quality rankings listed on the talk page of new articles I work on. ORES uses machine learning to help automate assessments of edits on wikipedia. You can learn more about useful tools you may want to utilize on wikipedia based on ORES here.
  • link to Wikipedia Manual of Style/Words to Watch
  • link to the Simple English Wikipedia
  • to reply or ping a user, use this format when responding or editing on a talk page {{u|username}} or {{ping|username}}
  • to sign-off when editing talk pages you can add this to the end of your message ~~~~

tips and how to get started editing biographies of scientists on wikipedia

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Name
Alma materUndergrad + graduate education (can also include postdoc)
Known forBrief notability
AwardsNotable Prizes
Scientific career
FieldsResearch Field(s)
InstitutionsCurrent institutional affiliation
  • these are some templates which may be useful to add to a talk page when developing or improving a biography
    • Women in Red Biography 2019 {{WIR-00-2019}}
    • WikiProject Women {{WikiProject Women|living=yes|listas= Name Here |class=Start}}
    • WikiProject Women Scientists {{WikiProject Women Scientists|living=yes|listas= Name Here|class=Start|needs-image=yes}}
    • University of California {{WikiProject University of California|class=C|UCB=yes}}
    • WikiProject Chemistry {{WikiProject Chemistry |class=B |importance=Low}}
  • when putting together references section, should include the references template and also in the ref section add some templates to assist with organization and flagging with WikiData collection: {{Reflist}} + {{Authority control}}


additional info about editing + scientific biographies if you are new to wikipedia

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  • Wikipedia is edited collaboratively by volunteers. You can see all volunteer wikipedia editors who have contributed to any given article and their specific contributions by clicking the "View History" tab of an article.
  • Articles on living academics and and individuals editing such these must adhere to the Wikipedia policies on Biographies of Living Persons.
  • While all articles in blue links are live and have passed wikipedia peer-review, new biographies of academics can still be subject to deletion (a peer-reviewed wikipedia process) under the wikipedia guidelines for Notability of Academics. To help ensure new articles are not nominated for deletion on notability grounds, a major effort with biographies on academics (and edits thereof) is ensuring articles are as detailed and well-sourced as possible.
  • You can easily request automated updates on changes that are made to any given article on wikipedia by adding it to the watchlist of your wikipedia account. More info about making a free wikipedia account is at this link.