Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's History/NIH Women’s History Month Edit-a-Thon 2015

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Staff from NIH and Wikipedia take enthusiastic first steps in a partnership to upgrade the scientific and medical information available through the popular online encyclopedia.

Update See report - "NIH Marks Women’s History Month with All-Day Wikipedia Edit"

In honor of Women’s History Month, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is organizing and hosting an edit-a-thon to improve coverage of women in science in Wikipedia. The focus will be on women in science from or supported by NIH, or the NIH’s historical holdings of women in science.

Activities will include new editor orientation and training, organized with Wikimedia DC. There will be a morning session, with a repeat in the afternoon. People are welcome to join for one or both sessions. Refreshments generously supplied by Wikimedia DC.

If you get stuck at security and need help, call Office of Communications and Public Liaison, 301-496-5787: someone will be there to help you out!

THANK YOU!

A giant thank you to everyone who pitched in to prepare for Friday and/or to participate on the day! Keep editing - there's still plenty of time in Women's History Month!|

NIH Women’s History Month Edit-a-Thon 2015

NIH sponsors

NIH Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI/National Library of Medicine)
NIH Office of Communications & Public Liaison (OD/OCPL)

Participation details

When: Friday, March 13th, 2015; 9:00am – 4:00pm

Who: NIH community and Wikipedians (see NIH guidelines below); No advanced technical skills required – those with experience will help

What to bring: Government-issued photo ID (allow time for security at the NIH entrance); Laptop computer with power cable; If you’ve been part of the data-gathering exercise leading up to the edit-a-thon, bring your files and photos; If you have not been part of the preparatory research work, there will be an ambitious task list for you to work on.

Where: Wilson Hall; Building 1, 3rd floor; Main NIH entrance (at Medical Center Metro); 9000 Rockville Pike; Bethesda MD; directions for visitors; Map of campus

RSVP: Sign up directly below or email edi.women@nih.gov; This event is free of charge but we need an advance count of attendees.

Interpreters and reasonable accommodations

Individuals with disabilities who need reasonable accommodation or sign language interpreting to participate in this event should contact Sarah Williams, Strategist for the Women’s Portfolio, Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, at sarah.williams2@nih.gov, or 301-402-4157 and/or the Federal Relay (1-800-877-8339).

Goals

To make a substantive improvement to the representation of women in science in Wikipedia, both at the edit-a-thon, through the rest of Women’s History Month and beyond
To encourage the NIH community to learn how to contribute to Wikipedia

Schedule

**NIH Women’s History Month Edit-a-Thon - Schedule**
Time	Activity	Speakers
9:00 am	Welcome to NIH	Marin Allen (OD/OCPL) Sarah Williams (EDI) Hilda Bastian (NCBI)
9:10-10:00	Wiki 101 – Editing bio pages	Hilda Bastian, NCBI (hildabast) Lane Rasberry, Wikipedian-in-Residence, Consumer Reports (bluerasberry) (slides}
10:00-12:15	Edit-a-thon
12:15-12:30	Wiki editing support resources Discussion on where to from here	James Hare, Wikimedia DC (Harej)
12:30-1:00	Break
1:00-1:50	Wiki 101 – Editing bio pages (Repeat)	Hilda Bastian, NCBI (hildabast) Lane Rasberry, Wikipedian-in-Residence, Consumer Reports (bluerasberry)
1:50-3:45	Edit-a-thon
3:45-4:00	Wiki editing support resources (Repeat) Discussion on where to from here	James Hare, Wikimedia DC (Harej)

If you don’t need the tutorials, you can just start/keep editing!

Resources

Guidelines for Participating in Wikipedia from NIH

Guidelines for Participating in Wikipedia from NIH

Wikipedia Editing Resources

Resources on Scientists at the NIH

RSVP

Attendees

We will need a list of attendees before the event, although staff can take their chances on a walk-in for parts of the day.

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List of Tasks

Pages which could be improved:

For new pages (14):

Edit-a-Thon Results

New pages

Improved pages

Ida A. Bengtson - added infobox
Gladys Tantaquidgeon - added image of the museum she founded, and link to NLM holding of her original work
Maxine Singer - updated & added inline citations
Anita Roberts - added photo and info box, references, inline citations; updated info
Hannah Valantine - Updated photo, added content
Josephine Briggs - Added photo, expanded content
Linda Buck - added content
Carol Greider - added content
Ruth L. Kirschstein - added photos, expanded content
Story Landis - added content
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz - Added photo, expanded content
Elizabeth Neufeld - Added photo, added content
Candace Pert - added content
Margaret Pittman - Photo and info box added, content expanded
Maxine Singer - expanded content
Thressa Stadtman - Corrected name, added photo
Nora Volkow - Added photos, expanded content
Sarah E Stewart - expanded content
Yoke Peng Loh - Added photo and info box, added citations to independent sources, added content
Roger Arliner Young - Added key historical publication from NLM, added content
Sara Elizabeth Branham Matthews - Added photos and content

Improving visibility of Hispanic/Latino women scientists

List of Latin Americans – Science and technology: increased content from 1 woman/48 scientists to 6 women/53 scientists
List of Hispanic and Latino Americans - Added category Scientists, including 5 notable Hispanic/Latino women
List of female scientists before the 21st century - Listed 5 Hispanic/Latino women, adding to the one Latina listed in the 20th century section
Included 5 notable Hispanic/Latino women in the Category: Hispanic and Latino-American people
Expanded content of Dr. Sarah Stewart's page

Women included in these lists: Martha E. Bernal, Helen Rodríguez Trías, Sarah Stewart, Lydia Villa-Komaroff, Antonia Novello

Photos added to Wikimedia Commons

+ See below for additional unused photos previously available in Wikimedia Commons.

See them all!

Additional + unused photos previously available in Wikimedia Commons for the 32 women for 2015:

Template for Creating Info Box with Image

Cut and paste this example from the edit page here - replace the placeholder text with info for your scientist and a photo file from Wikimedia Commons, and you're good to go. (Having the birthdate means it will calculate age automatically.)

An example of what these info boxes look like is here: Linda Buck

Be careful that you don't leave any of the filler explanatory text there (the words in all capital letters). Always add "alternative image text" - that will show in rollover text and for people who use machines to read (e.g. because of visual impairment). It should be a short caption explaining the image.

The template is everything from here to the end of this section: