Coordination page for the 2012 Ada Lovelace Day
June Almeida ODNB - left school at 16 and became a Doctor of ScienceAnn Bishop (biologist) (DYK , Beatrice Blackwood (DYK )Edith Bülbring (DYK )Frances Hardcastle , mathematicianAnna J. Harrison , chemistMartha Haynes , astronomerLisa Kaltenegger , astronomerCecilia Lindquist , Swedish Chinese music and writing expertEleanor Maguire , neuroscientist (DYK )Helen Megaw , crystallographerMarietta Pallis , ecologist (DYK )Isis Pogson , astronomer (DYK )Kamal Ranadive , biomedical researcherDarshan Ranganathan , organic chemist (DYK )
Wikimedia UK and the Royal Society organised a Women in Science themed editing event for Ada Lovelace Day on Friday 19 October 2012 in London.
We had an afternoon editathon bringing in new contributors from academia, and some existing volunteers. Female editors were particularly encouraged to attend. It was hosted by the Royal Society , who have a very strong history-of-science and biographical library which they made available to us for the day. The Society's library holds a rich collection of printed works about women in science, including biographies and works authored by scientists. At the event the Society's librarians were able to explain more about the collections and provide guidance on finding sources.
KTC (talk · contribs )Daria Cybulska (WMUK) (talk · contribs )Andrew Gray (talk · contribs )Tom Morris (talk · contribs )sagwolf (talk · contribs ) (interested in Elizabeth Brown (astronomer) , Alice Everett , Margaret Lindsay Huggins , Mary Rosse , Annie Scott Dill Maunder ) Katy Barrett (talk · contribs ) (interested in Jane Squire )EleanorD (talk · contribs ) (interested in Arabella Buckley, Sally Floyd, Lilian Bland, Daphne Jackson, Naomi Datta, Cecily Tanner, Anne Warner) Jennyshaw (talk · contribs ) (interested in Florence Lees )eve hoddinott (talk · contribs ) (interested in Dorothy Needham, Muriel Wheldale Onslow, Dorothy Jordan Lloyd, Marjorie Stephenson.) NPettorelli (talk · contribs ) (interested in Emily Williamson, Emmeline Moore and Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards) GiaMilinovich (talk · contribs ) miamelba (talk · contribs )Seirian_Sumner (talk · contribs ) (interested in Sylvia Lawler, Mary Barber, Carmel Humphries, Annie Porter) Sagwolf (talk · contribs ) Beckyfh (talk · contribs )NKSD 86 (talk · contribs ) Antigone66 (talk · contribs ) SuwCA (talk · contribs ) (starting off with Sydney Mary Thompson , geologist & botanist) geneticcuckoo (talk · contribs ) (Editing Phyllis Clinch, Ida Freud and Sylvia Lawler)EleanorD (talk · contribs ) Online participants were encouraged to pick an article below. We have tried to list online resources for individual articles below, to make it easy to participate without needing to be in the library.
We welcomed participants to communicate with us online:
Useful links for new contributors:
SarahStierch (talk ) 16:56, 2 October 2012 (UTC) [ reply ] Cindy (talk to me 20:22, 5 October 2012 (UTC) [ reply ] Netha (talk) 09:28, 7 October 2012 (UTC) [ reply ] Dsp13 (talk ) 11:54, 7 October 2012 (UTC) [ reply ] -- AudreyMurray (talk ) 14:45, 11 October 2012 (UTC) (c. 7:30-9:00pm UCT)[ reply ] Raystorm (¿Sí?) 18:14, 16 October 2012 (UTC) [ reply ] Victuallers (talk ) 21:58, 17 October 2012 (UTC) [ reply ] -- AlxRc (interested in Sally Floyd, Edith Bulbring, Arabella Buckley and Cécile Vogt-Mugnier) -- Russian feminists community -- Gobōnobo + c 05:14, 19 October 2012 (UTC) [ reply ] Gordo (talk )-- Vickytnz (talk ) 13:54, 19 October 2012 (UTC) (would like to do a Down Under woman, right now the only person even close seems to be Natalie Jeremijenko )[ reply ] talk ) 14:11, 19 October 2012 (UTC) [ reply ] Frank Norman (talk ) 08:17, 19 October 2012 (UTC) [ reply ] Elizabeth Bruton (talk ) 17:03, 19 October 2012 (UTC) (interested in Hertha Marks Ayrton )[ reply ] talk ) 14:02, 19 October 2012 (UTC) [ reply ] talk ) 14:07, 19 October 2012 (UTC) [ reply ] -- MartinPoulter (talk ) 22:33, 19 October 2012 (UTC) [ reply ] -- KarenLMasters -- GavinThomas 19 October 2012
A supporting event in Oxford , United Kingdom, attracted contributions to expand or improve Mary Somerville , Bertha Swirles , The Million Women Study , Cynthia Longfield , Thekla Resvoll , Sydney Mary Thompson , Edith Bülbring , Marthe Vogt , Ida Mann , Joyce Lambert , Rosalind Pitt-Rivers , and June Almeida , and create Julia Bodmer .
On Ada Lovelace day, Indian women organised an online edit-a-thon in association with Wikimedia UK and Royal Society.
Date: Friday 19 October, full day IST Etherpad: http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/Ada Twitter hashtag: #WomenSciWP Participants: Women, new editors, all those who relate to women's history or women's issues, those who want to learn how to edit or can teach others how, and anyone with an interest in women's history were particularly encouraged to attend.
Netha (talk) 17:52, 28 September 2012 (UTC) [ reply ] SarahStierch (talk ) 16:48, 2 October 2012 (UTC) [ reply ] Bishdatta (talk ) 14:43, 8 October 2012 (UTC) [ reply ] Raystorm (¿Sí?) 18:16, 16 October 2012 (UTC) [ reply ] Djembayz (talk ) 11:47, 18 October 2012 (UTC) [ reply ] talk ) 19:01, 19 October 2012 (UTC) [ reply ]
Report by Netha Hussain, 24 October 2012
The Ada Lovelace Day Edit-a-thon was conducted on 19th October 2012. Six users signed up for the event. 6 articles were created, and one article was copy-edited and expanded. User:Bishdatta created the article about Kamal Ranadive . User: Hisham created the article about Shubha Tole . User: Djembayz created the biography article about Darshan Ranganathan . User: Netha Hussain created articles about Anna Mani , Bindu Bambah and Kamala Sohonie , and copy edited the article Janaki Ammal .
User:Gobonobo added images to these articles. User: Victuallers copy-edited the articles. Razibot , operated by User:Razimantv added interwiki links to the articles in English and other languages. Administrators and other interested users also joined the edit-a-thon by adding categories, references and inter-wiki links. A new category, Category: Indian women scientists, was created.
A similar event happened in Malayalam Wikipedia , which spanned over 3 days from 19 October to 21 October, during which 9 articles about women scientists were created or expanded. User:Georgekutty created or expanded 6 articles and User: Netha Hussain created 2 articles. Administrators joined the participants by adding interwiki links, categories and infoboxes. A new category, Category: Women scientists (വർഗ്ഗം: സ്ത്രീ ശാസ്ത്രജ്ഞർ), was created.
The articles created/expanded in Malayalam (ml) Wikipedia are:
Led by Анастасия Львова , the following articles have been created:
Harvard, 16th October Date: Tuesday, October 16th, 3:00pm to 8:30pmVenue: Harvard University Law School , Wasserstein Hall/Caspersen Student Center, Room 4062; 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, USARegistration: Space for the physical gathering is limited. To register, please email maiaw@nasw.org .These are themed by event (RS people are predominantly UK and Irish, etc) but please feel free to add suggestions or add new sections!
See also
ODNB Brigid Balfour , immunologistAnne Elizabeth Ball (I started one but do feel free to improve it! --User:e_bruton (20:30, 19 October 2012 (UTC) )[ reply ] ODNB Eileen Barnes , botanical illustratorRosa Beddington FRS Who Was Who ODNB RSBM (I started one at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Rosa_Beddington feel free to improve it! --Miamelba (talk ) 15:00, 19 October 2012 (UTC) )[ reply ] ODNB Ann Bishop (biologist) FRS Who Was Who ODNB RSBM C Lilian Bland , first woman in the world to build & fly her own aircraft (1910) Flight draft Veronica Conroy Burns , geologist JSTOR 25536167 Lucy Everest Boole , chemistEvelyn Mary Booth , botanist JSTOR 25539448 Eliza Brightwen ODNB Elizabeth Brown (astronomer) ODNB Raystorm (¿Sí?) 16:06, 19 October 2012 (UTC) [ reply ] ODNB Anne Beloff-Chain ODNB Marjorie Chandler ODNB Muriel Chapman ODNB Phyllis Clinch , plant virologist UCD Margaret Crosfield , geologist ODNB Maude Jane Delap , marine biologistFlorence Margaret Durham 1869- 1949, mouse geneticistMary Edwards (human computer) C Alice Everett , astronomerMary Evershed , astronomer and literary scholar - this existed as Mary Ackworth Orr Evershed . How does wikipedia deal with maiden name abiguity? ODNB Marian Farquharson , naturalist ODNB Una Fielding , neuroanatomist ODNB Margaret Fishenden , industrial researcher ODNB Grace Frankland Who Was Who ODNB Ida Freund ODNB Mildred Gostling ODNB Elizabeth Gray (fossil collector) ODNB Jean Hanson FRS Who Was Who ODNB RSBM Frances Hardcastle , mathematician ODNB Mathilde Hertz , physiologist ODNB Carmel Humphries , zoologist and ecologist UCD Mary Impey ODNB Hilda Ingold ODNB Daphne Jackson , first female professor of physics in the UK ODNB (see also Daphne Jackson Trust )Maria Jacson , botanist ODNB Sidney Kennon , midwife and collector ODNB Elizabeth Kent , botanist ODNB A. L. Kathleen King , biologistMary Kirby & Elizabeth Kirby , writers on botany ODNB Matilda Cullen Knowles , biologist ODNB Phebe Lankester , writer on botany ODNB Sylvia Lawler , geneticist ODNB Florence Lees , nursing pioneer ODNB May Leslie , chemist ODNB C Gulielma Lister , mycologist ODNB Jane Longstaff , biologist ODNB Elizabeth Macgregor , cytologist ODNB Doris Mackinnon , protozoologist ODNB Ida Maclean , biochemist ODNB Annie Massy , marine biologistSarah Mawe , mineralogist to Queen Victoria (!) ODNB Barbara Mawer , biochemist ODNB Mary McKillop ODNB Helen Megaw , crystallographer ODNB Mary Merrifield , algologist ODNB Margaret Meyer , mathematician ODNB Lady Anne Monson , botanist ODNB Charlotte Murchison , geologist ODNB Marion Newbigin , biologist ODNB Janet Niven , histologistMary Parke FRS Who Was Who ODNB (created after the event but only cos I've got the knack of it now!) --Miamelba (talk ) 17:08, 22 October 2012 (UTC) [ reply ] Innes Pearse , biologist ODNB Winifred Pennington , botanist ODNB Dorothea Pertz , botanist ODNB Eva Philbin , chemist UCD Eliza Phillips , cofounder of the RSPB ODNB Mary Pickford (physiologist) FRS Who Was Who ODNB Antoinette Pirie , biochemist ODNB Rosalind Pitt-Rivers FRS Who Was Who ODNB Helen Porter FRS Who Was Who ODNB Dorothy Stopford Price , physicianCatherine Raisin , geologist ODNB Christian Ramsay (Lady Dalhousie), botanist ODNB Eleanor Reid , palaeobotanist ODNB Doris Livesey Reynolds , geologistGertrude Maud Robinson , chemist and wife of Robert Robinson (organic chemist) ODNB Pamela Robinson , vertebrate paleontologist ODNB Anna Russell (botanist) , botanist ODNB Edith Saunders , botanist ODNB Lydia Shackleton (1828–1914), botanical artist ODNB Anne Sheepshanks , astronomical patron ODNB Lydia Pasternak Slater , biochemist, translator and poet ODNB Audrey Ursula Smith , cryobiologist ODNB Marion Delf-Smith , botanist ODNB C Jane Squire , mathematician and astronomerSylvia Tait (scientist) (Sylvia Agnes Sophia Tait) FRS Who Was Who ODNB , RSBM Cecily Tanner , mathematician and historian of mathematics ODNB Ethel Thomas , biologist ODNB C Sydney Mary Thompson , geologist Geological Magazine - SuwCA (talk · contribs )Brigid Lyons Thornton , physicianMiriam Tildesley , anthropologist ODNB Winifred Tutin FRS Who Was Who ODNB Anne Walker (astronomer) , astronomical computer ODNB Annie Purcell Walker, Lady Walker ODNB Martha Whiteley , chemist Who Was Who ODNB Lilly Wigg , botanist ODNB Elizabeth Williams (educationist) , mathematician and educationist ODNB Emily Williamson , ornithologist ODNB Henrietta Wilson , botanist and writer ODNB Florence Yeldham , schoolteacher and historian of arithmetic ODNB
Hertha Marks Ayrton DSB (subscription required)Mary Ball ODNB Margaret Benson ODNB Edith Berkeley ODNB Arabella Buckley (science writer) ODNB Priscilla Susan Bury ODNB Beatrice Mabel Cave-Browne-Cave & Frances Cave-Browne-Cave ODNB Patricia Clarke FRS Who Was Who Aleen Cust , first female vet to practice in the UKNaomi Datta FRS Who Was Who ODNB Kathleen Mary Drew-Baker ODNB Gertrude B. Elion FRS, biochemist RSBM NAS Gertrude Elles ODNB Philippa Fawcett ODNB Sally Floyd , computer scientistMary Frampton ODNB Elizabeth Fulhame ODNB Eleanor Glanville ODNB Maria Gordon ODNB Maria Emma Gray ODNB Amelia Griffiths ODNB Margaret Hasluck ODNB Hilda Phoebe Hudson ODNB Margaret Lindsay Huggins , astronomer ODNB Ellen Hutchins , botanist ODNB Agnes Ibbetson , vegetable physiologist ODNB Janet Kear ODNB Maria Margarethe Kirch , astronomerJoyce Lambert , botanist and ecologist ODNB Cynthia Longfield , entomologistKathleen Lonsdale FRS Who Was Who RSBM ODNB Kathleen Lynn , physicianLucy Mair ODNB Irene Manton FRS Who Was Who RSBM ODNB Sidnie Manton FRS Who Was Who ODNB Sheina Marshall ODNB C Annie Scott Dill Maunder , astronomer ODNB - sagwolf (talk · contribs )Louise McIlroy , first female medical professor in the UKHelen Muir FRS, biochemist Who Was Who ODNB (one line!)Rosemary Murray , chemist, first female VC at Cambridge ODNB Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze Dorothy M. Needham FRS RSBM ODNB Muriel Wheldale Onslow ODNB Annie Porter , zoologist ODNB Mary Proctor ODNB F. Gwendolen Rees Who Was Who Muriel Robertson FRSMary Rosse , astronomer and photographer ODNB Arabella Elizabeth Roupell ODNB Ruth Sanger FRS Who Was Who RSBM Ethel Sargant ODNB Charlotte Scott ODNB Ethel Shakespear Who Was Who ODNB Annie Lorrain Smith ODNB Alicia Boole Stott , mathematicianMarjorie Sweeting ODNB Bertha Swirles (Bertha Jeffreys ), mathematician ODNB Janet Vaughan FRS Who Was Who Mary Ward , astronomer and microscopistAnne Warner (scientist) FRS Who Was Who Winifred Watkins FRS Who Was Who Elsie Widdowson FRSCécile Vogt-Mugnier (neurologist)Marthe Vogt FRS RSBM
