Women in STEM Wiki Edit-a-thon

Come celebrate International Women's Day by attending the Women in STEM Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon at the UM Library March 8^th. No experience required. Training will be provided. People of all gender identities and expressions are welcome.
 

Date:	March 8th
Time:	1-3 pm
Location:	Richter Library, Room 102B
Registration:	RSVP form

Enjoy free food and refreshements while making edits.

Edit-a-thons are organized events where people get together to edit Wikipedia pages. This particular edit-a-thon will focus on women in STEM. Wikipedia biographies have a huge gender gap with only 19% of the articles about women. This percentage gets even smaller when searching for articles on women in STEM. The goal for the Women in STEM Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon is to increase the representation of women in STEM for wikipedia articles.

You can bring your own laptop or borrow one from the library for the event.

Women in STEM Wikipedia Edit-a-thon PowerPoint

1. Fill out the Women in STEM Wikipedia Edit-a-thon RSVP form.
2. Create 24 hours before the event a Wikipedia Editing account.
3. Come to the edit-a-thon on March 8^th at 1pm.

It is easy to start finding biographical information on your subject! Type in the name of your subject in the box to the right and search. 

To narrow down your search filter by:
-Subject
-Online Access

For more resources check out the websites, reference ebooks and databases listed below.

• Historical Women - AWIS
• Biographis of Women Mathematics - Agnes Scott College
• Women in Science and Technology: A Resource Guide - LOC
• Women in Math Project - University of Oregon
• Women @ Nasa
• Women in Science - Nasa
• Highlighting Diverse STEM Role Models - SACNAS
• Women in Science - NAS
• Internet Archive (Need to create free account)

• Oxford Reference
• Gale In Context: Science
• Complete dictionary of scientific biography
• Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD's

• Web of Science
• SCOPUS
• Knovel Library
• Hathitrust
• Black Studies Center
• World History in Context

Start here:
Category: Stub-Class Women scientists articles
Category: Lists of women in STEM fields

More articles to edit:
Category: Lists of women scientists
Category: Women biophysicists 
Category: Women chemists 
Category: Women computer scientists
Category: Women engineers
Category: Women mathematicians
Category: Women physicists 
 

 

For the workshop today we are going to focus on the below edits.

• Adding links
• Adding citations
• Inserting infobox people/scientist

If you are more familiar with editing Wikipedia check out the below information.
Add content to stub articles.
Copyright and Plagiarism

If you are a Wikipedia pro try the advanced section and create a whole new page about a STEM woman read the links below first.
Create a new page.
How to Create a Wikipedia Page
Wikipedia Notability Guidelines
Copyright and Plagiarism