Wikipedia:WikiProject Women scientists
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| Categories | WikiProject Women scientists articles, Women scientists |
| Portals |  Biography portal Science portal |
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| Project banner template | {{WPWS}} |
| Userbox | {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Women scientists/Userbox}} |
| Helps organise child projects? | No |
| Has goals? | Yes |
| Assessment | Wikipedia:WikiProject Women scientists/Assessment |
Welcome to WikiProject Women Scientists, a WikiProject dedicated to ensuring quality and coverage of biographies of women scientists. Unfortunately, part of Wikipedia's systemic bias is that women in science are woefully underrepresented. Let's change that!
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How you can help[edit]
See also: Worklist of requested articles and To do list
- Tag the talk pages of relevant articles with the {{WPWS}} banner so they can be automatically added to Category:WikiProject Women scientists (see WikiProject Women scientists/missing from main list)
- Assess already tagged pages. See this page for a prioritized list of unassessed articles.
- Improve categorization of articles (see the category tree).
- Follow recent changes in articles on women scientists and revert any vandalism.
- Choose someone from the list of notable women without articles or the list of highly-cited women scientists without articles and write an article about her.
- Expand a stub article.
- Fix some of the issues in the cleanup listing: Cleanup listing for WikiProject Women scientists
Low-hanging fruit[edit]
Here are a few stubs that have plentiful source material for expanding them:
- Gladys Hobby Well-known scientist, multiple bios, including National Women's History Museum, Vassar, New York Times obit
- Ann T. Bowling, equine geneticist, sources for expansion at talk page
- translations of articles about women in other wikipedias
- Laurie Glimcher current dean of Weill Cornell Medicine and future president of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
- [your suggestion here]
From Wikidata
Automatically generated list of missing articles
Last updated by Reports bot 4 hours ago [Refresh]
- No English title available
No English description available
(More information on Wikidata) - Hanna Jędrzejewska
Polish sportsperson, chemist and athletics competitor
(More information on Wikidata) - Natalya Zubarevich
Soviet economist
(More information on Wikidata)
Outstanding requests[edit]
Requests for Wikipedia:WikiProject Women scientists via Wikipedia Requests:
- Florence Bagley: Create new article (view request details)
- Hazel Branch: Create new article (view request details)
- Martha Bunting: Create new article (view request details)
- Nora Calderwood: Create new article (view request details)
- Margaret Boyle: Create new article (view request details)
- Christiane Bonnelle: Create new article (view request details)
- Esther Batchelder: Create new article (view request details)
- Doris Cannell: Create new article (view request details)
- Winifred Deans: Create new article (view request details)
- Milicent Hathaway: Create new article (view request details)
Articles[edit]
Article alerts[edit]
- Articles for deletion
- 16 Jun 2016 – Monita Chatterjee (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by MSJapan (t · c); see discussion (2 participants; relisted)
- Proposed deletions
- 23 Jun 2016 – Mary Case (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by SwisterTwister (t · c): My searches are particularly finding several news sources at News but they're all about how her career and work as St. Louis's M. E. and nothing actually suggesting ''Wikipedia'' solid independent notability or how this can be ...
- 25 Jun 2016 – Keity Souza Santos (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Fgnievinski (t · c) was deproded by Vanamonde93 (t · c) (author) on 25 Jun 2016
- Redirects for discussion
- 23 Jun 2016 – Mrs Denis Thatcher (talk · edit · hist) →Margaret Thatcher was RfDed by Neve-selbert (t · c); see discussion
- Good article nominees
- 27 Jun 2016 – Jean Bartik (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Keilana (t · c); see discussion
- Good article reassessments
- 13 May 2015 – Hina Rabbani Khar (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for GA reassessment by Royroydeb (t · c); see discussion
- Requests for comments
- 17 Jun 2016 – Emmy Noether (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by 174.3.155.181 (t · c); see discussion
Recent changes[edit]
Hot articles[edit]
This space will list hot articles (those with the most edits in the last week) when the request at User:HotArticlesBot is approved.
Articles recently created[edit]
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Guidelines[edit]
Writing biographies:
- The Manual of Style for biographies
- Biographies of living persons.
- Also consider taking into account: the Finkbeiner test for writing biographies of women in science.
Notability
- Notability (academics)
- Notability (people)#Creative professionals — includes scientists & academics
Organization[edit]
| Affiliates of WikiProject Women |
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| Feminism |
| Health |
| History |
| History Month |
| Jewish women |
| Psychology |
| Scientists |
| Sport |
| Technology |
| Warfare & military |
| Writers |
| Missing articles department: Women in Red |
| Good articles department: Women in Green |
| See also: Gender gap task force |
Since biographies are potentially under the purview of almost all WikiProjects, it is important that we work in tandem with these projects. Also, when seeking collaboration on articles, don't neglect to approach WikiProjects that are part of the geographical region your subject is/was in.
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Related projects and task forces[edit]
- WikiProject Biography: Science and academia task force
- WikiProject Physics: Biographies, Publications and History task force
- WikiProject Women's History
- WikiProject Women of psychology (inactive)
- WikiProject Countering systemic bias
- WikiProject History of Science
Related portals[edit]
Increase the exposure of our work group by nominating our articles for their Portal FA and DYKs... Specific regional/country portals are listed in that section.
Categories[edit]
Members[edit]
- Keilana - interested in women scientists because I'm training to be one!
- SarahStierch
- Lquilter - partnered with a woman scientist ...
- Czar
- KTC
- Ricky916
- RockMagnetist (talk · contribs) - interested in all scientific biographies and reducing systemic bias
- Gobonobo
- Gloriamarie
- Dcrjsr - I am a woman scientist myself, and I edit science biographies as part of WikiProject Biophysics
- Netha
- static shakedown
- Gamaliel (talk) I wrote a bunch of these in 2011. It's good to see a project dedicated to filling in these redlinks.
- Tom Morris
- Daria Cybulska (WMUK) (talk) - interested in sharing this project at events
- DocTree
- Nicke.me (talk)
- Ginger Maine Coon - I am a woman biochemist myself.
- Araucana will work on women in ecology, ESP historical
- Girona7 - have long been adding to such topics; I organize related Wiki events in the New England area
- phoebe / (talk to me) - have also been working on these for a long time, especially adding references
- hfordsa - I'd love to write about non-Western women scientists
- Kirill Lokshin
- Harej (talk)
- Rohini Woman engineer, tech journalist, associated with Gender gap in India.
- Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) -- Editor of A Celebration of Women Writers; working as Wikipedian in Residence at the Chemical Heritage Foundation
- drlmshillito
- Djembayz
- FloNight
- Stardarks
- Hildabast
- Shudde
- User:Geeklizzard I like to work on bios of women, especially women in STEM & literature!
- Hrothulf. I heard the call on Wikipedia Weekly Episode 105.
- LizBajjalieh
- Penny Richards
- Iamozy (talk) - female neuroscientist
- Rosiestep
- Brainy J
- Samwalton9
- 97198 – mainly interested in women in medicine
- dgorsline women ornithologists, botanists, other naturalists
- meghaninmotion
- Ambrosia10 - NZ women scientists & women scientists at the Smithsonian
- Brinacor
- Rich Farmbrough (talk · contribs)
- Jesslynnq STEM librarian
- Ravenclaw27 STEM university student
- Doctorseeba (talk)
- Innotata
- Leela0808
- Twistthespine
- Justine
- Fairgeek I write articles about women history has overlooked, including scientists
- Jocelyndurrey
- Mhpmiller
- Geog Q (talk) 23:38, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
- Opabinia regalis
- Digitaleffie
- Uncommon_fritillary
- cmcmahon418 Particularly interested in women in chemistry
- Smirkybec particularly interested in Irish scientists, or those who were active in Ireland.
- Ozhu (talk · contribs)
- MartinPoulter (talk · contribs) Wikimedian In Residence at the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford from April 2015 to march 2016 so can probably help with anything related to Oxford University. Interested in representing women's achievements, not just in biographies of women
- Psanchez820 (talk) 21:44, 17 August 2015 (UTC) I am a molecular biologist working on my PhD with a project in cancer genomics in Mexico.
- Pharaoh of the Wizards
- Iamthecheese44
- Megalibrarygirl, I just enjoy writing women's bios for wiki. Any science is good science. ;) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 22:33, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
- Netherzone
- LeoRomero (talk · contribs) - I always wanted to be a woman scientist
- Le Prof - bec. my training, perspective were much influenced by Yvonne Connolly Martin.
- Alybrarian (talk) - Science librarian; particular interest in early female marine scientists and female astronomers
- Amachka (talk) 22:51, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
- Spc72894 (talk) 15:15, 19 February 2016 (UTC) Biomedical science student
- Emjackson42 (talk) 20:21, 27 February 2016 (UTC) Botany Librarian
- I, JethroBT drop me a line 07:34, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
- mellyphant (talk · contribs) - We need more awareness of women in science if we are to get more women into science!
- LaMèreVeille When I noticed that not all the women from French Academy of Sciences were on the fr.wikipedia.org, I decided to write their biography. I'll contribute translating bio in French.
- Michael Goodyear
- Cypherquest (talk · contribs) 20 March 2016 (CST)
- Sarahshoes66 ScienceGrrl interested in helping out the project
- Newtonianidealist
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