Wikipedia:GLAM/Wellcome/Events and Workshops/Women Engineers in the First World War & After Wikithon

About the event

This event was followed by another Women Engineers Wikithon

Gateways to the First World War have provided sponsorship for this one day event at the IET Archives, London. ‘Women Engineers in the Great War and after’.

Following on from the success of the April 23rd public engagement event, this wikithon is designed to make the histories of women engineers in the First World War more visible by putting them on Wikipedia. If you have been researching this subject and have material that you want to put online, this is an ideal forum to do so in a supportive environment.

This free one day collaborative project will look back at the role of women in engineering and technical disciplines during the First World War and beyond, and will start to bring out some of the stories documented in the newly digitised Women’s Engineering Society archive. In collaboration the University of Leeds, the University of Leicester, the team at the IET archive, Wikipedia, and many others contributors the day will be an informative and interactive and entertaining event which will set the stage for further collaboration on this important and as yet largely unexplored part of our heritage.

How do I prepare?

• Sign up for the event!
• Bring a laptop (wifi will be provided), some laptops may be available.
• Learn about editing if you like: see Visual Editor user guide for more information.
• Think about what you would like to edit about - you can even prepare some materials to bring with you on the day (to help with verifiability).
• Check out the notability guidelines and what topics can be written about on Wikipedia.
• Think about whether you have any conflicts of interest.

Programme

We'll have an introduction from Sally Horrocks, explaining the background from the project. Anne Locker from the IET will explain some of the things we hope to achieve. There'll then be training from Alice White, Wikimedian in Residence at the Wellcome Library, and you will have the opportunity to edit pages on Wikipedia in line with Wiki guidelines.

Participants

• Ietlibarch
• Henrietta999
• Jesswade88
• Sally Horrocks
• Fionasinclairstclair
• +1 drop-in!

Content improved / created

• Hertha Ayrton
• Rachel Parsons (engineer)
• Mary Fergusson
• Pauline Gower
• Peggy Hodges
• Mary (Molly) Isolen Fergusson (new page work in progress! in user sandbox)
• Sarah Hainsworth (new page work in progress! please chip in!)
• Frances Bradfield (new page work in progress! please chip in!)

Inspiration for even more improvements / new pages*

These pages can be created or improved. There is evidence to help create pages on almost all of these women in the recently digitised The Woman Engineer journal.

• Gwen Alston (d 1993), Aerodynamicist
• Agnes Borthwick (1889-1949), Works manager at National Filling Factory, Georgetown, Renfrewshire; Glasgow Univ graduate
• Dorothy Donaldson Buchanan (1899-1985), First woman member of Institution of Civil Engineers; worked on bridge designs
• Gertrude Lilian Entwisle, (1892-1961)
• Pauline Gower (1910-1947), Pilot who headed the Air Transport Auxiliary in WW2
• C Griff
• Verena Holmes (1889-1964), Mechanical engineer
• Daphne Jackson (1936-1991), Nuclear physicist
• Eily Marguerite Keary (1893-1975), (later Smith-Keary) Cambridge-educated naval architect
• Elizabeth Laverick (1925 – 2000?), Physicist who worked on microwave technology and radar
• Helen Monica Maurice (1908-1995), Lamp manufacturer, MD and Chairman of Wolf Safety Lamps
• Margaret Moir (1864-1942), Lady Moir did war work in engineering; was a founder of Women’s Engineering Society
• Margaret Mary Patridge (1891-1967), Electrical engineer; a founder of Women’s Engineering Society
• Dorothy Rowbotham (1883-1978), Girton-educated, Maths tripos; machine shop superintendent Galloway engineering; worked for the Partridge firm
• Blanche Coules Thornycroft (1874-1950), Marine engineer
• Theresa Wallach (1909-1999), Motorcyclist and automobile engineer. Has an Italian page that could be translated.
• Laura Ann Willson (1877-1942), Ran a munitions factory in Halifax – MBE in first honours list 1917

* Many thanks to Anne Locker, Sally Horrocks, and Nina Baker for their work on this list!