Wikipedia:Meetup/UK/University of Manchester Women in Physiology, October 2019

In a nutshell

• Where? University of Manchester, Sackville Street Building on Sackville Street (Manchester)
• When? Thursday 17th October
• What time? 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
• Point of contact: Duncan Hull

About the event

Physiologist Nancy Rothwell gave the opening talk

Physicist Jess Wade talked about under-representation in Wikipedia

Susan Wray talked about women at The Physiological Society

The event celebrated the work of women scientists and engineers such as Ada Lovelace (the world's first software engineer) and Women in Physiology with help from The Physiological Society, Keynote speakers include:

1. Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell DBE DL FRS FMedSci FRSB FBPhS MAE Physiologist, President and Vice Chancellor of the University of Manchester
2. Professor Susan Wray FMedSci FRCOG MAE Physiologist University of Liverpool
3. Dr. Jessica Wade BEM Physicist Imperial College London

Outcomes of the edit-a-thon

There were several outcomes of the edit-a-thon including:

Translations

• The english entry for Maria Fitzgerald was translated into Maltese by User:EnriqueTabone, see Maria Fitzgerald in Maltese
• The english entry for Nancy Rothwell was translated into Romanian by User:PaulCodrea, see Nancy Rothwell in Română . Bulgarian, Russian, Hindi and Mandarin versions are in progress.

New articles

• A new article was created on Shamshad Cockcroft by User:AliceP29
• A new article was created on Anne McArdle by User:Duncan.Hull
• A new article was created on Susan Brain by User:Stain

New redlist for Women Physiologists

• A new redlist was created for Women Physiologists. This was created by womeninred.org and automatically generated using wikidata e.g. people with gender female and occupation physiologist who do not have a wikipedia article in any language. Redlists are lists of Wikipedia:Red links where articles are wanted.

Articles needed on Women in Physiology

Our goal during the edit-a-thon was to turn as many of the red links below into blue links, by creating new biographies. These women are all listed in Women phsysiologists : centenary celebrations and beyond.

Obituaries

Physiologist Maria Fitzgerald's portrait was uploaded to Wikipedia as part of WikiProject Royal Society

Physiologist Eleanor Maguire's portrait was uploaded to Wikipedia as part of WikiProject Royal Society

Physiologist Annette Dolphin's portrait was uploaded to Wikipedia as part of WikiProject Royal Society

1. Alison Brading (1939-2011) needs infobox
2. Gertrude Falk (1925-2008)
3. Marianne Fillenz (1924-2012) needs improving
4. Olga Hudlická (1926-2014)
5. Shelagh Morrissey (1916-1990) needs article
6. Anne Warner (1940–2012)
7. Maureen Young (1915-2013) needs improvement and infobox

Women in Physiology

1. Frances Ashcroft
2. Heidi de Wet
3. Susan Brain
4. Aisah Aubdool (Postdoc working with Susan Brain)
5. Andrea Brand
6. Lynn J. Bindman
7. Irene Miguel-Aliaga
8. Barbara Casadei
9. Svetlana Reilly
10. Shamshad Cockcroft
11. Kathryn Garner
12. Kay Davies
13. Lisa Heather
14. Annette Dolphin
15. Claudia Bauer
16. Kim Dora
17. Pooneh Bagher
18. Maria Fitzgerald
19. Stephanie Koch
20. Abigail Fowden
21. Amanda Sferruzzi-Perri
22. Christine Holt
23. Paloma Gonzalez-Bellido
24. Anne King (physiologist)
25. Ilona Obara
26. Bridget Lumb
27. Emma C. Hart
28. Margaret MacLean needs infobox
29. Kirsty Mair
30. Eleanor Maguire
31. Cornelia McCormick
32. Janice Marshall
33. Jeanette Woolard
34. Anne McArdle
35. Aphrodite Vasilaki
36. Mary Morrell
37. Ivana Rosenzweig
38. Lucilla Poston
39. Anne-Maj Samuelsson
40. Sheena Radford (needs portrait)
41. Anastasia Zhuravleva
42. Nancy Rothwell (needs a better picture)
43. Catherine B. Lawrence
44. Maria Grazia Spillantini
45. Joanne Jones
46. Tilli Tansey
47. Emma M Jones
48. Alex M. Thomson
49. Audrey Mercer
50. Susan Wray
51. Rachel Floyd
52. Chrissy Stokes
53. Rachel Tribe

Preparation notes

• evenbrite registration link can be found here
• Create a Wikipedia account
• Bring a laptop (or pair up with somebody who has one)
• WiFi will be provided, or you can use eduroam if you have it
• Start with The Wikipedia Adventure which will take you through the key points in under an hour
• You can also learn about editing in this Tutorial, or Getting started on Wikipedia

Things you can work on

• Write a biography of a woman physiologist (see redlist above)
• Transate a biography of a woman physiologist into a different language
• With permission from the subject(s), upload pictures you have of scientists to wikimedia commons, many scientists do not have good portraits on wikipedia because of complex licensing and copyright issues see Wikipedia:A picture of you
• Improve or increase the number of inbound links to a given page
• Encourage journalists to write about women in science so there are good secondary sources

Attendees

1. User:Duncan.Hull
2. User:Jesswade88
3. User:Stain
4. User:Odder
5. User:AliceP29
6. User:EnriqueTabone
7. User:PaulCodrea
8. User:CCamacho81