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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08 May 2024 – Anna Blackburne (talk · edit · hist) will be Today's Featured Article; see blurb

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26 Apr 2024 – Josephine Kenyon (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Xoak (t · c); see discussion

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23 Apr 2024 – Jill Astbury (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by LibStar (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)

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29 April 2024

diffhist m Ada Lovelace‎ 05:41 +16‎ ‎Adamu ab talk contribs‎ (Add link) Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Disambiguation links added
diffhist Flossie Wong-Staal‎ 05:04 −3‎ ‎157.131.252.55 talk‎ (→‎Personal life)
diffhist m Jill Stein‎ 04:52 +30‎ ‎David O. Johnson talk contribs‎ (script-assisted date audit and style fixes per MOS:NUM)
diffhist Fe del Mundo‎ 02:51 0‎ ‎139.147.225.131 talk‎ (Filipino is gender neutral.)
diffhist Charlotte Froese Fischer‎ 02:00 0‎ ‎Charles Clark talk contribs‎ (→‎Contributions: Replaced "the" with "her") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
diffhist Grace Hopper‎ 01:22 −30‎ ‎Derek farn talk contribs‎ (Undid revision 1221287206 by LokiTheLiar It makes more sense to maintain today's terminology) Tag: Undo
diffhist Janet Davidson‎ 01:03 +32‎ ‎Gertrude206 talk contribs‎ (→‎Career: link to Roger Green) Tag: Visual edit
diffhist Aletta Jacobs‎ 01:02 −4‎ ‎Judithcomm talk contribs‎ (→‎Selected works: idem)
diffhist Aletta Jacobs‎ 00:53 −4‎ ‎Judithcomm talk contribs‎ (→‎Activism (1888–1903): idem)
diffhist Joan Feynman‎ 00:53 −56‎ ‎Fuddle talk contribs‎ (−Category:Solar phenomena; −Category:Space physics using HotCat not for people)

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Writing biographies:

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Also consider taking into account: the Finkbeiner test for writing biographies of women in science.

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Women scientists articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	3	2	4	7			16
FL			1				1
GA	5	10	37	63		1	116
B	17	76	205	511		50	859
C	4	109	549	3,625		1,284	5,571
Start		76	619	7,995		4,736	13,426
Stub			36	1,875		1,036	2,947
List	4	7	30	15		3	59
Category					1,267		1,267
Disambig					2		2
File					39		39
Project					41		41
Template					4		4
NA			2	16	41		59
Other				4	110		114
Assessed	33	280	1,483	14,111	1,504	7,110	24,521
Unassessed				2		10	12
Total	33	280	1,483	14,113	1,504	7,120	24,533
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 109,912			Ω = 4.79

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Former featured articles[edit]

Margaret Thatcher

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Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics

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Featured pictures[edit]

Ada Lovelace portrait
Aletta Jacobs, 1895-1905
Alice C. Evans, National Photo Company portrait, circa 1915
Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) shown in her laboratory in 1947
Bertha Lutz 1925
Chien-Shiung Wu (1912-1997) in 1963 - Restoration
Dr. Caroline Spencer 275029v
GREIDER Carol 2014 - Less vignetting
Geneetik Riin Tamm
Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori (1896-1957) and Carl Ferdinand Cori - restoration1
Jane Addams - Bain News Service
Jeanette Scissum at Marshall Space Flight Center
Jessica Meir portrait in a WB-57 flight suit (3)
Katherine Johnson 1983
Katherine Johnson at NASA, in 1966
Li Fu Lee at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's radio experiment station, 1925 (MIT Museum) - Restoration
Mae Carol Jemison
Margaret D. Foster, in Lab, 4 October 1919
Margaret Harwood
Marie Curie c. 1920s
Marie Stopes in her laboratory, 1904 - Restoration
Mary Garrity - Ida B. Wells-Barnett - Google Art Project - restoration crop
Mary Jackson 1979 Portrait (LRC-1979-B701 P-07085)
Mary Jackson working 2 - Restoration
Nettie Maria Stevens
Pauline Gracia Beery Mack (1891-1974) (5493947511) - Restoration
Sally Ride (1984)
Samantha Cristoforetti official portrait in an EMU spacesuit
Tracy Caldwell Dyson in Cupola ISS
Valerie L. Thomas standing with a stack of early Landsat Computer Compatible Tapes