Wikipedia:Meetup/TuftsEditAThon

Details

Come help us end gender bias, increase the coverage of women in STEM fields, and make Wikipedia a better place! Everyone is welcome to participate in this event. Drop in when you can and stay for as long as you like. We will have pizza and refreshments.

When? Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016, 11am-2pm
Where? Tisch Library, Room 223
What should I bring? We will have PCs for you to work on, but you may bring your laptop or Macbook if you prefer to work from your own device.

What can I work on?

There are lots of ways that you can contribute to Wikipedia! You can verify facts by adding citations, cleaning up articles, correcting typos/broken links, adding new content to existing articles, or creating a new page that does not yet exist.

Articles needing citation

Citation Hunt matches you with an article in need of citation, based on your interests. (For example: you may want to type "women scientists" in the search box).
Women scientists: articles that need references

Articles needing expansion or improvement

Specific People

Linda Abriola, Director of the Tufts Institute of the Environment and Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Chemical & Biological Engineering
Diana Bianchi, Natalie V. Zucker Professor of Pediatrics, and Obstetrics and Gynecology at Tufts University School of Medicine, Director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the NIH
Diane Souvaine, Tufts University Vice Provost for Research and Professor of computer science & mathematics
Gladys Hobby, American microbiologist who conducted important research on antibiotics
Nicola Pellow, member of the WWW Project at CERN
Florence Bagley, American psychologist
Martha Bunting, American biologist
Margaret Boyle, Scottish mathematician
Christiane Bonnelle, French physicist
Esther Batchelder, American chemist

Specific topics

Lists

Articles needing creation

List of Female Scientists With No Wiki Page
Highly cited women in STEM: missing articles
Karen Panetta, Tufts University Professor of Computer Engineering and Associate Dean of Graduate Education - http://www.karenpanetta.com

Resources

Wikipedia articles should be based on reliable, published sources that have a neutral point of view

Tufts Resources

Tufts Digital Library: A collection hilighting the history, scholarship, and publications of Tufts University faculty/staff/students. Most information here is open for the public to browse or use.

Free Resources

ArXiv: Physics, math and computer science open archive
BioRxiv: Biology open archive
PubMed Central, Open access to biomedical and life sciences literature
Biodiversity heritage library: biodiversity literature, dating back to the 1400s
SocArXiv: Social Sciences open archive (in development)
Internet Archive, a not-for-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as archived web pages