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Women in STEM editathon
Online event October 2024
Meetup	318
Type	Edit-a-thon
Series	Women in STEM
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Women in STEM
October 2024

Recently completed:	Women in Sports Indigenous women Film and stage
New this month:	Women writers & their works Geofocus: Islands A–H
Ongoing initiatives:	#1day1woman Education Translation
Upcoming events:	Women in STEM Geofocus: Islands I–P Women in archaeology Ideas

Welcome!

Inspired by Ada Lovelace Day on 15 October, once again this October we will be focusing on women in STEM, not forgetting environmentalists, sci-fi writers, and all others whose work touches these fields.

We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies and other articles about women in all fields of science around the world, as well as their achievements, writings, organizations, and awards. This virtual editathon allows enthusiasts wherever they may be to participate in our initiative. Contributors are of course also welcome to add articles on any other notable women who deserve to be covered, for example under our #1day1woman priority.

The main goals of the event are:

• to encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia by creating biographies of prominent women
• to draw the attention of more experienced editors to the need for combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women and women's works
• to promote the new/improved articles and images through social media

What else?

• Below, you'll see a section where you can list the articles you create this month, and another section where you can add the images you have uploaded to Commons.
• This essay on creating women's biographies and our Ten Simple Rules might be helpful to newer editors. WiR also maintains a list of biographical resources to aid in searching for sources.
• If you share any of the articles on social media, please indicate this next to the article name.

Thank you!

Redlists (lists of redlinked articles to be created)

We have a wide variety of red-link lists. Some of the most relevant to this priority are listed below.

Crowd-sourced (CS) and Wikidata (WD) red-link lists: women's biographies in other language versions of Wikipedia: Astronomers (WD) Biologists (CS)(WD) Botanists (CS) (WD) Chemists (CS) (WD) Civil engineers (WD) Climatologists (WD) Computer scientists (CS) (WD) Ecologists (CS) (WD) Engineers (CS) (WD) Environmentalists (WD) Epidemiologists (CS) (WD) Geologists (WD) Mathematicians (CS) (WD) Medical professionals (CS) Neuroscientists (WD) Physicists (CS) (WD) Science fiction & fantasy (CS) Scientists (CS) (WD) Scientists from Africa (WD) Scientists from Latin America (WD) Technologists (CS) (WD) Women in STEM in the Dictionary of Women Worldwide (WD)

Note: for those listed in the Dictionary of Women Worldwide, some corresponding entries may be found at Encyclopedia.com or, for access to all, by signing up for the Wikipedia Library's free bundle and then using this search option.

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• --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 22:40, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

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