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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diffhist m Paulien Hogeweg‎ 01:56 +13‎ ‎Smasongarrison talk contribs‎ (Moving from Category:Dutch biologists to Category:21st-century Dutch biologists Diffusing per WP:DIFFUSE and/or WP:ALLINCLUDED using Cat-a-lot)
diffhist m Lise Meitner‎ 01:42 +7‎ ‎Dirac66 talk contribs‎ (→‎Nobel Prize for nuclear fission: spelling)
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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
A			1				1
GA	5	10	36	63		1	115
B	17	77	205	514		51	864
C	4	108	553	3,642		1,298	5,605
Start		75	617	8,034		4,796	13,522
Stub		2	36	1,882		1,040	2,960
List	4	7	30	15		3	59
Category					1,268		1,268
Disambig					2		2
File					39		39
Project					41		41
Template					6		6
NA			2	16	45		63
Other				2	88		90
Assessed	33	281	1,485	14,175	1,489	7,189	24,652
Unassessed				3		9	12
Total	33	281	1,485	14,178	1,489	7,198	24,664
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 110,651			Ω = 4.79

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Featured articles[edit]

Former featured articles[edit]

Margaret Thatcher

Featured lists[edit]

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