Wikipedia:GLAM/Wellcome/Events and Workshops/ImpEng
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About the event[edit]
Imperial College, Wellcome Collection and WES are joining forces to host a Women in Engineering Wikithon. Join us to celebrate the women in science that deserve a more prominent place in the online historical record. You'll hear inspirational talks, then develop your digital skills and learn how to edit Wikipedia in order to harness the power of the web to share your knowledge.
Complete beginners and experienced editors are both welcome to attend - we'll provide training for anyone new to editing. If you’ve spotted an article that needs improving, bring along your queries and we’ll see what we can do to help!
How do I prepare?[edit]
- Sign up for the event!
- Create a Wikipedia account (look at the top right of this page for the link). You don't need to do anything else, but it'll speed things up on the day if you've already signed up for an account.
- Learn about editing if you like: see Visual Editor user guide for more information.
- Think about what you would like to edit about - you can even prepare some materials to bring with you on the day (to help with verifiability).
- Check out the notability guidelines and what topics can be written about on Wikipedia.
- Think about whether you have any conflicts of interest.
Participants[edit]
Participating wiki-editors can add their names here...
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Articles edited and created[edit]
- Carolyn Griffiths, started
Useful links[edit]
Here are some useful links to help you with your editing:
- All sorts of helpful guides and online resources can be found on the Wellcome Library Wikimedian in Residence Project Page.
- You can find out more about WES on their website and on the Wikipedia page for the organisation.
- You can add pictures for use on Wiki-pages and beyond on Wikimedia Commons. Your Wikipedia account will work on Commons too - as well as all the other Wiki-projects and different language versions of Wikipedia.
- If you're interested in joining a community of editors passionate about women in science, take a look at Wikiproject Women Scientists. You can also view useful resources on adding pages for women at Wikiproject Women in Red, plus find links to news articles and view worklists highlighting articles/topics that are the current focus of improvement.
Here are some ways to keep track of your edits:
- You can view all your contributions to Wikipedia by clicking "Contributions" (in the top right of this page).
- The Pageviews tool is a great way of measuring how many people are looking at the page you created/edited. You can even export the data if you'd like it for reports, etc.
Pages to create/improve[edit]
To find existing pages to improve, you can use a clever Wiki-tool called PetScan: we've filled in some blanks to show women engineers ordered by size of page (smallest first) here. Some of them are only a sentence or two long, so there's lots to improve! You can also take a look at the list of 20th-century women engineers for some more existing pages.
If you want to craft something from scratch, there are lots of pages to create. Many of the WES Presidents are redlinked because they do not yet have article pages. Some of them are in the table below, along with sources to get you started in your editing.
Table of Women Engineers[edit]
| Name | Field | Link to website / improvement suggestions for Wiki |
|---|---|---|
| Sue Grimes | Engineering & waste management | http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/s.grimes |
| Libby Meyrick | CEO of Institution of Engineering Designers | https://uk.linkedin.com/in/libby-meyrick-53508015 |
| Rosemary Cook | CEO of Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine | https://www.ipem.ac.uk/AboutIPEM/ContactUs/StaffMembers.aspx |
| Caroline Bull | President of British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing | https://www.lavender-ndt.com/news-and-events/international-women-in-engineering-day-2017/ |
| Angela Gray | President of Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management | |
| Sheila Lauchlan | President of Institution of Gas Engineers & Managers | http://www.igem.org.uk/about-igem/president.aspx |
| Carolyn Griffiths | President of Institute of Mechanical Engineers | https://www.imeche.org/about-us/our-people/carolyn-griffiths |
| Elizabeth Tanner OBE FREng FRS | Biomedical engineer who developed and set up Scotland’s first undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering. Sits on the editorial board of Ingenia. | https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/engineering/staff/ktanner/#/researchinterests |
| Gwen Alston | Aerodynamicist | http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-gwen-alston-1487478.html |
| Ethel Bailey | Automotive and aeronautical engineer | https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QRa6fTwRcwwC&pg=PA93&lpg=PA93&dq=ethel+H+bailey&source=bl&ots=PZLs9gCr2n&sig=RJ5dWPndNYD6cwKm_bo_ao4dIJE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiYtpvZzfHTAhVICsAKHYR7DZUQ6AEIUjAI#v=onepage&q=ethel%20H%20bailey&f=false + WES Journal Vols 2, 3, 5, 6 |
| Marjorie Bell | WES President 1957. 1st woman on Northampton Institute Electrical Engineering course, Lectured at Woolwich Technical College, HM inspector of factories, factory inspector in Palestine | WES Journal Vol 8, Information in the WES Register. |
| Jonathan Ferguson | Born Irene Joy, transitioned in 1950s. Began career as electrical demonstrator, trained as pilot, position in Ministry of Aircraft Production, member of Air Transport Auxiliary, directorate of aircraft research and development at the Ministry of Supply | WES Journal Vols 5-8, https://lgbthistoryuk.org/wiki/Jonathan_Ferguson, search for joy jonathan ferguson air transport auxiliary for more on the web |
| Mary George (Engineer) | WES memorial prize named in her honour. Principal Information Officer for Ministry of AFF, director of EAW | WES Journal Vols 8-13 |
| Isabel Helen Hardwich | Metropolitan & Vickers, photometrics / spectrometry. WES Medal named after her. | WES Journal Vols 6-14, 17, 18. Might also be in Physics Bulletin if you have access. |
| Norah Jeans | Automobile engineering, switched to engineering publicity, Treasurer WES | WES Journal Vols 2-7, 15. Information in the WES Register. |
| Elizabeth M. Kennedy | WES President 1933. Tool manufacturing, managing director Messrs J B Stone & Co. | WES Journal Vols 1-5, 7, 8. Information in the WES Register. |
| Sheila Leather | President WES 1950, mechanical engineer | WES Journal Vols 5-13. |
| Sheila McGuffie (Mrs L.D. Anscombe) | Jet engines | WES Journal Vols 3-5, 15. Information in the WES Register. |
| Madeleine Nobbs (D Moody) | President WES 1959. Heating and ventilating engineer | WES Journal Vols 5-10, 18. |
| Anne Gillespie Shaw | Engineer and businesswoman who worked in time and motion studies. | Has a brief page, could be slightly expanded: WES Journal Vols 4-10, 12, 13. Information in the WES Register. |
| Claudia Parsons | Engineer first woman to circumnavigate the world by car (you can read her amusing account of "What not to do when motoring abroad" here). | Has a brief page, could be slightly expanded: PDF from the WES Magnificent Women series here. |
| Verena Holmes | WES President. | Has a brief page, could be slightly expanded, see: here. |