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The summer school is part of the Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership ‘Diversity in the Cultures of Physics‘ between Freie Universität Berlin, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, Uppsala Universitet, The University of Manchester, and the University of Sheffield.[1]

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List of Wikipedias

Rang Language Articles Users Active User
1 English en 5,887,258 36,712,330 121,679
9 Spanish es 1,531,601 5,485,122 16,314
20 Catalan ca 617,011 328,070 1,238

Some stats and numbers edit

  1. Comparison of pageviews across multiple pages
  2. Top 100 most visited articles
  3. Real-time edition counter

Gender Gap and Systemic Bias in Wikipedia edit

  • In Wikimedia projects, when we talk about “Gender Gap” in participation we are refering to the infra-representation of users who identified as women, genderfuid or gender non-conforming.
  • The annual report of the WMF 2016 reports that only 13% of the total number of people who edit Wikipedia are women, a gender gap that leaves an inevitable footprint in Wikipedia's content. When biographies and concepts are edited and published by people who has little aware of the importance of the gender perspective to address the well reported gap in content and participation, those biographies and concepts keep reproducing biases that are not helping build the sum of all knowledge. In addition only 10% of wikipedia users identify as women
  • The Wikipedia project strives for a neutral point of view in its coverage of subjects, both in terms of the articles that are created and the content, perspective and sources within these articles. However, this goal is inhibited by systemic bias created by the shared social and cultural characteristics of most editors, and it results in an imbalanced coverage of subjects and perspectives on the encyclopedia (read more about Systemic Bias in Wikipedia)

Causes edit

  • The Wikimedia Foundation executive director Sue Gardner cited nine reasons why women don't edit Wikipedia, culled from comments by female Wikipedia editors:
    1. A lack of user-friendliness in the editing interface
    2. Not having enough free time
    3. A lack of self-confidence
    4. Aversion to conflict and an unwillingness to participate in lengthy edit wars
    5. Belief that their contributions are too likely to be reverted or deleted
    6. Some find its overall atmosphere misogynistic
    7. Wikipedia culture is sexual in ways they find off-putting
    8. Being addressed as male is off-putting to women whose primary language has grammatical gender
    9. Fewer opportunities than other sites for social relationships and a welcoming tone
  • In a recent research on Gender Diversity Mapping lead by the well-known American Wikipedian Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, five themes emerged:
    1. Gender is highly culturally contextualized and can only be understood through a person’s cultural context
    2. The wikimedia community is not as inclusive as it could be, although issues of inclusion and gender fluidity are complex
    3. Implicit biases “permeates everything” and create a false sense of neutrality
    4. It is important to acknowledge various degrees of participation and to not not creating a hierarchy
    5. It is important narrating own stories through women’s voices and countering bias
  • Stephenson-Goodknight presented the first research findings in the Wikipedia Diversity Conference 2017, along with different participant contributions from where the themes that she were presenting emerged. One of the participants argued that “There is no such thing as voiceless, you are just denied hearing [our voices], [their voices], amplifying them”.

Some interesting links edit

  1. Weekly monitoring of the increase in women's biographies  
  2. Gender gap in Wikimedia projects: https://www.denelezh.org/
  3. Only 17% of English Wikipedia's biographies are about women: https://annual.wikimedia.org/2016/fact-5.html
  4. Kit Art+Feminism: Quick guides, short instructional videos and slide decks to get you started contributing to Wikipedia.
  5. Gender bias on Wikipedia

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Create an account edit

Lists of women in Physics edit

Women in Physics without Wikipedia page edit

List of women[2] without Wikipedia page:

Articles that can be improved edit

Article Changes
Cristina Roccati References
Hertha Wambacher References
Elizabeth Laird References
Luz Martinez-Miranda References
Helen Swyer-Hogg References
Julianne Dalcanton References
Alice Everett References
Nicole Capitaine References
Mary K. Gaillard References
Margrete Heiberg Bose References
Ann Elizabeth Nelson References
Ramona Vogt References
Lisa Randall References
Eva Silverstein References/Writing
Marietta Blau Writing
Mariangela Lisanti Writing
Alejandra Melfo Writing
Isis Pogson Writing
Laura Mersini-Houghton Writing
Bianca Dittrich Writing
Eise Eisinga Writing
Ellen Harding Baker Writing
Louise du Pierry Writing
Christine Kirch Writing/Expand
Marguerite de la Sablière Expand
Isabelle Stone Expand
Kirstine Meyer Expand
Marcia Keith Expand
Willie Hobbs Moore Expand
Anna Coble Expand
Kathy Vivas Expand
Madge Adams Expand
Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs Expand
Zinaida Aksentyeva Expand
Leah Allen Expand
Kyongae Chang Expand
Mariam al-Asturlabi Expand
Zulema L'Astròloga Expand (take a look at the Catalan version)
Nicole-Reine Lepaute Expand (take a look at the French version)
Theano (philosopher) Add Image

Articles that can be translated into Catalan edit

WP-EN Birth Death Field Contributions
Elizabeth Alexander 1908 1958 Geology Physics Radioastronomy
Milla Baldo-Ceonlin 1924 2011 Física de partícules
Sidney C. Wolff 1941 Astrophysics
Marcela Carena 1962 Theoretcal Physics
Yvette Cauchois 1908 1999 Physics Contributions to x-ray spectroscopy and x-ray optics
Catherine Cesarsky 1943 Astronomy
Anja Cetti Andersen 1965 Astronomia & Astrofísica
Katherine Clerk Maxwell 1824 1886 Physics Observations which supported and contributed to the discoveries of her husband
Sanja Damjanović 1972 Physics
Louise Dolan 1950 Mathematical Physics
Jo Dunkley 1979 Astrophysics
Amalia Ercoli Finzi 1937 Astrophysics Worked with Philae spacecraft
Priscilla Fairfield Bok 1896 1975 Astronomy
Joan Feynman 1927 Astrophysics
Helen Freedhoff 1940 2017 Physics Interaction of light with atoms
Charlotte Froese Fischer 1929 Mathematics and comuter sciences
Mary Katherine Gaillard 1939 Theoretcal Physics
Fanny Gates 1872 1931 Physics Radioactive materials
Naomi Ginsberg 1979 Physics and Chemistry
Daphne Jacson Trust 1936 2001 Nuclear physics
Jane Hamilton Hall 1915 1981 Physics Worked on the Manhattan Project
Margrete Heiberg Bose 1865 1952 Física
Lorella Jones 1943 1995 Physics
Christine Jones Forman Physics nuclear
Vassiliki Kalogera Astrophysics
Lisa Kaltenegger 1977 Astronomy
Elizaveta Karamihailova 1897 1968 Nuclear physics Pioneer at the begining of the 20th century
Berta Karlik 1904 1990 Physics
Marcia Keith 1859 1950 Physics
Pamela L. Gay 1973 Astronomy, Education
Hilde Levi 1909 2003 Radioactivity Used radioactive isotopes in biology and medicine
Margaret Eliza Maltby 1860 1944 Physics
Ann Elizabeth Nelson 1958 Physics
Mazlan Othman 1951 Astrophysics
Hiranya Peiris Astrophysics
Charlotte Riefenstahl 1899 1993 Physics
Maria Spiropulu Experimental Physics
Bertha Swirles 1903 1999 Quantum Theory
Valery Troitskaya 1917 2010 Geophysics
Anne Barbara Underhill 1920 2003 Physics
Toshiko Yuasa 1909 1980 Nuclear physics
Fay Ajzenberg-Selove 1926 2012 Nuclear physics
Magdalena González Sánchez 1974 Astrophysics and Nuclear Physics
Noemie Benczer Koller 1933 Nuclear Physics
Daphne Jackson 1936 1991 Nuclear Physics
Nancy M. Dowdy Physics
Julie Ezold Nuclear engineering
Catherine Meusburger 1978 String Theory
Julia Yeomans 1954 Theoretical Physics
Maria Clara Eimmart 1676 1707 Astronomer
Jeanne Dumée 1660 1706 Astronomer

WikiProjects edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Diversity in the Cultures of Physics Summer School Barcelona – Uppsala, 2018". Department of Physics UAB.
  2. ^ Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey. Harvey, Joy Dorothy. (2000). The biographical dictionary of women in science : pioneering lives from ancient times to the mid-20th century. Routledge. ISBN 0415920388. OCLC 186421873.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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