Wikipedia:Meetup/UK/KCL/Maughan Library/International Women's Day 2017

2017 International Women's Day
Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
When and Where
Date	Wednesday, March 8, 2017
Time	12:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Address	Maughan Library ; Kings College London; Chancery Lane
City, Country	London, England
Date	Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Event information edit

Date: Wednesday, March 8, 2017
Time: 12:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Location: Maughan Library
Kings College London
Chancery Lane, London, England WC2A 1LR

Women make up only 17% of the biographies on Wikipedia. Women editors make up under 15% of Wikipedia’s regular editing community.

Please bring a laptop if you have one, as only a small number of laptops will be available on the day.

Image adding exercise edit

Please go to WP:Shakyi

List of articles to edit edit

This is a list of articles that would benefit from edits and expansion during the edit-a-thon, but you are welcome to work on anything you like.
Please note: This is a crowdsourced list. You can help us by adding to it!

List of King's College London alumni has plenty of KCL alumni, but not just women.

See also: Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism/Tasks

To start:

Louise Archer (academic), professor of sociology of education, KCL
Gillian Douglas, professor, dean of school of law, KCL
Irene Higginson, professor, head of department and director of KCL's Cicely Saunders Institute
Margo Marrone, KCL pharmacy graduate, co-founder of The Organic Pharmacy
Joanna Newman, MBE, vice-principal of KCL, secretary-general of the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU)
Margaret O'Flynn (1920-2014), gynaecologist, contraception pioneer^[1]^[2]^[3]
Chibundu Onuzo, Nigerian author and KCL history graduate
Patricia Reynolds, professor of dentistry, Guy's graduate
Janice Rymer, professor of gynaecology, vice-president of RCOG
Maureen Young (1915-2013), graduate and professor (perinatal physiology) of St Thomas's Hospital Medical School
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To improve (stub pages):

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To improve (need images):

Isabel dos Santos, richest woman in Africa
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To improve (page has issues):

Deborah Bull, assistant principal at KCL, former ballet dancer, needs references
Anne McLellan, Canadian academic and politician, needs more references
Cicely Saunders, needs better references
Gilli Smyth, musician with Gong, needs more references
Dobrinka Tabakova, composer, needs more references
Errollyn Wallen, composer, needs references

Resources for editing edit

Meet the professors - biographies of all KCL's women professors (many need articles!)

Art+Feminism resources
WikiProject Women artists worklist
When considering names for inclusion, please consider Wikipedia's criteria for notability:Wikipedia:Notability_(people)#Creative_professionals
WikiProject Women artists/Assessment

Example of a Good article - Nadia Kaabi-Linke
Example of a Featured article - Hilda Rix Nicholas

Art+Feminism resources
WikiProject Women artists Worklist
When considering names for inclusion, please consider Wikipedia's criteria for notability:Wikipedia:Notability (academics)

Articles created edit

List of Wikipedia articles attendees started:

Articles improved edit

List of Wikipedia articles attendees have worked to improve:

External links edit

Trainers edit

Edwardx (talk) 18:10, 2 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Participants - Sign Up Here! edit

Prior to the event:

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Sign up! Add your Wikipedia User Name to this section by clicking the blue button below (follow instructions). Your name will be added to the bottom of this page

Don't worry! If you haven't edited Wikipedia before and don't have a Wikipedia User Name yet, we will help you on the day of the event! And remember to have fun!

To sign up for this event: Log in or create an account.

Philafrenzy (talk) 11:31, 3 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Ϣere SpielChequers 17:21, 7 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Dan Barrington (talk) 13:27, 8 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Edwardx (talk) 13:27, 8 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Rauvikel (talk) 13:27, 8 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Adem20 (talk)
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References edit

[1] ttp://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g6324

[2] ttp://www.chichester.co.uk/news/pioneer-in-her-field-passes-away-1-6335532

[3] ttps://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/02/margaret-foley

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