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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Nationality in the lead sentence on Talk:Joan Adler
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Place of birth in DOB place holder on Talk:Joan Adler
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Update page and add links on Talk:Jemma Wadham
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Can I create my own Wikipedia self-fan fic page too? If this page remains - we should ALL have a self-fan fic page. She is not notable and the page should not exist. It's as simple as that. on Talk:Alyssa Carson
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Ira Richling
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30 April 2024

diffhist Caroline Herschel‎ 15:19 +146‎ ‎63.151.120.235 talk‎
diffhist m Caroline Herschel‎ 15:18 −25‎ ‎Codename Noreste talk contribs‎ (Reverted edits by 63.151.120.235 (talk) to last revision by 37.144.116.94: nonconstructive edits) Tags: Rollback SWViewer [1.6]
diffhist Caroline Herschel‎ 15:18 +25‎ ‎63.151.120.235 talk‎ Tags: Reverted possible vandalism
diffhist m Ruth Kelly‎ 12:26 +2‎ ‎CoolieCoolster talk contribs‎ (En dash fix (via WP:JWB))
diffhist m Ping Fu‎ 11:38 0‎ ‎Swinub talk contribs‎ (→‎Memoir)
diffhist m Maria Gaetana Agnesi‎ 10:15 +2‎ ‎CoolieCoolster talk contribs‎ (En dash fix (via WP:JWB))
diffhist Jill Stein‎ 01:28 +9‎ ‎Bohemian Baltimore talk contribs‎ (removed Category:Secular Jews; added Category:American secular Jews using HotCat)
diffhist m Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina‎ 00:35 −36‎ ‎Smasongarrison talk contribs‎ (Removing from Category:Russian mathematicians Diffusing per WP:DIFFUSE using Cat-a-lot)

29 April 2024

diffhist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin‎ 23:55 +5‎ ‎Kgrad talk contribs‎ (→‎Early life: disambiguation)
diffhist Marietta Blau‎ 21:55 +6‎ ‎The Rambling Man talk contribs‎ (→‎Legacy: cn)

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	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Women scientists, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Women in science on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Women scientistsWikipedia:WikiProject Women scientistsTemplate:WikiProject Women scientistsWomen scientists articles
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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
GA	5	10	37	63		1	116
B	17	76	205	511		50	859
C	4	109	549	3,625		1,284	5,571
Start		76	619	7,995		4,736	13,426
Stub			36	1,875		1,036	2,947
List	4	7	30	15		3	59
Category					1,267		1,267
Disambig					2		2
File					39		39
Project					41		41
Template					4		4
NA			2	16	41		59
Other				4	111		115
Assessed	33	280	1,483	14,111	1,505	7,110	24,522
Unassessed				2		14	16
Total	33	280	1,483	14,113	1,505	7,124	24,538
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 109,917			Ω = 4.79

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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