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Ada Lovelace daguerreotype

About the event

Ada Lovelace Day is an international day to celebrate the contributions of self-identifying women in science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM), and related fields. Cornell Students and Ithaca Community members are invited to gather together at Mann Library to edit and create Wikipedia entries on women who have made significant contributions to the STEM fields.

While Wikipedia is the fifth most popular website in the world, notching up more than 32 million views a day, less than 18% of its English-language biographies are about women. So in honor of Ada Lovelace—and her contributions to mathematics and computing—we’ll work to add more entries to Wikipedia and give you the tools to keep making the Internet less sexist after our Wiki-thon. All you have to do is come!

 
Finding Ada Logo

Working together with liaison librarians, archivists & academic colleagues we will provide training on how to edit and participate in an open knowledge community. New editors are very welcome and participants will be supported to develop Wikipedia articles; creating new role models for young and old alike.

Come along to learn about how Wikipedia works and contribute a greater understanding of Women in STEM!

Schedule

Drop by anytime during the event. There will be editing from 12PM - 5PM and Makerspace activities.

1. Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

  • 12pm to 1pm – Wikipedia Training.
  • 1pm - 5pm Editing with Wikipedia editors to offer assistance as needed

(see suggested worklist of articles to create/improve below). Sign up Here

2. Makerspace

  • 12pm to 5pm – Makerspace is open for VR, Button making, and Games

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What to do in an edit-a-thon

Helpful updates could be as simple as: Making sure reference links are still appropriate and functional; Adding new inline citations/references; Adding a photo; Adding an infobox; Adding data to more fields in an existing infobox; Creating headings; Adding categories; etc.

All are welcome to add names to the list which is intended to serve as a basis for creating new articles in this important but somewhat neglected sector on the English Wikipedia.

The following is a small sample of topics to work on. Feel free to come up with your own ideas!

Participants

Prior to the event:
1. *Create a Wikipedia account

2. Sign up to attend.

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!

Suggested Articles to Edit

Cornell affiliated women

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    Barbara McClintock
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    Vera Rubin
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    Deborah Estrin
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    Elizabeth Spelke
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    Jo Handelsman

Addtional Ideas

Outcomes - Content created

Articles created 2019

What can I do after the event?

 
Join us for the event!

Once you've learned the basics of editing using Wikipedia’s Visual Editor, I hope that you'll stay logged in and edit or create more articles. I've added some booklets and some links below that you may find useful. As a first step you may like to check out what What Wikipedia is not along with its 5 guiding principles: The 5 pillars.

  • Please sign your messages on talk pages with four tildes (~~~~). This will automatically insert your "signature" (your username and a date stamp). The   or   button, on the tool bar above Wikipedia's text editing window, also does this.
  • If you would like to play around with your new Wiki skills without changing the mainspace, the Sandbox is for you.

You may find these useful if you want to learn further about editing:

Resources

Video guides to editing Wikipedia

Tutorials on Wikipedia editing

One page handouts

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    Using talk pages
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    Choosing an article
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    Citing your sources
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    Avoiding plagiarism
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    Classroom handout - moving out of your sandbox
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    Polishing your articles

Talkpage templates

  • If the woman was born before 1950 use: {{WikiProject Women's history}}
  • If the woman was born after 1950 use: {{WikiProject Women}}
  • Add to Biography with:{{WikiProject Biography|class=|s&a-priority=|living=|s&a-work-group=yes}}
  • Add to WikiProject Women scientists:{{WikiProject Women scientists}}==Templates==

Project

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Photos from the Day

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