Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Addressing the Discoverability Gap for Women in Science Edit-a-thon

Addressing the Discoverability Gap for Women in Science Edit-a-thon

When

Wednesday, February 11, 2026 - 10 am – 1 pm EDT

Where

Virtual

Description

Celebrate World Science Day for Peace and Development by making women scientists more discoverable online! Join us for a Wikipedia edit-a-thon focusing on women featured by the Lost Women of Science. An introduction to Wikipedia editing will be led by Wikimedia DC. We will shine a light on the extraordinary contributions of women who changed history but never received the full credit they deserved.

Wikipedia is a vital link within the network of online information. Women with articles in Wikipedia are easier to find. We’ll boost the discoverability of these women by editing articles in Wikipedia. Help us share more stories of women doing science!

Event Schedule:

10 am – 10:30 am: Introduction to Discoverability Lab & Lost Women of Science

10:30 am – 11:15 am: Introduction to Wikipedia Editing with Wikimedia DC

11:15 am – 1:00 pm Focused editing

Safe Space Policy

Wikimedia DC Safe Space Policy

Register

Register here at si.edu

Dashbaord

Outcomes via the outreach dashboard

Training slides WMDC: Addressing the Discoverability Gap for Women in Science Edit-a-thon

START HERE

Step 1:

• Create a Wikipedia username if you don't already have one (top right) and log-in
• Usernames are public. You do not have to use your real name.
• Already have an account? Simply log-in (top right)

Step 2:

• Once logged in, check-in for this event using the blue button below. This helps us to track editing progress during the edit-a-thon.

1) Select 'Check in'

2) Scroll down on the page that follows and click 'Publish changes'. DO NOT ADD TEXT TO THE FIELD.

Your username will automatically be added to the list of attendees.

Key policies

• NPOV - Wikipedia:Neutral point of view - "representing fairly, proportionately, and, as far as possible, without editorial bias, all the significant views that have been published by reliable sources on a topic."
• NOR - Wikipedia:No original research - Use existing sources and scholarship for verifiable facts, not personal theories or insights.
• RS - Wikipedia:Reliable sources - Use reliable, published sources, making sure that all majority and significant minority views that have appeared in those sources are covered.
• N - Wikipedia:Notability - "A topic is presumed to be suitable for a stand-alone article or list when it has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject."
• Copyright - Don't violate the copyright of others. Write articles using your own words or paraphrase existing content, citing them appropriately. Some exceptions are US government works that are in the public domain, or old writings (generally pre 1929)

Articles to create or edit

Instructions

• Step 1: Choose an article to work on from the list below
• Step 2: Select the 'article reservations, editing suggestions and sources' link in that article's section.
• Step 3: In the Google document that opens, reserve the article you would like to edit by entering your name or username in the designated field. ALL ARTICLES MUST BE RESERVED BEFORE YOU BEGIN.
• Step 4: Review the suggested edits and sources
• Step 5: Begin editing. Be sure to publish as you go.

Biological Science - Article reservations, editing suggestions and sources

• Elizabeth Lee Hazen
• Nancy Hopkins (scientist)
• Floy Agnes Lee

Chemistry - Article reservations, editing suggestions and sources

• Rachel Fuller Brown
• Lilli Hornig
• Agnes Fay Morgan#Research_and_writing
• Mary Sherman Morgan
• Hazel E. Munsell
• Ellen Swallow Richards
• Louise Stanley (home economist)
• Maria Y. Orosa

Cognitive Science - Article reservations, editing suggestions and sources

• Elizabeth Bates
• Mary Whiton Calkins
• Lillian Moller Gilbreth
• Christine Ladd-Franklin
• Marie Nyswander

Cryptology - Article reservations, editing suggestions and sources

• Elizebeth Smith Friedman

Design - Article reservations, editing suggestions and sources

• Sara Little Turnbull

Engineering - Article reservations, editing suggestions and sources

• Yvonne Young Clark

Geology - - Article reservations, editing suggestions and sources

• Florence Bascom
• Isabel Bassett Wasson

Mathematics - Article reservations, editing suggestions and sources

• Naomi Livesay
• Sallie Pero Mead

Medicine - Article reservations, editing suggestions and sources

• Patricia Bath
• Rebecca Lee Crumpler
• Sarah Loguen Fraser
• Harriet Jane Lawrence
• Evangelina Rodríguez

Nutrition - Article reservations, editing suggestions and sources

• Hazel Stiebeling -
• Draft:Beatrice Finkelstein

Paleontology - Article reservations, editing suggestions and sources

• Annie Montague Alexander
• Tilly Edinger

Pharmacology - Article reservations, editing suggestions and sources

• Frances Oldham Kelsey

Physics - Article reservations, editing suggestions and sources

• Ruth R. Benerito
• Katharine Burr Blodgett
• Caroline Herzenberg
• Carolyn Beatrice Parker
• Katharine Way
• Leona Woods
• Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
• Mária Telkes

Articles to link to (from others) or women whose related biographies need improvements within other articles - Article reservations, editing suggestions and sources

• Leona Zacharias
• Emma Unson Rotor
• Mary Louisa Willard
• Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
• Flora Wambaugh Patterson
• Margaretta Morris
• Elizabeth Carrington Morris
• Ruth Howes
• Christine Essenberg
• Helen Edwards
• Dorothy Andersen

Attendees

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• Lib234 (talk) 15:48, 11 February 2026 (UTC)

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• Fluteandphysics (talk) 15:48, 11 February 2026 (UTC)

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• Okokok101 (talk) 15:48, 11 February 2026 (UTC)

• JMMaok (talk) 15:48, 11 February 2026 (UTC)

• Imgeller (talk) 15:48, 11 February 2026 (UTC)

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• TheProcrastinatingPhilomath (talk) 15:49, 11 February 2026 (UTC)

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• H3idiD3z1nPurpl (talk) 15:53, 11 February 2026 (UTC)

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• SummerLH (talk) 16:17, 11 February 2026 (UTC)

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• HBKBLUEPER (talk) 16:28, 11 February 2026 (UTC)

• Imgeller (talk) 16:31, 11 February 2026 (UTC)

• History2049 (talk) 16:35, 11 February 2026 (UTC)

• Asacher (talk) 16:39, 11 February 2026 (UTC)

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• Bscjean (talk) 17:04, 11 February 2026 (UTC)

• NDUNIS (talk) 17:06, 11 February 2026 (UTC)