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Women in STEM edit‑a‑thon
Women in STEM edit‑a‑thon
Online event; October 2024
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Women in STEM
October 2024

Recently completed:	Alphabet run: Countries starting with G and H Works by women: Scientific works Religion: and Spirituality
New this month:	LGBTQ+ women Alphabet run: Countries starting with I–L Orphaned women
Ongoing initiatives:	#1day1woman: 2026 Sports
Upcoming events:	Crime and law Alphabet run: Countries starting with M Ideas

Welcome!

Inspired by Ada Lovelace Day on 8 October, once again this October we will be focusing on women in STEM, not forgetting environmentalists, sci-fi writers, and all others whose work touches these fields.

We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies and other articles about women in all fields of science around the world, as well as their achievements, writings, organizations, and awards. This virtual editathon allows enthusiasts wherever they may be to participate in our initiative. Contributors are of course also welcome to add articles on any other notable women who deserve to be covered, for example under our #1day1woman priority.

The main goals of the event are:

to encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia by creating biographies of prominent women
to draw the attention of more experienced editors to the need for combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women and women's works
to promote the new/improved articles and images through social media

What else?

Below, you'll see a section where you can list the articles you create this month, and another section where you can add the images you have uploaded to Commons.
This essay on creating women's biographies and our Ten Simple Rules might be helpful to newer editors. WiR also maintains a list of biographical resources to aid in searching for sources.
If you share any of the articles on social media, please indicate this next to the article name.

Thank you!

Redlists (lists of redlinked articles to be created)

We have a wide variety of red-link lists. Some of the most relevant to this priority are listed below.

Crowd-sourced (CS) and Wikidata (WD) red-link lists: women's biographies in other language versions of Wikipedia:

Astronomers (WD)
Biologists (CS)(WD)
Botanists (CS) (WD)
Chemists (CS) (WD)
Civil engineers (WD)
Climatologists (WD)
Computer scientists (CS) (WD)
Ecologists (CS) (WD)
Engineers (CS) (WD)
Environmentalists (WD)
Epidemiologists (CS) (WD)
Geologists (WD)
Mathematicians (CS) (WD)
Medical professionals (CS)
Neuroscientists (WD)
Physicists (CS) (WD)
Science fiction & fantasy (CS)
Scientists (CS) (WD)
Scientists from Africa (WD)
Scientists from Latin America (WD)
Technologists (CS) (WD)
Women in STEM in the Dictionary of Women Worldwide (WD)

Note: for those listed in the Dictionary of Women Worldwide, some corresponding entries may be found at Encyclopedia.com or, for access to all, by signing up for the Wikipedia Library's free bundle and then using this search option.

Outcomes (articles)

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Did You Know features

This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot (talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged or categorized (e.g. Category:WikiProject Women in Red meetup 318 articles) correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options.

... that Rada Dyson-Hudson was denied academic tenure at Johns Hopkins University and Cornell University despite her academic record and capabilities? (2024-12-11)
... that after fleeing to Argentina as a Spanish Civil War refugee, Maria Muntañola Cvetković became one of Yugoslavia's first experts on microfungi? (2024-11-19)

Outcomes (media)

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Media supported by WikiProject Women in Red - 2024

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Event templates

Invitation: October 2024

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