Wikipedia:WikiProject Ireland/HSTM Conference November 2016

HSTM Introduction to Wikipedia in a nutshell: Where?: Room D205, St Patrick’s Campus (formerly St Patrick’s College) of Dublin City University When?: Saturday 12 November 1-2:30pm Point of contact: rebeccanineil@gmail.com / Rebecca O'Neill How do I sign up?: Just sign up below.

Interested in learning more about editing and contributing to Wikipedia? Why not make your first few edits whilst tucking into a sandwich from 1-2:30pm Saturday 12 November. Rebecca O'Neill will be lead trainer, all you need is a laptop to take part.

No editing experience is necessary!

1. CREATE A WIKIPEDIA ACCOUNT (if you don't already have one)

Please set up an account before the event if at all possible. Very few details are needed: a Username, password, and we recommend giving your email, if only to be reminded of your password when you forget it. The short Wikipedia:Tutorial/Registration explains why this is a good idea.

If you like, you can also learn a little about editing ahead of time here: w:en:Wikipedia:Tutorial, or see Getting started on Wikipedia for more information

To participate you will need to bring along a laptop or tablet, WIFI will be provided.

Please Sign your name below using the signature tool or using ~~~~

1. Smirkybec (talk) 01:48, 19 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Online participants from anywhere are very welcome, whether experienced or not. For a basic editing tutorial see Wikipedia:Tutorial, and Wikipedia:Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia is short, and full of good advice. Or try this one - four modules, taking one hour it says. Online participants who can't join us in person are welcome to list themselves below with # ~~~~

• Thomas Allin (Anglican) botanist.
• William Allman botanist.
• Mary Andrews Northern Irish geologist.
• Edward Alexander Newell Arber botanist and paleontologist.
• William Archer (naturalist).
• Robert Ball (naturalist).
• Richard Barrington naturalist.
• Sophie Bryant mathematician, educator, feminist and activist.
• Phyllis Clinch an Irish botanist most recognised for her work in the field of plant viruses.
• Grenville Cole geologist.
• Arthur Disbrowe Cotton plant pathologist, mycologist, phycologist, and botanist.
• William Francis de Vismes Kane entomologist.
• George Philip Farran zoologist.
• Arthur C. Forbes forestry expert.
• Percy H. Grimshaw entomologist and zoogeographer.
• James Nathaniel Halbert entomologist.
• Gerald Edwin Hamilton Barrett-Hamilton naturalist.
• Margaret Lindsay Huggins scientific investigator and astronomer.
• Ellen Hutchins botanist.
• Henry Lyster Jameson zoologist.
• William Frederick Johnson naturalist.
• Helena Lefroy botanist.
• Henry William Lett botanist.
• Claude Morley entomologist.
• Albert Russell Nichols zoologist.
• Charles J. Patten anatomist and ornithologist.
• Eva Philbin chemist.
• Florence Stoney radiologist.
• Richard J. Ussher ornithologist.
• William West (botanist).

• step free access yes
• wheelchair access yes

• Please feel free to bring along some of books so that there will be a variety of reference books.

Lists on Wikipedia

• List of female mathematicians
• List of women scientists
• Women in computing
• Women in engineering
• List of women astronomers and List of astronomers
• Women in medicine
• Women in geology
• List of female Nobel laureates
• History of women in engineering
• Timeline of women in dentistry
• Women and the environment through history

External resources

• Some Irish Naturalists by Robert Lloyd Praeger
• Biographies of Women Mathematicians
• Encyclopedia of Women in Medicine
• Indian Academy of Sciences - List of Women Scientists
• Lilavati's daugters
• Biographical Memoirs of the National Academies of Science
• Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
• Women in Aviation and Space History
• Changing the face of Medicine (women in medicine)
• Archives of Women in Science and Engineering at Iowa State University
• Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing (applies to other subjects as well)
• Dictionary of Irish Biography