Mathematicians and Statisticians

February 2018: Black women Mathematicians and statisticians Geofocus Island women

Continuing: #1day1woman Global Initiative

March 2018: Women's History Month

See also: Future events

Hello and welcome to WikiProject Women in Red (WiR) whose objective is to turn redlinks into blue ones. Our project's scope is women's biographies and women's works. Did you know that according to WHGI only 17.49% of the English Wikipedia's biographies are about women? Not impressed? Content gender gap is a form of systemic bias, and this is what WiR addresses. We invite you to participate whenever you like in whatever way suits you and your schedule. Women in Red warmly welcomes you!
The Ancient Greek mathematician Hypatia
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1–28 February 2018Join the Women in Red online editathon from anywhere in the world.
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From 1 to 28 February 2018 Women in Red are hosting a virtual editathon on Mathematicians and Statisticians, providing an opportunity for you to create or improve articles on past or present mathematicians and statisticians, including coverage of their achievements, writings, organizations, and awards.

The virtual edit-a-thon allows enthusiasts from around the globe to participate in the work.

  • The lists of redlinks below should provide inspiration.
  • This essay on creating women's biographies might be helpful to newer editors. Marie Vitulli of the University of Oregon has also written an interesting introductory article on [1] outlining a number of problems encountered in a recent editathon.
  • The main goals of the event are:
  • to encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia by creating biographies of some of the world's most prominent women
  • to draw the attention of more experienced editors to the need for concerted action on a specific area
  • to support Wikipedia in combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women and women's works
  • to promote the new/improved articles and images through social media (Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter)

Redlists (lists of redlinked articles to be created)

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  1. Crowd-sourced list of women mathematicians
  2. Wikidata redlink list of women mathematicians

Add other red links here, if possible with a source:

List of missing women with Erdos number of one:[2]

Participants

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Outcomes

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Promote our work

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Key:

  • Add FB after the article if you mention it on Facebook
  • Add PIN after the article if you pin the image on Pinterest
  • Add TW after the article if you tweet it on Twitter

New or upgraded articles

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  • Add the titles of your new or upgraded articles here created in February – most recent at the top, specifying upgraded if not new
  1. Karen Yeats – G+
  2. Susanna Terracini – G+
  3. Sara Negri – G+
  4. Anne Greenbaum (upgraded)
  5. Andrée Ehresmann – PIN
  6. Jean Yang – G+
  7. Patricia Clark Kenschaft – G+
  8. Ermelinda DeLaViña – G+
  9. Margaret Cheney – G+
  10. Sherry Li – G+
  11. Helena J. Nussenzveig Lopes – G+
  12. Sonia Petrone – G+
  13. Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb – G+
  14. Maria Hasse – G+
  15. Uta Merzbach – G+
  16. Catherine Greenhill – G+
  17. Virginia Vassilevska Williams – G+
  18. Eva Viehmann – PIN, G+
  19. Emmy Murphy – G+
  20. Lucia Caporaso – PIN, G+
  21. Sheila Scott Macintyre added infobox and image
  22. Eleny Ionel – G+
  23. Paula Tretkoff – G+
  24. Suzanne Dorée – G+
  25. Lillian K. Bradley – G+
  26. Mary Flahive – G+
  27. Nancy K. Nichols – G+
  28. Marian Scott (statistician)
  29. Ling Long (mathematician) – G+
  30. Anita Layton – G+
  31. Maria Gordina – G+
  32. Laura Person – G+
  33. Julie Lutz – G+
  34. Olabisi Ugbebor (upgraded)
  35. Ewa Kubicka – G+
  36. Caren Diefenderfer – G+
  37. Charlotte Deane
  38. Aparna Higgins – G+
  39. Olympia Nicodemi – G+
  40. Evelyn Silvia – G+
  41. Anne Lester Hudson – G+
  42. Annalisa Crannell – G+
  43. Carol Jo Crannell – G+
  44. Anne Gelb – G+
  45. Ineke De Moortel – G+
  46. Helen F. Cullen – G+
  47. Genevieve M. Knight – G+
  48. Angela Y. Wu – G+
  49. Ruth Silverman – PIN, G+
  50. Ortrud Oellermann – G+
  51. Jean A. Larson (upgraded) – PIN, G+
  52. Katalin Vesztergombi – PIN, G+
  53. Hélène Massam – G+
  54. Valérie Berthé – PIN, G+
  55. Bettye Anne Case – G+
  56. Ingrid Van Keilegom – G+
  57. Katherine Heinrich – G+
  58. Sarah Zerbes – G+
  59. Camille McKayle
  60. Judith Rousseau – G+
  61. Gesine Reinert – G+
  62. Nina Gantert – G+
  63. Jennifer Quinn – G+
  64. Martha Siegel – G+
  65. Sarah L. Waters – G+
  66. Victoria Stodden
  67. Gwyneth Stallard – PIN
  68. Brigitte Servatius – G+
  69. Miriam Leiva
  70. Yvonne Dold-Samplonius TW
  71. Angela Spalsbury
  72. Ruth Kaufman
  73. Barbara MacCluer – G+
  74. Karen Saxe – G+
  75. Inge Henningsen – PIN
  76. Dorte Olesen TW

Did You Know features

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New/expanded articles featured in the Did you know... column of the Wikipedia Main page

  • Add here – most recent at the top with date of publication
  1. ... that Annalisa Crannell brings chopsticks to art galleries as a tool for finding vanishing points? (2018-03-08)
  2. ... that Australian mathematician Katherine Heinrich was the first female president of the Canadian Mathematical Society? (2018-02-17)

New or improved pictures and videos

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Press about the event

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Event templates

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References

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  1. ^ Vitulli, Marie. "Writing Women in Mathematics into Wikipedia" (PDF). arXiv. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
  2. ^ Menger-Anderson, Kirsten (10 February 2018). "Who's Important? A tale from Wikipedia". Q.E.D. medium. Retrieved 21 March 2018.