First Steps

  1. Log in to Wikipedia if you have an account, or “Request an account” if you don’t already have one.
  2. Logging in to Wikipedia through the outreach dashboard is important, as it will be the way that your edits are recognized as part of the edit-a-thon event.
  3. You can immediately start editing an article with a new Wikipedia account.
  4. When creating new content, Wikipedia requires that your account must be active for over 96 hours and that you make at least ten edits before you can create a new Wikipedia article.

Easy Peasy

Looking for a quick & easy way to enhance content and improve articles in Wikipedia? Try some of these:

Wikipedia Codes of Conduct for Editing

One important thing to note is that you should not edit the Wikipedia page of a person that you have a relationship with (e.g., taken a class, worked with, etc.)--that's a conflict of interest!

Finding Articles to Edit

Incomplete Wikipedia pages. These lists are just lists by name, but they are listed by importance which lets you know which people are more well-known or have contributed more to their respective fields.

WikiProject: Women Scientists/Worklist of Requested Articles

WikiProject: Women Scientists/To Do

WikiProject: Women in Red/Redlist Index

Lists of Women

Lists of Women in STEM Fields

Important tip!  Make sure women are cited and linked from the broader topic articles (STEM, Physics, Mathematics, NASA, etc.)

Where to Start: Biographies

Want to focus on a person, but not sure where to start? Consider expanding a stub article by providing more detail, sources, etc. from this curated list of Stub-Class Women scientists articles. Some examples from this list include:

  • Nobuko Nakano, neuroscientist, voted "the most outstanding brain in Japan"
  • Gerda Laski (1893–1928) an Austrian/German physicist known for her research in infrared radiation
  • Junying Yu (b. 1975), a Chinese stem cell biologist recognized as a "Person of the Year" by Time magazine 

Where to Start: Organizations

Want to focus on an organization, instead of an individual? Try one of these!

  • Ada Developers Academy's Wiki needs an update! This non-profit, cost-free coding school is for women and gender expansive adult, and primarily serves and addresses the needs of those systematically and disproportionately affected by health, economic and educational inequities. Read more here: https://adadevelopersacademy.org/
     
  • National Girls Collaborative Project doesn't have a wiki yet! This network focuses on bringing together organizations that encourage girls to pursue STEM careers early. Read more here: https://www.ngcproject.org/
     
  • The Scientista Foundation doesn't have a wiki yet! This campus based organization promotes and supports women in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine. Read more here: http://www.scientistafoundation.com/
     
  • Million Women Mentors doesn't have a wiki yet! Million Women Mentors is a collaboration of partners across the nation working to support the mission of engaging one million science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) mentors to increase interest and engagement of girls and women in STEM programs and careers. Read more here: https://mwm.stemconnector.com/
     
  • Women in Engineering Proactive Network doesn't have a wiki yet! WEPAN connects people, research, and practice to increase participation, retention, and success of women and other underrepresented groups in engineering from college to executive leadership. Read more here: https://www.wepan.org/
     
  • Iota Sigma Pi (ΙΣΠ), a national honor society in the United States that promotes women in the sciences, especially chemistry.
     
  • Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM), a professional society that encourages women and girls to study and to have active careers in the mathematical sciences. It awards (among others) the Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize, which funds a semester-long stay at Cornell for visiting faculty.
     
  • Graduate Women in Science (GWIS) is an international organization for women in science. It was established as a scientific women's fraternity in 1921 at Cornell University

    For more ideas, see this list

Where to Start: Awards

If you'd like to edit descriptions of awards, here is a list of science and technology awards for women, organized by field of research. Some examples of awards that could use better descriptions: