WikiProject Women scientists

A WikiProject dedicated to ensuring quality and coverage of biographies of women scientists. Unfortunately, part of Wikipedia's systemic bias is that women in science are woefully underrepresented. Let's change that!

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Wiki Education assignment: Comparative Developmental Biology on Talk:Patricia Wright (primatologist)
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Reference to Thatcherism in lede on Talk:Margaret Thatcher
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Hisako Kamata
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Today's featured articles

08 Feb 2025 – Lise Meitner (talk · edit · hist) will be Today's Featured Article; see blurb

Did you know

20 Jan 2025 – Barbara Neumann (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Chaiten1 (t · c); see discussion
15 Jan 2025 – Jill Yager (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by SL93 (t · c); see discussion
11 Jan 2025 – Diana Vicezar (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Lajmmoore (t · c); see discussion

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19 Jan 2025 – Sherilynn Black (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by InsomniaOpossum (t · c) was closed as keep by Beeblebrox (t · c) on 26 Jan 2025; see discussion (7 participants)

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30 Jan 2025 – Maryam Sadeghi (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Jafar64 (t · c) was deproded by Nnev66 (t · c) on 31 Jan 2025

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25 Jan 2025 – Category:Women biomechanists (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Smasongarrison (t · c); see discussion

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2 February 2025

diffhist Lise Meitner 20:32 +2 John talk contribs (→Beta radiation: in uk eng we say "named after")
diffhist Lise Meitner 20:30 +9 John talk contribs (→World War I and the discovery of protactinium: unclear what "this" refers to here)
diffhist Lise Meitner 20:26 0 John talk contribs (→top: this order is more logical)
diffhist Padmasree Warrior 20:19 −82 Edwardx talk contribs (Copyedit) Tag: Visual edit
diffhist Kalpana Chawla 20:06 0 Spideog talk contribs (Undid revision 1273481859 by 2601:280:4400:62A0:5DAC:C137:847E:A1DB (talk) Reverted uncited edit by anonymous IP.) Tags: Undo Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
diffhist Dorothea Erxleben 19:56 +1 Shddgd talk contribs (S) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
diffhist Dorothea Erxleben 19:55 +51 Shddgd talk contribs (Added small content changes) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
diffhist Dorothea Erxleben 19:54 +61 Shddgd talk contribs (Added small content changes) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
diffhist Ann Nelson 19:47 +20 Jkaharper talk contribs
diffhist Hortense Powdermaker 19:34 −4 2600:4040:a2ca:600:c9dc:6543:3fc6:2d62 talk

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Women scientists articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	3	3	4	7			17
FL			1				1
A			1				1
GA	5	9	36	64		1	115
B	17	77	205	526		59	884
C	4	110	563	3,746		1,398	5,821
Start		76	614	8,197		5,121	14,008
Stub			35	1,867		1,132	3,034
List	4	7	30	18		3	62
Category					1,306		1,306
Disambig					2		2
File					44		44
Project					41		41
Template					9		9
NA			2	16	58		76
Other				2	73		75
Assessed	33	282	1,491	14,443	1,533	7,714	25,496
Unassessed						2	2
Total	33	282	1,491	14,443	1,533	7,716	25,498
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 114,412			Ω = 4.79

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Ada Lovelace portrait
Aletta Jacobs, 1895-1905
Alice C. Evans, National Photo Company portrait, circa 1915
Artemis 2 Crew Portrait
Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) shown in her laboratory in 1947
Bertha Lutz 1925
Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979) - Science Service
Chien-Shiung Wu (1912-1997) in 1963 - Restoration
Dr. Caroline Spencer 275029v
Eva Nogales in 2023 06
GREIDER Carol 2014 - Less vignetting
Geneetik Riin Tamm
Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori (1896-1957) and Carl Ferdinand Cori - restoration1
Jane Addams - Bain News Service
Jeanette Scissum at Marshall Space Flight Center
Jessica Meir portrait in a WB-57 flight suit (3)
Katherine Johnson 1983
Katherine Johnson at NASA, in 1966
Li Fu Lee at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's radio experiment station, 1925 (MIT Museum) - Restoration
Mae Carol Jemison
Margaret D. Foster, in Lab, 4 October 1919
Margaret Harwood
Marie Curie c. 1920s
Marie Stopes in her laboratory, 1904 - Restoration
Mary Garrity - Ida B. Wells-Barnett - Google Art Project - restoration crop
Mary Jackson 1979 Portrait (LRC-1979-B701 P-07085)
Mary Jackson working 2 - Restoration
Nettie Maria Stevens
Pauline Gracia Beery Mack (1891-1974) (5493947511) - Restoration
Sally Ride (1984)
Samantha Cristoforetti official portrait in an EMU spacesuit
Tracy Caldwell Dyson in Cupola ISS
Valerie L. Thomas standing with a stack of early Landsat Computer Compatible Tapes