Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing

Thanks for the help from CRA-W and Anita Borg Institute

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by Susan H. Rodger

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We have written these guidelines on creating Wikipedia pages on notable women in computing to help others get started on writing such pages. When we attempted to write our first Wikipedia page, we found it difficult to get started. We also found it intimidating as our first page was immediately flagged with warnings. We hope these guidelines will help encourage others to write pages, and also to increase the number of women writing Wikipedia pages. A survey done in 2010 indicated only 13% of those writing Wikipedia pages were women.

• About these pages
  We found it difficult to get started writing Wikipedia pages. The first several pages we wrote got flagged immediately with warnings. Read about that experience here.


• Getting Started as a Wikipedia Writer
  This page provides advice on how to get started as a Wikipedia writer. You will setup an account and edit other pages.


• Selecting Someone and Preparing to Write their Wikipedia Page
  This page gives advice on collecting information to prepare to write a Wikipedia page. The CRA-W and Anita Borg Institute have also prepared a list of notable women who need Wikipedia pages written or updated that you can view and also add to.


• Spreadsheet of notable women in computing (viewable only)


• Fill out this form to add a woman to the spreadsheet


• Fill out this form to give us an update about someone already in the spreadsheet


• Creating and Editing a New Wikipedia Page
  It is tricky to create a new Wikipedia page. We describe the creation of a simple page and explain how to edit the page.


• Creating a Wikipedia writer page about yourself.
  You can write a Wikipedia writer page about yourself and include a list of pages you have written.


• Playing Cards on Notable Women in Computing
  Oct 6, 2014 - We have created a deck of playing cards that features 54 women from our database and the status of their Wikipedia page.

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First edition of this guide was written August 11, 2013

© October 6, 2014, Susan H. Rodger

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