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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05 Apr 2025 – Margaret T. May (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by BD2412 (t · c) was closed by Eluchil404 (t · c) on 12 Apr 2025; see discussion (9 participants)
02 Apr 2025 – Gladys Le Mare (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Ashlar (t · c) was closed as keep by Dclemens1971 (t · c) on 09 Apr 2025; see discussion (12 participants)
29 Mar 2025 – Emma Alleyne (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Klbrain (t · c) was closed as delete by Explicit (t · c) on 05 Apr 2025; see discussion (6 participants)

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10 Apr 2025 – Underground Astronauts (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Rising Star Cave by Joe Roe (t · c); see discussion
07 Jan 2025 – Jemima Parry-Jones (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Phillip Glasier#Family by Star Mississippi (t · c); see discussion

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18 Nov 2023 – Ida B. Wells (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Piotrus (t · c); see discussion

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13 April 2025

diffhist m Andrea M. Ghez 02:01 +4 Chris~enwiki talk contribs (turning Reinhard Genzel blue and applying Grammarly)
diffhist Margaret Thatcher 01:24 +261 Rochambeau1783 talk contribs (update infobox)

12 April 2025

diffhist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin 23:48 +787 83d40m talk contribs (am sure she was quite "able" — a light edit of the rest of the article - changed image to one that is more lucent)
diffhist Kathrin Bringmann 22:06 +62 Smasongarrison talk contribs (Copying from Category:University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty to Category:German expatriate academics in the United States Diffusing per WP:DIFFUSE and/or WP:ALLINCLUDED using Cat-a-lot)
diffhist Evelyn Berezin 21:21 +25 MumphingSquirrel talk contribs (→Early life and education: bit more tidying) Tag: Visual edit
diffhist Margaret Thatcher 20:18 −42 Finlayallen11 talk contribs Tags: Mobile edit Mobile app edit iOS app edit App section source
diffhist Clara Franzini-Armstrong 20:16 −1 Ira Leviton talk contribs (Fixed a reference and deleted an unneeded jargon abbreviation. Please see Category:CS1 errors: dates.)
diffhist Evelyn Berezin 19:51 −398 MumphingSquirrel talk contribs (started to make more encyclopedic, more to do) Tag: Visual edit
diffhist Audrey Tang 19:44 +37 UsernamesArePublic.Unfortunately. talk contribs
diffhist Margaret Thatcher 19:00 −1,674 Neveselbert talk contribs (Restoring revision 1285215269 by Ultra 348: not an improvement; discuss (RW 16.1)) Tags: RW Undo

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Women scientists articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	3	3	4	9			19
FL			1				1
A			1				1
GA	5	9	36	63		1	114
B	17	77	206	529		60	889
C	4	110	567	3,778		1,442	5,901
Start		78	612	8,249		5,310	14,249
Stub			33	1,841		1,137	3,011
List	4	7	30	19		5	65
Category					1,382		1,382
Disambig					2		2
File					45		45
Project					41		41
Template					9		9
NA			2	17	59		78
Other				3	82		85
Assessed	33	284	1,492	14,508	1,620	7,955	25,892
Unassessed						7	7
Total	33	284	1,492	14,508	1,620	7,962	25,899
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 115,823			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
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GREIDER Carol 2014 - Less vignetting
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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
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Mary Jackson 1979 Portrait (LRC-1979-B701 P-07085)
Mary Jackson working 2 - Restoration
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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