Wikimedia UK is running a Women in Science themed editing event on Friday 11 October 2013 in London to celebrate Ada Lovelace Day. Great news is, Royal Society has opened its online resources for 11th October midnight to midnight BST - no paywall. This will be available to everyone, from anywhere in the world, at http://royalsocietypublishing.org/. You can also search particular journals [http://royalsocietypublishing.org/journals].

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Daria Cybulska - Programme Manager, Wikimedia UK
+44 (0) 207 065 0994
+44 7803 505 170
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Daria Cybulska - Programme Manager, Wikimedia UK
+44 (0) 207 065 0994
+44 7803 505 170
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From: "Rohini Lakshané" <rohini@wikimedia.in>
Date: Oct 11, 2013 12:37 AM
Subject: Fwd: [Gendergap] Free access to the Royal Society resources - creating articles about Women in Science
To: "Rohini Lakshané" <rohini.lakshane@gmail.com>

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From: "Daria Cybulska" <daria.cybulska@wikimedia.org.uk>
Date: Oct 10, 2013 11:39 PM
Subject: [Gendergap] Free access to the Royal Society resources - creating articles about Women in Science
To: "Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects" <gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org>, "Tom Morris" <tom@tommorris.org>, "Andrew Gray" <andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk>, "Анастасия Львова" <stasielvova@gmail.com>, "Netha Hussain" <nethahussain@gmail.com>, "Kounila Keo" <kounilakeo@gmail.com>, "Lila Pagola" <lilapagola@gmail.com>, "Charlene Foster" <afrastocracy@gmail.com>

HI all,

Wikimedia UK is running a Women in Science themed editing event on Friday 11 October 2013 in London to celebrate Ada Lovelace Day. Great news is, Royal Society has opened its online resources for 11th October midnight to midnight BST - no paywall. This will be available to everyone, from anywhere in the world, at http://royalsocietypublishing.org/. You can also search particular journals [http://royalsocietypublishing.org/journals].

If you would like to join us in editing while making use of the Royal Society resource, please feel free! For an inspiration on what to edit about, you could have a look at

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_female_Fellows_of_the_Royal_Society

There are many more suggestions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women%27s_History/Ada_Lovelace_Day_2012#Royal_Society

If you do join us, you are welcome to

sign up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women%27s_History/The_Royal_Society_2013#Online_participation

and add the articles you created.

For those in London or around, you are welcome to attend the evening talk on the 11th about Women in Science -

http://rs-women-in-science.eventbrite.co.uk/

All the best,

Daria

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Daria Cybulska - Programme Manager, Wikimedia UK

+44 (0) 207 065 0994

+44 7803 505 170

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Daria Cybulska - Programme Manager, Wikimedia UK

+44 (0) 207 065 0994

+44 7803 505 170

Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.

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