🙋♀️Raise your hand if Wikipedia is one of the first places you go to find information. (Don’t worry, you’re not alone.)
Today, we hosted an edit-a-thon to increase the information about women on Wikipedia and make sure that information is accurate and sourced. #BecauseOfHerStory
Today, we hosted an edit-a-thon to increase the information about women on Wikipedia and make sure that information is accurate and sourced. #BecauseOfHerStory
We added lots of information and photos. We also created a dozen new Wikipedia articles for women in STEM, like Baerbel Lucchitta, an astrogeologist who helped make the lunar maps for the Apollo 11 mission: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baerbel_L… #Apollo50 #BecauseOfHerStory 
Until now, there wasn’t a public domain image of astronomer Phoebe Waterman Haas, so museum educator Diane Kidd, who is also an illustrator, created a portrait of her live during our event. It's now on Phoebe's Wikipedia entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebe_Wa… #BecauseOfHerStory
Vera Simons was an accomplished balloonist who co-founded Winzen Research Inc with her husband Otto C. Winzen, but she didn’t have her own Wikipedia page. With the help of one of our curators, a Wikipedia page was created for her today: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Simo… #BecauseOfHerStory
We’re always looking for more female role models, so we want to know: What woman are you inspired by that you wish more people knew about?
Yes! Jerrie Mock was the first woman to fly around the world. Learn more about her story: s.si.edu/310xfH1
Eileen Collins's response to being the first and only female shuttle commander in 1999: "Hopefully not for long!" She was looking forward to dropping the "only," hoping Pam Melroy would soon join her. In 2007, Melroy did.
Wow, thanks for sharing her story! "I am extremely proud of being the first black female U-2 pilot in history," Lt. Col. Merryl Tengesdal said in an Air Force article: s.si.edu/2Oybr2X
