Wikipedia Success for Isis Pogson!
A couple of weeks ago I participated (remotely) in the Royal Society Wiki-a-thon to improve the visibility of women scientists on wikipedia.
One of the articles I started because of this event was about Isis Pogson, a British astronomer who worked for many years as an assistant to her astronomer father at the Madras Observatory in India. Of all the articles I created this is the one which has changed the most since - I guess one sign of success on Wikipedia.
And this article was nominated as a "Did you know" entry by Gonobobo a couple of weeks ago, and ended up on the Wikipedia main page yesterday with the text:
And check out the hits as a result, of the 2277 people who've visited the article since I created it, 1765 (78%) went yesterday.
One of the articles I started because of this event was about Isis Pogson, a British astronomer who worked for many years as an assistant to her astronomer father at the Madras Observatory in India. Of all the articles I created this is the one which has changed the most since - I guess one sign of success on Wikipedia.
And this article was nominated as a "Did you know" entry by Gonobobo a couple of weeks ago, and ended up on the Wikipedia main page yesterday with the text:
Did you know:
that British astronomer Isis Pogson was probably named after a river, and an asteroid was probably named after her?
And check out the hits as a result, of the 2277 people who've visited the article since I created it, 1765 (78%) went yesterday.
I think that has to count as a success for the Royal Society Wiki-a-thon. :)
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