Wikimedia UK/Events/Wikimedia in Education/Fellows of the Royal Society

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By Duncan Hull

Many notable educators and researchers do not have biographies in Wikipedia. Some of the absentees are Fellows of the Royal Society (FRS), the UK’s national academy of Science. This talk will describe the outcomes Royal Society Wikipedian in residence scheme which tackled this problem by uploading portraits of its Fellows to Wikipedia. We will describe the success stories of this project, alongside ongoing issues with biographical entries of notable scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians.