Help improve representation of mass spectrometry on Wikipedia in two simple steps:
- Create a Wikipedia account (if you don’t have one already): Use the “Create account” link in the top right corner on the Wikipedia main page. Choose your username with care—you do not have to be identifiable.
- Start editing! Find an article from the List of Female Mass Spectrometrists and begin to edit.
Please don’t edit or create an article about yourself, a close friend, colleague, collaborator, or your employer—this would be considered a conflict of interest on Wikipedia.
Until June 18, 2022, join the FeMS Edit-a-thon Dashboard: Sign in with your Wikipedia account. Click on “Join program” in the bottom right of the page. This Dashboard helps track our collective edits and measure our impact as we edit together around the world. It also has links to training videos and documents.


* data extracted on April 8, 2022 from MS People (Hannes Röst)
If you are quite new to editing Wikipedia or need a refresher, watch these videos (created in the context of the ArtAndFeminism Wikipedia:Meetup and compiled by 500 Women Scientists):
- Basic Rules of Wikipedia editing
- Your First Edits Userpages and the Sandbox
- Adding Citations
- Adding Images to Articles
- Creating New Articles
And for more in-depth topics:
- Wikipedia Notability Guidelines
- Adding Images to Wikimedia Commons
- Adding Infoboxes to Wikipedia Articles
- Wikipedia Training Modules
Small Wikipedia Helpers:
- Editing a Wikipedia Page – Beginners guide (PDF)
- What’s Where on a Wiki page (PDF)
- Wikipedia Editing Checklist (PDF)
- Wiki markup cheatsheet (PDF)
- “Pictures for beginners” – Editing Wikimedia Commons (PDF)
- uploading pictures: Upload Wizard (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard)
- Building a Biography – simplified (PDF)
- Building a Brilliant Page (PDF)
Comprehensive Wikipedia Help:
- Editing Tutorial
- Editing and Contributing to Wikipedia (Cornell)
- Writing better articles for Wikipedia
- Editing Wikipedia Brochure (PDF)
- Editing Wikipedia articles: Biographies (PDF)
- Adding Citations
- How to Use Talk Pages
- Guidelines for Talk Pages
- Evaluating Wikipedia Brochure (PDF)
Even More Wikipedia Helpers: