Wikipedia:GLAM/BBC's 100 Women/Events and Workshops/BBC Glasgow

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Wikimedia and BBC 100 Women
Welcome to WikiProject BBC 100 Women, a partnership between the BBC and Wikimedia to raise awareness of the gender gap on Wikipedia, improve coverage of women and encourage women to edit. 100 Women is one of the BBC’s most successful news series which names 100 influential and inspirational women around the world every year, creating documentaries, features and interviews with them, as a way to look at women’s rights around the world. It is broadcast on the BBC World Service’s TV, radio and online services in 28 languages and bbc.com to reach global audiences of over 320 million a week. The series is entering its fourth year in 2016 and will be on air between 21st November to 8th December. The content gap on Wikipedia is a form of systemic bias, with fewer than 17% of biographies about women. There is also a persistent editor gap, with women significantly underrepresented in our global community of contributors. The BBC are working with Wikimedia through their 100 Women season this year to promote and encourage more women editors and to raise awareness of the issue through events, media coverage and community activism. On 8th December 2016 as part of the BBC 100 Women season, edit-a-thons will be held at BBC Glasgow, and in locations around the world where there are BBC bureaux and active Wikimedia communities. The hope is to reach a global audience of millions of people, increasing understanding of the way in which Wikipedia is created - through volunteer contributions - as well as generating more content about women on the site. Events will run across the whole day in different countries, in multiple languages simultaneously. Editors in locations from around the world will include BBC staff and audience, special guests and the Wikipedia community, with training for new editors provided by Wikimedians and organised by local chapters, user groups and communities. Editors working in all languages will be encouraged to live tweet about their involvement and their edits through #100womenwiki. The BBC will have a live page and the event will be reported on various programmes and platforms over the course of the day. If you aren’t able to make it to an event, you will be able to follow a ‘how to’ video and join in from home, make sure we know you are taking part by sharing your contribution using the hashtag and become part of the community trying to address this challenge. If you would like to be involved as an event co-ordinator, trainer or participant, please sign up below or email bbc100.women@bbc.co.uk and we will aim to pair your community up with a BBC producer and location. NB: This event page is for the event at BBC Glasgow on 8th December 2016 - 11am to 4pm.

Booking

 * How do I sign up for the BBC Glasgow event?: [mailto:ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk]

How do I prepare?

 * Sign up for the event
 * Create a Wikipedia account
 * Bring a laptop (wi-fi will be provided)
 * Learn about editing if you like: Tutorial, or Getting started on Wikipedia for more information
 * Think about what you would like to edit - please prepare some materials to bring with you on the day.

Programme - 8th December 2016

 * 11am to 4pm  - Wikipedia training and editing.

Trainers

 * Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Edinburgh
 * Sara Thomas

Hit list of articles to be created or improved
Helpful updates could be as simple as: Making sure reference links are still appropriate and functional; Adding new inline citations/references; Adding a photo; Adding an infobox; Adding data to more fields in an existing infobox; Creating headings; Adding categories; etc.

Wikipedia's Manual of Style

 * The Wikipedia Manual of Style has a lot of great information on the formatting & style of an article so please do consult it, especially if you are not sure how or where to begin & looking for help with writing the lead section.
 * There is a more specific Manual of Style for Writing Biographies which is worth consulting too.

The following is a small sample of topics to work on. Feel free to come up with your own ideas!

All are welcome to add names to the list which is intended to serve as a basis for creating new articles in this important but neglected sector on the English Wikipedia.

Articles to be created

 * Megan Beveridge (from 100 Women list) -
 * Adele Patrick - RESERVED - BEING WORKED ON
 * Jane Authur -
 * Ruth Margaret Adler -
 * Ethel Baxter -
 * Jeannie Bodie -
 * Mary Bristow - - RESERVED - BEING WORKED ON -
 * Meredith Jemima Brown - RESERVED - BEING WORKED ON -
 * Margaret Bannatyne Bryson -
 * Mary Burton -
 * Jessie Campbell - RESERVED - BEING WORKED ON-
 * Caroline Charteris-Wemyss-Douglas
 * Eleanor Charteris-Wemyss-Douglas
 * Charlotte Cheverton - RESERVED - BEING WORKED ON -
 * Lila Clunas -
 * Betty Corrigall - RESERVED - BEING WORKED ON-
 * Jackie Crookstone - RESERVED - BEING WORKED ON-
 * Marjorie Dence -
 * Jeanie Donnan -
 * Jane Durham -
 * Elizabeth Crombie Duthie -
 * Mary Esslemont - RESERVED - BEING WORKED ON -
 * Elizabeth Latto Ewen -
 * Christian Elizabeth Farquharson-Kennedy -
 * Elyza Fraser -
 * Allison Greenlees - RESERVED - BEING WORKED ON-
 * Jean Thomson Harris -
 * Catherine Hollingworth -
 * Alice Horsman -
 * Agnes Husband -
 * Lilias of Ancrum -
 * Pidge Duggan - RESERVED - BEING WORKED ON -
 * Mary Macdonald (poet) -
 * Johan MacInnes -
 * Jean Milligan -
 * Sister Helen Milne - RESERVED - BEING WORKED ON -
 * Fenella Paton -
 * Arabella Phipps -
 * Jane Rae -
 * Kitty Rankine -
 * Helena Mennie Shire -
 * Marjory Skea -
 * Lilias Gillespie Skene -
 * Susannah Alice Stephen -
 * Ysobel Stewart -
 * Jean Thomson -
 * Barbara and Mary Walker-
 * Mary McCallum Webster -
 * Louisa Augusta Wood -
 * Dr. Mary Noble (full name: Mary Jessie McDonald Noble) - RESERVED - BEING WORKED ON -
 * Professor Anne Ferguson (physician) (née Glen) - Herald obit
 * Dorothy Geddes - ArticleWorld-Changing achievement:Herald Obituary:
 * Elizabeth Wilson (doctor) - Right-to-die campaigner. Herald obituary; Scotsman obituary.
 * Margaret Read (musician) - RESERVED - BEING WORKED ON- Herald obituary; Independent obituary.
 * Hester Dickson Martineau - Musician and teacher. Scotsman obituary
 * Rosemary McDonald - Educator Herald
 * Mary AndrossObituary:
 * Kay Carmichael - Guardian Obituary:Herald Obituary:Scotsman Obituary:

Articles to be improved

 * Mary Dunn -
 * Anne Strachan Robertson Obit in the Independent
 * Margaret Skinnider -

General

 * DiscoverEd to find books, ebooks, journals, ejournals and more.

News sources

 * Factiva
 * British Newspaper Archive
 * More at: Edinburgh University Library - Newspaper database

Theses databases

 * Edinburgh Research Archive. For theses produced at the University of Edinburgh Edinburgh Research Archive
 * Proquest Dissertations
 * More at: Edinburgh University Library - Theses database

Helpful links
Once you've learned the basics of editing using Wikipedia’s Visual Editor, I hope that you'll stay logged in and edit or create more articles. I've added some booklets and some links below that you may find useful. As a first step you may like to check out what What Wikipedia is not along with its 5 guiding principles: The 5 pillars.


 * The Wikipedia Adventure Start Page - a fun tutorial introducing new editors to Wikipedia
 * Visual Editor user guide
 * Questions – a guide on where to ask questions
 * The Teahouse new editor help space
 * Wikipedia Help pages
 * Article wizard – a Wizard to help you create articles
 * The simplified ruleset – a summary of Wikipedia's most important rules
 * Guide to Wikipedia – a thorough step-by-step guide to Wikipedia
 * Is your topic notable enough for an article?
 * Be Bold!
 * Don't let grumpy users scare you off.
 * Learn from others
 * How to write a great article
 * A simplified manual of style

You may find these useful if you want to learn further about editing:
 * Please sign your messages on talk pages with four tildes ( ~ ). This will automatically insert your "signature" (your username and a date stamp). The [[File:Button sig.png]] or [[File:Insert-signature.png]] button, on the tool bar above Wikipedia's text editing window, also does this.
 * If you would like to play around with your new Wiki skills without changing the mainspace, the Sandbox is for you.
 * Video tutorials
 * Instructional videos on using Wikipedia

Video guides to editing Wikipedia

 * Wikipedia - It's main policies & guidelines
 * Navigating Wikipedia's front page
 * How to structure an article on Wikipedia: the Featured Article
 * Wikipedia editing in under 25 mins
 * How to edit using with Visual Editor Part 1: Creating an Account
 * Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 1.1 Adding Headings
 * Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 1.2 Adding bold & italics
 * Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 1.3 Adding bullet points
 * Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 1.4 Adding links
 * Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 2.1 Adding citations and references
 * Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 2.2 Further practice with citations (DOI and Pubmed IDs)
 * Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor:Part 2.3 Adding an image
 * Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 2.4 Adding categories
 * Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 3 Creating a new article in the Sandbox
 * Editing Wikipedia: Communicating with others using the Talk page and Help Desk

Tutorials on Wikipedia editing

 * Visual Editor User Guide
 * manual of style
 * Wikipedia cheat sheet (Bookshelf), another markup cheatsheet
 * Training for students, a tutorial for beginners
 * Beginners' guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
 * Five pillars of Wikipedia, philosophical guidelines and best practices for editing
 * Tutorial
 * How to edit a page
 * Wiki markup quick reference, PDF version of printed handout
 * Article development
 * Your first article (using the Article Wizard, if you wish)
 * Bookshelf, additional "getting started" resources
 * Biographies of Living Persons

Talkpage templates

 * If the woman was born before 1950 use:
 * If the woman was born after 1950 use:

Outcomes - New pages created

 * 1) Mary Hepburn
 * 2) Ethel Baxter
 * 3) Meredith Jemima Brown
 * 4) Betty Corrigall
 * 5) Dr Mary Jessie MacDonald Noble
 * 6) Danielle Joyce
 * 7) Mary Bristow
 * 8) Jessie Campbell
 * 9) Charlotte Cheverton
 * 10) Maggie Cusack
 * 11) Anne Bevan
 * 12) Hester Dickson Martineau
 * 13) Jackie Crookstone
 * 14) Adele Patrick
 * 15) Madeline Daniell
 * 16) Winifred Drinkwater

Participants - Sign Up Here!
Prior to the event: Don't worry! If you haven't edited Wikipedia before and don't have a Wikipedia User Name yet, we will help you on the day of the event! And remember to have fun!
 * 1) RSVP: [mailto:ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk] 
 * 2) Do you have a Wikipedia User Name?
 * No? Create a Wikipedia account
 * Yes? Go to Step #2
 * 1) Sign up! Add your Wikipedia User Name to this section by clicking the blue button below (follow instructions). Your name will be added to the bottom of this page


 * Lirazelf (talk) 17:55, 5 December 2016 (UTC)