Wikipedia:GLAM/Protests and Suffragettes/Events/Celebrating Scotland's Suffragettes : A Wikipedia Editing Workshop

Booking

 * Eventbrite
 * Tell Facebook you're going

About the event
With 6,097,911 (at 13th June 2020) articles in 229 different languages, Wikipedia is now both a well-established force for the democratisation of knowledge, and a key outreach tool, with one recent study showing that the encyclopedia shapes, as well as reflects, scientific thought. However, Wikipedia has a gender problem: the encyclopedia and its content is weighted toward men. In a, the Foundation found that only around 9% of contributors identified as female, and less than 1% as trans*. This imbalance in demographic leads to a content gap - as of 2 June 2020, just 18.46% of biographies on English Wikipedia were about women. It’s a form of systemic bias that both the Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikipedia community are working to fix, with projects like Wikiproject Women in Red and the Gender Gap Task Force. But we need more people to help.

During a previous editathon hosted by the 'Strong Women of the Clydeside' project team, Wikipedia articles relating to Glasgow’s Suffragettes, Rent Strike organisers, and other Scottish women activists were edited and created. This event will focus on improving, expanding and creating articles about protests and Suffragettes linked to Glasgow or Scotland. No prior experience of editing Wikipedia is necessary, as full training will be given on the day, but participants should create a Wikipedia account in advance (see below).

How do I prepare?

 * Create a Wikipedia account
 * Learn about editing if you like: Tutorial, or Getting started on Wikipedia for more information
 * Think about what you would like to edit - if there's a person or topic on the hit list that particularly catches your eye, feel free to do some research in advance & have materials with you on the day.
 * Learn about creating women's biographies: Primer for creating women’s biographies
 * Learn more about good practice for writing about women on Wikipedia: Writing about women
 * Log in to the event's Dashboard: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/WMUK,_Protests_and_Suffragettes/Protests_and_Suffragettes_-_10th_September_2020_(10_Sept_2020)

Link to Wikiproject: Women in Red

 * This Wikiproject links to some great resources. WikiProject Women in Red

Where

 * Your house

Programme

 * T.B.C

- Don't worry if you can't arrive in time for the main training session - Sara Thomas will be on hand to give help and advice.

Trainers

 * Dr Sara Thomas, Scotland Programme Coordinator, Wikimedia UK

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 or requesting a photo on the Talk page
 * Adding an infobox: Here's a useful tool: https://tools.wmflabs.org/magnustools/prepbio.php
 * Adding data to more fields in an existing infobox
 * Creating headings
 * Adding categories; etc.

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

Articles to be improved
We have a very fabulous spreadsheet with links to sources and tasks. Please ask organisers for access...

Articles to be created (in red, geddit?)

 * Janet May Buchanan, Egyptologist
 * Jessica Baird-Smith, one of the first women elected to Glasgow Town Council
 * Nellie Hunter, "Mrs James T Hunter", founding secretary of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage
 * Scottish Vigilance Association
 * Upper Clyde Shipbuilder's Work-in
 * Pearce Institute
 * Dr Nora Wattie

Topics to search on citation hunt

 * Govan
 * People from Govan
 * Red Clydeside
 * Rent Strikes
 * British suffragists
 * Women's suffrage
 * Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom
 * Anti-suffragists

Categories to be considered for adding
Categories are intended to group together pages on similar subjects. Categories are normally found at the bottom of an article page. Clicking a category name brings up a category page listing the articles (or other pages) that have been added to that particular category. There may also be a section listing the subcategories of that category.

Here are some suggestions of categories you could add, to improve our chosen pages.


 * 19th Century Scottish Women []
 * 1877 births (ie YEAR of birth)
 * 1954 deaths (ie YEAR of death)
 * 19th-century Scottish women
 * 20th-century British women politicians
 * 20th-century Scottish women
 * 20th-century Scottish women politicians
 * 21st-century British women politicians
 * Communist Party of Great Britain councillors
 * Councillors in Glasgow
 * Councillors in Scotland
 * Democratic socialists
 * Housing associations based in Scotland
 * Hunger Strike Medal recipients
 * Pacifist feminists
 * People associated with Glasgow
 * People from Gorbals
 * People from Govan
 * Red Clydeside
 * Scottish anti-war activists
 * Scottish communists
 * Scottish feminists
 * Scottish Labour Party councillors
 * Scottish pacifists
 * Scottish suffragettes
 * Scottish suffragists
 * Scottish women activists
 * Scottish women in politics
 * Socialist feminists
 * Women's Social and Political Union
 * British suffragists
 * Women city councillors
 * Cooperative organizers
 * British Community Activist
 * Community Activist
 * Community organizing
 * Community building
 * Women's history
 * Women Councillors in Glasgow
 * Scottish Presbyterian missionaries
 * Protestant missionaries in Scotland
 * Presbyterian missionaries in Europe
 * Female Christian missionaries
 * Govan
 * Scottish writers
 * Living people
 * Feminism and history
 * History of women in the United Kingdom
 * Organizations established in YEAR
 * Peace marches
 * Scottish women
 * Feminism and social class
 * Feminism and history
 * Women's International League for Peace and Freedom people

General Sources

 * Wikipedia is a tertiary resource, which relies upon good quality secondary sources and some primary sources. Wikipedia is not a place for fringe theories, untested hypotheses, or personal interpretation.
 * For more guidance on the use of sources, see this guide here.
 * Try the Wikipedia Library's list of free resources
 * Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
 * Shareable Images can be found through a Creative Commons search(which includes Google, Flickr & Wikicommons in its search).
 * Scottish Bibliographies Online
 * Histories of Scottish Families
 * British Newspaper Archive
 * Spartacus Educational is used as a source for history teachers
 * Women's History Scotland Suffrage Learning resource
 * Ancestry - Available to Glasgow Libraries members during the closure period: This will need to be done in advance of 4th July.
 * Find My Past - Available to Glasgow Libraries members during the closure period: This will need to be done in advance of 4th July.

This tag can be placed on new articles when they're published at the event.

After the event
You may find these useful if you want to learn further about editing:
 * Video tutorials
 * Instructional videos on using Wikipedia