Wikipedia:GLAM/Protests and Suffragettes/Events/How to Add Suffragettes & Women Activists to Wikipedia: A 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

Link to Wikiproject: Women in Red

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

Where

 * Your house

Programme

 * 12:00 - 12:15 - Introductions, sorting out tech issues
 * 12:15 - 13:15 - Introduction to editing Wikipedia
 * 13:15 - 13:30 - Break
 * 13:30 - 15:00 - EDIT! Sara will be on hand to help with any queries
 * 15:00 - 15:15 - Break
 * 15:15 - 16:15 - EDIT! Sara will be on hand to help with any queries
 * 16:15 - 16:45 - Feedback and reflections

- 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

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 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 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

Articles to be improved

 * Mary Barbour
 * Mary Bell (Politician)
 * Helen Crawfurd
 * De Courcy Lewthwaite Dewar
 * Charlotte Despard
 * Duke Street Prison
 * Maria Fyfe
 * Ellison Scotland Gibb
 * Margaret Skirving Gibb
 * Marion Gilchrist
 * Glasgow Society of Lady Artists
 * Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage
 * Glasgow Women's Housing Association
 * Holloway Jingles
 * Elspeth King
 * Mary Burns Laird
 * Ann Macbeth
 * Margaret Macgregor
 * Frances McPhun
 * Margaret McPhun
 * National Federation of Women Workers
 * National Society for Women's Suffrage
 * National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
 * Jessie Newbery
 * Dinah Elizabeth Pearce
 * Red Clydeside
 * Rent strike
 * Representation of the People (Equal_Franchise) Act 1928
 * Red Skirts on Clydeside
 * Violet Mary Craig Roberton
 * Jean Roberts (politician)
 * Mary Anderson Snodgrass
 * South Govan Women's Housing Association
 * Eleanor Stewart
 * The Women's Peace Crusade
 * Isabella Elder
 * Patrick Dollan

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

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