Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/Events and Workshops/Anthropology and Global Health editathon

Booking
To be assured of your place at the event, please contact Felix Stein at felix.stein@ed.ac.uk or Elliott Oakley (s1354039@sms.ed.ac.uk)

About the event
Wikipedia - while being very widely read - is not necessarily a great resource for the topics of Anthropology or Global Health. We would like to change this, so we have organised a Wikipedia edit-a-thon for both fields of study. In this session the University's Information Services team will teach us how Wikipedia works, how you we edit it, and how we might potentially incorporate editing it into future teaching or outreach work.

If you attend, please think about a topic that you would like to edit during the session (maybe something that offsets Wikipedia’s current gender bias?). If you are really keen, please do feel free to bring a book or an article that you would like to work into Wikipedia.



How do I prepare?

 * Sign up for the event by contacting Felix Stein (felix.stein@ed.ac.uk) or Elliott Oakley (s1354039@sms.ed.ac.uk)
 * 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 - maybe prepare some materials to bring with you on the day

The Manual of Style
Wikipedia has help pages which set out style guidelines for pages being created on certain subject areas. Please have a look at the following pages:
 * Manual of Style for Biographies including how to begin the lead paragraph.
 * Manual of Style for Biographies of Living Persons

Programme

 * 1:00pm - 1:15pm: Housekeeping and Welcome
 * 1:15pm – 2:30pm: Wikipedia editing training.
 * 2:30pm – 2:40pm: Comfort break.
 * 2:40pm - 4:00pm: Research and edit.
 * 4:00pm - 4:15pm: Transferring drafted text to Wikipedia's live space.
 * 4:15pm Close.

Trainers
Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Edinburgh

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.

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

Looking for ideas
Anthropology:
 * Expanding this List of Women Anthropologists, or any of the associated entries
 * Foregrounding the women’s contribution in this History of Anthropology
 * Expanding this entry on Social Anthropology

Global health:
 * Expanding the history section of this entry on Global Health
 * Expanding entries on the DALY
 * Creating entries on famous female global health scholars & their works

Further resources:
 * Category tree for Anthropology-related articles on Wikipedia.
 * List of anthropology-related short stub articles requiring improvement.
 * WikiProject Anthropology

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

New pages created

 * Olivia Harris - British social anthropologist whose work focused on the study of the Bolivian Highlands. Her writing includes analyses of fertility, gender, money, conceptions of work and of time, the relation between law and custom, as well as the Inca and Spanish colonisation of current-day Bolivia.
 * Mohalla Clinics - primary health centres in the state of New Delhi in India, that offer a basic package of essential health services including medicines, diagnostics, and consultation free of cost. Mohalla in Hindi means neighborhood or community. These clinics serve as the first point of contact for the population, offer timely services, and reduce the load of referrals to secondary and tertiary health facilities in the state.
 * Joanna Overing - American anthropologist based in Scotland. She has conducted research on egalitarianism, indigenous cosmology, philosophical anthropology, aesthetics, the ludic and linguistics through fieldwork in Amazonia. She has extensively studied indigenous Piaroa people in the Orinoco basin of Venezuela.

Pages improved

 * Global Health - New section added on Neglected tropical diseases.
 * Maternal death - 289,000 women died of pregnancy or childbirth related causes in 2013. These causes range from severe bleeding to obstructed labour. Citation added.
 * Memory and aging - short section added on Social Science Research on Memory and Ageing.

Work in progress

 * Translation of Georgina Born (British academic, anthropologist and musician) into Spanish using the Content Translation tool.

What can I do after the event?


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

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