Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/Events and Workshops/Edinburgh Gothic 2018

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About the event
Have you ever wondered why the information in Wikipedia is extensive for some topics and scarce for others? On Tuesday 13th November 2018, the University's Information Services team are hosting an edit-a-thon to celebrate Robert Louis Stevenson Day 2018. Full Wikipedia editing training will be given in the morning before a break for lunch. Thereafter the afternoon's editathon will focus on improving the quality of articles about all things Gothic. The University of Sheffield's Centre for the History of the Gothic will also be supporting the event.

Working together with liaison librarians, archivists & academic colleagues we will provide training on how to edit and participate in an open knowledge community. Participants will be supported to develop articles covering areas which could stand to be improved; Gothic art, Gothic architecture, Gothic literature, Gothic film, Gothic music, Gothic history etc.

Come along to learn about how Wikipedia works and contribute a greater understanding of Gothic history!



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
 * If you have time then the Wikipedia Adventure is a fun, informative & easy to follow tutorial you can do at home in 45-60 minutes which takes you through Wikipedia's main policies & guidelines and introduces you to Wikipedia's Source Editor.
 * Visual Editor user guide

Further reading: Wikipedia's main policies

 * Five pillars
 * Notability
 * Neutral point of view
 * No original research
 * Reliability
 * Verifiability
 * Conflict of Interest
 * Identifying reliable sources

Morning - Wikipedia Training and Talks

 * 11:15-11:30am Tea and coffee
 * 11.30am to 12.30pm Talks
 * 12.30-1.30pm - Wikipedia training

Afternoon - Talk and Wikipedia edit-a-thon
Thanks and close.
 * 1.30pm-2pm - Lunch break at DHT cafe.
 * 2.pm-5pm - EDIT.
 * 5.pm-5.30pm - Publish.



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.

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 somewhat neglected sector on the English Wikipedia.

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

Why not create a data-driven timeline of Gothic works by your favourite author e.g. [http://histropedia.com/showcase/wikidata-viewer.html?q=SELECT%20?book%20?label%20?date%20?precision%20?image%20?Genre%20?Author%20?Country%20?articleEn%20(COUNT%20(distinct%20?article)%20as%20?rank)%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%0A%20%20%7B?book%20wdt:P31%20wd:Q571%20.%7D%0A%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%7B%20?book%20wdt:P31%20wd:Q7725634%20.%7D%0A%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%7B%20?book%20wdt:P31%20wd:Q49084%20.%7D%0A%20UNION%0A%20%7B%20?book%20wdt:P31%20wd:Q191067%20.%7D%0A%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%7B%20?book%20wdt:P31%20wd:Q20540385%20.%7D%0A%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%7B%20?book%20wdt:P31%20wd:Q3331189%20.%7D%0A%0A%20%20?book%20wdt:P50%20wd:Q1512%20.%0A%20%20?book%20p:P577/psv:P577%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20wikibase:timeValue%20?date%20;%0A%20%20%20%20wikibase:timePrecision%20?precision%20;%0A%20%20%5D%20.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20?book%20wdt:P136%20?genre%20.%0A%20%20?book%20wdt:P50%20?author%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B?book%20wdt:P495%20?country%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B?book%20wdt:P18%20?image%20.%7D%0A%20%20?article%20schema:about%20?book%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B?articleEn%20schema:about%20?book%20.%20?articleEn%20schema:isPartOf%20%3Chttps://en.wikipedia.org/%3E%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase:label%20%7B%20%0Abd:serviceParam%20wikibase:language%20%22en%22.%0A?genre%20rdfs:label%20?Genre%20.%0A?author%20rdfs:label%20?Author%20.%0A?country%20rdfs:label%20?Country%20.%0A?book%20rdfs:label%20?label.%0A%7D%0A%7D%20%0AGROUP%20BY%20?book%20?label%20?date%20?precision%20?image%20?Genre%20?Author%20?Country%20?articleEn%20%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%20(?rank)&md=true&g=articleEn&l=articleEn&t=label&s=date&sp=precision&i=image&c=Genre,Country,Author,rank&f=Genre,Country,Author&v=t Timeline of works by Robert Louis Stevenson]

Looking for ideas

 * 1) List of Gothic artists
 * 2) Gothic architecture
 * 3) Gothic architects
 * 4) Category: Gothic paintings
 * 5) List of gothic fiction works
 * 6) List of Gothic horror films
 * 7) Writers of Gothic fiction
 * 8) Gothic novels
 * 9) Southern Gothic films

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 Novels which includes how to begin the article and what the body of the article should broadly include.
 * Manual of Style for Writing about Fiction
 * Manual of Style for Biographies of Living Persons
 * Wikipedia:Notability (books) - Check that the article is notable enough for inclusion on Wikipedia
 * WikiProject_Novels/ArticleTemplate
 * Citing_sources

Featured articles
Some times it is a good idea to see how see how other similar articles have been structured. The following are considered to be of Featured Article quality.


 * Mary Shelley
 * Edgar Allan Poe
 * Mary Wollstonecraft
 * Robert Louis Stevenson
 * In Our Time (short story collection)
 * The Left Hand of Darkness
 * Ulysses (poem)
 * The Penelopiad
 * The Turn of the Screw (2009 film)
 * Big Two-Hearted River - short story.
 * The Murders in the Rue Morgue - short story.

Scottish Gothic

 * Thrawn Janet by Robert Louis Stevenson to be created. - Infobox to be added
 * Eugene Chantrelle - Infobox to be added
 * The Library Window by Margaret Oliphant to be expanded and a pic & infobox added.
 * Artful (novel) by Ali Smith to be created.
 * Winter (novel) by Ali Smith to be created. claimed by User:EKMason21
 * McGrotty and Ludmilla (novel) by Alasdair Gray to be created.
 * Mavis Belfrage (novel) by Alasdair Gray to be created.

Classic Gothic Literature

 * In the Mirror (novel) - by Valery Bryusov
 * The Adventure of the German Student (short story) - by Washington Irving
 * Das Majorat by E.T.A. Hoffman - Translate article from German Wikipedia.
 * The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins.
 * Robert Louis Stevenson works:
 * The Waif Woman - short story
 * The Treasure of Franchard - short story.
 * The Old and New Pacific Capitals - travel writing.
 * Ticonderoga: A Legend of the West Highlands - ballad based on a ghost story.


 * Stevenson's Illustrators
 * Edmund Sullivan
 * William Dwiggins
 * Ernest Noble (illustrator) (?)
 * Mervyn Peake
 * Paul Horrup
 * Barry Mosa
 * Cam Kennedy
 * Hulme Beaman

Contemporary Gothic Writers

 * The Ghost Writer (novel) - Link to Google Books
 * The Lake House (Kate Morton novel)
 * Darling Jim (novel) by Christian Moerk
 * White is for Witching (novel) by Helen Oyeyemi
 * Twilight (William Gay novel)
 * Yonder Stands Your Orphan by Barry Hannah.
 * The Heaven of Mercury by Brad Watson (writer)
 * Burning Bright (short story collection) by Ron Rash.
 * Winterwood by Dorothy Eden.

Scottish Gothic

 * Louise Welsh - article to be expanded & improved with infobox, picture etc.
 * John Burnside - To be expanded on, improved (esp. bibliography section).
 * Poor Things by Alasdair Gray is quite a short article - to be expanded/improved upon with new sections.
 * Lanark: A Life in Four Books by Alasdair Gray could be expanded/added to.
 * The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson to be expanded/improved upon (citations especially).
 * Morag Joss is a stub article – to be expanded. Infobox to be added.
 * Andrew Crumey to be expanded.
 * AL Kennedy to be expanded/added to.
 * Ali Smith to be expanded/added to.

Gothic Architecture

 * Holyrood Abbey
 * St Giles' Cathedral
 * Scott Monument
 * Culzean Castle
 * Mellerstain House
 * Wedderburn Castle
 * Seton Palace
 * Frederick Thomas Pilkington - Scottish architect, practising in the Victorian High Gothic revival style. Citations required.
 * Wallace Monument
 * St Marys, Dundee
 * St Andrews Blackfriars Church
 * St Mary Collegiate, Haddington
 * Elgin Cathedral
 * Aberdeen Kings College Chapel
 * Dunkeld Cathedral

List of Gothic architecture in Scotland

 * Melrose Abbey
 * Rosslyn Chapel
 * Dunblane Cathedral in Dunblane
 * Dunfermline Abbey
 * St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh
 * St Machar's Cathedral in Aberdeen
 * St. Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall
 * St. Mungo's Cathedral, Glasgow

Architecture of Scotland

 * Glasgow Cathedral
 * Abbotsford House
 * Inveraray Castle
 * Mellerstain and Wedderburn in Berwickshire and Seton Palace in East Lothian
 * Culzean Castle, Ayrshire
 * Cockburn Street in Edinburgh
 * Balmoral Castle
 * Barclay Viewforth Church, Edinburgh
 * Scottish National Portrait Gallery; the Dome of Old College, Medical Faculty and McEwan Hall, Edinburgh University; the Central Hotel at Glasgow Central station, the Catholic Apostolic Church in Edinburgh and Mount Stuart House on the Isle of Bute.

Classic Gothic literature

 * Jane Eyre - Feminism section requires citations and rest of article requires some additional citations.
 * Northanger Abbey - citations needed for the theme section.
 * The Hound of the Baskervilles - Technique section requires citations.
 * Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - requires improvement especially in the plot summary & use of citations. Could also add to the 'Inspiration for Jekyll & Hyde' section with the Dr. Eugene Chantrelle story [
 * Treasure Island - requires citations.
 * Catriona (novel) by Robert Louis Stevenson - requires citations.
 * Prince Otto by Robert Louis Stevenson is a stub - requires expansion.
 * St. Ives (novel) by Robert Louis Stevenson is a stub - requires expansion.
 * The Wrong Box (novel) by Robert Louis Stevenson is a stub - requires expansion.
 * Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson is a stub - requires expansion & citations.
 * More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter: a collection of linked short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Vandegrift is a stub - requires expansion.
 * The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables: a collection of short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson is a stub - requires expansion.
 * Island Nights' Entertainments:a collection of short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson is a stub - requires expansion.
 * Tales and Fantasies: a collection of short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson is a stub - requires expansion.
 * Ann Radcliffe - see journal articles. Create navbox template of her works.
 * The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats - needs inline citations and original research elements removed.
 * Varney the Vampire - find citations.
 * James Malcolm Rymer - author of Penny Dreadfuls. Article requires expanding.
 * Thomas Peckett Prest - author of Penny Dreadfuls. Article requires expanding.
 * The Devil's Elixirs
 * H. P. Lovecraft - add citations and create Macabre stories page on Lovecraft's 1905-1920 works.
 * The Monkey's Paw by W. W. Jacobs - needs citations.

Contemporary Gothic Writers

 * Dorothy Eden - stub article needs expanded.
 * Jane Aiken Hodge - needs additional sources.
 * Diane Setterfield
 * The Thirteenth Tale - add citations.
 * John Harwood (writer)
 * Flowers in the Attic - plot summary & citations to be improved.
 * The House at Riverton - plot summary & citations to be improved.
 * Touch Not the Cat
 * Helen Oyeyemi
 * V. C. Andrews - add citations.
 * Gregory Maguire - add image.
 * The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter - see journal articles.
 * Morag Joss
 * Half-Broken Things by Morag Joss

Southern Gothic

 * Henry Clay Lewis - needs expanded.
 * Truman Capote - a number of citations are needed in this article.
 * The Night of the Hunter (novel)
 * Wise Blood (film) - stub article, needs expanded.
 * Frailty (film) - needs citations.
 * Salvation on Sand Mountain - needs expanded.
 * Brad Watson (writer) - needs expanded.
 * Tom Franklin (author) - needs expanded.
 * Mark Richard

Gothic films

 * The Curse of Frankenstein - 1957 film requires citations throughout the article. Production and Reception sections could be expanded.
 * Dracula (1958 film) - Needs details of its original release.
 * Gothic (film) - Ken Russell film from 1986 requires citations and the Reception section to be expanded.
 * The Innocents (1961 film) - add to the section on the film's reception.
 * Fascination (1979 film) - needs improved/expanded in a few sections.
 * Ghost Story (film) - needs rewritten.
 * The House with Laughing Windows - needs expansion in a few sections.
 * Les Diaboliques (film) requires the Reception section expanding.
 * Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde - 1971 film requires additional citations and details of film's release.
 * Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell - 1974 film requires additional citations & tidy up.
 * Hour of the Wolf - 1968 Ingmar Bergman film requires additional citations & tidy up.
 * House of Usher (film) - 1960 film requires details of the film's production & reception.
 * The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1980 film) - does not cite any sources.

Suggestions from the Centre for the History of the Gothic - University of Sheffield

 * Charlotte Smith – Improvement plus possible creation
 * add citations, journal articles
 * create pages for novels – include citations etc
 * The Old English Baron – Improvement
 * Improve plot summary
 * Regina Maria Roche – Improvement
 * Improve The Children of the Abbey and Clermont page.
 * Eliza Parsons
 * The Mysterious Warning – Improvement: add citations.
 * Eleanor Sleath – Create author page. claimed by User:Zeromonk
 * The Midnight Bell – Improve
 * Improve plot summary
 * Paul Feval – Improvement
 * Plot summary for novels
 * Add citations, journal articles etc
 * Patrick McGrath – Improvement
 * Author page needs improving
 * Novel pages need improving and adding citations, including Doctor Haggard’s Disease, Martha Peakes, Part Mungo, and Constance
 * Mervyn Peake – Improvement
 * Boy in Darkness needs improved plot summary.
 * Brian DeLeeuw – Author page needs creating

Robert Louis Stevenson on Wikisource

 * Help transcribe Robert Louis Stevenson's novel, 'The Wrecker', on Wikimedia's free content library, Wikisource.
 * Wikisource style guide
 * Beginners guide to typography
 * Help:Editing

Lost Literary Women - Articles to be created
Edinburgh has a long literary history, and many famous authors have made the city their setting and subject. But it’s also a place rich in voices and stories which are now just the faintest of echoes around its streets and tenements. The LitLong app and web resource recovers some of these lives and stories, giving them back to the city and its readers. But LitLong users rely on the common store of knowledge built up elsewhere online, so in this event we’ll be adding to that store by creating and improving Wikipedia pages for neglected or overlooked authors in the LitLong database.


 * Lady Dorothea Knighton author of Memoirs of Sir William Knighton (1838)
 * Jane Alexander (novelist) author of The Last Treasure Hunt (2015)
 * Mary Emily Cameron author of House of Achendaroch: an Old Maid's Story (1878)
 * Norma Bright Carson author of From Irish Castles to French Chateaux (1910)
 * Mary Caumont author of Hanleys; or, Wheels within Wheels
 * Regi Claire author of The Waiting (2012)
 * Frances Mary Colquhoun author of A Bit of the Tartan
 * Mary Contini author of Dear Olivia (2006)
 * Lucy Yeend Culler author of Europe: Through a Woman's Eyes (1883)
 * Catherine Cornelia Joy Dyer author of Sunny Days Abroad (1873)
 * Eudora Lindsay South author of Wayside notes and fireside thoughts (1884)
 * Mrs A. E. Newman (under the pseudonym 'Evangeline') author of European leaflets for young ladies (1862)
 * Mary Wilson Gordon author of Christopher North(1862)
 * Mrs Gordon author of The Fortunes of the Falconars (1845)
 * Leslie Gore (writer) author of Annie Jennings (1870)
 * Robina F. Hardy author of Glenairlie, Kilgarvie and Tibby's Tryst
 * Annie Elizabeth Nicholson Ireland author of Life of Jane Welsh Carlyle (1891)
 * Jean Lang (writer) author of Stories of the Border Marches (1916)
 * Agnes Marchbank author of Ruth Farmer (1896)
 * Emma M. Nye author of Addresses and letters of travel
 * Mrs William Parker author of Wandering Thoughts and Wandering Steps (1880)
 * Sarah Pitt author of The White House at Inch Gow (1891)
 * Catherine Ray author of Aground in the Shallows (1879)
 * Laura L. Rees author of We four (1880)
 * Mrs William G. Rose author of Travels in Europe and Northern Africa (1901)
 * Mary D. Richardson Rosengarten author of Eight Journeys Abroad (1917)
 * Janet Schaw author of Journal of a Lady of Quality (1921)
 * Susan Frances Ludomilla Schetky author of Ninety years of work and play (1877)
 * Irene Simmonds author of Our trip to Europe (1917)
 * Marcia Penfield Snyder author of Eight lands in eight weeks (1911)
 * Clara Moyse Tadlock author of Bohemian days (1889)
 * Ella W. Thompson author of Beaten paths (1874)
 * Mrs E. H. Thompson author of From the Thames to the Trossachs (18901)
 * Mary Ella Waller author of From an island outpost (1914)
 * Mary Clementina Hibbert Ware author of His Dearest Wish (1883)
 * Sarah Robertson Whitehead author of Nelly Armstrong: a Story of the Day (1853)
 * Margaret Williamson author of John and Betty's Scotch history visit (1912)
 * Jessie Aitken Wilson author of Memoir of George Wilson (1860)
 * Julia Virginia Wilson author of Leaves from my diary (1900)
 * Lady Isabella Moncrieff - wrote several novels under pseudonym Mrs. Martha Blackford.

Lost Literary Women- articles to be improved

 * Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson author of Greyfriars Bobby (1912)
 * Elspeth Davie author of Climbers on a Stair (1978)
 * Margaret Elphinstone author of The Incomer and Sparrow's Flight
 * Eliza Fletcher author of Autobiography of Mrs. Fletcher (1874)
 * Elizabeth Grant (diarist) author of Memoirs of a Highland Lady (1898)
 * Sara Jane Lippincott, a.k.a 'Grace Greenwood', author of Bonnie Scotland (1861)
 * Lizzie Allen Harker author of Miss Esperance and Mr. Wycherly (1908)
 * Laura Hird author of Nail and Other Stories (1997) and Hope and Other Urban Tales (2006)
 * Violet Jacob author of Flemington (1911) and the Songs of Angus (1915)
 * Christian Isobel Johnstone author of The Edinburgh Tales (1846) and Elizabeth de Bruce (1827)
 * Elinor Macartney Lane author of Nancy Stair (1904)
 * Ada Ellen Bayly, a.k.a. Edna Lyall, author of Wayfaring men (1897)
 * Rosaline Masson author of Edinburgh (1910)
 * Nancy Brysson Morrison, a.k.a. Agnes Morrison, author of The Gowk Storm (1933)
 * Willa Muir author of Imagined Corners (1931)
 * Phoebe Palmer author of Four Years in the Old World (1866)
 * Eve Blantyre Simpson author of Robert Louis Stevenson (1906)
 * Catherine Sinclair author of Modern Society (1837) and Modern Flirtations (1841)
 * E. D. E. N. Southworth, a.k.a. Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth, author of Self-Raised; or, From the Depths (1876)
 * Alice Thompson author of The Existential Detective (2014)
 * Lucy Bethia Walford author of A question of penmanship (1893)
 * Clementina Stirling Graham author of Mystifications (1865)

Tools

 * 1) A tool which 'scores' a Wikipedia page. (tick the checkbox for WP10 once you've selected enwiki from the dropdown menu)
 * 2) Citation Hunt tool
 * 3) Google Books citation tool
 * 4) Plagiarism detector
 * 5) Special:BookSources - This page allows users to search for multiple sources for a book given the 10- or 13-digit ISBN number.

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

Example texts

 * 1) 2012. The Victorian gothic : an Edinburgh companion. Edited by Andrew Smith and William Hughes. Edinburgh: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press.
 * 2) Baker, Timothy C. 2014. Contemporary Scottish Gothic Mourning, Authenticity, and Tradition.
 * 3) Glenn, Virginia. 2003. Romanesque & Gothic decorative metalwork and ivory carvings in the Museum of Scotland. Edited by Scotland National Museums of, Romanesque and #Gothic decorative metalwork and ivory carvings in the Museum of Scotland. Edinburgh: Edinburgh : Museums of Scotland.
 * 4) Hall, James. 1798. Essay on the origin and principles of Gothic architecture. By Sir James Hall ... From the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Read April 6. 1797. Edinburgh]: Edinburgh.
 * 5) Order of the, Thistle. 2009. The Thistle Chapel within St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh. Edited by Robin Blair. Edinburgh: Edinburgh : Published by The Order of the Thistle.
 * 6) Robertson, Fiona. 1994. Legitimate histories : Scott, Gothic, and the authorities of fiction. Oxford: Oxford : Clarendon Press.
 * 7) Smith, Andrew. 2013. Gothic literature. Second edition.. ed: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press.

Resources for Edinburgh Gothic Wikipedia Editathon
Search results for Edinburgh AND Gothic in the following databases Major problem: if including Edinburgh in search, many search results actually containing materials published in Edinburgh. Better to use Scotland instead of Edinburgh as search term. Gale Artemis primary sources including:
 * 1) 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection
 * 2) 19th Century UK Periodicals
 * 3) Archives Unbound
 * 4) British Library Newspapers
 * 5) Eighteenth Century Collections Online
 * 6) Nineteenth Century Collections Online
 * 7) The Times Digital Archive
 * 8) Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive

Combining Edinburgh AND Gothic in advanced keyword search = 8 monographs, 450 newspaper & periodical articles

e.g. Forbes, Robert. An Account of the Chapel of Roslin; One of the Most Curious Pieces of Gothic Architecture in Scotland; Built in the Year 1446, by William St Clare, Prince of Orkney, Baron of Roslin, &C. To Which Is Added, a Particular Description of the Costly House-Keeping, and Grand Retinue of Servants, Kept up by the Said Prince, and His Princess, Lady Elizabeth Douglas. Edinburgh: printed for William Wood Bookseller. Print. [1790]. In DiscoverEd.

'''Available from ECCO. URL:''' http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&docLevel=FASCIMILE&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=ed_itw&tabID=T001&docId=CW3300617717&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0 Wikipedia entry:Rosslyn Chapel

Articles created

 * Eugene Chantrelle - French teacher who lived in Edinburgh and who was convicted for the murder of his wife, Elizabeth Dyer. He is claimed to be the inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson's character Dr Jekyll featured in "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde". Stevenson met Chantrelle at the home of Victor Richon, Stevenson's old French master. Chantrelle was hung for his crimes at Calton Prison in Edinburgh.
 * Thrawn Janet - a short story, written in Scots, by Robert Louis Stevenson. He wrote the story in the summer of 1881 while he stayed at the rented Kinnaird Cottage, Kinnaird near Pitlochry with his parents and wife. On reading the story to his wife Fanny she said of it that it "sent a cauld grue (shudder) along my bones" and "fair frightened" Stevenson himself. It was first published in the October 1881 issue of the Cornhill Magazine. It is a dark tale of satanic possession.
 * The Library Window - The Library Window is a short story by the Scottish author Margaret Oliphant. It was first published in Blackwood's Magazine in January 1896. It is a well-written ghost story where the protagonist is fascinated by a window at her aunt's house in which she sees the ghost of a young, murdered writer. It was one of Oliphant's most controversial stories. Modern interpretations consider it a statement of the oppressive conditions for women in the late Victorian period.
 * Corstorphine Collegiate Church - St. John’s Collegiate Church is at the old centre of Corstorphine, a village incorporated to the West area of Edinburgh. The church was transformed to the new format of worship of collegiate churches, which allowed a space for the parish to co-exist, and this included the absorption of earlier Gothic features from the previous building and the erection of the characteristic barrel vaults, which may have concluded by 1436.

Articles improved

 * Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson - Improved by new section on the real-life inspiration of Dr. Eugene Chantrelle.
 * Olalla (short story) - written by the Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer Robert Louis Stevenson. It was first published in the Christmas 1885 issue of The Court and Society Review, then re-published in 1887 as part of the collection The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables. It is set in Spain during the Peninsular War. The story is based on a dream that Stevenson had and in his 1888 essay "A Chapter on Dreams" he describes the difficulties he had in fitting his vision into a narrative framework. Stevenson wrote the story at the same time as he was proofing "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" (published 1886).
 * Author Margaret Oliphant - Wikipedia page improved with infobox and redrafting.
 * Author Louise Welsh Wikipedia page improved.
 * Author AL Kennedy Wikipedia page improved.
 * Author Patrick McGrath (novelist) page improved.
 * Robert Louis Stevenson article on Gaelic Wikipedia improved.
 * Touch Not the Cat by Mary Stewart - first published in 1976 and is one of her best-known works. In the United States, Touch Not the Cat was the 9th highest selling book of 1976. Like many of Stewart's novels, the story has a supernatural element. This novel is also classified as romantic suspense, mystery fiction or Gothic fiction.
 * Robert Louis Stevenson, Morag Joss, John Burnside, Catherine Cuthbertson, Alasdair Gray all improved with Category:Writers of Gothic Fiction.
 * Catherine Cuthbertson - Wikipedia article improved.
 * Sydney George Hulme Beaman - author & illustrator best known as the creator of the Toytown stories and their characters including Larry the Lamb. He also illustrated the 1930s John Lane, edition of a Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
 * Holyrood Abbey - article improved.
 * Architecture of Scotland in the Middle Ages - Rosslyn Chapel belongs to a very unique group of collegiate churches built throughout the 15th century. The majority are barrel vaults over single naves and votive or burial aisles, many built even till the 17th century. Their stonework is usually dressed but overall the structures are heavy as they are roofed by flagstones and the space of the pitch is filled with rubble. There are also a few domical vaults, like the Lady Aisle of the choir in St. Giles High Kirk, Edinburgh (before 1419).
 * Feck - In his 1881 short story Thrawn Janet, Robert Louis Stevenson invokes the sense of feck meaning Amount; quantity (or a large amount/quantity) e.g. "He had a feck o' books wi' him—mair than had ever been seen before in a' that presbytery..."
 * The Merry Men (short story) - a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson first published in 1882 in Cornhill Magazine.

Histropedia Timeline

 * Gothic Fiction timeline created by Melissa Highton

Wikidata
Prior to the editathon, there were only 6 writers of Gothic fiction listed in Wikidata.
 * This [http://www.histropedia.com/showcase/wikidata-viewer.html?query=SELECT%20?person%20?personLabel%20(SAMPLE(?birth_date)%20AS%20?birth_date)%20(SAMPLE(?death_date)%20AS%20?death_date)%20(SAMPLE(?birth_place_label)%20AS%20?birth_place_label)%20(SAMPLE(?birth_place_coords)%20AS%20?birth_place_coords)%20(SAMPLE(?image)%20AS%20?image)%20(SAMPLE(?country)%20AS%20?country)%20(COUNT(?article)%20AS%20?rank)%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20?person%20wdt:P106%20wd:Q36180.%0A%20%20?person%20wdt:P31%20wd:Q5.%0A%20%20?person%20wdt:P136%20wd:Q20669641.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20?person%20wdt:P18%20?image.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20?person%20wdt:P18%20?image.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20?person%20wdt:P569%20?birth_date.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20?person%20wdt:P27%20?countryItem.%0A%20%20%20%20?countryItem%20rdfs:label%20?country.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER((LANG(?country))%20%3D%20%22en%22)%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20?person%20wdt:P19%20?birth_place.%0A%20%20%20%20?birth_place%20wdt:P625%20?birth_place_coords.%0A%20%20%20%20?birth_place%20rdfs:label%20?birth_place_label.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER((LANG(?birth_place_label))%20%3D%20%22en%22)%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20?person%20wdt:P570%20?death_date.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20?article%20schema:about%20?person.%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase:label%20%7B%20bd:serviceParam%20wikibase:language%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20?person%20?personLabel%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC(?rank)&url=person&title=personLabel&from=birth_date&imageUrl=image&rank=rank&colourCodeBy=country&view=timeline Gothic writers timeline] shows the new timeline of 26 Gothic writers in Wikidata, according to their date of birth & colour-coded by place of birth.
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fperson%20%3FpersonLabel%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fbirth_date%29%20AS%20%3Fbirth_date%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fdeath_date%29%20AS%20%3Fdeath_date%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fbirth_place_label%29%20AS%20%3Fbirth_place_label%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fbirth_place_coords%29%20AS%20%3Fbirth_place_coords%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fimage%29%20AS%20%3Fimage%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fcountry%29%20AS%20%3Fcountry%29%20%28COUNT%28%3Farticle%29%20AS%20%3Frank%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP106%20wd%3AQ36180.%0A%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5.%0A%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP136%20wd%3AQ20669641.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fbirth_date.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP27%20%3FcountryItem.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FcountryItem%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fcountry.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%28LANG%28%3Fcountry%29%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP19%20%3Fbirth_place.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fbirth_place%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fbirth_place_coords.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fbirth_place%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fbirth_place_label.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%28LANG%28%3Fbirth_place_label%29%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdeath_date.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Farticle%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fperson.%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fperson%20%3FpersonLabel%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Frank%29 Gothic writers on Wikidata arranged by place of birth displayed on map]. Change 'Display' dropdown to 'Map' and click RUN.

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 * 27 pages were proofread of the transcription of Ann Radcliffe's 1792 novel A Sicilian Romance. Ann Radcliffe was an English author & Gothic novel pioneer.

Editors in attendance

 * Pinxuan
 * DimitrsTh
 * Humphreyin
 * Hannah McGeechan
 * Wichtscriever
 * Eoinho
 * SalsaScotWriter
 * Allison M
 * Stongx
 * Ishkhara
 * Triptropic
 * Melissa Highton
 * PrometheasOre
 * Ammienoot
 * Gadiscymraes
 * Emain Macha
 * Ms Ringtail
 * Stinglehammer

Sheffield Gothic
''Dear creature! How much I am obliged to you; and when you have finished Udolpho, we will read the Italian together; and I have made out a list of ten or twelve more of the same kind for you. Have you, indeed! How glad I am! What are they all? I will read you their names directly; here they are, in my pocketbook. Castle of Wolfenbach, Clermont, Mysterious Warnings, Necromancer of the Black Forest, Midnight Bell, Orphan of the Rhine, and Horrid Mysteries. Those will last us some time. Yes, pretty well; but are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid?'' '''—Northanger Abbey, ch. 6'''
 * Ann Radcliffe - (née Ward, 9 July 1764 – 7 February 1823) was an English author and pioneer of the Gothic novel. Her style is Romantic in its vivid descriptions of landscapes and long travel scenes, yet the Gothic element is obvious through her use of the supernatural. It was her technique, "the explained supernatural" as the final revelation of inexplicable phenomena, which helped the Gothic novel achieve respectability in the 1790s. 2500 approx characters added to the article.
 * Boy in Darkness - a novella written by Mervyn Peake. Upon publication of the work in 1956, a Glasgow Herald reviewer called it "completely hair-raising". Edwin Morgan referred to Boy In Darkness as a ‘very different’ piece, ‘a nouvelle, a sinister epic incident, a reflection in miniature of Titus Groan and Gormenghast.’The story is one of Mervyn Peake's short works. After this he wrote only Titus Alone (1959); by the time it was published, Parkinson's disease had made writing almost impossible for him, although he continued to draw, intermittently, for several more years. Improved by Littleljn
 * Marchmont (novel) - Marchmont is Charlotte Smith's ninth novel, and follows the story of her heroine, Althea Dacres, and the Marchmont family. It was published in August 1796. New article created by Maz Going.
 * Eleanor Sleath - New article created by Edwardx. Eleanor Sleath was an English novelist, best known for 1798 gothic novel, The Orphan of the Rhine, listed as one of the seven "horrid novels" by Jane Austen in her novel Northanger Abbey.
 * The Old English Baron - an early Gothic novel by the English author Clara Reeve. Copyedited.
 * Eliza Parsons - (1739 – 5 February 1811) was an English Gothic novelist. Her best-known novels in this genre are The Castle of Wolfenbach (1793) and The Mysterious Warning (1796) – two of the seven Gothic titles recommended as reading by a character in Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey. Copyedited.
 * Copyedited The Midnight Bell - a gothic novel by Francis Lathom. It was one of the seven "horrid novels" lampooned by Jane Austen in her novel Northanger Abbey.
 * Patrick McGrath (novelist) - Gothic writer. Infobox added.
 * Trauma (novel) - 2008 novel by Gothic author Patrick McGrath, centered on post-traumatic stress disorder cases as narrated by an American psychiatrist. 2458 characters added.

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 * Zeromonk (talk) 09:22, 7 November 2018 (UTC)