Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/Events and Workshops/Halloween 2017

About the event
Have you ever wondered why the information in Wikipedia is extensive for some topics and scarce for others? For Halloween 2017, the University's Information Services team are running an edit-a-thon to celebrate the lives of those sadly passed on.

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.

Samhain is a Gaelic festival marking the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter or the "darker half" of the year. Traditionally, it is celebrated from the very beginning of one Celtic day to its end, or in the modern calendar, from sunset on 31 October to sunset on 1 November. Samhain was seen as a liminal time, when the boundary between this world and the Otherworld could more easily be crossed. This meant the Aos Sí, the 'spirits' or 'fairies', could more easily come into our world. Offerings of food and drink were left outside for them. The souls of the dead were also thought to revisit their homes seeking hospitality. Come join us as we set a place for the dead; through helping to create new biography articles and improving existing articles as part of a day of celebration. New editors very welcome. Full Wikipedia training given. Thereafter the afternoon's editathon will focus on improving the quality of Wikipedia articles relating to notable lives unearthed from newspaper obituary articles!

Booking
Booking is not yet open.

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
To be decided.



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 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.

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!

Articles to be created

 * Atsuko Betchaku - Teacher, tutor and pacifist.
 * Tessa Holyoake - world-renowned expert in Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia, clinician, mountain biker and cake lover.
 * Zander Wedderburn - psychologist..
 * Alan Eric Thompson - economist, academic, politician, author, educator, raconteur..
 * Tony Haygarth - actor.
 * Seonaidh Ailig Mac A’Phearsain - Gaelic broadcaster and civil nuclear industry executive.
 * Douglas Alan Templeton - theologian, New Testament expert, lecturer and writer.
 * Rosemary Anne Sisson - Master of TV period drama who made her name writing for Upstairs Downstairs.
 * Frances Colquhoun - singer, actor, theatre director, artist and friend of Soviet dissidents.
 * Richard Findlay - broadcasting executive and arts adviser.
 * Eric Brown - Scots test pilot hero.
 * Stephanie Wolfe Murray - co-founded, along with her husband Angus, the Edinburgh publishing house Canongate.
 * Stuart Laing - eminent and highly-motivated analytical research chemist.
 * Chris Binns - Lecturer in Russian and post-Soviet studies..
 * Diane Torr - artist who challenged notions of gender.
 * Heathcote Williams - Poet, dramatist, visionary and pamphleteer whose muse was fuelled by a witty and beautiful anger.
 * Donald Wintersgill - Journalist..
 * George Harvie - Teacher.
 * Tom Kremer - Holocaust survivor that made Rubik Cube famous.
 * Lance Leonard Joseph Vick - theoretical and mathematical physicist, computer pioneer and amateur ornithologist.
 * Marion Macleod - Academic microbiologist and medical sociologist.
 * Eberhart Bort - Academic, folk music activist and local democracy champion.
 * Ronald Jack - Professor Emeritus of Medieval and Scottish Literature.
 * Iain McIvor - Chief Inspector of Ancient Monuments.
 * Norman MacLeod Academic engineer and inventor.
 * Gordon Kirk - Educationalist.
 * Davie Douglas - Artist, teacher, musician and gardener.
 * Tom Crombie - Financier.
 * Derek Shiel - Painter, writer on the arts and producer of films and stage productions.
 * John Elgin - Edinburgh-born mathematician and Emeritus Professor at Imperial College.
 * Martin Nile Clark - Military linguist and Italian history scholar.
 * Ella Carmichael - Alumni record and Collections record and Google Books and CarmichaelWatson blogspot.
 * John Wood Oman - Theologian. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography article. and thesis.
 * Ernest Bashford - Oncologist - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography article and thesis.
 * George Robin Henderson (mathematician) - Scotsman obituary.  Eoinho (talk) 14:44, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Jack Carr (mathematician) - Scotsman obituary
 * Herbert John Gold - Scotsman obituary
 * Robert McNair Ferguson - Scotsman obituary
 * Susan Lindsay Manning - Grierson Professor of English Literature and director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at Edinburgh University. Scotsman obituaryHerald Obituary
 * Des Rubens - Scotsman obituary
 * Emilia Vosnesenskaya linguist - Scotsman obituary
 * Joan Brown (potter) - Artist, Potter, alumna of ECA.Scotsman obituary
 * Martin Meade architectural historian - Guardian obituary
 * John Chinnery - Sinologist, head of the department of Chinese at Edinburgh University and founder of the Scotland-China Association.Guardian obituary
 * Chris Lamb (biochemist) - Regius professor of plant science. Guardian obituary
 * Cathal Ã Dochartaigh - Herald obituaryThe Gaelic Story at the University of Glasgow article:
 * Dorothy Geddes - ArticleWorld-Changing achievement:Herald Obituary:
 * Andrew Morton (chaplain) - Herald obituary
 * Christian Kay - Created the world's largest thesaurus. Herald obituary[World-Changing achievement: http://www.worldchanging.gla.ac.uk/article/?id=102] University of Glasgow obituary:
 * Elizabeth Wilson (doctor) - Right-to-die campaigner. Herald obituary; Scotsman obituary.
 * Margaret Read (musician) - Herald obituary; Independent obituary.
 * Hester Dickson Martineau - Musician and teacher. Scotsman obituary
 * Magdalena Midgley - Archaeologist Scotsman obituary University obituary
 * Evelyn Gillan - Communicator & campaigner - Guardian obituary
 * Brenda Moon - first woman to be head of Scottish University library. Guardian obitHerald obitScotsman obit
 * Anne Strachan Robertson - archaeologist, numismatist Obit in the Independent
 * Dr. Mary Noble (full name: Mary Jessie McDonald Noble) - scientist, botanist and historian
 * Professor Anne Ferguson (physician) (née Glen) - Herald obit
 * Katherine Clerk Maxwell - scientist; married to James Clerk Maxwell). - NicolaOsborne (talk)looking at this
 * Rosemary McDonald - Educator Herald
 * Tom McGlew - Sociologist  death anouncement Sociaology at Edinburgh University
 * Kesaveloo Goonam - First South African female doctor and struggle icon
 * Agnes Savage possibly Africa’s first female doctor.
 * Jeffery Collins - Analogue Electrical Engineer Scotsman website down 08:00 MON 31OCT   Eoinho (talk) 11:04, 1 November 2016 (UTC)Herald  Edinburgh University.
 * William Lindsay Renwick - William joined the tenth battalion of the Cameronians (The Royal Scottish Rifles) on 27th September 1914. He experienced trench warfare with this regiment & rose quickly in the ranks to become a Captain, serving at home and in France where his battalion took part in the Battle of Loos. William returned to civilian life in 1919 and enrolled at Merton College at Oxford University where he completed a thesis on the renaissance poet, Edmund Spenser, and graduated with a B.Litt degree in 1920. William then returned to Glasgow where he lectured for a short spell at Glasgow University; residing at 32 Keir Street, Pollokshields. It was during this period of 1920-21, that he enrolled for one year in evening classes at The Glasgow School of Art in order to learn bookbinding. Following this, William moved to Newcastle-upon-Tyne to become Professor of English Literature at the University of Durham in 1921. He remained in this role for the next twenty-four years. Upon the outbreak of the Second World War, William joined the Home Guard where he was made a commander. He also spent a year in China as a visiting Professor, lecturing with the British Council. William was appointed Regis Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at Edinburgh University. Moving to a new home in Edinburgh overlooking Arthur’s Seat, he was to remain in this role until he retired in 1959. Entry on William Lindsay Renwick at the Glasgow School of Art WW1 Roll of Honour project.University Story Biography:
 * Mary AndrossObituary:
 * Graham Teasdale (neurosurgeon)
 * Ian Alexander Boyd
 * John Bryce (literary scholar) -
 * Jessie Campbell of Tullichewan -
 * Roy Campbell (economic historian) -
 * Kay Carmichael - Guardian Obituary:Herald Obituary:Scotsman Obituary:
 * Matthew Cartmell-
 * Richard Cogdell -
 * Anthony Fallick -
 * Edward Oswald Fergus -
 * Janet Anne Galloway -
 * David Graham (neuropathologist) -
 * Victor Hawthorne - University of Michigan [Obituary:https://sph.umich.edu/news/releases/011515-hawthorne-obituary.html]
 * R Gordon Hemingway	- Herald Scotland Obituary:
 * David Houston (zoologist) -    Eoinho (talk) 11:04, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
 * William McPhee Hutchison -
 * Neil Isaacs -
 * Bill Jarrett - Guardian Obituary:
 * Frank Jennings - Herald Obituary:
 * Gavin Kenny (anaesthetist) -
 * Michael Lean -

Articles to be improved

 * Stewart Russell - Guardian obituary[Ojs.tsv.fi/index.php/sts/article/download/55354/18186]
 * Keith Campbell (biologist) - Guardian obituary
 * Murdoch Mitchison - Guardian obituary
 * Caleb Saleeby - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography article and thesis.
 * Honor Fell - Thesis and Oxford Dictionary of National Biography article.
 * David Maclagan - Alumni record
 * Archibald Kennedy, 4th Marquess of Ailsa - Collections record
 * Mona Chalmers Watson - Collections record
 * E. V. Baxter -
 * Archibald Eliot Haswell Miller
 * Flora Philip

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

Finding sources

 * {{find sources|Kay Carmichael]]
 * {{find sources|Matthew Cartmell}}
 * {{find sources|Richard Cogdell}}
 * {{find sources|Anthony Fallick}}
 * {{find sources|Edward Oswald Fergus}}
 * {{find sources|Janet Anne Galloway}}
 * {{find sources|David Graham (neuropathologist)}}
 * {{find sources|Victor Hawthorne}}
 * {{find sources|R Gordon Hemingway}}
 * {{find sources|David Houston (zoologist)}}
 * {{find sources|William McPhee Hutchison}}
 * {{find sources|Neil Isaacs}}
 * {{find sources|Frank Jennings}}
 * {{find sources|Gavin Kenny (anaesthetist)}}
 * {{find sources|Michael Lean}}
 * {{find sources|Kay Carmichael]]
 * {{find sources|Matthew Cartmell}}
 * {{find sources|Richard Cogdell}}
 * {{find sources|Anthony Fallick}}
 * {{find sources|Edward Oswald Fergus}}
 * {{find sources|Janet Anne Galloway}}
 * {{find sources|David Graham (neuropathologist)}}
 * {{find sources|Victor Hawthorne}}
 * {{find sources|R Gordon Hemingway}}
 * {{find sources|David Houston (zoologist)}}
 * {{find sources|William McPhee Hutchison}}
 * {{find sources|Neil Isaacs}}
 * {{find sources|Frank Jennings}}
 * {{find sources|Gavin Kenny (anaesthetist)}}
 * {{find sources|Michael Lean}}
 * {{find sources|Kay Carmichael]]
 * {{find sources|Matthew Cartmell}}
 * {{find sources|Richard Cogdell}}
 * {{find sources|Anthony Fallick}}
 * {{find sources|Edward Oswald Fergus}}
 * {{find sources|Janet Anne Galloway}}
 * {{find sources|David Graham (neuropathologist)}}
 * {{find sources|Victor Hawthorne}}
 * {{find sources|R Gordon Hemingway}}
 * {{find sources|David Houston (zoologist)}}
 * {{find sources|William McPhee Hutchison}}
 * {{find sources|Neil Isaacs}}
 * {{find sources|Frank Jennings}}
 * {{find sources|Gavin Kenny (anaesthetist)}}
 * {{find sources|Michael Lean}}
 * {{find sources|Janet Anne Galloway}}
 * {{find sources|David Graham (neuropathologist)}}
 * {{find sources|Victor Hawthorne}}
 * {{find sources|R Gordon Hemingway}}
 * {{find sources|David Houston (zoologist)}}
 * {{find sources|William McPhee Hutchison}}
 * {{find sources|Neil Isaacs}}
 * {{find sources|Frank Jennings}}
 * {{find sources|Gavin Kenny (anaesthetist)}}
 * {{find sources|Michael Lean}}

Outcomes - Content created

 * 1) Sethu Vijayakumar page created. Sethu Vijayakumar is Professor of Robotics at the University of Edinburgh and a judge on the BBC2 show Robot Wars. He was instrumental in bringing the first Valkyrie humanoid robot out of the United States of America, and to Europe.
 * 2) Honor Fell, British scientist and zoologist, translated onto Swedish Wikipedia. Her contributions to science included the development of experimental methods in organ culture, tissue culture, and cell biology.
 * 3) Brenda Moon - Librarian to the University of Edinburgh from 1980 to 1996. She was the first female chief of a university library in Scotland, and one of the first female librarian chiefs of a major UK research university.
 * 4) Janet Anne Galloway(1841–1909) promoted higher education for women in Scotland. As a result of the limited educational opportunities open to women, Janet became an active supporter of the movement for higher education provision for women. In 1877 Janet was appointed as the honorary secretary of the new Glasgow Association for the Higher Education of Women, founded by Jessie Campbell and financed by Isabella Elder. John Caird, principal of Glasgow University at the time, was the first Chairman of its General Committee.
 * 5) Katherine Clerk Maxwell - a Scottish physical scientist best known for her observations which supported and contributed to the discoveries of her husband, James Clerk Maxwell. She born Katherine Dewar in 1824 In Glasgow and married Clerk Maxwell in 1859. Her contributions are largely recorded in writings on her husband, partly due to a fire at the Maxwell family estate which destroyed many of the family papers.
 * 6) James MacLagan - a Church of Scotland minister and collector of Scottish Gaelic poetry and song. He was the creator of the McLagan Manuscripts, a collection of some 250 manuscripts containing 630 items of primarily Gaelic song and poetry collected in the second half of the eighteenth century including many of the most well-known 17th- and 18th-century Gaelic poets such as Iain Lom, Màiri nighean Alasdair Ruaidh and Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair.
 * 7) Jeffery Collins - prolific electrical engineer who directed and researched experimental physics, robotics, microelectronics, communications technologies and parallel computing.
 * 8) David Houston (zoologist) - Demonstrated Sex Allocation in lesser black-backed gulls in a practical study with Pat Monaghan in 1999.
 * 9) Susan Manning (professor) - Scottish academic born in Glasgow, Scotland. She specialized in Scottish studies and English literature. Before her untimely death in 2013 at the age of 59 years, she was the Grierson Professor in English literature in the University of Edinburgh and the Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities (IASH) an institute under the University of Edinburgh.
 * 10) Joan Brown (potter) - British potter.
 * 11) Magdalena Midgley - former Professor of the European Neolithic at the University of Edinburgh (2013-4), dedicated her archaeological career to teaching and researching early farming cultures of Continental Europe.
 * 12) Ernest Francis Bashford - influential oncologist who pioneered the biological approach to the study of cancer.
 * 13) Christian Kay - Emeritus Professor of English Language and Honorary Professorial Research Fellow in English Language at the University of Glasgow.
 * 14) Anne Strachan Robertson - archeologist, numismatist and writer who was a professor of archeology at the University of Glasgow.
 * 15) George Robin Henderson (mathematician) - Scots mathematician with a flair for music. Noted as an inspirational character in his field, he taught at Boroughmuir High School, lectured at Napier College, played cornet and tuba, and through the 1980s and 90s as a member of the MacTaggart Scott Works Band he revived the band and pushed them to have a "positive impact on the community".
 * 16) William Lindsay Renwick - Professor of English Literature at the University of Durham from 1921 to 1945 and Regis Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at Edinburgh University from 1945-1959.
 * 17) Isabella Elder - article improved.
 * 18) Queen Margaret College (Glasgow) - article improved.
 * 19) Galoshin section added to Mummers_play
 * 20) Evelyn Gillan - Champion of women’s rights, co-founder of the Zero Tolerance campaign and the main proponent in bringing about a minimum alcohol pricing law in Scotland.

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

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