Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/Events and Workshops/Women in Red/Chemistry

Booking
Everyone is welcome! Book your place at each meetup below.

About the event
Have you ever wondered why the information in Wikipedia is extensive for some topics and scarce for others? As part of the Wikimedia residency at the University of Edinburgh, the University's Information Services team will run an informal Wiki meetup focused on improving Wikipedia's representation of notable women; turning red-linked articles that don't yet exist into blue clickable ones that do.

These are drop-in sessions so knowledge of Wikipedia editing is beneficial. However, Wikipedia editing can be easy to pick up as this 5 minute walkthrough of the new Visual Editor interface demonstrates. The editing will focus on creating and improving the quality of articles about notable women on Wikipedia using source texts such as The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women.

In November 2014, just over 15% of the English Wikipedia's biographies were about women. Founded in July 2015, WikiProject Women in Red has brought the figure up to 16.97%, as of 21 May 2017. But that means, according to WHGI, only 249,079 of our 1,468,135 biographies are about women. Not impressed? "Content gender gap" is a form of systemic bias, and this series of meetups seeks to address it in a positive way.

Come along to learn about how Wikipedia works and create new role models for young and old alike!



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

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

Meetup 1 - 9th June 2017
The first meetup will be in Room EW.07 in Argyle House, 3 Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh from 2pm to 5pm. Open to all. Book your place here.

Meetup 2 - 16 June 2017
The second meetup will be an informal meetup for Information Services staff in the communal area of Floor H West, Argyle House from 11am to 1pm. Register your interest here.

Meetup 3 - 28 July 2017
The third meetup will be in the 5th floor boardroom of Edinburgh College of Art, Evolution House, 78 West Port, Edinburgh EH1 2LE. 12pm to 2pm. Open to all. Book your place here.

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
The following Wikidata list demonstrates what information Wikipedia has about women writers & artists educated at the University of Edinburgh. The following Wikidata list demonstrates what information Wikipedia has about women writers with Scotland as their country of citizenship or nationality.
 * Click here to see the list.
 * Click here to see this list.

Articles to Create

 * Dorothea Gérard - author.
 * Samantha Young - author.
 * Frances Elizabeth King - philanthropist and author.
 * Mary Leman Grimstone - writer and social reformer.
 * Jerusha Davidson Richardson - philanthropist and author.
 * Amelia Louisa Freund - campaigner for women's rights and food reformer.
 * Gerardine Macpherson - biographer and book illustrator.
 * Dorothy Leigh - writer.
 * Arline Usden - journalist and editor.
 * Corinna Adam - journalist.
 * Mary Tuck - social scientist and civil servant.
 * Bridget Irene Hill - historian and feminist.
 * Margaret Stacey - sociologist.
 * Dorothy Middleton - geographer and writer.
 * Ethel Froud - feminist and trade unionist.
 * Marian Reeves - feminist activist.
 * Zoë Fairfield - secretary of the Student Christian Movement.
 * Emily Bulwer-Lytton - theosophist, diplomatist and poet.
 * Equality Challenge Unit -
 * Annie Barnes (suffragist) - socialist and suffragist.
 * Mary Blathwayt - suffragette.
 * Ella Carmichael - Alumni record and Collections record and Google Books and CarmichaelWatson blogspot.
 * Dorothy Geddes - ArticleWorld-Changing achievement:Herald Obituary:
 * Rosemary McDonald - Educator Herald
 * Mary AndrossObituary:
 * Mabel Barltrop - prophet and founder of the Panacea Society.
 * Lilias Mary Grant - a nursing orderly who served with the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service on the Eastern Front during World War 1. Friend of Ethel Moir.

Articles to Improve

 * Athena SWAN
 * Mira Hamermesh - painter and documentary film-maker.
 * Mary Elizabeth Phillips (suffragette) - suffragette and feminist.
 * Agnes Syme Macdonald - suffragette and campaigner for women's citizenship.
 * Ethel Moir - a nursing orderly who served with the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service on the Eastern Front during World War 1.
 * Kay Carmichael - Guardian Obituary:Herald Obituary:Scotsman Obituary:
 * Emilia Vosnesenskaya linguist - Scotsman obituary
 * Kathleen Molyneux Mander - documentary film-maker.
 * Sarah Jane Baines - suffragette and social reformer.
 * Mona Wilson (author) - civil servant and author.
 * Helen Alexander Archdale - feminist and journalist.
 * Maggie Keswick Jencks - writer, gardener and designer.https://www.theguardian.com/society/2011/feb/20/maggie-keswick-jencks-centres-cancer-design]
 * Mary Susan McIntosh - sociologist, feminist, and campaigner for gay rights.
 * Catherine Isabella Barmby - utopian socialist and writer on women's emancipation.
 * Ketaki Kushari Dyson - Indian-born bilingual writer of the Diaspora and scholar of Calcutta University and Oxford University.

Women Writers

 * Angela Carter - English novelist, short story writer and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picaresque works.
 * Kate Austin - American journalist and advocate of feminist and anarchist causes.
 * Morag Joss - Scottish writer.
 * Jean Rhys - best known for her novel Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), written as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.
 * Emily Arnold McCully - American writer and illustrator who is best known for children's books.
 * A. L. Barker - English novelist and short story writer.
 * Maitreyi Devi - Bengali-born Indian poet and novelist.
 * Ada Patterson - American print journalist.
 * Agneta Pleijel - Swedish novelist.
 * Jessie Kesson - Scottish novelist.
 * Laura Hird - Scottish novelist and short story writer.
 * Margaret Elphinstone - Scottish novelist.
 * Agnes Owens - Scottish author.
 * Margaret Ryan - Scottish children's writer.
 * Nicola Morgan - Scottish author.
 * Meg Bateman - Scottish academic, poet and short story writer.
 * Alex Gray (author) - Scottish crime writer.
 * Anne Donovan (author) - Scottish author from Glasgow.
 * Josephine Tey - Scottish author best known for her mystery novels.
 * Willa Muir - Scottish novelist, essayist and translator.
 * Caro Ramsay - - Scottish writer of crime fiction.
 * Marion Kirkland Reid - Scottish feminist writer.
 * Rhoda Bulter - Shetland author.
 * Theresa Breslin - Scottish author.
 * Zoë Strachan - Scottish novelist, journalist and university tutor.
 * Eleanor Thom - British writer.
 * Kerry Hudson - British writer.
 * Jenni Fagan - Scottish novelist.
 * Alice Thompson - Edinburgh novelist.
 * Ester Sowernam - author.
 * Catherine Talbot - English author.
 * Elizabeth Fallaize - British academic who was Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of Oxford and a French studies scholar.
 * Sheila McKechnie - Scottish trade unionist, housing campaigner and consumer activist.
 * Rozsika Parker - British psychotherapist, art historian and writer and a feminist.
 * Frances Morrell - British Labour politician who led the Inner London Education Authority 1983–87.
 * Marion Boyars - publisher.
 * Rosalind Mitchison - historian of Scotland who specialised in social history.
 * Menna Gallie - Welsh novelist and translator.
 * Moelona - Welsh novelist and translator.
 * Minna Cowan - Scottish political activist.
 * Helen Crawfurd - Scottish suffragette, Rent Strike organiser, Communist activist, and politician.

The Informatics Forum is a large space and we have a lot of work to do to redress systemic bias so other suggestions for 'role models' to work on at the event are very welcome as part of March's focus during Women's History Month.

Role models

 * Eleanor Anne Ormerod - English entomologist.

Heroines of the Wallace Monument

 * Mary Somerville - Scottish science writer and polymath.
 * Christian Maclagan - Scottish antiquary and probably the first female archaeologist in Great Britain.
 * Mary MacPherson - British poet and singer-song writer from the Isle of Skye.
 * Sophia Jex-Blake - English physician, teacher and feminist.
 * Mary Slessor - Scottish missionary to Nigeria.
 * Elsie Inglis - Scottish doctor, suffragist, and founder of the Scottish Women's Hospitals.
 * Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh - Scottish artist.
 * Chrystal Macmillan - Scottish Liberal politician, barrister, feminist and pacifist.
 * Victoria Drummond - first woman marine engineer in Britain.
 * Jane Haining - Church of Scotland missionary.
 * Nancy Riach - Scottish swimmer.
 * Dorothee Pullinger - pioneering automobile engineer and businesswoman.
 * Jean Redpath - Scottish folk singer, educator and musician.
 * Maggie Keswick Jencks - writer, gardener and designer.

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

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