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Edit-A-Thon held 2 July 2016 at Glasgow Women's Library, Scotland, UK, hosted by the 'Strong Women of the Clydeside' (SWaC) and 'Govan's Hidden Histories' project. The event increased representation of women involved in Glasgow's Red Clydeside actions. Image by tsBeall, Lead Artist, SWaC project.
Mary Barbour Statue - Front view
We Can Edit

Booking

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About the event

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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 2011 survey, 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?

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Where

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  • Your house

Programme

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- 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.
  • 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

Trainers

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Hit list of articles to be created or improved

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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

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Articles to be improved

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Topics to search on citation hunt

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  • Govan
  • People from Govan
  • Red Clydeside
  • Rent Strikes
  • British suffragists
  • Women's suffrage
  • Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom
  • Anti-suffragists

Sources

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General Sources

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This tag can be placed on new articles when they're published at the event.

Outputs

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Pages Created

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Pages Improved

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After the event

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You may find these useful if you want to learn further about editing:

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