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University of Edinburgh edit-a-thon

Booking

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About the event

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Have you ever wondered why the information in Wikipedia is extensive for some topics and scarce for others? As part of International Nurses Day 2017, on Friday 12th May, the University's Information Services team will run an edit-a-thon at Argyle House. Full Wikipedia editing training will be given to attendees. Thereafter the afternoon's editathon will focus on improving the quality of articles about nurses.

Working together with Academic Support 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 where Wikipedia's coverage needs improved; including the history of nursing, distinguished alumni and notable nurses from around the world etc.

Come along to learn about how Wikipedia works and celebrate the history of nursing!

We Can Edit

How do I prepare?

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The Manual of Style

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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:

Programme (subject to change)

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  • 1:30pm - 1:45pm: Housekeeping and Welcome
  • 12:45pm – 2:15pm: Wikipedia training
  • 2:15pm - 2:25pm: Comfort break
  • 2:25pm – 4:25pm: Research & EDIT!
  • 4:25pm - 4:55pm: Transferring drafted text to Wikipedia's live space.
  • 4:55pm - 5:00pm: Thanks and Close.

Trainers

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Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Edinburgh

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; 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

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The following WikiProject Women in Red list shows what information Wikipedia could be missing and requires adding.

The following Wikidata list demonstrates what information Wikipedia has about nurses (grouped by place of education).

  • Click here to see this list.

The following Wikidata list demonstrates what information Wikipedia has about nurses (grouped by nationality).

  • Click here to see this list.

Worklist

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Articles to Create

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Articles to Improve

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  • Ethel Moir - Nursing orderly in WW1, part of the Scottish Women's Hospital for Foreign Service. Contemporary of Lilian Mary Grant and Elsie Inglis. Images could be added to her page (and other pages) where Ethel Moir is listed as a creator from this collection of 656 images.
WikiProject Women in Red Worklist of Nurses
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This is a list under development of missing articles on women who are (or have been) notable for their contribution to nursing and midwifery in academics, business, economics, politics, research, government or the social sector. |}

See also the Wikidata list of red-linked women nurses
And International Council of Nurses#Presidents
  • RESOURCE: The British Journal of Nursing has digitized all of their historic volumes which can be found here. The articles are listed page by page, but you can navigate at the bottom of the page for the next page. After searching years, one page at a time, I was notified by We hope that she found a search engine. I have found articles in the BJoN for many international nurses and hope the reference is helpful for others.

Australia

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  • Sue Denison OAM (née Brown) – First Nurse Practitioner in Australia; Awarded an OAM for services to Nursing and the Nundle district[1][2]
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Canada

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Costa Rica

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Czechoslovakia

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Denmark

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Germany

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Ghana

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Italy

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New Zealand

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Nigeria

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  • Grace Ebun Delano (born 1935), nurse-midwife, active in women's reproductive health initiatives, winner of 1993 World Health Organization Sasakawa Prize.

Poland

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Romania

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Russia

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Sweden

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  • Christina Lindholm - internationally acclaimed professor of Clinical Nursing and world leading expert on wound healing. Currently senior professor of Sophiahemmet University in Sweden, former Director of Research at the Karolinska University Hospital. [31]
  • Dagmar Stenbeck (aka Emma Dagmar Ekelund) (1889-1985) formed the auxiliary Red Cross nurses of Sweden. Recipient of the 1961 Florence Nightingale Medal. [32], [33], [34], [35]

Switzerland

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  • Barbara Borsinger Nurse and founder of Pouponnière de l’Œuvre des Amis de l’Enfance

UK

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See also list of Presidents of the Royal College of Nursing without articles, and the lists of Fellows and Honorary Fellows in an old version of the article (since removed)

US

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  • Josephine Cox Anderson (1849-1941), called "The Angel of Pecos," Anderson nursed patients during the flu epidemic in 1918, ran a sanitarium in Carlsbad. [41]
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Other suggestions for articles to work on at the event are very welcome.

Sources

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Suggested sources:

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General
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  • DiscoverEd to find books, ebooks, journals, ejournals and more.
News sources
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Theses databases
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Outcomes - New pages created

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To be determined.

What can I do after the event?

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Join us for the event!

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

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Participants - Sign Up Here!

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Prior to the event:

  1. RSVP: ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk
  2. Do you have a Wikipedia User Name?
    No? Create a Wikipedia account
    Yes? Go to Step #2
  3. 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
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!
To sign up for this event: Log in or create an account.
  1. ^ Gregory, Elizabeth (2008). "Congratulations". PLC Sydney Ex-Students' Union Newsletter. Croydon: Presbyterian Ladies' College Ex-Students' Union: 1. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help).
  2. ^ "Sue Denison, Hanging Rock NSW". Daring to Dream: Stories from inspirational rural women. Rural Women's Network. March 2005. Retrieved 2007-08-01.
  3. ^ Australian Dictionary of Biography: Gray, Ethel (1876–1962)(accessed:07-08-2007)
  4. ^ The Age, 21/05/07: "Attended war wounded then lived full life"(accessed:14-08-2007)
  5. ^ Suzannah Pearce, ed. (2006-11-17). "STREET Alison Mary". Who's Who in Australia Live!. North Melbourne, Vic: Crown Content Pty Ltd.
  6. ^ Suzannah Pearce, ed. (2006-11-17). "WORKMAN Barbara Skeete". Who's Who in Australia Live!. North Melbourne, Vic: Crown Content Pty Ltd.