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University of Edinburgh edit-a-thon

Booking

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

Women in Red

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 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!

We Can Edit
Interview Emily Temple-Wood discussing gender diversity on Wikipedia

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:

Meetup 1 - 9th June 2017

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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

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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

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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.

Meetup 4 - TBA

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Emily Temple-Wood - Writing Diversity back into History (2minutes27seconds)

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 Wikidata list demonstrates what information Wikipedia has about women writers & artists educated at the University of Edinburgh.

  • Click here to see the list.

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 this list.

Worklist

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Articles to Create

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Articles to Improve

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Women Writers
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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
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Heroines of the Wallace Monument
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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 - To be determined.

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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.