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* [https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=psci-com | Psci Mailing List archive] - searchable archive of discussion on women in sciences - may be useful as a research tool/lead. | * [https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=psci-com | Psci Mailing List archive] - searchable archive of discussion on women in sciences - may be useful as a research tool/lead. | ||
* [https://royalsociety.org/news/2010/influential-british-women/ | Royal Society 10 Most Influential British Women in Science] - a useful starting point/reference list | * [https://royalsociety.org/news/2010/influential-british-women/ | Royal Society 10 Most Influential British Women in Science] - a useful starting point/reference list | ||
* [http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/collections/featuredcollections/womenslibrarylse.aspx The Women's Library@LSE] - might have some relevant stats or other resources | |||
Revision as of 17:17, 16 February 2015
Welcome!
Please feel free to ask any questions about the event, or many any recommendations for articles that might be created or improved during one of the editathons. Anyone, whether you are participating or not, is welcome to offer their suggestions!
Editing Tips
For women with different birth and married names - something I came across editing Elizabeth Garrett's entry you can use the birth_name in the panel of information about them. For an example of how this fits into the Wikipedia person entry formatting I'd recommend Jessica Hynes' Wikipedia page. NicolaOsborne (talk) 13:15, 23 January 2015 (GMT)
- Thanks Nicola, that's a really good point and useful for a lot of the women we'll be writing about! ACrockford (talk) 14:41, 23 January 2015 (GMT)
Additional Edinburgh Women
Eliza Wigham, Elizabeth Pease Nicholl, Priscilla Bright McLaren and Jane Smeal - all leading ladies in the Edinburgh Ladies Emancipation Society. Eliza Wigham and Elizabeth Pease were at the first World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, which they tried to ban ladies from attending. They went on to have a huge influence not only in campaigning for the emancipation of slaves, but the women's suffrage movement. I don't think any of them have a wikipedia article. Eliza is currently being exhibited as part of the National Library of Scotland's American Civil War Exhibition.
Places table (in development)
I'm just working on putting together a Wiki-fied table of the relevant places for the Tuesday workshop - if you know of other relevant, authoritative links that can back up research into these sites please do add them (feel free to add them in a comment if you're not comfortable working with the table, I'll format them later!)
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Useful Resources for the Editathon
This list includes a number of resources for finding out more about women in science, science, scottish history. Please do add to it.
- Statistical Accounts of Scotland - free to browse, each page can be linked to (login to view transcripts).
- AddressingHistory - free tool for exploring 12 Scottish historical post office directories by name or address, professional also listed.
- NLS Post Office Directories - access to extensive collection of digitised historical Scottish post office directories.
- Public Domain Review - Open Knowledge Foundation collecting public domain texts, images, etc. including much historical material.
- Jisc MediaHub - free to browse (login to view videos/higher res images) resource of images and multimedia - may be useful as a research tool/lead.
- Scran - free to browse (login to view videos/higher res images) resource of images and multimedia - may be useful as a research tool/lead.
- Scottish Screen Archive - free to explore resource of images and multimedia - may be useful as a research tool/lead.
- WISE Making Women Visible Online - slightly out of date page but includes resources on women in science and technology - see free image resources section in particular.
- | Psci Mailing List archive - searchable archive of discussion on women in sciences - may be useful as a research tool/lead.
- | Royal Society 10 Most Influential British Women in Science - a useful starting point/reference list
- The Women's Library@LSE - might have some relevant stats or other resources