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On Wednesday 28th January, 2015, Prof. Deborah Youngs and Dr Sparky Booker of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swansea_University Swansea University] ran the first editathon in Wales organised to improve articles on women on Wikipedia. This day was focussed on reducing the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_bias_on_Wikipedia gender gap on Wikipedia] – both in terms of increasing content about medieval and early modern women, and getting more women involved as editors. Below, Deborah and Sparky report on the day.
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The idea for the event came out of a conversation with Robin Owain on how to raise the profile of Welsh women on Wikipedia. We had just begun a four-year research project on the history of women’s access to justice in Britain and Ireland, 1100-1750 (funded by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arts_and_Humanities_Research_Council AHRC]). Robin had seen us interviewed about the project on BBC Wales Today, and thought our research would be a good fit for a women’s history editathon.
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We were interested in improving content about any notable women in history, but we focused on Welsh and Irish women because they are the subjects of our own research. Preparing for the day was an eye-opener, and we realised that many key women had no articles at all. We were surprised that [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Dee Jane Dee], wife of the infamous Elizabethan natural philosopher, and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senana_ferch_Caradog Senana ferch Caradog], wife of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruffydd_ap_Llywelyn_Fawr Gruffudd ap Llywelyn Fawr], did not have their own entries, even though they were notable in their own right, and their husbands had well-developed, extensive articles written about them. On the other hand, it was very heartening to see how many well-referenced and extensive articles there were for some medieval Irish and Welsh women. Some articles, like that of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gormflaith_ingen_Murchada Gormflaith ingen Murchada], were the products of other editathons, and some were the work of dedicated solo editors.
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As it was the first time we had arranged such an event, we decided to start with the staff & students connected to our own College of Arts & Humanities at Swansea. We were soon joined by four researchers from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_College,_Dublin Trinity College, Dublin], who were keen to update material on Irish women. They focussed on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Kyteler Alice Kyteler] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petronilla_de_Meath Petronella de Meath], her servant, who were the first women to be tried for witchcraft in medieval Ireland (Alice escaped her sentence of death by fire; Petronella sadly did not). We also had remote interest from independent researchers in the US. We hadn’t been aware of how much scope there was for remote participation in the editathon, but in future events, this is definitely something to pursue, as the technology ensures that anyone, anywhere in the world can be part of the group and could take part in training and discussions as well as the editing itself.
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* {{event inline|2015|02|15|[[:m:Meetup/Oxford/25|Oxford meetup]]}}
* {{event inline|2015|02|16-20|[[Women, Science and Scottish History editathon series|University of Edinburgh Innovative Learning Week Editathons]]}}
* {{event inline|2015|02|22|[[:m:Meetup/Cardiff/4|Cardiff meetup]]}}
* {{event inline|2015|02|22|[[:m:Meetup/Manchester/27|Manchester meetup]]}}


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* {{event inline|2015|03|01|[[:w:Wikipedia:Meetups/UK/Weiner Library March 2015|Notable people who died in the Holocaust]]}}, Weiner Library, London
* {{event inline|2015|03|06|[[:w:Wikipedia:Meetup/Dundee/ArtAndFeminism 2015|ArtAndFeminism]]}}, Hannah Maclure Centre [[:w:University of Abertay|University of Abertay]], Dundee
* {{event inline|2015|03|07|[[:w:Education Program:Wikimedia UK/Cinema Museum 2015 (Spring 2015)|Charlie Chaplin / The Tramp Editathon at the Cinema Museum]]}}
* {{event inline|2015|03|07|[[:w:Wikipedia:GLAM/Thinktank/Event 1|Thinktank editathon, Birmingham]]}}
* {{event inline|2015|03|08|[[:w:Wikipedia:Meetup/Wakefield/ArtandFeminism/HepworthWakefield|ArtAndFeminism]]}}, [[:w:The Hepworth Wakefield|The Hepworth Wakefield]]
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