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[[File:Editathon Editors at work.jpg|175px|thumb|right|The Medieval Women Edit-a-thon at Swansea University focused on women’s access to justice in Wales, Britain and Ireland.]]
[[File:Sara Thomas.JPG|175px|thumb|right|Sara Thomas, Wikimedian in Residence at Museums Galleries Scotland]]


''This post was written by Robin Owain, WMUK’s Wales Manager, and originally published on the <span class="plainlinks">[https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/12/medieval-women-edit-a-thon/ Wikimedia Foundation’s blog]</span>''
''This post was written by Sara Thomas, Wikimedian in Residence at Museums Galleries Scotland''


On 28 January 2015, Prof. Deborah Youngs and Dr Sparky Booker of Swansea University ran the first edit-a-thon at a university in Wales. The aim was to improve articles on women and reduce the gender gap on Wikipedia – by getting more women involved as editors and increasing coverage of medieval and early modern women on Wikipedia.
As I write this, I'm sitting in the library of the Glasgow Museum of Modern Art. There’s a pleasing amount of public wifi, and an excellent cup of tea.  This week I've also been in Kelvingrove Museum, telling the Curatorial Forum more about what this Residency will involve, and in the Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, meeting more people and getting a tantalising peek inside the stores.  It’s only week two, but I'm really enjoying this job so far.  


This [[:en:User:Whistlaw/Jan_28_Editathon|Medieval Women Edit-a-thon]] was organized as part of <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.swansea.ac.uk/riah/research-projects/women-negotiating-the-boundaries-of-justice/ “Women Negotiating the Boundaries of Justice”]</span>, a four-year research project on the history of women’s access to justice in Britain and Ireland between the twelfth and eighteenth centuries (led by Prof. Youngs and funded by the <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/Pages/Home.aspx AHRC]</span>).
This is the second residency in Scotland, with the first in the expert hands of Ally Crockford. Mine is a year-long project with Museums Galleries Scotland, the first four months of which will be spent on secondment to Glasgow Museums.  It’s very much a networked residency (not unlike Pat Hadley’s with the Yorkshire Network Project) and will see me working with multiple institutions across Scotland. I am more than excited.


About 45 people attended and around 30 participated in editing. Participants included undergraduates, postgraduates, academic researchers and librarians from Swansee University — and workers from Paris. Three quarters were women, and only three had previously edited Wikipedia. A few spoke Welsh, and therefore, some of the jargon was in that language (being my mother tongue). We were also joined by researchers from Trinity College, Dublin, who were keen to update material on Irish women. Their focus was on [[:en:Alice_Kyteler|Alice Kyteler]] and [[:en:Petronilla_de_Meath|Petronilla de Meath]], her servant, who were the first women to be tried for witchcraft in medieval Ireland. This inspired one of the editors in Swansea to write about [[:en:Gwen_daughter_of_Ellis|Gwen daughter of Ellis]], the first person to be executed on charges of witchcraft in Wales.
I've lived in Glasgow since the late nineties, and so it’s with great pleasure that I get the opportunity to talk open knowledge in some of the institutions in which I've spent so much time over the years, particularly Kelvingrove Museum. I'm also delighted to be able to investigate the collections surrounding the Kelvin Hall project, which is currently under development, and see how we might use them to enrich the encyclopedia. Even though it’s only week two, a good many leads have already presented themselves, and I'm hopeful that my residency will be able to kick start a longer term relationship between these institutions and Wikimedia. I’ll let you know how I get on...


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