Social & PH Sciences Editathon
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About the event
With 47 million articles in 229 different languages, Wikipedia is now a well-established force for the democratization of knowledge, and to mark the 20th anniversary of the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit and Wikipedia’s 17th birthday, the Unit is hosting this editathon to contribute to information shared across the site.
Wikipedia is a key outreach tool, with one recent study showing that the encyclopedia shapes, as well as reflects, scientific thought.
The editathon will bring together researchers with shared and specific interests and expertise both in subject knowledge in public health, social science, social determinants of health, health inequalities, health policy, health interventions, and health data, and in areas of research knowledge and practice including methodologies, theories, models, or techniques.
This workshop has been specifically designed for those who are keen to understand how Wikipedia works, and the dos and don’ts for editing content. No experience is necessary, as training will be given by the Scottish Library and Information Council’s Wikimedian in Residence Sara Thomas. Please note that the event is aimed at subject experts with a view to engaging them in outreach activities. Citing one's own published work is permissible within reason but it should be noted that
This will be the first editathon held by the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit at the University of Glasgow and the Unit is delighted to be able to provide an opportunity to invite some of its research partners to take part so that together they can contribute to improving the body of knowledge shared through Wikipedia.
There are limited places for this session so expressions of interest are invited. Places will be confirmed by the Unit.
The intention is to offer a ‘meet-up’ to participants a short while following the editathon to enable them to support each other, share practice, and develop pages, or generate new pages, of interest to this community of researchers.
How do I prepare?
- Sign up for the event
- Create a Wikipedia account
- Bring a laptop (wi-fi will be provided)
- Learn about editing if you like: Tutorial, or Getting started on Wikipedia for more information
- Think about what you would like to edit - please prepare some materials to bring with you on the day
Programme
- 9:30am - 10:00am: Coffee and Tea
- 10:00 am – 10:15 am: Housekeeping and Welcome
- 10:15 am – 11:15 am: Wikipedia training
- 11:15 am – 1:00 pm: EDIT!
- 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm: Break for lunch.
- 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm: Wikipedia training.
- 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm: EDIT!
- 4pm: Close.
Trainers
Anne-Marie Scott, Head of Digital Learning Applications and Media at the University of Edinburgh Sara Thomas, Wikimedian in Residence at the Scottish Library and Information Council
Hit list of articles to be created or improved
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!
All are welcome to add names to the list which is intended to serve as a basis for creating new articles in this important but somewhat neglected sector on the English Wikipedia.
Articles to be created
- Lady Dorothea Knighton author of Memoirs of Sir William Knighton (1838)
- Jane Alexander (novelist) author of The Last Treasure Hunt (2015)
- Mary Emily Cameron author of House of Achendaroch: an Old Maid's Story (1878)
- Norma Bright Carson author of From Irish Castles to French Chateaux (1910)
- Mary Caumont author of Hanleys; or, Wheels within Wheels
- Regi Claire author of The Waiting (2012)
- Frances Mary Colquhoun author of A Bit of the Tartan
- Mary Contini author of Dear Olivia (2006)
- Lucy Yeend Culler author of Europe: Through a Woman's Eyes (1883)
- Catherine Cornelia Joy Dyer author of Sunny Days Abroad (1873)
- Eudora Lindsay South author of Wayside notes and fireside thoughts (1884)
- Mrs A. E. Newman (under the pseudonym 'Evangeline') author of European leaflets for young ladies (1862)
- Mary Wilson Gordon author of Christopher North(1862)
- Mrs Gordon author of The Fortunes of the Falconars (1845)
- Leslie Gore (writer) author of Annie Jennings (1870)
- Robina F. Hardy author of Glenairlie, Kilgarvie and Tibby's Tryst
- Annie Elizabeth Nicholson Ireland author of Life of Jane Welsh Carlyle (1891)
- Jean Lang (writer) author of Stories of the Border Marches (1916)
- Agnes Marchbank author of Ruth Farmer (1896)
- Emma M. Nye author of Addresses and letters of travel
- Mrs William Parker author of Wandering Thoughts and Wandering Steps (1880)
- Sarah Pitt author of The White House at Inch Gow (1891)
- Catherine Ray author of Aground in the Shallows (1879)
- Laura L. Rees author of We four (1880)
- Mrs William G. Rose author of Travels in Europe and Northern Africa (1901)
- Mary D. Richardson Rosengarten author of Eight Journeys Abroad (1917)
- Janet Schaw author of Journal of a Lady of Quality (1921)
- Susan Frances Ludomilla Schetky author of Ninety years of work and play (1877)
- Irene Simmonds author of Our trip to Europe (1917)
- Marcia Penfield Snyder author of Eight lands in eight weeks (1911)
- Clara Moyse Tadlock author of Bohemian days (1889)
- Ella W. Thompson author of Beaten paths (1874)
- Mrs E. H. Thompson author of From the Thames to the Trossachs (18901)
- Mary Ella Waller author of From an island outpost (1914)
- Mary Clementina Hibbert Ware author of His Dearest Wish (1883)
- Sarah Robertson Whitehead author of Nelly Armstrong: a Story of the Day (1853)
- Margaret Williamson author of John and Betty's Scotch history visit (1912)
- Jessie Aitken Wilson author of Memoir of George Wilson (1860)
- Julia Virginia Wilson author of Leaves from my diary (1900)
- Lady Isabella Moncrieff - wrote several novels under pseudonym Mrs. Martha Blackford.
Articles to be improved
- Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson author of Greyfriars Bobby (1912)
- Elspeth Davie author of Climbers on a Stair (1978)
- Margaret Elphinstone author of The Incomer and Sparrow's Flight
- Eliza Fletcher author of Autobiography of Mrs. Fletcher (1874)
- Elizabeth Grant (diarist) author of Memoirs of a Highland Lady (1898)
- Sara Jane Lippincott, a.k.a 'Grace Greenwood', author of Bonnie Scotland (1861)
- Lizzie Allen Harker author of Miss Esperance and Mr. Wycherly (1908)
- Laura Hird author of Nail and Other Stories (1997) and Hope and Other Urban Tales (2006)
- Violet Jacob author of Flemington (1911) and the Songs of Angus (1915)
- Christian Isobel Johnstone author of The Edinburgh Tales (1846) and Elizabeth de Bruce (1827)
- Elinor Macartney Lane author of Nancy Stair (1904)
- Ada Ellen Bayly, a.k.a. Edna Lyall, author of Wayfaring men (1897)
- Rosaline Masson author of Edinburgh (1910)
- Nancy Brysson Morrison, a.k.a. Agnes Morrison, author of The Gowk Storm (1933)
- Willa Muir author of Imagined Corners (1931)
- Phoebe Palmer author of Four Years in the Old World (1866)
- Eve Blantyre Simpson author of Robert Louis Stevenson (1906)
- Catherine Sinclair author of Modern Society (1837) and Modern Flirtations (1841)
- E. D. E. N. Southworth, a.k.a. Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth, author of Self-Raised; or, From the Depths (1876)
Outcomes - New pages created
Pages Published
Pages in Draft
Pages Improved
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