Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/Scotland's Suffragettes

University of Edinburgh edit-a-thon

Welcome

1. Please create an account on Wikipedia if you have not done so as yet.
2. Join the dashboard page and click 'Allow' for this to interact with your Wikipedia account.
3. Have a look at our new Histropedia timeline of Women's suffrage in Scotland.
4. Have a look at our Navigation box template we add to the foot of pages about the Scottish suffragettes.
5. There is a draft biography you can look at and use as an exemplar: Mary Blathwayt.
6. Would you like to do more editing after today? There is a WikiProject Women in Red you can join to take part in their monthly themed editing events and we hold in-person Wiki Women in Red editing events at the university too.

Booking

• To be assured of your place at the event, you can book through Event Booking.
• If booking from outside the university you can book via Eventbrite here. All are welcome!

What do I need? Please bring a laptop as desktop computers will not be provided. You can also Create a Wikipedia account ahead of the event.

About the event

Join us to celebrate lives & contributions of the suffragettes and all the incredible women missing from Wikipedia!

The University's Information Services team will run a Wikipedia edit-a-thon focusing on improving the quality of articles about notable women; with a particular focus on the suffragette movement celebrating 100 years since the Representation of the People Act 1918 first granted women the right to vote.

Have you ever wondered why the information in Wikipedia is extensive for some topics and scarce for others?
As of 9 October 2018, only about 17.67% of the English Wikipedia's biographies are about women. Not impressed?

Suffragettes Annie Kenney, Mary Blathwayt and Emmeline Pankhurst, Eagle House, Batheaston 1910

Join us as we help make Wikipedia better!

Christabel Pankhurst at Meeting of Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) leaders, c.1906 - 1907

No prior knowledge is required. You’ll learn how to edit Wikipedia and participate in an open knowledge community. Participants will be supported to develop articles of their choice related to notable women missing from Wikipedia. NB: Please bring a laptop along to the event or email me at ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk if you require to borrow one for the event.

We Can Edit

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 via our Wiki Basics tutorial.
• Think about what you would like to edit - there are some suggested pages below we think could and should be created but you are more than welcome to prepare some materials to bring with you on the day.

Programme

• 1:30pm - 1:35pm: Housekeeping.
• 1.35pm - 1.50pm: Welcome from Rachel Hosker, Deputy Head of Special Collections, Archives Manager at The University of Edinburgh.
• 1:50pm – 2:45pm: Crash course in Wikipedia editing.
• 2:45pm – 3:15pm:Break for tea and cakes.
• 3:15pm - 4:45pm: EDIT!
• 4:45pm - 5pm: Publish and close.

Then you can check how long it takes for it to appear in Google's top ten results!

Trainers

Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Edinburgh

Attendees

To be determined

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.

Things to do

1. Check the list of suffragettes in the Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women. Are we missing any from Wikipedia, our template, our timeline?
2. Many pages do not have a picture... as yet. Can you hunt down an open-licensed image to help illustrate the page? Try CC Search or email archives/institutions to request an image be released openly.
3. Agnes McLaren's page can be improved using information from MMS Archives.
4. Leah Leneman should have a page created - there is a page on her in the Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women.
5. Jane Clapperton should have a page created - there is a page on her in the Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women.
6. Helen Wilkie should have a page created - there is a page on her in the Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women and in Leah Leneman's books.
7. Lilias Maitland could be created.

Articles to be created

• Marion Grieve (Portobello suffragette) - no page yet but we can edit![1][2]
• Emily Orme Masson[3]
• Lilias Maitland[4][5][6][7][8][9]
• Margaret Nairn[10][11][12][13][14]
• Jennie Lee, Baroness Lee of Asheridge[15][16]
• Laura Evans (suffragette) [17][18][19][20]
• Jane Clapperton - article in Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women.
• Priscilla Bright McLaren
• Jessie Craigen

The Eagle House suffragettes

Commemorating the suffragettes who each planted a tree in Annie's Arboretum following their release from prison after hunger strikes.

• Florence Canning[21][22][23]
• Winifred Jones
• Kitty Kenney
• Dr. Mary Morris
• Gertrude Stewart
• Edith Wheelwright

Suffragettes and women's rights campaigners in the Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women

• Nannie Brown[24][25][26][27][28][29][30]Y
• Mabel Jones[31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40]
• Flora MassonY
• Frances Murray (suffragist)
• Margaret MylneY
• Emily Orme
• Marion Kirkland ReidY
• Helen Wilkie - Teacher, women's rights campaigner from Montrose.
• Leah Leneman - writer and historian. Wrote books on women's suffrage and a pioneer of women's history in Scotland.

Suffragette articles to be improved

• Lily Bell
• Catherine Hogg Blair
• Isabella Bream Pearce
• Sylvia Murray
• Griselda Cheape
• Rachel Cook (womens' education reformer) educational campaigner and editorial collaborator on the Manchester Guardian.[41][42][https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Zs6qBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA212&dq=%22rachel+cook%22+suffragist&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiY1-7CvqHZAhU0iaYKHRpzBlMQ6AEIL
• May Pollock Grant
• Jane Taylour - Suffrage and women's movement campaigner. [43][44][45][46][47]
• Arabella Scott - [48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63]
• Minnie Baldock[64] [65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72][73][74][75][76] Y
• Wilhelmina Hay Abbott - Infobox and pics required.
• Janie Allan leading Scottish activist in the militant suffragette movement of the early 20th century. Pic required.
• Jane Arthur Scottish feminist and activist. She became the first Scottish woman to stand for and be elected to a school board. Stub article needs expanded, infobox and pic.
• Frances Balfour president of the National Society for Women's Suffrage from 1896 to 1914. Could be expanded.
• Teresa Billington-Greig - Suffragette who helped create the Women's Freedom League. Infobox and headings required.
• Jane Esdon Brailsford ODNB
• Grace Cadell - Infobox required. Headings too.
• Isabella Carrie - ODNB
• Alice Chapin - ODNB Pic required.
• Lila Clunas[77][78][79][80][81][82][83][84][85][86][87]
• Helen Crawfurd - suffragette. Needs expanded and a pic.
• Marion Wallace Dunlop - the first and one of the most well known British suffragettes to go on hunger strike. Tiny pic - can another be sourced?
• Una Duval - ODNB Pic and expanding. Y
• Maude Edwards
• Lettice Floyd - pic required.
• Helen Fraser (feminist) - Scottish suffragist, feminist, educationalist. Can the article be improved/expanded?
• Marion Gilchrist (doctor) - first female graduate of the University of Glasgow. Can more be added?
• Cicely Hale ODNB Needs expanded, infobox and a pic.
• Margaret Irwin (trade unionist) Short article: needs expanded, pic and infobox.
• Christina Jamieson - British writer and suffragist known for her association with the Shetland Isles. Can this be expanded?
• Alice Stewart Ker - Scottish physician, health educator and suffragette. Needs expanded and a pic.
• Mary Leigh English political activist and suffragette. ODNB Y
• Janet McCallumODNB
• Agnes Macdonald
• Rosaline Masson - Expanded article and pic required.
• Lillias Mitchell - Suffragette campaigner from Edinburgh.
• Ethel Moorhead - British suffragette and painter. Needs expanded, pic and infobox.
• Edith Mansell Moullin - ODNB
• Anna Munro - active campaigner in the women's suffrage movement from Glasgow. Needs expanded, pic and infobox.
• Eunice Murray - Scottish suffrage campaigner and author. Needs expanded and an infobox. Y
• Elizabeth Pease Nichol -at centre of abolitionist movement
• Fanny Parker ODNB - Infobox and a pic.
• Mary Phillips (suffragette) - needs expanded.
• Kate Sheppard
• Margaret Sievwright - New Zealand feminist, political activist and community leader. Stub article - needs expanded, infobox and pic.
• Louisa Stevenson - a Scottish campaigner for women's university education, women's suffrage and effective, well-organised nursing. Pic required.
• Charlotte Carmichael Stopes - Pic required.
• Isabella Tod - Scottish suffragist, women's rights campaigner and unionist politician in Ireland. Needs expanded, infobox and pic.

Sources

Participants are also encouraged to make full use of the University of Edinburgh's extensive online resources, such as databases and e-journals, as well as any of their own research material that they may have access to.

• Wikipedia is a tertiary resource, which relies upon secondary sources. Wikipedia is not a place for original research.
• For more guidance on the use of sources, see this guide here.
• We will provide a variety of reference books on the day.
• Editors will also have access to some University of Edinburgh e-resources.
• Search for articles on Google Scholar
• Try the Wikipedia Library's list of free resources
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• Dictionary of American Biography (1928 edition)
• National encyclopædia of American biography (1927)
• The Hathi Trust Digital Library - 100s of novels & other assorted texts
• Shareable Images can be found through a Creative Commons search(which includes Google, Flickr & Wikicommons in its search).
• Images from Edinburgh University's collections - http://images.is.ed.ac.uk/
• Images from the Roslin Institute Collection - http://images.is.ed.ac.uk/luna/servlet/UoEgal~6~6
• Histories of Scottish Families
• Oxford Reference (behind paywall)
• ProQuest British Periodicals (behind paywall)
• ProQuest American periodicals (behind paywall)

Suggested sources:

General

• DiscoverEd to find books, ebooks, journals, ejournals and more.
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

News sources

• Factiva
• British Newspaper Archive
• More at: Edinburgh University Library - Newspaper database

Theses databases

• Edinburgh Research Archive. For theses produced at the University of Edinburgh Edinburgh Research Archive
• Proquest Dissertations
• More at: Edinburgh University Library - Theses database

Outcomes - New pages created

• Lavinia Malcolm (1847-1920) was a Scottish suffragist and local Liberal Movement politician, first woman councillor elected in 1907, and became the first female Lord Provost of a Scottish burgh town, in Dollar, Clackmannanshire from 1913 to 1919, throughout the Great War.
• Dr. Maud Perry Menzies - specialist in community medicine who introduced significant improvements to public health care in Glasgow.
• Elizabeth Innes (1921-2015) was a Scottish paediatric haematologist.
• Gladice Keevil (1884 - 1959) was a British suffragette who served as head of the Midlands office of the WSPU between 1908 and 1910.
• Maggie Moffat NEW
• Annot Wilkie - Suffragette and labour activist from Montrose.
• Lillian Williamson - suffragette.
• Catherine Hogg Blair- NEW
• Maude Edwards - NEW
• Caroline Phillips- NEW
• Isabella Bream Pearce- NEW
• Rachel Scott (women's education reformer) - NEW
• Flora Masson - NEW
• Sylvia Murray - NEW
• Jane Taylour - NEW
• Lady Griselda Cheape - NEW
• Evelyn Manesta - NEWLY IMPROVED

Existing pages improved

• Dr. Grace Cadell MD RCPE RCSE (1855-1918) was an early Scottish pioneer physician, surgeon, novelist and militant suffragette. Text drafted by User:Iainmacintyre to improve this page.
• Wilhelmina Hay Abbott (1884–1957), also known by the name "Elizabeth Abbott," was a Scottish suffragist, editor, and feminist lecturer, and wife of author George Frederick Abbott. Infobox added.
• Jane Arthur (1827-1907), was a Scottish feminist and activist. She became the first Scottish woman to stand for and be elected to a school board when she was elected to the Paisley school board in 1873. This was soon followed by Phoebe Blyth and Flora Stevenson being elected to the Edinburgh school board. Their elections were made possible by the Education (Scotland) Act 1872. Infobox added.
• Minnie Baldock[88][89][90][91][92][93][94][95][96][97][98][99][100]
• NEWLY IMPROVED - Image added to Charlotte Carmichael Stopes.

Spanish Wikipedia

• Text drafted/translated to add a new section about the UK suffragettes to the page on Spanish Wikipedia on women's suffrage around the world.

Pages drafted

• Mabel Jones - a British physician and a sympathizer to the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). Dr Jones evaluated the health state of suffragette Frances Gordon after she was released from Perth prison. A part of the report she produced was quoted in a letter to the Glasgow Evening Times: "I saw her (Miss Gordon) at Midnight in July 3. Her appearance was appalling, like a famine victim: the skin brown, her face bones standing out, her eyes half shut, her voice a whisper, her hands quite cold, her pulse a thread." This quote led to questions in the House of Commons, giving voice to the feminist cause.

What can I do after the event?

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You may find these useful if you want to learn further about editing:

• Video tutorials
• Instructional videos on using Wikipedia

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