Wikipedia:GLAM/MGS/Events and Workshops/Modern Scottish Women

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About the event

To mark the opening of the exhibition Modern Scottish Women, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art is holding a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. The exhibition of work by Scottish women artists will concentrate on painters and sculptors. It covers the period from 1885, when Fra Newbery became Director of Glasgow School of Art, until 1965, the year of Anne Redpath’s death.

In a 2011 survey, the Wikimedia Foundation found that less than 10% of its contributors identify as female while only 15% of the English Wikipedia's biographies are about women. As a result, content is skewed by the lack of female participation.

The event will focus on expanding or improving Wikipedia entries for the artists exhibiting in Modern Scottish Women, and to provide an expanded context for their work and practice.

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: Tutorial, or Getting started on Wikipedia for more information
• Think about what you would like to edit about - please prepare some materials to bring with you on the day

Sources

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.

Programme

• 11:45 - meet at Modern Two
• 12-1 (approx) - Tour
• 1-2 (approx) - Training
• 2-5 - Edit!

Trainers

Sara Thomas, Wikimedian in Residence at Museums Galleries Scotland

Hit list of articles to be created or improved

Articles to be created

• Isabel Brodie Babianska
• Margaret Oliver Brown
• Helen Paxton Brown
• Stansmore Dean Stevenson
• Anne Finlay
• Beatrice Huntingdon
• Margaret Campbell Macpherson **
• Dorothy Carleton Smyth **

Articles to be improved

• Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll
• Mary Nicol Neill Armour
• Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
• Mary Cameron **
• Pat Douthwaite
• Joan Eardley
• Hannah Frank
• Norah Neilson Gray **
• Ann Henderson
• Dorothy Johnstone
• Jessie M. King
• Bessie MacNicol **
• Phoebe Anna Traquair **
• Flora Macdonald Reid **
• Alice Meredith Williams / Gertrude Alice Meredith Williams **
• Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh **
• Mabel Pryde **

• • The work of those artists marked with a double asterisk has now passed into the public domain.

Content created during the event

Articles created

1. Isabel Brodie Babianska
2. Margaret Oliver Brown
3. Helen Paxton Brown
4. Beatrice Huntingdon
5. Margaret Campbell Macpherson
6. Dorothy Carleton Smyth

Articles improved

1. Flora Macdonald Reid
2. Mary Cameron (painter)

What can I do after the event?

Join us for the event!

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

• https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Video_tutorials
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Instructional_videos_on_using_Wikipedia