Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/Events and Workshops/Gender, Global Health & Justice Editathon
 | Gender, Global health & Justice Wikipedia edit-a-thon in a nutshell:
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Booking[edit]
Booking is NOW open via the Festival of Creative Learning website.
About the event[edit]
Have you ever wondered why the information in Wikipedia is extensive for some topics and scarce for others? On Tuesday 21st February 2017, the University's Information Services team will run an edit-a-thon on gender, global health and justice. Full Wikipedia editing training will be given. Thereafter the afternoon's editathon will focus on improving the quality of articles about these important but somewhat neglected subject areas.
Working together with Academic Support librarians, archivists & academic colleagues we will provide training on how to edit and participate in an open knowledge community. Participants will be supported to develop articles covering areas which could stand to be improved.
Come along to learn about how Wikipedia works!
How do I prepare?[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 10:15 am - 10:30 am: Coffee and refreshments available
- 10:30 am – 10:45 pm: Housekeeping and Welcome
- 10:45 pm – 12:00 pm: Wikipedia training
- 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm: Lunch
- 12:30 pm – 4:00 pm: Research and editing
- 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm Transferring drafted text to Wikipedia's live space.
Trainers[edit]
Hit list of articles to be created or improved[edit]
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.
Looking for ideas?[edit]
- List of female legal scholars
- Child marriage -There is the need to begin many new articles about child marriage in each country like the Child marriage in India article. [[Category:Child marriage by country]] [[Category:Child marriage]]
- Suggested articles include:
- Child marriage in Bangladesh (reference Guardian article Jan. 2017) Being worked on by Agomoni
- Child marriage in Chad
- Child marriage in the United States (reference, Pew report - Being worked on by Katy
- Also information about the health consequences for girls/women related to early marriage can be added or updated in many articles.
- Suggested articles include:
- Articles and content related to missing birth registration, the reasons, impact, and methods to improve are missing. See Birth Registration in Latin America and the Caribbean for an example of a source with content to add to articles.
Articles to be created[edit]
- Dana Beldiman - lawyer and legal scholar. DiscoverEd resources authored by Dana - Bucerius Law School Profile - German Wiki Page
- Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler - Swiss legal scholar, contributing editor and lawyer.
- Julie Dickson (legal scholar) - British legal scholar.
- Renate Schaub - German legal scholar.
- Sabine Müller-Mall - German political scientist and legal scholar.
- Silke Schneider - legal scholar. Being worked on by Charlie
- Ursula Stein - legal scholar.
- Elizabeth Maguire
- Phyllis Tilson Piotrow
Articles to be improved[edit]
- Iris Marion Young - needs new section on Social Connection model. Being worked on by Agomoni
- Donna Arzt - American legal scholar.
- Ethical eating - Being worked on by Isabel.
- Reflective equilibrium
- Women in law
There is a page on autonomy but not a separate one on Relational Autonomy (and important aspect of feminist approaches to autonomy)
There is an entry on Miranda Fricker, but it could be improved, and there should be an entry on epistemic injustice, as it is become an increasingly important concept
Sources[edit]
- 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
- 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/
Suggested sources:[edit]
General[edit]
- DiscoverEd to find books, ebooks, journals, ejournals and more.
News sources[edit]
Theses databases[edit]
- Edinburgh Research Archive. For theses produced at the University of Edinburgh Edinburgh Research Archive
- Proquest Dissertations
- More at: Edinburgh University Library - Theses database
Outcomes[edit]
New pages created[edit]
- Child marriage in the United States
- Silke Schneider - Legal scholar.
- Nancy Loudon - Family planning pioneer, formerly medical co-ordinator of the Lothian Family Planning and Well Woman Services.
- Phyllis Tilson Piotrow - worked in the reproductive health field since the 1960s. A professor at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins University, she was also the founder and first director of the Center for Communication Programs at Johns Hopkins.
Improved pages[edit]
- Ethical eating - page improved.
- Iris Marion Young - Political theorist and feminist. New section added on Structural injustice which is of particular importance to moral and political philosophy, global ethics and global justice.
What can I do after the event?[edit]
You may find these useful if you want to learn further about editing:
External links[edit]
Participants - Sign Up Here![edit]
Prior to the event:
- RSVP: ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk
- Do you have a Wikipedia User Name?
- No? Create a Wikipedia account
- Yes? Go to Step #2
- Sign up! Add your Wikipedia User Name to this section by clicking the blue button below (follow instructions). Your name will be added to the bottom of this page