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.
About our next event
Following the successful editathon held at Modern One to mark the opening of the exhibition Modern Scottish Women, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art is holding a follow-up Wikipedia Edit-a-thon during Women’s History Month as part of the Art+Feminism series. This event will coincide with other International Women’s Day events happening elsewhere in Edinburgh that day and will carry on where the last Modern Scottish Women editathon left off; creating and improving articles relating to those women featured in the exhibition.
Modern Scottish Women is an exhibition of work by Scottish women artists and concentrates 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.
All you need to bring is a laptop as wifi will be provided. But you can also have a look at the notable artists listed below to see if there is someone there you may wish to work on:
Hit list of articles to be created or improved
Articles to be created
- Stansmore Dean Stevenson
- Anne Finlay
- Hazel Armour
- Helen Biggar
- Mary Syme Boyd
- Gwynneth Holt
- Bet Low
- Josephine Haswell Miller
- Margaret Morris (painter)
- Ivy Gardner Proudfoot
- Margot Sandeman
- Ottilie Maclaren Wallace
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 **
- Louise Gibson Annand
- Mary Nicol Neill Armour
- Phyllis Bone
- Kathleen Scott
- Jessie M. King
- Margaret Campbell Macpherson
- Cathleen Mann
- Margaret Mellis
- Eleanor Allen Moore
- Agnes Miller Parker
- Ethel Walker
- Cecile Walton
** The work of those artists marked with a double asterisk has now passed into the public domain.
Come along if you can make it, the more the merrier. New editors are very welcome and full training will be given. With Visual Editor, it really is now as easy as using MS Word or WordPress.
The event signup is here: Art&Feminism Wikipedia editathon
Hopefully see you there!
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