Wikipedia:GLAM/SLIC/Events/Protests and Suffragettes: Strong Women of Clydeside Wikipedia Edit-a-thon 2.0

Edit-A-Thon held 2 July 2016 at Glasgow Women's Library, Scotland, UK, hosted by the 'Strong Women of the Clydeside' (SWaC) and 'Govan's Hidden Histories' project. The event increased representation of women involved in Glasgow's Red Clydeside actions. Image by tsBeall, Lead Artist, SWaC project.

Edit-A-Thon held 2 July 2016 at Glasgow Women's Library, Scotland

Booking

Email s.thomas@scottishlibraries.org to sign up.

About the event

With 47 million articles in 229 different languages, Wikipedia is now both a well-established force for the democratisation of knowledge, and a key outreach tool, with one recent study showing that the encyclopedia shapes, as well as reflects, scientific thought. However, Wikipedia has a gender problem: the encyclopedia and its content is weighted toward men. In a 2011 survey, the Foundation found that only around 9% of contributors identified as female, and less than 1% as trans*. This imbalance in demographic leads to a content gap - as of 1 January 2018, just 17.37% of biographies on English Wikipedia were about women. It’s a form of systemic bias that both the Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikipedia community are working to fix, with projects like Wikiproject Women in Red and the Gender Gap Task Force. But we need more people to help.

During a previous editathon at Glasgow Women's Library hosted by the 'Strong Women of the Clydeside' project team, Wikipedia articles relating to Glasgow’s Suffragettes, Rent Strike organisers, and other Scottish women activists were edited and created. As 2018 marks 100 years since women first won the right to vote in the UK this event will focus on improving, expanding and creating articles about protests and Suffragettes linked to Glasgow or Scotland. No prior experience of editing Wikipedia is necessary, as full training will be given on the day, but participants should create a Wikipedia account in advance (see below).

We Can Edit

How do I prepare?

• Create a Wikipedia account
• Bring a laptop if you like (wi-fi will be provided) - there are also a number of PCs in the computer room.
• Learn about editing if you like: Tutorial, or Getting started on Wikipedia for more information
• Think about what you would like to edit - if there's a person or topic on the hit list that particularly catches your eye, feel free to do some research in advance & bring materials with you on the day.
• Learn about creating women's biographies: Primer for creating women’s biographies
• Learn more about good practice for writing about women on Wikipedia: Writing about women

Link to Wikiproject: Women in Red

• This Wikiproject links to some great resources. Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/00

Where

• The event will be held at the Mitchell Library in the Computer IT Suite on level 3.

Programme

• 15:00 - 15:30: Introduction & assigning articles
• 15:30 - 16:00: Training
• 16:00 - 16:20: Break for refreshments (downstairs room)
• 16:20 - 19:30: EDIT!

For those arriving later

- Don't worry if you can't arrive in time for the main training session - both Sara Thomas and Jenny King will be on hand to give help and advice.

Trainers

• Sara Thomas, Wikimedian in Residence at the Scottish Library and Information Council
• Jenny King, student placement at SLIC

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!

Articles to be created

• Pearce Institute - British Newspaper Archive - Pearce Institute
• Macgregor Memorial Church - British Newspaper Archive - Macgregor Memorial Church
• Jessie Ferguson - When The Clyde Ran Red
• Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage - Lots of sources found below. Article has been created.
• Nellie Hunter (née Galbraith) - a secretary of the GWSWSA
• Margaret McPhun - Google search for "McPhun sisters" provides numerous sources.
• Frances Mc Phun
• Ellison Gibb - British Newspaper Archive - Ellison Gibb
• Margaret Gibb (alias Ann Hunt) - British Newspaper Archive - Margaret Gibb (search for both Margaret Gibb and Ann Hunt)
• Morris Hall in Govan - British Newspaper Archive - Morris Hall
• Red Skirts on Clydeside - film. Article has been created.
• Elspeth King - author on Scottish Suffragette history
• Scottish Co-operative Women's Guild
• Janet May Buchanan - Egyptologist, organised the first Egypt exhibition at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, also a suffragist
• West Govan Child Welfare Clinic - Opened 23rd November 1926. Mary Barbour in attendance and involved with setting up.
• Glasgow Women's Welfare and Advisory Clinic - First family planning clinic in Scotland. Mary Barbour was first chairman. Opened in Govan in 1926, moved to central Glasgow in 1933.
• Violet Mary Craig Roberton Glasgow town Councillor and Bailie
• Jessica Baird-Smith One of Glasgow first women Councillors
• Mary Bell (politician) One of Glasgow first women Councillors
• Mary Anderson Snodgrass One of Glasgow first women Councillors
• Jessie Turnbull Thomson "Mrs Greig", the founding chair of GWSWSA
• Margaret de Courcy Lewthwaite Dewar member of Glasgow Society of Lady Artists and author of - History of Glasgow Society of Lady Artists
• Scottish Council for Women's Trades
• Jean Roberts (Politician) Glasgow Councillor
• Helen Gault Glasgow Councillor
• Kate Beaton (Politician) Glasgow Councillor
• Laura Maclean Glasgow Councillor

Articles to be improved

• Eleanor Stewart (Labour Councillor in Maryhill 1920) - needs expanded
• Red Clydeside - http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/scottishhistory/modern/intro_modern.shtml
• Dinah Elizabeth Pearce - Google search for "Dinah Elizabeth Pearce" provides numerous sources.
• Margaret Macgregor - needs additional citations for verification
• South Govan Women's Housing Association - stub article so could be expanded
• Glasgow Women's Housing Association - British Newspaper Archives - Glasgow Women's Housing Association
• National Society for Women's Suffrage - https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/electionsvoting/womenvote/case-studies-women-parliament/millicent-garrett-fawcett/the-early-suffrage-societies-in-the-19th-century---a-timeline/
• National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies - http://spartacus-educational.com/Wnuwss.htm
• Dr Marion Gilchrist - first female graduate of Glasgow uni - http://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH0226&type=P
• Jessie Newbury - has wikipedia article but does not mention her links to suffragette movement - https://gsaarchivesandcollections.wordpress.com/tag/jessie-newbery/
• Ann Macbeth - artist with links to suffragette movement. https://gsaarchivesandcollections.wordpress.com/tag/jessie-newbery/
• Duke Street prison in Glasgow - article mentions that suffragettes were imprisoned there - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-34489496
• Charlotte Despard - British Newspaper Archive - Charlotte Despard
• Mary Laird could be improved
• Helen Crawfurd - British Newspaper Archives - Helen Crawfurd
• Mary Barbour - British Newspaper Archives - Mrs Barbour
• Glasgow Society of Lady Artists - Could do with finding out the names of the women who started it and who were involved. Has definite ties to the Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage (via, at least, Margaret De Courcy Lewthwaite Dewar, but probably others, too)
• Representation of the People (Equal_Franchise) Act 1928
• National Federation of Women Workers

Topics to search on citation hunt:

• British suffragists
• Women's suffrage
• Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom
• Anti-suffragists
• Govan
• People from Govan

Sources

General Sources

• Wikipedia is a tertiary resource, which relies upon good quality secondary sources and some primary sources. Wikipedia is not a place for fringe theories, untested hypotheses, or personal interpretation.
• For more guidance on the use of sources, see this guide here.
• We will provide a variety of reference materials on the day.
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• Shareable Images can be found through a Creative Commons search(which includes Google, Flickr & Wikicommons in its search).
• Scottish Bibliographies Online
• Histories of Scottish Families
• British Newspaper Archive Available in the Mitchell Library & NLS at Kelvin Hall
• Spartacus Educational is used as a source for history teachers
• Women's History Scotland Suffrage Learning resource
• Ancestry - Available in all Glasgow Libraries
• Find My Past - Available in the Mitchell Library & NLS at Kelvin Hall

Some sources that can be found in The Mitchell

• Brown, Mildred K Diary of the Glasgow Women's Welfare Advisory Clinic. Photocopy of manuscript.

• Burkhauser, J (2005) Glasgow Girls: Women in Art and Design 1880 – 1920. Canongate
• Breitenbach, E & Gordon, E (1992) Out of bounds: Women in Scottish Society 1800 - 1945. Edinburgh University Press
• Breitenback, E (1982) Women workers in Scotland. Pressgang. Glasgow
• Clark, H & Carnegie, E (2003) She was Aye Workin’: Memories of Tenement Women in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Clark and Carnegie
• Craig, M (2011) When the Clyde Ran Red. Mainstream Publishing Company
• Dewar, Margaret de Courcy Lewthwaite Dewar (1950) History of the Glasgow Society of Lady Artists. Robert Maclehose and Company
• Dudgeon, P (2009) Our Glasgow: Memories of Life in Disappearing Britain. Headline Review
• Ewan, E, Innes, S, Reynolds & Pipes, R (2007) The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women. Edinburgh University Press.
• Glasgow Women’s Studies Group (1983) Uncharted Lives: Extracts from Scottish Women’s Experiences, 1850 – 1982. University of Glasgow
• Hendry, M & Uglow, J (2005) Dictionary of Women’s Biography. Palgrave Macmillan
• Irwin, Margaret H (1895) Women's industries in Scotland - Mitchell Library
• Kenefick, W & McIvor (1996) Roots of red Clydeside 1910 - 1914?. John Donald Publishers, Edinburgh
• King, Elspeth (1993) The Hidden History of Glasgow’s Women. Mainstream Publishing Company
• King, Elspeth (1978) The Scottish Women’s Suffrage Movement. People Palace, Glasgow
• Leneman, Leah (2017) The Scottish Suffragettes. National Museums Scotland
• Leneman, Leah (1995) A Guid Cause: The Women’s Suffrage Movement in Scotland. Mercat Press
• Melling, J (1983) Rent strikes: Peoples' struggle for housing in West Scotland 1890 - 1916. Polygon Books, Edinburgh
• Mitchell, I (2005) This City Now: Glasgow and its working Class Past. Bell & Bain
• Pedersen, Sarah (2017) The Scottish Suffragettes and the Press. Palgrave Macmillan
• Rafeek, N (2008) Communist Women in Scotland. Taurus Academic Studies
• Smyth, James J (1980) Women in Struggle: A Study of the political activity of working class women during the first world war. MA Dissertation
• Strang, A (2015) Modern Scottish Women: Painters and Sculptors 1885 – 1965. National Galleries of Scotland
• Wright, Valerie (2008) Womens organisations and feminism in interwar Scotland. PHd Thesis

Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women’s Suffrage (SR187)

List of items:

• Executive committee minute books of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women’s Suffrage (re-named the Glasgow Society for Equal Citizenship after 1918 and amalgamating with the Glasgow Women Citizens’ Association in 1923): 1902 – 1933
  • Volume 1: 2 May 1902 – 13 September 1905
  • Volume 2: 3 November 1905 – 27 April 1910
  • Volume 3: 18 May 1910 – 6 September 1915
  • Volume 4: 20 September 1915 – 6 December 1920
  • Volume 5: 20 December 1920 – 28 April 1924
  • Volume 6: 5 May 1924 – 24 May 1929
  • Volume 7: 7 June 1929 – 3 March 1933

• Letter book of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women’s Suffrage: 1913 – 1918
  • Volume 1: 9 October 1913 – 28 November 1914
  • Volume 2: 15 November 1915 – 15 January 1917
  • Volume 3: 16 February 1917 – 26 January 1918

• Organising Committee minute book of the Glasgow Society for Equal Citizenship, 8 July 1918 – 25 February 1924

• Exchange for voluntary workers (National Emergency) Committee minute book, 24 August 1914 – 23 May 1916

• Minute book of the Glasgow Committee of the Scottish Women’s Hospitals for Foreign Service, 25 June 1915 – 2 June 1919

• Minute book of the Glasgow sub-committee of the Scottish Women’s Hospitals for Foreign Service, 5 October 1916 – 27 September 1917

Printed reports and papers:

• 15^th annual report, Glasgow Society for Women’s Suffrage, 1916 – 1917
• 16^th annual report, Glasgow Society for Women’s Suffrage, 1917 – 1918
• 19^th annual report, Glasgow Society for Equal Citizenship, 1920 – 1921
• 20^th annual report, Glasgow Society for Equal Citizenship, 1921 – 1922
• 21^st annual report, Glasgow Society for Equal Citizenship, 1922 – 1923
• 22^nd annual report, Glasgow Society for Equal Citizenship, and the 6^th annual report of the Glasgow Women Citizens’ Association, 1923 – 1924
• Report of the Glasgow Society for Equal Citizenship and the Glasgow Women Citizens’ Association, for year ending March 1925
• Report of the Glasgow Society for Equal Citizenship and the Glasgow Women Citizens’ Association, for year ending March 1926
• Report of the Glasgow Society for Equal Citizenship and the Glasgow Women Citizens’ Association, for year ending March 1927
• Report of the Glasgow Society for Equal Citizenship and the Glasgow Women Citizens’ Association, for year ending March 1928
• Report of the Glasgow Society for Equal Citizenship and the Glasgow Women Citizens’ Association, for year ending March 1929
• Report of the Glasgow Society for Equal Citizenship and the Glasgow Women Citizens’ Association, for year ending March 1930
• Report of the Glasgow Society for Equal Citizenship and the Glasgow Women Citizens’ Association, for year ending March 1931
• Report of the Glasgow Society for Equal Citizenship and the Glasgow Women Citizens’ Association, for year ending March 1932
• Report of the Glasgow Society for Equal Citizenship and the Glasgow Women Citizens’ Association, to the dissolution of the societies, 7 March 1933

• Women and the Church. LCM leaflet No. 8 “The Ministry of Women” by A Maude Royden

• “Real, not pseudo protection for women. The case against differential legislation for women in industry" by Elizabeth Abbott, NUSEC 1924

• “Family limitation and women’s organisations” by Mary Stocks, BSc. NUSEC 1926

• Women’s local representation joint committee minute book, 27 February 1919 – 16 November 1922

• Deposited c1950 in the Mitchell Library by Marion J Buchanan

Pages Created

1. Red Skirts on Clydeside
2. Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage
3. Elspeth King
4. Violet Mary Craig Roberton
5. Margaret McPhun

Pages Improved

1. The Women's Peace Crusade
2. Mary Burns Laird
3. Mary Barbour
4. Glasgow Women's Housing Association
5. Dinah Elizabeth Pearce
6. Charlotte Despard
7. Bet Low
8. Margaret Macgregor
9. Ann Macbeth

After the event

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

• Video tutorials
• Instructional videos on using Wikipedia