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About the event

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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.

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How do I prepare?

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Sources

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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

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

Trainers

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Sara Thomas, Wikimedian in Residence at Museums Galleries Scotland

Hit list of articles to be created or improved

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Articles to be created

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Articles to be improved

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

Content created during the event

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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?

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Join us for the event!

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