Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/Edinburgh Award

The Edinburgh Award 2024/2025 in a nutshell:

When?: 23 October 2024 to 31 March 2025'
Where?: University of Edinburgh
Point of contact: ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk / Stinglehammer (talk)

Getting started

Task ahead of 4th December workshop - writing AND publishing your 1st page

Research an article missing from Wikipedia. We are looking to draft 50-100 words+ in your own words and where you cite what you write (citations after the full stop) with at least 2-3 references. e.g. something like this or longer.
Use the Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women to write your new Wikipedia page in your Sandbox and use the ISBN number 978-1-4744-3627-4 when citing this book (and add the page number consulted also).
Add your chosen page here so class mates know you have reserved an article to work on

Ideas for articles to create

Margaret Laidlaw - m. Hogg, born Ettrick 1730, died Ettrick 1813. Tradition-bearer.
Robena Anna Laidlaw (later Anna Robena), m. Thomson, born Bretton, Yorkshire, 30 April 1819, died London 29 May 1901. Pianist.
Mary Lamond - born Edinburgh 22 Feb. 1862, died 15 March 1949. Deaconess and president, Church of Scotland Woman’s Guild.
Murdina May Lamont Stewart (Ena), n. Lamont, born Glasgow 10 Feb. 1912, died Dalmellington 9 Feb. 2006. Playwright.
Margaret Troup Laws - n. Gray, born Aberdeen, 4 Feb. 1849, died Edinburgh 17 Sept. 1921. Teacher, translator, missionary. Y
Margaret Mary Leigh, born Oxford 17 Dec. 1894, died Inverness 7 April 1973. Author and farmer.
Rev. Dr Mary Irene Levison , n. Lusk, born Oxford, 8 Jan. 1923, died Edinburgh, 12 Sept. 2011. Church of Scotland minister.
Jennifer McCrindle aka Jenny McCrindle, born Glasgow 19 Sept. 1968, died Glasgow 26 Oct. 2014. Actor. Daughter of Libby Robertson, office worker, and George McCrindle, insurance agent.
Ann Smith MacDonald aka Annie Smith MacDonald n. Johnston, born Barony, Lanark, 20 Nov. 1849, died Edinburgh 21 Oct. 1924. Artistic bookbinder. Daughter of Lucy Leitch, and Fred Johnston, bank cashier.
Louisa MacDonald (scholar) born Arbroath 10 Dec. 1858, died Marylebone, London, 28 Nov. 1949. Scholar, pioneering college principal, Australia. Daughter of Ann Kidd, and John Macdonald, WS and town clerk.
Margaret MacDonald (estate manager), of Sleat, n. Montgomerie, born Eglinton c. 1716, died 30 March 1799. Estate manager. Daughter of Susanna Kennedy of Culzean, and Alexander, 9th Earl of Eglinton.
Mary MacDonald (poet) n. MacDougall, born Ardtun, Isle of Mull, 1789, died Ardtun 21 May 1872. Gaelic poet and hymn writer. . Daughter of Anne Morrison, and Duncan MacDougall, farmer.Y - being worked on by Backfire1122
Lily McDougall aka Lily Martha Maud McDougall, born Glasgow 25 July 1875, died Edinburgh 21 Dec. 1958. Artist and hostess. Daughter of Matilda Milne, and William Henrie McDougall, banker.
Agnes McDouall, n. Buchan-Hepburn, born East Linton 27 Sept. 1838, died Logan 15 March 1926. Gardener and plant collector. Daughter of Helen Little, and Sir Thomas Buchan-Hepburn. Y
Hope MacDougall, MACDOUGALL of MacDougall, Margaret Hope Garnons, born Athlone, Ireland 21 Jan. 1913, died Oban 22 Dec. 1998. Historian and collector. Daughter of Colina MacDougall, and Alexander James MacDougall, Chief of the Clan MacDougall.
Helen MacFarlane, [Howard Morton], m1 Proust, m2 Edwards, born Barrhead 25 Dec. 1818, died Baddiley, near Nantwich, 29 Mar. 1860. Radical journalist, first translator of The Communist Manifesto. Daughter of Helen Stenhouse, and George Macfarlane, owner of calico-printing mills.
Jessie MacFarlane, m. Brodie, born Edinburgh 20 Jan. 1843, died Edinburgh 18 August 1871. Itinerant preacher. Daughter of Mary Maxwell Turner, and Archibald McFarlane, clothier.
Margaret McGhie, fl. 1760–1770s, Aberdeen. Innkeeper.
Betty MacGregor aka Elizabeth MacGregor Janet Elizabeth (Betty), MD, FRCPath, OBE, n. McPherson, born Glasgow 12 Jan. 1920, died Lynn of Lorne 8 Oct. 2005. Doctor and cytol�ogist. Daughter of Jean (Jennie) Craig, and Andrew McPherson, company secretary.
Margaret Macgregor Margaret Ann Kinniburgh, n. Burns, baptised Edinburgh 11 Nov. 1838, died Glasgow 20 Jan. 1901. Bible Woman and Lady Mission Superintendent. Daughter of Jeanie Marshall, and James Burns, clerk. Y
Frances McIan Frances Matilda (Fanny), n. Whitaker, m1 McIan, m2 Unwin, born Bath c. 1814, died London 7 April 1897. Artist, painter of Highland scenes. Daughter of Sarah Hawkins, upholsterer, and William Whitaker, cabinetmaker. Y
Have a look at the Women in Red redlist index for other ideas for pages to write

Projects

Class list
#	Student name	Wiki Username	Topic focus	Link to Wiki project page	Link to dashboard
1.	Example user Ewan McAndrew	Example wiki username Stinglehammer	Witches of Scotland	Link to project page	Link to dashboard page
2.	Ewan McAndrew	Stinglehammer	Gothic architecture and film	Gothic architecture and film	Dashboard link
3.	Emma Gregson	EmG223	South American folklore and Women scientists	South American folklore and Women scientists	Dashboard link
4.	Calum Baptie	Sleepingandsnoring	Cosmetic UV filters	Cosmetic UV filters	Dashboard link
5.	Muhammad Zulaidi	SunlightSonata	Improving the quality of Brunei historical articles	Improving the quality of Brunei historical articles	Dashboard link
6.	Zicheng Zhang	Zicheng zic	History of Qingtian and its diasporas	History of Qingtian and its diasporas	Dashboard link
7.	Ellinore Westergren	Panora11	Swedish and Hispanic literature	Swedish and Hispanic Literature	Dashboard link
8.	Tom Harrington	Tgsh3212	Underrepresented Groups in Journalism	Underrepresented Groups in Journalism	Dashboard Link
9.	Alexis Bradstreet	Pineappleghost	Data Privacy	Data Privacy	Dashboard Link
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Main training tutorial: How to begin editing Wikipedia (53 mins)

Some short video tutorials

These are all embedded in our student-created Wikimedian in Residence website here to make the how & why of editing Wikipedia much easier to engage with. Undergraduate student Hannah Rothmann’s work creating this website and the video resources above in lockdown Summer 2020 won an Open Education Global award recently. Because we felt that students, educators and everyone should be able to do this much more simply and have this ‘need to know’ information readily and openly available so I hope this is of use to you.

The basics

How to create a Wikipedia user page (pdf guide) - More pdf guides below.
Wikipedia Basics site (how to add a link, citation, image and more).
How to edit - video playlists ((how to add a link, citation, image and more).
Have a look at our new Histropedia timeline of Women's suffrage in Scotland.
Have a look at our Navigation box template we add to the foot of pages about the Scottish suffragettes. We can create, amend and add more Women in Red to these templates and make these pages more discoverable.
There is a draft biography you can look at and use as an exemplar: Mary Blathwayt.

Helpful links

Once you've learned the basics of editing using Wikipedia’s Visual Editor, I hope that you'll stay logged in and edit or create more articles. I've added some booklets and some links below that you may find useful. As a first step you may like to check out what What Wikipedia is not along with its 5 guiding principles: The 5 pillars.

The Wikipedia Adventure Start Page - a fun tutorial introducing new editors to Wikipedia
Visual Editor user guide
Questions – a guide on where to ask questions
The Teahouse new editor help space
Wikipedia Help pages
Article wizard – a Wizard to help you create articles
The simplified ruleset – a summary of Wikipedia's most important rules
Guide to Wikipedia – a thorough step-by-step guide to Wikipedia
Is your topic notable enough for an article?
Be Bold!
Don't let grumpy users scare you off.
Learn from others
How to write a great article
A simplified manual of style

Please sign your messages on talk pages with four tildes (~~~~). This will automatically insert your "signature" (your username and a date stamp). The or button, on the tool bar above Wikipedia's text editing window, also does this.
If you would like to play around with your new Wiki skills without changing the mainspace, the Sandbox is for you.

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.
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:

General

DiscoverEd to find books, ebooks, journals, ejournals and more.

News sources

Theses databases

Edinburgh Research Archive. For theses produced at the University of Edinburgh Edinburgh Research Archive
Proquest Dissertations
More at: Edinburgh University Library - Theses database

Outcomes - New pages created

Resources

Wikipedia - Working with Images
Wikipedia - Writing about people
Wikipedia - Writing about Places
Wikipedia - Making Connections

Editing Wikipedia brochure (Wiki Education Foundation)
Illustrating Wikipedia brochure (Wiki Education Foundation)
Theories: Wikipedia and the production of knowledge
Evaluating Wikipedia brochure (Wiki Education Foundation)

Video guides to editing Wikipedia

Tutorials on Wikipedia editing

Visual Editor User Guide
manual of style
Wikipedia cheat sheet (Bookshelf), another markup cheatsheet
Training for students, a tutorial for beginners
Beginners' guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
Five pillars of Wikipedia, philosophical guidelines and best practices for editing
Tutorial
How to edit a page
Wiki markup quick reference, PDF version of printed handout
Article development
Your first article (using the Article Wizard, if you wish)
Bookshelf, additional "getting started" resources
Biographies of Living Persons

One page handouts

Using talk pages
Choosing an article
Citing your sources
Avoiding plagiarism
Classroom handout - moving out of your sandbox
Polishing your articles

External links

Participants - Sign Up Here!

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

Don't worry! If you haven't edited Wikipedia before and don't have a Wikipedia User Name yet, we will help you on the day of the event! And remember to have fun!

To sign up for this event: Log in or create an account.

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