Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/Events and Workshops/International Nurses Day 2017

University of Edinburgh edit-a-thon

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About the event

Have you ever wondered why the information in Wikipedia is extensive for some topics and scarce for others? As part of International Nurses Day 2017, on Friday 12th May, the University's Information Services team will run an edit-a-thon at Argyle House. Full Wikipedia editing training will be given to attendees. Thereafter the afternoon's editathon will focus on improving the quality of articles about nurses.

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 where Wikipedia's coverage needs improved; including the history of nursing, distinguished alumni and notable nurses from around the world etc.

Come along to learn about how Wikipedia works and celebrate the history of nursing!

We Can Edit

How do I prepare?

• 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

The Manual of Style

Wikipedia has help pages which set out style guidelines for pages being created on certain subject areas. Please have a look at the following pages:

• Manual of Style for Biographies including how to begin the lead paragraph.
• Manual of Style for Biographies of Living Persons

Programme (subject to change)

• 1:30pm - 1:45pm: Housekeeping and Welcome
• 12:45pm – 2:15pm: Wikipedia training
• 2:15pm - 2:25pm: Comfort break
• 2:25pm – 4:25pm: Research & EDIT!
• 4:25pm - 4:55pm: Transferring drafted text to Wikipedia's live space.
• 4:55pm - 5:00pm: Thanks and Close.

Trainers

Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Edinburgh

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!

Looking for ideas

The following WikiProject Women in Red list shows what information Wikipedia could be missing and requires adding.

• Click here to see the list.
• List of red-linked articles to create.

The following Wikidata list demonstrates what information Wikipedia has about nurses (grouped by place of education).

• Click here to see this list.

The following Wikidata list demonstrates what information Wikipedia has about nurses (grouped by nationality).

• Click here to see this list.

Worklist

Articles to Create

• Lilias Mary Grant - Nursing orderly in WW1, part of the Scottish Women's Hospital for Foreign Service. Contemporary of Ethel Moir and Elsie Inglis.

Articles to Improve

• Ethel Moir - Nursing orderly in WW1, part of the Scottish Women's Hospital for Foreign Service. Contemporary of Lilian Mary Grant and Elsie Inglis. Images could be added to her page (and other pages) where Ethel Moir is listed as a creator from this collection of 656 images.

WikiProject Women in Red Worklist of Nurses

This is a list under development of missing articles on women who are (or have been) notable for their contribution to nursing and midwifery in academics, business, economics, politics, research, government or the social sector. |}

See also the Wikidata list of red-linked women nurses

And International Council of Nurses#Presidents

• RESOURCE: The British Journal of Nursing has digitized all of their historic volumes which can be found here. The articles are listed page by page, but you can navigate at the bottom of the page for the next page. After searching years, one page at a time, I was notified by We hope that she found a search engine. I have found articles in the BJoN for many international nurses and hope the reference is helpful for others.

Australia

D

• Sue Denison OAM (née Brown) – First Nurse Practitioner in Australia; Awarded an OAM for services to Nursing and the Nundle district

G

• Ethel Gray – Nursing sister and army matron

H

• Jean Evelyn Headberry (1911-1993) Army nurse who became nurse instructor. Recipient of the 1961 Florence Nightingale Medal. [1], [2], [3]

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• Anna Schofield – One of the first Australian Army nurses to serve in the Middle East during World War II; Author
• Alison Mary Street AO – Head, Haemostasis and Haemophilia Units, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne; Honorary Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Immunology and Department of Medicine, Monash University, Alfred Hospital

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• Barbara Skeete Workman – Professor of Geriatric Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University and Southern Health at Kingston Centre Campus

Canada

• Lyle Creelman (1908-2007), "Canada's foremost international nurse" with UNRRA and Chief Nursing Officer of the WHO 1954-68, [4], [5], [6]
• Anna May Waters (1903-1987) Royal Red Cross - Associate (ARRC) Royal Canadian Army Medical Corp nurse, prisoner of war and nurse to the leper colony on Molokai [7], [8], [9], [10]

Costa Rica

• Haydee Gómez Cascante (1926-) La Galería de las Mujeres de Costa Rica [11], [12]

Czechoslovakia

• Sylva Macharová (1893-1968) One of the first RNs in Czechoslovakia. Inaugural recipient of the Florence Nightingale Medal p 19-20, [13], [14]

Germany

• Annette Grüters-Kieslich, endocrinologist and dean of Charité hospital
• your redlink here

Ghana

• Faustina Oware-Gyekye, nurse-midwife, educator and nursing leader, [15],[16]

Italy

• Costanza Bruno (it) (1915 – 1943), italian nurse, member of CRI
• Emanuela Setti Carraro (it) (1950 – 1982), italian nurse, spouse of Carlo Alberto dalla Chiesa
• your redlink here

New Zealand

• Edith Mary Lewis (aka Edith Mary Rudd) (1882-?) recipient of the 1961 Florence Nightingale Medal. [17], [18], [19], [20], [21]

Nigeria

• Grace Ebun Delano (born 1935), nurse-midwife, active in women's reproductive health initiatives, winner of 1993 World Health Organization Sasakawa Prize.

Poland

• Rachela Hutner (1909-2008) [22], [23], [24]
• Maria Stencel, (1900-1985) recipient of the 1961 Florence Nightingale Medal. [25], [26], [27]

Romania

• White Squadron (Romania) female aviators who flew medical aircraft during World War II and save approximately 1500. [28], [29], [30]

Russia

• Vera Karelina, russian labor activist

Sweden

• Christina Lindholm - internationally acclaimed professor of Clinical Nursing and world leading expert on wound healing. Currently senior professor of Sophiahemmet University in Sweden, former Director of Research at the Karolinska University Hospital. [31]
• Dagmar Stenbeck (aka Emma Dagmar Ekelund) (1889-1985) formed the auxiliary Red Cross nurses of Sweden. Recipient of the 1961 Florence Nightingale Medal. [32], [33], [34], [35]

Switzerland

• Barbara Borsinger Nurse and founder of Pouponnière de l’Œuvre des Amis de l’Enfance

UK

See also list of Presidents of the Royal College of Nursing without articles, and the lists of Fellows and Honorary Fellows in an old version of the article (since removed)

• Dorothy Bannon (1885–1940) Dorothy Edith Bannon, nurse ODNB
• Charlotte Bentley Charlotte Eliza Bentley (1915–1996), nurse and nursing activist ODNB
• Clara Cattell (1860-1923), nurse ODNB
• Maud Cattell (Fanny) (1857–1947), nurse ODNB
• Sheila Collins (1921–2009), nursing educator [36]ODNB
• Margaret Cooper (nurse), OBE (1922 - 2013), nurse and educator [37] [38]
• Rosalie Dreyer (1895–1987) senior nurse, active in WW2, [39][40]ODNB
• Frances Goodall Frances Gowland Goodall (1893–1976), nurse ODNB
• Mary Jones (nurse) (1812–1887), nursing reformer ODNB
• Martha Loane Loane, Martha Jane (1852–1933), nurse and social commentator ODNB
• Mary Milne (nurse) Mary Elizabeth Gordon Milne (1891–1972), nurse ODNB
• Honnor Morten Morten, (Violet) Honnor (1861–1913), nurse and journalist ODNB
• Catherine Pine Catherine Emily Pine (1864–1941), nurse and women's rights worker ODNB
• Emily Smythe Smythe [née Beaufort], Emily Anne, Viscountess Strangford (bap. 1826, d. 1887), military nurse ODNB
• Rebecca Strong (1843-1944), early nurse educator, Matron Glasgow Royal Infirmary, in ODNB
• Mary Young (nurse) (1883-1945) Scottish nurse and resistance worker ODNB
• Katherine Watt (RAF) Dame Katherine Christie Watt (1886–1963), nurse and civil servant ODNB (article name per Katherine Watt DAB)
• your redlink here

US

• Red links in this list: List of Living Legends of the American Academy of Nursing
• Red links in this list:American Nurses Association Hall of Fame

A

• Josephine Cox Anderson (1849-1941), called "The Angel of Pecos," Anderson nursed patients during the flu epidemic in 1918, ran a sanitarium in Carlsbad. [41]

B

• Arne Beltz, (1917–2013), public health nurse, Alaska Women's Hall of Fame.
• Esther Silverstein Blanc, (1913-1997) nurse, educator, juvenile fiction award winning author. [42], [43], [44], [45], [46], [47]
• Louie Croft Boyd, helped found the Colorado State Trained Nurses association, Colorado Women's Hall of Fame

C

• Meta L. Christy (1895-1968), not a nurse, but I'm adding osteopath here since it's an "alternative medicine." She was the first black osteopath and worked in New Mexico. [48]
• Nancy Cornelius later Nancy Cornelius Skenandore, (1861-1908) Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin first Native American to train as a nurse in the U.S. [49], [50], [51]|via = Newspapers.com}} , [52]|via = Newspapers.com}} , [53]|via = Newspapers.com}} , [54]|via = Newspapers.com}} , [55]|via = Newspapers.com}}

D

• Maude C. Davison, (1885-1956) Distinguished Service Medal (U.S. Army) Army Nurse Corps Chief Nurse who led the Angels of Bataan, largest group of American women taken as POWs. [56], [57]

E

• Jo Eleanor Elliott (1924-2011) 1966 Colorado Woman of Achievement [58], [59]

F

H

• Carrie May Hall (1874-1963), chief nurse of the American Red Cross in Britain and France, WW1, and nursing educator [60][61][62]

J

• Janet Jennings (1842-1917), known as "the Angel of the Seneca" for her heroic works as a nurse during the Spanish-American War, [63]
• Edith Emerald Johns, (Ho-Chunk name: Patche-Ka-Danga) (1915-1999) Winnebago/Nez Perce nurse, community leader, Chicago Women's Hall of Fame inductee [64], [65]

M

• Elizabeth Sadoques Mason/aka Elizabeth Mary Sadoques, Abenaki nurse (1897-1985) one of the first Native American nurses in the U.S. [66], [67], [68], [69]
• Pearl McIver (1893-1976) first recipient of the Public Health Nurse Award, recipient of the 1961 Florence Nightingale Medal, American Nurses Association Hall of Fame inductee 2014. [70], [71], [72], [73]
• Linda K. Meirs (1882-1972) (aka Melinda Konover Meirs, aka Linda Konover Meirs) recipient of the Florence Nightingale Medal [74], [75], [76]
• Gladys Nichols Milton, advocate for midwives to be recognized as medical practitioners, Florida Women's Hall of Fame

N

• Josephine Nesbit (1894-1993) Army Nurse Corps 2nd in command of the Angels of Bataan, largest group of American women taken as POWs. Credited with the nurses' survival. [77], [78], [79], [80], [81]
• Barbara Nichols (nurse), (born 1939), first African American president of the Wisconsin Nursing association and the American Nursing association, [82]

O

• Salaria Kee O'Reilly, (1913-1991), African American nurse, [83]
• Rosanna Osterman (1809-1866), Jewish Civil War nurse and philanthropist,[84] mentioned on this wiki page: History of the Jews in Galveston, Texas

U

• Joy Ufema, hospice nurse, [85], [86], [87], [88]

Other suggestions for articles to work on at the event are very welcome.

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.
• 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:

General

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

News sources

• Factiva
• British Newspaper Archive
• More at: Edinburgh University Library - Newspaper database

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

To be determined.

What can I do after the event?

Join us for the event!

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

• Video tutorials
• Instructional videos on using Wikipedia

Participants - Sign Up Here!

Prior to the event:

1. RSVP: ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk
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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!

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