What do I need? Please bring a laptop as desktop computers will not be provided. You can also
Create a Wikipedia account ahead of the event.
How do I sign up? Booking links are below.
Booking
You can book your place for morning or afternoon sessions (or attend both).
If you are a student or member of staff at the University of Edinburgh please book using the links below:
Join us to celebrate the suffragettes, the lives & contributions of women in medicine and all the incredible women missing from Wikipedia!
The University's
Information Services team will run a Wikipedia edit-a-thon focusing on improving the quality of articles about notable women; with a particular focus on the suffragette movement and women in medicine to celebrate the lives and contributions made since the
Edinburgh Seven won the right to study medicine after the
Surgeons' Hall riot and celebrating #100years since the
Representation of the People Act 1918 first granted women the right to vote.
Have you ever wondered why the information in Wikipedia is extensive for some topics and scarce for others? As of 15 January 2017 only about 17.39% of the English Wikipedia's biographies are about women. That means only 263,022 of our 1,512,528 biographies are about women. Not impressed?
Suffragettes
Annie Kenney,
Mary Blathwayt and
Emmeline Pankhurst, Eagle House, Batheaston 1910Join us this Innovative Learning Week as we help make Wikipedia better!Flora Drummond at Meeting of Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) leaders, c.1906 - 1907Dissected skull, Maison Tramond model, Paris, nineteenth century (24226156362)Sophia Jex-Blake as a young womanEdinburgh Seven Plaque
No prior knowledge is required. With guest speakers and plenty of refreshments to support you to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of medicine-related content, you’ll learn how to edit Wikipedia and participate in an open knowledge community. Refreshments provided.
Participants can attend the morning session, afternoon session or both and will be supported to develop articles of their choice related to notable women missing from Wikipedia. NB: Please bring a laptop along to the event or email me at ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk if you require to borrow one for the event.
Programme for Thursday 22 February
10am - 10:15am: Coffee and Tea
10:15 am – 10:30 am: Housekeeping and Welcome from Alice White, Wikimedian in Residence at the Wellcome Library.
10:30 am – 11:45am: Wikipedia training
11:45am – 1:00 pm: EDIT!
1:00 pm – 1:15 pm: Coffee and Tea.
1:15 pm – 1:30 pm: Housekeeping and Welcome from our Guest Speaker (tbc)
1:30 pm - 2:45 pm: Wikipedia training (for afternoon attendees).
2:45 pm - 4:00 pm: EDIT!
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm: Publish new content to Wikipedia and close of event.
How do I prepare?
Once you have registered to attend, there are a few things you can do to prepare before you attend:
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!
The hitlist
This section will be added to shortly and will feature the pages we are think are the best to work on.
University of Edinburgh. Staff Profile page.
[20]University of Cambridge. Cambridge Institute of Public Health. Bradford Hill Seminar.
[21]University of Edinburgh. Research Portal.
[22]
Angela Thomas - director of heritage and a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Page to be created.
[87][88][89]
Jadwiga KarnickiBMJ obit seems to have graduated from Polish School of Medicine in Edinburgh
[90] as well as St Andrews. Member and Fellow of RCOG
[91][92]Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Fellowship admission record.
[93]Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Membership admission record.
[94]Dundee University. Recollections of a Polish medical Student in Dundee.
[95]Imperial War Museum. Oral History recordings. (Primary material)
[96]University of Edinburgh. The Polish School of Medicine.
[97]BMJ. Obituaries.
[98]The Telegraph. Obituaries.
[99]
Alice Hunter - surgeon
[100][101][102][103] Cutting Edge Magazine from Surgeins.org:
[104]RCSED Information on the Hunter Doig Medal:
[105]The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women:
[106]RCSED SN Global Magazine:
[107]
Janie Allan leading Scottish activist in the militant suffragette movement of the early 20th century. Pic required.
Jane Arthur Scottish feminist and activist. She became the first Scottish woman to stand for and be elected to a school board. Stub article needs expanded, infobox and pic.
Frances Balfour president of the National Society for Women's Suffrage from 1896 to 1914. Could be expanded.
Alice Hunter - surgeon
[260][261][262][263] Cutting Edge Magazine from Surgeins.org:
[264]RCSED Information on the Hunter Doig Medal:
[265]The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women:
[266]RCSED SN Global Magazine:
[267]
Mair Eleri Morgan ThomasBMJ obit Practiced at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital for Woman
[278]BMJ. Obituary.
[279] Historic England. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson hospital for women.
[280]
Jadwiga KarnickiBMJ obit seems to have graduated from Polish School of Medicine in Edinburgh
[293] as well as St Andrews. Member and Fellow of RCOG
[294][295]Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Fellowship admission record.
[296]Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Membership admission record.
[297]Dundee University. Recollections of a Polish medical Student in Dundee.
[298]Imperial War Museum. Oral History recordings. (Primary material)
[299]University of Edinburgh. The Polish School of Medicine.
[300]BMJ. Obituaries.
[301]The Telegraph. Obituaries.
[302]
University of Edinburgh. Staff Profile page.
[305]University of Cambridge. Cambridge Institute of Public Health. Bradford Hill Seminar.
[306]University of Edinburgh. Research Portal.
[307]
Flic Gabbay - Co-founder and first chairman of the Society for Pharmaceutical Medicine. Page to be created.
Cicely Saunders - English Anglican nurse, social worker, physician and writer. More inline citations required.
Fiona Godlee - Needs expanded and additional source for verification.
Jenny Higham - Could be expanded, made easier to read. Infobox and pic required.
Marie Stopes - British author, palaeobotanist and campaigner for eugenics and women's rights. Lead section to be rewritten for clarity.
Mary Horgan - Needs expanded, with infobox and a pic.
Dorothy Price - Irish physician who was key to the elimination of childhood tuberculosis in Ireland by introducing the BCG vaccine. Quite good already. Could more be added?
Asha Kasliwal is the president of the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare. Page to be created.
[313][314][315]
Anandibai Gopal Joshi - one of the earliest Indian female physicians. More sources required.
Parveen Kumar - British doctor who is currently Professor of Medicine and Education at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London. Pic required.
Jane Harriett Walker - English medical doctor who first implemented the open-air method of treating tuberculosis in England. Additional sources required.
Suzy Lishman is the President of the Royal College of Pathologists. Infobox and pic required. Article could be expanded.
Dorothy Russell - quite good already, but more could probably be added.
Carrie MacEwen - President of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists in the UK and the head of the Ophthalmology Department at Dundee University's School of Medicine. Tiny article, could definitely be expanded and pic added.
Eilis McGovern - the first woman to be elected president of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Page to be created.
Emily Winifred Dickson - Irish doctor who was the first woman Fellow of any Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland or Great Britain. Quite good already, but can more be added?
Vicky Osgood - British obstetrician and medical educator. Short article, could be expanded. Infobox and pic required.
Clare Marx - the former President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England from July 2014 to July 2017, the first woman to hold the position. Infobox and pic required.
Eleanor Davies-Colley - British surgeon. Among the earliest women in the UK to pursue a career in surgery. Pic and infobox required.
Neena Modi - president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health since April 2015. Infobox and pic required. Could be expanded too.
June Lloyd - British paediatrician and a determined advocate for children’s health, instrumental in the establishment of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. Good article already but can it be improved?
Ramani Moonesinghe - Consultant in anaesthetics and critical care medicine at University College London (UCL) Hospitals. Page to be created.
Katharine Lloyd-Williams - British anaesthetist, general practitioner and medical educator. Infobox and pic required. Could be expanded also.
Lesley Regan - Professor and Head of Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust at St Mary's Hospital. Short article, could be expanded. Pic and infobox required.
Hilda Lloyd - British physician and surgeon. She was the first woman to be elected (in 1949) as president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Short article, could be expanded. Pic and infobox required.
Louisa Aldrich-Blake - one of the first British women to enter the world of medicine. Short article, could be expanded. Pic and infobox required.
Helen Stokes-Lampard - British medical academic and a general practitioner. She is Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP). Pic required. Can article be added to?
Mollie McBride - studied medicine at the University of Liverpool, qualifying in 1954 as one of only nine women in a year of 100 students. Page to be created.
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Angela Thomas - director of heritage and a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Page to be created.
[326][327][328]
Isabella Pringle - the first female Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Short article. Could be expanded.
[329]
Joanna Wardlaw - Scottish physician, radiologist, and academic, specialising in neuroradiology and pathophysiology. Pic required.
Margaret Whitehead - holds the W.H. Duncan chair in Public Health at the University of Liverpool. Needs expanded, more secondary sources and a pic.
Rosemary Rue - British physician and civil servant. Needs more inline citations backing up content of the article. Infobox too.
Carol Black - Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge. B-class article already. Can it be improved?
Barbara Ansell - the founder of paediatric rheumatology. Infobox and pic required. Can more be added?
Professor
Susan Dorsch (School Captain, Dux, and winner of the Ex-students prize 1951; Class of 1951) –
Emeritus Professor; Pioneer of
transplantation immunology. First woman appointed to a Professorship in the faculty of Medicine (USYD). Pro-Vice Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the
University of Sydney[5]
Mary Jermyn Heseltine – One of the first Australian doctors to study exfoliative cytology; Established the first gynaecological cytology unit in Australia at King George V Hospital[14]
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.
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Switzerland
Barbara Borsinger Nurse and founder of Pouponnière de l’Œuvre des Amis de l’Enfance
Marguerite Champendal, doctor, first woman to get doctorate at the University of Geneva in 1900
UK
Una Coales - NHS GP, past Secretary of Conservative Health, National Council Representative for the
Royal College of General Practitioners (2009-12, 2013-16) and runner-up for President of that college in 2009,
British Medical Association sessional GP subcommittee representative (2013-2016), Channel 4 TV presenter of the
Turn Back Your Body Series (2006), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in ENT surgery and in general surgery (by exam 1999, 2000 respectively),
Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners (2010), highly commended author BMA 2005 and 2006 and author of 17 books on medical topics for both doctors and the public.
Christiane Northrup (req. 2009-02-15) - American author and speaker; obstetrician and gynecologist; M.D. , Dartmouth College (1975); wrote The Wisdom of Menopause (revised, 2006) and Happiness in the Second Half of Your Life (2007); speaker on issues involving women's health and sexuality;
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Participants are also encouraged to make full use of the University of Edinburgh's
extensive online resources, such as databases and e-journals, as well as any of their own research material that they may have access to.
Wikipedia is a tertiary resource, which relies upon secondary sources. Wikipedia is not a place for original research.
Once you have signed up and created your Wikipedia account, why not add your username below? Don't worry about formatting if you aren't sure, we can help you on the day!
Did you know that a Wikipedia article with an image is around 20-30% more likely to be clicked on & read than one without an image attached?
Here are some notable locations in Edinburgh that could use some photographs to improve their visibility on Wikipedia. If you see these buildings, please stop to take a photo which can then be uploaded to Wikipedia during the editathon on a CC-0 or CC-BY-SA open licence.
Site of former Edinburgh School Board Day Industrial School
no wiki article found, Flora Stephenson wiki refers but includes building photo, ragged school wiki no direct ref
Eoin (
talk) 14:51, 17 February 2016 (GMT)
First site of Edinburgh School of Cookery and Domestic Economy
Photographed and uploaded to File:25 Shandwick Place North view 01.png & File:25 Shandwick Place North East view.png
Neither Historic Scotland ref left, nor
/info/en/?search=Queen_Margaret_University mention the exact address. Image not inserted in article.
Eoin (
talk) 12:25, 17 February 2016 (GMT)
Elsie Inglis (Spanish Wikipedia) - innovative Scottish doctor, suffragist, and founder of the Scottish Women's Hospitals.
Angela Thomas - OBE, FRCPE, FRCPath is a consultant paediatric haematologist and director of the haemophilia centre, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.
Prue Barron - surgeon, working at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh.
Agnes Husband - one of Dundee's first female councillors and a suffragette. She was awarded Freedom of the City at the age of 74 and has been described as 'a pioneer in asserting the claims of women and their competence to participate in the administration of public affairs' and as 'a pioneer in more humane treatment of the poor and in education and care of children'.
Arabella Scott - Scottish suffragette who endured five weeks of solitary confinement in Perth prison and force feeding twice a day.
Anna Batchelor - Dr Anna Batchelor is a British consultant physician, best known for her work in intensive care medical education. She was the first female Dean of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine at the University of Sheffield between 2013 and 2016 and President of the Intensive Care Society from 2005 to 2007.
Lila Clunas - a Scottish suffragette and Labour party councilor.
Ramani Moonesinghe - is a Consultant in Anaesthetics and Critical Care Medicine at University College London (UCL) Hospitals. Dr Moonesinghe is Director of National Institute for Academic Anaesthesia (NIAA) Health Services Research Centre and Associate National Clinical Director for Elective Care for NHS England
Alice Headwards-Hunter - the first woman to become a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. She spent her professional life in India, caring mainly for women and children. The Indian Government recognised her service by the award of the Kaiser-i-Hind medal.
Frances Ivens - CBE, ChM, FRCOG was an obstetrician and gynaecologist who was the first woman appointed to a hospital consultant post in Liverpool. During the First World war she was Chief Medical Officer at The Scottish Women's Hospital at Royaumnont, north east of Paris. For her services to the French forces she was awarded the Légion d'honneur and the Croix de Guerre.
Asha Kasliwal - President of the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare, also known as FSRH.
Regi Claire - a Swiss-born novelist and short story writer, living and working in Scotland. Her native language is Swiss-German, but she writes in English, which is her fourth language.
Dorothea Chalmers Smith - a pioneer doctor and a militant Scottish suffragette. She was imprisoned for eight months for breaking and entering, and attempted arson, where she went on hunger strike.
Minnie Baldock - British suffragette. Along with
Annie Kenney, she co-founded the first London branch of the
Women's Social and Political Union. Baldock was arrested on 23 October 1906 for disorderly conduct during the opening of parliament. She received a sentence of two months in prison after refusing to be bound over.Suffragette Minnie Baldock 1909
Cathie Sudlow - British neurologist. She is a professor of Neurology and Clinical Epidemiology and Head of the Centre for Medical Informatics at the Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. She is the Chief Scientist of UK Biobank, and an honorary Consultant Neurologist in the Division of Clinical Neurosciences in Edinburgh.
Sheona Macleod - Professor Sheona Macleod MB ChB, FRCGP, MMEd, FAoME, DOccMed, DCH, DRCOG is chair of the Conference of Postgraduate Medical Deans (COPMeD), lead for Health Education England’s deans, and the postgraduate medical dean in the East Midlands.
Una Duval - a suffragette and marriage reformer. Page improved with an infobox.
Louisa Stevenson - a Scottish campaigner for women's university education, women's suffrage and effective, well-organised nursing. Page improved with an infobox.
Katharine de Mattos - Scottish author and journalist. She was the youngest daughter of Alan Stevenson and the sister of Robert Alan Mowbray Stevenson. Page improved with new Publications and Further Reading sections.
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