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BBC's 100 Women
The BBC and Wikimedia UK are jointly supporting the 100 Women initiative.

This project page can be used as a site for discussion, and also provides information on ongoing and future projects organised as part of the collaboration between BBC Glasgow and Wikimedia UK.

Wikimedia and BBC 100 Women

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Welcome to WikiProject BBC 100 Women, a partnership between the BBC and Wikimedia to raise awareness of the gender gap on Wikipedia, improve coverage of women and encourage women to edit.

100 Women is one of the BBC’s most successful news series which names 100 influential and inspirational women around the world every year, creating documentaries, features and interviews with them, as a way to look at women’s rights around the world. It is broadcast on the BBC World Service’s TV, radio and online services in 28 languages and bbc.com to reach global audiences of over 320 million a week. The series is entering its fourth year in 2016 and will be on air between 21st November to 8th December.

The content gap on Wikipedia is a form of systemic bias, with fewer than 17% of biographies about women. There is also a persistent editor gap, with women significantly underrepresented in our global community of contributors. The BBC are working with Wikimedia through their 100 Women season this year to promote and encourage more women editors and to raise awareness of the issue through events, media coverage and community activism.

On 8th December 2016 as part of the BBC 100 Women season, edit-a-thons will be held at BBC Glasgow, and in locations around the world where there are BBC bureaux and active Wikimedia communities.

BBC Scotland

The hope is to reach a global audience of millions of people, increasing understanding of the way in which Wikipedia is created - through volunteer contributions - as well as generating more content about women on the site. Events will run across the whole day in different countries, in multiple languages simultaneously. Editors in locations from around the world will include BBC staff and audience, special guests and the Wikipedia community, with training for new editors provided by Wikimedians and organised by local chapters, user groups and communities.

Editors working in all languages will be encouraged to live tweet about their involvement and their edits through #100womenwiki. The BBC will have a live page and the event will be reported on various programmes and platforms over the course of the day. If you aren’t able to make it to an event, you will be able to follow a ‘how to’ video and join in from home, make sure we know you are taking part by sharing your contribution using the hashtag and become part of the community trying to address this challenge.

If you would like to be involved as an event co-ordinator, trainer or participant, please sign up below or email bbc100.women@bbc.co.uk and we will aim to pair your community up with a BBC producer and location.
NB: This event page is for the event at BBC Glasgow on 8th December 2016 - 11am to 4pm.

We Can Edit

Booking

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How do I prepare?

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Further reading

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The main policies and guidelines can be found at the following pages:

Programme - 8th December 2016

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  • 11am to 4pm - Wikipedia training and editing.

Trainers

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Hit list of articles to be created or improved

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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.

Wikipedia's Manual of Style

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The following is a small sample of topics to work on. Feel free to come up with your own ideas!

All are welcome to add names to the list which is intended to serve as a basis for creating new articles in this important but neglected sector on the English Wikipedia.

Emily Temple-Wood - Writing Diversity back into History (2minutes27seconds)

Articles to be created

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Interview Emily Temple-Wood discussing gender diversity on Wikipedia and WikiProject Women Scientists

Articles to be improved

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Sources

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Suggested sources:

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General
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  • DiscoverEd to find books, ebooks, journals, ejournals and more.
News sources
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Theses databases
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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.

  • 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.

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

Resources

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Join us for the event!
  • Wikipedia - Working with Images
    Wikipedia - Working with Images
  • Wikipedia - Writing about people
    Wikipedia - Writing about people
  • Wikipedia - Writing about Places
    Wikipedia - Writing about Places
  • Wikipedia - Making Connections
    Wikipedia - Making Connections
  • Editing Wikipedia brochure (Wiki Education Foundation)
    Editing Wikipedia brochure (Wiki Education Foundation)
  • Illustrating Wikipedia brochure (Wiki Education Foundation)
    Illustrating Wikipedia brochure (Wiki Education Foundation)
  • Theories: Wikipedia and the production of knowledge
    Theories: Wikipedia and the production of knowledge
  • Evaluating Wikipedia brochure (Wiki Education Foundation)
    Evaluating Wikipedia brochure (Wiki Education Foundation)

Video guides to editing Wikipedia

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Tutorials on Wikipedia editing

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One page handouts

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

Talkpage templates

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  • If the woman was born before 1950 use: {{WikiProject Women's history}}
  • If the woman was born after 1950 use: {{WikiProject Women}}

Outcomes - New pages created

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  1. Mary Hepburn
  2. Ethel Baxter
  3. Meredith Jemima Brown
  4. Betty Corrigall
  5. Dr Mary Jessie MacDonald Noble
  6. Danielle Joyce
  7. Mary Bristow
  8. Jessie Campbell
  9. Charlotte Cheverton
  10. Maggie Cusack
  11. Anne Bevan
  12. Hester Dickson Martineau
  13. Jackie Crookstone
  14. Adele Patrick
  15. Madeline Daniell
  16. Winifred Drinkwater
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Participants - Sign Up Here!

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Prior to the event:

  1. RSVP: ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk
  2. Do you have a Wikipedia User Name?
    No? Create a Wikipedia account
    Yes? Go to Step #2
  3. 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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