Dear all,
Apologies for any cross-posting. Please share and disseminate in your networks this invite for our IWD event. All welcome!
Join us for our International
Women's Day 2024 Wikipedia
edit-a-thon event ONLINE and in person at the University of Edinburgh's Centre for Research Collections this Friday 8th March at 1pm. Come for the snacks and meet our new student Assistant Wikimedian in Residence,
Ellie Whitehead, who has prepared some pages and sources for you to have at!
Book
here
Wikipedia is the world’s go-to source of information but not everything is online. Far from it!
And only 19.76% of biographies on Wikipedia are about women. 50-100 words+ is all we need to publish NEW pages as long as you
#CiteWhatYouWrite
Join us for a social and supportive afternoon and learn a new FUN and important 21st century digital research skill where you can do something amazing that has a lasting
published impact by creating and improving Wikipedia pages about women's activism and campaigners for women's rights, education, suffrage and global justice. See what volunteer activism has ALREADY achieved in the last 5 years since we first created this
Women's Suffrage in Scotland resource for #Vote100
in 2018. So many new pages!
Suggestions
for new pages to create and improve on our event page.
I'll bring some tea, coffee, and some biccies and cake
to keep your editing efforts fuelled and keep the #InspireInclusion activism going
🙂.
Please also be aware this is part of a day of events and you may also like to attend in person the following:
- The naming of the
Bessie Watson Lecture Theatre in
the Outreach Centre, Holyrood Campus on International Women’s Day 2024. Please join Dr. Melissa Highton and guest speakers from
9.15-10.15 a.m. on Friday 8th March to honour Bessie Watson (1900-1992), Scotland’s youngest suffragette.
Bessie marched and played the bagpipes for the Women’s Social and Political Union in the early 20th century, aged just nine. She continued to be involved in the suffrage movement throughout her childhood, piping outside Calton Jail to raise the morale of the
imprisoned women. She went on to study French at the University of Edinburgh, and had a career teaching violin and modern languages across the city.
NB:
Bessie's page on Wikipedia did not exist until our colleague Lorna Campbell wrote it in 2018 and I asked Edinburgh Central Library for
this image to illustrate it. Little edits can make a big difference!
- Dr. Highton is also hosting a ‘Menopause in the workplace’ workshop from 10:30am-12.30 pm. With one in ten women in the UK who
worked during the menopause reporting that they have left a job due to their symptoms, we will discuss the ways in which we can adapt to ensure our colleagues have the support they need. I will be joined by Dr Belinda Steffan, Senior Research Fellow at the
Business School. If you would like to join the Menopause in the workplace, or advertise it to colleagues,
please book here.
We hope you can make the events and join us in celebrating International Women’s Day and the pioneering woman that was Bessie Watson.
Best wishes,
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