![]() | We are not removing: A Mary Barbour Editathon in a nutshell:
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The campaign to build a statue to commemorate Mary Barbour in Govan has rightly received considerable attention and public support. It is also a campaign that has generated a wider discussion about the representation of existing statuary in Glasgow and the function of public art. Anyone unaware of why there is a campaign to build a statue to Barbour would probably turn to what Paul Mason has described as the best known example of the potential of anti-capitalist information technology - Wikipedia. In doing so however, they might well wonder why someone with such a poor entry is worthy of a public statue.
The Mary Barbour story is a remarkable one. In 1915, before women were enfranchised, she helped coordinate a rent-strike in Glasgow that, at its height, threatened the production of wartime munitions on the Clyde, and forced the British Government to pass a law that prevented landlords from increasing rents. For this achievement alone, Mary Barbour deserves a better article than she currently has on Wikipedia. But that isn't the end of the Barbour story. In the 1920's, and by now a local councillor, Barbour was instrumental in the setting up of the city's first birth-control clinic. The battle to give women the right to control their own bodies was, and still is, a battle against ideological religious intolerance and prejudice. Mary Barbour successfully overcame those forces of reaction, and for this too she deserves a better Wikipedia article than she currently has.
There are no specific entry requirements although participants will require some basic digital literacies. Full training in how to use Wikipedia will be given. Participants can work either as individual editors or chose to collate information as part of a larger team. Participants can choose to work on the main subject or choose to work on a personal project.
Goals of the event:
We will have books and other texts available on the day. You don't have to read all of the titles below to take part!
Pearce Institute -
http://www.unitetheunion.org/growing-our-union/education/rebelroad/plaques/
Scottish Parliament -
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/14125331.Humza_Yousaf__Make_an_exception_on_naming_rules_for_Mary_Barbour/?ref=mr&lp=9
This programme is provisional and will likely change as the event develops!
Below is the list of trainers/experienced Wikimedians that will be present on the day:
Please feel free to add your own!
Articles for improvement:
Articles for creation:
![]() | We are not removing: A Mary Barbour Editathon in a nutshell:
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The campaign to build a statue to commemorate Mary Barbour in Govan has rightly received considerable attention and public support. It is also a campaign that has generated a wider discussion about the representation of existing statuary in Glasgow and the function of public art. Anyone unaware of why there is a campaign to build a statue to Barbour would probably turn to what Paul Mason has described as the best known example of the potential of anti-capitalist information technology - Wikipedia. In doing so however, they might well wonder why someone with such a poor entry is worthy of a public statue.
The Mary Barbour story is a remarkable one. In 1915, before women were enfranchised, she helped coordinate a rent-strike in Glasgow that, at its height, threatened the production of wartime munitions on the Clyde, and forced the British Government to pass a law that prevented landlords from increasing rents. For this achievement alone, Mary Barbour deserves a better article than she currently has on Wikipedia. But that isn't the end of the Barbour story. In the 1920's, and by now a local councillor, Barbour was instrumental in the setting up of the city's first birth-control clinic. The battle to give women the right to control their own bodies was, and still is, a battle against ideological religious intolerance and prejudice. Mary Barbour successfully overcame those forces of reaction, and for this too she deserves a better Wikipedia article than she currently has.
There are no specific entry requirements although participants will require some basic digital literacies. Full training in how to use Wikipedia will be given. Participants can work either as individual editors or chose to collate information as part of a larger team. Participants can choose to work on the main subject or choose to work on a personal project.
Goals of the event:
We will have books and other texts available on the day. You don't have to read all of the titles below to take part!
Pearce Institute -
http://www.unitetheunion.org/growing-our-union/education/rebelroad/plaques/
Scottish Parliament -
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/14125331.Humza_Yousaf__Make_an_exception_on_naming_rules_for_Mary_Barbour/?ref=mr&lp=9
This programme is provisional and will likely change as the event develops!
Below is the list of trainers/experienced Wikimedians that will be present on the day:
Please feel free to add your own!
Articles for improvement:
Articles for creation: