Wikipedia:Scots Wikipedia Editathon Juin 2021
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Anent Us
[eedit soorce]We'r an onwab group thit hiv got thegither tae sort oot aw the bad Scots Wikipedia airticles an tae help oot the site's admins bi teachin thaim mair Scots, an sort oot the Wiki as a hale. The editathon is takkin place on 5t Juin tae the 6t.
(in Inglis) We're an online group that has formed to fix all of the bad Scots Wikipedia articles, help out the site's admins by teaching them proper Scots, and generally improve the quality of the Wiki. This editathon takes place between the 5th June to the 6th.
Theme
[eedit soorce]The poll fur the nixt theme haes been. Here ur the results:
- Scots in STEM (science technology engineering medicine) and Scots nurses - 5
- Scots Leid relatit fowk, events, media, etc. - 4
- Leids - 4
- Telly - 3
- Scots/Irish Mythology an Folklore - 3
- Hings inventit in Scotland an Ireland - 3
- Gemms - 2
The theme will be Scots in STEM (science technology engineering medicine) and Scots nurses
Takkin Pairt
[eedit soorce](in Inglis) Sign up for the Dashboard here to log all edits made during the editathon (one click enrollment link)
- SATURDAY 5th - Zoom editing session, 12-2 book on Eventbrite.
- SUNDAY 6th - Zoom editing session, 12-2 book on Eventbrite.
Tasks
[eedit soorce]Airticles tae sort oot an stend
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- Scots inventors
- James Watt
- John Logie Baird
- Alexander Graham Bell
- John Aitken (meteorologist)
- David Brewster
- Robert Davidson (inventor)
- James Dewar
- John Boyd Dunlop
- Alexander Fleming
- Sandford Fleming
- James David Forbes
- Andrew Gordon (Benedictine)
- William Boog Leishman
- John Claudius Loudon
- John Macleod (pheesiologist)
- James Clerk Maxwell
- John Napier
- Robert Stirling Newall
- William Nicol (geologist)
- Mungo Ponton
- John Robison (physicist)
- James Young Simpson
- William Symington
- Alexander Tilloch
- Museums
Airticle tae big
[eedit soorce]- en:Edinburgh Seven
- en:Sophia Jex-Blake
- en:Isabel Thorne
- en:Edith Pechey
- en:Matilda Chaplin Ayrton
- en:Helen Evans
- en:Mary Adamson Anderson Marshall
- en:Emily Bovell
- en:Sharon Ashbrook
- en:Agnes Borrowman
- en:Eleanor Campbell (scientist)
- en:Elizabeth Fulhame
- en:Christina Miller
- en:Annie Hutton Numbers
- en:Ruth Pirret
- en:Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women
- en:Jason Leitch
- en:Amanda Croft
- en:Fiona McQueen
- en:Muffy Calder
- en:Anne Glover (biologist)
(in Inglis) Tasks for non-Scots speakers to do
[eedit soorce]- Add citations and references sections to stub articles - we've got lots of stubs, and really they need some work. You can help by adding references! Find unsourced articles here.
- Add images to articles with no images. There's a new category on Wikimedia Commons, for images that have come from the Scottish Government Flickr account.
