User:Gillaween

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Inspired by the Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red campaign to get more women editors involved in creating more articles about women.

I became an editor in order to publish an article about a lesser known Scottish suffragette I'd been researching. Since creating the page for Jessie C. Methven in 2019, I have caught the editing bug and added more suffragettes to Wikipedia. I'm also interested in Irish revolutionary women and have created articles on Cumann na mBan members, the 77 Women of 1916 quilt and the Fife Witches Trail. I've also been improving articles and adding links to more women in red who are on my to do list. So many women, so little free time!

I'm originally from Dublin and blog about Irish women's history, prehistory and mythology. I work in higher education in Scotland with particular interests in widening access and open education. Editing Wikipedia fits with my open education ethos.

In January 2022 I did the Wikimedia train the trainer course so I could support more people to get involved. I particularly wanted to support more women, LGBTQ+ and people from marginalised communities to begin editing to address some of the systemic bias on Wiki.en. Since then I've facilitated sessions with Protests and Suffragettes, the Queer Heritage and Collections Network, and run the Perth Women on Wikipedia course in partnership with my local library.

Proud to have helped increase proportion of Wikipedia articles about women to 20% in 2024!

Gillaween (talk) 15:59, 27 January 2019 (UTC)