Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/71st and 72nd month report
Institution | Resident's Name | Period Covered | Date of Report | List of reports to date |
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University of Edinburgh | Ewan McAndrew | 1 November 2021 - 31 December 2021 (Seventy-first and Seventy-second month of the residency) | 6 January 2022 | Click here to view all reports. |
The resident was on annual leave from 13 December 2021
Running total of staff & student engagement
[edit]Institution | Resident's Name | Number of training sessions delivered | Number of students trained | Number of staff trained | Members of the public trained | Number of editathons | Total articles created | Total articles improved |
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University of Edinburgh | Ewan McAndrew | 292 | 1,564 | 565 | 618 | 121 | 1,076 | 5,312 |
Projects delivered
[edit]Strategic Aim 1 - Knowledge Equity
[edit]- Develop partnerships that increase access to underrepresented cultural heritage
- Support the development of minority and indigenous language Wikipedias
- Encourage new and existing partners to help tackle the gender gap on Wikimedia
- Identify other areas of inequality and bias and create partnerships to help address these
- Engage with volunteers and partners across the UK, widening the charity’s geographic reach
- Diversify content producers by recruiting new editors from under-represented communities
- Support the development of a more inclusive culture across the Wikimedia projects
- Ensure that Wikimedia UK’s own policies and practices support diversity and inclusion
Progress
[edit]Student Experience Grant
[edit]- Submitted application for up to £5000 from University of Edinburgh Student Experience Grants fund on 11 November 2021 in collaboratin with 3 student partners who will work for 12 weeks in 2022 to research and improve coverage of LGBT History, Gender History and Black History from February to May 2022. This has been approved as of 7 January 2022.
Access to Industry Wikipedia event at St. Cecilia’s Hall
[edit]E. McAndrew facilitated a Wikipedia training and editing event for the ‘Access to Industry’ charity which works across Scotland with unemployed people who face barriers to employment. The project took place at St. Cecilia’s Hall museum over two weeks’ on 25 November and 2 December 2021 and was co-ordinated with Laura Beattie, Community Outreach Officer at University of Edinburgh Museums, and Magda Gucman, Access to Industry.
- 7 articles were edited at the Access to Industry training event held at St. Cecilia's Hall Museum on 25 November and 2 December 2021 to support unemployed people who face barriers to employment.
- 8 edits in total.
- 11 editors trained (6 completed edits in the 2nd workshop)
- 59 words added.
- 7 images uploaded.
Women in Red workshops
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![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Kora_%28Bridge-Harp_Or_Plucked_Harp-Lute%29_%28cropped%29.png/220px-Kora_%28Bridge-Harp_Or_Plucked_Harp-Lute%29_%28cropped%29.png)
Two new Women in Red workshops were held in November and December 2021.
- 21 new articles were created at the 26 November event inc. Olive Smith (1880–1916) who was a masseuse and physical training instructor in the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service (SWH) in Serbia in World War I. She died of malaria, within two months of volunteering with Dr Agnes Bennett's SWH unit at Ostrovo, and is buried at the Allies cemetery in Thessaloniki. She is memorialised in her home town Haltwhistle and at the teacher training college she worked at, in Glasgow. Also Nora Milnes (1882-1972) who was a British economist, social worker, educator and author. Born in London, she spent her working life in London and Edinburgh, where she played a prominent role in the development of social work as a professional activity worthy of a place in higher education.
- 84 more articles were edited.
- 499 edits in total.
- 9 editors.
- 17.3K words added.
- 212 references added.
- 14 new articles were created at the 17 December event inc. Jean Aitken Bell (1882 – 1957) who was a Scottish nurse who served with Dr. Elsie Inglis's Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service in Serbia. She was among those who were given medals by both Britain and Serbia for war services, including enduring the dangerous winter mountain Serbian retreat, taking their injured patients over the mountains in winter to safety; she served July to December 1915. Also Elspeth Green (née Henderson; 1913–2006) who was an NCO and officer in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF). She was a plotter during the Battle of Britain, serving at Biggin Hill where she won the Military Medal for her bravery during repeated air raids.
After the war, she worked for the British Council and the first Edinburgh International Festival.
- 63 more articles were edited.
- 252 edits in total.
- 4 editors.
- 7.85K words added.
- 90 references added.
Activities delivered with stats:
[edit]Events
[edit]Event Name | Date and duration | Location | Attendees | New editors | Trainers | Gender breakdown |
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Women in Red editathon Monthly Women in Red editathon - creating new biography articles of notable women on Wikipedia List of usernames recorded |
26 November 2021 | University of Edinburgh, online webinar. | 9 | 4 | Ewan McAndrew | 77.7% female |
Access to Industry Wikipedia editing event at St. Cecilia's Hall Museum- adding images of musical instruments to Wikipedia | 25 November and 2 December 2021 | St Cecilia's Hall, in-person training workshop | 11 | 11 | Ewan McAndrew | 66.6% female |
Women in Red editathon Monthly Women in Red editathon - creating new biography articles of notable women on Wikipedia List of usernames recorded |
17 December 2021 | University of Edinburgh, online webinar. | 4 | 0 | Ewan McAndrew | 50% female |
Partnership interactions
[edit]Activity /Purpose of Meeting | Date and duration | Institute | Location | Names of Attendees | Links, if any, to Meeting/Presentation/ Conference Talk |
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Meeting to discuss a new project with Access to Industry charity which works across Scotland with unemployed people who face barriers to employment. | 24 September 2021 1 hour |
University of Edinburgh | MS Teams meeting | Laura Beattie, Community Outreach Officer University of Edinburgh Museums Magda Gucman, Access to Industry and Gavin Willshaw, Digital Engagement and Digitisation Manager, University of Edinburgh |
Link to Access to Industry website |
Image statistics - as of 7 January 2022
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Professor_Devi_Sridhar.jpg/200px-Professor_Devi_Sridhar.jpg)
- All uploads can be monitored via Images uploaded in collaboration between WMUK and the University of Edinburgh.
- Baglama2 (page views for only those images released by the Centre for Research Collections
- Baglama2 (page views for images in the parent category - Images uploaded in collaboration between WMUK and the University of Edinburgh.
UoE Centre for Research Collections images | Total for November 2021 | 544,295 views |
UoE Centre for Research Collections images | Total for December 2021 | 525,693 views |
All images uploaded in collaboration between WMUK and the University of Edinburgh | Total for November 2021 | 1,661,137 views |
All images uploaded in collaboration between WMUK and the University of Edinburgh | Total for December 2021 | 1,486,256 views |
UoE Centre for Research Collections images | Total for 72 months of monitoring | 53,444,041 views |
The most viewed images for December 2021 across all Wikipedias were:
Strategic Aim 2 - Digital Literacy
[edit]Work with partners to develop digital, data and information literacy through Wikimedia
- Support the education sector’s engagement with Wikimedia as a digital literacy tool
- Facilitate Wikimedia-based digital, data and information literacy projects with other partners
- Create content and resources for learners and educators
- Advocate for the inclusion of Wikimedia in curriculum, syllabus and course development
- Collaborate with the civil society sector and other partners to combat misinformation
Progress
[edit]Wikimedia in the Curriculum - current work
[edit]- Confirmed with Philippa Sheail and Michael Gallagher that a Wikipedia component will take place on the Digital Education MSc on 15 February 2022 and discussed what it will include.
- Three to four new case studies to be added to the Wikimedia in Education - Booklet of Case Studies. Will start writing these in late November/December with a view to having a new digital edition to be relaunched in 2022.
- The Translation Studies MSc Wikipedia assignment for Semester One will conclude on 14 January 2022 with 36-40 out of the cohort undertaking it as an elective. Link to student's chosen articles this semester. The Semester Two assignment will commence on 9 February 2022.
- Confirmed with Dr. Glaire Anderson on the History of Art course programme that she wishes to repeat the assignment looking at evaluating, improving and illustrating articles related to Islamic Art in semester two. This will commence on 17 January 2022 and conclude on 14 February 2022. Guest speaker, Dr. Martin Poulter will join us on 31 January 2022.
Podcast on Wikimedia in education - episodes now published
[edit]- First episode is now live for a podcast series recorded on the 24th of May 2021 for the University's influential Teaching Matters blog is being edited by a student intern , Eric Berger. Topics discussed included: Wikipedia and History (1hr); Wikipedia and academia in the new normal(1hr); Wikipedia in 321 languages(1hr); Wikipedia, Medicine and Science Communication(30 mins); Wikipedia and the Gender Gap(30 mins). Professor Diana Paton, Translation Studies students, History Society students, Jason Evans, Lorna Campbell, Lucy Crompton-Reid, Prof Norah Spears, and Prof Linda Bauld all contributed.
Conferences
[edit]- Astract approved for the LILAC Information Literacy conference 11-13 April 2022 about our new 'Edinburgh Award - Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia'.
Research data in Wikidata
[edit]- Met with historian of medicine at University of Edinburgh, Lukas Engelmann, on 19 November 2022 to discuss his ERC grant project to document the history of 20th century epidemiology using open data in Wikidata and Wikibase. Following this discussion, E. McAndrew connected Lukas Engelmann with experienced Wikidatan, Daniel Mietchen, to discuss their mutual areas of interest and collaborating on this project.
Wikipedia Editing - a new Edinburgh Award underway
[edit]- The first iteration of the Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia - a new Edinburgh Award to accredit students for extended project work on Wikipedia commenced on 9 December 2021 and will conclude on 6 April 2022. This would allow the 13 students who have submitted their 400 word action plans to develop important information literacy, digital research, communication and collaborative skills ahead of the world of work and accredit them for undertaking 55 hours (or more) of Wikipedia work over an extended period. The first iteration has been negotiated in collaboration with Kirsty Stewart and Gavin McCabe at the University of Edinburgh Career Service and in collaboration with our Wikimedia student interns, Erin Boyle and Clea Strathmann. The recording of Input Session 1 is available here.
Activities with stats:
[edit]Events
[edit]Activity /Purpose of Meeting | Date and duration | Institute | Location | Names of Attendees | Links, if any, to Meeting/Presentation/ Conference Talk |
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Translation Studies MSc drop-in workshop 1 (beginning translation) | 3 November 2021 (2 hours) | University of Edinburgh | 50 George Square, Room G.02 | Ewan McAndrew (Wikimedian) 36-40 Masters students |
Link to student assignment page |
Wikidata digital skills workshop | 10 November 2021 (1 hour) | University of Edinburgh | Online Zoom meeting | Ewan McAndrew (Wikimedian) and 6 attendees (4 students, 2 staff) | Workshop resource used. |
Translation Studies MSc drop-in workshop 2 (continuing translation) | 17 November 2021 (2 hours) | University of Edinburgh | 50 George Square, Room G.02 | Ewan McAndrew (Wikimedian) 36-40 Masters students |
Link to student assignment page |
Edinburgh Award - Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia introductory workshop | 24 November 2021 (1.5 hours) | University of Edinburgh Library | 30 George Square, Room 1.08 | Ewan McAndrew (Wikimedian) 4 students |
Link to the award description. |
Edinburgh Award - Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia introductory workshop | 29 November 2021 (2 hours) | University of Edinburgh Library | 30 George Square, Room 1.08 | Ewan McAndrew (Wikimedian) 2 students |
Link to the award description. |
Edinburgh Award - Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia introductory workshop | 29 November 2021 (2 hours) | University of Edinburgh Library | 50 George Square, Room G.01 | Ewan McAndrew (Wikimedian) 3 students |
Link to the award description. |
Edinburgh Award - Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia Input Session 1 | 9 December 2021 (2 hours) | University of Edinburgh Library | Online Zoom Meeting | Ewan McAndrew (Wikimedian) 23 students |
Link to the recording of the session |
Partnership interactions
[edit]Activity /Purpose of Meeting | Date and duration | Institute | Location | Names of Attendees | Links, if any, to Meeting/Presentation/ Conference Talk |
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Meeting with Lukas Engelmann, Historian of Medicine | 19 November 2021 | University of Edinburgh | MS Teams Meeting | 1 hour chat with Lukas Engelmann and Dr. Sara Thomas, Wikimedia UK, joined us halfway in the meeting to discuss how best to support his project to document the history of 20th century epidemiology in Wikidata and Wikibase | n/a |
Meeting with Dr. Glaire Anderson, Historian of Art lecturer at University of Edinburgh | 10 December 2021 | University of Edinburgh | MS Teams Meeting | 1 hour chat with UoE lecturer Dr Glaire Anderson and Dr. Martin Poulter, Wikimedia UK and the Khalilli Collections, to discuss a Wikimedia in the Curriculum assignment for 17 January 2022 to 14 February 2022 where her students will evaluate and improve Wikipedia articles related to Islamic Art and have a guest speaker on 31 Janaury 2022 from Dr. Martin Poulter | Link to her article about the first iteration of the assignment in 2021. |
Strategic Aim 3 - Advocacy
[edit]Create changes in policy and practice that enable open knowledge to flourish
- Support and enable individual organisations to adopt more open policies and practice
- Promote and facilitate sector-level change towards open knowledge
- Work with national and international partners to build the case for free knowledge
- Advocate for open knowledge within the UK’s public policy and legislative arena
- Contribute to international advocacy activities and programmes as appropriate
Progress
[edit]- The Wikidata map of Accused Witches of Scotland was featured in the Scotland is Now Twitter and Instagram feeds. The Twitter account has 47,100 followers. Scotland Is Now is part of the Scottish Government’s marketing team helping to promote Scotland internationally.
Activities delivered with stats:
[edit]Events
[edit]Activity /Purpose of Meeting | Date and duration | Institute | Location | Names of Attendees | Links, if any, to Meeting/Presentation/ Conference Talk |
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'The Wikimedia Residency - advent calendar podcast recording | 12 November 2021 (30 minutes) | University of Edinburgh | Online podcast recording platform | Claire Simpson, University of Edinburgh Alumni Office | Link to podcast recording |
Partnership interactions
[edit]Activity /Purpose of Meeting | Date and duration | Institute | Location | Names of Attendees | Links, if any, to Meeting/Presentation/ Conference Talk |
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Meeting with Timothy Rees-Jones, The Royal Society | 4 November 2021 | University of Edinburgh | MS Teams Meeting | Discussion with Timothy Rees-Jones at the Royal Society about how digital technologies changing the way people interact with information, what technologies there are that can fabricate and detect misinformation, and what role technology has to play in creating a better information environment? The Royal Society has launched a project on digital technologies and information to investigate these questions. Dr. Richard Nevell of Wikimedia UK Dominic Tate, Head of Library Research Support at University of Edinburgh Library Kerry Miller, University of Edinburgh Research Data Support Officer |
Link to Royal Society project |
Meeting with Dr. Sara Thomas, Wikimedia UK | 19 November 2021 (1 hour) | University of Edinburgh | MS Teams Meeting | Discussion with Dr. Sara Thomas about updating the Booklet of Case Studies of Wikimedia in UK education for a 2022 digital relaunch | Link to current case studies booklet |
Projects/events in development
[edit]- Next phase of the Mapping the Scottish Reformation Wikidata project with Dr. Chris Langley (Newman University, Birmingham) and Professor Mikki Brock (Washington and Lee University, USA) - to be confirmed.
- Wikipedia component on 'Knowledge Equity' to be delivered on Digital Education MSc in February 2022.
- Translation Studies MSc Wikipedia assignment to be completed by January 14th 2022 and new project to begin in Semester Two on 9th February 2022. with 36-40 Masters students taking it as an elective this semester.
- First iteration of a new Edinburgh Award for Wikipedia Editing to conclude on 6 April 2022 with 13 students undertaking it.
- Updating the Booklet of Case Studies of Wikimedia in UK Education to relaunch a new digital edition.
- History of Art assignment to go ahead as of 17 January 2022 until 14 February 2022 - 2nd iteration with Dr. Glaire Anderson's students evaluating, improving and illustrating articles about Islamic Art. With guest speaker, Dr. Martin Poulter (WMUK, Khalilli Collections).
- Student Experience Grant awarded for three students to research and improve content on Wikipedia related to Gender History, LGBT History and Black History for 12 weeks from February to May 2022.
- Summer Internships to be submitted for approval with a view to hiring two Wikimedia interns to support improving the Map of Accused Witches website.
- Been invited to participate in the Witches of Scotland podcast.
Upcoming events in 2022
[edit]- January 12 - Edinburgh Award workshop - Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia
- January 14 - Translation Studies MSc - deadline for publishing new translations on Wikipedia.
- January 17 - History of Art assignment with Dr. Glaire Anderson.
- January 24 - Wikipedia training for History of Art students.
- January 26 - Edinburgh Award Input Session 2 - Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia
- January 28 - Wikipedia Women in Red monthly workshop
- January 31 - Guest speaker - Dr. Martin Poulter (WMUK, Khalilli Collections) on History of Art course.
- February - Student Experience Grant recipients begin project work to improve articles relating to Gender History, LGBT History and Black History (dates tbc.)
- February 4 - Wikimedians in Residence and Wikimedia UK meeting (online).
- February 7 - History of Art students improving Islamic art articles on Wikipedia.
- February 9 - Translation Studies MSc - review of semester 1 Wikipedia project work and start of Semester 2 assignment.
- February 14 - History of Art students publishing their edits on Islamic art articles on Wikipedia.
- February 15 - Wikipedia and Knowledge Equity - workshop for Digital Education MSc
- February 25 - Wikipedia Women in Red monthly workshop
- March 2 - Translation Studies MSc - Wikipedia workshop
- March 9 - Introduction to Wikidata workshop
- March 16 - Teaching with Wikipedia workshop
- March 16 - Translation Studies MSc - Wikipedia workshop
- March 23 - Wikisource workshop
- March 30 - Edinburgh Award Input Session 3 - Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia
- March 30 - Translation Studies MSc - Wikipedia workshop
- April 11-13 - Talk about the Edinburgh Award for Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia to be delivered at LILAC Information Literacy Conference 2022
- May - Student Experience Grant recipients complete their project work related to improving articles relating to Gender History, LGBT History and Black History (dates tbc.).
- June - Wikimedia Summer internships (tbc.) to improve the Map of Accused Witches website over 12 weeks this Summer.
Media
[edit]New blogposts, articles, reports
[edit]New videos and podcasts
[edit]- A podcast series recorded in May 2021 is currently being edited by Eric Berger for the University of Edinburgh's Teaching Matters blog. First episode has now been published as of December 2021. Four more to follow.
- Link to podcast recording about the Wikimedia residency for the Alumni Office's digital advent calendar. 177 views to date.
- Recording of the opening session of the new Edinburgh Award for "Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia" - recorded 9th December 2021.
Wikimedian in Residence - University of Edinburgh Media Hopper channel
[edit]- The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Media Hopper now has 386 videos. 412 plays since 1 November 2021.
1 November 2021 to 31 December 2021
Number of videos | Impressions | Minutes viewed | Number of plays since 1 November 2021 |
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386 | 2,162 | 2,242 | 412 |
The most played videos were:
Position | Video | Plays | Total plays |
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1 | Moving a drafted article into Wikipedia's live space. | 45 plays | 1,655 plays |
2 | OpenRefine Beginners Tutorial | 34 plays | 522 plays |
3 | Wikipedia at the University of Edinburgh | 8 plays | 41 plays |
4 | Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor:Part 2.3 Adding an image. | 16 plays | 505 plays |
5 | Word Count tool - counting the prose text in a Wikipedia article | 23 plays | 521 plays |
Wikimedian in Residence - YouTube channel
[edit]- The Wikimedian in Residence channel on YouTube which has now received over 252,206 views in total of its 118 videos with 970 subscribers. These videos have been viewed in 168 countries around the world over the course of the channel's lifetime.
Number of videos | Views this period | Hours watched this period | New subscribers | Total subscribers | Total views | Total number of countries viewing the channel |
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118 | 17,799 | 633.2 | +57 | 970 | 252,206 | 168 |
One of our recent additions to YouTube by student Hannah Rothmann has now been viewed over 36,860 times since it was added in September 2020.
Image uploads to Wikimedia Commons
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Olive Smith (masseuse)
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Nurses Gordon Bell and Neish
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Jean Aitken Bell 25 Dec 1915
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Kora (Bridge-Harp Or Plucked Harp-Lute)
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Rebab-Tiga tali
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Bible Regal
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Ntongoli (Bowl Lyre), Aloni Kagya, 1968.
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Euphonicon (Upright Piano)
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Rebab-Tiga tali 2.0
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Kit by Unknown Maker made in the 17th Century
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Roger Mirrey Piano
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Tā’ūs or Mayūrī (`Peacock vina')
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River Tilt, Blair Atholl
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Rhiannon Ifans at Eisteddfod
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Mary H.J. Henderson 1917
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Bell Nexus ‘Air Taxi’ 1
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Bell Nexus ‘Air Taxi’
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Latkesskillet
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Carouselhorses1
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Carouselhorses
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Turkeydinnercandycorn
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Virgin hyperloopdisplay
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Virginhyperloop
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Cicada girl with hat
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InsidePitlochryStationBookshop
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Pitlochry Station 1.jpg
Press about the residency
[edit]- Edinburgh University searches for 'Wikimedians' - Edinburgh Evening News, 8th October 2015.
- University of Edinburgh to employ ‘Wikimedian in Residence’ web editor - The Student Newspaper.org, October 13th 2015.
- The History of Medicine gets mentioned in the ILW Awards 2016
- The OER16 Conference, co-chaired by Melissa Highton and Lorna M. Campbell, won Wikimedia UK’s Partnership of the Year Award
- 'Wikidata and Wikisource Showcase' mentioned on IS News site.
- The Wikimedia Residency, as part of the University Of Edinburgh's Open Education team, won 3rd place in ALT's Learning Technologist of the Year awards.
- Open Education team (including Wikimedia residency) come third in ALT Learning Technologist of the Year awards - story on the IS News site.
- Wikipedia's women problem - Melissa Highton writes for the Dangerous Women project 10th October 2016
- STV News 'Live at Five' covers the Ada Lovelace Day - Women in STEM Wikipedia editathon.
- New College take on Wikipedia edit-a-thon - Women and Religion 2 November 2016.
- Brenda Moon remembered in Wikipedia editathon - article in IS News
- Wikipedia editathon and Mary Stewart - Edinburgh Gothic Sat 12 November.
- Wikipedia editathon at the University of Sheffield's Centre for the History of the Gothic
- Collaborating to built a city of information literacy, a city of Wikipedia - Interview by OEPS Scotland
- #1Lib1Ref at the University of Edinburgh - Blog article by Gavin Willshaw, Digital Curator - 2nd February 2017
- Fake News and Wikidata - a roundup of the Wikimedia UK Education Summit
- Host a Wikimedian - You can't afford not to (blog article)
- 'Wikipedia, research and representation- - Dr Amy Burge, Academic Developer at the Institute for Academic Development, University of Edinburgh.
- Mary Susan McIntosh and the Women in Red - Lorna Campbell.
- What do you do with a dead chemist? - Anne-Marie Scott.
- Wikipedia and Writing - Michael Seery, Reader in Education, School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh.
- Language and Politics - my takeaways by Mina Theofilatou.
- How is it almost August? - Lorna Campbell.
- While in Scotland - Käbi Suvi, Wikimedia Estonia.
- Celtic Knot Conference 2017 in Edinburgh - Astrid Carlsen, Wikimedia Norge.
- Wikipedia in the Classroom: developing information literacy, online citizenship and digital research skills - Teaching Matters blog 13th June 2017.
- Congratulations to our Wikimedian of the Year - Wikimedia UK blog 1st August 2017.
- University of Edinburgh journal vol.48 no.1 - Article about the Edinburgh residency on p.25
- Ada Lovelace Day 2017 - celebrating Women in STEM - article on the WiR blog on 1st September 2017.
- Scotland loves monuments - article for Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 on the Wir Blog - Friday 8 September 2017.
- Wanderings with a Wikimedian - Blog article by Anne-Marie Scott for Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 - Monday 11 September 2017.
- Mortuary Chapel, Revisited - Anne-Marie Scott's blog September 30 2017.
- Ada Lovelace Day – Professor Elizabeth Slater - Lorna Campbell's blog on October 10 2017.
- Ada Lovelace Day - knitting resources
- Ada Lovelace Day 2017 photos.
- Wikipedia is a very lovely place to be - Anne-Marie Scott's blog.
- The 17th century map of Iceland released by the University of Edinburgh's Centre for Research Collections gets a mention in Creative Commons' influential 'State of the Commons report'.
- Wikipedia has always depended on the kindness of strangers - Outcomes of Ada Lovelace 2017 on the Wikimedian in Residence blog 19 October 2017.
- Wikipedia assignments – getting past the ‘Penguin effect’ and down to the brass tacks of sharing open knowledge - Teaching Matters blog.
- Ada Lovelace Day 2017 – Celebrating women in STEM - Edinburgh University Science Magazine.
- Another Story about Maps - Blogpost by Anne-Marie Scott 27 October 2017.
- Open Tumshies for Halloween - blogpost by Lorna Campbell 31 October 2017.
- Internet Transmitted Infections – I’ve got the SPLOTS - Anne-Marie Scott, 16 November 2017.
- Wikidata in the Classroom on the Wikimedian in Residence blog 22 November 2017.
- Open for all - Mansfield Traquair images hosted on Wikimedia Commons. Blog by Anne-Marie Scott 23 November 2017.
- Take an Equal Bite - Blogpost by Melissa Highton about EqualBITE: Gender equality in higher education and the the positive power of wikipedia editathons. 2nd December 2017.
- Wikipedia Games / SPLOTPoint - Anne-Marie Scott blog, January 1st 2018.
- 2017 Highs, Lows and Losses - Lorna Campbell blog, January 3rd 2018
- Wikipedia at 17 – Facts matter. - January 16th 2018.
- Reflections on International Women’s Day 2018 and Wikipedia – A Gude Cause - 8 March 2018.
- New SPLOT Wikidata tutorial - Wikidata Basics.
- Collaborated with John Lubbock at Wikimedia UK to produce Wikimedia UK blogpost: Data on the history of Scottish witch trials added to Wikidata on 9 March 2018.
- Libraries, Literacies & Learning – presentation at SCURL event 23 March 2018
- Digital Transformation and Data — The Wikimedia Residency at the University of Edinburgh on Medium.com
- Wikimedia resources – how to get started.
- The OER 18 EdTech editathon 'SPLOT' resource.
- Wikimedia at the Open Educational Resources Conference 2018
- Whit’s fur ye’ll no go by ye – reflection on 12 months by Ruth Jenkins, Academic Support Librarian at the University of Edinburgh Medical School.
- Wikipedia in Higher Education (co-authored with Jemima John, 4th year Law undergraduate student.
- Wikipedia in Higher Education… How students are shaping the open web.
- Tracings (don’t look too closely)
- NEW SPLOT resource created for the Wikidata Workshop at the Digital Day of Ideas.
- NEW 'SPLOT' resource for running a Wikipedia translation workshop created for the Celtic Knot 2018 conference at the National Library of Wales on 5-6 July.
- NEW 'SPLOT' resource for running a Wikipedia 'micro' editathon workshop initially created by the resident and then Academic Support Librarian colleagues tailored & populated the resource for use at the EAHIL conference in Cardiff on 13 July.
- Wikipedia in the Classroom – how students are shaping the open web - Teaching Matters blog
- Case study about the Wikidata in the Classroom project on the Data Science for Design MSc course. Uploaded to Wikimedia Commons and shared in Wikidata Status Updates.
- Towards Open-ish? - a hybrid conversation organised as part of the Wikimania conference in Cape Town.
- Languages - blog about whether other language Wikipedias should refer to all places in Scotland by their Gaelic names.
- Newspapers - created a Wikipedia page as part of Mike Caulfield’s Newspapers on Wikipedia project.
- Reflections on CELT Symposium 2018 - includes mention of our Open Content Curation Student Interns and the Wikimedia in the Classroom initiatives.
- The Soul of Liberty: Openness, Equality and Co-creation - transcript of Lorna Campbell's keynote at CELT 2018 - includes Wikipedia in the classroom initiatives and Wikidata projects at the University of Edinburgh.
- Circular Records Hall on Atlas Obscura - one of Lorna's photographs was featured in Atlas Obscura. It was one that she uploaded to Wikimedia Commons as part of the Wiki Loves Monuments competition last year.
- What I did on my holidays - taking pictures for Wiki Loves Monuments.
- Academia and Wikipedia – a presentation at Maynooth University on 18 June 2018.
- Celebrating 100 years of Votes for Women
- Ada Lovelace Day 2018 – nominate Women in STEM heroines.
- Open.Ed – OER and Open Knowledge at the University of Edinburgh.
- Wikidata in the Classroom and the WikiCite project - presentation at Repository Fringe 2018.
- University wins Wikimedia UK’s Partnership of the Year award
- University of Edinburgh wins Wikimedia UK Partnership of the Year Award.
- Open.Ed at RepoFringe18
- Scotland loves Monuments 2018
- Wiki Loves Monuments 2018
- The internet’s favourite website for information.
- How to run a Wikipedia editathon – a workshop for health information professionals at the EAHIL conference - This post was authored by Ruth Jenkins, Academic Support Librarian at the University of Edinburgh.
- Ada Lovelace Day – 1 month to go!
- Facts and Fallacies: Cultural Representations of Mental Health
- Edinburgh Gothic for Robert Louis Stevenson Day 2018
- Witchy Wikidata – a 6th birthday celebration event for Halloween
- Editing Wikipedia as part of teaching public health? by Felix Stein, by Global Health MSc course leader at the University of Edinburgh.
- JISC Case study:Wikimedia in the curriculum - addressing the challenges of digital and information literacy, digital scholarship and open knowledge at the University of Edinburgh.
- The New Statesman:From Chinese spies to award-winning geologists, we’re making women visible on Wikipedia - co-authored with Siobhan O'Connor, Sara Thomas and Alice White.
- Wikimedian in Residence blog:You can’t be what you can’t see - creating new role models on Wikipedia to encourage the next generation of #ImmodestWomen.
- Article in the Scotsman: Women scientists being whitewashed from Wikipedia – Ewan McAndrew, Siobhan O’Connor, Dr Sara Thomas and Dr Alice White
- Women and Wikipedia….Open Learning and a hobby for life!
- Translation and Open Education – An Experiment using Wikipedia
- Wikipedia in Higher Education: How students are shaping the open web
- Diversifying Wikipedia for the Festival of Creative Learning 2019
- JISC case study – Wikimedia in the curriculum: Addressing the challenges of digital and information literacy, digital scholarship and open knowledge at the University of Edinburgh
- You can’t be what you can’t see: Creating new role models on Wikipedia to encourage the next generation of Immodest Women
- International Women’s Day 2019
- Recruiting a Witchfinder General
- Wikimedia at the LILAC Information Literacy Conference 2019
- Balance for Better – recognising notable Edinburgh women
- Balance for Better – Teaching Matters
- Wikimania 2019 - Digital Support Librarian Lauren Smith reports on her first-time attendance at Wikimania 2019 in Stockholm, Sweden.
- Scotland Loves Monuments 2019 - Get involved in Wiki Loves Monuments!
- Learning to become an online editor: the editathon as a learning environment by Allison Littlejohn, Nina Hood, Martin Rehm, Lou McGill, Bart Rienties and Melissa Highton.
- Wikipedia on Olive Schreiner, like it or what? by Professor Liz Stanley.
- Celebrating notable women of Edinburgh
- Wikimedia Women in Red internship
- Four page spread on the Map of Accused Witches Wikidata project in the May/June 2020 publication of History Scotland magazine.
- Shifting Gears and Finding Female Pioneers
- To the Future of Women in Red and Online Diversity
- My first week as a Wikimedia Training Intern - blogpost by Hannah Rothmann
- 4 weeks into my Wikimedia Internship by Hannah Rothmann on the residency blog.
- #WCCWiki Colloquium 2020 by Hannah Rothmann on the residency blog.
- Final reflections on my Wikimedia Training Internship by Hannah Rothmann on the residency blog.
- Scotland Loves Monuments 2020 on the residency blog.
- Wikipedia as Learning Technology: Teaching Knowledge Activism vs Passive Consumption by Hannah Rothmann, Wikimedia Training Intern, for the University of Edinburgh's Teaching Matters blog.
- Introducing Mapping the Scottish Reformation: Clerics, Manuscripts, and Open Data on the Wikimedia UK blog.
- Article on Mapping of Scotland's Accused Witches with Open Data project appeared in an article on the Heritage Fund UK website on 27 October 2020 in the run up to Halloween.
- Editing Wikipedia: Stars, robots and talismans Honours course by Glaire Anderson for the Wikimedia UK blog
- Happy Birthday Wikipedia - guest blog post by Classics undergraduate student, Hannah Rothmann, for Wikipedia's 20th birthday.
- Telling the history of HIV and AIDS activism in Scotland on Wikipedia - WiR blog
- Scotland, Slavery and Black History project - WiR blog
- Those who fought: Representing HIV/AIDS activism on Wikipedia - Blog by Lorna Campbell
- My first week as a Wikisourceror – Guest post by student intern, Erin Boyle
- Open Data and Knowledge Equity – my first week by student intern, Clea Strathmann
- Supporting Open Collections – Guest post by Wikisourceror intern, Erin Boyle
- Wikimedia and the Diversity of Languages online – Guest post by Clea Strathmann
- Chapter 13 in the new Wikipedia and Academic Libraries book on Changing the Way Stories Are Told: Engaging staff and students in improving Wikipedia content about women in Scotland.
- Chapter 18 in the new Wikipedia and Academic Libraries book on Wikisource as a tool for OCR transcription correction: the National Library of Scotland’s response to Covid-19 by University of Edinburgh's Digitisation and Digital Engagement Manager, Gavin Willshaw.
- Teaching Matters Podcast: Wikimedia and Academia