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Stinglehammer
— Wikipedian  —
Name
Ewan
Country Scotland
Photo of an aardvark
Aardvark (Orycteropus afer)


Stinglehammer

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I work at the University of Edinburgh / University of Hogwarts in the department of Information Services.

Topics I am interested in editing about

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  • Scottish accused witches
  • Women in STEM
  • Scottish girl bands

My example citation

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I read an interesting article in the Guardian. [1]

And I can reuse the same citation later in the article using the Reuse option. [1]

References

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Stinglehammer
— Wikipedian  —
Name
Stinglehammer
Country Scotland
Llama chewing grass in Västansunda, Jomala, Åland
Llama in Västansunda, Jomala, Åland

Things I want to edit about

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  • LGBTQ+ History
  • Gender History
  • Black History

Citations

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I read an interesting article on the Guardian website and I can cite it here. [2]

And I can reuse it later in my article too by using the Reuse function. [2]

References

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Red squirrel on branch of tree
Red squirrel
Picture of an anteater crossing a road
Anteater

Stinglehammer

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I am at an amazing training session at the University of Edinburgh.

Stinglehammer
— Wikipedian  —
Name
Stinglehammer
Country Scotland

Stinglehammer

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I work at the University of Edinburgh / University of Hogwarts and am the Wikimedian in Residence there.

Our website is on the University of Edinburgh website here.

I am at an amazing training session run by the University of Edinburgh.

My research area

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  • Women in STEM

My example citation

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Cite what you write. Write in your own words.

I read a fab article on the BBC News website about Harry and Meghan which I cite after the full stop. [3][4]

[5] [6]

And then I can reuse the same citation later in my article. [6][5][3][4]

References

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If I have web address URL, a journal article DOI code, book ISBN number or a Pubmed Identifier I can auto generate citations using the Cite dropdown menu and these will also save as references at the foot of the page when I publish my edits. [7]

Templates I can add

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  • This is a new user
  • Infobox Wikipedia user (for your own userpage)
  • Infobox person (for generic biography articles)
  • new user article (for putting on Talk pages of articles you have newly published in the Wikipedia main space).

My example image

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I will do a keyword search of the 85 million free to use images in Wikipedia's sister project, Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. I can upload my own 'open-licensed' images to Wikimedia Commons if they are my own work, public domain or CC-0, CC-BY or CC-BY-SA licensed. I can look for open licensed images using image search aggregator tools like the Creative Commons "CC Search tool" and filtering my search for Public domain, CC-0, CC-BY or CC-BY-SA images.

Categories

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These appear at the foot of the Wikipedia page and are added to published pages in the Wikipedia main article space. You can find categories in the Visual Editor dropdown menu indicated with 3 horizontal lines.

References

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Stinglehammer
— Wikipedian  —
Ewan McAndrew on Mt. Fitzroy (with an orange)
Name
Ewan McAndrew
Born
Country Scotland, UK
Current locationGlasgow and Edinburgh
Time zoneGMT
EthnicityScottish/Australian.
Height5' 10"
Education and employment
OccupationWikimedian in Residence
EmployerUniversity of Edinburgh
UniversityUniversity of Glasgow
Hobbies, interests, and beliefs
HobbiesReading, writing, hiking, swimming, going to the movies, playing the mandolin.
Interests

English literature, Modern History, Technology, Travel, Films, Information Science, Libraries, Archives, Gaming, Football, Badminton.

Contact info
Bloghttp://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wir/
Emailewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk

Stinglehammer

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Grey squirrel on a wall eyeing food
Grey squirrel on a wall eyeing food

Hi, I'm Stinglehammer (Ewan).

Stinglehammer
— Wikipedian  —
Name
Ewan McAndrew
Country Scotland

I'm employed as a Wikimedian in Residence at The University of Edinburgh.

I have a second Wikipedia account (User:EMcAndrew) which I use for training purposes. And User:VidEwan for video tutorials.

This is one of the many reasons why we do this: WATCH "Life in a Day - Abel and his laptop" (with thanks to Martin Poulter for providing the heads up on the link)

If you ever feel like getting involved in some of our projects or training sessions then message me, by all means. I'd be glad to hear from you.

The old project page for the residency is located here: Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh and my blog is here: http://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wir/. But our new (since 2020) student-created website can be accessed here.

Real name: Ewan McAndrew Email: ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk Twitter handle: @emcandre Location: Glasgow and Edinburgh

About me

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I have an MA in English (Literature & Language) & Modern History from University of Glasgow, a postgraduate diploma (PgDip) in Software Development from Glasgow Caledonian University and a PGDE in English & Media Teaching from University of Strathclyde. I also hold a TEFL certificate from I-to-I and have undertaken short courses in creative writing & screenwriting. I most recently completed on the Information Management MSc course at the University of Northumbria (accredited by CILIP and the ARA).

Witches

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Our students have helped created a Wikidata map of Accused Witches in Scotland: Accused Witches in Scotland

Wikimedia in the Curriculum

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We created a new booklet of case studies of Wikimedia in the Curriculum (UK) which is available at: Wikimedia in UK Education

Celtic Knot

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We hosted the first Celtic and Minority Language Wikipedia Conference in 2017 and happily this has been repeated every year since with hosts such as the National Library of Wales, the University of Exeter/Cornish Wikipedia, Wikimedia Ireland, and Wikimedia Norge.

Things I like

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I love travelling, music, history, cinema and literature, and this all feeds into my regular day-job of teaching of English & Media Studies. I'm interested in all kinds of stories (movies, books, plays) and create my own stories from time to time. Above all, I'm passionate about the idea of lifelong learning and broadening your horizons. Hence why I'm here and why I'm trying to learn how to play the guitar, piano and mandolin (all very badly).

My Wikidata subpages

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  1. List of Edinburgh alumni who are health professionals
  2. List of Edinburgh medical alumni born in Edinburgh
  3. List of Edinburgh buildings and their architects
  4. List of Architects with UK citizenship, grouped by place of education
  5. User:Stinglehammer/Spies from the UK
  6. User:Stinglehammer/Female spies
  7. User:Stinglehammer/InternationalAlumni
  8. Notable people whose doctoral advisor was a University of Edinburgh alum (+ academic field) - Hit 'EXECUTE' to run the Wikidata query.
  9. Awards won by women who attended the University of Edinburgh - Hit 'EXECUTE' to run this Wikidata query
  10. Awards won by people employed by the University of Edinburgh - Hit 'EXECUTE' to run this Wikidata query
  11. Organisations founded by people born in Edinburgh - Hit 'EXECUTE' to run this Wikidata query
  12. User:Stinglehammer/STEM/Science (List of all those working in field of science & its subclasses)
  13. User:Stinglehammer/Scottish Gaelic
  14. User:Stinglehammer/ScottishFemaleWriters
  15. Female authors with UK citizenship
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  1. Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red
  2. Wikipedia:WikiProject Women artists
  3. Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, and more.
  4. List of Gothic artists
  5. Gothic architecture
  6. Gothic architects
  7. Category: Gothic paintings
  8. List of gothic fiction works
  9. List of Gothic horror films
  10. Writers of Gothic fiction
  11. Gothic novels
  12. Southern Gothic films
  13. VIDEO - The GLAM-WIKI Revolution

Sandboxes

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Tools

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  1. Content Translation tool
  2. A tool which 'scores' a Wikipedia page. (tick the checkbox for WP10 once you've selected enwiki from the dropdown menu)
  3. Cat-a-lot gadget for Wikicommons
  4. Citation Hunt tool
  5. Free Image search tool
  6. Geograph.org.uk to Commons tool
  7. Flickr2commons tool
  8. Wikidata map of all the Wikipedia articles located within a 2km radius of University of Edinburgh
  9. FlickrFree shows free, recently uploaded images on Flickr, ready for transfer to Commons.
  10. URL2Commons can transfer files from a list of URLs to Commons.
  11. Reasonator - Wikidata "in pretty".
  12. Todo, little things you can do on Wikidata.
  13. BaGLAMa, monthly view counts for pages containing images from selected Commons categories.
  14. (Wikipedia where in OSM) is a project to show for a Wikipedia article geometric objects from OpenStreetMap.
  15. GLAMorous, a tool to keep track of Commons images used on other projects.
  16. Wikishootme: Have a camera? Find places nearby that have items on Wikidata but no images yet, and see your pictures beautify an article or two!
  17. Uptrends on English Wikipedia this week
  18. Wikiradio is an audio service transmitted via Internet streaming. Each sound is the that the community has chosen to be highlighted as some of the finest on Wikipedia and Commons.
  19. Geohack for Edinburgh
  20. Convert PDF to SVG.
  21. Autolist 2
  22. Catnap
  23. Catfood
  24. Video2commons
  25. Wikimedia search
  26. Tool to turn Excel table into Wiki code
  27. Recent deaths tool - gets recent celebrity deaths from Find-A-Grave, and compares it with Wikidata items
  28. Page views tool
  29. Herding tool - Useful for tracking edits of user groups after an event.
  30. Passing On is a design experiment in using data, stories, and cooperation to change women's representation online.
  31. Mix n Match tool
  32. Word count
  33. Prose size

Articles of interest

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Dr Humphrey Southall, Reader in Geography, University of Portsmouth, written with Dr Martin Poulter, describe a Wikipedia-based assignment given to first-year students in Applied Human Geography and also looking at how academics can inform the widest public about their subject, and raise awareness of the reliable sources used in research.

UCL Centre for Translation Studies (CenTraS) ran an event for 36 postgraduate translation studies students, all new to editing Wikipedia, to learn how to contribute to the online encyclopedia anyone can edit. Co-organiser Dr Mira Vogel discusses its success.

Prezi presentation.

  1. Wikipedia 15 and Education - WikiEdu blog.
  2. 'You probably haven’t even noticed Google’s sketchy quest to control the world’s knowledge' The Washington Post - Caitlin Dewey, May 11 2016

Wikipedia & Altmetric

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  1. Click here for the Wikipedia & Altmetric folder
  2. A tool which 'scores' a Wikipedia page. (tick the checkbox for WP10 once you've selected enwiki from the dropdown menu)
  3. Citation Hunt tool

Recent contributions

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Articles to improve

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Resources created

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  • The Guardian

References

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  1. ^ a b Topping, Alexandra (2024-11-29). "Gregg Wallace accused of 'highly inappropriate' behaviour while filming". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-11-29.
  2. ^ a b Cain, Sian (2024-10-01). "Daniel Day-Lewis ends retirement from acting after seven years". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-10-02.
  3. ^ a b "Kermit the Frog honoured in new fossil find". BBC News. 2024-03-21. Retrieved 2024-03-21.
  4. ^ a b "Trump says he was bundled into golf cart after shots rang out". BBC News. 2024-09-17. Retrieved 2024-09-17.
  5. ^ a b "Gary Lineker says he will 'keep speaking for those with no voice' after asylum row". BBC News. 2023-03-08. Retrieved 2023-03-08.
  6. ^ a b "Harry and Meghan Netflix: I said we need to get out of here - prince". BBC News. 2022-12-15. Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  7. ^ Fallone, C. A. (2000-11). "Epidemiology of the antibiotic resistance of Helicobacter pylori in Canada". Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology = Journal Canadien De Gastroenterologie. 14 (10): 879–882. doi:10.1155/2000/562159. ISSN 0835-7900. PMID 11111111. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)