Wikipedia:GLAM/Wellcome/2nd Month Report
| Institution | Resident | Period Covered | Date of Report | Full Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wellcome Library | Alice White | 04 May - 04 June 2016 (first month of residency) | 16 June 2016 | 1st Month Report - read in full |
| Wellcome Library | Alice White | 04 June - 04 July 2016 (second month of residency) | 16 July 2016 | 2nd Month Report - read in full |
| Wellcome Library | Alice White | 04 July - 04 August 2016 (third month of residency) | 8 August 2016 | 3rd Month Report - read in full |
| Wellcome Library | Alice White | 04 August - 04 September 2016 (fourth month of residency) | 16 September 2016 | 4th Month Report - read in full |
| Wellcome Library | Alice White | 04 September - 04 October 2016 (fifth month of residency) | 4 October 2016 | 5th Month Report - read in full |
| Wellcome Library | Alice White | 04 October - 04 November 2016 (sixth month of residency) | 18 November 2016 | 6th Month Report - read in full |
| Wellcome Library | Alice White | 04 November - 04 December 2016 (seventh month of residency) | 9 March 2017 | 7th Month Report - read in full |
| Wellcome Library | Alice White | 04 December 2016 - 04 January 2017 (eighth month of residency) | 9 March 2017 | 8th Month Report - read in full |
| Wellcome Library | Alice White | 04 January - 04 March 2017 (ninth month of residency) | 27 March 2017 | 9th Month Report - read in full |
| Wellcome Library | Alice White | 04 March - 04 April 2017 (tenth month of residency) | 21 April 2017 | 10th Month Report - read in full |
Content
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This month, I created guides to facilitate editing by Wellcome staff and others:
- "So your work is open access" - article for Wellcome-funded researchers to be placed on the Wellcome Trust website.
- "Wellcome to Wikipedia" - Complete beginners guide to editing (see right).
I also created the Medical Women's Federation page (featured on DYK) - with Talk page links to Wellcome content to enable many notable women medics to be added to Wikipedia.
Activities & Events
[edit]| Event Name | Date | Location | Attendees | New Users | Gender breakdown |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Introductory visit, Royal College of Psychiatrists Conference Delegates | 28th June 2016 | Viewing Room, Wellcome Library | 35 | N/A | N/A |
Objectives
[edit]| Wikimedia UK's objectives | Residency's objectives |
|---|---|
| Strategic Goal 1: Increase the quality and quantity of coverage of subjects that are currently underrepresented on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects, with a particular focus on cultural content | Develop a policy and workflow for adding to Wikimedia, Wikipedia, etc., in a sustainable and ongoing fashion that will continue long after the residency ends.
Add more resources to Wikimedia Commons. |
| Strategic Goal 2: Support the development of open knowledge in the UK, by increasing the understanding and recognition of the value of open knowledge and advocating for change at an organisational, sectoral and public policy level | Work with staff, including librarians and curators, to identify areas of Wikipedia and sister projects that could be enriched with resources and knowledge from the Library’s collections.
Be an advocate for open knowledge within the Library and externally. |
| Strategic Goal 3: To support the use of the Wikimedia projects as important tools for education and learning in the UK | |
| Develop, involve and engage with WMUK volunteers | Organise and host Wikimedia-related events.
Work with the Library to develop an outreach policy to coordinate contributions from the Library and the wider communities to support the development of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia community in under-represented areas. |
Outcomes
[edit]This month was primarily focused on building opportunities into existing structures:
- Designing guide documents to enable any Wellcome funded researcher to make a small edit and put references to their research into relevant articles. This guide included several case studies demonstrating different types of research and connected wiki-material, including relevant pageview measures for each.
- Planning ahead to fit editathons into upcoming exhibitions including Bedlam.
- Clarifying the licences on digitised content so that it is clear what can and cannot be used on Wiki-projects, and encouraging these to be set as flexibly as possible.
- Finding opportunities to match resources at the Wellcome to sparse areas of Wikipedia, for instance by identifying missing pages on historic mental health asylums and people, and cross-matching the list of Medical Women's Federation presidents and influential geneticists from Codebreakers digitisation project with Wikipedia in order to locate missing or stub pages.
Partnerships/Potential Collaborations
[edit]Several collaborations were established this month:
- I went to a Wiki-Meetup in London and met other editors. They were very supportive of the residency and suggested several ideas. As a result of this meetup, I was invited to participate in a group of London Wikimedians focussed on education.
- I was put in touch with Niall Boyce, editor of The Lancet Psychiatry, who arranged several methods for us to engage with readers and practitioners (see below in Press section).
- I spoke to Wellcome-funded researcher Claire Hilton, who runs the Royal College of Psychiatrists' History of Psychiatry Special Interest Group. Claire has contributed a short article on her first experience of editing Wikipedia (she created the page on Barbara Robb), so we can share this with other new editors. Claire coordinated a trip to the Wellcome at which she and Ross (from the Library) gave me the chance to discuss the residency with the visiting psychiatrists. One of them (local to the area) has expressed an interest in arranging Wikimedia training for her trainee psychiatrists in the autumn.
- Fellow WiR Ewan has involved me in plans for a Stem Cell Editathon hosted by the University of Edinburgh and hopefully to spread to other places after a trial event in July.
Planned activities
[edit]July will be a busy month for events:
- I'll attend two conferences to discuss the project and engage potential expert editors, SSHM and Science in Public.
- we'll have our first edit-training for Wellcome staff in July.
- The Lancet Psychiatry podcast will be recorded and put online, and I'll also be writing an essay for the journal itself.
- the first Stem Cell editathon will take place.
- I'll attend Wikimedia UK's Training the Trainers session to improve my skills.
Other events are also planned for further ahead, including editathons on Women Engineers and Wiki-training for bloggers who are writing posts building to the Bedlam exhibition.
Press about the residency
[edit]Information on the residency has been put on the RCPsych webpage thanks to Claire Hilton.