Wikipedia:GLAM/Wellcome/3rd 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

This month, I designed a training programme to be used for introducing new editors to Wikipedia. This training ran on 25 July, and the editors (as of 6 Aug) have made 99 edits and added a total of 11308 bytes to Wikipedia. In particular, newly-trained editors focussed on images, and more than 40 images from the Wellcome bulk-upload have been added to articles.

Activities & Events

Event Name	Date	Location	Attendees	New Users	Gender breakdown
Wellcome Collection Operations Team Meeting Talk	20th July 2016	Room 303, Wellcome Trust	30	N/A	N/A
Wellcome Staff Training	25th July 2016	Viewing Room, Wellcome Library	7	6	86% (6/7) women

Objectives

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

A poster on the Wikimedian in Residence programme at the Wellcome Library, as presented at the Science in Public conference held in Canterbury in July 2016.

Public outreach and advocacy were key focusses this month:

• I attended two national conferences (both coincidentally hosted in Canterbury): the biennial Society for the Social History of Medicine conference, and Science in Public. I discussed the residency with delegates and presented a poster at Science in Public (see right). I dispelled some concerns about article quality and some delegates expressed an interest in participating in training, expert evaluation of pages, and attending editathons.
• We continued our work to reach out to medical communities by speaking with the editor of The Lancet Psychiatry – more on this below.

There was also lots of training:

• The first editor-training session for Wellcome staff was a great success. The trainees came from a variety of roles at the Library. Most were women, which is a small but positive step towards addressing Gender bias on Wikipedia. Newly-trained editors added content, especially pictures. They have since suggested a Wiki-club to provide time, space, and community to edit.
• I attended a Training the Trainers session at Wikimedia UK headquarters. Not only did I learn a great deal, I’ve also met some excellent fellow Wikimedians who may help out with some future training/events.

Partnerships/Potential Collaborations

This month’s collaborations and plans for collaborations included:

• A visit to the Hearing Library, where we discussed opportunities for putting their content online and for improving coverage of hearing loss on Wikiprojects.
• Several meetings to discuss training sessions for sixth-formers. We’re planning to have classes from one or two schools come to the Library for training on referencing and Wikipedia.
• Preliminary talks with Julie Anderson of the University of Kent about potentially running some Wikimedia training for history of medicine students.
• Discussions with Mira Vogel and Raya Sharbain from UCL about how to develop more opportunities to use Wikimedia in collaborative educational projects. This lead to connections with Thomas Kador (UCL Public and Cultural Engagement), Adam Smith (Honorary Secretary of the Royal Historical Society), and Henry Potts (UCL Centre for Health Informatics & Multiprofessional Education).
• A follow-up meeting with Henry to discuss how UCL students might be involved in evaluating the residency’s efforts to get people editing.
• The British Society for the History of Science have asked about how to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of the history of science – they are interested in updating the list of prominent figures, paying particular attention to how to diversify this list.

Planned activities

There are several upcoming events in the short-term as well as the plans for collaboration detailed above:

• More training will be delivered here at the Wellcome in August.
• Following on from a suggestion from the first cohort of newly trained editors, we’ll look into creating a Wiki-club at the Wellcome.
• We’ll be establishing timetables and issuing invitations to the first events to coincide with Bedlam.
• Plans for a Women Engineers editathon in October will be fleshed-out.

Longer-term plans include a women in medicine editathon to be held in early 2017, and more Bedlam/mental health-related sessions.

Press about the residency

On 6 July, I was interviewed by Niall Boyce, editor of The Lancet Psychiatry. Based on this session, on 22 July, the residency was featured in an article in The Lancet and on a Lancet Psychiatry Audio Feature. This was tweeted about 14 times, potentially reaching 49,670 Twitter users. My own tweet about the article was actively engaged with 64 times. The Lancet article was also featured in two Wellcome intranet pieces and mentioned in a news summary sent to Wellcome Trust staff, publicising the project internally as well as externally.

On 25 July, the first training session was tweeted about by the Wellcome Library account – the tweet was retweeted 9 times and favourited 12 times.