Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/85th month report
Appearance
Institution | Resident's Name | Period Covered | Date of Report | List of reports to date |
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University of Edinburgh | Ewan McAndrew | 1 January 2023 - 31 January 2023 (Eighty-fifth month of the residency) | 7 February 2023 | Click here to view all reports. |
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 | 331 | 1,942 | 607 | 690 | 140 | 1,548 | 11,049 |
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]The Wikidata Map of Accused Witches project - new intern now recruited to quality assure the data
[edit]- The developer, Richard Lawson, has been asked to make improvements in line with our suggestions but we are have now recruited a student intern to work part-time (February to end of May 0.2FTE) to support us in terms of quality assuring the data and making sure the data and visualisations are consistent and working as expected. Interviews took place 30th January 2023 from the 45 applicants shortlisted. The successful applicant should be in post one day per week from w/c 13th February 2023.
Women in Red workshops
[edit]One new Women in Red workshop was held on Friday 27th January 2023 - our 69th monthly workshop at the university came with tea, coffee and biscuits!
- 5 new articles were created at the 27 January 2023 event inc. Lady Margaret Brodie Stewart became Margaret Herschel (1810–1864) and she was a British botanical artist and hostess. While she was in South Africa she and her husband made dozens of botanical paintings of wild flowers which they brought back to Europe for study. Her husband was one of the leading scientists in Victorian Britain. Also a new page for Jennifer Marianne Hart, also known as Maidie Bridge (maiden name) or Maidie Hart. She was born in Brookfield, Renfrewshire, Scotland and died in Edinburgh at the age of 80 (15 December 1916 - 7 November 1997). She was a campaigner for equality, development and peace.
- 178 articles were edited inc. Wikidata items.
- 870 edits in total.
- 10 editors inc. 4 student editors on the Edinburgh Award for Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia this year.
- 48K words added.
- 373 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 |
27 January 2023 | University of Edinburgh, hybrid workshop. | 10 | 5 | Ewan McAndrew | 80 % female |
Partnership interactions
[edit]Image statistics - as of 10 February 2023
[edit]January 2023 statistics do not seem available at this time of writing
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Gerardi_Mercatoris_Atlas%2C_sive%2C_Cosmographicae_Meditationes_de_Fabrica_Mundi_et_Fabricati_Figura_%2824696368309%29.jpg/200px-Gerardi_Mercatoris_Atlas%2C_sive%2C_Cosmographicae_Meditationes_de_Fabrica_Mundi_et_Fabricati_Figura_%2824696368309%29.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Solidarity.png/220px-Solidarity.png)
- 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 December 2022 | 865,210 views |
All images uploaded in collaboration between WMUK and the University of Edinburgh | Total for December 2022 | 1,703,159 views |
UoE Centre for Research Collections images | Total for 84 months of monitoring | 61,514,017 page views |
The most viewed images for December 2022 across all Wikipedias were:
Strategic Aim 2 - Information 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]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/The_Queen_at_the_Scottish_Parliament.jpg/220px-The_Queen_at_the_Scottish_Parliament.jpg)
52 students completed the 2022/2023 Translation Studies MSc Wikipedia assignment - learning important meaningful translation practice ahead of the world of work by each translating, peer reviewing and publishing 2,000-2,500 words from high quality Featured and Good Articles on Wikipedia into another language Wikipedia. The October to January assignment concluded on 13 January 2023. The translations can be found on the assignment page here
- The Translation Studies MSc Wikipedia assignment for Semester One began on 12 October 2022 with 63 students in the cohort this year. The students have all been taught best practice about how to translate their article. The assignment concluded 13th January 2023 following the 52 remaining students peer reviewing translations by 6th January 2023.
- The Digital Education MSc component on Wikipedia and Knowledge Equity is to go ahead w/c 13 February 2023 as a 2 week block inc. training webinar, short activities, assigned reading and discussion forums.
- Professor Charles West, Medieval Historian, is joining the University of Edinburgh in July 2023 and has been liaising with the Wikimedian in Residence over a Wikipedia assignment for Semester 1 2023/2024 on the Online History MSc.
- Five new case studies can now be added to the Wikimedia in Education - Booklet of Case Studies. Dr. Glaire Anderson, History of Art, and Evelyn Balsells PhD, Global Health Challenges Pg Online, have signed off on their case studies and images to be used. Graphic designer, Nicky Greenhorn, has submitted a new proof design for the new case studies as of 21 September 2022 and this will now be reviewed by Dr. Sara Thomas, Wikimedia UK, and myself to see if any further changes are required. NB: Will be returning to this in February 2023.
Conferences
[edit]- The resident will be attending the 2023 Classical Association conference at the University of Cambridge on 21-23 April 2023 to take part in an international roundtable on Teaching with Wikipedia.
- The resident has been submitted and the abstract has been approved as co-author/presenter with Lorna Campbell, OER Service, on a University of Edinburgh abstract on Open Education in the Curriculum to the Open Education Resources Conference (OER23),taking place in Inverness on 4-6 April 2023.
- The resident has submitted an abstract to speak at the Digital Universities UK conference at the University of Leeds on 17-20 April 2023. Will need to see if this is received favourably.
Wikipedia Editing - Edinburgh Award activity to conclude 31 March 2023 for year two
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Birobala_Rabha.jpg/220px-Birobala_Rabha.jpg)
Witch-hunts in India is a brand new ~5,000 word article on Wikipedia and contributed by 1st year UG student Lina Turner for her Edinburgh Award project focused on Witchhunting: past and present
- The second iteration of the Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia - a new Edinburgh Award to accredit students for extended project work on Wikipedia began with a new cohort on 19th October 2022. 44 students registered initially with 22 submitting their 400 word action plans by the Award's first deadline - Friday 28th October 2022. Their project pages are now added to our main page for the Edinburgh Award with the Input 2 session attended by 19 students on 7th December 2022. 16 students submitted their 400 word reflections on their 3 chosen skills and impact achieved so far along with their fortnightly log of activities undertaken by the 6th January 2023 submission deadline. The students published edits thus far can be found 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 - beginning translation (drop-in workshop) | 11 January 2023 (4 hours) | Main Library, 30 George Square | In person workshop | Ewan McAndrew (Wikimedian) 20 Masters student editors |
Link to the dashboard page. |
Edinburgh Award - Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia drop-in group research session | 17 January 2023 (2 hours) | University of Edinburgh Digital Scholarship Centre | Hybrid workshop | Ewan McAndrew (Wikimedian) 2 students |
Link to the dashboard page |
Translation Studies MSc - beginning translation (drop-in workshop) | 18 January 2023 (4 hours) | Main Library, 30 George Square | In person workshop | Ewan McAndrew (Wikimedian) 8 Masters student editors |
Link to the dashboard page. |
Edinburgh Award - Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia drop-in group research session | 25 January 2023 (4 hours) | University of Edinburgh Main Library | Hybrid workshop | Ewan McAndrew (Wikimedian) 5 students |
Link to the dashboard page |
Partnership interactions
[edit]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]- Met with Jaine Blayney and Richard Fallis at Queen's University Belfast (QUB) to discuss how they could start their own Wikipedia Women in Red initiative.
- Trained Ana Colombo at the Society of Experimental Biologists who wishes to run an online editathon as part of their annual conference in Edinburgh.
- Liaised with Caroline Austin at University of Newcastle and the Athena Forum to see if a speaker could outline the how & why of Wikipedia Women in Red to encourage awareness and uptake in learned societies. Lucy Crompton-Reid at Wikimedia UK will now speak at one of their upcoming events.
- Corresponded with Siobhan O'Connor, formerly a lecturer in Nursing Informatics at the University of Edinburgh and Royal Society of Edinburgh's Young Academy and now a lecturer at University of Manchester, to link her up with local Wikimedians in the Manchester area who could support work in the curriculum there.
- Been invited to speak to Code for Africa about their themed event on 'How to be an effective editor'.
- Have had two internship requests provisionally approved: a further Summer internship (12 weeks 1.0 FTE) to do more work on the Map of Accused Witches Wikidata project; and a p/t role of 'Junior Wikimedian in Residence' to support the work of the residency in the longer term (events management and promotion, community building for Women in Red and Edinburgh Award, outreach to different geographically distant parts of the university and more)
- E.McAndrew and L.Campbell co-authoring paper with Dr. Melissa Highton on Open Education in the Curriculum for the EdUTec journal at the invitation of Daniel Villar-Rubia at the University of Cadiz.
- University of Edinburgh student, Heidi Berg, has undergone Wikimedia UK training and wishes to get more involved in supporting University of Edinburgh editathons.
- Adam Proctor from Fortsunlight Productions has also been in touch about including the work of the residency in a short BBC documentary about Scottish Witchcraft and focusing on the case of Lilias Adie.
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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Women in Red - how to get started - 1 hour Zoom discussion | 25 January 2023 (1 hours) | Queen's University Belfast | Zoom | Ewan McAndrew (Wikimedian) Dr. Sara Thomas (WMUK) Dr. Richard Nevell (WMUK) Jayne Blainey (QUB) and Richard Fallis (QUB) |
n/a |
Wikimedia UK and Wikimedians in Residence meeting - 1 hour catchup session | 31 January 2023 (1 hour) | Wikimedia UK | Online Zoom workshop | Ewan McAndrew (Wikimedian) 10-15 attendees |
n/a |
Partnership interactions
[edit]- E.McAndrew has been supporting Communications Officer, Joanna Clarke, at the University's Bayes Centre to write a Wikipedia article.
- Caroline Austin at Newcastle University also enquired about information about the Wikipedia Women in Red project to be presented to the Athena Forum.
Projects/events in development
[edit]- Next phase of the Mapping the Scottish Reformation Wikidata project with Dr. Chris Langley (formerly of Newman University, Birmingham and now at the Open University) and Professor Mikki Brock (Washington and Lee University, USA) - to be confirmed (sources of funding delaying further work).
- Digital Education MSc Wikipedia component to begin 2 week block in February 2023.
- Second iteration of a new 55-80hr Edinburgh Award for Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia began on 19 October 2022 and will conclude on 31st March 2023.
- Updating the Booklet of Case Studies of Wikimedia in UK Education to relaunch a new digital edition. Graphic designer Nicky Greenhorn has submitted a proof as of 13th July 2022 and this will be reviewed by Dr. Sara Thomas and myself asap with a view to publishing online and hopefully finalised by end of December 2022.
- The Map of Accused Witches site. The site just needs developer time to implement the new data visualisations and reorientate the dropdown menus.
- New Scottish Witchhunter student internship now recruited to work 0.2FTE from 17 February (tbc) to 5 May 2023 to help quality assure the witchcraft data in Wikidata so that we can launch updates to the website later this year.
- Been invited to participate in the Witches of Scotland podcast (details tbc.) and potentially the 2023 Edinburgh Book Festival (tbc.)
- Periodically supporting the Places of Worship in Scotland (POWiS) database being mapped into Wikidata.
- Periodically supporting the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Military Museum database being mapped into Wikidata.
- E. McAndrew has submitted abstracts to LILAC, OER23 and THE's Digital Universities UK Conference.
- E.McAndrew to investigate applying for a Royal Society of Chemistry outreach fund award when time/opportunity allows.
- E.McAndrew and L.Campbell co-authoring paper with Dr. Melissa Highton on Open Education in the Curriculum for the EdUTec journal at the invitation of Daniel Villar-Rubia at the University of Cadiz.
- E.McAndrew to write two job descriptions for two Summer 2023 internships at the University of Edinburgh.
- Professor Charles West, formerly of University of Sheffield, is joining the University of Edinburgh in July 2023 and has been discussing a student assignment for the Online History MSc with the Wikimedian in Residence for Semester 1 (session 2023/2024).
Upcoming events in 2023
[edit]- February 13 - 2 week teaching block on Wikipedia: Authorship and Authority begins on the online Digital Education MSc.
- February 15 - Group research session for Edinburgh Award students in Centre for Research Collections.
- February 17 - 1st day of new student internship: Scottish Witchhunter (tbc.)
- February 22 - Teaching with Wikipedia workshop.
- February 22 - Introduction to Wikidata workshop.
- February 24 - Wikipedia Women in Red monthly editing workshop - hybrid event.
- March 1 - Group research session for Edinburgh Award students in University Library.
- March 6 - Introduction to Wikidata workshop.
- March 7 - GenderEd Steering Group meeting.
- March 9 - WiR and Wikimedia UK monthly meeting.
- March 10 - Teaching with Wikipedia workshop.
- March 14 - DLAM Section meeting - World of Wikimedia workshop.
- March 15 - Group research session for Edinburgh Award students in University Library.
- March 17 - Introduction to Wikisource - the free digital hyper library.
- March 29 - Input 3workshop and showcase for end of Edinburgh Award.
- March 31 - Wikipedia Women in Red monthly editing workshop - hybrid event.
- March 31 - Final submission date for Edinburgh Award students.
- April 4 - Final date for notifying Edinburgh Award team of successful students.
- April 4-6 - OER23 Conference in Inverness - presenting on Wikimedia in Education case studies.
- April 23 - 2023 Classical Association Conference at University of Cambridge - roundtable on Teaching with Wikipedia
- May 5 - Final day of Scottish Witchhunter internship.
Media
[edit]New articles
[edit]New videos and podcasts
[edit]No new videos or podcasts in January 2023.
Wikimedian in Residence - University of Edinburgh Media Hopper channel
[edit]- The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Media Hopper now has 389 videos. 181 plays since 1 January 2023.
1 January 2023 to 31 January 2023
Number of videos | Impressions | Minutes viewed | Number of plays since 1 January 2023 |
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389 | 1,219 | 827 | 181 |
The most played videos were:
Position | Video | Plays | Total plays |
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1 | OpenRefine beginners tutorial | 43 plays | 763 plays |
2 | How to move your drafted article into the Wikipedia live space. | 13 plays | 130 plays |
3 | The Find Link tool - Add Wikipedia links to pages that really ought to have a link. | 3 plays | 103 plays |
4 | Mass edits on Wikidata - how to use Google spreadsheets and Quickstatement. | 3 plays | 177 plays |
5 | Martin Poulter on Histropedia at Repository Fringe 2016 | 2 plays | 20 plays |
Wikimedian in Residence - YouTube channel
[edit]- The Wikimedian in Residence channel on YouTube which has now received over 370,074 views in total of its 130 videos with 1,402 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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130 | 7,909 | 288.9 | +25 | 1,402 | 370,074 | 168 |
One of our additions to YouTube by student Hannah Rothmann has now been viewed over 79,021 times since it was added on 14 September 2020.
Image uploads to Wikimedia Commons
[edit]- New images contributed by Translation Studies MSc students which concluded 20 January 2023
- New images contributed by Women in Red editors from 27 January 2023 event onwards
- New images contributed by Edinburgh Award student editors from 19 October 2022 to date
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
- Teaching Matters Podcast: Wikimedia and Language
- Teaching Matters Podcast: Improving science communication with… Wikipedia?
- Podcast: Wikipedia: Where are the women? (13 minutes)
- Calls for Scotland to pardon witch-hunt victims gather pace - Guardian newspaper
- Down the Rabbit Hole with Wikipedia at the LILAC Information Literacy Conference 2022, WiR blog.
- Wikipedia, Student Activism and the Ivory Tower – talk presented at the LILAC Information Literacy Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University, 11-13 April 2022.
- Wikipedia and History – podcast series for Teaching Matters.
- Witchfinder General blog: Something wiki’d this way comes!
- Witchfinder General blog: Site Development is underway
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