Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/86th 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 February 2023 - 28 February 2023 (Eighty-sixth month of the residency) | 9 March 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 | 335 | 1,952 | 607 | 696 | 141 | 1,604 | 11,261 |
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, Claire Panella, to work part-time (22 February 2023 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. Claire has been inducted and started with comparing the gender of 3,217 accused witches in the Survey database with the gender for the accused witches in Wikidata using R Studio to compare the information in the two databases.
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Women in Red workshops
[edit]One new Women in Red workshop was held on Friday 24th February 2023 - our 70th monthly workshop at the university came with tea, coffee and biscuits!
- 53 new articles were created from the 24 February 2023 event editors inc. Rebecca at the Society of Experimental Biologists creating an article about Beatrice Grant n. Campbell (1761-1845) who was a Scottish author and teacher from Kilmartin in the early nineteenth centenary. She forged a career in publishing establishing herself as a female role model in an area other than domestic life. Another page created was for Christine Nuttall (1931 - 2020), OBE who was a British academic and teacher of English as a Foreign Language who worked for over 30 years globally, and had published a guide to Teaching Reading Skills in a Foreign Language which remains a key resource for international teaching and learning a foreign language.
- 199 articles were edited inc. Wikidata items.
- 809 edits in total.
- 9 editors.
- 52.6K words added.
- 386 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 |
24 February 2023 | University of Edinburgh, hybrid workshop. | 9 | 3 | Ewan McAndrew | 88.88 % female |
Partnership interactions
[edit]Image statistics - as of 9 March 2023
[edit]January 2023 statistics do not seem available at this time of writing
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- 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]- The Digital Education MSc component on Wikipedia and Knowledge Equity went ahead w/c 13 February 2023 as a 2 week block inc. delivering a 1.5 hour training webinar, short follow-up 'Wiki-games' activities, assigned reading and engaging with 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 complete in March 2023.
- The resident has emailed the Wikimedia in the Curriculum course leaders with a short post-course student survey for the students to consider how their information literacy and digital literacy skills before and after the Wikimedia assignments.
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.
- Lorna Campbell, OER Service University of Edinburgh, has had her abstract on Open Education in the Curriculum approved for presenting at the Open Education Resources Conference (OER23),taking place in Inverness on 4-6 April 2023. E McAndrew has created a video of student feedback to be included in the conference presentation and is discussing edits to be made to this video with Lorna Campbell.
- 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]- 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. Almost 50,000 words have now been added to Wikipedia as the students attend fortnightly group research workshops in the University main library in February 2023.
The students published edits thus far can be found here.
New Internships
[edit]- Have had one internship request approved: a further Summer internship (12 weeks 1.0 FTE) to do more work on the Map of Accused Witches Wikidata project. Twitter post advertising position. Interviews to take place 10 April 2023.
- Awaiting approval for recruiting 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) on a 1 year 0.2-0.4FTE basis.
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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Edinburgh Award - Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia drop-in group research session | 2 February 2023 (5 hours) | University of Edinburgh Main Library | In-person research workshop | Ewan McAndrew (Wikimedian) and drop-in Edinburgh Award students | Link to the dashboard page |
Digital Education MSc - Introduction to Wikipedia training webinar | 13 February 2023 (1.5 hours) | University of Edinburgh | Online Zoom webinar | Ewan McAndrew (Wikimedian) 6-8 Masters student editors (more watched recording asynchronously) |
Link to recording of session |
Edinburgh Award - Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia drop-in group research session | 15 February 2023 (2 hours) | University of Edinburgh Archives / Digital Scholarship Centre | In-person research workshop | Ewan McAndrew (Wikimedian) and drop-in Edinburgh Award students | Link to the dashboard page |
Partnership interactions
[edit]- Met with Professor Charles West, Medieval Historian, on 2nd February 2023 at the University of Edinburgh Library. He is joining the University of Edinburgh in July 2023 and discussed his idea for running a Wikipedia assignment with the Wikimedian in Residence to take place for Semester 1 2023/2024 on the Online History MSc and getting the Masters students to evaluate how a Wikipedia article's edit history may evolve over time to reflect changing societal attitudes and historical perspectives on historic figures/events.
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]- Trained Rebecca Ellerington at the Society of Experimental Biologists (SEB) who wishes to run an online editathon as part of their annual conference in Edinburgh. * University of Edinburgh student, Heidi Berg, has undergone Wikimedia UK training and wishes to get more involved in supporting University of Edinburgh editathons so is supporting the SEB editathon and the resident has offered to help support Heidi where she needs further help.
- 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. Almost complete, will submit before end of March 2023.
- Siobhan O'Connor, Lecturer at University of Manchester wants to do more Wikipedia teaching and research with her students and wanted to do know if there were Wikipedians local to her she could liaise with. Corresponded with her and suggested she get in contact with Duncan Hull, a Wikimedian and lecturer at the University of Manchester to help support one another.
Activities delivered with stats:
[edit]Events
[edit]No specific outreach events took place in February 2023.
Partnership interactions
[edit]- E. McAndrew has corresponded with Ysabelle Graham-Smith at the University of Edinburgh's School of GeoSciences and agreed to take part in a short video about WikiProject Women in Red for Women's History Month - along with contributions from UoE staff and student contributors. Date for recording in March 2023 tba.
- Hemangini Gupta, Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Politics and International Relations has requested holding an editing event in December 2023 with Gender.Ed's European partners at freie Uni, Berlin who organize a #4GenderStudies event on Dec 18 every year to promote Gender Studies in the Academy. The idea is to edit pages about feminist authors on the web and/or pages related to gender studies.
- Dr. Philippa Sheail (Digital Education MSc) and Ewan McAndrew to chair a session on Wikipedia for the University of Edinburgh's ISG Reading Group in May 2023 (date tbd).
- The WiR also met with Dr. Terri Ochiagha, Lecturer in Global Anglophone Literatures, to discuss a research impact project to have students improve topic coverage of author Chinua Achebe and his works on Wikipedia over several sessions akin to our previous lockdown project to improve topic coverage of Scotland, Slavery and Black History over 4-5 weeks.
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). Update for March 2023: Chris and Mikki are preparing an AHRC research proposal and want LTW to be a key part of developing the Mapping the Scottish Reformation project and taking it to the next 2.0 stage.
- 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 March 2023.
- The Map of Accused Witches Wikidata site just needs developer time to implement the new data visualisations and reorientate the dropdown menus.
- New Scottish Witchhunter student internship now recruited. Claire Panella is to work 0.2FTE from 22 February 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. So far she has identified 32 anomalies in the gender recorded and 22 anomalies in the name used for accused witches in Wikidata.
- 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 2023, 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 has advertised for a Summer 2023 internship at the University of Edinburgh for a new 12 week Witchfinder general Wikidata data visualisation internship.
- E.McAndrew has submitted a request for a Junior Wikimedian in Residence position to be recruited on a 0.2-0.4FTE basis for 1 year from Summer 2023 until Summer 2024. Awaiting approval this role can be recruited.
- 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).
- Hemangini Gupta, Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Politics and International Relations has requested holding an editing event in December 2023 with Gender.Ed's European partners at freie Uni, Berlin who organize a #4GenderStudies event on Dec 18 every year to promote Gender Studies in the Academy. The idea is to edit pages about feminist authors on the web and/or pages related to gender studies.
- Dr. Terri Ochiagha, Lecturer in Global Anglophone Literatures, wants to apply for research grant for January to December impact project where University of Edinburgh students improve topic coverage of author Chinua Achebe and his works on Wikipedia over several sessions.
Upcoming events in 2023
[edit]- 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 3 workshop and student showcase event for end of Edinburgh Award.
- March 29 - Presentation for the University of Lisbon on the Wikidata Witches project with student intern Claire Panella.
- 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 - Lorna Campbell will show a video compilation of student feedback on Wikipedia in the Curriculum assignments the resident is preparing.
- April 23 - 2023 Classical Association Conference at University of Cambridge - roundtable on Teaching with Wikipedia
- May 5 - Final day of Scottish Witchhunter internship.
- May 26 - Wikipedia Women in Red monthly editing workshop - hybrid event.
- Dec 18 - Potential editathon with University of Edinburgh's Gender.Ed team
Media
[edit]New articles
[edit]No new articles for February 2023.
New videos and podcasts
[edit]No new videos for February 2023.
Wikimedian in Residence - University of Edinburgh Media Hopper channel
[edit]- The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Media Hopper now has 389 videos. 231 plays since 1 February 2023.
1 February 2023 to 28 February 2023
Number of videos | Impressions | Minutes viewed | Number of plays since 1 February 2023 |
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389 | 1,429 | 1,273 | 231 |
The most played videos were:
Position | Video | Plays | Total plays |
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1 | How to move your drafted article into the Wikipedia live space. | 21 plays | 154 plays |
2 | OpenRefine beginners tutorial | 21 plays | 787 plays |
3 | Word Count tool - counting the prose text in a Wikipedia article | 15 plays | 696 plays |
4 | The Find Link tool - Add Wikipedia links to pages that really ought to have a link. | 4 plays | 109 plays |
5 | How to add a new item to Wikidata. | 9 plays | 66 plays |
Wikimedian in Residence - YouTube channel
[edit]- The Wikimedian in Residence channel on YouTube which has now received over 377,000 views in total of its 130 videos with 1,428 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 | 7,222 | 266.1 | +29 | 1,428 | 377,000 | 168 |
One of our additions to YouTube by student Hannah Rothmann has now been viewed over 80,580 times since it was added on 14 September 2020.
Image uploads to Wikimedia Commons
[edit]- New images contributed by Women in Red editors from 24 February 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
- Witchfinder General blog: Some data processing sorcery