Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/97th month report
| Institution | Resident's Name | Period Covered | Date of Report | List of reports to date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Edinburgh | Ewan McAndrew | 1 January 2024 - 31 January 2024 (Ninety-seventh month of the residency) | 12 February 2024 | Click here to view all reports. |
Summary of main points this month
[edit]- Ellie Whitehead, Assistant Wikimedian in Residence, promoted and trained participants at her first Wikipedia editathon on 25th January for Burns Night 2024. 12 attended (in person and online) with new illustrated pages created about Robert Burns’ skull (a cast of which is held at the Anatomy Museum of Edinburgh who kindly open-licensed 2 images), Robert Burns Birthplace Museum and a variety of Scottish/Gaelic women poets and writers. Next one will be for International Women's Day 2024.
- We also saw a spike in image views as a result of images shared to Burns supper and Robert Burns pages this month.
- Ruby Imrie, student intern, is creating a Map of Witchcraft Memorials and has updated the 'About' page on the Map of Accused Witches in Scotland Wikidata-driven site to acknowledge the full history of the website and its many contributors.
- The 2,000 to 2,500 word translation assignment on Translation Studies MSc is concluding this month once the students publish their Wikipedia articles. New projects being discussed with Digital Sociology MSc, Online History MSc (just started - Charles Martel in the Digital Age), Digital Education MSc (Semester One, session 2024/2025), History of Art UG (Semester One, session 2024/2025) and a collaboration being discussed with University of Edinburgh student Luke Whitlock about his research into Unknown Women Composers.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Edinburgh | Ewan McAndrew | 364 | 2,118 | 667 | 739 | 155 | 2,080 | 14,791 |
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
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Update on the Wikidata Map of Accused Witches project - our student intern continues 1 day a week until May 2024
[edit]- Ruby Imrie's full-time internship came to an end of 25 August 2023 so she has been extended to continue work on a 0.2 FTE basis from w/c 11 September 2023 until May 2024 (and possibly back to full-time for 12 weeks in Summer 2024) to continue to (1) quality assure the witchcraft data in Wikidata (2) improve the site design and UX experience and (3) build new features e.g. an AI chat interface if possible and a map of memorials. Beta site is available to look at: test.witches.is.ed.ac.uk.
- Ruby has been using R to compare Wikidata with the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft to quality assure the witchcraft data. Checked datasets are marked with a
on the Wikidata project page. - Current progress since 31 January 2024 includes:
- made changes to Julian calednar conversion implementation (query gets precision of investigation date)
- Resolved conflicts in descriptions of the site filters branch.
- Started Map of Memorials (added web page, and map layer, started writing Sparql query)
- Added user feedback from Ellie Whitehead to Website development priorities document.
Women in Red workshops
[edit]One new Women in Red workshop was held on Thursday 25th January 2024 - our 80th monthly workshop at the university had a Robert Burns Night related theme.
- 5 new articles were created from the 25 January 2024 Burns Night event. Next one will be 8 March for International Women's Day 2024.
- 43 articles were edited inc. Wikidata items this month.
- 419 edits in total.
- 12 editors.
- 11,000 words added this month.
- 122 references added.
Activities delivered with stats:
[edit]Events
[edit]| Event Name | Date and duration | Location | Attendees | New editors | Trainers | Gender breakdown |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women in Red editathon #80 Monthly Women in Red editathon - creating new biography articles of notable women on Wikipedia List of usernames recorded |
25 January 2024 | University of Edinburgh, hybrid workshop. | 12 | 3 | Ewan McAndrew | 75% female |
Partnership interactions
[edit]- Curious Edinburgh – new witch tour of Edinburgh E. McAndrew and student intern R. Imrie met with Curious Edinburgh’s Niki Vermeulen on 24 August 2023 to discuss how a Scottish witchcraft tour of Edinburgh could be added as a new walking tour on the Curious Edinburgh website and mobile app. Ewan McAndrew researched in October 2023 using the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft, Wikidata, Wikipedia and witchcraft books including a new book about Agnes Finnie, the ‘Witch of Potterow’, to develop the walking tour of places in Edinburgh related to the Scottish witch hunts. E. McAndrew is liaising with Professor Julian Goodare on revising the draft text to ensure historical accuracy and further researching some of the locations and individuals/events mentioned (inc. Principal of University of Edinburgh William Colvill and the Witches’ Well) and met PhD researcher on Scottish witch memorials/memorialisation, Stephanie Shakay Tierney, on 24 November 2023 where she invited us to make use of her research in the final walking tour.
- Update for 31 January 2024 - Dr. Sara Thomas (Wikimedia UK) and Professor Julian Goodare have now reviewed the content provided by PhD researcher Stephanie Shakay Tierney and indicated most salient parts for inclusion and aspects to potentially avoid. Prof Goodare has also provided more details on the Greenlea execution site (halfway down Leith Walk) and Chris Fleet, Map curator at the National Library of Scotland, has provided an opn-licensed map of image from Joh Adair's 1640s map of the area where the location of the gibbet is indicated. E. McAndrew has added this to the map link and will work with E. Whitehead to continue to improve veracity and narratove flow of the walking tour.
Image statistics - as of 12 February 2024
[edit]NB: August 2023 to january 2024 statistics do not seem available on the Baglama metrics tool at this time of writing. The Wikimedia Foundation's Tech Team have been made aware of this problem with metrics tools as of Wikimania 2023 in August. Am now trying the Glamorgan metrics tool instead as of 14 November 2023.
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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 January 2024 | 1,618,524 views |
| All images uploaded in collaboration between WMUK and the University of Edinburgh | Total for January 2024 | 3,810,749 views |
The most viewed images for January 2024 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]- Six new case studies can now be added to the Wikimedia in Education - Booklet of Case Studies. Graphic designer, Nicky Greenhorn, has submitted a new proof design has been provided with amendments.update 12 February 2024 - Proof design from Nicky Greenhorn has been reviewed by E. McAndrew and changes suggested by Wikimedia UK and E.McAndrew to be made asap. E McAndrew and E Whitehead reviewing this week with a view to submitting for inspection and publication before end February 2024.
- Translation Studies MSc Wikipedia assignment commenced on 27 September 2023 with 60-70 Masters students being trained how to contribute 2,000-2,500 word translations of high quality Wikipedia articles to another language Wikipedia by mid January 2024. update 12 February 2024 - The students have peer reviewed their 2,000-2,500 word translations. Next step is to finally publish their translations on Wikipedia in one final workshop w/e 19th February 2024. Assignment page is here with student names and article choices. - dashboard link.
- Renewing collaborations with History of Art's Dr. Glaire Anderson and Dr. Martin Poulter with a view to a Non-Western art editing assignment in Semester One in session 2024/2025.
- Met to discuss new collaboration with Professor Charles West on the Online History MSc and how to structure such an assignment using past experiences as a model. This has now started and is entitled Charles Martel in the Digital Age.
- Digital Education MSc will have a Wikipedia and Knowledge Equity 2 week component again in Semester One in session 2024/2025.
- Digital Sociology MSc have requested a Wikipedia editathon to improve the topic coverage of digital sociology as an understood discipline - this has been postponed until course organisers have a better idea about how best to frame the rewrite given in-person editors and remote editors would all be collaborating on the same Wikipedia article.
Conferences
[edit]- No new conference news this month although E. McAndrew is discussing a Suffer the Witch symposium to take place in 2024 and discussing with possible stakeholders and participants as to its scope, format and date.
- E.McAndrew to discuss with Karen Howie and Melissa Highton about whether to present/attend at this year's Wikimania Conference in August 2024 with 'Witchfinder General' Data Visualisation Intern Ruby Imrie potentially presenting on the newly relaunched Map of Accused Witches in Scotland Wikidata-driven website after 5 years' improvements.
Wikipedia Editing - 55-80hr Edinburgh Award in its 3rd iteration/year
[edit]- Dates are set for the new 2023/2024 Edinburgh Award for Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia and new sessions to help guide the students in place for a) learning how to edit b) settling on an agreed project plan of attack and c) mutually agreeing final project targets. More details on the Edinburgh Award page here.
- The first workshop took place on 18th October 2023 in Room 1.07 Main Library with 22 students registered already. 14 have now submitted their 400 word action plans and received Wikipedia training and feedback on their project proposals. Dashboard link.
- 12 attended the second Input Two workshop on 6th December 2023 and 11 submitted their fortnightly log of activities on w/c 7 January 2024. The students met to discuss their projects at the midpoint of the Award with Ellie Whitehead and project goals have now been agreed with the students and Wikimedian in Residence, E. McAndrew. 7 approx will continue on the Award with the award due to conclude with a final workshop on 27 March 2024 and final submissions due by midnight 31 March 2024.
New Student Internships
[edit]- Ruby Imrie has concluded her Summer internship (12 weeks 1.0 FTE) on the Map of Accused Witches Wikidata project as our third Summer Witchfinder General: Data Visualisation intern. Start date of 5 June 2023 and finish date 25 August 2023. This has now received a 0.2FTE extension during term time to start 14 September 2023 until May 2024. Update for January 2024: we are discussing extending her position for 12 weeks f/t through the Summer of 2024.
- Interviewed a p/t role of Assistant 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. This role has now been appointed and Eleanor Whitehead has begun by planning her first Wikipedia editathon for 'Women in Red' to coincide with Burns Night on 25 January 2024. The next one is planned for International Women's Day on 8 March 2024.
New digital skills workshops
[edit]The University of Edinburgh's Digital Skills team have requested a list of upcoming Wikimedia workshops for Semester 2 (2023/2024) and E.McAndrew has prepared a list of dates and workshop descriptors to tie in with this upcoming semester's themed approach including: Workshops planned are as follows:
- Witches and Wikidata - Introduction to linked open data with Wikipedia's sister project+ - 12-1pm, Wednesday 14th February 2024 in Room 1.08 Main Library
- Teaching with Wikipedia - 12-1pm, Wednesday 21st February 2024 in Room 1.07 Main Library
- Learn how to edit Wikipedia - 4-5pm, Wednesday 21st February 2024 in Room 1.07 Main Library
- Learn to edit Wikipedia (1-2pm) and Women in Red workshop (2-5pm) -1-5pm, Wednesday 28th February 2024, Room 1.07 Main Library
- Images, videos and timelines - help improve Wikipedia! - Wikimedia Commons and Histropedia workshop. 12-1pm, Friday 1st March 2024 in Room 1.08 Main Library.
- Learn to edit Wikipedia workshop (students) 12-1pm, Wednesday 20th March 2024 in Room 1.07 Main Library
- Witches and Wikidata - Introduction to linked open data with Wikipedia's sister project - 12-1pm, Wednesday 27th March 2024 in Room 1.07 Main Library
- Learn to edit Wikipedia (1-2pm) and Women in Red workshop (2-5pm) 1-5pm, Friday 29th March 2024, Room 1.07 Main Library
Activities with stats:
[edit]Events
[edit]No new events this month.
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]- Meeting with Luke Whitlock, BBC and a University of Edinburgh student, in February 2024 regarding an editathon on Unknown women composers following a recommendation from Professor Simon Riley, Reproductive Biology BSc.
- Delivering Wikipedia training and editathon with the University's Data-driven innovation staff team on 19 March 2024.
Activities delivered with stats:
[edit]Events
[edit]Partnership interactions
[edit]The Wikimedian in Residence received enquires from Professor Chris Williams FRSE (Informatics), Professor Charles West (Online History MSc) about a new Wikipedia in Curriculum assignment, Jo Newman at the DDI team about a Wikipedia training session, Alina Sinelnyk (Lecturer in Contemporary Art at Edinburgh College of Art), Dr. Glaire Anderson (Senior lecturer in Islamic Art) about a Wikipedia in Curriculum editathon on non-Western art in Semester one in 2024/2025, Ruth Bretherick at the Fruitmarket Gallery, Mark Carrigan and Dr. Karen Gregory (Digital Sociology) about a Digital Sociology focused Wikipedia editathon (tbc), Malcolm MacCallum at Anatomy Museum, Douglas Scott from Wikimedia South Africa.
Projects/events in development
[edit]- Updated the Booklet of Case Studies of Wikimedia in UK Education to relaunch a new digital edition with Nicky Greenhorn, graphic designer, and Lorna Campbell, OER Service. Revamping the style of the booklet to communicate things better and including 6 new case studies.Update for 12 February 2024: Nicky Greenhorn has provided new proof design and changes to be made as suggested by Wikimedia UK and E.McAndrew next and finalised by E. McAndrew and E. Whitehead by end February 2024.
- E.McAndrew has extended Ruby Imrie for new 0.2FTE (1 day a week) Witchfinder general Wikidata data visualisation position commencing w/c 11 Sept 2023 until May 2024. This may yet be extended further to a f/t 12 week position in Summer 2024.
- E.McAndrew has appointed a new Assistant Wikimedian in Residence position to be recruited on a 0.2-0.4FTE basis for 1 year. Eleanor Whitehead has been appointed, hosted her first Women in Red editathon (and the residency's 80th) on 25 January 2024 for Burns Night. Next one for International Women's Day 2024 on 8 March.
- Professor Charles has met with E. McAndrew this month and been discussing a student assignment for the Online History MSc with the Wikimedian in Residence on Charles Martel in the Digital Age. E McAndrew showed Charles how to set up and use the Outreach dashboard and showed how past assignments had been structured and supported and the resources available to make use of.
- Dr. Karen Gregory has requested a Wikipedia editathon for the Digital Sociology MSc to take place on 1st February 2024 at the University Library. This has since been postponed as course organiser Mark Carrigan needs to think how best to frame the work being down on one page by remote and in-person editors and the types of resources, printed and digital, available to both audiences.
- The OER Service is supporting the University of Oxford's Their Finest Hour project to digitise and collect the testimonies and digitally capture WW2 artefacts for a WW2 archive following the success of the WW1 Lest we forget project. E. McAndrew has discussed about being involved and seeing if some stories and images can be shared to Wikimedia though the project's Non-Commerical Creative Commons licence looks a barrier in some respects.
Upcoming events in 2024
[edit]- Feb 1 - Digital Sociology MSc Wikipedia editathon at the University Library (postponed).
- Feb 14 - Introduction to Wikidata (digital skills workshop).
- Feb 14 - Edinburgh Award 2023/2024 - Group research workshop.
- Feb 15 - Translation Studies MSc - final workshop to publish their 2,000-2,500 word translations.
- Feb 28 - Edinburgh Award 2023/2024 - Group research workshop.
- Mar 1 - Images, video and timelines - Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia (digital skills workshop).
- Mar 4 - Gender.Ed Steering group meeting.
- Mar 8 - International Women's Day editathon.
- Mar 12 - Wikimedian in Residence and Wikimedia UK meetup.
- Mar 13 - Edinburgh Award 2023/2024 - Group research workshop.
- Mar 19 - Wikipedia training and editahon with the Data Driven Innovation staff team.
- Mar 20 - Learn how to edit Wikipedia in 1hr (digital skills workshop).
- Mar 27 - Witches and Wikidata (digital skills workshop).
- Mar 27 - Edinburgh Award 2023/2024 - Mandatory Input 3 workshop - end of Award presentations.
- Mar 31 - Edinburgh Award 2023/2024 - Final submission deadlines.
Media
[edit]New articles
[edit]- Ellie Whitehead drafting new article on the Robert Burns Night editathon from 25 January 2024.
New videos and podcasts
[edit]- No new videos or podcasts this month.
Wikimedian in Residence - University of Edinburgh Media Hopper channel
[edit]- The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Media Hopper now has 393 videos. 574 plays since 1 November 2023.
1 January 2024 to 31 January 2024
| Number of videos | Impressions | Minutes viewed | Number of plays since 1 January 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 393 | 1,693 | 785 | 264 |
Wikimedian in Residence - YouTube channel
[edit]- The Wikimedian in Residence channel on YouTube which has now received over 459,964 views in total of its 140 videos with 1,686 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 140 | 6,808 | 236.8 | +27 | 1,686 | 459,964 | 168 |
Image uploads to Wikimedia Commons
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Burns Supper - January 25th 2024, uploaded by Evelyn Hollow, BBC's Uncanny -
Gay Gordons dancing at an Irish wedding -
Hogmanay piper - 31 December 2023 in Queen's Park, Glasgow
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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
- Finding impossible witches - Data Visualisation intern blog by Claire Panella.
- “Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia” – the Edinburgh Award - Wikimedian in Residence blog.
- Recovering Histories – Improving Equality and Diversity Online - Wikimedian in Residence blog.
- Reading up about... Wikipedia - Wikimedian in Residence blog.
- A Witchfinder's quest: ensuring data accuracy and enhancing the website - Witchfinder General blog.
- Weeks 2 and 3: Unravelling anomalies and starting the website transformation - Witchfinder General blog
- From witches to widgets: a Witchfinder intern's update - Witchfinder General blog
- Internship wrap up - Ruby Imrie on the Map of Accused Witches blog.
- Wikipedia in Classics Education by Anna P. Judson, Katharine Shields and Victoria Leonard.
- EduTec Journal paper published - Campbell, L., Highton, M., & McAndrew, E. (2023). Apoyando la práctica educativa abierta: estudios de casos reflexivos de la Universidad de Edimburgo / Supporting open education practice: Reflective case studies from the University of Edinburgh. Edutec. Revista Electrónica De Tecnología Educativa, (85), 9-28. https://doi.org/10.21556/edutec.2023.85.2865
- Some wicked wiki news for Halloween - Wikimedian in Residence blog.