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Institution Resident's Name Period Covered Date of Report List of reports to date
University of Edinburgh Ewan McAndrew 12 February - 11 March 2018 (Twenty-sixth month of residency) 7 March 2018 Click here to view all reports.


This month was a little different in that the 2018 UK higher education strike occurred on 14 dates from 22 February until 20 March 2018 and the Beast from the East snowstorms affected 27 February to 3rd March 2018.

Running total of staff & student engagement

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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 110 438 331 174 39 394 1564

Projects delivered

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Strategic Goal 1

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Increase the quality and quantity of coverage of subjects that are currently underrepresented on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects, with a particular focus on cultural content.

Outcomes

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  • Final Women in Medicine - Wikipedia editathon planning meeting held on 12 February 2018.
  • Women in Red editathon held on 22 February 2018 for the Festival of Creative Learning with Alice White, Wikimedian at the Wellcome Library - 17 new articles created and 3 improved.
Portrait of Frances Ivens

Activities delivered in the past month with stats:

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Event Name Date Location Attendees New Users Gender breakdown
Vote100 and Women in Medicine editathon for the Festival of Creative Learning 2018: Writing biographies of notable women in medicine and suffragettes
List of attendees
22 February 2018 10pm-5pm University of Edinburgh Teaching Studio LG.07, David Hume Tower, Edinburgh 16 10 87.5% female
Suffragette100 for International Women's Day 2018: Writing biographies of notable suffragettes
List of attendees
8 March 2018 1:30pm-5pm University of Edinburgh Room EW.07, Argyle House, 3 Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh 11 7 90.9% female

Image statistics

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Activities in the past month with stats:

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Strategic Goal 2

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Support the development of open knowledge in the UK, by increasing the understanding and recognition of the value of open knowledge and advocating for change at an organisational, sectoral and public policy level.

Outcomes

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  • Met with Amnesty International Scotland representatives, Lois Wolffe and Pauline Kelly, at the National Library of Scotland on 12 February 2018 to discuss a global Human Rights Defenders editathon on 19 May 2018. Sara Thomas (Wikimedian at SLIC) and Gill Hamilton (Digital Access Manager at the National Library of Scotland) were also in attendance.
  • Alice White, Wikimedian in Residence at the Wellcome Library attended our Wikidata hackathon event on 21 February 2018. She reports this session subsequently helped her to deliver her first Wikidata workshop with school students thereafter.
  • Held a ScotWiki meetup on the evening of 21 February 2018 in honour of Alice White's visit to Edinburgh - in attendance were Anne-Marie Scott (Learning, Teaching & Web Services, University of Edinburgh), Gavin Willshaw (Digital Curator, University of Edinburgh0, Kirsty Lingstadt (Head of Digital Library & Deputy Head of Library and University Collections, University of Edinburgh), Susan Ross (Gaelic Wikipedia in Residence, National Library of Scotland), Gill Hamilton (Digital Access Manager, National Library of Scotland), Sara Thomas (Wikimedian in Residence at the Scottish Library and Information Council) and others.
  • Helped facilitate meeting between Alice White and Joseph Marshall, Head of Special Collections and Centre for Research Collections at the University of Edinburgh, on 22 February 2018 to discuss the work the Wellcome Library had undertaken in sharing their image collections to Wikimedia Commons.
  • Met with Daria Cybulska, Wikimedia UK, on Monday 26 February to discuss the creation of a new Wikipedia in the Classroom - UK Case studies booklet.
  • Liaised with Melissa Highton, Assistant Principal at the University of Edinburgh, on a submission for the Academia and Wikipedia conference taking place at Maynooth University on 18 June 2018. This proposal has now been submitted and accepted.
  • Took part in an initial Skype discussion on 5 March 2018 with Emma McAllister at Queen's University, Belfast, with a view to planning a webinar on the work of the University of Edinburgh residency (with Q&A) to be held on 3 May 2018.
  • Wrote short article for inclusion in the university's BITS magazine on the Wikidata in the Classroom project we took part in with the Data Science for Design MSc course.
  • 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.
  • Recorded four video interviews on 9 March 2018 about the value of working with Wikimedia: (1) Gavin Willshaw - Digital Curator (2) Ruth Jenkins - Academic Support Librarian (3) Mark Bradshaw - Translation Studies MSc student (4) Eve Sealy - Reproductive Biology Honours student. More interviews are planned in.

Activities in the past month with stats:

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Event Name Date Location / Organiser Attendees (approx) Description
Human Rights Defenders editathon discussion 12 February 2018 The National Library of Scotland, 12-320 Lawnmarket Edinburgh EH1 2PJ
Organiser:
Gill Hamilton (Digital Access Manager, National Library of Scotland)
5 Met with Amnesty International Scotland representatives, Lois Wolffe and Pauline Kelly, at the National Library of Scotland on 12 february 2018 to discuss a global Human Rights Defenders editathon on 19 May 2018. Sara Thomas (Wikimedian at SLIC) and Gill Hamilton (Digital Access Manager at the National Library of Scotland) were also in attendance.
Sharing collections to Wikimedia Commons discussion 22 February 2018 The Centre for Research Collections, University of Edinburgh Main Library, 30 George Square, Edinburgh
Organiser:
Joseph Marshall (Head of Special Collections and Centre for Research Collections)
2 Joseph Marshall met with Alice White, Wikimedian in Residence at the Wellcome Library to discuss the Wellcome Library's sharing of their image collections to Wikimedia Commons.
Queen's University, Belfast, webinar discussion 5 March 2018 Skype
Organiser:
Emma McAllister (Queen's University, Belfast)
3 Discussed content, structure, and technical considerations with Emma in preparation for the webinar taking place on 3 May 2018.

Strategic Goal 3

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To support the use of the Wikimedia projects as important tools for education and learning in the UK.

Outcomes

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  • Discussed Wikidata hackathon event plans with Histropedia founder Navino Evans on 14 February 2018.
  • Created new Wikidata tutorial - Wikidata Basics.
  • Ran three events at the Festival Of Creative Learning 2018 - Histropedia: the timeline of everything workshop on 20 February 2018, Wikidata hackathon: the Possibilities are Endless on 21 February and a Vote100 and Women in medicine editathon on 22 February 2018.
    • 37 images added to Wikidata during the Wikidata hackathon on 21 February 2018. These images were taken during Wiki Loves Monuments 2018.
    • 8 Listeria subpages created on Wikipedia displaying a Wikidata list of Women in Medicine e.g. Phil Barker's 1st Wikidata list.
    • 34 alumni added to University of Bristol by adding place of education statements and a reference that this was imported from Wikipedia.
    • 51 alumni added to University of York by adding place of education statements and a reference that this was imported from Wikipedia.
    • 10 alumni added to University of Teesside by adding place of education statements and a reference that this was imported from Wikipedia.
    • 12 alumni added to Heriot-Watt University by adding place of education statements and a reference that this was imported from Wikipedia.
    • 87 alumni added to University of Dundee by adding place of education statements and a reference that this was imported from Wikipedia.
    • 14 alumni added to Edinburgh Napier University by adding place of education statements and a reference that this was imported from Wikipedia.
    • 61 alumni added to Queen's University, Belfast, by adding place of education statements and a reference that this was imported from Wikipedia.
    • 23 alumni added to University of Strathclyde by adding place of education statements and a reference that this was imported from Wikipedia.
    • 34 alumni added to University of Bristol by adding place of education statements and a reference that this was imported from Wikipedia.
    • 5 alumni added to Glasgow Caledonian University by adding place of education statements and a reference that this was imported from Wikipedia.
    • 33 alumni added to University of Stirling by adding place of education statements and a reference that this was imported from Wikipedia.
    • 98 alumni added to University of Manchester by adding place of education statements and a reference that this was imported from Wikipedia.
    • 20 alumni added to University of Plymouth by adding place of education statements and a reference that this was imported from Wikipedia.
    • 5 alumni added to University of Northampton by adding place of education statements and a reference that this was imported from Wikipedia.
    • 11 alumni added to London Metropolitan University by adding place of education statements and a reference that this was imported from Wikipedia.
    • 91 alumni added to University of Liverpool by adding place of education statements and a reference that this was imported from Wikipedia.
    • 94 alumni added to University of Leeds by adding place of education statements and a reference that this was imported from Wikipedia.
    • 43 alumni added to University of East Anglia by adding place of education statements and a reference that this was imported from Wikipedia.
    • 6 alumni added to University of Exeter by adding place of education statements and a reference that this was imported from Wikipedia.
    • 45 alumni added to University of Sheffield by adding place of education statements and a reference that this was imported from Wikipedia.
    • 43 alumni added to University of Cardiff by adding place of education statements and a reference that this was imported from Wikipedia.
    • 24 alumni added to University of Aberystwyth by adding place of education statements and a reference that this was imported from Wikipedia.
    • 3 alumni added to Bath Spa University by adding place of education statements and a reference that this was imported from Wikipedia.
    • 11 alumni added to Swansea University by adding place of education statements and a reference that this was imported from Wikipedia.
    • 34 alumni added to University of Bristol by adding place of education statements and a reference that this was imported from Wikipedia.
    • 373 alumni added to University of Cambridge by adding place of education statements and a reference that this was imported from Wikipedia.
    • 256 alumni added to University of Oxford by adding place of education statements and a reference that this was imported from Wikipedia.
    • 27 alumni added to University of Glasgow by adding place of education statements and a reference that this was imported from Wikipedia.
    • 188 alumni added to University of Saint Andrews by adding place of education statements and a reference that this was imported from Wikipedia.
  • NB: Last month I added 416 'Place of Education' (P69) statements to Wikidata to improve the University of Edinburgh alumni timeline during the Wikidata hackathon. So now William Henry Playfair joins suffragette Bessie Watson in the Histropedia timeline of University of Edinburgh alumni (filter by gender, occupation & place of birth)
  • Created short video to demonstrate how to create a Wikidata-driven timeline of university alumni for any institution.
  • At the behest of law student, Jemima John, I met with her, Jenni Houston (Digital Skills) and Dr. Rachael Craufurd-Smith, lecturer at the Edinburgh Law school on 9 March 2018. We discussed Jemima's suggestion that the law faculty seriously consider intregrating Wikipedia editing into the curriculum as a way for law undergraduates (& postgraduates) to get further practice in research skills and communicating laws in an accessible way. Dr. Craufurd-Smith is very open to the idea and is considering which year level Wikimedia work would suit best. She sees a Law Society editathon as a first step. Jemima and I are to write a paper about areas of crossover between the study of law and the Wikimedia projects which will further the discussion.

Activities delivered in the past month with stats:

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Event Name Date Location Attendees New Users Gender breakdown
Getting started with Wikipedia editing workshop with the University of Edinburgh Digital Skills team 14 February 2018 11am-1pm Edinburgh University Library, Room 1.08, 30 George Square, Edinburgh 1 1 100% female
Histropedia: the timeline of everything workshop for the Festival of Creative Learning 20 February 2018
11:30am-12:30pm and
1.30pm-2.30pm
King's Buildings, Room 4325C, James Clerk Maxwell Building, Edinburgh 5 5 60% female
Wikidata Hackathon: the Possibilities are Endless workshop for the Festival of Creative Learning
List of usernames recorded:
User:DanN085050
User:Muffin19
User:Elsie h
User:Mikeridgill
User:MinhTriP
User:JWMackenzie
User:Philbarker
User:Zeromonk
User:Andmikey
User:Benjamin.elo
User:Dylanthinnes
192.41.131.250
21 February 2018 at 12:30pm-4:30pm King's Buildings, Teaching Studio 1206C, James Clerk Maxwell Building, Edinburgh 12 10 25% female

Projects/events in development

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  • Discussing with Daria Cybulska and Hannah Evans at Wikimedia UK about the production of a new UK-based booklet of Wikipedia in the Classroom case studies.
  • Another iteration of the Wikipedia assignment in the Reproductive Biology Hons. course has been confirmed to go ahead in September 2018.
  • Wikipedia editing assignment for the Global Health MSc course - postponed until October 2018 due to Felix Stein working in Haiti at the moment.
  • Liaising with Gill Hamilton (National Library of Scotland), Pauline Kelly & Lois Wolffe (Amnesty Scotland) and Sara Thomas (Wikimedian at SLIC) on a Human Rights Defenders - Global Wikithon event for Amnesty International on Saturday 19 May 2018.
  • A collaboration with Michael Seery at the School of Chemistry and the Royal Society of Chemistry to be confirmed.
  • Further monthly Women in Red meetup scheduled for 30 March 2018.
  • Awaiting word from Sara Mortsell at Wikimedia Sweden about her plan to collaborate on a Wikipedia in Education knowledge sharing exercise between Wikimedia Sweden, Stockholm University, the University of Edinburgh and Tel Aviv University.
  • (Re)Making Middlesbrough - Editathon and Train the Trainer event with Sophie Nicholls at Teeside University confirmed for April 27th & 28th.
  • Law Society editathon arranged and to be led by law student Jemima John to take place 4 April 2018. May lead to work in the curriculum at a later date.
  • Showcase 'Wiki Loves Libraries' event for SDLC and SLIC representatives still mooted - awaiting word from Kirsty Lingstadt (Head of Digital Library) and liaising with Gavin Willshaw, Digital Curator on date and format.
  • Continuing to liaise with Gavin Willshaw and Mike Bennett at Library & University Collections on the import of thesis data to Wikidata from the Edinburgh Research Archive.
  • Continuing to add more data to Wikidata from the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft database.
  • Liaising with Susan Ross, Gaelic Wikipedian at the National Library of Scotland, on a submission for the Gaelic Studies Conference at the University of Edinburgh next summer.
  • Proposals accepted for three presentations at the Open Educational Resources Conference (OER18): Wikidata in the Classroom (lightning talk), Stories of Student Empowerment - Wikipedia in the Classroom (15 minute presentation) and an EdTech editathon workshop. Recording interviews with multiple staff and students over the course of this month.

Upcoming events in 2018

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  • March 23 - Presentation with Gavin Willshaw at the SCURL event, University of Strathclyde.
  • April 4 - Law Society editathon.
  • April 14 - Portobello Library editathon.
  • April 18 - OER18 Conference.
  • April 19 - OER18 Conference.
  • April 27 - Re(making) Middlesbrough event.
  • April 28 - Re(making) Middlesbrough event.
  • May 3 - Webinar for Queens' University, Belfast.
  • May 19 - Human Rights Defenders event for Amnesty Scotland, Glasgow.
  • July 5 - Celtic Knot 2018, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.
  • July 6 - Celtic Knot 2018, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.
  • July 9-13 - Wikipedia editathon workshop at the EAHIL Conference.
  • September - 4th iteration of Reproductive Biology Hons. - Wikipedia in the Classroom project.

Media

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Videos

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MOOC video snippets shared to Wikimedia Commons and inserted into relevant Wikipedia pages.

Blogposts this month

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Videos

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George Square and Appleton Tower - Edinburgh
  • The MOOC snippet clip (right) added to Wikimedia Commons and inserted in the Arthur's Seat Wikipedia page. 106 views from 12/02/2018 to 11/03/2018 for this month. A total of 1013 views since it was added on 27 November until 11 March 2018.
  • Sneak peak of the number of views for the newly added MOOC snippets above for March 2018.
  • The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Media Hopper now has 224 videos. 29 views this month with 26 plays.
  • The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Youtube now has received over 28,699 views in total of its 63 videos with 126 subscribers (2,234 more views approx. since last month and 1 more subscriber, 15 'likes', and 7 'shares' since last month). These videos have been viewed in over 101 different countries this month and in 163 countries around the world over the course of the channel's lifetime.

Press about the residency

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  1. Edinburgh University searches for 'Wikimedians' - Edinburgh Evening News, 8th October 2015.
  2. University of Edinburgh to employ ‘Wikimedian in Residence’ web editor - The Student Newspaper.org, October 13th 2015.
  3. The History of Medicine gets mentioned in the ILW Awards 2016
  4. The OER16 Conference, co-chaired by Melissa Highton and Lorna M. Campbell, won Wikimedia UK’s Partnership of the Year Award
  5. 'Wikidata and Wikisource Showcase' mentioned on IS News site.
  6. 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.
  7. Open Education team (including Wikimedia residency) come third in ALT Learning Technologist of the Year awards - story on the IS News site.
  8. Wikipedia's women problem - Melissa Highton writes for the Dangerous Women project 10th October 2016
  9. STV News 'Live at Five' covers the Ada Lovelace Day - Women in STEM Wikipedia editathon.
  10. New College take on Wikipedia edit-a-thon - Women and Religion 2 November 2016.
  11. Brenda Moon remembered in Wikipedia editathon - article in IS News
  12. Wikipedia editathon and Mary Stewart - Edinburgh Gothic Sat 12 November.
  13. Wikipedia editathon at the University of Sheffield's Centre for the History of the Gothic
  14. Collaborating to built a city of information literacy, a city of Wikipedia - Interview by OEPS Scotland
  15. #1Lib1Ref at the University of Edinburgh - Blog article by Gavin Willshaw, Digital Curator - 2nd February 2017
  16. Fake News and Wikidata - a roundup of the Wikimedia UK Education Summit
  17. Host a Wikimedian - You can't afford not to (blog article)
  18. 'Wikipedia, research and representation- - Dr Amy Burge, Academic Developer at the Institute for Academic Development, University of Edinburgh.
  19. Mary Susan McIntosh and the Women in Red - Lorna Campbell.
  20. What do you do with a dead chemist? - Anne-Marie Scott.
  21. Wikipedia and Writing - Michael Seery, Reader in Education, School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh.
  22. Language and Politics - my takeaways by Mina Theofilatou.
  23. How is it almost August? - Lorna Campbell.
  24. While in Scotland - Käbi Suvi, Wikimedia Estonia.
  25. Celtic Knot Conference 2017 in Edinburgh - Astrid Carlsen, Wikimedia Norge.
  26. Wikipedia in the Classroom: developing information literacy, online citizenship and digital research skills - Teaching Matters blog 13th June 2017.
  27. Congratulations to our Wikimedian of the Year - Wikimedia UK blog 1st August 2017.
  28. University of Edinburgh journal vol.48 no.1 - Article about the Edinburgh residency on p.25
  29. Ada Lovelace Day 2017 - celebrating Women in STEM - article on the WiR blog on 1st September 2017.
  30. Scotland loves monuments - article for Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 on the Wir Blog - Friday 8 September 2017.
  31. Wanderings with a Wikimedian - Blog article by Anne-Marie Scott for Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 - Monday 11 September 2017.
  32. Mortuary Chapel, Revisited - Anne-Marie Scott's blog September 30 2017.
  33. Ada Lovelace Day – Professor Elizabeth Slater - Lorna Campbell's blog on October 10 2017.
  34. Ada Lovelace Day - knitting resources
  35. Ada Lovelace Day 2017 photos.
  36. Wikipedia is a very lovely place to be - Anne-Marie Scott's blog.
  37. 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'.
  38. Wikipedia has always depended on the kindness of strangers - Outcomes of Ada Lovelace 2017 on the Wikimedian in Residence blog 19 October 2017.
  39. Wikipedia assignments – getting past the ‘Penguin effect’ and down to the brass tacks of sharing open knowledge - Teaching Matters blog.
  40. Ada Lovelace Day 2017 – Celebrating women in STEM - Edinburgh University Science Magazine.
  41. Another Story about Maps - Blogpost by Anne-Marie Scott 27 October 2017.
  42. Open Tumshies for Halloween - blogpost by Lorna Campbell 31 October 2017.
  43. Internet Transmitted Infections – I’ve got the SPLOTS - Anne-Marie Scott, 16 November 2017.
  44. Wikidata in the Classroom on the Wikimedian in Residence blog 22 November 2017.
  45. Open for all - Mansfield Traquair images hosted on Wikimedia Commons. Blog by Anne-Marie Scott 23 November 2017.
  46. 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.
  47. Wikipedia Games / SPLOTPoint - Anne-Marie Scott blog, January 1st 2018.
  48. 2017 Highs, Lows and Losses - Lorna Campbell blog, January 3rd 2018
  49. Wikipedia at 17 – Facts matter. - January 16th 2018.
  50. Reflections on International Women’s Day 2018 and Wikipedia – A Gude Cause - 8 March 2018.
  51. New SPLOT Wikidata tutorial - Wikidata Basics.
  52. 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.