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Institution Resident's Name Period Covered Date of Report List of reports to date
University of Edinburgh Ewan McAndrew 12 April - 11 May 2018 (Twenty-eighth month of residency) 10 May 2018 Click here to view all reports.


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 116 443 336 198 43 412 1601

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.

Senior Hons. Reproductive Biology student, Eve Sealy, discusses the benefits of the Wikipedia research assignment versus more traditional assignments.
Plaque at 7 Straiton Place, Portobello, where Ned Barnie once lived

Outcomes

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Activities delivered in the past month with stats:

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Event Name Date Location Attendees New Users Gender breakdown
Portobello: People and Places Wikipedia Editathon: adding content to Wikipedia to improve its coverage of the people and places around Portobello.
List of usernames recorded:
User:Kenbowler
User:Sebmelmoth
User:Audreyeveriss
User:Alice Goldie
User:PortyG
14 April 2018 10am-4:30pm Portobello Library, 14 Rosefield Avenue,Edinburgh, EH15 1AU. 7 7 42.85% female
(Re)making Middlesbrough: adding content to Wikipedia to improve its coverage of Middlesbrough and the North-East of England
List of usernames recorded:
User:NicoleDaae
User:Natasha Vall
User:Svnicholls
28 April 2018 10:30am-2pm Teesside University, Teesside University, Tees Valley, Middlesbrough TS1 3BX. 5 5 60% female

Image statistics

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UoE Centre for Research Collections images Total for April 2018 1,066,974 views
All images uploaded in collaboration between WMUK and the University of Edinburgh Total for April 2018 1,567,138 views
UoE Centre for Research Collections images Total for 28 months of monitoring 17,802,929 views
Scottish country dancing is our 2nd most viewed media on Wikimedia Commons this month.
Pedestrians in Buchanan Street, Glasgow is our 5th most viewed media on Wikimedia Commons this month.
Odessa during first days of Revolution - 1916 continues to be a highly viewed image (No.10 in our most viewed) and was uploaded as a result of Edinburgh Central Library sharing the images from WW1 nurse Ethel Moir's diary.

The most viewed images for April 2018 were:

Rank Wikipedia page Monthly views Link to image/video on Commons
1 Iceland 271,173 views Gerardi Mercatoris Atlas, sive, Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura (24696368309).jpg
2 Scotland 229,557 views Scottish country dancing (Source).webm
3 Escherichia coli 145,074 views E.coli image.jpg
4 Rabbit 102,863 views Set of wax models showing development of the rabbit heart, twentieth century (24226156252).jpg
5 Glasgow 94,416 views Pedestrians in Buchanan Street, Glasgow.webm
6 Football 90,512 views Men kicking footballs.webm
7 Oslo 65,847 views Railway between Christiania and Bergen - 1916, from the WW1 diary of Ethel Moir
8 Noah's Ark 60,824 views Woodcut of Noah's Ark from Anton Koberger's "German Bible"
9 Alexander McQueen 54,112 views Lee Alexander McQueen Headstone Back.png and Lee Alexander McQueen Headstone.png
10 Odessa 42,792 views Odessa during first days of Revolution - 1916. From the WW1 diary of Ethel Moir.
11 Stan Laurel 39,387 views Stan Laurel plaque at Britannia Music Hall, Glasgow. Uploaded as part of Wiki Loves Monuments 2017.
12 Electron microscope 34,117 views Bacillus subtilis
13 The Wicker Man 30,133 views Scotland - Culzean Castle - 20150927175751.jpg
14 Weaving 22,861 views Weaving Pattern Cards.jpg and Weavers Loom.jpg

Activities in the past month with stats:

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External videos
video icon "Wikipedia in Teaching and Learning – a webinar for Queen's University Belfast"
External videos
video icon "Stories of Student Empowerment - a compilation of student feedback on the Wikimedia residency – showcased at OER18 on 18 April 2018"
External videos
video icon "What does the Open Web mean to me? – a few quick thoughts at the Coventry Gathering at the University of Coventry's Disruptive Media Learning Lab"
Translation Studies MSc student, Mark Bradshaw, discusses the Wikipedia translation assignment.
4th year Psychology student, Karoline Nanfeldt, discussed Wikipedia and disappearing down the rabbit hole of Open Knowledge.

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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  • Delivered 3 presentations at the annual Open Educational Resources conference in Bristol on 18-19 April.
  • Delivered a webinar presentation to Queen's University Belfast on 3rd May 2018.
  • Attended a meetup of open educators at the University of Coventry on 17 April 2018.
  • Delivered Wikipedia training to Teesside University students, staff and members of the public on 27-28 April 2018.

Activities in the past month with stats:

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Event Name Date Location / Organiser Attendees (approx) Description
Coventry Gathering at the University of Coventry's Disruptive Media Learning Lab. 17 April 2018 9:30am to 4.30pm University of Coventry, Disruptive Media Learning Lab
Organiser:Daniel Villar-Onrubia
20-25 approx. During this unconference day-long event, we shared our thoughts on what the open web meant to us and a variety of ways of supporting one another in developing as a community of open practitioners with the focus of the end session on how Coventry University could run an event in October 2018.
The EdTech editathon at the Open Educational Resources conference 2018 event.
List of usernames recorded:
User:Jason.nlw
User:Lucwrite
User:Pantofool
User:Postdigitalme
User:Jrdingwall
User:Annacpage
User:Francesbell
User:Ammienoot
18 April 2018 1:30pm to 2.30pm OER18 Conference, The Bristol Watershed Cinema, 1 Canons Road, Harbourside, Bristol, BS1 5TX
Organiser:
Viv Rolfe and David Kernohan(Co-chairs) and Maren Deepewell (Association for Learning Technology)
7 approx. During this workshop session, a short training period allowed delegates to experience a brief demonstration of training in an edit-a-thon environment. A short editing practical thereafter with support from tutors gave delegates experience of editing Wikipedia articles focused on education & learning technology.
Stories of Student Empowerment: Wikipedia in the Classroom. A return on investment straight from the horse’s mouth at the Open Educational Resources conference 2018 event 18 April 2018 2:35pm to 3.35pm OER18 Conference, The Bristol Watershed Cinema, 1 Canons Road, Harbourside, Bristol, BS1 5TX
Organiser:
Viv Rolfe and David Kernohan(Co-chairs) and Maren Deepewell (Association for Learning Technology)
20-30 approx. This presentation discussed the first 27 months of the Edinburgh residency. Importantly, these stories were told by the students themselves through showing a compilation film of their video interviews. Video link.
Wikidata in the Classroom: the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft database project at the Open Educational Resources conference 2018 event 19 April 2018 11am to 12pm OER18 Conference, The Bristol Watershed Cinema, 1 Canons Road, Harbourside, Bristol, BS1 5TX
Organiser:
Viv Rolfe and David Kernohan(Co-chairs) and Maren Deepewell (Association for Learning Technology)
20-30 approx. This lightning talk presentation provided an example of a real-world application of teaching and learning as part of the University of Edinburgh's Data Science for Design MSc and covered how Wikidata can enable insights in a variety of disciplines; be it in open science, digital humanities, cultural heritage, open government and much more.
Wikipedia in Teaching and Learning - a webinar for Queen's University, Belfast 3 May 2018 1pm to 2pm Adobe Connect webinar broadcast to Queen's University, Belfast
Organiser:
Emma McAllister, , Educational Developer, Centre for Educational Development
20 approx. This presentation and Q&A provided describe the work of the Wikimedia residencty at the University of Edinburgh, and some of the ways that Wikipedia and its sister projects are used to help students develop information literacy, data literacy and digital research skills. Video link

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.

Data Science for Design MSc students discussing the project to import the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft database 1563-1736 into Wikipedia's sister project, Wikidata.
"What do we want the modern graduate to be?" - Dr. Jenni Garden (Christina Miller Research Fellow) and Dr. Michael Seery (Reader in Education) at the University of Edinburgh's School of Chemistry discuss Wikipedia in the Classroom.
Tomas Sanders, 4th year History undergraduate student on the need for students and staff to engage with improving the diversity of representations of history online.

Outcomes

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  • Created videos of staff and student feedback and shared this at the Open Educational Resources 2018 conference.
  • Discussed the Wikimedia residency at the University of Edinburgh and offered guidance to those exploring collaborations with Wikimedia at the American University in Cairo, Teesside University, Coventry University, Queen's University Belfast and more this month.
  • Supported Gavin Willshaw, Digital Curator, in the run-up to his first editathon at Portobello Library.
  • Supported Academic Support Librarians Marshall Dozier, Ruth Jenkins and Donna Watson to help prepare for their first editathon at the EAHIL Conference in July.
  • Supported Anne-Marie Scott to co-lead the EdTech editathon at the OER18 Conference making use of a resource to demonstrate how anyone can run an editathon quite simply; OER18 EdTech editathon SPLOT resource.

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 at Teesside University
List of usernames recorded:
User:pauld1960
User:Septimus18
User:Svnicholls
User:Jkfh101
User:v0010333
User:Tikirussy
User:Masseyattack
User:EIngleby
User:v0011488
27 April 2018 10:30am-4:30pm Teesside University Library, Teesside University, Tees Valley, Middlesbrough TS1 3BX 10 9 30% female
PhD Student at the School of Physics and Astronomy, Athina Frantzana, discussed Wikipedia and Women in STEM.
Dr. Richard Smith and Dr. Simon Riley of the MRC Centre of Reproductive Health discuss the benefits of working with Wikimedia in higher education.

Projects/events in development

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  • Discussing with Hannah Evans at Wikimedia UK about the production of a new UK-based booklet of Wikipedia in the Classroom case studies.
  • Meeting with Gavin Willshaw, digital curator at the University of Edinburgh, to support his preparations for first series of Wikipedia editathons taking place for Library and University Collections Staff.
  • 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.
  • Finalised preparations with Pauline Kelly & Lois Wolffe (Amnesty Scotland) and Sara Thomas (Wikimedian at SLIC) on a Human Rights Defenders - Global Wikithon event for Amnesty International at the Glasgow Women's Library on Saturday 19 May 2018.
  • A collaboration with Michael Seery at the School of Chemistry and the Royal Society of Chemistry to be confirmed.
  • Ada Lovelace Day 2018 is confirmed as going ahead at the School of Chemistry again in October 2018; working with Michael Seery and Jenni Garden. The focus this year may be on contemporary women in chemistry.
  • Further monthly Women in Red meetup scheduled for 8 June 2018 to mark the Processions event on 10 June 2018; celebrating 100 years of votes for women, marches and bannermaking.
  • 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.
  • Finalised arrangements for the rescheduled Law and Technology Society editathon arranged - to be led by law student Jemima John. This has been rescheduled for 15 May 2018 along with a collaboration on an article designed to provoke discussion of Wikipedia in the Law 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. Completed necessary preparatory work; just awaiting Mike finishing developing the tool that converts ALMA library catalogue data into a Wikidata-friendly import.
  • Continuing to add more data to Wikidata from the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft database. More to be added at the Digital Day of Ideas event on 16 May 2018 for digital scholars working at the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.
  • 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. Awaiting word on this from Susan.

Upcoming events in 2018

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  • May 15 - WikiProject Law editathon - run by Law undergraduate Jemima John.
  • May 16 - Digital Day of Ideas: Wikidata workshop.
  • May 19 - Human Rights Defenders event for Amnesty Scotland at the Glasgow Women's Library.
  • June 8 - Processions Wikipedia editathon - a Wikipedia Women in Red event to mark 100 years of votes for women, marches and bannermaking.
  • June 18 - Academia and Wikipedia Conference at Maynooth University, Ireland.
  • 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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Reproductive Biomedicine Wikipedia Education assignment - September 2017
Video interview with Ruth Jenkins, Academic Support Librarian at the University of Edinburgh Medical School, speaking about the Reproductive Biology Honours Wikipedia assignment.
Image demonstrating the interlinking of the Wikimedia projects

New blogposts this month

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Videos

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  • 23 new videos uploaded to the Media Hopper channel this month.
  • Click to see the number of views for April 2018 for the MOOC snippets on Wikimedia Commons.

Wikimedian in Residence - University of Edinburgh Media Hopper channel

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Number of videos Views this month Percentage increase Number of plays this month Percentage increase
247 49 53% 161 667%

The most played videos were:

Position Video Plays this month
1 Stories of Student Empowerment - a compilation of student feedback on the Wikimedia residency 43 plays
2 Wikipedia and Women in STEM - Athina Frantzana, PhD student at the School of Physics and Astronomy 20 plays
3 Wikipedia and Information Literacy - Academic Support Librarian Ruth Jenkins. 19 plays
4 Wikipedia in the Classroom - Mark Bradshaw, Translation Studies MSc 14 plays
5 Wikipedia and Chemistry - Interview with Dr. Jenni Garden and Dr. Michael Seery 13 plays
External videos
video icon OER18 Session - Anne-Marie Scott: "A piece of illumination enlarged – using OER for access and activism in cultural heritage"
Interviews with students
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  1. Stories of Student Empowerment - a compilation of student feedback on the Wikimedia residency
  2. Wikipedia in the Classroom - Eve Sealy, Senior Honours student on the Reproductive Honours programme
  3. Wikipedia in the Classroom - Mark Bradshaw, Translation Studies MSc
  4. Wikipedia and Women in STEM - Athina Frantzana, PhD student at the School of Physics and Astronomy
  5. Wikipedia and History - Tomas Sanders, History undergraduate at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology
  6. Wikipedia in the Classroom - Psychology student Karoline Nanfeldt
  7. Wikipedia and Law - Interview with Law undergraduate student, Jemima John.
  8. And finally... what's your favourite Wikipedia article?
Interviews with staff
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  1. Wikipedia and Chemistry - Interview with Dr. Jenni Garden and Dr. Michael Seery
  2. Wikipedia and Libraries - Interview with Digital Curator, Gavin Willshaw.
  3. Wikipedia and Information Literacy - Academic Support Librarian Ruth Jenkins.
  4. Wikipedia in the Classroom - Simon Riley and Richard Smith on the Reproductive Biology Wikipedia assignment.
OER18 presentations
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  1. #OER18 Welcome and Lorna Campbell Keynote - The Long View: Changing perspectives on OER.
  2. #OER18 Session: Student & Community OER Co-Creation - Charlie Farley, University of Edinburgh.
  3. #OER18 Session: Wikidata, the Semantic Web, and the emerging global knowledge base - Martin Poulter, University of Oxford.
  4. #OER18 Keynote: Dr. Momodou Sallah - Pedagogies of Disruption as Resistance: Developing Counter Narratives Through Open Educational Practice.
  5. #OER18 Session: Catherine Cronin - Continually becoming: Open learners and open educators.
  6. #OER18 Session - Anne-Marie Scott: "A piece of illumination enlarged – using OER for access and activism in cultural heritage"
Miscellaneous videos
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  1. 'Disrupting the Publisher-Academic Complex' - a talk by Peter Murray-Rust at the British Library on 21 April 2018.
New video tutorial
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  1. How to edit Wikipedia in 30 mins - 2018 tutorial.
  2. How to Edit Wikipedia - unabridged version.
  3. Moving a drafted article into Wikipedia's live space.
  4. Isabella Skea - writing the Wikipedia article on "The Lass o' Pairts"

Wikimedian in Residence - Youtube channel

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  • Added 4 new videos to the Wikimedian in Residence channel on Youtube which has now received over 32,269 views in total of its 67 videos with 152 subscribers (2,122 more views and 7,622 minutes watched approx. since last month with 10 more subscribers, 10 'likes', and 16 'shares' since last month). These videos have been viewed in over 104 different countries this month and in 165 countries around the world over the course of the channel's lifetime.
Number of videos Views this month Number of countries watching this month Minutes watched this month New 'likes' New shares New subscribers Total subscribers Total views Total number of countries viewing the channel
67 2,122 104 7,622 10 16 10 153 32,269 165

Image uploads to Wikimedia Commons

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Mansfield Traquair images

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42 images uploaded from trip to Middlesbrough on 27-28 April 2018

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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.
  53. Libraries, Literacies & Learning – presentation at SCURL event 23 March 2018
  54. Digital Transformation and Data — The Wikimedia Residency at the University of Edinburgh on Medium.com
  55. Wikimedia resources – how to get started.
  56. The OER 18 EdTech editathon 'SPLOT' resource.
  57. Wikimedia at the Open Educational Resources Conference 2018
  58. 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.