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Institution Resident's Name Period Covered Date of Report List of reports to date
University of Edinburgh Ewan McAndrew 12 July - 11 August 2018 (Thirty-first month of residency) 28 August 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 129 450 380 226 52 452 1828

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.

George Neil Stewart
Beatrix Leslie - Scottish midwife accused of witchcraft.

Outcomes

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13 new biography articles created during our second Phd Thesis author editathon for Library and University Collections staff on 2nd August 2018.

  • New page for George Neil Stewart - a Scottish-Canadian doctor who made a major contribution to teaching and research in physiology.
  • New page for Norman Purvis Walker - a Scottish dermatologist at the Skin Department at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. He was also one of the first persons in Britain to benefit from the discovery of insulin as a treatment for diabetes.
  • New page for Alexander Carroll Maingay - a British physician, botanist and botanical collector.
  • New page for Una Maclean - a medical doctor in Aden, Yemen, and Ibadan, Nigeria, as well as an author and long-time lecturer in social medicine.
  • New page for John Harry Robertson - a crystallographer whose work was important in the development of crystallographic techniques.
  • New page for Herbert Furnivall Waterhouse - a surgeon and lecturer in anatomy.
  • New page for George Mackay (surgeon) - a British Ophthalmic Surgeon.
  • New page for Ian MacDonald (physician) - a Scottish physician. His M.D. was entitled 'Treatment of superficial burns by picric acid solution: a study in repair'.
  • New page for Joseph Carne-Ross - a Portuguese-born physician and science-fiction author.
  • New page for Alfred George Barrs - a physician and professor of medicine. He was among the first medical professionals to identify a link between tuberculosis and pleural effusions.
  • New page for Hamish Watson (paediatrician) - pioneer in paediatric cardiac catheterisation. Watson was most notable for being an authority on the congenital heart defect, Ebstein's anomaly.
  • New page for William Aldren Turner - a specialist in neurology and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.
  • New page for Robert Cameron Mackenzie - a thermoanalyst and clay mineralogist who was instrumental in developing the Macaulay Institute for Soil Research in Aberdeen as a centre of excellence in soil mineralogy.

7 new pages at our monthly Women in Red workshop on 17 July 2018 - 1 improved and 1 drafted also.

  • New page created for Maud Galt(c. 1620 to c.1670) lesbian accused of witchcraft in 17th century Kilbarchan, Scotland.
  • New page for Beatrix Leslie - a Scottish midwife executed for witchcraft. In 1661 she was accused of causing the collapse of a coal pit through witchcraft. Page drafted by User:Rixten and expanded by Ewan McAndrew.
  • New page for Margaret Troup Gray - teacher, translator and missionary.
  • New page for Christian Caldwell - crossdressing witch-hunter in Morayshire, Scotland.
  • New page for Margaret Mylne - Scottish suffragette and writer.
  • New page for Kitty Kenney - English suffragette, sister of Annie Kenney.
  • New page for Barbara Baehr - German arachnologist.
  • Newly improved page for Marion Kirkland Reid - Scottish suffragette.
  • Page drafted for Elizabeth Diller - an American architect. She is founding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Professor of Architecture at Princeton University, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and an international fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
  • Held second Ada Lovelace Day planning meeting at the JCMB building on 31st July 2018 with attendees from the School of Chemistry, the School of Physics and Astronomy and representatives from Information Services. Planning notes here.

Activities delivered in the past month with stats:

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Event Name Date Location Attendees New Users Gender breakdown
Monthly Women in Red workshop - creating new biography articles of notable women on Wikipedia
List of usernames recorded:
User:Aibrahim1203
User:Digital Zuzanna
User:Louise WIR
User:AliceMelody1973
User:Rixten
User:Suezheng
User:Victuallers
User:PrometheasOre
User:Cecplascott
User:Lirazelf
17 July 2018 2pm-7pm University of Edinburgh, Room 1.11, Main Library, 30 George Square, Edinburgh. 10 6 90% female
PhD thesis editathon for Library and University Collections' Staff: training session run by Gavin Willshaw (UoE's Digital Curator) for University of Edinburgh L&UC staff to edit Wikipedia and create articles about PhD authors.
List of usernames recorded:
User:Jmarsha3
User:Ali.M.M.Edi
User:Sscarles
User:LMCK21
User:Caspianreads
User:Bathyspheres
User:Pegazii51
User:Steve27537
User:Florrific
User:Bookbore
User:Daftbird1624
User:Meadows.Lib
2 August 2018 10am-4pm University of Edinburgh, Room 1.08, Main Library, 30 George Square, Edinburgh. 12 11 66.66% female

Image statistics

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UoE Centre for Research Collections images Total for July 2018 1,444,854 views
All images uploaded in collaboration between WMUK and the University of Edinburgh Total for July 2018 2,083,206 views
UoE Centre for Research Collections images Total for 31 months of monitoring 22,660,780 views
The 17th Century map of Iceland from the Centre for Research Collections remains our most viewed upload on Wikipedia with 352,043 views this month alone.
The video clip of men kicking footballs climbs to our second most viewed image/video with 291,254 pageviews this month. No doubt as a result of the World Cup in Russia.
The video clip of pedestrians walking on Buchanan Street Glasgow climbs to 5th place, receiving 90,885 pageviews this month.

The most viewed images for July 2018 were:

Rank Wikipedia page Monthly views Link to image/video on Commons
1 Iceland 352,043 views Gerardi Mercatoris Atlas, sive, Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura (24696368309).jpg
2 Football 291,254 views Men kicking footballs.webm
3 Scotland 269,994 views Scottish country dancing (Source).webm
4 Alexander McQueen 174,442 views Lee Alexander McQueen Headstone Back.png and Lee Alexander McQueen Headstone.png
5 Glasgow 90,885 views Pedestrians in Buchanan Street, Glasgow.webm
6 Escherichia coli 90,693 views E.coli image.jpg
7 Rabbit 89,419 views Set of wax models showing development of the rabbit heart, twentieth century (24226156252).jpg
8 Oslo 72,926 views Railway between Christiania and Bergen - 1916, from the WW1 diary of Ethel Moir.
9 Noah's Ark 59,273 views Woodcut of Noah's Ark from Anton Koberger's "German Bible".
10 Stan Laurel 50,113 views Stan Laurel plaque at Britannia Music Hall, Glasgow. Uploaded as part of Wiki Loves Monuments 2017..
11 Odessa 45,557 views Odessa during first days of Revolution - 1916. From the WW1 diary of Ethel Moir.
12 The Wicker Man 32,325 views Scotland - Culzean Castle - 20150927175751.jpg
13 Electron microscope 32,060 views Bacillus subtilis
14 Weaving 27,591 views Weaving Pattern Cards.jpg and Weavers Loom.jpg
15 Arthur's Seat 20,455 views Clip of Timelapse of clouds over Arthur's Seat and George Square and Appleton Tower - Edinburgh.

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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  • 18 editors participated in the EAHIL Conference micro-editathon on 13 July 2018.
  • 12 Articles Edited, 90 edits in total, 434 words added.
  • New SPLOT resource created - How to run an editathon.
  • Workshop delivered by three Academic Support Librarians from the University of Edinburgh: Marshall Dozier (user:Mafrado), Ruth Jenkins (User:Kangarooth) and Donna Watson (User:DeWatso52) with in-person support from National Library of Wales Wikipedian, Jason Evans, and remote support from Ewan McAndrew.
  • Attended Playful Engagement Strategy Meeting on 1st August 2018 with a view to seeing how the experiences we have had with the Wikimedia projects to date can support the university's new Playful Engagement Strategy.
  • Chaired initial discussion on 8 August 2018 about whether the university hosting a Wikimedia hackathon event would be a) welcome and b) feasible. Lots more questions than answers presently so will need to investigate.
  • Joined the OCLC-RLP Wikipedia / Wikidata interest group along with Kirsty Lingstadt (Head of Digital Library), Ruth Jenkins (Academic Support Librarian) and Gavin Willshaw (Digital Curator) so the University of Edinburgh should be well-represented.

Activities in the past month with stats:

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Event Name Date Location / Organiser Attendees (approx) Description
How to run a Wikipedia editathon - workshop at the EAHIL Conference 2018 - European Association for Health Information and Libraries
List of usernames recorded:
User:Chirbib
User:Richardjames444
User:Kangarooth
User:Dewatso52
User:Mafrado
User:Gerhard Bissels
User:Tuulevi
User:Einsteincaller
User:Mittistella
User:HansKAmstel
User:Lrooneyferris
User:Tsi Noisulli
User:Bouanzil
User:Librarymade
User:Karidamar
User:Risabelgo
User:Falkie71
User:Albethel
13 July 2018 EAHIL Conference in Cardiff, Wales.
Organiser:
Marshall Dozier (User:Mafrado), Academic Support Librarian at the University of Edinburgh
18 approx. The focus of this editathon at the EAHIl Conference was on “micro-edits,” or very small and easy, but still very helpful, improvements to Wikipedia in order for conference attendees to gain confidence to make bigger contributions, like creating new articles or running editathons in their own contexts.

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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  • 1 person trained at the Digital Skills workshop on 17 July 2018 - Getting started with Wikipedia: Learning Technologist Mate Varadi at the School of Divinity.
  • Discussed with Mate Varadi and Job Thijssen on 12 July 2018 how Wikipedia in the Classroom assignments could work at the School of Divinity and the School of Physics and Astronomy respectively.
  • Discussed with Kevin Grant on 12 July 2018 how Historic Environment Scotland might better collaborate with Wikimedia UK.
  • Caught up with Hannah Evans at Wikimedia UK on 13 July 2018 to discuss the new Wikipedia UK booklet of Wikipedia in the Classroom case studies.
  • Caught up with Martin Poulter, Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Oxford, on 19 July to discuss the pros and cons of the Wikipedia platform for managing assignments, the Programs and Events dashboard.
  • Had 2.5 hour Skype discussion with Joe Mattazoni at the Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco about his plans for a new tool to support the preparing, running, metrics gathering and aftercare involved in editathon events.
  • Met with Dr Tim Kendall, Senior Clinical Fellow in Pathology / Honorary Consultant Histopathologist, and Kate Britton, Administrator for the Division of Pathology, on 9 August 2018 to discuss Tim and Kate checking through the 1st year content for image licensing and identify images to be recreated, while the OER Service's Lorna and Charlie will investigate the possibility of hiring a 2nd summer intern for 2019 dedicated to working through the original Pathcal image content and creating a spreadsheet of metadata for the images to be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons.

Activities delivered in the past month with stats:

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Event Name Date Location Attendees New Users Gender breakdown
Teaching with Wikipedia - Workshop run by Ewan McAndrew at the University of Edinburgh library
List of usernames recorded:
User:MATE.VARADI(School of Divinity)
User:Jthijsse(School of Physics and Astronomy)
12 July 2018 12pm-1pm Edinburgh University Library, Room 1.11, 30 George Square, Edinburgh. 2 2 0% female
Train the Trainer - Workshop run by Ewan McAndrew at the University of Edinburgh library
List of usernames recorded:
User:K.J.Grant(Historic Environment Scotland)
12 July 2018 2pm-4pm Edinburgh University Library, Room 1.07, 30 George Square, Edinburgh. 2 2 0% female
Getting started with Wikipedia workshop - Digital Skills training run by Andrew Kirk at the University of Edinburgh library
List of usernames recorded:
User:MATE.VARADI
17 July 2018 10:30am-12:30pm Edinburgh University Library, Room 1.08, 30 George Square, Edinburgh. 1 1 0% female

Projects/events in development

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  • Working with Vicki Madden to organise a Mental Health Awareness event during Wellbeing Week (12-16 November 2018) at the University of Edinburgh. Also going to host Edinburgh Gothic 2018 on Robert Louis Stevenson Day - 13 November 2018.
  • Continuing to liaise with 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.
  • Another iteration of the Wikipedia assignment on the Translation Studies MSc 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.
  • 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 will be on contemporary women in chemistry.
  • 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.
  • The import of thesis collection data to Wikidata from the Edinburgh Research Archive is to go ahead now Library Developer Mike Bennett's contract is continuing. 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 Wikidata's 6th Birthday celebration on 31 October 2018.
  • Liaising with Anne-Marie Scott, Stewart Cromar, Kirsty MacNab, Jacky MacBeath, Rachel Hosker and Navino Evans about two Vote 100 Wikipedia editathons later this semester to support a Library and University Collections exhibition.
  • Liaising with the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Digital Scholarship programme to run two workshops this semester: one on Wikipedia and one on Wikidata.
  • Discussing with Simon Cobb at Leeds Library and Hannah Evans at Wikimedia UK about a 'Wikidata and OpenRefine workshop' to be held later in the year.
  • Writing a case study for the upcoming publication (tentatively titled) New Case Studies of Openness in the Language Classroom.

Upcoming events in 2018

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  • August 14 - Mental Health Awareness event - planning meeting.
  • August 15 - Wikidata and Histropedia workshop.
  • August 16 - WikiProject Women in Red meetup at University of Edinburgh Library.
  • August 24 - Meeting with Abd Alsattar, Computer Science researcher at University of St. Andrews.
  • August 24 - Vote 100 meeting with colleagues from UoE museums and archives.
  • September 1-30 - Wiki Loves Monuments 2018.
  • September 19 - Wikipedia Women in Red workshop.
  • September 19 & 26 - 4th iteration of Reproductive Biology Hons. - Wikipedia in the Classroom project. (To be co-lead this year with Ruth Jenkins, Academic Support Librarian).
  • September 21 - 5th iteration of the Translation Studies MSc - Wikipedia in the Classroom project.
  • September 27-28 - Data Literacy, Open Data and Knowledge-Building Communities at the University of Stirling.
  • October 9 - Ada Lovelace Day 2018
  • October 31 - Wikidata Witchcraft data hack for Halloween and Wikidata's 6th birthday.
  • November 13 - Robert Louis Stevenson Day 2018.
  • November 14 - Mental Health Awareness Day for Wellbeing Week 2018.
  • November 22 - Teaching with Wikipedia workshop (tbc).
  • December 4 - Wikisource workshop.
  • December 6 - Wikipedia Women in Red workshop.
  • December 10 - Train the Trainer workshop.

Media

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New podcast

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New blogposts this month

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The Wikimedian in Residence blog

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Lorna Campbell

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Anne-Marie Scott

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Videos

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  • Click to see the number of pageviews on Wikipedia for July 2018 for the MOOC snippets on Wikimedia Commons.
  • The following table shows number of plays of OER Media snippets shared to Commons up to 11 August 2018.
OER MOOC snippet Date added Plays this month Total number of plays Total pageviews on Commons
Scottish country dancing (Source).webm 6 March 2018 546 2,889 110
Men kicking footballs.webm 7 March 2018 803 4,834 86
Pedestrians in Buchanan Street, Glasgow.webm 7 March 2018 236 1,329 75
George_Square_and_the_Old_College_at_sunrise.webm 7 March 2018 117 686 21
Piles of paperback novels (Source).webm 6 March 2018 314 1,707 48
Flags at the entrance to the Scottish Parliament (Source).webm 6 March 2018 99 712 37
George Square and Appleton Tower - Edinburgh.webm 28 November 2017 213 5,316 1,064
Clip of Timelapse of clouds over Arthur's Seat (Source).webm 6 March 2018 156 1003 46
The National Monument on Calton Hill (Source).webm 6 March 2018 97 474 28
Men and women on exercise bikes (Source).webm 6 March 2018 75 321 44
Fields by the Pentland Hills.webm 7 March 2018 25 274 32
Clip of Sparkling light effects (Source).webm 6 March 2018 49 261 23
Students in the Meadows, Edinburgh.webm 7 March 2018 96 251 27
Daffodils in George Square (Source).webm 6 March 2018 44 191 30
The Royal Mile, Edinburgh 31 July 2018 70 147 12
Waverley Bridge, Edinburgh. 31 July 2018 5 6 12
Seal at Newburgh beach, Aberdeenshire. 31 July 2018 6 11 9

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
248 30 -40% 29 -52%

The most played videos were:

Position Video Plays this month Total plays
1 How to edit Wikipedia in 30 mins - 2018 tutorial. 3 plays 31 plays
2 Moving a drafted article into Wikipedia's live space. 2 plays. 40 plays
3 Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Adding an image. 2 plays 15 plays
4 Six in six minutes - 3 students and 3 staff discuss Wikipedia in the Classroom at the University of Edinburgh 2 plays 16 plays
5 Wikipedia assignment in Reproductive Biology - reflections from students and course leaders. 2 plays 26 plays

Wikimedian in Residence - Youtube channel

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  • The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Youtube which has now received over 38,826 views in total of its 68 videos with 181 subscribers (2,014 more views and 7,899 minutes watched approx. since last month with 15 more subscribers, 20 'likes', and 18 'shares' since last month). These videos have been viewed in over 94 different countries this month and in 168 countries around the world over the course of the channel's lifetime. 139,053 minutes have now been watched since the channel started.
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
68 2,014 94 7,899 20 18 15 181 38,826 168

Image uploads to Wikimedia Commons

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Images released from the University of Edinburgh's Centre for Research Collections

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Wikimedia events

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Protest against Donald Trump - Glasgow 13 July 2018

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26 pictures in this category on Commons.

Miscellaneous videos & pictures uploaded to Commons

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The Grand Lodge of Ireland, Dublin.

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22 pictures in this category on Commons.

Old Library, Trinity College in Dublin

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Celtic Knot Conference 2018 at the National Library of Wales

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22 pictures in this category on Commons.

PhD thesis authors editathon

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Videos

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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.
  59. Wikipedia in Higher Education (co-authored with Jemima John, 4th year Law undergraduate student.
  60. Wikipedia in Higher Education… How students are shaping the open web.
  61. Tracings (don’t look too closely)
  62. NEW SPLOT resource created for the Wikidata Workshop at the Digital Day of Ideas.
  63. 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.
  64. 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.
  65. Wikipedia in the Classroom – how students are shaping the open web - Teaching Matters blog
  66. 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.
  67. Towards Open-ish? - a hybrid conversation organised as part of the Wikimania conference in Cape Town.
  68. Languages - blog about whether other language Wikipedias should refer to all places in Scotland by their Gaelic names.
  69. Newspapers - created a Wikipedia page as part of Mike Caulfield’s Newspapers on Wikipedia project.
  70. Reflections on CELT Symposium 2018 - includes mention of our Open Content Curation Student Interns and the Wikimedia in the Classroom initiatives.
  71. 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.
  72. 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.
  73. What I did on my holidays - taking pictures for Wiki Loves Monuments.
  74. Academia and Wikipedia – a presentation at Maynooth University on 18 June 2018.
  75. Celebrating 100 years of Votes for Women
  76. Ada Lovelace Day 2018 – nominate Women in STEM heroines.
  77. Open.Ed – OER and Open Knowledge at the University of Edinburgh.
  78. Wikidata in the Classroom and the WikiCite project - presentation at Repository Fringe 2018.
  79. University wins Wikimedia UK’s Partnership of the Year award