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Institution Resident's Name Period Covered Date of Report List of reports to date
University of Edinburgh Ewan McAndrew 12 January 2020 - 1 May 2020 (Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first, and Fifty-second month of the residency 1st May 2020 Click here to view all reports.

Running total of staff & student engagement

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Laura Rose Wood - Wikimedia Women in Red intern at the University of Edinburgh
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 208 1,115 490 332 87 695 2,464

Projects delivered

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Anne-Marie Scott - EdTech lady leader at the University of Edinburgh
Blue Plaque for Mairi Chisholm held by Women in Red editor Siobhan O'Connor
Blue plaques cut at the University of Edinburgh Maker Space for WikiProject Women in Red

Strategic Aim 1 - Knowledge Equity

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International Women's Day 2019 - Wikipedia editahon at the University of Edinburgh

Increase the engagement and representation of marginalised people and subjects

  • 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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  • Laura Rose Wood joined us in January 2020 as the new Wikimedia Women in Red student intern with a remit to expand on our Women in Red work (promoting events, researching pages to write, creating scaffolded resources, delivering training, community building). She has been supported to deliver training, created a new blogsite, researched names for our first event on 5th February 2020 and is preparing a resource to help anyone learn how to edit or run Women in Red editing events.
  • Worked with Kat Breen and Professor Miles Glendinning to develop templates and a workflow to upload the images from the Tower Block UK archive into Wikimedia Commons with consistent metadata and the social housing developments on Wikidata. The workflow and templates are now created so a further meeting to perform the upload is to be arranged in due course.
  • Sixteen new 'blue plaques' were laser cut for inspiring women who were nominated by the University of Edinburgh WikiProject Women in Red editors who had created Wikipedia pages for them. The editors collected the plaques to take home with them.
  • The BSHS Ayrton prize recognises outstanding web projects and digital engagement in the history of science, technology and medicine (HSTM). The prize name was chosen to recognize the major contributions of Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923) to numerous scientific fields, especially electrical engineering and mathematics, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The prize is awarded once every two years. Given the remarkable strength of the field, they decided to supplement the main Prize with a Highly Commended category, to be awarded to two further projects. I’m delighted to say that our University of Edinburgh Wikipedia project “Changing the ways the stories are told” is one of the two Highly Commended projects! The judging panel were particularly impressed with the initiative’s track record of contributions to the infrastructure of knowledge on which research and public engagement in the history of science depend.
  • Discussing an LGBT+ Wikipedia editing event for May/June 2020 with Lisa Heyward, one of our Ada Lovelace Day editors and science student at University of Edinburgh.
  • Discussing a Wikipedia project for the Summer of 2020 with the University of Edinburgh's Mastercard Scholars program. The Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at The University of Edinburgh provides full scholarships and transformative leadership training to educate and support bright, young African students with a deep, personal commitment to changing the world around them.
    • Our monthly Wikipedia Women in Red workshop was held on 5 February 2020 at the University of Edinburgh's David Hume Tower. Dashboard page with stats.
    • 7 new articles were created.
    • 19 more were edited.
    • 154 edits in total.
    • 11 editors.
    • 5,200 words added.
    • Our monthly Wikipedia Women in Red workshop was held as an online event on 8 April 2020 using Blackboard Collaborate. Dashboard page with stats.
    • 4 new articles were created.
    • 5 more were edited.
    • 28 edits in total.
    • 7 editors.
    • 2,140 words added.
    • Our Earth Day Wikipedia Women in Red workshop was held as an online event on 20 April 2020 using Blackboard Collaborate. Dashboard page with stats.
    • 19 new articles were created.
    • 80 more were edited.
    • 514 edits in total.
    • 14 editors.
    • 23,200 words added.
      • New page for Hilda Flavia Nakabuye(born 15 April 1997) is a Ugandan climate and environmental rights activist who founded Uganda's Fridays for Future movement. She also advocates for greater gender equality and racial diversity in the climate change movement.
      • New page for Valerie May (1916 – 27 June 2007) who was an Australian phycologist, a pioneer and noted expert on toxic algae and water quality, and an interdisciplinary scientist who undertook algal ecology studies in Australia. Both pages written by Meriel G Jones, lecturer in biological sciences at the University of Liverpool
      • New page for Mary Pirie (20 January 1822 - 8 February 1885) who was a Scottish botanist and teacher from Aberdeen. Written by Lucy Moore - who works for Leeds Museums & Galleries and is a postgraduate researcher at the University of York. She started editing in February 2019 at an event run by West Yorkshire Queer Stories.
      • Karen Bowman, who works as Director of Procurement at the University of Edinburgh, wrote her 49th article on Elsie Cassels, a Scottish born naturalist, the first woman to become Vice-President of a Canadian naturalist society. Cassels lived in Red Deer, Alberta and became a recognised authority across Canada on migratory birds.
      • Clare Lee Thompson wrote her 33rd, 34th, and 35th article on Ruth Wynne-Davies, Miriam Lucile Bomhard, and Julian Goodare, Professor of History at University of Edinburgh. and director of the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft database.
      • Charlotte Campbell, primary school teacher and Moray School of Education alumni, wrote her 4th article of the Easter holidays, on Ridhima Pandley, an activist from India who campaigns for action against climate change. Pandley has been likened to Greta Thunberg.
      • New article on Janice Carson Beatley (March 18, 1919 - November 14, 1987) was an American botanist, known for her fieldwork on the forests of Ohio and the flora of the Nevada Atomic Test Site. Beatley was Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Cincinnati. She has three plant species named in her honour including Astragalus beatleyae.
      • Two articles by Lisa Heywood who first set up her account as part of the University of Edinburgh's Ada Lovelace Day editathon. She has a degree in Biochemistry and Microbiology. She wrote about Anna Hughes (born 8th January 1983) who is a cyclist, author and sustainable transport campaigner. She is currently the Director of Flight Free UK as well as being on the board of the charity Population Matters. She also wrote about Danielle Claar who is a marine scientist whose research has covered the effect of the 2015/2016 El Niño event on coral symbionts and parasites.

Activities delivered with stats:

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Events

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Event Name Date and duration Location Attendees New editors Trainers Gender breakdown
Monthly Women in Red workshop - creating new biography articles of notable women on Wikipedia
List of usernames recorded
5 February 2020 University of Edinburgh, Main Library, Edinburgh. 10 4 Ewan McAndrew and Laura Rose Wood 100% female
Monthly Women in Red workshop - creating new biography articles of notable women on Wikipedia
List of usernames recorded
8 April 2020 University of Edinburgh, online webinar. 7 6 Ewan McAndrew 100% female
Women of Climate Change and sustainable development - an Earth Day 2020 editathon
Monthly Women in Red workshop - creating new biography articles of notable women on Wikipedia

List of usernames recorded
20 April 2020 University of Edinburgh, online webinar. 14 6 Ewan McAndrew and Laura Rose Wood 85.7% female

Partnership interactions

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Activity /Purpose of Meeting Date and duration Institute Location Names of Attendees Links, if any, to Meeting/Presentation/ Conference Talk
Meeting with Wikipedia Women in Red intern 14 January 2020
Full day
University of Edinburgh Argyle House, Edinburgh. Laura Rose Wood Wikipedia Women in Red at the University of Edinburgh website.
Meeting to discuss import of the Tower Block UK archive into Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata 16 January 2020
1 hour
University of Edinburgh Argyle House, Edinburgh. Kat Breen (Database Assistant) and Prof Miles Glendinning Tower Block archive website.
Meeting with Wikipedia Women in Red intern and first training 21 January 2020
two hours
University of Edinburgh Argyle House, Edinburgh. Laura Rose Wood Wikipedia Women in Red at the University of Edinburgh website.
Meeting with Wikipedia Women in Red intern and Melissa Highton to discuss internship focus 21 January 2020
1 hour
University of Edinburgh Argyle House, Edinburgh. Laura Rose Wood
Melissa Highton
Wikipedia Women in Red at the University of Edinburgh website.
Meeting with Wikipedia Women in Red intern to promote and plan events 28 January 2020
2 hours
University of Edinburgh Argyle House, Edinburgh. Laura Rose Wood Wikipedia Women in Red at the University of Edinburgh website.
Metadata Crosswalk discussion to process Tower Block UK archive into Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata 28 January 2020
1 hour
University of Edinburgh Argyle House, Edinburgh. Kat Breen (Database Assistant)
Pauline Ward
Tower Block archive website.
Meeting to begin import of the Tower Block UK archive into Wikimedia Commons 30 January 2020
3 hours
University of Edinburgh Argyle House, Edinburgh. Kat Breen (Database Assistant) Tower Block archive website.
Wikipedia and Health Information 9 April 2020
One hour
Wikimedia UK online. Wikimedia UK staff
Wikimedians in Residence
Discussion about how Wikimedia could support the Covid-19 efforts.
Meeting with Wikipedia Women in Red intern 14 April 2020
One hour
University of Edinburgh online. Laura Rose Wood Wikipedia Women in Red at the University of Edinburgh website.
Wikimedia work during the pandemic 16 April 2020
One hour
Wikimedia UK online. Wikimedia UK staff
Wikimedians in Residence
Discussion about how Wikimedia events could run/operate during lockdown.

Image statistics

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UoE Centre for Research Collections images Total for March 2020 802,432 views
All images uploaded in collaboration between WMUK and the University of Edinburgh Total for March 2020 1,491,471 views
UoE Centre for Research Collections images Total for 51 months of monitoring 39,246,422 views
A bronze medallion showing Mary Somerville in profile received over 209,000 pageviews in February 2020.

The most viewed images for February 2020 were:

Rank Wikipedia page Monthly views Link to image/video on Commons
1 Mary Somerville 209,647 views A bronze medallion showing Mary Somerville in profile
2 Iceland 206,151 views Gerardi Mercatoris Atlas, sive, Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura (24696368309).jpg
3 Alexander McQueen 121,542 views Lee Alexander McQueen Headstone Back.png and Lee Alexander McQueen Headstone.png
4 Rabbit 79,868 views Set of wax models showing development of the rabbit heart, twentieth century (24226156252).jpg
5 Escherichia coli 77,645 views E.coli image.jpg
6 Glasgow 77,359 views Pedestrians in Buchanan Street, Glasgow.webm
7 Stan Laurel 71,752 views Stan Laurel plaque at Britannia Music Hall, Glasgow. Uploaded as part of Wiki Loves Monuments 2017..
8 Noah's Ark 64,944 views Woodcut of Noah's Ark from Anton Koberger's "German Bible".
9 Robert Louis Stevenson 51,628 views Robert Louis Stevenson mit sieben Jahren
10 Odessa 34,425 views Odessa during first days of Revolution - 1916. From the WW1 diary of Ethel Moir.

Strategic Aim 2 - Digital Literacy

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Wikimedia in Education - Wikimedia UK in partnership with the University of Edinburgh

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
External videos
video icon Needful Things - a presentation for OER20 Conference on a new booklet of case studies of Wikimedia in UK education.

Progress

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  • Digital Humanities Awards are a set of annual awards where the public is able to nominate resources for the recognition of talent and expertise in the digital humanities community. The resources are nominated and voted for entirely by the public. These awards are intended as an awareness raising activity, to help put interesting DH resources in the spotlight and engage DH users (and general public) in the work of the community. The Map of Accused Witches Wikidata website won Best DH Data Visualization.
  • Created a NEW booklet of case studies of Wikimedia in UK Education. Written with Dr. Sara Thomas, the booklet is a collaboration between the University of Edinburgh and Wikimedia UK to produce a 36 page booklet of 14 case studies demonstrating best practice in how the Wikimedia projects are being used in teaching and learning.
  • Presented on Wikimedia in Education on the 4 years of the Wikimedia residency at the University of Edinburgh and the new booklet of case studies at OER20's online conference on 1st April 2020.
  • The Translation Studies MSc Wikipedia assignment has concluded its 7th iteration in four years with double the cohort size producing 46 brand new articles in a variety of different language Wikipedias. The students are now engaging in meaningful peer review feedback of each other's articles when previously the assignment was not assessed (and less motivating for them as a result). 38 students are undertaking the assignment in semester two in what is now the assignment's 8th iteration.
  • The Global Health Challenges Pg (online) Wikipedia assignment worked well in semester one. Course leader Varia Christie is due to discuss and review the assignment with the resident in mid May 2020 with a view to repeating the assignment in 2020/2021. Students worked collaboratively in groups to substantially improve (adding 1000 words) to stub articles about natural (or manmade) disasters.
  • Another online webinar workshop worked well on the Digital Education MSc course programme where Marshall Dozier, Academic Support Librarian, invited the resident to a training workshop and presentation on 'Knowledge Equity and Wikipedia'. The students took part in forum discussions and then looked at how different literacy' pages on Wikipedia were covered. They then collaborated to produce a brand new page on Information Literacies.
  • Professor Devi Sridhar and Dr. Felix Stein, course leaders on the Masters of Public Health(MPH) course programme, worked with the resident on a 200 word assignment in semester one to get the Masters students sharing their scholarship to global health related pages on Wikipedia. Professor Devi Sridhar has since become a key expert voice on the Covid-19 pandemic advising the Scottish government and the resident has proposed that scholars at the university be trained & supported to help share knowledge on Wikipedia to improve the health information available online in light of the pandemic.
  • The Reproductive Biology Bsc Wikipedia assignment is confirmed to be going ahead in semester one of 2020/2021.
  • Attended two day 'Data Carpentry' workshop at University of Edinburgh to learn about data manipulation in spreadsheets, OpenRefine and Python.
  • Put forward job position for an Employ.ed internship where a Wikimedia Trainer Intern would be employed on a 12 week fulltime basis this Summer to work on developing professional looking and scaffolded resources that would chunk the challenge of taking someone from beginner to advanced in Wikipedia and Wikidata. Awaiting approval from Chief Information Officer before proceeding with interviewing for the position.
Christopher Langley - Mapping the Scottish Reformation project looking at Wikidata to store their data

Activities with stats:

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Events

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Event Name Date and duration Location Attendees New editors Trainers
Translation Studies MSc - Drop-in clinic to publish new translations 14 January 2020, 12-2pm University of Edinburgh, 50 George Square Computing Lab, Edinburgh. 12 12 Ewan McAndrew
Translation Studies MSc - Drop-in clinic to publish new translations 15 January 2020, 12-2pm University of Edinburgh, 50 George Square Computing Lab, Edinburgh. 9 9 Ewan McAndrew
Translation Studies MSc - Drop-in clinic to publish new translations 16 January 2020, 12-2pm University of Edinburgh, 50 George Square Computing Lab, Edinburgh. 10 10 Ewan McAndrew
Digital Education MSc - Webinar on 'Knowledge Equity and Wikipedia' 29 January 2020, 12-2pm University of Edinburgh, Argyle House, Edinburgh. 5 4 Ewan McAndrew
Translation Studies MSc - Review and training session for semester two assignment 31 January 2020, 4-5.30pm University of Edinburgh, 50 George Square Computing Lab, Edinburgh. 38 0 Ewan McAndrew
Translation Studies MSc - Drop-in clinic to publish new translations 1 April 2020, 4-6pm Remote support. 3 0 Ewan McAndrew

Partnership interactions

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Activity /Purpose of Meeting Date and duration Institute Location Names of Attendees Links, if any, to Meeting/Presentation/ Conference Talk
Digital Education MSc - planning session for webinar 8 January 2020
1 hour
University of Edinburgh Main Library, Edinburgh. Marshall Dozier, Academic Support Librarian Digital Education site.
Meeting with Marketing and Communications Manager for Online Learning and Media Studio Service Manager. 14 January 2020
1 hour
University of Edinburgh Main Library, Edinburgh. Emma Charlesworth, Marketing and Communications Manager for Online Learning
Kate Yee, Media Studio Service Manager.
Meeting to discuss areas of collaboration in promoting and reusing Wikimedia-related video content.
Meeting with Mapping the Scottish Reformation project team to discuss working with Wikidata 22 January 2020
3 hours
University of Edinburgh Digital Scholarship Centre, 6th floor, University of Edinburgh Main Library. Mikki Brock
Chris Langley
Mapping the Scottish Reformation site.
Meeting with Shenxiao Tong, Academic Support Librarian 19 February 2020
1 hour
University of Edinburgh Argyle House, Edinburgh. Shenxiao Tong, Academic Support Librarian Meeting to discuss areas of collaboration in supporting the Translation Studies MSc cohort now it has doubled in size.
Data Carpentry workshop 16-17 April 2020
Two full days
University of Edinburgh Online Zoom meeting Lucia Michielin Online training workshops to learn about data manipulation in spreadsheets, OpenRefine and Python.
Meeting with Ian Watt (Open Data Institute Aberdeen) 23 April 2020
1 hour
University of Edinburgh Online Zoom meeting Ian Watt, Open Data Institute Aberdeen and Code the City Meeting to discuss areas of collaboration in supporting data-driven solutions to the Covid-19 pandemic.
External videos
video icon An interactive laser cut map of accused witches in Scotland.

Strategic Aim 3 - Advocacy

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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
Design Informatics MA students at the Suffer the Witch Symposium, Edinburgh

Progress

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  • Attended the Mapping the Scottish Reformation project seminar at the University of Edinburgh Library. Discussed at length with the project team, Mikki Brock and Chris Langley, how Wikidata may suit the project for storing and querying the data given our complementary work on the mapping of Scotland's accused witches. Chris Langley has now used the OpenRefine tutorial that Emma Carroll, our student intern, created to learn how to add data on the Scottish clergy to Wikidata. He's now made 2,346 edits to Wikidata and has secured funding to second a postgraduate student to help import biographical data and citation data on Scotland's clergy from 1560 to 1689 and is looking to the University of Edinburgh to advise about creating a similar website resource to the [Map of Accused Witches resource] later this Summer.
  • Spoke with Ian Watt (Open Data Institute Aberdeen and Code the City) about a Wikidata and Covid-19 data project proposal to see if Wikidata can support the efforts to combat the Covid-19 pandemic in South-East Scotland. Ian has been scraping the Scottish Government published daily to retain it in his Github repository. The Scottish Government are now following Ian's lead and publishing regularly, in a consistent format, to their own Github repository. Discussing with Daniel Mietchen whether the Iceland Covid-19 dashboard might be a useful exemplar for furture (funded) project work given the availability of £1,000 to £25,000 data-driven innovation grants from the university.
  • Spoke about the 'Map of Accused witches Wikidata project' at the Suffer the Witch symposium at the Patrick Geddes Centre at Riddles Court, Edinburgh on 23rd January 2020. This was a sellout event of sixty attendees looking to understand the witchhunt panics of the 1590s. Other speakers included Professor Julian Goodare and Dr. Louise Yeoman, Project Directors of the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft database. During the interval break, students from the Design Informatics MA/MFA course programme at the University of Edinburgh showed off the interactive wooden map of accused witches in Scotland they had laser cut from wood as part of their Data Fair project. The students were invited to talk about their project on Leith Walk which they agreed to do and the Patrick Geddes Centre similarly invited the resident to bring further Wikimedia related events to be hosted there as part of a 'town and gown' relationship to encourage public engagement.
  • Four page spread on the Map of Accused Witches Wikidata project in the May/June 2020 publication of History Scotland magazine.
  • Planned Wikisource webinar for 6 May 2020 with Dr. Sara Thomas for library colleagues at National Library of Scotland and University of Edinburgh.
  • Interviewed by Shani Everstein at Tel-Aviv University, a Wikidatan and Wikimedia course leader herself. She will publish the interview for sharing online and show it to her students as an example of how Wikidata can be used in academic contexts, looking specifically at the Map of Accused Witches project.

Activities delivered with stats:

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Events

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Event Name Date and duration Location Attendees Usernames Trainers
Mapping the Scottish Reformation with Messy Day - seminar presentation 24 January 2020
2 hours
University of Edinburgh, Digital Scholarship Centre, 6th floor, University of Edinburgh Main Library. 40 attendees approx not applicable Chris Langley and Mikki Brock
Needful Things - Wikimedia in Education and a NEW booklet of case studies
(a video presentation)
1 April 2020
25 mins
OER Conference 2020, online recording. 1,000 registered attendees for the conference not applicable Ewan McAndrew

Partnership interactions

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Activity /Purpose of Meeting Date and duration Institute Location Names of Attendees Links, if any, to Meeting/Presentation/ Conference Talk
Suffer the Witch - a symposium on the Scottish witchcraft panics in the 1590s 23 January 2020 Patrick Geddes Centre Riddles Court, Edinburgh 60 attendees (sold out) 15 minute presentation on the Map of Accused Witches project.
Wikimedia UK and University of Edinburgh partnership meeting 24 January 2020 University of Edinburgh Argyle House, Edinburgh Karen Howie
Dr. Sara Thomas.
Discussion about any changes needed to the partnership agreement.
Podcast with Terry Greene 6 February 2020 Online "Getting Air" Open Pedagogy podcast Terry Greene Half hour podcast discussion about the origins and notable moments of the Wikimedia residency at the University of Edinburgh
Wikimedia in Education - a summit at Coventry University 26 February 2020 Disruptive Media Learning Lab The Frederick Lanchester Library, Coventry University 20-30 attendees 15 minute presentation on University of Edinburgh residency by Dr. Sara Thomas
Interview with Shani Everstein 20 April 2020 Online Shani Everstein, Tel Aviv University Shani Everstein Interview discussion about the work of the Wikimedia Residency at the University of Edinburgh, its origins and its notables successes.
Wikisource planning session 27 April 2020 Online Wikimedia UK Dr. Sara Thomas Planned introduction to Wikisource webinar presentation with Dr. Sara Thomas for library colleagues interested in contributing during lockdown.

Projects/events in development

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Upcoming events in 2020

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  • Apri1 1-2 - OER20 Conference (online) - Presentation on Wikimedia in Education.
  • April 2 - Launch of the new Wikimedia in Education booklet.
  • April 6-8 - LILAC Information Literacy Conference (cancelled).
  • April 8 - Women in Red workshop (online).
  • April 20 - Women of Climate Change editathon (online) for Earth Day 2020.
  • May 6 - Introduction to Wikisource webinar
  • May 12 - Wikimedia and Higher Education (panel at NUI Galway - online event)
  • May 13 - Women of the NHS editathon (online) - Women in Red internship event.
  • May 20 - ScotWiki Community meetup event
  • June 7-13 - SPNHC & ICOM NATHIST Conference - (cancelled).
  • July 9-10 - Celtic Knot Conference 2020 (online).
  • September - Reproductive Biomedicine BSc Wikipedia assignment 2020/2021
  • September - Translation Studies MSc Wikipedia assignment 2020/2021
  • October - Global Health Challenges Pg online Wikipedia assignment 2020/2021

Media

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New articles and blogposts

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Videos

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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
291 140 +12% 69 +3%

The most played videos were:

Position Video Plays this month Total plays
1 OpenRefine Beginners Tutorial - how to process and reconcile datasets by Emma Carroll 21 plays 55 plays
2 The Wicked Findings of the Witchfinder General - Putting Scotland's accused witches on the map using linked open data 7 plays 51 plays
3 Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor:Part 2.3 Adding an image 6 plays 197 plays
4 Moving a drafted article into Wikipedia's live space. 4 plays 819 plays
5 An introduction to Wikidata by Ewan McAndrew at Repository Fringe 2016 3 plays 27 plays

Wikimedian in Residence - Youtube channel

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  • The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Youtube which has now received over 83,461 views in total of its 70 videos with 321 subscribers. These videos have been viewed in 168 countries around the world over the course of the channel's lifetime. The 7,189 views this period represents an increase of 1,800 views since this time last year.
Number of videos Views this month Hours watched this month New subscribers Total subscribers Total views Total number of countries viewing the channel
70 7,189 498.6 11 321 83,461 168

Image uploads to Wikimedia Commons

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Images taken of Design Informatics MA/MFA students' Wikidata project

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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
  80. University of Edinburgh wins Wikimedia UK Partnership of the Year Award.
  81. Open.Ed at RepoFringe18
  82. Scotland loves Monuments 2018
  83. Wiki Loves Monuments 2018
  84. The internet’s favourite website for information.
  85. 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.
  86. Ada Lovelace Day – 1 month to go!
  87. Facts and Fallacies: Cultural Representations of Mental Health
  88. Edinburgh Gothic for Robert Louis Stevenson Day 2018
  89. Witchy Wikidata – a 6th birthday celebration event for Halloween
  90. Editing Wikipedia as part of teaching public health? by Felix Stein, by Global Health MSc course leader at the University of Edinburgh.
  91. 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.
  92. 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.
  93. 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.
  94. Article in the Scotsman: Women scientists being whitewashed from Wikipedia – Ewan McAndrew, Siobhan O’Connor, Dr Sara Thomas and Dr Alice White
  95. Women and Wikipedia….Open Learning and a hobby for life!
  96. Translation and Open Education – An Experiment using Wikipedia
  97. Wikipedia in Higher Education: How students are shaping the open web
  98. Diversifying Wikipedia for the Festival of Creative Learning 2019
  99. 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
  100. You can’t be what you can’t see: Creating new role models on Wikipedia to encourage the next generation of Immodest Women
  101. International Women’s Day 2019
  102. Recruiting a Witchfinder General
  103. Wikimedia at the LILAC Information Literacy Conference 2019
  104. Balance for Better – recognising notable Edinburgh women
  105. Balance for Better – Teaching Matters
  106. Wikimania 2019 - Digital Support Librarian Lauren Smith reports on her first-time attendance at Wikimania 2019 in Stockholm, Sweden.
  107. Scotland Loves Monuments 2019 - Get involved in Wiki Loves Monuments!
  108. 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.
  109. Wikipedia on Olive Schreiner, like it or what? by Professor Liz Stanley.
  110. Celebrating notable women of Edinburgh
  111. Wikimedia Women in Red internship
  112. Four page spread on the Map of Accused Witches Wikidata project in the May/June 2020 publication of History Scotland magazine.