Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/73rd month report

Institution	Resident's Name	Period Covered	Date of Report	List of reports to date
University of Edinburgh	Ewan McAndrew	1 January 2022 - 31 January 2022 (Seventy-third month of the residency)	11 February 2022	Click here to view all reports.

Running total of staff & student engagement

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	294	1,590	566	623	123	1,124	5,373

Projects delivered

Strategic Aim 1 - Knowledge Equity

• 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

Student Experience Grant

• Received notification on 7 January 2022 that the 11 November 2021 application for up to £5000 from University of Edinburgh Student Experience Grants fund has been approved. This project will now go ahead in collaboration with 3 student partners who will work for 14 weeks in 2022 to research and improve coverage of LGBT History, Gender History and Black History on Wikipedia from March to June 2022. These funds are being transferred to Information Services at the University so the students can be hired for 1 day (0.2FTE) for the 14 weeks.

Two Summer internships to support the Map of Accused Witched project

• Two new Summer 2022 student internships are now being advertised as of 9 February 2022 - Scottish Witchcraft Data Visualisation intern and Open Source Web Development Intern. These roles will be 1.0FTE for 12 weeks commencing in June 2022.

Women in Red workshops

One new Women in Red workshop was held on 28 January 2022.

• 14 new articles were created at the 28 January 2022 event inc. Cecilia Douglas (28 February 1772 – 25 July 1862) who was an important slave owner, art collector and philanthropist from Glasgow, Scotland. A very wealthy woman (worth c. £40,000), her fortune was derived from slavery in the Caribbean. Also Mary Ethel Muir Donaldson known as M.E.M. Donaldson (19 May 1876 - 17 January 1958), who was an early 20th century British author and photography pioneer, and described as an 'unconventional ethnographer'.
  • 38 more articles were edited.
  • 236 edits in total.
  • 9 editors.
  • 7.58K words added.
  • 108 references added.

Activities delivered with stats:

Events

Event Name	Date and duration	Location	Attendees	New editors	Trainers	Gender breakdown
Women in Red editathon Monthly Women in Red editathon - creating new biography articles of notable women on Wikipedia List of usernames recorded	28 January 2022	University of Edinburgh, online webinar.	9	5	Ewan McAndrew	88.8% female

Image statistics - as of 11 February 2022

The third most viewed image for January 2022 was from the English Wikipedia article on Burns supper and is of traditional Burns supper meal of haggis, neeps and tatties. It now has 142,169 pageviews on English Wikipedia for January 2022.

The fifth most viewed image for January 2022 was from the English Wikipedia article on the Great Barrington Declaration and is of University of Edinburgh academic, Professor Devi Sridhar. It now has 74,692 pageviews on English Wikipedia for January 2022.

• All uploads can be monitored via Images uploaded in collaboration between WMUK and the University of Edinburgh.
• Baglama2 (page views for only those images released by the Centre for Research Collections
• Baglama2 (page views for images in the parent category - Images uploaded in collaboration between WMUK and the University of Edinburgh.

UoE Centre for Research Collections images	Total for January 2022	600,583 views
All images uploaded in collaboration between WMUK and the University of Edinburgh	Total for January 2022	1,777,818 views
UoE Centre for Research Collections images	Total for 73 months of monitoring	54,044,624 views

The most viewed images for January 2022 across all Wikipedias were:

Rank	Wikipedia page	Monthly views	Link to image/video on Commons
1	Iceland	218,041 views	Gerardi Mercatoris Atlas, sive, Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura (24696368309).jpg
2	Tableau périodique des éléments on French Wikipedia	177,816 views	Periodic Table cupcakes at Ada Lovelace Day 2017
3	Burns supper	142,169 views	Haggis 3 and Haggis 1
4	Rabbit	96,156 views	Set of wax models showing development of the rabbit heart, twentieth century (24226156252).jpg
5	Great Barrington Declaration	74,692 views	Professor Devi Sridhar, University of Edinburgh
6	Stan Laurel	71,520 views	Stan Laurel plaque at Britannia Music_Hall, Glasgow
7	Iceland on German Wikipedia	69,181 views	Gerardi Mercatoris Atlas, sive, Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura (24696368309).jpg
8	Noah's Ark	63,485 views	Woodcut of Noah's Ark from Anton Koberger's "German Bible".jpg
9	Alexander McQueen	61,827 views	Lee Alexander McQueen Headstone Back.png and Lee Alexander McQueen Headstone.png.
10	Odessa	61,634 views	Odessa during first days of Revolution - 1916.

Strategic Aim 2 - Digital Literacy

Work with partners to develop digital, data and information literacy through Wikimedia

• Support the education sector’s engagement with Wikimedia as a digital literacy tool
• Facilitate Wikimedia-based digital, data and information literacy projects with other partners
• Create content and resources for learners and educators
• Advocate for the inclusion of Wikimedia in curriculum, syllabus and course development
• Collaborate with the civil society sector and other partners to combat misinformation

Progress

Wikimedia in the Curriculum - current work

• Met with Philippa Sheail to discuss the Wikipedia 'block' due to take place on the Digital Education MSc on 15 February 2022 and discussed what it will include - webinar, guided activities, forum discussion posts based on Wikipedia-related reading.
• Three to four new case studies to be added to the Wikimedia in Education - Booklet of Case Studies. Met with Dr. Sara Thomas, Wikimedia UK, and agreed to an 11 February 2022 deadline for finalising new content submissions for the booklet so this can be shared with the graphic designer and incorporated.
• The Translation Studies MSc Wikipedia assignment for Semester One concluded late on 31 January 2022 with 36-40 out of the cohort undertaking it as an elective. Link to student's chosen articles this semester. This month saw the resident meeting with the students 1-1 via MS Teams to help get their articles published successfully. The Semester Two assignment has now commenced as of 10 February 2022 with the students due to choose their new articles to translate by 25 February 2022 and to publish their completed 2,500 word translations on a target Wikipedia by 20 May 2022.
• Delivered 30 minute Intro to Wikipedia and the History of Art presentation on 17 January 2022 and a 1.5 hour Wikipedia training workshop on 24 January 2022 with Dr. Glaire Anderson on the History of Art course programme so that her undergraduate students on the course will look at evaluating, improving and illustrating articles related to Islamic Art this semester. Guest speaker, Dr. Martin Poulter, joined us on 31 January 2022 to deliver a presentation on his work on the Khalilli Collections. The students are due to select existing Wikipedia articles to improve and illustrate by end of February 2022 but the Higher Education strike has caused Dr. Glaire Anderson to have to revise this timetable.

Podcast on Wikimedia in education - episodes now published

• The first, second and third episodes are now live for a five episode podcast series recorded on the 24th of May 2021 for the University's influential Teaching Matters blog. It is being edited by a student intern , Eric Berger. Topics discussed included: Wikipedia and History (being edited); Wikipedia and academia in the new normal(live); Wikimedia and Language(live); Wikipedia, Medicine and Science Communication(live); Wikipedia and the Gender Gap (being edited). Professor Diana Paton, Translation Studies students, History Society students, Jason Evans, Lorna Campbell, Lucy Crompton-Reid, Prof Norah Spears, and Prof Linda Bauld all contributed.

Conferences

• Abtract approved for the LILAC Information Literacy conference at Manchester Metropolitan University 11-13 April 2022 about our new 'Edinburgh Award - Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia', entitled: Wikipedia, Student Activism and the Ivory Tower.
• Abstract submitted for the 14-16th June 2022 University of Edinburgh Learning and Teaching Conference - a joint presentation with Evelyn Balsells PhD about the Wikipedia assignment on the Global Health Challenges Pg Online course programme where students work in groups to improve neglected stub articles about natural and manmade disasters by 1,000 words over four weeks. Learning and contributing: Using global health concepts to improve the quality of Wikipedia pages on public health disasters.

Wikipedia Editing - a new Edinburgh Award underway

• The first iteration of the Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia - a new Edinburgh Award to accredit students for extended project work on Wikipedia commenced on 9 December 2021 and will conclude on 6 April 2022. Currently, as of 11 February 2022, 11 students have submitted their 400 word action plans and set up individual Wikipedia project pages and dashboard links to develop important information literacy, digital research, communication and collaborative skills ahead of the world of work and accredit them for undertaking 50-55 hours (or more) of Wikipedia work over an extended period. This first iteration of the award has been developed in collaboration with Kirsty Stewart and Gavin McCabe at the University of Edinburgh Career Service and in collaboration with our 2021 Wikimedia student interns, Erin Boyle and Clea Strathmann. The recording of Input Session 1 is available here and the resident has had individual 1-1 meetings with each of the 11 students undertaking this award and offered advice about how to curate worklists, how to look for gaps on Wikipedia, how to find reliable published sources, how to run an event, how to crowdsource and make use of the University hive mind, how to translate pages, and how to find and work with open images.

Activities with stats:

Events

Activity /Purpose of Meeting	Date and duration	Institute	Location	Names of Attendees	Links, if any, to Meeting/Presentation/ Conference Talk
Edinburgh Award - Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia Wikipedia training and writing your first article workshop	12 January 2022 (4 hours)	University of Edinburgh	Zoom workshop	Ewan McAndrew (Wikimedian) 9 student editors	Link to the dashboard page.
History of Art course programme Wikipedia training workshop	24 January 2022 (2 hours)	Edinburgh College of Art	In-person workshop at ECA	Ewan McAndrew (Wikimedian) 12 student editors	Link to the dashboard page.
Edinburgh Award - Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia mandatory Input Session 2 workshop	26 January 2022 (1.5 hours)	University of Edinburgh	Zoom workshop	Ewan McAndrew (Wikimedian) 11 students	The meeting was recorded.

Partnership interactions

Activity /Purpose of Meeting	Date and duration	Institute	Location	Names of Attendees	Links, if any, to Meeting/Presentation/ Conference Talk
Meeting with Dr. Philippa Sheail, Digital Education MSc lecturer at University of Edinburgh	14 January 2022	University of Edinburgh	MS Teams Meeting	1 hour chat with UoE lecturer Dr. Philippa Sheail to discuss a Wikimedia in the Curriculum assignment for 15 February 2022 to 28 February 2022 where her students will learn about how Wikipedia works, issues about information literacy and knowledge equity and be empowered to discuss all of these aspects and make edits to articles related to their course programme.	n/a
Meeting with Evelyn Balsells PhD at University of Edinburgh	19 January 2022	University of Edinburgh	MS Teams Meeting	1 hour chat with UoE lecturer Evelyn Balsells PhD to discuss a Wikimedia in the Curriculum assignment on the Global Health Challenges Pg Online course programme and how we could jointly submit an abstract about the work done on this course over the last 2-3 years as a presentation at the University of Edinburgh Learning and Teaching Conference on 14-16 June 2022.	Conference abstract duly submitted on 21 January 2022.

Strategic Aim 3 - Advocacy

Create changes in policy and practice that enable open knowledge to flourish

• Support and enable individual organisations to adopt more open policies and practice
• Promote and facilitate sector-level change towards open knowledge
• Work with national and international partners to build the case for free knowledge
• Advocate for open knowledge within the UK’s public policy and legislative arena
• Contribute to international advocacy activities and programmes as appropriate

Progress

• Attended the January event, hosted by UoE lecture Prof. Melissa Terras, for the Royal Society's policy project report launch on the "Online Information Environment" examining the ways in which digital technologies are shaping the information people encounter.
• The Wikimedian in Residence responded to queries from: ITV Borders, CILIP Scotland, the Witches of Scotland podcast, Hamilton Library, The Places of Worship in Scotland database team, Miranda Prynnes at THE Campus (Times Higher Education), Jo Spiller on Wikipedia for schools, Janet Black at LLC, Nimi Hoffman at University of Sussex, Sofia Shan at IAD, Shy Zvouloun at GenderEd, Patricia Erskine on historic donors to EFI building, Prof. Melissa Terras on IIIF research, Dr. Glaire Anderson, Dr. Philippa Sheail, and Sophie Bursztyn on witches being burned on Carlton Hill.
• The Map of Accused Witches Wikidata project was featured in an ITV Borders news report on 4 January 2022.

Activities delivered with stats:

Events

Activity /Purpose of Meeting	Date and duration	Institute	Location	Names of Attendees	Links, if any, to Meeting/Presentation/ Conference Talk
'The Online Information Environment - Report Launch by The Royal Society	19 January 2022 (60 minutes)	The Royal Society	Online Zoom meeting	Professor Melissa Terras in conversation with report author Dr Vint Cerf ForMemRS	Link to Eventbrite

Partnership interactions

Activity /Purpose of Meeting	Date and duration	Institute	Location	Names of Attendees	Links, if any, to Meeting/Presentation/ Conference Talk
Meeting with Dr. Sara Thomas, Wikimedia UK	27 January 2022 (1 hour)	University of Edinburgh	MS Teams Meeting	Discussion with Dr. Sara Thomas about updating the Booklet of Case Studies of Wikimedia in UK education and setting deadlines for finalising content for a 2022 digital relaunch	Link to current case studies booklet

Projects/events in development

• Next phase of the Mapping the Scottish Reformation Wikidata project with Dr. Chris Langley (Newman University, Birmingham) and Professor Mikki Brock (Washington and Lee University, USA) - to be confirmed.
• Wikipedia component on 'Knowledge Equity' to be delivered on Digital Education MSc on 15 February 2022 - disrupted by strike action so tbc.
• Translation Studies MSc Wikipedia assignment - new 2,500 project has commenced for Semester Two as of 10th February 2022.
• First iteration of a new Edinburgh Award for Wikipedia Editing to conclude on 6 April 2022 with 11 students currently undertaking it.
• Updating the Booklet of Case Studies of Wikimedia in UK Education to relaunch a new digital edition. Content being finalised.
• History of Art assignment has begun as of 17 January 2022 and will conclude 28 February 2022 - this is the 2nd iteration with Dr. Glaire Anderson's students evaluating, improving and illustrating articles about Islamic Ar. With guest speaker, Dr. Martin Poulter (WMUK, Khalilli Collections).
• Student Experience Grant awarded for three students to research and improve content on Wikipedia related to Gender History, LGBT History and Black History for 14 weeks from 1 March to June 2022.
• Summer Internships are now advertised as of 9 February 2022 with a view hiring two Wikimedia interns to support improving the Map of Accused Witches website for 12 weeks 1.0FTE this Summer.
• Been invited to participate in the Witches of Scotland podcast.
• Been invited to discuss the Places of Worship in Scotland (POWiS) database being mapped into Wikidata.
• E. McAndrew to submit to Royal Society Athena Prize for Wikipedia work on Reproductive Medicine BSc.
• E. McAndrew to contribute to THE Campus, on Wikipedia supporting equality and diversity at the University.
• E. McAndrew to investigate applying for a Royal Society of Chemistry outreach fund award.

Upcoming events in 2022

• February 4 - Wikimedians in Residence and Wikimedia UK meeting (online).
• February 7 - History of Art students improving Islamic art articles on Wikipedia.
• February 9 - Student internships for Summer 2022 are advertised: Scottish Witchcraft Data Visualisation and Open Source Development Intern
• February 15 - Wikipedia and Knowledge Equity - workshop for Digital Education MSc (tbc.)
• February 23 - Meeting with Places of Worship in Scotland database team (POWiS) to discuss working with Wikidata.
• February 25 - Wikipedia Women in Red monthly workshop
• February 28 - History of Art students publishing their edits on Islamic art articles on Wikipedia.
• March 1 - Student Experience Grant recipients begin project work to improve articles relating to Gender History, LGBT History and Black History (dates tbc.)
• March 2 - Translation Studies MSc - Wikipedia workshop
• March 9 - Introduction to Wikidata workshop
• March 16 - Teaching with Wikipedia workshop
• March 16 - Translation Studies MSc - Wikipedia workshop
• March 23 - Wikisource workshop
• March 30 - Edinburgh Award Input Session 3 - Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia
• March 30 - Translation Studies MSc - Wikipedia workshop
• April 11-13 - Talk about the Edinburgh Award for Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia to be delivered at LILAC Information Literacy Conference 2022
• June - Student Experience Grant recipients complete their project work related to improving articles relating to Gender History, LGBT History and Black History (dates tbc.).
• June - Wikimedia Summer internships (tbc.) to improve the Map of Accused Witches website over 12 weeks this Summer.
• June 14-16 - University of Edinburgh Learning and Teaching Conference - presentation with Evelyn Balsells PhD about the Wikipedia assignment on the Global Health Challenges Pg Online course programme.

Media

New blogposts, articles, reports

• Teaching Matters Podcast: Wikimedia and Academia
• Teaching Matters Podcast: Wikimedia and Language
• Teaching Matters Podcast: Improving science communication with… Wikipedia?

New videos and podcasts

• A podcast series recorded in May 2021 is currently being edited by Eric Berger for the University of Edinburgh's Teaching Matters blog. First, second and third episodes have now been published as of January 2022. Two more to follow.

Wikimedian in Residence - University of Edinburgh Media Hopper channel

• The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Media Hopper now has 386 videos. 201 plays since 1 January 2022.

1 January 2022 to 31 January 2022

Number of videos	Impressions	Minutes viewed	Number of plays since 1 January 2022
386	1,109	860	201

The most played videos were:

Position	Video	Plays	Total plays
1	Word Count tool - counting the prose text in a Wikipedia article	19 plays	541 plays
2	Moving a drafted article into Wikipedia's live space.	16 plays	1,679 plays
3	OpenRefine Beginners Tutorial	11 plays	536 plays
4	Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor:Part 2.3 Adding an image.	10 plays	514 plays
5	How to create an account on Wikipedia	4 plays	41 plays

Wikimedian in Residence - YouTube channel

• The Wikimedian in Residence channel on YouTube which has now received over 263,443 views in total of its 118 videos with 1,020 subscribers. These videos have been viewed in 168 countries around the world over the course of the channel's lifetime.

Number of videos	Views this period	Hours watched this period	New subscribers	Total subscribers	Total views	Total number of countries viewing the channel
118	9,500	325.3	+47	1,020	263,443	168

One of our recent additions to YouTube by student Hannah Rothmann has now been viewed over 41,300 times since it was added on 14 September 2020.

• How to make your own article on Wikipedia.

Image uploads to Wikimedia Commons

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  Plaque to Marion Conacher and Wardie Church

Press about the residency

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.
113. Shifting Gears and Finding Female Pioneers
114. To the Future of Women in Red and Online Diversity
115. My first week as a Wikimedia Training Intern - blogpost by Hannah Rothmann
116. 4 weeks into my Wikimedia Internship by Hannah Rothmann on the residency blog.
117. #WCCWiki Colloquium 2020 by Hannah Rothmann on the residency blog.
118. Final reflections on my Wikimedia Training Internship by Hannah Rothmann on the residency blog.
119. Scotland Loves Monuments 2020 on the residency blog.
120. Wikipedia as Learning Technology: Teaching Knowledge Activism vs Passive Consumption by Hannah Rothmann, Wikimedia Training Intern, for the University of Edinburgh's Teaching Matters blog.
121. Introducing Mapping the Scottish Reformation: Clerics, Manuscripts, and Open Data on the Wikimedia UK blog.
122. Article on Mapping of Scotland's Accused Witches with Open Data project appeared in an article on the Heritage Fund UK website on 27 October 2020 in the run up to Halloween.
123. Editing Wikipedia: Stars, robots and talismans Honours course by Glaire Anderson for the Wikimedia UK blog
124. Happy Birthday Wikipedia - guest blog post by Classics undergraduate student, Hannah Rothmann, for Wikipedia's 20th birthday.
125. Telling the history of HIV and AIDS activism in Scotland on Wikipedia - WiR blog
126. Scotland, Slavery and Black History project - WiR blog
127. Those who fought: Representing HIV/AIDS activism on Wikipedia - Blog by Lorna Campbell
128. My first week as a Wikisourceror – Guest post by student intern, Erin Boyle
129. Open Data and Knowledge Equity – my first week by student intern, Clea Strathmann
130. Supporting Open Collections – Guest post by Wikisourceror intern, Erin Boyle
131. Wikimedia and the Diversity of Languages online – Guest post by Clea Strathmann
132. Chapter 13 in the new Wikipedia and Academic Libraries book on Changing the Way Stories Are Told: Engaging staff and students in improving Wikipedia content about women in Scotland.
133. Chapter 18 in the new Wikipedia and Academic Libraries book on Wikisource as a tool for OCR transcription correction: the National Library of Scotland’s response to Covid-19 by University of Edinburgh's Digitisation and Digital Engagement Manager, Gavin Willshaw.
134. Teaching Matters Podcast: Wikimedia and Academia
135. Teaching Matters Podcast: Wikimedia and Language
136. Teaching Matters Podcast: Improving science communication with… Wikipedia?