Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/28th Month Report

External videos
External videos
	"What does the Open Web mean to me? – a few quick thoughts at the Coventry Gathering at the University of Coventry's Disruptive Media Learning Lab"

External videos
External videos
	"Stories of Student Empowerment - a compilation of student feedback on the Wikimedia residency – showcased at OER18 on 18 April 2018"

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	"Wikipedia in Teaching and Learning – a webinar for Queen's University Belfast"

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

Running total of staff & student engagement

Institution	Resident's Name	Number of training sessions delivered	Number of students trained	Number of staff trained	Members of the public trained	Number of editathons	Total articles created	Total articles improved
University of Edinburgh	Ewan McAndrew	116	443	336	198	43	412	1601

Projects delivered

Strategic Goal 1

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

Senior Hons. Reproductive Biology student, Eve Sealy, discusses the benefits of the Wikipedia research assignment versus more traditional assignments.

Outcomes

5 new articles created at the Portobello Library event hosted by University of Edinburgh's digital curator, Gavin Willshaw User:Gweduni. Ned Barnie - the first Scot and oldest person ever to swim the English Channel in 1950, a record unequalled for 28 years. Portobello Open Air Pool, the George Cinema, Portobello, Bellfield (Community Centre), Portobello, Portobello Power Station.
42 images added to Wikimedia Commons of historic buildings in Middlesbrough.
4 images added by Graphic Design student NicoleDaae and inserted into relevant articles inc. Tees Transporter Bridge.
1 new article created on Middlesbrough's oldest nightclub, Bongo club.
27 new images of the murals by noted artist Phoebe Anna Traquair added to Wikimedia Commons.
Images of murals by celebrated artist Phoebe Traquair inserted into a brand new article, Mortuary Chapel, Royal Hospital for Sick Children. Images uploaded and article written by Ammienoot.
Video of presentation by Ammienoot at the 2018 Open Educational Resources conference in Bristol on 19 April 2018.
Brand new article created by new Wikimedian in Residence at University of Stirling Archives, Lucy Rodgers User:LMRodger: Stirling District Lunatic Asylum and linked to 23 other psychiatric hospitals in Scotland through the creation of a new Psychiatric hospital navbox by the University of Edinburgh's Wikimedian.

Activities delivered in the past month with stats:

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

Image statistics

UoE Centre for Research Collections images	Total for April 2018	1,066,974 views
All images uploaded in collaboration between WMUK and the University of Edinburgh	Total for April 2018	1,567,138 views
UoE Centre for Research Collections images	Total for 28 months of monitoring	17,802,929 views

Scottish country dancing is our 2nd most viewed media on Wikimedia Commons this month.

Pedestrians in Buchanan Street, Glasgow is our 5th most viewed media on Wikimedia Commons this month.

The most viewed images for April 2018 were:

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

Activities in the past month with stats:

Translation Studies MSc student, Mark Bradshaw, discusses the Wikipedia translation assignment.

4th year Psychology student, Karoline Nanfeldt, discussed Wikipedia and disappearing down the rabbit hole of Open Knowledge.

Strategic Goal 2

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

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

Activities in the past month with stats:

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

Strategic Goal 3

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

Data Science for Design MSc students discussing the project to import the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft database 1563-1736 into Wikipedia's sister project, Wikidata.

"What do we want the modern graduate to be?" - Dr. Jenni Garden (Christina Miller Research Fellow) and Dr. Michael Seery (Reader in Education) at the University of Edinburgh's School of Chemistry discuss Wikipedia in the Classroom.

Tomas Sanders, 4th year History undergraduate student on the need for students and staff to engage with improving the diversity of representations of history online.

Outcomes

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

Activities delivered in the past month with stats:

Event Name	Date	Location	Attendees	New Users	Gender breakdown
Getting started with Wikipedia editing workshop at Teesside University List of usernames recorded: User:pauld1960 User:Septimus18 User:Svnicholls User:Jkfh101 User:v0010333 User:Tikirussy User:Masseyattack User:EIngleby User:v0011488	27 April 2018 10:30am-4:30pm	Teesside University Library, Teesside University, Tees Valley, Middlesbrough TS1 3BX	10	9	30% female

PhD Student at the School of Physics and Astronomy, Athina Frantzana, discussed Wikipedia and Women in STEM.

Dr. Richard Smith and Dr. Simon Riley of the MRC Centre of Reproductive Health discuss the benefits of working with Wikimedia in higher education.

Projects/events in development

Discussing with Hannah Evans at Wikimedia UK about the production of a new UK-based booklet of Wikipedia in the Classroom case studies.
Meeting with Gavin Willshaw, digital curator at the University of Edinburgh, to support his preparations for first series of Wikipedia editathons taking place for Library and University Collections Staff.
Another iteration of the Wikipedia assignment in the Reproductive Biology Hons. course has been confirmed to go ahead in September 2018.
Wikipedia editing assignment for the Global Health MSc course - postponed until October 2018 due to Felix Stein working in Haiti at the moment.
Finalised preparations with Pauline Kelly & Lois Wolffe (Amnesty Scotland) and Sara Thomas (Wikimedian at SLIC) on a Human Rights Defenders - Global Wikithon event for Amnesty International at the Glasgow Women's Library on Saturday 19 May 2018.
A collaboration with Michael Seery at the School of Chemistry and the Royal Society of Chemistry to be confirmed.
Ada Lovelace Day 2018 is confirmed as going ahead at the School of Chemistry again in October 2018; working with Michael Seery and Jenni Garden. The focus this year may be on contemporary women in chemistry.
Further monthly Women in Red meetup scheduled for 8 June 2018 to mark the Processions event on 10 June 2018; celebrating 100 years of votes for women, marches and bannermaking.
Awaiting word from Sara Mortsell at Wikimedia Sweden about her plan to collaborate on a Wikipedia in Education knowledge sharing exercise between Wikimedia Sweden, Stockholm University, the University of Edinburgh and Tel Aviv University.
Finalised arrangements for the rescheduled Law and Technology Society editathon arranged - to be led by law student Jemima John. This has been rescheduled for 15 May 2018 along with a collaboration on an article designed to provoke discussion of Wikipedia in the Law curriculum at a later date.
Showcase 'Wiki Loves Libraries' event for SDLC and SLIC representatives still mooted - awaiting word from Kirsty Lingstadt (Head of Digital Library) and liaising with Gavin Willshaw, Digital Curator on date and format.
Continuing to liaise with Gavin Willshaw and Mike Bennett at Library & University Collections on the import of thesis data to Wikidata from the Edinburgh Research Archive. Completed necessary preparatory work; just awaiting Mike finishing developing the tool that converts ALMA library catalogue data into a Wikidata-friendly import.
Continuing to add more data to Wikidata from the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft database. More to be added at the Digital Day of Ideas event on 16 May 2018 for digital scholars working at the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.
Liaising with Susan Ross, Gaelic Wikipedian at the National Library of Scotland, on a submission for the Gaelic Studies Conference at the University of Edinburgh next summer. Awaiting word on this from Susan.

Upcoming events in 2018

May 15 - WikiProject Law editathon - run by Law undergraduate Jemima John.
May 16 - Digital Day of Ideas: Wikidata workshop.
May 19 - Human Rights Defenders event for Amnesty Scotland at the Glasgow Women's Library.
June 8 - Processions Wikipedia editathon - a Wikipedia Women in Red event to mark 100 years of votes for women, marches and bannermaking.
June 18 - Academia and Wikipedia Conference at Maynooth University, Ireland.
July 5 - Celtic Knot 2018, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.
July 6 - Celtic Knot 2018, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.
July 9-13 - Wikipedia editathon workshop at the EAHIL Conference.
September - 4th iteration of Reproductive Biology Hons. - Wikipedia in the Classroom project.

Media

Video interview with Ruth Jenkins, Academic Support Librarian at the University of Edinburgh Medical School, speaking about the Reproductive Biology Honours Wikipedia assignment.

New blogposts this month

Videos

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

Wikimedian in Residence - University of Edinburgh Media Hopper channel

The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Media Hopper now has 247 videos. 49 views this month with 161 plays (a 667% increase since last month).

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

The most played videos were:

Position	Video	Plays this month
1	Stories of Student Empowerment - a compilation of student feedback on the Wikimedia residency	43 plays
2	Wikipedia and Women in STEM - Athina Frantzana, PhD student at the School of Physics and Astronomy	20 plays
3	Wikipedia and Information Literacy - Academic Support Librarian Ruth Jenkins.	19 plays
4	Wikipedia in the Classroom - Mark Bradshaw, Translation Studies MSc	14 plays
5	Wikipedia and Chemistry - Interview with Dr. Jenni Garden and Dr. Michael Seery	13 plays

External videos

OER18 Session - Anne-Marie Scott: "A piece of illumination enlarged – using OER for access and activism in cultural heritage"

Interviews with students

Interviews with staff

OER18 presentations

Miscellaneous videos

'Disrupting the Publisher-Academic Complex' - a talk by Peter Murray-Rust at the British Library on 21 April 2018.

New video tutorial

Wikimedian in Residence - Youtube channel

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

Number of videos	Views this month	Number of countries watching this month	Minutes watched this month	New 'likes'	New shares	New subscribers	Total subscribers	Total views	Total number of countries viewing the channel
67	2,122	104	7,622	10	16	10	153	32,269	165

Image uploads to Wikimedia Commons

Lady Justice - Transferred from Flickr via #flickr2commons.
Jason Evans, Martin Poulter and Hannah Evans at OER18.
Wikidata in the Classroom - the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft database import.
The Bristol Watershed cinema.
Lorna Campbell taking the stage for keynote at OER18 - 'The Long View - Changing perspectives on OER'
The EdTech Wikipedia editathon workshop at the OER18 Conference.
A new Wiki editor captures their edit going live on Listen to Wikipedia.jpg
Jason Evans, National Wikimedian for Wales, at OER18.
Lorna Campbell reflecting on past OER conferences at OER18.
Lorna Campbell keynoting the OER18 Conference - Open to All.
Ewan McAndrew presenting at OER18 Conference - Stories of Student Empowerment.
Dr. Momodou Sallah keynoting at the OER18 Conference.
Maren Deepwell welcomes attendees to OER18 conference.
ScotWiki meetup 2017.
Black History Month 2017 - Wikipedia editathon.
Black History Month - Wikipedia editathon.
History undergraduate Tomas Sanders speaking on Black History Month.
Wiki Women in Red editathon at the University of Edinburgh.
Collage of images from year two of the Wikimedia residency at the University of Edinburgh.
Wikidata in the Classroom - Data Science for Design MSc students at the University of Edinburgh.
Wikidata in the Classroom - Data Science for Design MSc students at the University of Edinburgh.
Edinburgh - Picturesque Notes - Image demonstrating the interlinking of the Wikimedia projects.

Mansfield Traquair images

Ceiling mural at Mansfield Traquair Centre.
Encaustic tiles at Mansfield Traquair Centre 1.
Encaustic tiles at Mansfield Traquair Centre 2.
Encaustic tiles at Mansfield Traquair Centre 3.
Encaustic tiles at Mansfield Traquair Centre 4.
Encaustic tiles at Mansfield Traquair Centre 5.
Encaustic tiles at Mansfield Traquair Centre 6.
North Aisle Murals - Phoebe Anna Traquair - Mansfield Traquair Centre.
Phoebe Traquair Murals at Mansfield Traquair Centre.
Phoebe Traquair Murals at Mansfield Traquair Centre 1.
Phoebe Traquair Murals at Mansfield Traquair Centre 2.
Phoebe Traquair Murals at Mansfield Traquair Centre 3.
Phoebe Traquair Murals at Mansfield Traquair Centre 4.
Phoebe Traquair Murals at Mansfield Traquair Centre 5.
Phoebe Traquair Murals at Mansfield Traquair Centre 6.
Phoebe Traquair's murals, Catholic Apostolic Church, Edinburgh (east end).
Phoebe Traquair's murals, Catholic Apostolic Church, Edinburgh (west end).
South Chapel Murals - Phoebe Anna Traquair - Mansfield Traquair Centre 2.
South Chapel Murals - Phoebe Anna Traquair - Mansfield Traquair Centre 3.
South Chapel Murals - Phoebe Anna Traquair - Mansfield Traquair Centre 4.
South Chapel Murals - Phoebe Anna Traquair - Mansfield Traquair Centre 5.
South Chapel Murals - Phoebe Anna Traquair - Mansfield Traquair Centre.
Stained Glass, Mansfield Traquair Centre 1.
Stained Glass, Mansfield Traquair Centre 2.
Stained Glass, Mansfield Traquair Centre 3.
Stained Glass, Mansfield Traquair Centre.jpg
The Parable of the Ten Virgins (section) by Phoebe Traquair, Mansfield Traquair Church, Edinburgh.