Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/80th month report
| Institution | Resident's Name | Period Covered | Date of Report | List of reports to date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Edinburgh | Ewan McAndrew | 1 August 2022 - 31 August 2022 (Eightieth month of the residency) | 22 September 2022 | Click here to view all reports. |
Please note: This month was characterised by the end of the 12 week Summer student internships working on the Map of Accused Witches in Scotland website so there was a flurry of activity to make sure site web development was completed, timelines of Scottish witchcraft improved, new data on the full witchcraft investigations added to Wikidata, and new visualisations created which would allow individual accused witches to be searched for on a new filterable Histropedia timeline along with new network analysis visualisations of the most influential trials and accused witches during the 1563-1736 period.
Running total of staff & student engagement
[edit]| 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 | 307 | 1,631 | 589 | 672 | 133 | 1,412 | 10,494 |
Projects delivered
[edit]Strategic Aim 1 - Knowledge Equity
[edit]- 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
[edit]Two Summer internships to support the Map of Accused Witches project
[edit]- Two new Summer 2022 student internships have now concluded their recruited 12 week positions as of 26 August 2022 :
- Scottish Witchcraft Data Visualisation intern - 16,689 edits made to Wikidata and another 71,000 contributed by the resident.
- Open Source Web Development Intern.
- These roles were 1.0FTE for 12 weeks commenced 6 June 2022 and ended on Friday 26 August 2022. The new website and incorporated Wikidata visualisations (network analysis of most influential accused witches; new filters for the witchcraft investigations; searchable Histropedia timeline etc.) will be unveiled with an end of project seminar showcase event initially scheduled to be around Halloween 2022 but owing to developer time being required to complete this work this may not be until December 2022.
- A 7 minute video tutorial on Bulk data item creation using OpenRefine was created by Scottish Witchcraft Data Visualisation intern, Maggie Lin. Watch the video on Media Hopper.
GenderEd Steering Group
[edit]The resident has newly accepted a role on the University's GenderEd Steering Group for 2022/2023. GenderEd is a cross-University hub for gender and sexualities studies from an interdisciplinary perspective. It showcases and promotes teaching, research, knowledge exchange and impact (KEI) in gender and sexualities studies at the University of Edinburgh and beyond. The first meeting will be on Tuesday 27th September 2022.
Women in Red workshops
[edit]One new Women in Red workshop was held on Friday 26th August 2022 - our 64th monthly workshop at the university.
- 62 new articles were created at the 26 August 2022 event inc. a new article on Joyce Laing (art therapist), young maidservant and accused witch Geillis Duncan (now made famous by Hex by Jenni Fagan and TV's Outlander. Also new pages for Agnes Duncan MBE (10 November 1899 – 1996) who was a Scottish singer and choral conductor. Her Scottish Junior Singers won the leading BBC choral competition on two occasions, and Mary Gillon(17 July 1898 to 2 January 2002) who was a Scottish tram conductress or clippie during World War I.
- 860 more articles were edited inc. Wikidata items.
- 20.3K edits in total.
- 9 editors inc. Wiki Women in Red's founders Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight/Rosiestep and Roger Bamkin/Victuallers.
- 1.44m words added.
- 1,222 Commons uploads.
- 5,020 references added.
Student Experience Grant (completed)
[edit]The final act of the three student researchers, (Sian Davies, Eleanor Capaldi and Kirsty Vass-Payne) who were tasked with improving Black History, Gender History and LGBTQ+ history one day a week for 14 weeks on a student experience grant funded project was to draft their reflections for an end of project article on how universities could and should be helping to improve representation and support equality, diversity and inclusion online. Their reflections will be edited into an article with a view to submitting to Miranda Prynne at the THE Campus, a Times Higher Education publication.
Ada Lovelace Day - celebrating Women in STEM
[edit]This year Ada Lovelace Day falls on Tuesday 11 October 2022 and the residency is organising an event to create and improve representation of Women on STEM on Wikipedia. Preparations are underway and rooms secured at the University's Main Library for an event 12-5pm on Tues 11 October 2022 with the student Computing Society hopefully collaborating and an invited guest speaker (tbc.)
Edinburgh Award
[edit]- The 50hrs-80hrs Edinburgh Award, Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia has begun its preparations for its 2nd year as of this month. 6 students contributed over 30,000 words and were put forward to receive the award last year (2021/2022) and the intention is to expand on this work in year two. Plans are in place to refine and enhance the award in Year 2. The evaluation of last year with Kirsty Stewart of the University's Career Service took place on 17th August 2022 with this year's opening Award session booked in for Wednesday 19th October 2022 and the closing session to take place on Wed 29th March 2023. The aspiration this year is, post Covid social distancing requirements, to allow for much more pair and friendship group work and collobration across the University and the city of Edinburgh and beyond. With this is mind, spaces have been booked in the University Main Library and Centre for Research Collections for structuring the work of the award and for fostering a (wiki) community among the students taking part. Students will be free to work on improving topic coverage of Wikipedia but will be encouraged to look especially at areas of underrepresentation and important world themes such as Covid-19 research, Climate Crisis and more.
Activities delivered with stats:
[edit]Events
[edit]| 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 |
26 August 2022 | University of Edinburgh, online webinar. | 8 | 3 | Ewan McAndrew | 87.5 % female |
Partnership interactions
[edit]Image statistics - as of 22 September 2022
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- 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 August 2022 | 694,628 views |
| All images uploaded in collaboration between WMUK and the University of Edinburgh | Total for August 2022 | 1,620,475 views |
| UoE Centre for Research Collections images | Total for 80 months of monitoring | 58,242,925 views |
The most viewed images for August 2022 across all Wikipedias were:
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Strategic Aim 2 - Information Literacy
[edit]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
[edit]Wikimedia in the Curriculum - current work
[edit]- Five new case studies can now be added to the Wikimedia in Education - Booklet of Case Studies. Dr. Glaire Anderson, History of Art, and Evelyn Balsells PhD, Global Health Challenges Pg Online, have signed off on their case studies and images to be used. Graphic designer, Nicky Greenhorn, has submitted a new proof design for the new case studies as of 21 September 2022 and this will now be reviewed by Dr. Sara Thomas, Wikimedia UK, and myself to see if any further changes are required.
- The Translation Studies MSc Wikipedia assignment for Semester One session is to begin with two in-person training workshops for the 2,500 word 2022/2023 assignment to begin on 27 September 2022.
- Plans for the Reproductive Biology BSc Wikipedia assignment are being prepared with class dates now being set on 21 September, 28th September and publishing on 5th october 2022 with Dr. Agnes Stefansdottir.
- The Korean Studies MSc workshop to introduce students to evaluating how Korean culture and history are represented online and how they can improve it is to go ahead on 19th October 2022 in the University's Main Library.
- The Global Health Challenges Pg Online 1,500 word assignment is to begin for its 4th iteration on Tuesday 4th October 2022. A 30 minute video webinar on a recent case study of Wikipedia in the Curriculum on the Global Health Challenges Pg Online course programme at the University of Edinburgh was delivered on 15 June 2022 for the University's Learning and Teaching Conference 2022. This has now been published on the University's Media Hopper channel.
- The Digital Education MSc component on Wikipedia and Knowledge Equity is to go ahead in February 2023 as a 2 week block inc. training webinar, short activities, assigned reading and discussion forums.
- The Data fair on the Design Informatics MA/MFA is to go ahead on Thursday 29th September 2022 where the Masters students work in groups of 3 and have 7 weeks to work practically with real-world datasets to generate creative visualisations to showcase by the end of their assignment. The residency is considering whether to submit a ' data challenges'.
- Dr. Simon Riley, Reproductive Biology BSc, has introduced the resident to Paul Le Tissier of the University's MScR Biomedical Sciences course programme to see if there is a discussion to be had about a Wikipedia in the Curriculum assignment as an alternative to their current press release paper exercise.
- History of Art UG course programme - awaiting confirmation that Dr. Glaire Anderson wishes to continue and do a 3rd iteration of UG students improving Wikipedia's coverage of Islamic art and science in semester two (Jan to March 2023).
Conferences
[edit]- The resident will present a session on Open Science and the University of Edinburgh during Open Access week in October 2022. This event will be hosted by Rute Correia, Wikimedian in Residence at NOVA FCSH, a social and human sciences faculty in Lisbon. This is a partnership with Wikimedia Portugal.
Wikipedia Editing - Edinburgh Award activity to begin on 19th October for year two
[edit]- The second iteration of the Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia - a new Edinburgh Award to accredit students for extended project work on Wikipedia will begin with a new cohort on 19th October 2022.
Activities with stats:
[edit]Events
[edit]Partnership interactions
[edit]- August 11 and 17 - Wikidata querying and API support', worked with Histropedia's Navino Evans on how to a) effect bulk changes to dates in Wikidata so that they use the Julian calendar and not the default Gregorian calendar and b) how to create an incredibly complex Wikidata SPARQL query to enable querying and filtering of the vast amounts of new Scottish witchcraft data added by student intern, Maggie Lin.
Strategic Aim 3 - Advocacy
[edit]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
[edit]- Attended Edinburgh Book Festival event on 18 August 2022 hosted at the Edinburgh College of Art - this pre-reception for the interview between author Jenni Fagan on her new book, Hex, and broadcaster Sally Magnusson included a 10 minute presentation by Scottish Witchcraft Data Visualisation intern, Maggie Lin, and the resident on the proposed new updates and improvements to the Map of Accused Witches in Scotland Wikidata project website - witches.is.ed.ac.uk
- Received invitation from the Edinburgh Book Festival Director to present a session on our Map of Accused Witches project work during the 2023 Edinburgh Book Festival. Dr. Melissa Highton is in favour of going ahead with this and discussions are to be held in the next couple of months about what may work best for all sides.
Activities delivered with stats:
[edit]Events
[edit]Partnership interactions
[edit]- August 3, Corresponded with Daryl Green, Head of Special Collections at University of Edinburgh, about the best way to approach the ethics of writing Wikimedia work into AHRC research funding bids.
- August 3, Corresponded with Helen Beetham who is writing a research paper on Digital Literacy and Wikipedia.
- August 11, emailed 2022 TEDx Talk of Emma Carroll, Witchfinder General student intern in Summer 2019, to Wikimedia UK. The talk was titled The power of open data to bring historical data to life.
- August 18, Edinburgh Book Festival pre-reception event for Jenni Fagan's new book on accused witch Geillis Duncan, Hex.
- August 18, Conversation with the Edinburgh Book Festival director about a possible collaboration for the 2023 Book Festival.
- August 28, Introduced to Ellen Sussmann, WikiJournals editor based in Edinburgh, via email and liaising about a meetup in Sept or Oct. to see if there are mutual areas of benefit to any kind of collaboration.
- August 29, Emailed by Josh Cheyne, Trials Search Co-ordinator at the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, about whether he can use one of our Wikimedia Commons images in a presentation.
- August 31, Katharine Shields contacted me about the #WCCWiki Classical Association Conference 2023. This project is a Women’s Classical Committee (UK) initiative that aims to improve the online representation of women classicists, broadly defined. The proposal is for a workshop for the Classical Association 2023 conference, which will take place in Cambridge (UK), 21-23 April next year. The idea is to organise a workshop on teaching classics with Wikipedia and to include some short talks from people who’ve used Wikipedia as part of their teaching, as well as a discussion.
Projects/events in development
[edit]- Next phase of the Mapping the Scottish Reformation Wikidata project with Dr. Chris Langley (formerly of Newman University, Birmingham and now at the Open University) and Professor Mikki Brock (Washington and Lee University, USA) - to be confirmed.
- Translation Studies MSc Wikipedia assignment - new 2,500 Wikipedia assignment to begin on 27 September 2022.
- Reproductive Biology BSc Wikipedia assignment - new groupwork assignment to begin on 21 September 2022.
- Korean Studies MSc Wikipedia workshop to be held at Main Library on 19 October 2022.
- Open Science and the University of Edinburgh presentation to be delivered during International Open Access Week in October 2022 and hosted by Rute Correia, Wikimedia Portugal.
- Global Health Challenges Pg Online Wikipedia assignment to begin on Tuesday 4th October 2022.
- Digital Education MSc Wikipedia component to begin 2 week block in February 2023.
- Ada Lovelace Day event being prepared to celebrate Women in STEM on Tuesday 11 October 2022.
- Second iteration of a new 50-80hr Edinburgh Award for Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia to begin on 19 October 2022.
- Updating the Booklet of Case Studies of Wikimedia in UK Education to relaunch a new digital edition. Graphic designer Nicky Greenhorn has submitted a proof as of 13th July 2022 and this will be reviewed by Dr. Sara Thomas and myself asap with a view to publishing online and hopefully finalised by end of September 2022.
- Student Experience Grant (SEG) - a report and blog article are to be written on the achievements and impact of the project.
- Summer Internships have now completed their 12 week recruitment on developing the Map of Accused Witches site. The site just needs developer time to implement the new data visualisations and reorientate the dropdown menus.
- Been invited to participate in the Witches of Scotland podcast (details tbc.)
- Periodically supporting the Places of Worship in Scotland (POWiS) database being mapped into Wikidata.
- Periodically supporting the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Military Museum database being mapped into Wikidata.
- E. McAndrew to investigate applying for a Royal Society of Chemistry outreach fund award when time/opportunity allows.
Upcoming events in 2022
[edit]- September 8 - CILIP Scotland event for their Information Literacy Group. Remote presentation by Ewan McAndrew, Gavin Willshaw and Dr. Sara Thomas
- September 21 - Reproductive Biology BSc assignment for 2022/2023 commences.
- September 27 - Translation Studies MSc assignment for 2022/2023 commences.
- September 29 - 'Data Fair' for the Design Informatics MA/MFA
- October - History of Art event with Dr. Glaire Anderson (tbc.)
- October - Open Science and the University of Edinburgh presentation (tbc.) hosted by Rute Correia, Wikimedia Portugal
- October 11 - Ada Lovelace Day 2022: Celebrating Women in STEM.
- October 4 - Global Health Challenges Pg Online Wikipedia assignment commences for 2022/2023.
- October 19 - Korean Studies MSc - Introduction to Wikipedia webinar.
- October 19 - Edinburgh Award for Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia commences for 2022/2023
- December(tbc.) - Launch event for relaunch of newly improved Wikidata Map of Accused Witches site.
Media
[edit]New blog articles
[edit]No new blog articles this month.
New videos and podcasts
[edit]- A 30 minute video webinar on a recent case study of Wikipedia in the Curriculum on the Global Health Challenges Pg Online course programme at the University of Edinburgh was delivered on 15 June 2022 for the University's Learning and Teaching Conference 2022. This has now been published on the University's Media Hopper channel.
- A 7 minute video tutorial on Bulk data item creation using OpenRefine was created by Scottish Witchcraft Data Visualisation intern, Maggie Lin. Watch the video on Media Hopper.
Wikimedian in Residence - University of Edinburgh Media Hopper channel
[edit]- The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Media Hopper now has 389 videos. 191 plays since 1 July 2022.
1 August 2022 to 31 August 2022
| Number of videos | Impressions | Minutes viewed | Number of plays since 1 August 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 389 | 1,047 | 722 | 143 |
The most played videos were:
| Position | Video | Plays | Total plays |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | OpenRefine beginners tutorial | 14 plays | 630 plays |
| 2 | How to move your drafted article into the Wikipedia live space. | 5 plays | 104 plays |
| 3 | Word Count tool - counting the prose text in a Wikipedia article | 9 plays | 632 plays |
| 4 | Moving a drafted article into Wikipedia's live space. | 8 plays | 1,780 plays |
| 5 | Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor:Part 2.3 Adding an image. | 5 plays | 594 plays |
Wikimedian in Residence - YouTube channel
[edit]- The Wikimedian in Residence channel on YouTube which has now received over 332,080 views in total of its 120 videos with 1,265 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 120 | 8,147 | 257 | +39 | 1,265 | 332,080 | 168 |
One of our additions to YouTube by student Hannah Rothmann has now been viewed over 68,014 times since it was added on 14 September 2020.
Image uploads to Wikimedia Commons
[edit]Press about the residency
[edit]- Edinburgh University searches for 'Wikimedians' - Edinburgh Evening News, 8th October 2015.
- University of Edinburgh to employ ‘Wikimedian in Residence’ web editor - The Student Newspaper.org, October 13th 2015.
- The History of Medicine gets mentioned in the ILW Awards 2016
- The OER16 Conference, co-chaired by Melissa Highton and Lorna M. Campbell, won Wikimedia UK’s Partnership of the Year Award
- 'Wikidata and Wikisource Showcase' mentioned on IS News site.
- 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.
- Open Education team (including Wikimedia residency) come third in ALT Learning Technologist of the Year awards - story on the IS News site.
- Wikipedia's women problem - Melissa Highton writes for the Dangerous Women project 10th October 2016
- STV News 'Live at Five' covers the Ada Lovelace Day - Women in STEM Wikipedia editathon.
- New College take on Wikipedia edit-a-thon - Women and Religion 2 November 2016.
- Brenda Moon remembered in Wikipedia editathon - article in IS News
- Wikipedia editathon and Mary Stewart - Edinburgh Gothic Sat 12 November.
- Wikipedia editathon at the University of Sheffield's Centre for the History of the Gothic
- Collaborating to built a city of information literacy, a city of Wikipedia - Interview by OEPS Scotland
- #1Lib1Ref at the University of Edinburgh - Blog article by Gavin Willshaw, Digital Curator - 2nd February 2017
- Fake News and Wikidata - a roundup of the Wikimedia UK Education Summit
- Host a Wikimedian - You can't afford not to (blog article)
- 'Wikipedia, research and representation- - Dr Amy Burge, Academic Developer at the Institute for Academic Development, University of Edinburgh.
- Mary Susan McIntosh and the Women in Red - Lorna Campbell.
- What do you do with a dead chemist? - Anne-Marie Scott.
- Wikipedia and Writing - Michael Seery, Reader in Education, School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh.
- Language and Politics - my takeaways by Mina Theofilatou.
- How is it almost August? - Lorna Campbell.
- While in Scotland - Käbi Suvi, Wikimedia Estonia.
- Celtic Knot Conference 2017 in Edinburgh - Astrid Carlsen, Wikimedia Norge.
- Wikipedia in the Classroom: developing information literacy, online citizenship and digital research skills - Teaching Matters blog 13th June 2017.
- Congratulations to our Wikimedian of the Year - Wikimedia UK blog 1st August 2017.
- University of Edinburgh journal vol.48 no.1 - Article about the Edinburgh residency on p.25
- Ada Lovelace Day 2017 - celebrating Women in STEM - article on the WiR blog on 1st September 2017.
- Scotland loves monuments - article for Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 on the Wir Blog - Friday 8 September 2017.
- Wanderings with a Wikimedian - Blog article by Anne-Marie Scott for Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 - Monday 11 September 2017.
- Mortuary Chapel, Revisited - Anne-Marie Scott's blog September 30 2017.
- Ada Lovelace Day – Professor Elizabeth Slater - Lorna Campbell's blog on October 10 2017.
- Ada Lovelace Day - knitting resources
- Ada Lovelace Day 2017 photos.
- Wikipedia is a very lovely place to be - Anne-Marie Scott's blog.
- 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'.
- Wikipedia has always depended on the kindness of strangers - Outcomes of Ada Lovelace 2017 on the Wikimedian in Residence blog 19 October 2017.
- Wikipedia assignments – getting past the ‘Penguin effect’ and down to the brass tacks of sharing open knowledge - Teaching Matters blog.
- Ada Lovelace Day 2017 – Celebrating women in STEM - Edinburgh University Science Magazine.
- Another Story about Maps - Blogpost by Anne-Marie Scott 27 October 2017.
- Open Tumshies for Halloween - blogpost by Lorna Campbell 31 October 2017.
- Internet Transmitted Infections – I’ve got the SPLOTS - Anne-Marie Scott, 16 November 2017.
- Wikidata in the Classroom on the Wikimedian in Residence blog 22 November 2017.
- Open for all - Mansfield Traquair images hosted on Wikimedia Commons. Blog by Anne-Marie Scott 23 November 2017.
- 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.
- Wikipedia Games / SPLOTPoint - Anne-Marie Scott blog, January 1st 2018.
- 2017 Highs, Lows and Losses - Lorna Campbell blog, January 3rd 2018
- Wikipedia at 17 – Facts matter. - January 16th 2018.
- Reflections on International Women’s Day 2018 and Wikipedia – A Gude Cause - 8 March 2018.
- New SPLOT Wikidata tutorial - Wikidata Basics.
- 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.
- Libraries, Literacies & Learning – presentation at SCURL event 23 March 2018
- Digital Transformation and Data — The Wikimedia Residency at the University of Edinburgh on Medium.com
- Wikimedia resources – how to get started.
- The OER 18 EdTech editathon 'SPLOT' resource.
- Wikimedia at the Open Educational Resources Conference 2018
- 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.
- Wikipedia in Higher Education (co-authored with Jemima John, 4th year Law undergraduate student.
- Wikipedia in Higher Education… How students are shaping the open web.
- Tracings (don’t look too closely)
- NEW SPLOT resource created for the Wikidata Workshop at the Digital Day of Ideas.
- 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.
- 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.
- Wikipedia in the Classroom – how students are shaping the open web - Teaching Matters blog
- 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.
- Towards Open-ish? - a hybrid conversation organised as part of the Wikimania conference in Cape Town.
- Languages - blog about whether other language Wikipedias should refer to all places in Scotland by their Gaelic names.
- Newspapers - created a Wikipedia page as part of Mike Caulfield’s Newspapers on Wikipedia project.
- Reflections on CELT Symposium 2018 - includes mention of our Open Content Curation Student Interns and the Wikimedia in the Classroom initiatives.
- 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.
- 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.
- What I did on my holidays - taking pictures for Wiki Loves Monuments.
- Academia and Wikipedia – a presentation at Maynooth University on 18 June 2018.
- Celebrating 100 years of Votes for Women
- Ada Lovelace Day 2018 – nominate Women in STEM heroines.
- Open.Ed – OER and Open Knowledge at the University of Edinburgh.
- Wikidata in the Classroom and the WikiCite project - presentation at Repository Fringe 2018.
- University wins Wikimedia UK’s Partnership of the Year award
- University of Edinburgh wins Wikimedia UK Partnership of the Year Award.
- Open.Ed at RepoFringe18
- Scotland loves Monuments 2018
- Wiki Loves Monuments 2018
- The internet’s favourite website for information.
- 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.
- Ada Lovelace Day – 1 month to go!
- Facts and Fallacies: Cultural Representations of Mental Health
- Edinburgh Gothic for Robert Louis Stevenson Day 2018
- Witchy Wikidata – a 6th birthday celebration event for Halloween
- Editing Wikipedia as part of teaching public health? by Felix Stein, by Global Health MSc course leader at the University of Edinburgh.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Article in the Scotsman: Women scientists being whitewashed from Wikipedia – Ewan McAndrew, Siobhan O’Connor, Dr Sara Thomas and Dr Alice White
- Women and Wikipedia….Open Learning and a hobby for life!
- Translation and Open Education – An Experiment using Wikipedia
- Wikipedia in Higher Education: How students are shaping the open web
- Diversifying Wikipedia for the Festival of Creative Learning 2019
- 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
- You can’t be what you can’t see: Creating new role models on Wikipedia to encourage the next generation of Immodest Women
- International Women’s Day 2019
- Recruiting a Witchfinder General
- Wikimedia at the LILAC Information Literacy Conference 2019
- Balance for Better – recognising notable Edinburgh women
- Balance for Better – Teaching Matters
- Wikimania 2019 - Digital Support Librarian Lauren Smith reports on her first-time attendance at Wikimania 2019 in Stockholm, Sweden.
- Scotland Loves Monuments 2019 - Get involved in Wiki Loves Monuments!
- 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.
- Wikipedia on Olive Schreiner, like it or what? by Professor Liz Stanley.
- Celebrating notable women of Edinburgh
- Wikimedia Women in Red internship
- Four page spread on the Map of Accused Witches Wikidata project in the May/June 2020 publication of History Scotland magazine.
- Shifting Gears and Finding Female Pioneers
- To the Future of Women in Red and Online Diversity
- My first week as a Wikimedia Training Intern - blogpost by Hannah Rothmann
- 4 weeks into my Wikimedia Internship by Hannah Rothmann on the residency blog.
- #WCCWiki Colloquium 2020 by Hannah Rothmann on the residency blog.
- Final reflections on my Wikimedia Training Internship by Hannah Rothmann on the residency blog.
- Scotland Loves Monuments 2020 on the residency blog.
- 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.
- Introducing Mapping the Scottish Reformation: Clerics, Manuscripts, and Open Data on the Wikimedia UK blog.
- 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.
- Editing Wikipedia: Stars, robots and talismans Honours course by Glaire Anderson for the Wikimedia UK blog
- Happy Birthday Wikipedia - guest blog post by Classics undergraduate student, Hannah Rothmann, for Wikipedia's 20th birthday.
- Telling the history of HIV and AIDS activism in Scotland on Wikipedia - WiR blog
- Scotland, Slavery and Black History project - WiR blog
- Those who fought: Representing HIV/AIDS activism on Wikipedia - Blog by Lorna Campbell
- My first week as a Wikisourceror – Guest post by student intern, Erin Boyle
- Open Data and Knowledge Equity – my first week by student intern, Clea Strathmann
- Supporting Open Collections – Guest post by Wikisourceror intern, Erin Boyle
- Wikimedia and the Diversity of Languages online – Guest post by Clea Strathmann
- 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.
- 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.
- Teaching Matters Podcast: Wikimedia and Academia
- Teaching Matters Podcast: Wikimedia and Language
- Teaching Matters Podcast: Improving science communication with… Wikipedia?
- Podcast: Wikipedia: Where are the women? (13 minutes)
- Calls for Scotland to pardon witch-hunt victims gather pace - Guardian newspaper
- Down the Rabbit Hole with Wikipedia at the LILAC Information Literacy Conference 2022, WiR blog.
- Wikipedia, Student Activism and the Ivory Tower – talk presented at the LILAC Information Literacy Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University, 11-13 April 2022.
- Wikipedia and History – podcast series for Teaching Matters.
- Witchfinder General blog: Something wiki’d this way comes!
- Witchfinder General blog: Site Development is underway
- Witchfinder General blog: Some data processing sorcery