Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/Images

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

The Centre for Research Collections (CRC) is the main space for anyone using the University of Edinburgh’s historic collections.

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This 17th century map of Iceland in particular became a very popular OER during Euro 2016. The image ‘Gerardi Mercatoris Atlas, Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figurawas uploaded during our History of Medicine Wikipedia editathon in February 2016. It was then used to illustrate the Wikipedia article about Iceland on English Wikipedia, Simple English Wikipedia and German Wikipedia. Since then it has now been viewed more than 2 million times.

Iceland’s Euro 2016 matches were on 14 June (1-1 with Portugal), 18 June (1-1 Hungary), 22 June (2-1 victory over Austria), 27 June (2-1 win over England), and 3 July (2-5 defeat to France). Around each of these events people all over the world were keen to learn about this surprising nation. Viewing numbers ( numbers of hits) show appreciable spikes for the matches against Portugal, England, and France.

On German Wikipedia spikes against each of the matches regularly exceeded 100,000 page views.

The biggest spike was for the victory over England!

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Adding images to Wikipedia articles

Below are more uploads from the University of Edinburgh's Centre for Research Collections. Can you help put some of these pictures in suitably relevant articles and introduce them to a whole new audience?

Gerardi Mercatoris Atlas, sive, Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura (25064010625)
Dissected skull, Maison Tramond model, Paris, nineteenth century (24251862791)]]
Aberdeen Breviary (24970711901)
Album Amicorum (25037671426)
Album Amicorum (25037671676)
Album Amicorum (25064013315)
Anatomia Del Cavallo, Infermita, et Suoi Rimedii, (The Anatomy of the Horse, Diseases and Treatments), Carlo Ruini, 1618 (23966575519)
Anatomical Figure of a Horse (ecorché), circle of Giambologna, 1585 (23966575609)
Biblia (German) (24437147123)
British Butterflies and Their Transformations (25064013495)
Dissected skull, Maison Tramond model, Paris, nineteenth century (24226156362)
Wax moulage, side view of a child’s face showing ‘adenoma sebaceum’ (a genetic skin disorder), early twentieth century (23966574919)
Signatures- Sophia Jex-Blake, Mary Pechey, Helen Evans, Matilda Chaplin (24771128465)
Set of wax models showing development of the rabbit heart, twentieth century (24226156252)
Set of wax models showing development of the rabbit heart, twentieth century (23706158154)
Scottish Metrical Psalter (24970711791)
Museum Wormianum (24970710211)
Maw And Co.'s Patterns, Geometrical and Roman Mosaics, Encaustic Tile Pavements and Enamelled Wall Decorations (24970710671)
Matriculation Record, Sophia Jex-Blake (24402949229)

Images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons during a University of Edinburgh editathon

Click here to view the images uploaded during a University of Edinburgh editathon
Can you help add them to a relevant Wikipedia article and thereby introduce them to a whole new audience?

"An Appeal to You" recruitment poster (14644741379)
"My departure from 1st Battalion", Egypt 1916 (14830606052)
Altarcloth, Chapel Royal, Stirling Castle (6357518755)
Army nurses on General Assembly Library steps
Back of the King's Old Buildings, Stirling Castle (5897726076)
Badly scarred French village World War I (14867157623)
Cambridge. Trinity College, Wren Library (3611677808)
Chapel Royal Stirling Castle (6074264953)
Recruitment poster (14644682550)
Robert the Bruce Statue, Stirling Castle (7254740352)
Stirling Castle, Esplanade Wall (5897688848)
Miss Hester MacLean (13702996855)
Memorial to Sir William Oliphant, Stirling Castle (6357464145)
Museum Wormianum (24970710211)

The University of Edinburgh Image Collections

Some images from the university's Image Collection website are on a CC-BY licence so we will be uploading them to Wikimedia Commons in due course; including some letters from Robert Burns.

Images of Edinburgh University editathons

All the images uploaded so far during the residency, including images of all our editathons, are located at the link below.
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Eurostemcell Wikipedia editathon 03
Eurostemcell Wikipedia editathon 04
Eurostemcell Wikipedia editathon 05