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Institution Resident's Name Period Covered Date of Report List of reports to date
University of Edinburgh Ewan McAndrew 12 January - 11 February 2018 (Twenty-fifth month of residency) 7 March 2018 Click here to view all reports.

Running total of staff & student engagement

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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 105 431 319 154 36 373 1557

Projects delivered

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Strategic Goal 1

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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.

Outcomes

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  • Met with Academic Support Librarian colleagues and colleagues from the School of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine on 15 January 2018 to plan the Women in Medicine - Wikipedia editathon on 22 February 2018.
  • Caroline Wallace, Snr. Partner Equality, Diversity & Inclusion at University of Edinburgh, rang me on 31st January 2018 to discuss putting Wikipedia Women in Red project work in the new Athena SWAN action plan for the next 4 years at the university to surface new role models in ten different STEM-related disciplines.
  • Monthly Wiki meetup for Women in Red held on 26 January 2018 - 7 new articles created.
    • Phoebe Blyth (1816-1898) was a Scottish philanthropist and educationist from Newington in Edinburgh. She was a leading campaigner for opening up opportunities for women in professional employment and one of the first Scottish women to be elected to public office.
    • Mary D. Rosengarten - (born in Pennsylavania) was the writer of a collection of letters known as Eight Journeys Abroad.
    • E. H. Thompson - Mrs. E. H. Thompson was an American author and educator who wrote From the Thames to the Trossachs.
    • Cecilie French - a British chemist and lecturer specialising in magnetochemistry.
    • Mary Corner - a pharmacist, a worker in the British Cotton Industry and British Leather Manufacturers, Head of the Micro-analytical Section of the Chemical Research Laboratory, Vice-Chairman of the Microchemistry group and a founding member of the Microchemical Club.
    • Isabella Skea - (1845-1914) was a campaigner for women's rights from Aberdeen who became the first female headteacher of a large mixed sex board school when few female headships were achieved. Her rise to prominence from a humble background has led to her being described as "the lass o' pairts" as a female counterpoint to the notion of "the lad of pairts" prevalent in Scottish educational philosophy of the time.
    • Elizabeth (Bessie) Watson - Scottish child Suffragette and piper. Bessie wore hair ribbons in the colours of the Suffragette campaign to school. She played the pipes on the platform of Waverley Station as trains departed taking convicted women's rights campaigners to Holloway Prison and she piped outside Calton Jail to encourage the Suffragettes imprisoned there.
  • Met with Leah McCabe, Learning, Teaching and Web's new Gender and Equality Images intern based at the university's Centre for Research Collections on 8 February 2018 to discuss how her work surfacing images from the university's archive collections can be supported by, and help contribute to, the Wikimedia projects.

Activities delivered in the past month with stats:

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Event Name Date Location Attendees New Users Gender breakdown
Wiki Women in Red monthly meetup: Writing biographies of notable women
List of attendees
PrometheasOre		 26 January 2018 2pm-5pm University of Edinburgh Argyle House, 3 Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh, EH3 9DS. 1 0 100% female

Image statistics

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Activities in the past month with stats:

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Strategic Goal 2

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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

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  • Co-hosted a #1Lib1Ref - 1 Librarian adding 1 Reference to Wikipedia campaign day with Gavin Willshaw (Digital Curator) on 1 February 2018 at Argyle House, University of Edinburgh. To mark Wikipedia's 17 birthday, approx. 21 colleagues at the Library & University Collections division helped add over 100 citations to back up facts on Wikipedia using the Citation Hunt tool. This was augmented by the efforts of colleagues at Learning, Teaching and Web and Wikipedia in the Classroom course leaders. In total, we added 184 citations - trebling last year's total.
  • Attended, and helped facilitate, the Wikidata hackathon and Future of Wikipedia event at NewSpeak House in London on 3rd February 2018. Video summary of the event.
  • Added 416 'Place of Education' (P69) statements to Wikidata during the Wikidata hackathon. So now William Henry Playfair joins suffragette Bessie Watson in the Histropedia timeline of University of Edinburgh alumni (filter by gender, occupation & place of birth)
  • Created short video to demonstrate how to create a Wikidata-driven timeline of university alumni for any institution.
  • Attended first meeting as part of the process of becoming an accredited CMALT holder (Certified Member of the Association of Learning Technologists) on 7 February 2018.
  • Met with Melissa Terras, Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage at the University of Edinburgh's College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, on 7 February 2018 to discuss areas of potential collaboration.

Activities in the past month with stats:

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Event Name Date Location / Organiser Attendees (approx) Description
#1Lib1Ref - 1 Librarian adding 1 Reference to Wikipedia 1 February 2018 Argyle House, University of Edinburgh
Organiser:
Gavin Willshaw (Digital Curator)
Ewan McAndrew		 25 approx. To mark Wikipedia's 17 birthday, approx. 21 colleagues at the Library & University Collections division helped add over 100 citations to back up facts on Wikipedia using the Citation Hunt tool. This was augmented by the efforts of colleagues at Learning, Teaching and Web. In total, we added 184 citations - trebling last year's total.
Wikimedians in Residence meeting 3 February 2018 NewSpeak House, Shoreditch, London
Organiser:Daria Cybulska, Wikimedia UK		 8 approx. This was an informal catchup meeting to enable knowledge sharing between all the various Wikimedians working as WiRs in the United Kingdom and at UNESCO.
Wikidata Hackathon 3 February 2018 NewSpeak House, Shoreditch, London
Organiser:John Lubbock, Wikimedia UK		 30-40 approx. This was a practical workshop facilitated by developers of all experience levels and the Wikimedians in Residence to allow new & experienced Wikidata editors to find out more about Wikipedia's sister project.
The Future of Wikipedia 3 February 2018 NewSpeak House, Shoreditch, London
Organiser:John Lubbick, Wikimedia UK		 60-70 approx. This was a Q&A event between Katherine Maher, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, and Lucy Crompton-Reid, CEO of Wikimedia UK, and an opportunity to discuss the future of Wikipedia with community members.

Strategic Goal 3

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

Outcomes

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  • Attended first meeting with the university's Digital Skills team on 29 January 2018 since being the role of Wikimedian was aligned more closely with this division.
  • Facilitated two practice workshops for Digital Skills colleagues (18 January 2018) and colleagues at Library & University Collections (26 January 2018) so they could have a dummy run at being the lead Wikipedia trainer before doing it for real in front of an audience.
  • Ran first workshop on what is now the fourth iteration of the Translation Studies MSc on 2nd February 2018 and arranged drop-in clinics to support students as they work on their Wikipedia translation assignment up to 6th April 2018. This session also provided an opportunity for us to review & discuss last semester's assignment.

Activities delivered in the past month with stats:

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Event Name Date Location Attendees New Users Gender breakdown
Train the Trainer (practice) workshop with the University of Edinburgh Digital Skills team
List of usernames:
User:Skillznthrillz		 18 January 2018 2pm-4pm Edinburgh University Library, Room 1.08, 30 George Square, Edinburgh 1 0 0% female
Getting Started as a Wikipedia Trainer/Course leader
List of usernames:
User:Jjohn83
User:Mpatters99
User:Everydaydrifter		 24 January 2018 2pm-4pm University of Edinburgh, Room EW.10, Argyle House, 3 Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh 3 2 66.66% female
Train the Trainer (practice) workshop
List of usernames:
User:Skillznthrillz
User:Gweduni		 26 January 2018 11:15am-1pm University of Edinburgh, Meeting Room EW.12, Argyle House, 3 Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh 2 0 0% female
Translation Studies MSc - Semester Two workshop
List of usernames:
User:Jiao Qiu
User:Loiter9
User:Thegiantelk
User:XUENIUMU
User:FrancescaRebecca
User:Florasch
User:WarburtonBradshaw
User:Vegowong5188
User:Yuyvonne		 2 February 2018 2pm-4pm University of Edinburgh 50 George Square, Edinburgh 9 0 77.77% female

Projects/events in development

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  • Discussing with Daria Cybulska at Wikimedia UK about the production of a new UK-based booklet of Wikipedia in the Classroom case studies.
  • 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.
  • Liaising with Gill Hamilton (National Library of Scotland), Pauline Kelly & Lois Wolffe (Amnesty Scotland) and Sara Thomas (Wikimedian at SLIC) on a Human Rights Defenders - Global Wikithon event for Amnesty International on Saturday 19 May 2018.
  • A collaboration with Michael Seery at the School of Chemistry and the Royal Society of Chemistry to be confirmed.
  • Further monthly Women in Red meetups scheduled for 22 February and 30 March 2018.
  • 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.
  • Awaiting word back to see if colleagues at the University of Edinburgh would be interested in collaborating on research into Wikimedia in Education with Professor Corrado Petrucco at the University of Padua.
  • Editathon with Sophie Nicholls at Teeside University confirmed for April 27th & 28th.
  • Continuing to support colleagues, Andrew Kirk and Christina Hussell, at the University of Edinburgh's Digital Skills team to run regular Wikipedia training workshops which they are now leading. Meeting regularly with the Digital Skills team to further integrate the Wikipedia work within their remit.
  • 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.
  • Continuing to add more data to Wikidata from the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft database.
  • Three events for the university's Festival of Creative Learning (19-23 February 2018) are now planned in: a Wikidata hackathon, a Histropedia workshop and a Women in Medicine editathon.
  • 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.
  • Proposals accepted for three presentations at the Open Educational Resources Conference (OER18): Wikidata in the Classroom (lightning talk), Stories of Student Empowerment - Wikipedia in the Classroom (15 minute presentation) and an EdTech editathon workshop.

Upcoming events in 2018

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  • February 14 - Wikipedia editing training.
  • February 16 - Train the Trainer event.
  • February 20 - Histropedia workshop for the Festival of Creative Learning 2018.
  • February 21 - Wikidata Hackathon for the Festival of Creative Learning 2018.
  • February 22 - #Vote100 and Women in Medicine editathon for the Festival of Creative Learning 2018.
  • March 8 - International Women's Day - Wikipedia editathon on #Suffragette100.
  • March 23 - Presentation with Gavin Willshaw at the SCURL event, University of Strathclyde.
  • April 18 - OER18 Conference.
  • April 19 - OER18 Conference.
  • April 28 - Regenerating Middlesbrough event.
  • April 29 - Regenerating Middlesbrough event.
  • May 3 - Webinar for Queens' University, Belfast.
  • May 19 - Human Rights Defenders event for Amnesty Scotland, Glasgow.
  • 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.

Media

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Images

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Cropped pic of Sarah Jane Baines added to Wikimedia Commons.

Pic of Scottish child suffragette Bessie Watson shared by Capital Collections and Edinburgh Central Librar. Added to Wikimedia Commons and the article updated.

Bessie Watson also now has an article on Basque Wikipedia too thanks to an editor who attended our Celtic Knot: Wikipedia Language Conference last year.

Blogposts this month

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Videos

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George Square and Appleton Tower - Edinburgh
  • The MOOC snippet clip (right) added to Wikimedia Commons and inserted in the Arthur's Seat Wikipedia page. 283 views from 12/01/2018 to 11/02/2018 for this month. A total of 1009 views since it was added on 27 November until 11 February 2018. The Arthur's Seat Wikipedia page itself received 15,404 views in this period.
  • The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Media Hopper now has 224 videos. 31 views this month with 25 plays.
  • The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Youtube now has received over 25,925 views in total of its 63 videos with 125 subscribers (1,931 more views approx. since last month and 9 more subscribers, 21 'likes', and 14 'shares' since last month). These videos have been viewed in over 96 different countries this month and in 161 countries around the world over the course of the channel's lifetime.

Press about the residency

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  1. Edinburgh University searches for 'Wikimedians' - Edinburgh Evening News, 8th October 2015.
  2. University of Edinburgh to employ ‘Wikimedian in Residence’ web editor - The Student Newspaper.org, October 13th 2015.
  3. The History of Medicine gets mentioned in the ILW Awards 2016
  4. The OER16 Conference, co-chaired by Melissa Highton and Lorna M. Campbell, won Wikimedia UK’s Partnership of the Year Award
  5. 'Wikidata and Wikisource Showcase' mentioned on IS News site.
  6. The Wikimedia Residency, as part of the University Of Edinburgh's Open Education team, won 3rd place in ALT's Learning Technologist of the Year awards.
  7. Open Education team (including Wikimedia residency) come third in ALT Learning Technologist of the Year awards - story on the IS News site.
  8. Wikipedia's women problem - Melissa Highton writes for the Dangerous Women project 10th October 2016
  9. STV News 'Live at Five' covers the Ada Lovelace Day - Women in STEM Wikipedia editathon.
  10. New College take on Wikipedia edit-a-thon - Women and Religion 2 November 2016.
  11. Brenda Moon remembered in Wikipedia editathon - article in IS News
  12. Wikipedia editathon and Mary Stewart - Edinburgh Gothic Sat 12 November.
  13. Wikipedia editathon at the University of Sheffield's Centre for the History of the Gothic
  14. Collaborating to built a city of information literacy, a city of Wikipedia - Interview by OEPS Scotland
  15. #1Lib1Ref at the University of Edinburgh - Blog article by Gavin Willshaw, Digital Curator - 2nd February 2017
  16. Fake News and Wikidata - a roundup of the Wikimedia UK Education Summit
  17. Host a Wikimedian - You can't afford not to (blog article)
  18. 'Wikipedia, research and representation- - Dr Amy Burge, Academic Developer at the Institute for Academic Development, University of Edinburgh.
  19. Mary Susan McIntosh and the Women in Red - Lorna Campbell.
  20. What do you do with a dead chemist? - Anne-Marie Scott.
  21. Wikipedia and Writing - Michael Seery, Reader in Education, School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh.
  22. Language and Politics - my takeaways by Mina Theofilatou.
  23. How is it almost August? - Lorna Campbell.
  24. While in Scotland - Käbi Suvi, Wikimedia Estonia.
  25. Celtic Knot Conference 2017 in Edinburgh - Astrid Carlsen, Wikimedia Norge.
  26. Wikipedia in the Classroom: developing information literacy, online citizenship and digital research skills - Teaching Matters blog 13th June 2017.
  27. Congratulations to our Wikimedian of the Year - Wikimedia UK blog 1st August 2017.
  28. University of Edinburgh journal vol.48 no.1 - Article about the Edinburgh residency on p.25
  29. Ada Lovelace Day 2017 - celebrating Women in STEM - article on the WiR blog on 1st September 2017.
  30. Scotland loves monuments - article for Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 on the Wir Blog - Friday 8 September 2017.
  31. Wanderings with a Wikimedian - Blog article by Anne-Marie Scott for Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 - Monday 11 September 2017.
  32. Mortuary Chapel, Revisited - Anne-Marie Scott's blog September 30 2017.
  33. Ada Lovelace Day – Professor Elizabeth Slater - Lorna Campbell's blog on October 10 2017.
  34. Ada Lovelace Day - knitting resources
  35. Ada Lovelace Day 2017 photos.
  36. Wikipedia is a very lovely place to be - Anne-Marie Scott's blog.
  37. The 17th century map of Iceland released by the University of Edinburgh's Centre for Research Collections gets a mention in Creative Commons' influential 'State of the Commons report'.
  38. Wikipedia has always depended on the kindness of strangers - Outcomes of Ada Lovelace 2017 on the Wikimedian in Residence blog 19 October 2017.
  39. Wikipedia assignments – getting past the ‘Penguin effect’ and down to the brass tacks of sharing open knowledge - Teaching Matters blog.
  40. Ada Lovelace Day 2017 – Celebrating women in STEM - Edinburgh University Science Magazine.
  41. Another Story about Maps - Blogpost by Anne-Marie Scott 27 October 2017.
  42. Open Tumshies for Halloween - blogpost by Lorna Campbell 31 October 2017.
  43. Internet Transmitted Infections – I’ve got the SPLOTS - Anne-Marie Scott, 16 November 2017.
  44. Wikidata in the Classroom on the Wikimedian in Residence blog 22 November 2017.
  45. Open for all - Mansfield Traquair images hosted on Wikimedia Commons. Blog by Anne-Marie Scott 23 November 2017.
  46. Take an Equal Bite - Blogpost by Melissa Highton about EqualBITE: Gender equality in higher education and the the positive power of wikipedia editathons. 2nd December 2017.
  47. Wikipedia Games / SPLOTPoint - Anne-Marie Scott blog, January 1st 2018.
  48. 2017 Highs, Lows and Losses - Lorna Campbell blog, January 3rd 2018
  49. Wikipedia at 17 – Facts matter. - January 16th 2018.
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