Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/33rd and 34th Month Report

Institution	Resident's Name	Period Covered	Date of Report	List of reports to date
University of Edinburgh	Ewan McAndrew	12 September - 11 November 2018 (Thirty-third month and Thirty-fourth month of residency)	19 November 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	145	607	406	237	55	464	1865

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.

Outcomes

Uploaded 442 images for Wiki Loves Monuments 2018.
4,373 images shared from Scotland for the whole month of Wiki Loves Monuments 2018.
1,303 images were shared by staff at the University of Edinburgh.
7 trained to edit Wikipedia at the WP:WikiProject Women in Red monthly meetup on 19 September 2018.
2 new articles created at the WikiProject Women in Red meetup: accused witch Euphame MacCalzean and Spanish Civil War nurse Annie Murray. Infoboxes added to Margaret Irwin (trade unionist) and Cicely Hale. 1 draft article on historian Christina Larner.
15 trained to edit Wikipedia and Wikidata for Ada Lovelace Day 2018.
51 booked to attend the Ada Lovelace Day talks on the morning of 9 October 2018.
90+ booked to attend the evening Women in STEM networking event.
The Contemporary Women in STEM editathon resulted in 4 improved pages, 1 drafted page and 6 new pages including:
Academic Support Librarian Kangarooth has written 42 new articles for WP:WikiProject Women in Red since learning how to edit in February this year.
Visited the University of Edinburgh Archives on 26 September to discuss the Vote 100 launch event, Histropedia timeline and editathon and attended two planning meetings (11 October and 5 November) about the event with Rachel Hosker (Archives Manager), Jacky Macbeath (Head of University Museums) and Kirsty MacNab, Exhibitions Officer at Centre for Research Collections.
Trained the new Gender and Equality PhD intern, Francesca Vavotici, at the Centre for Research Collections on 6 November along with Clare Button, archivist, with a view to surfacing more archival content to Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikisource, Wiki Commons and Histropedia. Afterwards, attended the launch of the new Digital Scholarship Centre.
Met with Miles Glendinning, Database assistant Kat Breen, Pauline Ward and Lorna Campbell on three occasions to discuss 100 gigabytes of social housing images from around the world and the Edinburgh College of Art's Tower Block archive with a view to sharing to the university's Datashare repository, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata. The HLF licensing has been resolved so Kat Breen will prepare a subset from the 4,000 pics in the UK Tower Block archive as a proof of concept for doing more.
Planned Edinburgh Gothic event for 13 November with PhD student Vicki Madden.
Met with Gavin Willshaw (Digital Curator), Mike Bennett (Library Developer) and Alasdair MacDonald (Metadata Co-ordinator) on 16 October to discuss the final phases of the import of the Thesis Collection into Wikidata. Mike has developed a tool which can turn ALMA catalogue metadata into a format Wikidata can easily import and plans to release this on github. Testing of this tool will begin shortly, thereafter the import will follow swiftly.

Activities delivered in the past month with stats:

Event Name	Date	Location	Attendees	New Users	Gender breakdown
Monthly Women in Red workshop - creating new biography articles of notable women on Wikipedia List of usernames recorded: User:EKMason User:Satukap User:DataFlakes User:Aromoke User:Southeast0010	19 September 2018 2pm-7pm	University of Edinburgh, Room 1.11, Main Library, 30 George Square, Edinburgh.	7	7	71.4% female
Ada Lovelace Day 2018 - creating new biography articles of notable women in STEM on Wikipedia List of usernames recorded: User:Lady-shirakawa User:Spacetime73 User:V.madden25 User:Katens07 User:Kangarooth User:Drkirstyross User:LornaMCampbell User:Victuallers User:Ammienoot User:ClareB User:Cromar User:PeedieBird User:PrometheasOre User:Meadows.Lib User:hmeshins	9 October 2018 2:30pm-5:30pm	University of Edinburgh, Science and Engineering campus, Room G.07, Murchison House building, Edinburgh.	15	8	80% female
Gender and Equality PhD Intern training session List of usernames recorded: User:ClareB User:Fravavotici	6 November 2018 12:30pm-3:30pm	University of Edinburgh,5th floor seminar room, Main Library, 30 George Square, Edinburgh.	2	2	100% female

Image statistics

UoE Centre for Research Collections images	Total for September 2018	1,058,389 views
UoE Centre for Research Collections images	Total for October 2018	1,076,194 views
All images uploaded in collaboration between WMUK and the University of Edinburgh	Total for September 2018	1,710,709 views
All images uploaded in collaboration between WMUK and the University of Edinburgh	Total for October 2018	1,705,540 views
UoE Centre for Research Collections images	Total for 33 months of monitoring	24,850,429 views
UoE Centre for Research Collections images	Total for 34 months of monitoring	25,926,623 views

The video clip of drone footage over George Square and Old College is our 14th most viewed item with over 30,000 pageviews.

The most viewed images for October 2018 were:

Rank	Wikipedia page	Monthly views	Link to image/video on Commons
1	Iceland	265,455 views	Gerardi Mercatoris Atlas, sive, Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura (24696368309).jpg
2	Scotland	223,443 views	Scottish country dancing (Source).webm
3	Football	122,091 views	Men kicking footballs.webm
4	Escherichia coli	105,821 views	E.coli image.jpg
5	Alexander McQueen	100,052 views	Lee Alexander McQueen Headstone Back.png and Lee Alexander McQueen Headstone.png
6	Glasgow	85,209 views	Pedestrians in Buchanan Street, Glasgow.webm
7	Rabbit	81,759 views	Set of wax models showing development of the rabbit heart, twentieth century (24226156252).jpg
8	Oslo	81,073 views	Railway between Christiania and Bergen - 1916, from the WW1 diary of Ethel Moir.
9	Stan Laurel	77,623 views	Stan Laurel plaque at Britannia Music Hall, Glasgow. Uploaded as part of Wiki Loves Monuments 2017..
10	Noah's Ark	65,111 views	Woodcut of Noah's Ark from Anton Koberger's "German Bible".
11	The Wicker Man	44,036 views	Scotland - Culzean Castle - 20150927175751.jpg
12	Odessa	40,127 views	Odessa during first days of Revolution - 1916. From the WW1 diary of Ethel Moir.
13	Electron microscope	37,683 views	Bacillus subtilis
14	University of Edinburgh	30,700 views	George Square and the Old College at sunrise
15	Weaving	27,397 views	Weaving Pattern Cards.jpg and Weavers Loom.jpg

Activities in the past month with stats:

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

Was interviewed at length by Joe Matazzoni at the Wikimedia Foundation in California on 12 Septemnber about developing a new tool to better support running editathons.
Met with Sara Thomas (Scotland Programme Co-ordinator at Wikimedia UK), Anne-Marie Scott and Melissa Highton on 14 September 2018 to discussing the Edinburgh residency and areas for development.
Attended Data Literacy, Open Data and Knowledge-Building Communities - conference at the University of Stirling and met with Sara Thomas and Martin Poulter and networked with other open data practitioners.
Attended Team Managers' meeting on 1st October and outlined the Wikipedia in the Classroom work we have been doing at the Digital Learning Applications and Media (DLAM) section meeting on 17 October.
Planned and delivered a 3 hour Wikidata 6th birthday event for Halloween with Sara Thomas and Delphine Dallison.
Pitched the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft database as a student project at the Data Science for Design MSc on 11 October. 6 students volunteered before we settled on three students to take this project forward until 30 November 2018.
Completed rewrite of a JISC case study of the Wikimedia residency at the University of Edinburgh.
Completed case study on the Translation Studies MSc Wikipedia assignment with co-author Lorna Campbell for inclusion in the new book of Case Studies of Openness in the Language Classroom - edited by Ana Beaven, Anna Comas-Quinn and Barbara Sawhill.
Collaborating with Hannah Evans at Wikimedia UK, Lorna Campbell, Anne-Marie Scott and Melissa Highton on a new booklet of Case Studies of Wikipedia in the Classroom. Next step is to work with the University of Edinburgh graphic design team and finalise content.
Had abstract accepted for the Dealing with Data one day conference on Open Science and Open Scholarship at the University of Edinburgh on 23 November 2018.
Met with representatives of the University of Coventry on 3rd October 2018 with a view to discussing the Edinburgh residency and lessons learnt that could help with a Wikimedia residency at the University of Coventry.
Submitted abstract to the LILAC Conference on three years of the Wikimedia residency at the University of Edinburgh and "embedding Wikipedia in the curriculum.
Submitted Wellbeing Week events on Facts and Fallacies:Cultural Representations of Mental Health to the student association's (EUSA's) programme for the week, held final planning meeting on 12 October and met with Professor Jolyon Mitchell and Rosie Taylor of student initiative Wellcomm Kings on 7 November to discuss their co-chairing the event.

Activities in the past month with stats:

Event Name	Date	Location / Organiser	Attendees (approx)	Description
Data Literacy, Open Data and Knowledge-Building Communities - two day conference at the University of Stirling	27-28 September 2018	Codebase Stirling Organiser: Greg Singh, Lecturer at the University of Stirling	20-25 approx.	This conference set out to reintroduce the original objectives of the RSE Life in Data Research Network in the context of recent international developments, and colleagues from international partner universities presented keynote research on the power of data literacy, the concept of Open, and what this means for various kinds of knowledge-building communities.
Data Science for Design MSc - Data Fair	11 October 2018	Evolution House, Edinburgh College of Art Organiser: Benjamin Bach, Course organiser at the University of Edinburgh	45-60 approx.	This half day event showcases fifteen datasets and invites the 45 students on the Data Science for Design MSc to work on these datasets to tell engaging stories with the data as part of their course assignment. Presented on the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft Database.
Wikidata 6th Birthday event for Halloween List of usernames: User:Lirazelf User:Delphine Dallison User:LornaMCampbell User:Philbarker User:Doctor Reddy User:Emain Macha User:LiwenXu User:Kannpai User:Salomemaloney User:Robynpritzker User:V.madden25 User:Alasdairmmacdonald User:JC-Edinburgh User:Herbie Hedgehog1 User:Mdudzik3194 User:Rixten User:Xiaohan0102 User:Cezarzd User:ZmZrhappylearner User:Achfary12	31 October 2018	David Hume Tower, University of Edinburgh Organiser: Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian at the University of Edinburgh	17-20 approx.	This half day event included: Sara Thomas (Scotland Programme Co-Ordinator at Wikimedia UK) presenting an Introduction to Wikidata; Delphine Dallison (Wikimedian in Residence at the Scottish Library and Information Council) delivering a SPARQL Query workshop; and Ewan McAndrew delivering a workshop on How to edit Wikidata using real world datasets like the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft.

Strategic Goal 3

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

Outcomes

Started working with three new students on the Data Science for Design MSc project to import more data from the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft Database into Wikidata.
Trained five new attendees how to work with Wikidata and Histropedia.
Trained five new attendees from the School of Law how to work with Wikipedia with a view to an assignment.
Skyped Felix Stein, course organiser on the Global Health MSc, on 13 September. This resulted in a project where I trained 27 x Global Health MSc students how to edit Wikipedia as part of an assignment to add 180 words to a Global Health topic on Wikipedia on 26 and 30 October 2018. 6,750 words have been added since the assignment began.
Trained 25 x Translation Studies MSc students how to translate Wikipedia articles as part of their semester-long assignment.
Trained 22 x Reproductive Biology Honours students how to create new Wikipedia articles on reproductive biomedicine topics.
Results of the Reproductive Biomedicine assignment: 4 articles created (students worked in groups), 15 articles edited, 318 total edits, 14,100 words added.
Translation Studies MSC drop in clinics delivered in Computing Labs at 50 George Square on 15 October, 22 October, 29 October, 12 November.
Psychology in Action MSc assignment – meeting with Eve Murzyn, course organiser, on 12 October agreed first iteration to go ahead in February 2019.
Digital Education MSc assignment – meeting with Dr Philippa Sheail, course organiser, on 16 October agreed first iteration to go ahead in February 2019.
Arranged meeting to discuss Wikipedia editing's potential inclusion on the Edinburgh Award on 27 November 2018.
Discussed with Karen Gregory, Course organiser on the Digital Sociology MSc, about a Wikipedia workshop in Spring 2019.
Submitted two proposals for workshops for the Festival of Creative Learning in February on Histropedia and a Women in Medicine: Edinburgh Seven improve-a-thon.

Activities delivered in the past month with stats:

Event Name	Date	Location	Attendees	New Users	Gender breakdown
Reproductive Biology Honours workshop 1 - Digital Skills training run by Ewan McAndrew at the University of Edinburgh List of usernames recorded	19 September 2018 9:30am-12:30pm	University of Edinburgh, Teaching Studio LG.07, David Hume Tower, George Square, Edinburgh.	22	22	90.9% female
Translation Studies MSc workshop 1 - Digital Skills training run by Ewan McAndrew at the University of Edinburgh List of usernames recorded	21 September 2018 1pm-3pm	University of Edinburgh, Computing Lab 1.02, 50 George Square, Edinburgh.	25	25	80% female
Reproductive Biology Honours workshop 2 - Digital Skills training run by Ewan McAndrew at the University of Edinburgh List of usernames recorded]]	26 September 2018 9:30am-12:30pm	University of Edinburgh, Teaching Studio LG.07, David Hume Tower, George Square, Edinburgh.	22	22	90.9% female
Translation Studies MSc workshop 2 - Digital Skills training run by Ewan McAndrew at the University of Edinburgh List of usernames recorded	1 October 2018 1pm-3pm	University of Edinburgh, Computing Lab 1.02, 50 George Square, Edinburgh.	25	25	80% female
Wikidata and Histropedia - Workshop run by Ewan McAndrew at the University of Edinburgh library List of usernames recorded: User:Sheraz A Khan User:Doctor Reddy User:Hazel Huang User:Xiaoqing.aug User:Profbully	4 October 2018, 4.30-6pm	Edinburgh University Library, Room 1.08, 30 George Square, Edinburgh.	5	5	40% female
WikiProject Law workshop - Digital Skills training run by Ewan McAndrew at the University of Edinburgh List of usernames recorded: User:Lewis MacQueen User:RachaelHoose User:AndrewBuchan98 User:Sim3411 User:Algrace	18 October 2018 12:30pm-2pm	University of Edinburgh, Computing Lab 1.02, 50 George Square, Edinburgh.	5	5	60% female
Global Health MSc workshop 1 - Digital Skills training run by Ewan McAndrew at the University of Edinburgh List of usernames recorded	26 October 2018 10am-11am	University of Edinburgh, Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre, Old Medical School, The University of Edinburgh, Central Campus, Teviot Place, Edinburgh.	23	23	69.5% female
Data Science for Design MSc workshop 1 - Digital Skills training run by Ewan McAndrew at the University of Edinburgh List of usernames recorded User:LiwenXu User:Kannpai User:Xiaohan0102	26 October 2018 12pm-2pm	University of Edinburgh,Ground floor meeting room, Argyle House,3 Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh.	3	3	66.6% female
Global Health MSc workshop 2 - Digital Skills training run by Ewan McAndrew at the University of Edinburgh List of usernames recorded	30 October 2018 10am-11am	University of Edinburgh, Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre, Old Medical School, The University of Edinburgh, Central Campus, Teviot Place, Edinburgh.	27	26	80.7% female

Projects/events in development

Working with Vicki Madden to organise a Mental Health Awareness event during Wellbeing Week (12-16 November 2018) at the University of Edinburgh. Also going to host Edinburgh Gothic 2018 on Robert Louis Stevenson Day - 13 November 2018.
Continuing to liaise with Hannah Evans 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 on the Translation Studies MSc course has been confirmed to go ahead in January to April 2019.
Psychology in Action MSc assignment – meeting with Eve Murzyn, course organiser, agreed first iteration to go ahead in February 2019.
Digital education MSc assignment – meeting with Dr. Philippa Sheail, course organiser, agreed first iteration to go ahead in February 2019.
The import of thesis collection data to Wikidata from the Edinburgh Research Archive is to go ahead now Library Developer Mike Bennett's contract is continuing. Completed necessary preparatory work; just awaiting Mike testing the tool on Wikidata's test site 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. Being worked on by Data Science for Design MSc students again this year.
Liaising with Anne-Marie Scott, Stewart Cromar, Kirsty MacNab, Jacky MacBeath, Rachel Hosker and Navino Evans about a Vote 100 Wikipedia editathon on Friday 30 November to support a Library and University Collections exhibition.
Confirmed with the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Digital Scholarship programme to run two workshops this semester: one on Wikipedia and one on Wikidata.
Confirmed with Simon Cobb at Leeds Library and Hannah Evans at Wikimedia UK about a 'Wikidata and OpenRefine workshop' to be held at the university on 16-17 November 2018.

Upcoming events in 2018

November 13 - Robert Louis Stevenson Day 2018.
November 14 - Mental Health Awareness Day for Wellbeing Week 2018.
November 22 - Teaching with Wikipedia workshop.
November 23 - Dealing with Data - 1 day conference at the University of Edinburgh on Open Science and Open Scholarship
November 29 - Vote 100 exhibition launch event.
November 30 - Vote 100 Wikipedia editathon at the University of Edinburgh's Digital Scholarship Centre
December 4 - Wikisource workshop.
December 6 - Wikipedia Women in Red workshop.
December 7 - Meeting with Nick Sheppard, Leeds University Library.
December 7 - Wikidata workshop on the Digital Scholarship programme.
December 10 - Train the Trainer workshop.
December 12 – Edinburgh Futures: data, data all around (Informatics)
January 25 – Workshop for Translation Studies MSc
February – First iteration of Psychology in Action MSc assignment – Citizen Science.
February – First iteration of Digital Education MSc assignment.
February - Histropedia workshop for Festival of Creative Learning.

Media

New blogposts this month

Wikimedian in Residence blog

Videos

Click to see the number of pageviews on Wikipedia for September 2018 for the MOOC snippets on Wikimedia Commons.
Click to see the number of pageviews on Wikipedia for October 2018 for the MOOC snippets on Wikimedia Commons.
The following table shows number of plays of OER Media snippets shared to Commons from 12 October to 11 November 2018.

OER MOOC snippet	Date added	Plays this month	Total number of plays	Total pageviews on Commons
Scottish country dancing (Source).webm	6 March 2018	405	4,203	133
Men kicking footballs.webm	7 March 2018	443	5,862	122
Pedestrians in Buchanan Street, Glasgow.webm	7 March 2018	190	1,902	97
George_Square_and_the_Old_College_at_sunrise.webm	7 March 2018	78	850	35
Piles of paperback novels (Source).webm	6 March 2018	85	2,216	60
Flags at the entrance to the Scottish Parliament (Source).webm	6 March 2018	60	876	55
George Square and Appleton Tower - Edinburgh.webm	28 November 2017	62	5,539	1,077
Clip of Timelapse of clouds over Arthur's Seat (Source).webm	6 March 2018	52	1,182	62
The National Monument on Calton Hill (Source).webm	6 March 2018	57	647	34
Men and women on exercise bikes (Source).webm	6 March 2018	27	424	53
Fields by the Pentland Hills.webm	7 March 2018	9	299	41
Clip of Sparkling light effects (Source).webm	6 March 2018	35	370	32
Students in the Meadows, Edinburgh.webm	7 March 2018	16	304	33
Daffodils in George Square (Source).webm	6 March 2018	21	249	35
The Royal Mile, Edinburgh	31 July 2018	105	500	25
Waverley Bridge, Edinburgh.	31 July 2018	8	42	20
Seal at Newburgh beach, Aberdeenshire.	31 July 2018	9	50	25

Wikimedian in Residence - University of Edinburgh Media Hopper channel

The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Media Hopper now has 248 videos. 38 views this month with 27 plays.

Number of videos	Views this month	Percentage increase	Number of plays this month	Percentage increase
248	38	+100%	27	0%

The most played videos were:

Position	Video	Plays this month	Total plays
1	Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor:Part 2.3 Adding an image	9 plays	27 plays
2	Wikipedia editing in under 25 mins	5 plays.	94 plays
3	Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 2.4 Adding categories	2 plays	12 plays
4	OpenRefine demo: a tool to clean up and enrich datasets - Arthur P Smith at WikidataCon 2017	1 play	21 plays
5	Wikipedia and Libraries - Interview with Digital Curator, Gavin Willshaw.	1 play	29 plays

Wikimedian in Residence - Youtube channel

The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Youtube which has now received over 46,155 views in total of its 68 videos with 208 subscribers (2,394 more views and 10,581 minutes watched approx. since last month with 9 more subscribers, 26 'likes', and 16 'shares' since last month). These videos have been viewed in 168 countries around the world over the course of the channel's lifetime. 170,176 minutes have now been watched since the channel started.