Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/71st and 72nd month report

Institution	Resident's Name	Period Covered	Date of Report	List of reports to date
University of Edinburgh	Ewan McAndrew	1 November 2021 - 31 December 2021 (Seventy-first and Seventy-second month of the residency)	6 January 2022	Click here to view all reports.

The resident was on annual leave from 13 December 2021

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	292	1,564	565	618	121	1,076	5,312

Projects delivered

Strategic Aim 1 - Knowledge Equity

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

Student Experience Grant

Submitted application for up to £5000 from University of Edinburgh Student Experience Grants fund on 11 November 2021 in collaboratin with 3 student partners who will work for 12 weeks in 2022 to research and improve coverage of LGBT History, Gender History and Black History from February to May 2022. This has been approved as of 7 January 2022.

Access to Industry Wikipedia event at St. Cecilia’s Hall

E. McAndrew facilitated a Wikipedia training and editing event for the ‘Access to Industry’ charity which works across Scotland with unemployed people who face barriers to employment. The project took place at St. Cecilia’s Hall museum over two weeks’ on 25 November and 2 December 2021 and was co-ordinated with Laura Beattie, Community Outreach Officer at University of Edinburgh Museums, and Magda Gucman, Access to Industry.

7 articles were edited at the Access to Industry training event held at St. Cecilia's Hall Museum on 25 November and 2 December 2021 to support unemployed people who face barriers to employment.
- 8 edits in total.
- 11 editors trained (6 completed edits in the 2nd workshop)
- 59 words added.
- 7 images uploaded.

Women in Red workshops

Two new Women in Red workshops were held in November and December 2021.

21 new articles were created at the 26 November event inc. Olive Smith (1880–1916) who was a masseuse and physical training instructor in the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service (SWH) in Serbia in World War I. She died of malaria, within two months of volunteering with Dr Agnes Bennett's SWH unit at Ostrovo, and is buried at the Allies cemetery in Thessaloniki. She is memorialised in her home town Haltwhistle and at the teacher training college she worked at, in Glasgow. Also Nora Milnes (1882-1972) who was a British economist, social worker, educator and author. Born in London, she spent her working life in London and Edinburgh, where she played a prominent role in the development of social work as a professional activity worthy of a place in higher education.
- 84 more articles were edited.
- 499 edits in total.
- 9 editors.
- 17.3K words added.
- 212 references added.
14 new articles were created at the 17 December event inc. Jean Aitken Bell (1882 – 1957) who was a Scottish nurse who served with Dr. Elsie Inglis's Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service in Serbia. She was among those who were given medals by both Britain and Serbia for war services, including enduring the dangerous winter mountain Serbian retreat, taking their injured patients over the mountains in winter to safety; she served July to December 1915. Also Elspeth Green (née Henderson; 1913–2006) who was an NCO and officer in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF). She was a plotter during the Battle of Britain, serving at Biggin Hill where she won the Military Medal for her bravery during repeated air raids.

After the war, she worked for the British Council and the first Edinburgh International Festival.

- 63 more articles were edited.
- 252 edits in total.
- 4 editors.
- 7.85K words added.
- 90 references added.

Activities delivered with stats:

Events

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 November 2021	University of Edinburgh, online webinar.	9	4	Ewan McAndrew	77.7% female
Access to Industry Wikipedia editing event at St. Cecilia's Hall Museum- adding images of musical instruments to Wikipedia	25 November and 2 December 2021	St Cecilia's Hall, in-person training workshop	11	11	Ewan McAndrew	66.6% female
Women in Red editathon Monthly Women in Red editathon - creating new biography articles of notable women on Wikipedia List of usernames recorded	17 December 2021	University of Edinburgh, online webinar.	4	0	Ewan McAndrew	50% female

Partnership interactions

Activity /Purpose of Meeting	Date and duration	Institute	Location	Names of Attendees	Links, if any, to Meeting/Presentation/ Conference Talk
Meeting to discuss a new project with Access to Industry charity which works across Scotland with unemployed people who face barriers to employment.	24 September 2021 1 hour	University of Edinburgh	MS Teams meeting	Laura Beattie, Community Outreach Officer University of Edinburgh Museums Magda Gucman, Access to Industry and Gavin Willshaw, Digital Engagement and Digitisation Manager, University of Edinburgh	Link to Access to Industry website

Image statistics - as of 7 January 2022

UoE Centre for Research Collections images	Total for November 2021	544,295 views
UoE Centre for Research Collections images	Total for December 2021	525,693 views
All images uploaded in collaboration between WMUK and the University of Edinburgh	Total for November 2021	1,661,137 views
All images uploaded in collaboration between WMUK and the University of Edinburgh	Total for December 2021	1,486,256 views
UoE Centre for Research Collections images	Total for 72 months of monitoring	53,444,041 views

The most viewed images for December 2021 across all Wikipedias were:

Rank	Wikipedia page	Monthly views	Link to image/video on Commons
1	Iceland	197,055 views	Gerardi Mercatoris Atlas, sive, Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura (24696368309).jpg
2	Tableau périodique des éléments on French Wikipedia	154,477 views	Periodic Table cupcakes at Ada Lovelace Day 2017
3	Rabbit	85,357 views	Set of wax models showing development of the rabbit heart, twentieth century (24226156252).jpg
4	Alexander McQueen	64,273 views	Lee Alexander McQueen Headstone Back.png and Lee Alexander McQueen Headstone.png.
5	Great Barrington Declaration	61,674 views	Professor Devi Sridhar, University of Edinburgh
6	Escherichia coli	54,901 views	E.coli image.
7	Iceland on German Wikipedia	54,552 views	Gerardi Mercatoris Atlas, sive, Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura (24696368309).jpg
8	Stan Laurel	52,820 views	Stan Laurel plaque at Britannia Music_Hall, Glasgow
9	Odessa	52,554 views	Odessa during first days of Revolution - 1916.
10	Robert Louis Stevenson	51,936 views	Robert Louis Stevenson mit sieben Jahren

Strategic Aim 2 - Digital Literacy

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

Wikimedia in the Curriculum - current work

Confirmed with Philippa Sheail and Michael Gallagher that a Wikipedia component will take place on the Digital Education MSc on 15 February 2022 and discussed what it will include.
Three to four new case studies to be added to the Wikimedia in Education - Booklet of Case Studies. Will start writing these in late November/December with a view to having a new digital edition to be relaunched in 2022.
The Translation Studies MSc Wikipedia assignment for Semester One will conclude on 14 January 2022 with 36-40 out of the cohort undertaking it as an elective. Link to student's chosen articles this semester. The Semester Two assignment will commence on 9 February 2022.
Confirmed with Dr. Glaire Anderson on the History of Art course programme that she wishes to repeat the assignment looking at evaluating, improving and illustrating articles related to Islamic Art in semester two. This will commence on 17 January 2022 and conclude on 14 February 2022. Guest speaker, Dr. Martin Poulter will join us on 31 January 2022.

Podcast on Wikimedia in education - episodes now published

First episode is now live for a podcast series recorded on the 24th of May 2021 for the University's influential Teaching Matters blog is being edited by a student intern , Eric Berger. Topics discussed included: Wikipedia and History (1hr); Wikipedia and academia in the new normal(1hr); Wikipedia in 321 languages(1hr); Wikipedia, Medicine and Science Communication(30 mins); Wikipedia and the Gender Gap(30 mins). Professor Diana Paton, Translation Studies students, History Society students, Jason Evans, Lorna Campbell, Lucy Crompton-Reid, Prof Norah Spears, and Prof Linda Bauld all contributed.

Conferences

Astract approved for the LILAC Information Literacy conference 11-13 April 2022 about our new 'Edinburgh Award - Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia'.

Research data in Wikidata

Met with historian of medicine at University of Edinburgh, Lukas Engelmann, on 19 November 2022 to discuss his ERC grant project to document the history of 20th century epidemiology using open data in Wikidata and Wikibase. Following this discussion, E. McAndrew connected Lukas Engelmann with experienced Wikidatan, Daniel Mietchen, to discuss their mutual areas of interest and collaborating on this project.

Wikipedia Editing - a new Edinburgh Award underway

The first iteration of the Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia - a new Edinburgh Award to accredit students for extended project work on Wikipedia commenced on 9 December 2021 and will conclude on 6 April 2022. This would allow the 13 students who have submitted their 400 word action plans to develop important information literacy, digital research, communication and collaborative skills ahead of the world of work and accredit them for undertaking 55 hours (or more) of Wikipedia work over an extended period. The first iteration has been negotiated in collaboration with Kirsty Stewart and Gavin McCabe at the University of Edinburgh Career Service and in collaboration with our Wikimedia student interns, Erin Boyle and Clea Strathmann. The recording of Input Session 1 is available here.

Activities with stats:

Events

Activity /Purpose of Meeting	Date and duration	Institute	Location	Names of Attendees	Links, if any, to Meeting/Presentation/ Conference Talk
Translation Studies MSc drop-in workshop 1 (beginning translation)	3 November 2021 (2 hours)	University of Edinburgh	50 George Square, Room G.02	Ewan McAndrew (Wikimedian) 36-40 Masters students	Link to student assignment page
Wikidata digital skills workshop	10 November 2021 (1 hour)	University of Edinburgh	Online Zoom meeting	Ewan McAndrew (Wikimedian) and 6 attendees (4 students, 2 staff)	Workshop resource used.
Translation Studies MSc drop-in workshop 2 (continuing translation)	17 November 2021 (2 hours)	University of Edinburgh	50 George Square, Room G.02	Ewan McAndrew (Wikimedian) 36-40 Masters students	Link to student assignment page
Edinburgh Award - Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia introductory workshop	24 November 2021 (1.5 hours)	University of Edinburgh Library	30 George Square, Room 1.08	Ewan McAndrew (Wikimedian) 4 students	Link to the award description.
Edinburgh Award - Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia introductory workshop	29 November 2021 (2 hours)	University of Edinburgh Library	30 George Square, Room 1.08	Ewan McAndrew (Wikimedian) 2 students	Link to the award description.
Edinburgh Award - Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia introductory workshop	29 November 2021 (2 hours)	University of Edinburgh Library	50 George Square, Room G.01	Ewan McAndrew (Wikimedian) 3 students	Link to the award description.
Edinburgh Award - Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia Input Session 1	9 December 2021 (2 hours)	University of Edinburgh Library	Online Zoom Meeting	Ewan McAndrew (Wikimedian) 23 students	Link to the recording of the session

Partnership interactions

Activity /Purpose of Meeting	Date and duration	Institute	Location	Names of Attendees	Links, if any, to Meeting/Presentation/ Conference Talk
Meeting with Lukas Engelmann, Historian of Medicine	19 November 2021	University of Edinburgh	MS Teams Meeting	1 hour chat with Lukas Engelmann and Dr. Sara Thomas, Wikimedia UK, joined us halfway in the meeting to discuss how best to support his project to document the history of 20th century epidemiology in Wikidata and Wikibase	n/a
Meeting with Dr. Glaire Anderson, Historian of Art lecturer at University of Edinburgh	10 December 2021	University of Edinburgh	MS Teams Meeting	1 hour chat with UoE lecturer Dr Glaire Anderson and Dr. Martin Poulter, Wikimedia UK and the Khalilli Collections, to discuss a Wikimedia in the Curriculum assignment for 17 January 2022 to 14 February 2022 where her students will evaluate and improve Wikipedia articles related to Islamic Art and have a guest speaker on 31 Janaury 2022 from Dr. Martin Poulter	Link to her article about the first iteration of the assignment in 2021.

Strategic Aim 3 - Advocacy

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

The Wikidata map of Accused Witches of Scotland was featured in the Scotland is Now Twitter and Instagram feeds. The Twitter account has 47,100 followers. Scotland Is Now is part of the Scottish Government’s marketing team helping to promote Scotland internationally.

Activities delivered with stats:

Events

Activity /Purpose of Meeting	Date and duration	Institute	Location	Names of Attendees	Links, if any, to Meeting/Presentation/ Conference Talk
'The Wikimedia Residency - advent calendar podcast recording	12 November 2021 (30 minutes)	University of Edinburgh	Online podcast recording platform	Claire Simpson, University of Edinburgh Alumni Office	Link to podcast recording

Partnership interactions

Activity /Purpose of Meeting	Date and duration	Institute	Location	Names of Attendees	Links, if any, to Meeting/Presentation/ Conference Talk
Meeting with Timothy Rees-Jones, The Royal Society	4 November 2021	University of Edinburgh	MS Teams Meeting	Discussion with Timothy Rees-Jones at the Royal Society about how digital technologies changing the way people interact with information, what technologies there are that can fabricate and detect misinformation, and what role technology has to play in creating a better information environment? The Royal Society has launched a project on digital technologies and information to investigate these questions. Dr. Richard Nevell of Wikimedia UK Dominic Tate, Head of Library Research Support at University of Edinburgh Library Kerry Miller, University of Edinburgh Research Data Support Officer	Link to Royal Society project
Meeting with Dr. Sara Thomas, Wikimedia UK	19 November 2021 (1 hour)	University of Edinburgh	MS Teams Meeting	Discussion with Dr. Sara Thomas about updating the Booklet of Case Studies of Wikimedia in UK education for a 2022 digital relaunch	Link to current case studies booklet

Projects/events in development

Next phase of the Mapping the Scottish Reformation Wikidata project with Dr. Chris Langley (Newman University, Birmingham) and Professor Mikki Brock (Washington and Lee University, USA) - to be confirmed.
Wikipedia component on 'Knowledge Equity' to be delivered on Digital Education MSc in February 2022.
Translation Studies MSc Wikipedia assignment to be completed by January 14th 2022 and new project to begin in Semester Two on 9th February 2022. with 36-40 Masters students taking it as an elective this semester.
First iteration of a new Edinburgh Award for Wikipedia Editing to conclude on 6 April 2022 with 13 students undertaking it.
Updating the Booklet of Case Studies of Wikimedia in UK Education to relaunch a new digital edition.
History of Art assignment to go ahead as of 17 January 2022 until 14 February 2022 - 2nd iteration with Dr. Glaire Anderson's students evaluating, improving and illustrating articles about Islamic Art. With guest speaker, Dr. Martin Poulter (WMUK, Khalilli Collections).
Student Experience Grant awarded for three students to research and improve content on Wikipedia related to Gender History, LGBT History and Black History for 12 weeks from February to May 2022.
Summer Internships to be submitted for approval with a view to hiring two Wikimedia interns to support improving the Map of Accused Witches website.
Been invited to participate in the Witches of Scotland podcast.

Upcoming events in 2022

January 12 - Edinburgh Award workshop - Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia
January 14 - Translation Studies MSc - deadline for publishing new translations on Wikipedia.
January 17 - History of Art assignment with Dr. Glaire Anderson.
January 24 - Wikipedia training for History of Art students.
January 26 - Edinburgh Award Input Session 2 - Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia
January 28 - Wikipedia Women in Red monthly workshop
January 31 - Guest speaker - Dr. Martin Poulter (WMUK, Khalilli Collections) on History of Art course.
February - Student Experience Grant recipients begin project work to improve articles relating to Gender History, LGBT History and Black History (dates tbc.)
February 4 - Wikimedians in Residence and Wikimedia UK meeting (online).
February 7 - History of Art students improving Islamic art articles on Wikipedia.
February 9 - Translation Studies MSc - review of semester 1 Wikipedia project work and start of Semester 2 assignment.
February 14 - History of Art students publishing their edits on Islamic art articles on Wikipedia.
February 15 - Wikipedia and Knowledge Equity - workshop for Digital Education MSc
February 25 - Wikipedia Women in Red monthly workshop
March 2 - Translation Studies MSc - Wikipedia workshop
March 9 - Introduction to Wikidata workshop
March 16 - Teaching with Wikipedia workshop
March 16 - Translation Studies MSc - Wikipedia workshop
March 23 - Wikisource workshop
March 30 - Edinburgh Award Input Session 3 - Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia
March 30 - Translation Studies MSc - Wikipedia workshop
April 11-13 - Talk about the Edinburgh Award for Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia to be delivered at LILAC Information Literacy Conference 2022
May - Student Experience Grant recipients complete their project work related to improving articles relating to Gender History, LGBT History and Black History (dates tbc.).
June - Wikimedia Summer internships (tbc.) to improve the Map of Accused Witches website over 12 weeks this Summer.

Media

New blogposts, articles, reports

Teaching Matters Podcast: Wikimedia and Academia

New videos and podcasts

A podcast series recorded in May 2021 is currently being edited by Eric Berger for the University of Edinburgh's Teaching Matters blog. First episode has now been published as of December 2021. Four more to follow.
Link to podcast recording about the Wikimedia residency for the Alumni Office's digital advent calendar. 177 views to date.
Recording of the opening session of the new Edinburgh Award for "Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia" - recorded 9th December 2021.

Wikimedian in Residence - University of Edinburgh Media Hopper channel

The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Media Hopper now has 386 videos. 412 plays since 1 November 2021.

1 November 2021 to 31 December 2021

Number of videos	Impressions	Minutes viewed	Number of plays since 1 November 2021
386	2,162	2,242	412

The most played videos were:

Position	Video	Plays	Total plays
1	Moving a drafted article into Wikipedia's live space.	45 plays	1,655 plays
2	OpenRefine Beginners Tutorial	34 plays	522 plays
3	Wikipedia at the University of Edinburgh	8 plays	41 plays
4	Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor:Part 2.3 Adding an image.	16 plays	505 plays
5	Word Count tool - counting the prose text in a Wikipedia article	23 plays	521 plays

Wikimedian in Residence - YouTube channel

The Wikimedian in Residence channel on YouTube which has now received over 252,206 views in total of its 118 videos with 970 subscribers. These videos have been viewed in 168 countries around the world over the course of the channel's lifetime.