Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/84th month report
Institution | Resident's Name | Period Covered | Date of Report | List of reports to date |
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University of Edinburgh | Ewan McAndrew | 1 November 2022 - 31 December 2022 (Eighty-third and eighty-fourth month of the residency) | 20 January 2023 | Click here to view all reports. |
The resident was off much of November and December 2022 on annual leave
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 |
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University of Edinburgh | Ewan McAndrew | 326 | 1,873 | 606 | 684 | 139 | 1,457 | 10,803 |
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]The Wikidata Map of Accused Witches project - new intern to be recruited to quality assure the data
[edit]- The resident met with his line manager, Karen Howie, this month to identify areas of improvement to be made the Wikidata Map of Accused Witches in Scotland following a flurry of activity from our student interns earlier this Summer. Ten areas have been targeted for improvement with the custom timeline interface and site title identified as the most pressing. The developer, Richard Lawson, has been asked to make improvements in line with our suggestions but we are considering recruiting a student intern to work part-time (January to end of May 0.2FTE) to support us in terms of quality assuring the data and making sure the data and visualisations are consistent and working as expected. Interviews are to take place 30th January 2023 once the 45 applicants are shortlisted.
Women in Red workshops
[edit]One new Women in Red workshop was held on Thursday 15th December 2022 - our 68th monthly workshop at the university came with tea, coffee and mince pies!
- 5 new articles were created at the 15 December 2022 event inc. a new article on Jane Hannay 1868 – 4 April 1938) who was a women's welfare, employment activist and teacher from New Abbey, Dumfries. Also created was Mary Caroline Hughes (née Weston; 4 July 1862 – 9 July 1916), an English geologist, artist and photographer. She acted as a chaperone to Cambridge University undergraduate female students enabling them to go on geology field trips for the first time. She also accompanied her husband Thomas McKenny Hughes to several International Geological Congress meetings.
- 100 articles were edited inc. Wikidata items.
- 499 edits in total.
- 6 editors inc. 1 PhD student editor on the Edinburgh Award for Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia this year.
- 123K words added.
- 813 references added.
Activities delivered with stats:
[edit]Events
[edit]Event Name | Date and duration | Location | Attendees | New editors | Trainers | Gender breakdown |
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Women in Red editathon Monthly Women in Red editathon - creating new biography articles of notable women on Wikipedia List of usernames recorded |
15 December 2022 | University of Edinburgh, hybrid workshop. | 6 | 3 | Ewan McAndrew | 66.66 % female |
Partnership interactions
[edit]Image statistics - as of 20 January 2023
[edit]December 2022 statistics do not seem available at this time of writing
- 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 November 2022 | 985,231 views |
All images uploaded in collaboration between WMUK and the University of Edinburgh | Total for November 2022 | 1,956,589 views |
UoE Centre for Research Collections images | Total for 83 months of monitoring | 60,648,807 page views |
The most viewed images for November 2022 across all Wikipedias were:
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. NB: Will be returning to this in January 2023.
- The Translation Studies MSc Wikipedia assignment for Semester One began on 12 October 2022 with 63 students in the cohort this year. The students have all chose their articles as of 7 November 2022 and been taught best practice about how to translate their article. The assignment will conclude 13 January 2023 following peer reviewing translations by 6th January 2023.
- The Global Health Challenges Pg Online 1,500 word assignment began its 4th iteration on Monday 10th October 2022. 21,000 words have been added to Wikipedia stub articles about natural and manmade disasters so far. 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. This assignment concluded in November 2022 with the resident providing feedback on each group's efforts using a rubric.
- 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 2022 on the Design Informatics MA/MFA went 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 pitched two data proposals: Witchcraft data and Wiki Loves Monuments data. Two groups decided to work with Wiki Loves Monuments data and images over the 7 week assignment. Link to slides. The students used data from Wikidata and information from Wikipedia and Wiki Loves Monuments images on Wikimedia Commons to design an educational website and booklet about Gothic Revival architecture in the United Kingdom. Link to the student-created website on Gothic revival architecture in the UK.
Conferences
[edit]- The resident presented a 1hr session on Open Science and the University of Edinburgh during Open Access week on 27 October 2022. This event was hosted by Rute Correia, Wikimedian in Residence at NOVA FCSH, a social and human sciences faculty at the University of Lisbon. This is a partnership with Wikimedia Portugal. The presentation was recorded and shared to Wikimedia Portugal's YouTube channel.
- The resident will be attending the 2023 Classical Association conference at the University of Cambridge on 21-23 April 2023 to take part in an international roundtable on Teaching with Wikipedia.
- The resident has been submitted as co-author/presenter with Lorna Campbell, OER Service, on a University of Edinburgh abstract on Open Education in the Curriculum to the Open Education Resources Conference (OER23),taking place in Inverness on 4-6 April 2023.
- The resident has submitted an abstract to speak at the Digital Universities UK conference at the University of Leeds on 17-20 April 2023.
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 began with a new cohort on 19th October 2022. 44 students registered initially with 22 submitting their 400 word action plans by the Award's first deadline - Friday 28th October 2022. Their project pages are now added to our main page for the Edinburgh Award with the Input 2 session attended by 19 students on 7th December 2022. The students have until 6 January (midnight) to submit their 400 word reflections on their 3 chosen skills and impact achieved so far along with their fortnightly log of activities undertaken. The students published edits thus far can be found here.
Activities with stats:
[edit]Events
[edit]Activity /Purpose of Meeting | Date and duration | Institute | Location | Names of Attendees | Links, if any, to Meeting/Presentation/ Conference Talk |
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Translation Studies MSc Wikipedia training & comprehension check workshop | 2 November 2022 (2 hours) | 40 George Square | In person workshop | Ewan McAndrew (Wikimedian) 61 Masters student editors |
Link to the dashboard page. |
Edinburgh Award - Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia Wikipedia training workshop | 2 November 2022 (2 hours) | 40 George Square | Hybrid workshop | Ewan McAndrew (Wikimedian) 22 students in-person and 1 remote attendee |
Link to Zoom recording. |
Translation Studies MSc - beginning translation (drop-in workshop) | 8 November 2022 (2 hours) | Main Library, 30 George Square | In person workshop | Ewan McAndrew (Wikimedian) 20 Masters student editors |
Link to the dashboard page. |
Translation Studies MSc - beginning translation (drop-in workshop) | 15 November 2022 (2 hours) | Main Library, 30 George Square | In person workshop | Ewan McAndrew (Wikimedian) 20 Masters student editors |
Link to the dashboard page. |
Introduction to Wikidata digital skills session | 16 December 2022 (1 hour) | University of Edinburgh Main library | Online workshop via Zoom | Ewan McAndrew (Wikimedian) 4 staff attendees |
n/a |
Edinburgh Award - Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia drop-in group research session | 16 December 2022 (2 hours) | University of Edinburgh Main library | Hybrid workshop | Ewan McAndrew (Wikimedian) 4-6 students in-person |
n/a |
Design Informatics MA/MFA - mentoring discussion on project to visualise Wiki Loves Monuments images and data | 16 December 2022 (1 hours) | University of Edinburgh Bayes Centre | In person discussion workshop | Ewan McAndrew (Wikimedian) 4-6 students in-person |
n/a |
Edinburgh Award - Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia drop-in group research session | 23 November 2022 (2 hours) | University of Edinburgh Main library | In person workshop | Ewan McAndrew (Wikimedian) 3 students in-person |
n/a |
Edinburgh Award - Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia Input 2 workshop | 7 December 2022 (2 hours) | University of Edinburgh Main library | Hybrid workshop | Ewan McAndrew (Wikimedian) 19 students in-person and 4 remote attendees |
Link to Zoom recording. |
Partnership interactions
[edit]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]- Presented on Open Science at the University of Edinburgh for Wikimedia Portugal on 27 October 2022 and collaborated with colleagues in our Scholarship Communications Team, our OER Service and the grassroots Edinburgh Open Research Initiative (EORI) to research the gamut of open research and open science work taking place at the University of Edinburgh.
- Discussed with my line manager, Karen Howie, about submitting conference abstracts to LILAC, OER23 and the Times Higher Education's Digital Universities conferences.
- Invited by Lianna Davis of the Wikipedia and Education User Group to deliver a presentation on Teaching Wikidata at the University of Edinburgh on November 3rd.
- Was awarded Support Specialist of the Year for 2022 by Open Education Global on 20th October 2022. More details here.
- Took part in a podcast interview by Marcela Morales and Alan Levine for Open Education Global on 5 December 2022 - to be published in due course.
- Teaching Matters – Wikipedia podcasts: Jenny Scoles at the University's influential Teaching Matters blog showcased that 2 of the most downloaded podcasts of 2022 for the Teaching Matters blog were from our Wikimedia series: Wikimedia in Academia was #1 and “Where are the Women?” (featuring Prof. Linda Bauld) was #3. Link to article.
- Co-writing an article for the Edutec Journal with Lorna Campbell and Dr. Melissa Highton in January 2023 on Open Education in the Curriculum.
- Awarded ISG in the Community award by the University of Edinburgh's Staff recognition Awards on 23rd November 2022 for our work on the Edinburgh Award.
- Wikimedia Australia - E. McAndrew presented on the work of the Wikimedia residency in teaching and learning to the Wikimedia Australia monthly Zoom call on 14 December. Link to video.
Activities delivered with stats:
[edit]Events
[edit]Activity /Purpose of Meeting | Date and duration | Institute | Location | Names of Attendees | Links, if any, to Meeting/Presentation/ Conference Talk |
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Teaching with Wikidata - 0.5 hour presentation | 3 November 2022 (0.5 hour) | EduWiki User Group | Online Zoom workshop | Ewan McAndrew (Wikimedian) 20+ attendees |
The session I believe is recorded. |
Wikimedia UK and Wikimedians in Residence meeting - 1.5 hour catchup session | 1 December 2022 (1.5 hours) | Wikimedia UK | Online Zoom workshop | Ewan McAndrew (Wikimedian) 10-15 attendees |
n/a |
Open Education Global - 1 hour podcast interview | 5 December 2022 (1 hours) | Open Education Global | Zoom | Ewan McAndrew (Wikimedian) Alan Levine (OEG) and Marcela Morales (OEG) |
Recording to follow |
Wikimedia residency at the University of Edinburgh - 30 min presentation | 14 December 2022 (1 hours) | Wikimedia Australia community meetup | Zoom | Ewan McAndrew (Wikimedian) 15-20 Wikimedia Australia attendees |
Link to video recording |
Partnership interactions
[edit]- E.McAndrew has been supporting Communications Officer, Joanna Clarke, at the University's Bayes Centre to write a Wikipedia article.
- Caroline Austin at Newcastle University also enquired about information about the Wikipedia Women in Red project to be presented to the Athena Forum.
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 has begun as of 12 October 2022 and will conclude on Friday 13th January 2023.
- Digital Education MSc Wikipedia component to begin 2 week block in February 2023.
- Second iteration of a new 50-80hr Edinburgh Award for Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia began on 19 October 2022 and will conclude on 31st March 2023.
- 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 December 2022.
- Student Experience Grant (SEG) - a report and blog article are to be written on the achievements and impact of the 14 week student project on improving LGBTQ+ History, Black History and Gender History to be completed by 31st January 2023.
- The Map of Accused Witches site. The site just needs developer time to implement the new data visualisations and reorientate the dropdown menus.
- New Scottish Witchhunter student internship to be recruited at end of January 2023 to work 0.2FTE from February to end of May 2023 to help quality assure the witchcraft data in Wikidata so that we can launch updates to the website later this year.
- Been invited to participate in the Witches of Scotland podcast (details tbc.) and potentially the 2023 Edinburgh Book Festival (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 has submitted abstracts to LILAC, OER23 and THE's Digital Universities UK Conference.
- E.McAndrew to investigate applying for a Royal Society of Chemistry outreach fund award when time/opportunity allows.
- E.McAndrew and L.Campbell co-authoring paper with Dr. Melissa Highton on Open Education in the Curriculum for the EdUTec journal at the invitation of Daniel Villar-Rubia at the University of Cadiz.
Upcoming events in 2023
[edit]- January 6 - Input 2 submission deadline for Edinburgh Award students.
- January 6 - Peer reviews to be completed by Translation Studies MSc students.
- January 11 - Translation Studies MSc - drop-in clinic in 30 George Square to assist with publishing new translations.
- January 13 - Publishing deadline for Translation Studies MSc students.
- January 18 - Translation Studies MSc - drop-in clinic in 30 George Square.
- January 25 - Edinburgh Award - group research session in 30 George Square.
- January 27 - Wikipedia Women in Red monthly editing workshop - hybrid event.
- January 30 - Interview date for Scottish Witchhunter internship.
- February 13 - Teaching block on Authorship and Authority begins on the Digital Education MSc.
- February 24 - Wikipedia Women in Red monthly editing workshop - hybrid event.
- March 29 - Input 3 workshop for end of Edinburgh Award.
- March 31 - Wikipedia Women in Red monthly editing workshop - hybrid event.
- March 31 - Final submission date for Edinburgh Award students.
- April 4 - Final date for notifying Edinburgh Award team of successful students.
- April 23 - 2023 Classical Association Conference at University of Cambridge - roundtable on Teaching with Wikipedia
Media
[edit]New articles
[edit]New videos and podcasts
[edit]3 new videos and 1 new podcast interview were recorded in this period including:
- Open Education Global podcast - 5 December (awaiting publishing).
- Wikimedia Australia presentation - 14 December.
- Teaching with Wikidata presentation for EduWiki User Group - 3 November. (awaiting publishing).
- Open for All: Open Science and Open Research at the University of Edinburgh - 1hr presentation for Wikimedia Portugal and the University of Lisbon.
- 2 of the Edinburgh Award workshops were recorded also.
Wikimedian in Residence - University of Edinburgh Media Hopper channel
[edit]- The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Media Hopper now has 389 videos. 371 plays since 1 November 2022.
1 November 2022 to 31 December 2022
Number of videos | Impressions | Minutes viewed | Number of plays since 1 November 2022 |
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389 | 2,356 | 1,774 | 371 |
The most played videos were:
Position | Video | Plays | Total plays |
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1 | OpenRefine beginners tutorial | 68 plays | 738 plays |
2 | An interactive laser cut map of accused witches in Scotland | 24 plays | 165 plays |
3 | Isabella Skea - writing the Wikipedia article on "The Lass o' Pairts" | 1 play | 82 plays |
4 | WikiFactMine: Textmining Open Access bioscience literature - Thomas Arrow at WikidataCon. | 1 play | 7 plays |
5 | The Find Link tool - Add Wikipedia links to pages that really ought to have a link. | 4 plays | 102 plays |
Wikimedian in Residence - YouTube channel
[edit]- The Wikimedian in Residence channel on YouTube which has now received over 364,388 views in total of its 130 videos with 1,380 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 |
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130 | 15,977 | 570.7 | +63 | 1,380 | 364,388 | 168 |
One of our additions to YouTube by student Hannah Rothmann has now been viewed over 77,616 times since it was added on 14 September 2020.
Image uploads to Wikimedia Commons
[edit]- New images contributed by Global Health Challenges Pg Online students
- New images contributed by Translation Studies MSc students
- New images contributed by Women in Red editors from 15 December
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