User:Melissa Highton

I am Assistant Principal and Director of IT at University of Edinburgh. I research and write about open educational resources, online education and digital leadership in higher education.

http://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/melissa

Work with wikipedia
I edit wikipedia pages on topics which interest me. Sometimes I learn about women who do not have wikipedia pages but are notable enough to have one, so I write them. I've been editing since about 2013. I encourage students and colleagues at University of Edinburgh to edit Wikipedia, often as part of organized editathons around academic and social justice themes. University of Edinburgh hosts a Wikimedian in Residence and the resident works in my team as part of the Directorate of Learning, Teaching and Web Services. We have a particular focus on digital skills for staff and students, open knowledge activism and embedding wikipedia activities in the curriculum.

I don't see very well and on a magnified screen I often miss spaces and punctuation. I am grateful to bots and humans for their assistance.


 * University of Edinburgh
 * University of Edinburgh

Category:Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Category:Alumni of the University of Manchester Category:University of Edinburgh Category:University of Edinburgh

Frederick Douglass Mural Photo
In June 2021 a picture I shared on Wikimedia was discovered by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and given as a gift to US President Joe Biden, which just goes to show that serendipitous things happen when you share openly. This incident gained a wee bit of media coverage and debates continue as to whether all the artists rights have been released satisfactorily for hosting on Wikipedia. I am in contact with the mural artist, who is generally pleased with the coverage his artwork has gained and the image has been shared worldwide in the media. You can read the story here: https://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/melissa/2021/06/10/joe-biden/

If you would like a higher resolution version of the image ( which is what I gave to Downing Street) please just ask.