User:Wiki at Royal Society John



This was an alternative account for John Byrne / User:Johnbod as Wikimedian/Wikipedian in residence at the Royal Society in London, January to June 2014 (but only one day per week). See the project page at WikiProject Royal Society and this Wikimedia UK blogpost. Now the project is over the account is essentially dormant.

Please let me know your thoughts on what can be done in this exciting role on the talk page here, or by email if you prefer.

What I'm doing
- only one day a week, remember. Also, what I'm not doing - my Conflict of Interest policy.

Current and future
I've done my last training event, for Research Fellows, and am spending my last two weeks finishing off the Journal subs admin, uploading images, and writing my final report. I technically finish on July 7th, but will be doing some things after that.

Past
January - I was in the Royal Society on these days:
 * My January Report
 * January 8, Inductions (RS and WMUK), introductory meetings around RS departments
 * January 15, two presentations on Wikimedia to RS staff, library tour, planning meeting
 * January 22, two presentations on Wikimedia to RS staff
 * January 28, staff meeting, introduced to the whole staff
 * January 29, two presentations on Wikimedia to RS staff, the last for now, 3 internal meetings

February
 * My February and March Report
 * 5 Research Fellows Communication training (spoke and mingled), Picture Library meeting, drop-in session (at the end of a Tube strike day, so not well-attended)
 * 10-11 New Research Fellows Induction, short speaking slot to about 70 new Research Fellows, and to have a table at the "Opportunities Fayre".

March
 * 4 Open Event: Women in science edit-a-thon, a little early for International Womens' Day. Afternoon through to evening. A great success, see the page.
 * 10-11 Research Fellows Communications training
 * 21 Research Fellows Conference
 * 25 Diversity in Science Editathon - Public event, similar schedule to March 4th, page at Diversity in Science Edit-a-thon, Royal Society, March 25, 2014
 * 28 Royal Society for Chemistry editathon at Burlington Hse (not organized by me or RS)

April
 * No public events, Easter, and the RS offices were moving about during redecoration, so like other RS staff I worked at home much of the time. The Royal Society Journals subscription offer was pulled together, going live on May 1st, and work continued on other fronts.
 * I was in on Wednesday 2nd, for meetings including Jon Davies of WMUK, and on Tuesday 15th.
 * On May 1st I started work four days a week at Cancer Research UK.

May
 * I was in on May 7th and 13th for meetings, and also working at home, on two events for June.

June
 * Neuroscience Edit-a-thon, 7 June

Media coverage
Mainly March 4th:

On the day, there were interviews with: The Guardian, German Radio, and Motherboard, VICE's science and tech platform, resulting in: Afterwards:
 * Advance:
 * Story by Dr Nicola Davis, in The Observer 23 February
 * Story in Bustle.com
 * Wikimedia UK blogpost
 * The Economist
 * Guardian story
 * Motherboard story.
 * Guardian blog, Alice Bell, 7th March
 * Spoonful of science, blog by one of the attendees.
 * New Scientist, mention on 8 April
 * Forbes [picked up a quote] from the 23 February Observer story)


 * Later:
 * My blogpost on Wikimedia UK's blog, 20 May, repeated on the Wikimedia Foundation blog, 31 May, Highlights & Global editions
 * Film The GLAM-Wiki Revolution, including segments of interviews with me and other Wikipedians in Residence. 20 mins long, me at 7:25-9:55 and 16:05 to 16:30
 * Extracts from the film (3 mins), with transcript, as a Wikimedia UK blogpost (October 2014)

DYKs from events
Another good hook. Cheers. Victuallers (talk) 09:52, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for your help Victuallers (talk) 18:22, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

The DYK project (nominate) 00:02, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

Links and stuff

 * Measuring scientific coverage of @Wikipedia: Fellows of the Wiki Society index 2013 blogpost by Duncan Hull (and 2012). What will 2014 bring? Here's another Duncan Hill blopost on Wikipedia and science.
 * WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Thomson-Reuters most cited scientists

Stubs by Project and importance/hits

 * useful tool from wmftools

Cleanup candidates for training

 * Dennis L.A. White American actor - links etc
 * Thermodynamics relation across the normal shocks - subject knowlege needed
 * Rich mobile application - techie jargon, links
 * Climate Vulnerable Forum - formatting external links
 * Non-extensive self-consistent thermodynamical theory - subject knowlege needed
 * Beta amyloid - subject knowlege needed; needs non-technical overview
 * David A. Booth - Brummie psychologist, bit advanced
 * George Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Cromartie FRS, old DNB
 * 2010_ExxonMobil_oil_spill - English
 * Sagafilm Icelandic film co; no links, refs, rather promotional
 * Leper colony stigma - no links. refs format
 * Moyahua de Estrada - links, context
 * William Lloyd (engineer) - English, links
 * Substrate (locomotion) - jargon, clarity
 * Digitaria eriantha - African grass. Links, infobox, layout
 * La Martucha - Mexico, no links, tidy, notable?
 * Sanny van Heteren - actress, all bad,
 * Erbauliche Monaths Unterredungen clarity
 * Murali Thummarukudy - links, format, change title to correct name spelling Muralee
 * Aatqall Taúaa - Iraqi artist, terrible English
 * CISPR 22 - Electrical standard, no links, unclear. Looked at.
 * Chandeshwor Jha, Nepali MP, english, peacock
 * Risskov Kirke Danish church - links, English
 * Regional Ocean Modeling System - short, jargon-ridden. Needs expansion
 * Shirley drain - surgical mess


 * New accounts signed up in January now moved to my January report