Wikipedia:GLAM/Coventry University/Diary

From June 2019-May 2021, Andy Mabbett, User:Pigsonthewing was Wikimedian in Residence at Coventry University, based in the Disruptive Media Learning Lab (DMLL) at the university's Frederick Lanchester Library. This page gives an overview of some of the tasks undertaken.

Note: The page does not list many of the internal meetings, provisional discussions with potential collaborators, nor general wiki-gnoming.

Listed by week commencing, in reverse order:

21 September 2020

 * Completed training course: "GDPR" (required annually)

14 September 2020

 * Some disappointing news: the planned Wikimedia course module has been cancelled, due to low uptake.

7 September 2020

 * Completed training course: "Returning to Campus"

31 August 2020

 * Bank Holiday Monday
 * Completed mandatory course – 'The Coventry Way – Understanding Your Role in Supporting Teaching and Learning'
 * Sourcing and uploading images of out-of-copyright topographical artworks depicting Coventry locations

24 August 2020

 * Annual leave

17 August 2020

 * Annual leave

10 August 2020

 * Set up The Monumental Inscriptions in the Parish Church of S. Michael, Coventry transcription project on Wikisource

20 July 2020

 * Identifying Coventry University faculty in Mix'n'match catalogue 3677 (UK Research and Innovation person ID) and matching/creating, and populating, Wikidata items.
 * Work on upcoming courses

13 July 2020

 * Annual leave

6 July 2020

 * Work on upcoming courses
 * Half-day annual leave

29 June 2020

 * Annual leave

22 June 2020

 * Annual leave

15 June 2020

 * Attended EduHack event, part 2

8 June 2020

 * Delivered two staff trainings sessions in Wikipedia editing
 * Attended EduHack event

1 June 2020

 * Assisted at Edinburgh University online 'Women in Sport' editathon
 * Briefing "Curriculum 2025" team
 * Attended training session for EduHack facilitators

25 May 2020

 * Work on upcoming courses

18 May 2020

 * Work on upcoming courses

11 May 2020

 * Advising colleague on potential use of Wikivoyage, for proposed "Virtual Trip Engagement - Online Cultural Games and Workshops"
 * Work on upcoming courses

4 May 2020

 * Advising colleague on resolution of concerns with their Wikipedia biography
 * Work on upcoming courses

20 April 2020

 * Responding to Research Councils UK consultation on a new Open Access policy

13 April 2020

 * Learning to use screen-recording software
 * Obtaining OTRS ticket ref for image uploads

30 March 2020

 * Wrote funding bid for future project
 * Attended OER20 conference (online)
 * Created Wikidata items for event (d:Q89186153), and all main speakers

23 March 2020

 * Created, in order to better describe the unit's visiting fellows.
 * Work on a standard for modelling Visiting Fellow roles.

16 March 2020

 * Wikipedia editor staff training session
 * Arranging indefinite working-from-home, due to COVID-19
 * Last visit to Coventry campus for foreseeable future

9 March 2020

 * Attending two-day DigiFest conference

2 March 2020

 * Taught day-long workshop in Wikidata, to journalism undergraduates
 * Wikidata editor staff training session

24 February 2020

 * Wikimedia in Education UK summit
 * Assisted with preparations
 * Gave hands-on Wikipedia workshop
 * Ran afternoon-long unconference-style session
 * Sat on closing panel
 * Gave video interview

17 February 2020

 * Wikimedia in Education summit planning & preparation
 * Uploading various images to Wikimedia Commons

10 February 2020



 * Attended vice-chancellor's briefing
 * Photographed another memorial bench and added to OpenBenches
 * Took photographs of the plaster ceiling in the university's Ellen Terry Building (example above)
 * Founds and uploaded scans of William Henry Brooke's 'Coventry 1819' - The Album of a Visit

3 February 2020

 * Delivered training course in "Wikipedia editing" for Coventry University staff
 * Delivered Wikidata workshop for 21 students of data journalism
 * Work on adding newly-released official parliamentary photos of Coventry MPs to their pages/ items, and categorising them on Wikimedia Commons
 * Completed quarterly project report for WikimediaUK

27 January 2020

 * Attended "Wikipedia & Education User Group Open Meeting" (online)
 * Adding developments adjacent to the campus to OpenStretMap
 * Completed quarterly project report for WikimediaUK
 * More publicity for Education Summit

20 January 2020

 * #1Lib1Ref
 * Found articles on several Coventry University academics, which had not been classified as such; worked to update and improve them and the corresponding Wikidata items
 * Advised academic with concerns about their Wikipedia biography
 * Planned contributions to two post-graduate courses
 * Photographed James Starley building demolition; see c:Category:James Starley building
 * Begun photographing nearby buildings, with no available free image, according to WikishootMe
 * Negotiated with several Flickr users to release under open licence their pictures of Coventry Cathedral's The Angel with the Eternal Gospel window, which was sadly smashed during a burglary; see c:Category:Coventry Cathedral Great West Window (Screen of Saints and Angels); updated Wikipedia accordingly, and liased with editors of other language Wikipedias to do likewise

13 January 2020



 * Internal publicity for #1Lib1Ref
 * Started reading "Creative Commons for Educators and Librarians" (which is openly available under a CC by licence!)
 * Launch publicity for the Wikimedia in Education UK Summit, to be held at Coventry University on 26 February

6 January 2020

 * Trained library staff to add citations, in readiness for #1Lib1Ref
 * Met with an external partner, regarding a possible collaboration/ media donation
 * Resolved several quality/ BLP issues on a biographical article about a Coventry University academic
 * Installed and configured an instance of MediaWiki, as a test-bed for a developing project

30 December 2019
..and a Happy New Year!

23 December 2019
Merry Christmas...

16 December 2019

 * Delivered another training course in "Wikipedia editing" for Coventry University staff
 * Giving online assistance to a recent trainee
 * Revamped Wikivoyage article on Coventry
 * Noted demolition of the University's James Starley building, on Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap

9 December 2019

 * A week off!

2 December 2019

 * Delivered another training course in "Wikidata editing" for Coventry University staff
 * Attended training session: "Exam alternatives – what are the options?"
 * Took photo and made voice recording of guest lecturer, John Everard (diplomat)

25 November 2019

 * Quarterly meeting with WikimediaUK
 * Planning Wikimedia & Education summit
 * Preparation for #1Lib1Ref
 * Delivered lecture as part of "The Informed Citizen in the Digital Age" elective module
 * Another "Finding and Evaluating Information" workshop

18 November 2019

 * A colleague wrote a blog post about our project.
 * Delivered training course in "Wikipedia editing" for Coventry University staff
 * Adding metadata about published Coventry University faculty to their Wikidata items, for Wikicite
 * Submitted pitch for presentation at external conference
 * Had my photograph taken, again

11 November 2019

 * Taught six more student "Digital Leaders" to edit Wikipedia
 * Delivered training course in "Wikidata editing" for Coventry University staff
 * Completed quarterly project report for WikimediaUK
 * Delivered workshop as part of an elective "Finding and Evaluating Information" module

4 November 2019

 * Added two memorial benches to OpenBenches
 * Presentation on "Teaching writing with Wikipedia " to 15 staff of the Centre for Academic Writing
 * Delivered training course in "Wikipedia editing" for Coventry University staff
 * Uploading open-licensed images of Coventry University from Flickr to Commons
 * Taught four student "Digital Leaders" to edit Wikipedia

28 October 2019

 * Presentation on "Developing Digital Fluency with Wikipedia and other Wikimedia platforms" as part of "Information Literacy Week 2019"
 * Spoke at another presentation on Collaborative Overseas Interactive Learning
 * Time off to attend WikidataCon!

21 October 2019

 * Ran workshop on WikiCite, as part of Open Access Week
 * Time off to attend WikidataCon!

14 October 2019



 * Created simple:Coventry University
 * Created simple:Wikimedian in Residence
 * Created Wikidata items for keynote speakers at Remix Play 3
 * Found and uploaded 1927-1928 prospectus image (above)
 * One-hour presentation to 30+ university librarians
 * Discussed 'Wikipedia in Education' with three visitors from the University of Oldenburg
 * Attended two-hour seminar/ workshop on teaching "Reading, Reasoning & Writing Development through Shared Inquiry"
 * Spoke at another presentation on Collaborative Overseas Interactive Learning
 * Advised a student who wants to upload content to Commons

7 October 2019

 * Delivered training course in "Wikipedia editing" for Coventry University staff
 * made Women in Red/Missing articles by education/Coventry University

30 September 2019

 * Delivered training course in "Wikipedia editing" for Coventry University staff
 * Spoke at presentation on Collaborative Overseas Interactive Learning

23 September 2019



 * Photographed the University's Harrier jet aircraft; see: commons:Category:XW270 (aircraft)
 * Blogged: A Gathering of Wikimedians in Residence

16 September 2019

 * Routine tasks

9 September 2019

 * Corporate induction
 * Attended Science Week STEM in Education event (evening)
 * Wrote entry for the This Month in GLAM newsletter (August edition)

2 September 2019

 * Worked with an Academic Liaison Librarians, to develop a workshop and a course module on finding and evaluating sources
 * Started to create Wikidata items about academics who are members of the senior management team
 * Resolving issues of duplicate ORCID iDs and conflated identities on Publons

26 August 2019

 * Hosted Wikimedia UK's "Wikimedian in Residence Summit", attended by UK staff and a number of UK Wikimedians in Residence.

19 August 2019

 * Routine tasks

12 August 2019

 * Setting up new laptop
 * Created Wikisource transcription project for Frederick Lanchester's "Aerial Flight, Volume 1: Aerodynamics"
 * Created Wikisource portal for Frederick Lanchester's publisher, Cornish Brothers Ltd.
 * Update meeting with Wikimedia UK
 * Gave interview to the Universty's Innovate Magazine

5 August 2019

 * Leave
 * First Wikipedia editor training, for colleagues
 * Wrote entry for the This Month in GLAM newsletter (July edition)

29 July 2019

 * Leave

22 July 2019

 * Improved Lanchester's laws
 * Attended "Copyright Literacy Card Game workshop" and "The Publishing Trap board game workshop" sessions - tools that may be useful in teaching Wikimedia-related concepts to students.
 * Half-day leave

15 July 2019



 * Found and uploaded images of paintings by Coventry School of Art alumnus Sydney John Bunney
 * Photographed Gus John and recorded his speaking voice
 * Gave feedback on "Staff Voice" initiative
 * Resolved issue IP block affecting user-creation rights
 * Drafted blog post
 * Completed 'Display Screen Equipment' training
 * Some much-needed Wikimedia Commons categories:
 * c:Category:Coventry City Council
 * c:Category:Street furniture in Coventry
 * Took images in c:Category:Coventry Corporation Waterworks
 * Added the University's Delia Derbyshire plaque to OpenStreetMap: ; and to OpenPlaques:

8 July 2019

 * Email catchup
 * Gave feedback on staff conference
 * Completed consumer rights training
 * Completed 'disclosure of sexual incidents' training
 * Completed 'Bribery Act' training
 * Completed 'Working With International Students' training
 * Completed 'Inclusive, Cohesive & Safe Campuses' training
 * Completed 'Diversity in the Workplace' training
 * Wrote entry for the This Month in GLAM newsletter
 * Located and uploaded PDF of Frederick Lanchester's 1914 James Forrest Lecture, "The Flying Machine From An Engineering Standpoint"
 * Recorded the speaking voice of Duncan Lawson (see WP:WikiVIP)
 * Created Wikidata items:
 * Trained a work experience student to edit Wikidata
 * Trained a work experience student to edit Wikidata
 * Trained a work experience student to edit Wikidata

1 July 2019

 * Not working at Coventry, due to prior commitment at GLAM/PoliMi/2019 - though my work at Coventry was discsssed more than once there!

24 June 2019

 * Attended WikiEdu webinar
 * Attended (1.5 day) Coventry University staff conference
 * Photographed Gus John
 * Began discussions about an international collaboration, with overseas universities and an overseas WMF chapter
 * Photographed the Lanchester Library's new entrance
 * Underwent health & safety training
 * Spoke at meeting of subject librarians
 * Met with the archivist
 * Added list (red links!) of historic Principals/ Directors/ Vice-Chancellors at Coventry University

17 June 2019

 * Gave presentation at (School of) Art and Design Planning Day
 * Created so that we can identify related papers and articles in Wikidata
 * Wrote biography for DMLL website
 * My first DMLL team meeting
 * Set up blog
 * Ongoing Authority control work
 * Ongoing linkrot fixes on Wikipedia & Wikidata
 * Created Frederick W. Lanchester
 * Adding campus features to OpenStreetMap
 * Introductory blog post

10 June 2019



 * Adding authority control identifiers for Coventry University academics, to Wikidata (and templates to Wikidata articles)
 * Fixing linkrot on ditto
 * Initial meetings with library team members
 * Initial meetings with archives team
 * Initial meeting with Research and Scholarly Publications team
 * DMLL published a blog post about the project
 * Initial meeting with WikimediaUK
 * Created Coventry University (seen at the foot of this page)
 * Had my photo taken (above)!

3 June 2019

 * Induction
 * setting up email account, HR system etc.
 * GDPR training
 * Started project page
 * Reaching out to WikiProjects, other WiRs, sister projects
 * Uploaded videos:
 * File:Wikimedian in Residence with Martin Poulter.webm
 * File:Active Learning with Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects with Martin Poulter.webm
 * Created c:Category:Wikimedians in Residence
 * Attended full-day EduHack event and ran a Wikipedia strand there
 * Re-wrote simple:Coventry
 * Created wikisource:Author:Frederick W. Lanchester