Wikipedia:GLAM/Oxford/Month 1 report

Strategic Goal 1
Increase the quality and quantity of coverage of subjects that are currently underrepresented on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects, with a particular focus on cultural content

Outcomes
I have prepared a one-page briefing on Commons for the Hillforts Study group. It has been tested by three researchers who uploaded a total of six images of their own as a test. Feedback from the researchers has made the instruction sheet more understandable, and it is available in editable form at wmuk:File:Sharing_images_of_hillfort_sites.odt I have set up a custom query on CatScan and PetScan to find new images added to the relevant categories.

Partnerships
A message has gone out to Humanities researchers (and some others) announcing my services and inviting them to make contact. I am now working through the responses by setting up in-person meetings.

I have met with:
 * The Hillforts Atlas project to discuss data-, image- and text-sharing.
 * The Biosharing project: interested in contributing text to Wikipedia and also data about life sciences databases for Wikidata.
 * A consultant running the Oxford Collections project, who recommended contacts in the University who have data about art and physical exhibits.
 * A researcher running the i.Sicily and Remodelling Roman Imperialism projects, which both have data to share and which come online in early 2017.
 * Ritual Modes (a new research project in Anthropology): interested in potentially sharing lay summaries of their field for Wikipedia, and in sharing open access media from their research
 * Oxford Research Archive have provided a preliminary dump of data about theses, for use in adding to Wikidata and linking from Wikipedia biographies

Initial email contact has been made with
 * The Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD)
 * Electronic Enlightenment
 * Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
 * Early Modern Letters Online
 * Cabinet: Digital Transformation of Teaching through Objects
 * Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies
 * Lexicon of Greek Personal Names
 * Power Structures in Ancient Ontologies / The Metaphysics of Entanglement In Nature and in the Divine
 * Cult of Saints

Activities delivered in the past month with stats:
None to report

Strategic Goal 2
Support the development of open knowledge in the UK, by increasing the understanding and recognition of the value of open knowledge and advocating for change at an organisational, sectoral and public policy level

Outcomes
Free Speech Debate host a 2000-word essay on the importance of Wikipedia as a platform for free speech: see below.

Partnerships
Working with IT Services' trainers to set up two events for next term: a train-the-trainers event and a public event which can be delivered with the new trainers.

Activities delivered in the past month with stats:
None to report

Strategic Goal 3
To support the use of the Wikimedia projects as important tools for education and learning in the UK

Partnerships
At least three staff from the Technology Enhanced Learning team (TEL) have asked to take part in future train-the-trainers events, and TEL have have requested a guest blog post on Wikipedia education assignments.

In discussions with two of the potential projects, educational assignments have come up as ways to potentially improve Wikipedia in their subject.

Projects/events in development
Submitted two proposals to IT Services for one-hour events to take place in the Summer term, on the theme of building visualisations with Wikidata.

Wikidata queries

 * Image gallery of people from Oxfordshire and neighbouring counties involved in World War I: used at a public event on 12 November commemorating the War
 * Archaeological sites with lat-long pairs placing them in Sicily: used for comparison with the i.Sicily project (showing that Wikidata's coverage of this topic is very scant compared to other sources)
 * Image grid of female (mostly) international Oxford alumnae: submitted for use in a International Women's event in Spring 2017

Media (videos, infographics, photos from events)

 * Webinar recording (CC-BY licence)
 * Storify of Twitter reactions to the ALT webinar
 * Handout for Hillfort study group (Open Document format)

Press about the residency

 * 9 November 2016. Item in Wikimedia UK friends' newsletter
 * 3 November 2016. Post on Wikimedia UK blog: "Announcing a new Wikimedian In Residence at the University of Oxford"
 * 3 November 2016. Announcement in Outline (Bodleian Libraries internal newsletter) "Return of the Wikimedian"
 * 30 October 2016. Interview for the Wikimedia blog about Histropedia and why academia needs remixes: 'Histropedia: “The power of data visualisation combined with free knowledge”'
 * October 2016. Essay for Free Speech Debate (based at St Antony's College, Oxford): "Wikipedia at 15: The sum of human knowledge?"