Wikipedia:GLAM/Royal Society of Chemistry/Diary

Summary of tasks undertaken.

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

Also, all new Wikipedia articles listed below were reviewed, and had corresponding Wikidata entries created.

Listed by week commencing, in reverse order:

14 September 2015
Final week


 * Writing handover notes
 * HR paperwork

7 September 2015

 * Made File:Andy Mabbett - RSC - How to Edit Wikipedia - 04 - images.webm
 * Arranged blacklisting of two sites that violate RSC copyright
 * Created Category:Lists of missing journals and sub-categories
 * Wrote update for August 2015 GLAM newsletter
 * One day's leave

31 August 2015

 * Spoke at, photographed, and assisted running of Wikipedia Science Conference, London
 * Images in commons:Category:Wikipedia Science Conference 2015
 * Created Template:Citation metadata navbox
 * Rephotographed James Dewar portrait by René le Brun
 * Created ORCID/examples

24 August 2015

 * Remade File:Andy Mabbett - RSC - How to Edit Wikipedia - 01 - italic bold.webm in higher resolution
 * Made File:Andy Mabbett - RSC - How to Edit Wikipedia - 02 - links.webm
 * Made File:Andy Mabbett - RSC - How to Edit Wikipedia - 03 - references.webm
 * Another day's leave

17 August 2015

 * Uploaded & categorised images from Catalyst editathon
 * Images in commons:Category:Royal Society of Chemistry Wikipedia editathon at Catalyst 2015-08-08
 * Wrote feature article for RSC intranet, "Assert your identity: Why we're encouraging our community to use ORCID"
 * Gave advice to colleagues on potential CoI issue
 * Gave advice to colleagues on editing issues
 * Monitoring & commenting on Merck Index RfC
 * Another day's leave

10 August 2015

 * Wrote update for July 2015 GLAM newsletter
 * Follow-up from Catalyst editathon
 * Gave online support, answering questions on Twitter, during American Chemistry Society conference in Boston, USA
 * Wrote magazine article, "My year as Wikimedian in Residence", for RSC News (membership magazine)
 * Checking & short-listing entries to Wikiquote competition
 * Opened RfC on proposed improvements to citations of The Merck Index.
 * Another day's leave

3 August 2015

 * Prepared presentation to be given by colleague at American Chemistry Society conference in Boston, USA
 * Ran editathon at Catalyst
 * Half-day's leave

27 July 2015

 * Ran editathon at Burlington House
 * Photographed more artworks
 * Images in commons:Category:Royal Society of Chemistry art collection
 * Some leave

20 July 2015

 * Created Ruby Levick
 * 1-1 training session; trainee created:
 * Brazilian Chemical Society
 * Edited images for List of artworks in the collection of the Royal Society of Chemistry
 * Created Commons:Category:John Dalton in art
 * Learning to use video screen-capture software
 * Made File:Andy Mabbett - RSC - How to Edit Wikipedia - 01 - italic bold.webm

13 July 2015

 * Gave advice on internal MediaWiki deployment

6 July 2015

 * Created articles (+ Wikidata items) about artists, whose work is in the Royal Society of Chemistry's collection (these were immediately translated in to German):
 * Wilhelm Trautschold
 * Herbert Ashwin Budd
 * Gave advice on MediaWiki admin issue
 * Trained image management team to use Wikimedia Commons; and to add images to articles
 * Launched Wikiquote competition
 * Wrote update for June 2015 GLAM newsletter
 * Rectified images of artworks in Burlington house, e.g.:

29 June 2015

 * Ran British Society for the History of Science editathon in Swansea, after organiser was unavialable
 * Four new editors trained; articles improved:
 * British Society for the History of Science
 * Anthrax
 * Otto Overbeck
 * Mardy Colliery

22 June 2015

 * Spoke to 50+ early-career researchers at iD2 conference

15 June 2015

 * Training session for 7 RSC staff. Articles:
 * Christopher A Lipinski
 * Robert Paton (chemist)
 * Association of Greek Chemists
 * British Mass Spectrometry Society
 * Swedish Chemical Society
 * Church of St John the Evangelist, Waterbeach
 * Cambridge '99 Rowing Club (improved)
 * Cryosphere (improved)
 * Worked on mapping freebase properties to Wikidata properties, as part of the planned Freebase import
 * Proposed several new Wikidata properties required for this
 * Reported issue encountered during training sessions, where CAPTCHAs present a barrier to new editors

8 June 2015

 * Created Wikidata property P1931, for identifier in the NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards
 * Training session for 5 RSC staff. Articles:
 * Charles Rees Award
 * Ronald Lancaster (chemist)
 * Sharon Ashbrook
 * John Mason Ward
 * Chartered Chemist (improved)
 * Wrote update for May 2015 GLAM newsletter

1 June 2015

 * Created Wikidata properties for vaccines
 * Adding ORCID iDs to prizewinner biographies on RSC website
 * Trained Wikipedian in Residence, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to edit Wikidata
 * Announced Catalyst editathon, to be held on 8 August 2015 in Widnes, Cheshire

25 May 2015

 * Adding more 2015 award winner/ medallist details to Wikipedia & Wikidata
 * Assisting Wikipedian in Residence, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (USA), with preparations for Wikidata import
 * Proposed new Wikidata tool, kindly made by Magnus Manske as MultiBeacon Multi-BEACON.png
 * Proposed new tool for finding authority control values for new biographical articles. Kindly made by Bamyers99 as PageToools. See, for example, "Tools" links in User:AlexNewArtBot/WomenScientistsSearchResult.

18 May 2015

 * On leave (60% of week)
 * Resolved outstanding Wikidata property proposals for chemistry
 * Proposed improvements to the Wikidata periodic table
 * Add language selector
 * Investigate linking to Wikipedia and/or Reasonator instead of Wikidata
 * Add tooltips
 * Standardise capitalisation Resolved elsewhere

11 May 2015

 * On leave

4 May 2015

 * Wrote project update for WikimediaUK
 * Met with ChemSpider team, to discuss areas of mutual interest & develop further collaboration
 * Drafting plan of action for internal & external promotion of ORCID
 * Planning & promoting 29 July editathon - book now!

27 April 2015

 * More work on P1855; for example, for ChemSpider ID.
 * Gave presentation on ORCID to comms team meeting
 * Took photographs of artworks at Burlington House
 * Wrote update for April 2015 GLAM newsletter

20 April 2015

 * Created Chemistry societies
 * Proposed Wikidata item for FundRef registry names
 * Created P1855 for documenting examples in Wikidata property documentation.

13 April 2015

 * Even Wikimedians in Residence get annual leave ;-)

6 April 2015

 * Gave a talk at the 10th Delegates Assembly of the European Young Chemists' Network, in Berlin
 * Wrote update for March 2015 GLAM newsletter

30 March 2015

 * Gave a talk, "Wikipedia and Chemistry - how you can help", to chemistry students at the University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia
 * Met with Tunisian members of the RSC, to discuss potential collaboration between them, local Wikipedians, and the society.

23 March 2015
Half way!


 * Mid-project review with WikimediaUK
 * Took photographs of Burlington House (upload tbc)
 * Project planning meeting - watch this space!

16 March 2015

 * Updated List of blue plaques erected by the Royal Society of Chemistry
 * Added blue plaques to OpenStreetMap and to OpenPlaques
 * Added OpenPlaques IDs to Commons pictures of plaques
 * Submitted proposal for talk on ORCID & Wikipedia for ORCID conference
 * Met with Institute of Physics

9 March 2015

 * Created wikidata:Property:P1738 for monographs in The Merck Index
 * Updated entries for John B Goodenough Award winners on Wikipedia & Wikidata
 * Added list of Ludwig Mond Awardees
 * Added list of Derek Birchall Awardees
 * Used Template:Timeline-links to cause lists of awardees to emit useful metadata
 * Our colleagues in Barcelona held a biochemistry editathon
 * Photographed RSC's blue plaque commemorating Joseph Priestley, in Birmingham
 * Advised colleague on technical issue with internal MediaWiki installation
 * Wrote update for February 2015 GLAM newsletter

2 March 2015

 * Submitted Wikimania 2015 talk proposal: Chemical collaborations
 * Submitted Wikimania 2015 talk proposal: Authority Control: How it applies to you (about ORCID, etc.)
 * Blogged Proposed Wikimania talk: Chemical collaborations
 * Updated entries for Applied Catalysis Award winners on Wikipedia & Wikidata
 * Updated entries for Beilby Medal and Prize winners on Wikipedia & Wikidata
 * Updated entries for De Gennes Prize winners on Wikipedia & Wikidata
 * Delivered 'Lunch & Learn' seminar on ORCID, to 50+ Royal Society of Chemistry staff
 * Repeated the above for RSC overseas commercial team
 * [Noted: RSC list of Hon Fellows now links each entry to Wikipedia]
 * Published a proposal to update citations to The Merck Index

23 February 2015

 * Training session for 6 RSC staff, at Burlington House, London. Also colleagues from the Royal Astronomical Society and the Linnaean Society of London
 * Registered Science Technician
 * Mabel Elliott
 * Italian Chemical Society
 * Thomas Welton
 * Frank Allen (chemist)
 * Lilia Ann Abron
 * Spitalfields Mathematical Society
 * Added chemistry-related links to Wikidata, using the newly available Wikibooks facility

16 February 2015

 * Blogged "News From Catalonia"
 * Gave talk in Bristol
 * Gave talk to RSC regional Education Coordinators team
 * Arranged activation of second batch of RSC Gold accounts

9 February 2015

 * Proposed Wikidata property for Merck Index Monograph IDs
 * Welcomed the new Wikimedian in Residence at the National Library of Wales

1 February 2015

 * Organised and promoted talk in Bristol on 18 February
 * Letter published in RSC News (Feb 2015, p 12) in reply to member, "Everyone can edit Wikipedia"
 * Quoted in Atmetric.com’s announcement that they now index citations of research papers in Wikipedia
 * Attended regional members' meeting in Birmingham

26 January 2015

 * More staff training. Articles:
 * Issues in Environmental Science and Technology (new)
 * John Howard Purnell (new)
 * Institute of Chemistry of Ireland (new)
 * Elizabeth Murchison (new)
 * Intramolecular Vibrational Energy Redistribution (new)
 * List of Royal Society of Chemistry journals (improved)
 * Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts (improved)
 * IUPAC book (improved)
 * Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry (improved)
 * Sodium nonanoyloxybenzenesulfonate (improved)
 * List of blue plaques erected by the Royal Society of Chemistry (improved; by two editors)
 * Arranged activation of first batch of RSC Gold accounts
 * Gave user support
 * Wrote update for Jan 2015 GLAM newsletter

19 January 2015

 * More staff training. Articles:
 * Applied Catalysis Award (new)
 * List of blue plaques erected by the Royal Society of Chemistry (new)
 * Robert Warington (new)
 * Green Chemistry Award (new)
 * John B Goodenough Award (new)
 * John Elliott (electronic musician) (new)
 * Materials for Industry - Derek Birchall Award (new)
 * Ludwig Mond Award (new)
 * Pentacyanocyclopentadiene (new)
 * Mary Hefferan (new)
 * John Holman (chemist) (new)
 * Positron annihilation spectroscopy (improved)
 * Dalton Transactions (improved)
 * Maud Menten (improved)
 * Molecular Biosystems (unfortunately redirected; duplicated an existing article, Molecular BioSystems)
 * Spoke about "ORCID and Wikipedia" at Jisc-ARMA ORCID Pilot Final Project meeting
 * JISC Write-up
 * Attended corporate induction day
 * Met with Science Council rep

12 January 2015

 * More staff training. Articles:
 * CXCR4 antagonist (new)
 * Pan Africa Chemistry Network (new)
 * Pancyprian Union of Chemists (new)
 * Alfred Spinks (new)
 * Arthur Aiken (new)
 * Edward William Abel (new)
 * Judy R. Franz (new)
 * Materials Horizons (new; subsequently (and hopefully temporarily) deleted)
 * De Gennes Prize (new)
 * John Jeyes (new)
 * The Yolanda (new)
 * List of Royal Society of Chemistry journals (new)
 * Comet assay (improved)
 * Education in Chemistry (improved)
 * Noel Leaver (improved)
 * Facilitated letters of support for The Wikidata for research proposal
 * Welcomed new Wikimedian in Residence at Museums Galleries Scotland

5 January 2015

 * More staff training. Articles:
 * Lord Lewis Prize (new)
 * Polish Chemical Society (new)
 * Adrian V Stokes (new)
 * Registered Scientist (new)
 * Hungarian Chemical Society (new)
 * Una Lucy Fielding (new)
 * Journal of Materials Chemistry C (new)
 * Royal Society of Chemistry (section added)
 * Merck Index
 * Polyyne
 * Catalysis Science & Technology
 * Teaching fellow
 * Analyst (journal)
 * Olga Kennard
 * Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
 * Drafted reply to reader's letter about Wikipedia, for Chemistry World
 * Notified major non-English Wikipedias, and all others with Chemistry projects, of RSC Gold availability.

29 December 2014

 * Christmas break continued
 * Monitoring RSC Gold applications

22 December 2014

 * Christmas!
 * Monitoring RSC Gold applications
 * Wrote update for Dec 2014 GLAM newsletter

15 December 2014

 * Attended "Science communicators" meetup in Birmingham
 * Cleaned up entries in Category:Biography/Science and academia articles needing expert attention
 * Uploaded voice files donated by RSC from its podcasts
 * David Garner
 * Harry Kroto
 * Lesley Yellowlees
 * File:David_Phillips_voice_(RSC).flac
 * File:Edward Abel voice.flac
 * Launch of RSC Gold, having been set up over preceding weeks
 * Helped with news release and social media
 * Wrote Blog post

8 December 2014

 * Blogged: "Tips For New Wikipedia Editors"
 * Started Infobox modules, documenting use of subtemplates of Infobox person, including Infobox scientist
 * Gave advice to colleague on handling a specific potential CoI issue
 * Assisted with Education Program:Louisiana State University/CHEM 4150 Environmental Chemistry (Fall_2014)
 * Attended whole-organisation staff meeting
 * Attended RSC Christmas meal ;-)

1 December 2014

 * Tagged Wikidata entries for chemistry related topics with BBC Things identifiers.
 * Advised colleague on reusing Wikipedia content and Commons' images in RSC publications
 * Wrote Linking to Wikipedia
 * Created Category:Presidents of the Royal Society of Chemistry
 * Trained RSC staff (x7) to edit. Articles:
 * Dominic Tildesley (new)
 * Wilfrid Hickinbottom (new)
 * Hickinbottom Award (new)
 * Danish Chemical Society (new)
 * Dan Eley (expanded)
 * Made voice recordings of:
 * Antony John Williams
 * Dominic Tildesley
 * Professor Sir John Holman (chemist)
 * Professor Tom Welton
 * Took photo of Dominic Tildesley
 * Added journals and presidents to Royal Society of Chemistry
 * Wrote update for Nov 2014 GLAM newsletter

Feedback from training:

"Just letting you know that someone has added a picture and some links to my article. It’s really exciting starting something off on wiki and watching other people use it and add to it – thanks so much for the training!"

24 November 2014

 * Tagged recipients of Perkin Prize for Organic Chemistry (Q18560191) in Wikidata (x6)
 * Wrote a Sample citation
 * More remote support of Catalan editing drive
 * Tagged recipients of Faraday Lectureship Prize (Q1994574) in Wikidata (x41)
 * Created RedQ
 * Attended divisional team day in London.
 * Arranged update of Wikipedia licence info on ChemSpider

17 November 2014

 * Started ChemSpider (work in progress)
 * Attended Open Mercia "Data divers data dating" Open Data event
 * Created List of Royal Society of Chemistry medals and awards
 * Worked with User:Fæ to have his bot generate usage reports for RSC-related media files
 * Created Wikidata entries for all RSC awards (claim[P1027:Q905549])
 * Tagged recipients of Corday–Morgan Medal (Q898961) in Wikidata (x41)
 * More remote support of Catalan editing drive

10 November 2014

 * More collaboration on preparations for Catalan editing drive
 * Remote support of ditto
 * Made relevant Wikipedia projects aware of new RSC journal: Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology
 * Photographed award medals - see commons:Category:Royal Society of Chemistry award medals
 * Compiled list of missing articles on chemistry organisations

3 November 2014

 * Started blog - http://my.rsc.org/blogs/490 - aimed at Chemists rather than Wikimedians
 * First post "Hello world!"
 * Attended "Science communicators" meetup in Birmingham
 * Received anti-bribery training.
 * Submitted blog to Planet Wikimedia aggregator
 * Work on chemist biographies in the Welsh (cy) Wikipedia
 * Listing those needing translation into English
 * Adding Authority control
 * Adding labels and descriptions (English and Welsh) to Wikidata
 * Ditto for Catalan Wikipedia
 * Collaborated to make Infobox scientist embeddable as a module in other infoboxes

27 October 2014

 * Arranged & promoted Catalan-language Wikipedia editing drive, to be held 14-23 November
 * Improved Ramon Margalef as quid-pro-quo
 * Travel to Edinburgh
 * Met with RSC Edinburgh colleagues
 * Recorded/ uploaded voice and took pic of Bristow Muldoon
 * Attended EduWiki
 * Recorded/ uploaded voice of Peter McColl
 * Wrote update for Oct 2014 GLAM newsletter

20 October 2014

 * Staff development event: "Insights Discovery" (full day; not Wikimedia specific)
 * Preparing presentation for "Lunch & Learn" staff event (40-50 attendees)
 * Tetraacetylethylenediamine - improved by attendee
 * Created Category:Academic journals published in the United Kingdom, Category:Academic journals published in the United States, and the parent category Category:Academic journals by country of publication.
 * Received "Dignity & Diversity" training
 * Delivered "Lunch & Learn" staff event to around 40 RSC employees
 * Took and uploaded pics in commons:Category:John Jeyes Award
 * also created
 * Wikidata properties Gmelin Number (P1578) and Beilstein Registry Number (P1579) created.

13 October 2014

 * Drafted news item for RSC News
 * Assisted deployment of authority control template on cy.Wikipedia, to encourage uptake of ORCID, especially on articles about chemists and user pages of science editors
 * Created and added to relevant Wikidata items
 * First team meeting in London
 * First project meeting with Wikimedia UK
 * Met with librarian
 * Adding Wikidata property links to Chembox property articles:
 * Identified candidates for translation to/ from Welsh
 * Proposed Wikidata property for Beilstein Registry Number (since created as P1579)
 * Proposed Wikidata property: Gmelin Number (since created as P1578)
 * Liaison with a GLAM to arrange a collaborative editathon
 * Correspondence with overseas academics, regarding article translations
 * Gave advice to potential new biography subject
 * Requested blog on myRSC
 * Investgated chemistry content in BBC Genome
 * Added Wikidata descriptions for RSC journals (A-I)
 * Posted invitation to collaborate on RSC, RSC-Belgium RSC-Finland and RSC-Ireland Facebook pages

6 October 2014

 * Installed and configured open-source software on laptop
 * Liaison with colleagues from non-English Wikipedia projects
 * Took photographs of Thomas Graham House: commons:Category:Thomas Graham House
 * Secured agreement for upload & use of "fair-use" logo and coat of arms on Wikipedia.
 * RSC footer navbox for relevant articles
 * Arranged first internal training session
 * Made User member RSChem
 * Booked to attend EduWiki
 * Converetd job description to PDF; posted on-line
 * Attended "Science communicators" meetup in Birmingham

29 September 2014

 * Workstation training
 * Signed up for MyRSC
 * Started to investigate blue plaques
 * Added "Landmarks of Chemistry" blue plaques to OpenStreetMap
 * Created Honorary Fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry
 * More internal meetings
 * Added lists of presidents of defunct RSC predecessor organisations
 * Supplied material to allow Titanium nitrate to be improved; article subsequently featured on 'Did you know'.

22 September 2014

 * Induction
 * setting up laptop, email account, HR system etc.
 * Started project page
 * Reaching out to WikiProjects, other WiRs, sister projects
 * Commons uploads (Commons:Category:Royal Society of Chemistry - Burlington_House, commons:Category:Royal Society of Chemistry Wikipedia editahon 2014-03-28).
 * Lots of emails to new colleagues, arranging meetings, etc.
 * Much Wikipedia/ Wikidata gnoming.