Wikipedia:GLAM/Wellcome/4th Month Report

Content
We ran more sessions to train staff at the Wellcome this month – there was particular demand for the Wednesday session, and we got 16 new editors set up with accounts. To date, the editors have added more than 30,000 bytes and made more than 200 edits.

Outcomes
This month, within the Wellcome Library, Trust, and Collection we conducted training, spread knowledge of the project further across the institution, and organised support for upcoming events.
 * Two training sessions were held for staff, the second of which was particularly in demand. The days varied to enable as many part-time staff to attend a session as possible, and Wednesday was obviously a good day for many! Participants expressed support for the idea of a Wellcome Wikiclub (suggested last month).
 * I met with Simon Chaplin, Director of Culture & Society, to discuss the project with him.
 * Human resources staff trained in mental health support have offered suggestions and their support for events associated with the Bedlam exhibition. We’ll now be running some events for World Mental Health Awareness Day (10th October).

Partnerships/potential collaboration
Various plans for collaborative ventures have been extended or created this month.
 * Plans for the Women Engineers editathon are going well.
 * The People’s History of the NHS project team at Warwick have been in touch, and we are planning some training and for some NHS-themed editing.
 * We’re looking into the possibility of bringing together two potential collaborators and introducing history of medicine students to the collections of the Hearing Library, to help the former to learn whilst making practical contributions and the latter to make more of their content available online.
 * I’m working with the Communications Officer of the British Society for the History of Science to plan some training and editathons.

Planned activities
Key projects for next month and beyond include:
 * Holding the first WellcomeWikiClub session, and planning future sessions for staff.
 * Attending more Meetups with other London-based Wikimedians.
 * Making plans for a UK-based Wikimedian in Residence summit, to get-together and share information and ideas.
 * Making arrangements for postgraduate groups from various universities to visit the Library and take part in wiki-training.
 * Planning editathons & events on history of mental health and psychiatry (linked with Bedlam).
 * Developing plans with the BSHS to train historians and others interested in the history of science (with a particular focus on improving diversity).
 * Working with the Open Access team here at the Wellcome Trust to help researchers to think about how to make their work really accessible using Wiki.
 * Finalising plans for the Women Engineers editathon in October.
 * Continuing to develop plans for NHS and women in medicine editathons.

Press about the residency
First, a belated mention of press from July: the residency was featured in the American Association for the History of Medicine’s Newsletter.

In August, much of the press about the residency has been focussed on Twitter, where Wikiproject Women in Red have been particularly helpful in helping us to reach out to others and find the gaps in Wikipedia’s coverage of history of psychiatry.

The Royal College of Psychiatrists have also very kindly featured the residency on their website.