Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/15th Month 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.

Activities delivered in the past month with stats:
No editathon events were held this month.

Image statistics

 * All uploads can be monitored via Images uploaded in collaboration between WMUK and the University of Edinburgh
 * BaGLAMa (page views for Wikipedia articles containing images from the University of Edinburgh)
 * Baglama2 (page views for only those images released by the Centre for Research Collections
 * Total number of page views for images released from University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections for March 2017: 680,102
 * Total number of page views for images released from the University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections for 15 months of monitoring: 9,087,023

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

 * Delivered four sessions for the OER17 conference in London on 5th & 6th April (1 presentation on the Edinburgh Residency, 1 lightning talk on Content Translation, 1 lightning talk on the WikiCite project and 1 workshop on Gamifying Wikimedia).
 * Delivered 'Teaching with Wikipedia' session for course leaders on 3rd April 2017 where Dr. Chris Harlow shared best practice with colleagues. Greg Singh at the University of Stirling was to present at this session too but is now going to attend at another date and supply a video podcast in the interim.
 * Wrote 4 blog articles on the Wikimedian in Residence blog.
 * Wikipedia in Education: If not now then when
 * She Persisted – Outcomes of ‘Bragging Writes’ Wikipedia event for International Women’s Day 2017
 * History of Medicine 2017 Wikipedia editathon outcomes
 * Wikimedia on the edge of OER17
 * Co-authored a journal article with Richard Nevell (WMUK) for inclusion in the University of Edinburgh journal focused on the University of Edinburgh residency.

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

Outcomes

 * Edited and uploaded 5 videos interviews including a compilation of interviews with staff and students who have taken part in our 3 Wikipedia in the Classroom assignments this year.
 * Supported the Translation Studies MSc and Edinburgh University Translation Society students so that they can get much-needed published translation practice in translation and develop an ongoing relationship with Wikimedia UK. Both projects have now concluded and a discussion on best practice is to be arranged for mid May 2017 with the Translation Studies MSc course leaders.
 * Held a Wikipedia in Education: Event for Course Leaders event for 3rd April 2017 so course leaders from last semester (Dr. Chris Harlow) could share their good practice.
 * Delivered a How to run a Wikipedia editathon: Staff Skills Training event (inside & outside the curriculum) on Friday 17th March 2017.

Digitisation
Collections identified for potential future upload:
 * Gavin Willshaw, Digital Curator, has uploaded a test case of Thomas Jehu's PhD thesis to Wikisource during the History of Medicine editathon on 23 & 24 February 2017 and is looking to upload selected other PhD theses and Open Books to Wikisource in the coming months.
 * A WiR and Library proposal has been drafted and passed to colleagues at Library & University Collections.
 * Paul Barnaby is liaising with Navino Evans to see if Histropedia can be employed with the Our History site.
 * We have been given permission to upload images where WW1 nurse orderly Ethel Moir is the creator from the Capital Collections website.

Projects/events in development

 * Arranged with Stephen Kaye on the Mastercard Scholarship Foundation to hold an African Alumni & Swahili editathon in December 2017 (to be followed up in September 2017).
 * Awaiting further news from Ruth Burgon (Fruitmarket Gallery) about an editathon themed on art and artists in November 2017 with potential involvement from the History of Art course.
 * Continuing discussions with Pauline Ward and Navino Evans about a Wikidata Showcase event at Repository Fringe 2017 - focus areas being the involvement of students and the donation of data to Wikidata (bulk importing).
 * Continuing discussions with Jake Broadhurst and Jamie Cross about a Wikimedia event for 60-70 undergraduate students attending the Undergraduate Research Conference on 28 June 2017.
 * Continued discussions with Melissa Highton, Lorna Campbell and Daria Cybulska about the Celtic Knot: Wikipedia Language Conference on Thursday 6 July 2017. Abstracts are to be decided upon in discussion with Susan Ross (National Library of Scotland's Gaelic Wikimedian) and Lorna Campbell on Friday 21st April. Keynote speakers have now been secured. A website has also now been created and booking will open shortly.

Upcoming events in 2017

 * April 13 - Train the Trainer (Digital Skills staff)
 * April 27 - Wikimedia as an Open Educational Resource
 * April 28 - Open Knowledge Network event including Wikidata and Histropedia showcase.
 * May 3 - Wikipedia editing training.
 * May 3 - Wikimedia drop-in clinic.
 * May 11 - Train the Trainer event for the Usher Institute staff.
 * June 7 - Wikipedia editing training.
 * June 28 - Undergraduate Research Conference - Editathon for 70 students from all around the world.
 * July 6 - Celtic Knot: Wikipedia Language Conference.
 * July 7 - Wikimedian in Residence meetup at the National Library of Scotland.
 * August 3 & 4 - Wikidata Showcase at Repository Fringe 2017
 * October 10 - Ada Lovelace Day 2017

Videos

 * The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Media Hopper now has 114 videos. 5 more have newly been uploaded.


 * The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Youtube now has accrued 9193 views of its 32 videos with 51 subscribers (1000+ views than last month and 7 more subscribers than last month).

Press about the residency

 * 1) Edinburgh University searches for 'Wikimedians' - Edinburgh Evening News, 8th October 2015.
 * 2) University of Edinburgh to employ ‘Wikimedian in Residence’ web editor - The Student Newspaper.org, October 13th 2015.
 * 3) The History of Medicine gets mentioned in the ILW Awards 2016
 * 4) The OER16 Conference, co-chaired by Melissa Highton and Lorna M. Campbell, won Wikimedia UK’s Partnership of the Year Award
 * 5) 'Wikidata and Wikisource Showcase' mentioned on IS News site.
 * 6) The Wikimedia Residency, as part of the University Of Edinburgh's Open Education team, won 3rd place in ALT's Learning Technologist of the Year awards.
 * 7) Open Education team (including Wikimedia residency) come third in ALT Learning Technologist of the Year awards - story on the IS News site.
 * 8) Wikipedia's women problem - Melissa Highton writes for the Dangerous Women project 10th October 2016
 * 9) STV News 'Live at Five' covers the Ada Lovelace Day - Women in STEM Wikipedia editathon.
 * 10) New College take on Wikipedia edit-a-thon - Women and Religion 2 November 2016.
 * 11) Brenda Moon remembered in Wikipedia editathon - article in IS News
 * 12) Wikipedia editathon and Mary Stewart - Edinburgh Gothic Sat 12 November.
 * 13) Wikipedia editathon at the University of Sheffield's Centre for the History of the Gothic
 * 14) Collaborating to built a city of information literacy, a city of Wikipedia - Interview by OEPS Scotland
 * 15) #1Lib1Ref at the University of Edinburgh - Blog article by Gavin Willshaw, Digital Curator - 2nd February 2017
 * 16) Fake News and Wikidata - a roundup of the Wikimedia UK Education Summit
 * 17) Host a Wikimedian - You can't afford not to (blog article)