Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/20th Month Report

NB: This was a slightly shorter month due to annual leave from 14 to 20 August 2017.

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

 * New Wikipedia page for Lady Finella - a noblewoman and Scottish assassin who killed King Kenneth II out of revenge, based on chronicles from the 14th century.
 * New Wikipedia page for Hillary Homzie - lecturer, playwright and author from Charlottesville, Virginia.

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 June 2017: 533,242
 * Total number of page views for images released from the University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections for 20 months of monitoring: 11,884,580.
 * Number of monthly pageviews for images in the category: Images Uploaded in collaboration between WMUK and the University of Edinburgh: 994,328 including:
 * Iceland: 305,669 views (Gerardi Mercatoris Atlas, sive, Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura (24696368309).jpg).
 * Rabbit: 90,292 views (Set of wax models showing development of the rabbit heart, twentieth century (24226156252).jpg).
 * Stockholm: 86,869 views (Birds eye view of Stockholm 1917.png).
 * Escherichia coli: 84,312 views (E.coli image.jpg).
 * Sami people: 63,318 views(Lapps - 1917.png).
 * Oslo:68,688 views (Railway betweeen Christiania and Bergen - 1916.png)
 * Alexander McQueen: 42,079 views (Lee Alexander McQueen Headstone Back.png and Lee Alexander McQueen Headstone.png)
 * Odessa: 43,916 views (Revolutionary soldiers, Odessa - 1916.png and Revolutionary soldiers - 1916.png and Odessa during first days of Revolution - 1916.png).
 * Electron microscope: 32,806 views ([Bacillus subtilis image.jpg Bacillus subtilis])
 * Weaving:26,962 views(Weaving Pattern Cards.jpg and Weavers Loom.jpg).

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

 * Discussed Wikipedia in the Classroom assignments with Jeffrey Keefer, Director of Training and Knowledge Management in New York City for The Trust for Public Land which led him to undertaking his first Wikipedia assignment.
 * Discussed with Lorna Campbell the Key Performance Indicators one could use to help measure Wikimedia activities in order to continue to make the case for universities benefiting from an OER service.
 * Presented on Wikidata at the University of St. Andrews as part of their Summer of Data event. As a result of this session, data from the Mactutor History of Mathematics Archive has been autoscraped into Wikidata so all 2739 biographical entries should now be represented on Wikidata with a link back to the Mactutor site.

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

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 has been authorised as of August 2017 to upload twenty more (creating linked Wikidata items and statements in the process). Beyond this, the source metadata for the full 27,000 theses in the Edinburgh Research Archive (ERA) is being discussed as to how we can import into Wikidata.
 * A WiR and Library proposal has been passed to colleagues at Library & University Collections.
 * Kirsty Lingstadt (Head of Digital Library) has met with Jason Evans, Wikimedian in Residence at the National Library of Wales, on Friday 7 July 2017 to learn more about his particular residency with a view to seeing how GLAM residencies work. A proposal for a SDLC & GLAM-Wiki showcase event involving SLIC WiR Sara Thomas, NLS WiR Susan Ross, myself and UoE Digital Curator, Gavin Willshaw, has been mooted.
 * Paul Barnaby was to liaise with Navino Evans to see if Histropedia can be employed with the Our History site along with a Visual Editor plugin.
 * Update 25/07: Time and resources are not currently available to proceed with this planned improvement to the Our History site but content may be migrated across to Wikipedia in due course.
 * We have been given permission to upload images where WW1 nurse orderly Ethel Moir is the creator from the Capital Collections website.
 * Update 28/08/2017: Have uploaded twenty images from Ethel Moir's collections to Wikimedia Commons which have been approved by Ethel's family for release - OTRS approval has been provided by Capital Collections and just needs processed at Wikimedia Commons end.
 * Data from the Mactutor History of Mathematics Archive has been autoscraped into Wikidata so all 2739 biographical entries should now be represented on Wikidata with a link back to the Mactutor site.

Projects/events in development

 * Contacted Stephen Kaye on the Mastercard Scholarship Foundation to follow up on conversations in Spring 2017 about holding an African Alumni & Swahili editathon in December 2017.
 * Discussed with Joe Corneli about running a Wikidata project on the Data Science for Design MSc as part of their Data Fair on 26 October 2017.
 * An editathon themed on Scottish Contemporary Artists will now be held in Friday 24th November 2017 with confirmed involvement from the School of Design Informatics and potential involvement from the History of Art course.
 * Met with James Loxley, Professor of Early Modern Literature, 8 September 2017 to help facilitate an AHRC-funded 'Being Human' editathon in November 2017.
 * Confirmed with Felix Stein at Social Anthropology about a Wikipedia editing assignment for 2017/2018.
 * Confirmed with Karen Gregory for a Wikipedia workshop to take place in October 2017 on the Digital Sociology course with a view to further work in Spring 2018.
 * Planning an Ada Lovelace Day event focused on Women in Chemistry and liaising with Michael Seery, Reader in Education at the School of Education, about supporting his postgraduate students to write articles on Women in Chemistry in the run up this event as well as another proposed event with the Royal Society of Chemistry. Second planning meeting held on 28 August. Next one on 25 September 2017.
 * Continuing discussions about the use and implementation of Open Badges at the university. Creation of initial few designs can take place now use of a platform, Badgr, has been identified. Liaising with Richard Nevell at Wikimedia UK on next steps.
 * Discussed with Sophie Nicholls at Teeside University about doing a 'Regeneration' editathon and Train the Trainer events down there - dates in Spring 2018 now to be finalised as the next step.
 * Due to discuss with Tanja Romankiewicz at the School of Archaeology after 20 September 2017 about an archaeology-themed editathon to mark Year of History, Heritage and Archaeology 2017 in conjunction with Sara Thomas's work at Dig It! and SLIC.
 * Confirmed with Tomas Sanders (Open Ed. intern) about a student History Society editathon will take place as part of Black History Month on 25 October 2017.
 * Collating use cases of Wikidata and preparing documentation with Navino Evans for how to add data to Wikidata, individually and in bulk.
 * Collaborating with Wikisource volunteer, Sam Wilson, following Wikimania to produce materials to simplify process of working with Wikisource: the free digital library (pdf handouts, video tutorials etc.)
 * Exploring how a Wiki MOOC could be implemented which builds on the work of Wikimedia France.
 * Continuing to support colleagues at the University of Edinburgh's Digital Skills team to run their own Wikipedia training workshops.
 * Liaising with Leila Zia and Bob West to make improvements to the Gapfinder tool for the 3rd iteration of the Translation Studies MSc.
 * Arranged meeting with Gavin Willshaw, Digital Curator, to discuss how we can better work together and provide a showcase event for SDLC and SLIC representatives.
 * Confirmed arrangements with Alex Chow for the World Christianity MSc assignment in 2017/2018.
 * Confirmed arrangements with Chris Harlow for the Reproductive Biology Hons. assignment in 2017/2018.

Upcoming events in 2017

 * September 13 - Open Education and Digital Strategy meeting with UC Louvain representatives.
 * September 20 and 27 - Reproductive Biology Hons. workshops.
 * September 21 - Teaching with Wikipedia workshop.
 * September 22 and 29 - Translation Studies MSc workshops.
 * September 26 - Train the Trainer workshop.
 * September 27 - World Christianity MSc - Wikipedia editing workshop
 * September 29 - Wiki Women in Red meetup #5
 * October 5 - Wikipedia editing training workshop
 * October 10 - Ada Lovelace Day 2017
 * October 19 - Teaching with Wikipedia workshop.
 * October 24 - Train the Trainer workshop.
 * October 25 - Black History month editathon.
 * October 26 - Data Science and Design - Data Fair event.
 * October 27 - Wiki Women in Red meetup #6.
 * October 28 & 29 - WikidataCon
 * November 2 - Wikipedia editing workshop.
 * November 8 - Wikidata and Histropedia workshop.
 * November 14 - Teaching with Wikipedia workshop.
 * November 23 - Digital Sociology workshop - Karen Gregory, lecturer in Digital Sociology.
 * November 24 - Scottish Contemporary Artists editathon at the Fruitmarket Gallery with the School of Design Informatics.
 * November 24 - Being Human' editathon; organised by James Loxley, Professor of Early Modern Literature.
 * December - Swahili editathon (tbc).
 * December 21 - Wiki Women in Red meetup #7.

Videos

 * The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Media Hopper now has 208 videos. 28 more than last month; 19 of which were uploaded as a result of the Wikimania 2017 conference. 91 views this month with 134 plays.
 * The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Youtube now has accrued 16,508 views of its 36 videos with 74 subscribers (Eight hundred more views approx. than last month and 3 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)
 * 18) 'Wikipedia, research and representation- - Dr Amy Burge, Academic Developer at the Institute for Academic Development, University of Edinburgh.
 * 19) Mary Susan McIntosh and the Women in Red - Lorna Campbell.
 * 20) What do you do with a dead chemist? - Anne-Marie Scott.
 * 21) Wikipedia and Writing - Michael Seery, Reader in Education, School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh.
 * 22) Language and Politics - my takeaways by Mina Theofilatou.
 * 23) How is it almost August? - Lorna Campbell.
 * 24) While in Scotland - Käbi Suvi, Wikimedia Estonia.
 * 25) Celtic Knot Conference 2017 in Edinburgh - Astrid Carlsen, Wikimedia Norge.
 * 26) Wikipedia in the Classroom: developing information literacy, online citizenship and digital research skills - Teaching Matters blog 13th June 2017.
 * 27) Congratulations to our Wikimedian of the Year - Wikimedia UK blog 1st August 2017.
 * 28) University of Edinburgh journal vol.48 no.1 - Article about the Edinburgh residency on p.25
 * 29) Ada Lovelace Day 2017 - celebrating Women in STEM - article on the WiR blog on 1st September 2017.
 * 30) Scotland loves monuments - article for Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 on the Wir Blog - Friday 8 September 2017.
 * 31) Wanderings with a Wikimedian - Blog article by Anne-Marie Scott for Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 - Monday 11 September 2017.