Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/27th Month Report

NB: The 2018 UK higher education strike took place during this month, pausing on 20 March 2018

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

 * Scheduled a Wikipedia Women in Red meetup for Friday 30 March 2018. While 8 signed up for it, unfortunately many cancelled at the last moment and no one attended in the end. In hindsight, not a good idea to hold an event on Good Friday, particularly after the conclusion of a long-running strike.
 * Used the time to research and write a brand new 2000 word article on the important story of the suffragette Frances Gordon (aka Frances Graves and a distant relative of the war poet Robert Graves) who became prominent in the militant wing of the Scottish women's suffrage movement prior to the First World War and was imprisoned and force-fed for her actions.

Image statistics
The most viewed images for March 2018 were:
 * All uploads can be monitored via Images uploaded in collaboration between WMUK and the University of Edinburgh.
 * Baglama2 (page views for only those images released by the Centre for Research Collections
 * Baglama2 (page views for images in the parent category - Images uploaded in collaboration between WMUK and the University of Edinburgh.

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

 * Submitted conference proposal for a Wikipedia Translation workshop at the second Celtic Knot: Wikipedia Language Conference hosted this year at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth.
 * Created a new Wikipedia article on the 2018 UK higher education strike on 12 March 2018.
 * Successfully nominated the article for inclusion on Wikipedia's front page on their 'In the News' section where it was included with the passing of Stephen Hawking and the poisoning of Sergei Skripal.
 * The page has now been viewed in excess of  41,000 times  since its creation on 12 March 2018.
 * New Wikimedia Commons category created for images and videos arising from the strike. 19 uploads so far.
 * Made final arrangements with Sophie Nicholls, Head of Humanities at Teesside University, for the (Re)making Middlesbrough editathon event planned for 27-28 April 2018.
 * Met with Mike Bennett and Gavin Willshaw to finalise the data model for importing the Thesis Collection data from the Edinburgh Research Archive into Wikidata. Made 154 edits to Wikidata to improve the modelling of theses in readyness for the import. Now the data model is fully agreed, we are just awaiting Mike finalising the new tool he has developed to help import from the ALMA library catalogue into Wikidata.

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

Outcomes
Recorded video interviews with:


 * 1) Jemima John - 4th year Law undergraduate student.
 * 2) Ali Al Lawati - Phd Student in Islamic and Middle Eastern studies.
 * 3) Lucas Reynoso - 1st year International Relations undergraduate student.
 * 4) Karoline Nanfeldt - 4th year Psychology Undergraduate student.
 * 5) Tomas Sanders - 4th year History undergraduate student.
 * 6) Eve Sealy - Senior Hons. Reproductive Biology student.
 * 7) Mark Bradshaw - Translation Studies MSc student.
 * 8) Athina Frantzana - Phd Student at the School of Physics and Astronomy.
 * 9) Two groups of Data Science for Design MSc students discussing the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft database import into Wikidata.
 * 10) Dr. Jenni Garden (Christina Miller Research Fellow) and Dr. Michael Seery (Reader in Education) at the School of Chemistry.
 * 11) Dr. Richard Smith and Dr. Simon Riley, course leaders on the Reproductive Biology Honours programme at the MRC Centre for Reproductive Health.
 * 12) Melissa Highton, Assistant Principal for Online Learning and Director of Learning, Teaching and Web Services.
 * 13) Gavin Willshaw, Digital Curator at the University of Edinburgh Library.
 * 14) Ruth Jenkins, Academic Support Librarian at the University of Edinburgh Medical School.


 * The 4th iteration of the Wikipedia Translation assignment on the Translation Studies MSc programme concluded on 6 April 2018 with  9 new articles  being published.

Projects/events in development

 * Discussing with Hannah Evans at Wikimedia UK about the production of a new UK-based booklet of Wikipedia in the Classroom case studies.
 * Supporting Gavin Willshaw, digital curator at the University of Edinburgh, to prepare for running his first Wikipedia editathon at Portobello Library on Saturday 14 April (rescheduled after heavy snowfall).
 * Another iteration of the Wikipedia assignment in the Reproductive Biology Hons. course has been confirmed to go ahead in September 2018.
 * Wikipedia editing assignment for the Global Health MSc course - postponed until October 2018 due to Felix Stein working in Haiti at the moment.
 * Liaising with Pauline Kelly & Lois Wolffe (Amnesty Scotland) and Sara Thomas (Wikimedian at SLIC) on a Human Rights Defenders - Global Wikithon event for Amnesty International at the Glasgow Women's Library on Saturday 19 May 2018.
 * A collaboration with Michael Seery at the School of Chemistry and the Royal Society of Chemistry to be confirmed.
 * Ada Lovelace Day 2018 is confirmed as going ahead at the School of Chemistry again in October 2018; working with Michael Seery and Jenni Garden.
 * Further monthly Women in Red meetup scheduled for 8 June 2018 to mark the Processions event on 10 June 2018; celebrating 100 years of votes for women, marches and bannermaking.
 * Awaiting word from Sara Mortsell at Wikimedia Sweden about her plan to collaborate on a Wikipedia in Education knowledge sharing exercise between Wikimedia Sweden, Stockholm University, the University of Edinburgh and Tel Aviv University.
 * (Re)Making Middlesbrough - Editathon and Train the Trainer event with Sophie Nicholls at Teeside University confirmed all organised for 27-28 April 2018.
 * Law Society editathon arranged and to be led by law student Jemima John. This has been rescheduled for 15 May 2018 along with a collaboration on an article designed to provoke discussion of Wikipedia in the Law curriculum at a later date.
 * Showcase 'Wiki Loves Libraries' event for SDLC and SLIC representatives still mooted - awaiting word from Kirsty Lingstadt (Head of Digital Library) and liaising with Gavin Willshaw, Digital Curator on date and format.
 * Continuing to liaise with Gavin Willshaw and Mike Bennett at Library & University Collections on the import of thesis data to Wikidata from the Edinburgh Research Archive. Completed necessary preparatory work; just awaiting Mike finishing developing the tool that converts ALMA library catalogue data into a Wikidata-friendly import.
 * Continuing to add more data to Wikidata from the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft database. More to be added at the Digital Day of Ideas event on 16 May 2018 for digital scholars working at the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.
 * Liaising with Susan Ross, Gaelic Wikipedian at the National Library of Scotland, on a submission for the Gaelic Studies Conference at the University of Edinburgh next summer. Awaiting word on this from Susan.
 * Three presentations prepared for the Open Educational Resources Conference (OER18) on 18-19 April 2018: Wikidata in the Classroom (lightning talk), Stories of Student Empowerment - Wikipedia in the Classroom (15 minute presentation) and an EdTech editathon workshop. Recording interviews with multiple staff and students over the course of this month.

Upcoming events in 2018

 * April 14 - Portobello Library editathon.
 * April 18 - OER18 Conference.
 * April 19 - OER18 Conference.
 * April 27 - Re(making) Middlesbrough event at Teesside University.
 * April 28 - Re(making) Middlesbrough event at Teesside University.
 * May 3 - Webinar for Queens' University, Belfast.
 * May 15 - WikiProject Law editathon - run by Law undergraduate Jemima John.
 * May 16 - Digital Day of Ideas: Wikidata workshop.
 * May 19 - Human Rights Defenders event for Amnesty Scotland at the Glasgow Women's Library.
 * June 8 - Processions Wikipedia editathon - a Wikipedia Women in Red event to mark 100 years of votes for women, marches and bannermaking.
 * June 18 - Academia and Wikipedia Conference at Maynooth University, Ireland.
 * July 5 - Celtic Knot 2018, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.
 * July 6 - Celtic Knot 2018, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.
 * July 9-13 - Wikipedia editathon workshop at the EAHIL Conference.
 * September - 4th iteration of Reproductive Biology Hons. - Wikipedia in the Classroom project.

Slides

 * New set of slides uploaded to Slideshare following the Digital Transformation and Data presentation at the SCURL event on 23 March 2018.

New blogposts this month

 * Libraries, Literacies & Learning – presentation at SCURL event 23 March 2018
 * Digital Transformation and Data — The Wikimedia Residency at the University of Edinburgh on Medium.com
 * Wikimedia resources – how to get started.

Videos

 * Click to see the number of views for the newly added MOOC snippets for March 2018.

Wikimedian in Residence - University of Edinburgh Media Hopper channel

 * The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Media Hopper now has 224 videos. 32 views this month with 20 plays.

Wikimedian in Residence - Youtube channel

 * The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Youtube now has received over 31,047 views in total of its 63 videos with 142 subscribers (2,348 more views and 10,353 minutes watched approx. since last month with 19 more subscribers, 20 'likes', and 18 'shares' since last month). These videos have been viewed in over 99 different countries this month and in 163 countries around the world over the course of the channel's lifetime.

Image uploads to Wikimedia Commons

 * New Wikimedia Commons category created for images and videos arising from the 2018 UK higher education strike. 19 uploads so far.

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.
 * 32) Mortuary Chapel, Revisited - Anne-Marie Scott's blog September 30 2017.
 * 33) Ada Lovelace Day – Professor Elizabeth Slater - Lorna Campbell's blog on October 10 2017.
 * 34) Ada Lovelace Day - knitting resources
 * 35) Ada Lovelace Day 2017 photos.
 * 36) Wikipedia is a very lovely place to be - Anne-Marie Scott's blog.
 * 37) The 17th century map of Iceland released by the University of Edinburgh's Centre for Research Collections gets a mention in Creative Commons' influential 'State of the Commons report'.
 * 38) Wikipedia has always depended on the kindness of strangers - Outcomes of Ada Lovelace 2017 on the Wikimedian in Residence blog 19 October 2017.
 * 39) Wikipedia assignments – getting past the ‘Penguin effect’ and down to the brass tacks of sharing open knowledge - Teaching Matters blog.
 * 40) Ada Lovelace Day 2017 – Celebrating women in STEM - Edinburgh University Science Magazine.
 * 41) Another Story about Maps - Blogpost by Anne-Marie Scott 27 October 2017.
 * 42) Open Tumshies for Halloween - blogpost by Lorna Campbell 31 October 2017.
 * 43) Internet Transmitted Infections – I’ve got the SPLOTS - Anne-Marie Scott, 16 November 2017.
 * 44) Wikidata in the Classroom on the Wikimedian in Residence blog 22 November 2017.
 * 45) Open for all - Mansfield Traquair images hosted on Wikimedia Commons. Blog by Anne-Marie Scott 23 November 2017.
 * 46) Take an Equal Bite - Blogpost by Melissa Highton about EqualBITE: Gender equality in higher education and the the positive power of wikipedia editathons. 2nd December 2017.
 * 47) Wikipedia Games / SPLOTPoint - Anne-Marie Scott blog, January 1st 2018.
 * 48) 2017 Highs, Lows and Losses - Lorna Campbell blog, January 3rd 2018
 * 49) Wikipedia at 17 – Facts matter. - January 16th 2018.
 * 50) Reflections on International Women’s Day 2018 and Wikipedia – A Gude Cause - 8 March 2018.
 * 51) New SPLOT Wikidata tutorial - Wikidata Basics.
 * 52) Collaborated with John Lubbock at Wikimedia UK to produce Wikimedia UK blogpost: Data on the history of Scottish witch trials added to Wikidata on 9 March 2018.
 * 53) Libraries, Literacies & Learning – presentation at SCURL event 23 March 2018
 * 54) Digital Transformation and Data — The Wikimedia Residency at the University of Edinburgh on Medium.com
 * 55) Wikimedia resources – how to get started.