Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/29th 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.

Outcomes

 * Attended Amnesty International Wikipedia event on 19 May run by Sara Thomas and Delphine Dallison - new page created for Shackelia Jackson, Jamaican human rights activist. Map of Prisoners of Conscience on Wikidata. List of Prisoners of Conscience on Wikidata. List of Human Rights Defenders on Wikidata.
 * New data-driven timeline created for [http://histropedia.com/showcase/wikidata-viewer.html?q=%23Women%20human%20rights%20activists%20on%20Wikidata%0A%23Timeline%20generated%20using%20Histropedia%27s%20Wikidata%20Query%20Viewer.%0A%0ASELECT%20?Person%20?personLabel%20?dob%20?Gender%20?Country%20?article?precision%20?image%20?Occupation%20?rank%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%0A%0A%20%20%20%20?person%20wdt:P31%20wd:Q5%20.%20%23%20human%0A%20%20%20%20?person%20wdt:P106%20%20wd:Q1476215.%20%23Occupation%20of%20human%20rights%20activist%0A%20%20%20%20?person%20wdt:P19%20?birthPlace%20.%0A%20%20%20%20?person%20wdt:P21%20wd:Q6581072%20.%20%23female%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20?person%20wdt:P18%20?image%20.%7D%20%23image%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20?person%20wdt:P106%20?occupation%20.%7D%20%23occupation%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20?birthPlace%20wdt:P17%20?country%20%7D%20%23place%20of%20birth%0A%20%20%20%20?person%20p:P569/psv:P569%20?dobNode%20.%20%23date%20of%20birth%0A%20%20%20%20?dobNode%20wikibase:timeValue%20?dob%20.%0A%20%20%20%20?dobNode%20wikibase:timePrecision%20?precision%20.%0A%20%20%20%20?article%20schema:about%20?person%20.%0A%20%20%20%20?article%20schema:isPartOf%20%3Chttps://en.wikipedia.org/%3E.%0A%0A%20%20%20?person%20wikibase:sitelinks%20?rank%20.%0A%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase:label%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20bd:serviceParam%20wikibase:language%20%22en%22.%0A?gender%20rdfs:label%20?Gender%20.%0A?person%20rdfs:label%20?Person%20.%0A?country%20rdfs:label%20?Country%20.%0A?occupation%20rdfs:label%20?Occupation.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%7D%0A%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%20(?rank)&md=true&g=article&l=article&t=Person&s=dob&sp=precision&i=image&c=Country,Occupation,Gender&f=Country,Occupation,Gender&v=t Women Human Rights Defenders].
 * 9 brand new Wikipedia articles at the Processions 2018 editathon on 8 June.
 * 212 improved articles and items of data
 * a timeline of the Eagle House suffragettes
 * a timeline of Women's suffrage in Scotland
 * a list of Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) members 1903–1917
 * a list of suffragettes
 * a map of suffragettes around the world
 * a new Navigation Box on 'Women's suffrage in Scotland' added to the foot of each suffragette's Wikipedia page.
 * 3 high-res images of the 1909 Edinburgh processions shared by Edinburgh Central Libraries.
 * Law undergraduate student and Digital Skills intern, Jemima John, ran her own WikiProject Law editathon on 15 May 2018. Met with her ahead of the editathon to make sure she was prepared and attended to support the event also.
 * 3 new articles created and 1 improved during the Law editathon: Act against Blasphemy 1661, New French Civil Procedure Code, Qimron v. Shanks and Bioprospecting. 1 image of the Scales of Justice added to Wikimedia Commons.Justice (2233509492).jpg.

Image statistics
The most viewed images for May 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 a proposal on 31st May 2018 to the Repository Fringe 2018 conference for a 10 x 10 presentation (10 slides in 10 minutes) on Wiki Wicca: the Wikidata in the Classroom project importing the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft database.
 * Took part in the end-of-day panel session at the Digital Day of Ideas on 16 May 2018, an annual showcase and networking event for digital scholarship across the University of Edinburgh, featuring workshops, seminars and invited speakers from the wider Digital Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences community. The panel discussed the place of the university (not just Edinburgh but The University) at this stage of the digital society, and the role of arts, humanities, and social science research, in the wider discussions surrounding our increasing reliance on the digital.
 * Attended two Data in the City events organised by the Edinburgh Living Lab.
 * Presented on the Edinburgh residency at the ALT Scotland event on 11 June 2018.
 * Held a catchup meeting with Hannah Evans at Wikimedia UK on 6 June to discuss the new Wikimedia UK booklet of Wikipedia in the Classroom case studies.
 * Attended book launch of EqualBITE on 29 May 2018 which has includes a recipe for how to run a Wikipedia editathon to address gender inequality through contributing new articles about missing women role models in order to increase their visibility and help inspire others.
 * Met with Gavin Willshaw, digital curator at the University of Edinburgh, on 7 June 2018 to plan a University of Edinburgh editathon for Library & University Collection staff.
 * Met with Theo Andrew, Scholarly Communications Manager, and Damon Querry, Research Information Systems Manager, on 6 June 2018 to discuss Wikipedia and Wikidata in terms of the university's research outputs and formulating guidance for how the university can better demonstrate its commitment to Open Science.
 * Met with Vice Principal Lesley McAra and the Edinburgh Local team on 17 May 2018 to discuss the University’s institutional approach to public engagement with research in terms of how Wikipedia, Wiki Commons, Wikidata and Histropedia can help.
 * Met with Academic Support Librarians Marshall Dozier, Ruth Jenkins and Donna Watson to support their preparations to run a How to run a Wikipedia editathon workshop at the EAHIL Conference in Cardiff on 13 July in order to encourage health infromation librarians attending the conference from around the world to run their own workshops at their own institutions to improve the health information available online around the world.

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

Outcomes

 * Met with Law undergraduate Jemima John and course leaders, Rachael Craufurd-Smith and Hector MacQueen, on 7 June 2018 to discuss how a Wikipedia in the Classroom assigment could be implemented in the School of Law curriculum for postgraduate students, undergraduate students or both.
 * Wrote an article with law undergraduate, Jemima John, about how Wikipedia could be incorporated to enhance curriculum work at the School of Law. Blog article: How students are shaping the open web.
 * Met with Vicki Madden to discuss a Mental Health Awareness Wikipedia editathon for Wellbeing Week in November 2018.
 * Delivered two hour practical Wikidata workshop at the Digital Day of Ideas 2018. This result in 240 edits to Wikidata, adding place of residence data for accused witches from the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft database as a means of demonstrating a real world dataset being incorporated into Wikidata and the WDedit feature of the Listeria tool. New SPLOT workshop resource showcased.
 * Mass imported all recorded occupations for the accused witches in the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft database into Wikidata using the QuickStatements tool during the Wikidata Workshop at the Digital Day of Ideas. Bubble chart of occupations. As a result, we now know that if you were a) female b) middle class and c) a midwife, domestic worker or a vagrant in 16th/17th century Scotland your chances were not great. Tweet.
 * Met with Susan Greig, Learning Technology Adviser at the University of Edinburgh, on 24 May 2018 to discuss running an Educational Technology (EdTech) Wikipedia editathon for colleagues with CMALTs in order to improve the educational technology information available online.

Projects/events in development

 * Continuing to liaise with Hannah Evans at Wikimedia UK about the production of a new UK-based booklet of Wikipedia in the Classroom case studies.
 * Drafting text on how Wikipedia and Wikidata can support the university's research outputs and help demonstrate the university's commitment to Open Science.
 * Gavin Willshaw, digital curator at the University of Edinburgh, has planned in 2 Wikipedia training events to take place 11am to 4pm for Library and University Collections Staff over the Summer months.
 * 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.
 * 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. The focus this year may be on contemporary women in chemistry.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * The import of thesis collection data to Wikidata from the Edinburgh Research Archive is to go ahead now Library Developer Mike Bennett's contract is continuing. Completed necessary preparatory work; just awaiting Mike finishing developing the tool that converts ALMA library catalogue data into a Wikidata-friendly import. Met with him briefly on 8 June 2018 to discuss this.
 * 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.

Upcoming events in 2018

 * June 18 - Academia and Wikipedia Conference at Maynooth University, Ireland.
 * June 2-3 - Wikidata 10 x 10 presentation at Repository Fringe 2018.
 * 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.

New blogposts this month

 * Wikipedia in Higher Education (co-authored with Jemima John, 4th year Law undergraduate student.
 * Wikipedia in Higher Education… How students are shaping the open web.
 * Tracings (don’t look too closely)
 * NEW SPLOT resource created for the Wikidata Workshop at the Digital Day of Ideas.

Videos

 * Click to see the number of views for May 2018 for the MOOC snippets on Wikimedia Commons.

Wikimedian in Residence - University of Edinburgh Media Hopper channel
The most played videos were:
 * The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Media Hopper now has 247 videos. 49 views this month with 55 plays.

Wikimedian in Residence - Youtube channel

 * The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Youtube which has now received over 34,738 views in total of its 67 videos with 159 subscribers (2,108 more views and 7,795 minutes watched approx. since last month with 7 more subscribers, 32 'likes', and 20 'shares' since last month). These videos have been viewed in over 102 different countries this month and in 165 countries around the world over the course of the channel's lifetime.

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.
 * 56) The OER 18 EdTech editathon 'SPLOT' resource.
 * 57) Wikimedia at the Open Educational Resources Conference 2018
 * 58) Whit’s fur ye’ll no go by ye – reflection on 12 months by Ruth Jenkins, Academic Support Librarian at the University of Edinburgh Medical School.
 * 59) Wikipedia in Higher Education (co-authored with Jemima John, 4th year Law undergraduate student.
 * 60) Wikipedia in Higher Education… How students are shaping the open web.
 * 61) Tracings (don’t look too closely)
 * 62) NEW SPLOT resource created for the Wikidata Workshop at the Digital Day of Ideas.