Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/33rd and 34th 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

 * Uploaded 442 images for Wiki Loves Monuments 2018.
 * 4,373 images shared from Scotland for the whole month of Wiki Loves Monuments 2018.
 * 1,303 images were shared by staff at the University of Edinburgh.
 * 7 trained to edit Wikipedia at the WP:WikiProject Women in Red monthly meetup on 19 September 2018.
 * 2 new articles created at the WikiProject Women in Red meetup: accused witch Euphame MacCalzean and Spanish Civil War nurse Annie Murray. Infoboxes added to Margaret Irwin (trade unionist) and Cicely Hale. 1 draft article on historian Christina Larner.
 * 15 trained to edit Wikipedia and Wikidata for Ada Lovelace Day 2018.
 * 51 booked to attend the Ada Lovelace Day talks on the morning of 9 October 2018.
 * 90+ booked to attend the evening Women in STEM networking event.
 * The Contemporary Women in STEM editathon resulted in 4 improved pages, 1 drafted page and 6 new pages including:
 * Francisca Mutapi
 * Pippa Goldschmidt
 * Tara Spires-Jones
 * Margaret M. Perry
 * Natalie Villalobos
 * Mary Etherington
 * Academic Support Librarian Kangarooth has written 42 new articles for WP:WikiProject Women in Red since learning how to edit in February this year.
 * Visited the University of Edinburgh Archives on 26 September to discuss the Vote 100 launch event, Histropedia timeline and editathon and attended two planning meetings (11 October and 5 November) about the event with Rachel Hosker (Archives Manager), Jacky Macbeath (Head of University Museums) and Kirsty MacNab, Exhibitions Officer at Centre for Research Collections.
 * Trained the new Gender and Equality PhD intern, Francesca Vavotici, at the Centre for Research Collections on 6 November along with Clare Button, archivist, with a view to surfacing more archival content to Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikisource, Wiki Commons and Histropedia. Afterwards, attended the launch of the new Digital Scholarship Centre.
 * Met with Miles Glendinning, Database assistant Kat Breen, Pauline Ward and Lorna Campbell on three occasions to discuss 100 gigabytes of social housing images from around the world and the Edinburgh College of Art's Tower Block archive with a view to sharing to the university's Datashare repository, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata. The HLF licensing has been resolved so Kat Breen will prepare a subset from the 4,000 pics in the UK Tower Block archive as a proof of concept for doing more.
 * Planned Edinburgh Gothic event for 13 November with PhD student Vicki Madden.
 * Met with Gavin Willshaw (Digital Curator), Mike Bennett (Library Developer) and Alasdair MacDonald (Metadata Co-ordinator) on 16 October to discuss the final phases of the import of the Thesis Collection into Wikidata. Mike has developed a tool which can turn ALMA catalogue metadata into a format Wikidata can easily import and plans to release this on github. Testing of this tool will begin shortly, thereafter the import will follow swiftly.

Image statistics

 * 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.

The most viewed images for October 2018 were:

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

 * Was interviewed at length by Joe Matazzoni at the Wikimedia Foundation in California on 12 Septemnber about developing a new tool to better support running editathons.
 * Met with Sara Thomas (Scotland Programme Co-ordinator at Wikimedia UK), Anne-Marie Scott and Melissa Highton on 14 September 2018 to discussing the Edinburgh residency and areas for development.
 * Attended Data Literacy, Open Data and Knowledge-Building Communities - conference at the University of Stirling and met with Sara Thomas and Martin Poulter and networked with other open data practitioners.
 * Attended Team Managers' meeting on 1st October and outlined the Wikipedia in the Classroom work we have been doing at the Digital Learning Applications and Media (DLAM) section meeting on 17 October.
 * Planned and delivered a 3 hour Wikidata 6th birthday event for Halloween with Sara Thomas and Delphine Dallison.
 * Pitched the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft database as a student project at the Data Science for Design MSc on 11 October. 6 students volunteered before we settled on three students to take this project forward until 30 November 2018.
 * Completed rewrite of a JISC case study of the Wikimedia residency at the University of Edinburgh.
 * Completed case study on the Translation Studies MSc Wikipedia assignment with co-author Lorna Campbell for inclusion in the new book of Case Studies of Openness in the Language Classroom - edited by Ana Beaven, Anna Comas-Quinn and Barbara Sawhill.
 * Collaborating with Hannah Evans at Wikimedia UK, Lorna Campbell, Anne-Marie Scott and Melissa Highton on a new booklet of Case Studies of Wikipedia in the Classroom. Next step is to work with the University of Edinburgh graphic design team and finalise content.
 * Had abstract accepted for the Dealing with Data one day conference on Open Science and Open Scholarship at the University of Edinburgh on 23 November 2018.
 * Met with representatives of the University of Coventry on 3rd October 2018 with a view to discussing the Edinburgh residency and lessons learnt that could help with a Wikimedia residency at the University of Coventry.
 * Submitted abstract to the LILAC Conference on three years of the Wikimedia residency at the University of Edinburgh and "embedding Wikipedia in the curriculum.
 * Submitted Wellbeing Week events on Facts and Fallacies:Cultural Representations of Mental Health to the student association's (EUSA's) programme for the week, held final planning meeting on 12 October and met with Professor Jolyon Mitchell and Rosie Taylor of student initiative Wellcomm Kings on 7 November to discuss their co-chairing the event.

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

Outcomes

 * Started working with three new students on the Data Science for Design MSc project to import more data from the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft Database into Wikidata.
 * Trained five new attendees how to work with Wikidata and Histropedia.
 * Trained five new attendees from the School of Law how to work with Wikipedia with a view to an assignment.
 * Skyped Felix Stein, course organiser on the Global Health MSc, on 13 September. This resulted in a project where I trained 27 x Global Health MSc students how to edit Wikipedia as part of an assignment to add 180 words to a Global Health topic on Wikipedia on 26 and 30 October 2018. 6,750 words have been added since the assignment began.
 * Trained 25 x Translation Studies MSc students how to translate Wikipedia articles as part of their semester-long assignment.
 * Trained 22 x Reproductive Biology Honours students how to create new Wikipedia articles on reproductive biomedicine topics.
 * Results of the Reproductive Biomedicine assignment: 4 articles created (students worked in groups), 15 articles edited, 318 total edits, 14,100 words added.
 * Translation Studies MSC drop in clinics delivered in Computing Labs at 50 George Square on 15 October, 22 October, 29 October, 12 November.
 * Psychology in Action MSc assignment – meeting with Eve Murzyn, course organiser, on 12 October agreed first iteration to go ahead in February 2019.
 * Digital Education MSc assignment – meeting with Dr Philippa Sheail, course organiser, on 16 October agreed first iteration to go ahead in February 2019.
 * Arranged meeting to discuss Wikipedia editing's potential inclusion on the Edinburgh Award on 27 November 2018.
 * Discussed with Karen Gregory, Course organiser on the Digital Sociology MSc, about a Wikipedia workshop in Spring 2019.
 * Submitted two proposals for workshops for the Festival of Creative Learning in February on Histropedia and a Women in Medicine: Edinburgh Seven improve-a-thon.

Projects/events in development

 * Working with Vicki Madden to organise a Mental Health Awareness event during Wellbeing Week (12-16 November 2018) at the University of Edinburgh. Also going to host Edinburgh Gothic 2018 on Robert Louis Stevenson Day - 13 November 2018.
 * 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.
 * Another iteration of the Wikipedia assignment on the Translation Studies MSc course has been confirmed to go ahead in January to April 2019.
 * Psychology in Action MSc assignment – meeting with Eve Murzyn, course organiser, agreed first iteration to go ahead in February 2019.
 * Digital education MSc assignment – meeting with Dr. Philippa Sheail, course organiser, agreed first iteration to go ahead in February 2019.
 * 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 testing the tool on Wikidata's test site 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. Being worked on by Data Science for Design MSc students again this year.
 * Liaising with Anne-Marie Scott, Stewart Cromar, Kirsty MacNab, Jacky MacBeath, Rachel Hosker and Navino Evans about a Vote 100 Wikipedia editathon on Friday 30 November to support a Library and University Collections exhibition.
 * Confirmed with the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Digital Scholarship programme to run two workshops this semester: one on Wikipedia and one on Wikidata.
 * Confirmed with Simon Cobb at Leeds Library and Hannah Evans at Wikimedia UK about a 'Wikidata and OpenRefine workshop' to be held at the university on 16-17 November 2018.

Upcoming events in 2018

 * November 13 - Robert Louis Stevenson Day 2018.
 * November 14 - Mental Health Awareness Day for Wellbeing Week 2018.
 * November 22 - Teaching with Wikipedia workshop.
 * November 23 - Dealing with Data - 1 day conference at the University of Edinburgh on Open Science and Open Scholarship
 * November 29 - Vote 100 exhibition launch event.
 * November 30 - Vote 100 Wikipedia editathon at the University of Edinburgh's Digital Scholarship Centre
 * December 4 - Wikisource workshop.
 * December 6 - Wikipedia Women in Red workshop.
 * December 7 - Meeting with Nick Sheppard, Leeds University Library.
 * December 7 - Wikidata workshop on the Digital Scholarship programme.
 * December 10 - Train the Trainer workshop.
 * December 12 – Edinburgh Futures: data, data all around (Informatics)
 * January 25 – Workshop for Translation Studies MSc
 * February – First iteration of Psychology in Action MSc assignment – Citizen Science.
 * February – First iteration of Digital Education MSc assignment.
 * February - Histropedia workshop for Festival of Creative Learning.

Wikimedian in Residence blog

 * Facts and Fallacies: Cultural Representations of Mental Health
 * Edinburgh Gothic for Robert Louis Stevenson Day 2018
 * Witchy Wikidata – a 6th birthday celebration event for Halloween

Videos

 * Click to see the number of pageviews on Wikipedia for September 2018 for the MOOC snippets on Wikimedia Commons.
 * Click to see the number of pageviews on Wikipedia for October 2018 for the MOOC snippets on Wikimedia Commons.
 * The following table shows number of plays of OER Media snippets shared to Commons from 12 October to 11 November 2018.

Wikimedian in Residence - University of Edinburgh Media Hopper channel
The most played videos were:
 * The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Media Hopper now has 248 videos. 38 views this month with 27 plays.

Wikimedian in Residence - Youtube channel

 * The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Youtube which has now received over 46,155 views in total of its 68 videos with 208 subscribers (2,394 more views and 10,581 minutes watched approx. since last month with 9 more subscribers, 26 'likes', and 16 'shares' since last month). These videos have been viewed in 168 countries around the world over the course of the channel's lifetime. 170,176 minutes have now been watched since the channel started.

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.
 * 63) NEW 'SPLOT' resource for running a Wikipedia translation workshop created for the Celtic Knot 2018 conference at the National Library of Wales on 5-6 July.
 * 64) NEW 'SPLOT' resource for running a Wikipedia 'micro' editathon workshop initially created by the resident and then Academic Support Librarian colleagues tailored & populated the resource for use at the EAHIL conference in Cardiff on 13 July.
 * 65) Wikipedia in the Classroom – how students are shaping the open web - Teaching Matters blog
 * 66) Case study about the Wikidata in the Classroom project on the Data Science for Design MSc course. Uploaded to Wikimedia Commons and shared in Wikidata Status Updates.
 * 67) Towards Open-ish? - a hybrid conversation organised as part of the Wikimania conference in Cape Town.
 * 68) Languages - blog about whether other language Wikipedias should refer to all places in Scotland by their Gaelic names.
 * 69) Newspapers - created a Wikipedia page as part of Mike Caulfield’s Newspapers on Wikipedia project.
 * 70) Reflections on CELT Symposium 2018 - includes mention of our Open Content Curation Student Interns and the Wikimedia in the Classroom initiatives.
 * 71) The Soul of Liberty: Openness, Equality and Co-creation - transcript of Lorna Campbell's keynote at CELT 2018 - includes Wikipedia in the classroom initiatives and Wikidata projects at the University of Edinburgh.
 * 72) Circular Records Hall on Atlas Obscura - one of Lorna's photographs was featured in Atlas Obscura. It was one that she uploaded to Wikimedia Commons as part of the Wiki Loves Monuments competition last year.
 * 73) What I did on my holidays - taking pictures for Wiki Loves Monuments.
 * 74) Academia and Wikipedia – a presentation at Maynooth University on 18 June 2018.
 * 75) Celebrating 100 years of Votes for Women
 * 76) Ada Lovelace Day 2018 – nominate Women in STEM heroines.
 * 77) Open.Ed – OER and Open Knowledge at the University of Edinburgh.
 * 78) Wikidata in the Classroom and the WikiCite project - presentation at Repository Fringe 2018.
 * 79) University wins Wikimedia UK’s Partnership of the Year award
 * 80) University of Edinburgh wins Wikimedia UK Partnership of the Year Award.
 * 81) Open.Ed at RepoFringe18
 * 82) Scotland loves Monuments 2018
 * 83) Wiki Loves Monuments 2018
 * 84) The internet’s favourite website for information.
 * 85) How to run a Wikipedia editathon – a workshop for health information professionals at the EAHIL conference - This post was authored by Ruth Jenkins, Academic Support Librarian at the University of Edinburgh.
 * 86) Ada Lovelace Day – 1 month to go!
 * 87) Facts and Fallacies: Cultural Representations of Mental Health
 * 88) Edinburgh Gothic for Robert Louis Stevenson Day 2018
 * 89) Witchy Wikidata – a 6th birthday celebration event for Halloween