Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/37th and 38th Month Report

Work in progress

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

 * Our monthly Wikipedia Women in Red workshop was held on 1 February 2019 at the University of Edinburgh Library. Dashboard page with stats.
 * 7 new articles were created.
 * 2 more were drafted.
 * 47 articles were edited.
 * 147 edits in total.
 * 7 editors.
 * 6,800 words added.
 * 2,090 article views to date as of 1st May 2019.
 * A Wikipedia Diversithon was held on 20 February 2019 for LGBT History Month and the Festival of Creative Learning 2019 in partnership with student groups, Wellcomm Kings and UncoverEd.
 * 12 new articles were created.
 * 2 more were drafted.
 * 28 articles were edited.
 * 249 edits in total.
 * 15 editors.
 * 9,530 words added.
 * 88,400 article views to date as of 1st May 2019.
 * An International Women's Day event was held on 8 March 2019 celebrating the inspirational Women of Edinburgh missing from Wikipedia.
 * 12 new articles were created.
 * 52 articles were edited.
 * 449 edits in total.
 * 16 editors including 2 student editors remotely taking part in Johannesburg, South Africa.
 * 18,900 words added.
 * 82,800 article views to date as of 1st May 2019.

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 February 2019 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.

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

Course programmes involving Wikipedia assignments after year three

 * 1) Research session for Reproductive Biology Honours students. Blog article here. 4th iteration was in September 2018.
 * 2) World Christianity MSc course Blog article here. - 2nd iteration was in 2017/2018 (course leader on research leave in 2018/2019).
 * 3) Undergraduate English Literature Course: Global Modernisms: Inter/National Responses to Modernity (ENLI10369) - one iteration before the residency began in 2016.
 * 4) Translation Studies MSc. Blog article here. Being repeated - Now in its 6th iteration in 2018/2019.
 * 5) Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP) - one iteration in 2016/2017.
 * 6) Introductory Wikipedia project on the Online History MSc - one iteration in Summer 2016.
 * 7) Global Health MSc - First iteration in 2018/2019.
 * 8) Introductory workshop in Digital Sociology MSc - Second iteration to take place this semester in 2018/2019.
 * 9) Introductory workshop with School of Law - first iteration took place in semester one in 2018/2019.
 * 10) Wikidata project in Data Science for Design MSc - Second iteration completed in semester one, 2018/2019.
 * 11) Intellectual Humility (MOOC) - Ongoing Wikipedia component since 2016/2017.

Further collaborations

 * 1) Wikimedia for Online Language Learning as part of MSc in Language Teaching / MSc in TESOL.
 * 2) Psychology in Action MSc - Citizen Science Wikipedia project.
 * 3) Digital Education MSc - Wikipedia workshop mooted for semester two, 2018/2019 session.
 * 4) Open Data project on the Management Science course at the University of Edinburgh Business School to be discussed this semester for 2018/2019 session.
 * 5) Public Health MSc - Wikipedia project mooted for 2019/2020 session.

Projects/events in development

 * Another iteration of the Wikipedia assignment on the Translation Studies MSc course has been confirmed to go ahead in January to April 2019.
 * To finish off and launch the Case Studies booklet of Wikipedia in the Classroom.
 * To prepare an International Women's Day editathon at Argyle House on 8 March 2019.
 * Psychology in Action MSc assignment – discussing first iteration to go ahead in February 2019.
 * Digital education MSc assignment – discussing 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.
 * Importing a subset of the Tower Block archive images into Datashare and from there importing the images to Wikimedia Commons and linking to structured data in Wikidata. This is an ongoing project which I have discussed with Jason Evans, Wikimedian at the National Library of Wales.
 * Continuing to add more data to Wikidata from the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft database. Recruiting a Data and Visualisation intern (a Witchfinder General) to work on geographical aspect of the import.
 * Co-hosting a Wikipedia Diversithon with the student Wellcome Kings group and UnCoverEd student researchers to add more biographies of notable LGBT+ professionals and BAME professionals missing from the online encyclopedia.
 * Discussing Digital Sociology MSc workshop for March 2019 with course convenor, Kate Orton-Johnson.
 * To meet with Simon Fokt, Learning Technologist at the University of Edinburgh, about a Women in Philosophy editing event.
 * To further explore how Wikipedia editing could become part of the Edinburgh Award programme.
 * To continue meeting objectives in terms of our Athena SWAN commitment to writing new articles about notable women in ten different academic disciplines as part of the new 4 year (2018-2022) Athena SWAN plan.
 * To meet with Chalotte Kemp, Lecturer at Moray House, to discuss a Wikimedia and Online Language Learning project.

Upcoming events in 2019

 * February 19 - Histropedia workshop for the Festival of Creative Learning.
 * February 20 - Wikipedia Diversithon for LGBT+ History Month and the Festival of Creative Learning. Co-hosted by student Wellcomm Kings group, this event focuses on creating new articles about LGBT+ scientists and BAME scientists missing from the online encyclopedia.
 * March 8 - International Women's Day - a Women of Edinburgh Wikipedia editathon.
 * March 28 - Presentation at the UCISA Leadership Conference in Edinburgh.
 * April 10-11 - Open Education Resources Conference (OER19) in Galway, Ireland. (Not presenting this year).
 * April 26-28 - Presentation at the LILAC Information Literacy Conference in Nottingham.
 * June 19 - Presentation at the Learning and Teaching Conference at the University of Edinburgh.

New articles and blogposts this month

 * Article in the Scotsman: Women scientists being whitewashed from Wikipedia – Ewan McAndrew, Siobhan O’Connor, Dr Sara Thomas and Dr Alice White
 * Women and Wikipedia….Open Learning and a hobby for life!
 * Translation and Open Education – An Experiment using Wikipedia
 * Wikipedia in Higher Education: How students are shaping the open web
 * Diversifying Wikipedia for the Festival of Creative Learning 2019
 * JISC case study – Wikimedia in the curriculum: Addressing the challenges of digital and information literacy, digital scholarship and open knowledge at the University of Edinburgh
 * You can’t be what you can’t see: Creating new role models on Wikipedia to encourage the next generation of Immodest Women
 * International Women’s Day 2019
 * Recruiting a Witchfinder General

Videos

 * Click to see the number of pageviews on Wikipedia for January 2019 for the MOOC snippets on Wikimedia Commons.
 * Click to see the number of pageviews on Wikipedia for February 2019 for the MOOC snippets on Wikimedia Commons.
 * Click to see the number of pageviews on Wikipedia for March 2019 for the MOOC snippets on Wikimedia Commons.
 * The following table shows number of plays of OER Media snippets shared to Commons from 12 January 2019 to 11 March 2019.

Wikimedian in Residence - University of Edinburgh Media Hopper channel
The most played videos were:
 * The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Media Hopper now has 254 videos. 75 views this month with 82 plays.

Wikimedian in Residence - Youtube channel

 * The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Youtube which has now received over 59,878 views in total of its 69 videos with 258 subscribers (5,284 more views and 23,066 minutes watched approx. since the last report with 17 more subscribers, 50 'likes', and 59 'shares' since the last report). These videos have been viewed in 168 countries around the world over the course of the channel's lifetime. 229,047 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
 * 90) Editing Wikipedia as part of teaching public health? by Felix Stein, by Global Health MSc course leader at the University of Edinburgh.
 * 91) JISC Case study:Wikimedia in the curriculum - addressing the challenges of digital and information literacy, digital scholarship and open knowledge at the University of Edinburgh.
 * 92) The New Statesman:From Chinese spies to award-winning geologists, we’re making women visible on Wikipedia - co-authored with Siobhan O'Connor, Sara Thomas and Alice White.
 * 93) Wikimedian in Residence blog:You can’t be what you can’t see - creating new role models on Wikipedia to encourage the next generation of #ImmodestWomen.
 * 94) Women scientists being whitewashed from Wikipedia – Ewan McAndrew, Siobhan O’Connor, Dr Sara Thomas and Dr Alice White
 * 95) International Women’s Day 2019
 * 96) Recruiting a Witchfinder General
 * 97) Women and Wikipedia….Open Learning and a hobby for life!
 * 98) Translation and Open Education – An Experiment using Wikipedia
 * 99) Wikipedia in Higher Education: How students are shaping the open web
 * 100) Diversifying Wikipedia for the Festival of Creative Learning 2019
 * 101) JISC case study – Wikimedia in the curriculum: Addressing the challenges of digital and information literacy, digital scholarship and open knowledge at the University of Edinburgh