Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/4th Month Report

Activities
In addition, I ran a Wikimedia & Altmetric session for the Almetric Pilot Group and there were two Wiki Social Meets; one in Glasgow and one in Edinburgh.

Content

 * Updated and added to the project page for the residency: University of Edinburgh
 * Added articles to the Wikimedian in Residence blog at http://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wir/
 * Created & updated the event page for the Spy Week 2016 editathon
 * Created Wikimedia & Altmetrics materials - here
 * Created & updated 'History of Veterinary Medicine' editathon page[| here]
 * Created & updated 'Images uploaded in collaboration between WMUK and the University of Edinburgh' category on Wikicommons here

Number of views of University of Edinburgh images in April: Source: Baglama2
 * 339,725

28 day Twitter summary (up to 11th May) with change over previous period 77 69.5K - up 181% 1180 27  213 - up 99
 * Tweets
 * Tweet impressions
 * Profile visits
 * Mentions
 * Followers

Articles created

 * Eileen Burgoyne - a Cold War Spy who worked for the British Government after the Second World War.
 * Jessie Jordan - a Scottish hairdresser who was found guilty of spying for the German Abwehr on the eve of World War II.
 * Rozanne Colchester - joined Bletchley Park as a decoder. Post war she held an undisclosed role with the Secret Intelligence Service. Serving in Cairo and Istanbul where she helped investigate the double agent Kim Philby.
 * Luisa Zeni - an Italian secret agent and writer.
 * Marie Meyer - an American linguist and spy who worked for the National Security Agency from 1943-60. She was assigned to the Venona project and is credited with making some of the first recoveries of the Venona codebook. She studied eight foreign languages and was the first person to receive the NSA's Meritorious Civilian Service Award.
 * Magda Fontanges - also known as Madeleine Coraboeuf, was a French actress, journalist and a spy for the Germany Secret Service between 1940 and 1943.
 * Ginette Jullian: a French spy during the Second World War, she trained for the SOE, learning parachuting, security, and wireless operation. Created as a remote contribution to this editathon. Pam  D  22:36, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Sarah Helm - a British journalist and non-fiction writer. She worked for The Sunday Times and The Independent in the 1980s and 1990s. Her first book, A Life in Secrets detailing the life of the secret agent Vera Atkins, was published in 2005.
 * Melissa Boyle Mahle - a writer and former Central Intelligence Agency officer in the Middle East. Her books include Denial and Deception: An Insider’s View of the CIA from Iran-Contra to 9/11. She acted as a consultant for the film Salt.
 * Minnie M. Kenny - served as a cryptanalyst, educator and equal opportunity activist who worked at the National Security Agency.
 * Astrid Dövle Dollis Dahlgren - nicknamed the "Scandinavian 'Mata Hari'" was a Norwegian dentist and property dealer. After she became Swedish by marriage she worked for Nazi Germany during World War II.
 * Juliana Mickwitz - She was employed with the American military and later National Security Agency as a translator, linguist and cryptanalyst. She was inducted into the Cryptologic Hall of Honor in 2012.
 * Dorothy Blum - an American computer scientist and cryptanalyst. She wrote computer software for the NSA and spearheaded the effort to teach NSA employees to write cryptanalytic programs. She was using the Fortran programming language three years before its public release in 1957. Blum "significantly changed the way NSA did cryptanalysis". She was also elected one of the top 100 "most outstanding women in the federal government".
 * Josette Bruce - a French novelist of Polish origin. She is remembered for taking over the literary series OSS 117 about secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath after the death of her husband Jean Bruce, creator of the series.
 * Leslie Silbert - an American writer who has worked as a private investigator. In 2004, she published her first novel The Intelligience, a spy story based on an incident in the life of the British 16th-century author Christopher Marlowe.
 * Ruth A. David - an American electrical engineer. While at the CIA, David was responsible for encouraging the agency to pursue partnerships with the private sector and designed a proposal to procure technology at the stage of development from the private sector. She has been awarded the CIA Director's Award, the Defense Intelligence Agency Director's Award, the CIA Distinguished Intelligence Medal, the National Reconnaissance Officer's Award for Distinguished Service, and the National Security Agency Distinguished Service Medal.
 * Ruth Mitchell - a reporter who was the only American woman to serve with the Serbian anti-Axis Chetnik guerrillas under Draža Mihailović in World War II. She was captured by the Gestapo and spent a year as a prisoner of war, later writing a book about her experiences. She also wrote a book about one of her brothers, General Billy Mitchell, who is regarded as the founder of the U.S. Air Force.
 * Grace Banker - a telephone operator who served during World War I (1917-1918) as Chief Operator of telephones of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) in the U.S. Army Signal Corps. She was the leader of 33 women telephone operators known popularly as Hello Girls who were assigned from New York to travel to France and work at the war front in Paris, Chaumont to operate the telephone switch boards at the First Army headquarters. About her work in the war front she said that "the secrecy surrounding their operations gave it an aura of romance and set it apart from the civilian work."

Articles improved

 * Lilian Rolfe - an Allied secret agent in World War II.
 * Stella Rimington - a British author and former Director General of MI5, a position she held from 1992 to 1996. She was the first female DG of MI5, and the first DG whose name was publicised on appointment.
 * Lise de Baissac - a heroine of the Special Operations Executive during the Second World War, a special agent who risked her life running her own operations; she was awarded several gallantry awards after the war.
 * Kim Philby - a high-ranking member of British intelligence who worked as a double agent before defecting to the Soviet Union in 1963. He served as both an NKVD and KGB operative.
 * Pearl Witherington - a World War II Special Operations Executive agent. Given the code name "Marie", Witherington was dropped by parachute into occupied France in September 1943, where she joined Maurice Southgate, leader of the Stationer Network. Over the next eight months, she worked as Southgate's courier. After the Gestapo arrested Southgate in May 1944 who was subsequently deported to Buchenwald, she became leader of the new Wrestler Network, under a new code-name "Pauline". Her story has been cited as the inspiration for the Sebastian Faulks novel Charlotte Gray.
 * Charles Medhurst - a First World War Royal Flying Corps pilot on the Western Front and later a senior officer in the Royal Air Force (father of Rozanne Colchester).
 * Marie Christine Chilver also known by the codename Agent Fifi, was a British secret agent in World War II. Originally recruited after escaping the Nazis and helping a British airman return to England, she worked for the Special Operations Executive assessing and testing the security awareness of trainee secret agents.
 * Agent 355 - the code name of a female spy during the American Revolution, part of the Culper Ring. Agent 355 is one of the first spies for the United States, but her real identity is unknown. Agent 355 is thought to have played a major role in exposing Benedict Arnold and the arrest of Major John Andre.

Objectives
Briefly outline how the projects delivered link with the general objectives of the residency, and the Wikimedia UK’s mission. This section may stay the same for the whole of the projects unless objectives change

Outcomes
This month has been about delivering the Spy Week 2016:Women in Espionage editathon as well as researching & running a Wikipedia & Altmetric session for the university's Altmetric pilot group. Following this, preparing & delivering sessions such as 'Wikipedia editing training' and 'Ask a Wikimedian' at the OER16 conference involved hosting & learning from a number of Wikimedians and OER practitioners from the UK and around the world. I have also delivered 4 Wikipedia training sessions for staff and students at the Edinburgh University Library and Edinburgh College of Art and hosted two Wiki meetups to engage the wider Scots Wiki community (one in Glasgow on 30th April and one at the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh on 5th May). I have shared & learnt a great deal of good practice from my colleague, Martin Poulter, Wikimedian at the Bodleian Library & continued my Skype sessions with Richard Nevell at WMUK. I met with James Smith (Vice Principal - International) to arrange an editathon event themed on recognising & celebrating the achievements and impact of international alumni. I also met with Gill Hamilton at the National Library of Scotland to discuss partnerships on two events, one in Edinburgh Gothic in November and one for Moving Image Archive at the Kelvinhall relaunch in Glasgow. I met with Pauline Ward to discuss a Wikidata & Wikisource Showcase event I will deliver with Navino Evans in August for Repro Fringe. The month ended with meeting the Library & Special Collections team to discuss collaborating in the months ahead, a discussion with Christine Sinclair & Sian Bayne about involving Wikipedia Editing in the Digital Education MSc course and a final meeting with the Vet School to finalise a History of Veterinary Medicine editathon for staff in July.

Partnerships

 * Briefly met with Karen Gregory, lecturer in Digital Sociology, to discuss a potential collaboration on Wikipedia & Digital Sociology.
 * Partnered with the Vet School to deliver an editathon for staff and Wikipedia training sessions for students.
 * Partnered with Gill Hamilton (National Library of Scotland) for 26th April 2016 to discuss a Wikimedia collaboration for the relaunch of the Kelvinhall site in Glasgow, potentially involving the NLS Moving Picture Archive.
 * Arranged meeting for early May to meet with Joe Marshall (Head of Special Collections and the Centre for Research Collections) and his team.
 * Partnered with Fiona Hale of the PgCAP course to embed Wikipedia within the course design for this year and future years.
 * Partnered with Sian Bayne & Christine Sinclair of the Digital Education MSc course to see if Wikipedia training can be embedded in their course design.
 * Partnered with James Smith (Vice Principal - International) to deliver an International Alumni editathon event in October 2016.

Planned activities

 * To lead the Vet School Staff CPD Wikipedia editathon on the 'History of Veterinary Medicine' on 4th July 2016.
 * To lead the Vet School student Wikipedia training sessions in Autumn 2016.
 * To lead the Reproductive Medicine editathons on 21st & 28th September 2016.
 * To utilise Camtasia / Media Hopper to create ‘How to edit Wikipedia’ videos.
 * To complete an interview recording of Chris Harlow from Reproductive Medicine ong the Wikipedia ‘Neuroangioangesis’ research session he ran last year.
 * To attend meeting with Jacky McBeath, Head of Edinburgh University Museums and share good practice from residencies of the other Wikimedians in the process to inform our own collaborations with the Library & Special Collections team.
 * To attend the Wikimania 2016 conference in Italy.
 * To attend meetings with Eli Appleby-Donald and Alexander Chow at Divinity, New College, to discuss collaborations there.
 * To attend meetings with Professor Gordon Masterton to discuss a Wikipedia editathon celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Regus Chair of Engineering.
 * To lead a Wikipedia training session at Kings Buildings and two more in the Central area; at the Main Library and at the David Hume Building Teaching Studio.
 * To prepare and lead a Wikidata & Wikisource showcase at the Repro-Fringe event.
 * To lead the Wikipedia training of PgCAP students w/c 6th June 2016.
 * To run a Wikimedia table at the new staff meet & greet at the Playfair library on 3rd June 2016.

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) A WOW247 article is about to be uploaded to their site this week to coincide with Spy Week 2016.

Projects Delivered

 * [| Spy Week 2016 - Women in Espionage editathon]
 * OER16 Conference (19-20 April)


 * Creation of a number of future projects: History of Veterinary Medicine editathon, Internatioanl Alumni editathon, Kelvinhall Moving Image Archive editathon, Edinburgh Gothic editathon, Day of the Dead editathon.

Projects in Development
A mooted event for September/October time which will cover art, architecture, music, literature, film. A contact within the English Literature department, Penny Fielding, has been identified to liaise with on this topic. Gill Hamilton at the National Library of Scotland is also interested in collaborating on this project. A mooted event for November 2016 - a contact within the English Literature department has been identified to liaise with on this topic. (Given the amount of information on Robert Louis Stevenson's page this may be combined with Edinburgh Gothic.) - Have contacted a number of people at the International Office to see if we can identify how best to contact our bilingual & multilingual students here.
 * '150 years since the foundation of Regius Chair of Engineering' - Professor Gordon Masterton at the School of Engineering has contacted me about a possible collaboration.
 * 'International alumni - Vice Principal (International), James Smith, has been authorised to erect a number of blue plaques celebrating the contribution of Edinburgh University's international alumni on the international stage. I have been tasked with identifying suitably notable subjects for our historians to investigate & help create articles on.
 * 'Digital day of Ideas - proposed for 18th May 2016.
 * Vet School editing training for Staff CPD - mooted for Summer 2016.
 * Vet School editathon for students - mooted for Autumn 2016.
 * Eurostemcell editathon - Booked in for 11th May 2016 with the Edinburgh University Medical School.
 * PgCAP Wikipedia editathon - Training and editathon planned in for start of June 2016 for academic staff undertaking the PgCAP teaching qualification for Higher Education level.
 * Digital Education Msc - Discussions to take place next month about how to embed an element of Wikipedia training within this course.
 * National Library of Scotland - Kelvinhall relaunch Wikimedia event - To be confirmed.
 * Edinburgh Gothic
 * Robert Louis Stevenson Day editathon
 * Translate-a-thon - Reaching out to international students to translate articles from English Wikipedia to their own native language Wikipedia.
 * Festival of Architecture 2016 - Have contacted a number of people at the Edinburgh College of Art about potentially running an architecture-themed editathon to celebrate the Festival of Architecture 2016.
 * Day of the Dead - An editathon for Halloween 2016 celebrating the lives of those who have passed on through creating Wikipedia pages utilising obituaries from Scottish newspaper archives.