Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/55th month report

NB: The resident was off on annual leave during this period from 20-24 July 2020.

Strategic Aim 1 - Knowledge Equity

 * Develop partnerships that increase access to underrepresented cultural heritage
 * Support the development of minority and indigenous language Wikipedias
 * Encourage new and existing partners to help tackle the gender gap on Wikimedia
 * Identify other areas of inequality and bias and create partnerships to help address these
 * Engage with volunteers and partners across the UK, widening the charity’s geographic reach
 * Diversify content producers by recruiting new editors from under-represented communities
 * Support the development of a more inclusive culture across the Wikimedia projects
 * Ensure that Wikimedia UK’s own policies and practices support diversity and inclusion

Progress

 * The University of Edinburgh held the first ever Celtic Knot: Wikipedia Language Conference in July 2017. This conference focused on supporting minority and regional language Wikipedias such as Scots Gaelic, Cornish, Breton, Welsh, Norwegian Bokmal, Sami, Irish Gaelic, catalan, Basque and many more. The conference was held at the National Library of Wales in 2018 and the University of Exeter's Cornwall campus in 2019 so it was pleasing to see, despite the Covid-19 lockdown, that the 2020 conference went ahead on 9-10 July and supported this time by Wikimedia Ireland. Though the conference was fully online, it was a great success with all of its outputs and talks published to YouTube openly and social events held such as Irish Gaelic poetry readings, a minority language quiz, and Irish dancing giving participants the opportunity to feel like they were in Limerick, as originally had been intended. The 5th Celtic Knot conference will be in Tromso, Norway in July 2021 so it is gratifying to see this community of smaller language Wikipedias continuing to support & engage with one another in this way.
 * Hannah Rothmann, our new Wikimedia Training Intern, is a Classics undergraduate so has been finding out about the regular Wikipedia editing workshops held by Victoria Leonard as part of the Women's Classics Colloqium.
 * Two new Women in Red workshops are being planned for August & September 2020 in collaboration with Dr. Jess Wade and the University of Edinburgh's Women in STEM student society (16 August) and the University of Edinburgh's Science Magazine (Welcome Week, 14-18 September 2020).

Events
No events held in July 2020.

Image statistics - as of 31st July 2020
Awaiting July 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 June 2020 were:

Strategic Aim 2 - Digital Literacy
Work with partners to develop digital, data and information literacy through Wikimedia


 * Support the education sector’s engagement with Wikimedia as a digital literacy tool
 * Facilitate Wikimedia-based digital, data and information literacy projects with other partners
 * Create content and resources for learners and educators
 * Advocate for the inclusion of Wikimedia in curriculum, syllabus and course development
 * Collaborate with the civil society sector and other partners to combat misinformation



Progress

 * Two 'how to teach with Wikipedia' workshops were held online on 1st and 15th July 2020. Both workshops were well attended (25-45 registered attendees) and feedback was very positive so the resident plans on running more throughout the next academic semester.
 * The Reproductive Biology Bsc Wikipedia assignment is confirmed to be going ahead in semester one of 2020/2021.
 * The Translation Studies MSc Wikipedia assignment is confirmed to be going ahead in semester one of 2020/2021.
 * The Global Health Pg Online Wikipedia assignment is confirmed to be going ahead in semester one of 2020/2021.
 * The Korean Studies MSc Wikipedia assignment is confirmed to be going ahead in semester one of 2020/2021.
 * Wikimedia Trainer Intern. Hannah Rothmann, a Classics undergraduate is now five weeks into a 12 week full-time basis this Summer to work on developing professional looking and scaffolded resources that would chunk the challenge of taking someone from beginner to advanced in Wikipedia and Wikidata. She has started creating new screencapture videos and has created a new plan for website page on the University of Edinburgh website to include these guides to Wikipedia and Wikidata.

Strategic Aim 3 - Advocacy
Create changes in policy and practice that enable open knowledge to flourish


 * Support and enable individual organisations to adopt more open policies and practice
 * Promote and facilitate sector-level change towards open knowledge
 * Work with national and international partners to build the case for free knowledge
 * Advocate for open knowledge within the UK’s public policy and legislative arena
 * Contribute to international advocacy activities and programmes as appropriate

Progress

 * At the Wikimedia UK AGM on 18 July 2020, the University of Edinburgh was awarded runner up in Wikimedia UK's 'Partnership of the Year' for 2020. This recognises the work the university has done over the last year in supporting open knowledge in the curriculum and producing the first ever booklet of UK case studies of Wikimedia in Education.
 * Emma Carroll, Data Visualisation student intern at the University of Edinburgh, and Laura Rose Wood, Wikimedia Women in Red student intern, were jointly recognised at the Wikimedia UK AGM on 18 July 2020 in the category for Up-and-coming Wikimedians 2020.
 * The National Library of Scotland was awarded 'Partnership of the Year' at the Wikimedia UK AGM on 18 July 2020 for their work getting their digitisation staff to work from home during lockdown to share 3,000 OCR-ed Scottish chapbooks openly to Wikipedia's sister project, Wikisource. Gavin Willshaw, Digitisation Manager at the National Library of Scotland, has been a proponent of collaborating with the Wikimedia projects since 2015 as Digital Curator at the University of Edinburgh's Library & University Collections.

Events
No events held in July 2020.

Projects/events in development

 * Working with Wikimedia Training Intern, Hannah Rothmann, from 22 June 2020 to 11 September 2020 to create and curate 'How to edit Wikipedia' and 'How to edit Wikidata' resources to better support online course programmes and remote working in a more self-directed & scaffolded way.
 * Collaborating with Wikimedia Training Intern, Hannah Rothmann, from 22 June 2020 to 11 September 2020 to develop a proposal for Wikipedia editing to become an activity eligible for the Edinburgh Award programme.
 * Writing a 3,000 word chapter for October 1st 2020 on "Changing The Way Stories Are Told" for a new book on Wikipedia and Academic Libraries. This proposal has been initially accepted to go ahead but is to be reviewed once more before writing takes place.
 * Collaboration between the residency and the Mapping the Scottish Reformation project is confirmed as going ahead later in Summer/Autumn 2020 with the University of Edinburgh's Interactive Content Service due to help create a 'proof of concept' website to showcase 7 Wikidata visualisations based on the work of the project.
 * Due to meet with Professor Diana Paton w/c 17 August 2020 to discuss a Wikipedia editing event focused on Henry Dundas and Scotland's links with slavery.
 * Scheduled to present on How to edit Wikipedia and improve representation online in 7 sessions for new/returning UG & PG students as the new semester begins with Welcome Week 14-18 September 2020.

Upcoming events in 2020

 * August 16 - Edinburgh University Women in STEM student society editathon.
 * September 3 - How to edit Wikipedia and improve representation online - presentation for UG students.
 * September 9 - How to edit Wikipedia and improve representation online - presentation for PGT/PGR students.
 * September 14-18 - How to edit Wikipedia and improve representation online - presentation for Welcome Week 2020.
 * September - Collaboration with the Edinburgh University Science Magazine during Welcome Week 2020.
 * September - Completion of the Wikimedia Training Internship on Friday 11 Sept.
 * September - Reproductive Biomedicine BSc Wikipedia assignment 2020/2021
 * September - Translation Studies MSc Wikipedia assignment 2020/2021
 * October 1 - Completion of the 3,000 word chapter for new book on "Wikipedia and Academic Libraries".
 * October - Global Health Challenges Pg online Wikipedia assignment 2020/2021

New articles and blogposts

 * My first week as a Wikimedia Training Intern - blogpost by Hannah Rothmann
 * 2 more posts by Hannah Rothmann are due to be published asap.

Videos

 * Click to see the number of pageviews on Wikipedia for June 2020 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 300 videos. 1 more since last report with Celtic Knot 2020 videos to be added in shortly. 263 plays for July 2020.

New videos added - Wikidata and Cultural Heritage Collections

 * 1) Exploring the educational potential of Cultural Heritage in Wikidata - when GLAM and Education collide.
 * 2) National Library of Wales exploring the benefits of linked open data with Wikidata
 * 3) The wicked Wikidata tale of how the 3,141 accused witches were placed on the map
 * 4) Using Wikidata to link connections in Oxford and beyond - Dr. Martin Poulter
 * 5) Preliminary findings from a literature review exploring the use of Linked Open Data by museums
 * 6) A Street Near You - exploring the potential of enhancing large datasets focused on the First World War
 * 7) Linking UNESCO heritage data with Wikidata - Navino Evans, Histropedia
 * 8) Wellcome Collection enriching its data pipelines with Wikidata, LCSH, MeSH, - Harrison Pim

Wikimedian in Residence - Youtube channel

 * The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Youtube which has now received over 113,000 views in total of its 70 videos with 449 subscribers. These videos have been viewed in 168 countries around the world over the course of the channel's lifetime.

Image uploads to Wikimedia Commons
No uploads to Wikimedia Commons made in this period.

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) Article in the Scotsman: Women scientists being whitewashed from Wikipedia – Ewan McAndrew, Siobhan O’Connor, Dr Sara Thomas and Dr Alice White
 * 95) Women and Wikipedia….Open Learning and a hobby for life!
 * 96) Translation and Open Education – An Experiment using Wikipedia
 * 97) Wikipedia in Higher Education: How students are shaping the open web
 * 98) Diversifying Wikipedia for the Festival of Creative Learning 2019
 * 99) 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
 * 100) You can’t be what you can’t see: Creating new role models on Wikipedia to encourage the next generation of Immodest Women
 * 101) International Women’s Day 2019
 * 102) Recruiting a Witchfinder General
 * 103) Wikimedia at the LILAC Information Literacy Conference 2019
 * 104) Balance for Better – recognising notable Edinburgh women
 * 105) Balance for Better – Teaching Matters
 * 106) Wikimania 2019 - Digital Support Librarian Lauren Smith reports on her first-time attendance at Wikimania 2019 in Stockholm, Sweden.
 * 107) Scotland Loves Monuments 2019 - Get involved in Wiki Loves Monuments!
 * 108) Learning to become an online editor: the editathon as a learning environment by Allison Littlejohn, Nina Hood, Martin Rehm, Lou McGill, Bart Rienties and Melissa Highton.
 * 109) Wikipedia on Olive Schreiner, like it or what? by Professor Liz Stanley.
 * 110) Celebrating notable women of Edinburgh
 * 111) Wikimedia Women in Red internship
 * 112) Four page spread on the Map of Accused Witches Wikidata project in the May/June 2020 publication of History Scotland magazine.
 * 113) Shifting Gears and Finding Female Pioneers
 * 114) To the Future of Women in Red and Online Diversity
 * 115) My first week as a Wikimedia Training Intern - blogpost by Hannah Rothmann