Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/62nd month report

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

Women in Red workshop

 * One new Women in Red workshops was held on 3 February 2021. The resident prepared 3 years' worth of obituaries to make sure these women were celebrated and remembered on Wikipedia.
 * 19 new articles were created at the 3 February event inc. May Moar (1825 – June 2, 1894) who was a British crofter in the Shetland Isles who was awarded an RNLI silver medal for rescuing fishermen off the island of Yell.
 * 53 more articles were edited.
 * 386 edits in total.
 * 14 editors.
 * 16.6K words added.
 * 202 references added.

HIV Scotland editathon

 * Lorna Campbell and I wrote blog articles about the HIV Scotland editathon at end of January 2021. Received feedback from the event also.
 * Those who fought: Representing HIV/AIDS activism on Wikipedia
 * Telling the history of HIV and AIDS activism in Scotland on Wikipedia

International Women's Day editathon plannin

 * Worked with Sarah Lappin, President of the student Women in STEM Society, to promote our IWD editathon event on 6 March and to crowdsource a worklist of articles to improve/create.

Wikimedia student internships in Summer 2021

 * Awaiting word on when we can go ahead with recruiting an Open Collections ('Wikisourceror') student internship next Summer to support the Library & University Collections team develop workflows to share collections to Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource.
 * Awaiting word on when we can go ahead with recruiting an Open Edinburgh (Open Data and Knowledge Equity) student internship next Summer to develop new resources, and course activities to support the teaching of data science and support equality, diversity and inclusion in teaching and learning at the university.

Image statistics - as of 10th March 2021

 * 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 2021 across all Wikipedias 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

Wikimedia in the Curriculum

 * The  Translation Studies MSc Wikipedia assignment from semester two commenced with an online workshop on reviewing best practice taking place on 10 February 2021. This semester students have been invited to consider how best to support global understanding of  black and postcolonial history through their 1,500-2,000 word translation assignment.
 * List of articles on assignment page.
 * Been approached to discuss Wikidata in the Curriculum assignments with Stacy Allison-Cassin at the University of Toronto - to be arranged.
 * Ran an introductory editathon workshop on the Computer Science course programme at invitation of course leader, Judy Robertson, and Open Source advocate and student, Ritwik Sarkar. A crowdsourced list of Forgotten Heroines of Computer Science was compiled at short notice. Though numbers were very low, the discussions on the process of creating new pages was warmly received and the hope is this will lead to further project work with the undergraduate programme.
 * 1 article edited at the 18 February event
 * 17 edits in total.
 * 3 editors.
 * 5 words added.

Podcast on Wikimedia in education

 * Glaire Anderson, Lecturer and course leader on the Stars, Talismans and Robots Honours course on Islamic Art, wrote a blogpost on her experiences teaching with Wikipedia and seems keen to repeat the experience in the following years. A 4-part podcast series with the University's influential Teaching Matters blog is being discussed with Glaire happy to take part in conversation with her students on 18 March 2021.

PhD student editathon on Women in Digital Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

 * Discussed with Lisa Otty at the Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture and Society about a Women in Digital Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences event to be held on March 17th 2021 for their PhD students. Event page now created and booking is open. Due to lack of signups this may be rescheduled.

Conference submissions

 * Been approved for a panel session at the University of Edinburgh's Learning and Teaching Conference 2021 on Wikipedia in the Classroom – Student-led activism promoting knowledge equity and SDG4 - Professor Diana Paton and History Society student Scarlett Kiaras-Attari have agreed to take part and present on the project to improve coverage of Scotland, Slavery and Black History.
 * Been approved to present on Wikipedia in the Classroom – Student-led activism promoting knowledge equity and SDG4 at OER21 conference in April also.
 * Considering submitting an abstract on Wikipedia in Translation based on the work conducted on the Translation Studies MSc for the December 2021 conference, Understanding Wikipedia’s Dark Matter: Translation and Multilingual Practice in the World’s Largest Online Encyclopaedia.

Proposals for student project work

 * Redrafted proposal for the student Edinburgh Award (50hrs) for Wikipedia editing. Meeting with Kirsty Stewart at the Careers Service on 11 March 2021 to discuss changes to get this implemented in October 2021.
 * Met with Lorna Campbell, University of Edinburgh OER Service, on Thursday 4th February 2021 to discuss Student Experience Grants (up to £5000 available for projects) and put together a proposal once I'd identified 4 students willing to collaborate on a project. This will likely have to be shelved until next Student Experience Grant funding window in Autumn/Winter 2021.

Partnership interactions
None

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

 * Attended Wikimedia UK meeting on Friday 26 February 2021 to share developments and challenges experienced with Wikimedia UK and other Wikimedians in Residence at other institutions. Next meeting planned for end of March 2021.
 * Submitted chapter for a new Open Access book on Wikipedia and Academic Libraries on the work of the residency to improve the number of biographies of women on Wikipedia over the last five years. The chapter has been reviewed by the publishers and will be published in September 2021.

Events
No events this month.

Projects/events in development

 * New semester two project ongoing with Translation Studies MSc students on 10 February 2021.
 * Revising a proposal for a Wikipedia editing 'Edinburgh Award' where students can be accredited for completing 50hrs of Wikipedia training, editing and advocacy.
 * International Women's Day event on 6 March 2021 with Edinburgh University Women in STEM Society, keynoted by Linda Bauld.
 * Women in Digital Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences editing event with the PhD students at the Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture and Society on 17 March 2021.
 * Phase Two of the Mapping the Scottish Reformation Wikidata project with Dr. Chris Langley (Newman University, Birmingham) and Professor Mikki Brock (Washington and Lee University, USA).
 * Two student internships to be recruited for 12 weeks this Summer.
 * Wikipedia component on 'Knowledge Equity' to be delivered on Digital Education MSc in January 2022.

Upcoming events in 2021

 * March 3 - Introduction to Wikidata workshop.
 * March 5 - Women in Red monthly editathon.
 * March 8 - International Women's Day editathon with Edinburgh University Women in STEM Society.
 * March 10 - Teaching with Wikipedia workshop.
 * March 12 - Introduction to Wikisource workshop.
 * March 17 - Women in Digital Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences editathon event with Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture and Society.
 * March 31 - Women in Red monthly editathon.
 * April 2 - Teaching with Wikipedia workshop.
 * April 2 - Introduction to Wikidata workshop.
 * April 21-22 - OER21 Conference
 * June 15-17 - University of Edinburgh Learning and Teaching Conference 2021.
 * July 6-8 - LILAC Information Literacy Conference 2021.

New articles and blogposts

 * Those who fought: Representing HIV/AIDS activism on Wikipedia - Blog by Lorna Campbell
 * Telling the history of HIV and AIDS activism in Scotland on Wikipedia - WiR blog
 * Scotland, Slavery and Black History project - WiR blog

Videos

 * Click to see the number of pageviews on Wikipedia for February 2021 for the MOOC snippets on Wikimedia Commons.

Wikimedian in Residence - University of Edinburgh Media Hopper channel
1 February 2021 to 28 February 2021 The most played videos were:
 * The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Media Hopper now has 332 videos. 300 plays since 31 January 2021.

Wikimedian in Residence - Youtube channel

 * The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Youtube which has now received over 158,838 views in total of its 108 videos with 640 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
None this month.

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
 * 116) 4 weeks into my Wikimedia Internship by Hannah Rothmann on the residency blog.
 * 117) #WCCWiki Colloquium 2020 by Hannah Rothmann on the residency blog.
 * 118) Final reflections on my Wikimedia Training Internship by Hannah Rothmann on the residency blog.
 * 119) Scotland Loves Monuments 2020 on the residency blog.
 * 120) Wikipedia as Learning Technology: Teaching Knowledge Activism vs Passive Consumption by Hannah Rothmann, Wikimedia Training Intern, for the University of Edinburgh's Teaching Matters blog.
 * 121) Introducing Mapping the Scottish Reformation: Clerics, Manuscripts, and Open Data on the Wikimedia UK blog.
 * 122) Article on Mapping of Scotland's Accused Witches with Open Data project appeared in an article on the Heritage Fund UK website on 27 October 2020 in the run up to Halloween.
 * 123) Editing Wikipedia: Stars, robots and talismans Honours course by Glaire Anderson for the Wikimedia UK blog
 * 124) Happy Birthday Wikipedia - guest blog post by Classics undergraduate student, Hannah Rothmann, for Wikipedia's 20th birthday.
 * 125) Telling the history of HIV and AIDS activism in Scotland on Wikipedia - WiR blog
 * 126) Scotland, Slavery and Black History project - WiR blog
 * 127) Those who fought: Representing HIV/AIDS activism on Wikipedia - Blog by Lorna Campbell