Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/63rd month report

 The resident was off on annual leave in March 2021 and operating with one good eye in April 2021

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 5 March 2021. The resident prepared 3 years' worth of obituaries to make sure these women were celebrated and remembered on Wikipedia.
 * 5 new articles were created at the 5 March event inc. Joan McLean(October 1919 – 17 January 2018) who volunteered and served in the Women's Royal Naval Service (Wrens), and played a pivotal role in codebreaking during World War II.
 * 10 more articles were edited.
 * 192 edits in total.
 * 11 editors.
 * 4.88K words added.
 * 66 references added.
 * One new Women in Red workshops was held on 31 March 2021.
 * 13 new articles were created at the 31 March event inc. Maud Bruce (20 December 1894 - 8 January 1995) who was a forewoman and in charge of the women's fire brigade at H.M Factory Gretna during World War One and the recipient of an O.B.E. for her actions at the factory. She lived to be 100 years old and was one of the first people in Britain to receive plastic surgery.
 * 36 more articles were edited.
 * 326 edits in total.
 * 19 editors.
 * 15.5K words added.
 * 202 references added.
 * One new Women in Red workshops was held on 30 April 2021.
 * 4 new articles were created at the 30 April event inc. Ethel Simpson (2 September 1926 - 12 December 2017) who was a pioneering Scottish journalist. She worked to break down gendered barriers within journalism.
 * 46 more articles were edited.
 * 233 edits in total.
 * 7 editors.
 * 10.1K words added.
 * 2165 references added.

International Women's Day editathon

 * One new Women in Red workshops was held on Saturday 6 March 2021. President of the student Women in STEM society, Sarah Lappin, had helped crowdsource a list of women activists as part of the Choose to Challenge theme for International Women's Day 2021. The list continued to be worked on as part of a week-long celebration of International Women's Day at the university. 50,000 words were added over the course of the week and Professor Linda Bauld, one of our highest profile academics at the University of Edinburgh keynoted our event discussing the representation of women on digital platforms. She has since consented to take part in a Wikipedia podcast recording in May 2021 for the University's influential Teaching Matters blog.
 * 38 new articles were created at the 6 March event inc. Deja Foxx (c. 2001) who is a reproductive rights activist, political strategist and blogger known for being the youngest staffer and first Influencer and Surrogate Strategist on U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential campaign, and for her work with Planned Parenthood. Other articles included pages such as Rape Crisis Scotland, Girls Against, Shakti Women’s Aid and Menopause in the workplace.
 * 199 more articles were edited.
 * 1,200 edits in total.
 * 16 editors.
 * 54.8K words added.
 * 646 references added.

Wikimedia student internships in Summer 2021

 * Three internships were advertised in April 2021.
 * The Wikimedia ‘Open Collections - Wikisourceror’ internship received 31 applications and 7 have been shortlisted for interview on 13th May 2021 with a view to commencing 7th June.
 * The Wikimedia ‘Open Edinburgh – Open Data and Knowledge Equity’ internship received 21 applications and 6 have been shortlisted for interview on 12th May 2021 with a view to commencing 7th June.
 * The Wikimedia internship in Library and University Collections received 34 applications and 6 were shortlisted with a view to commencing work on 31st May 2021.
 * These internships represent the first time that the Library and University Collections have opted to do a prolonged body of work exploring collaborating with the Wikimedia projects so the view is to have the internships (1) document workflows for using Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikisource (2) learn from best practice in GLAM institutions elsewhere and (3) write a detailed report for the library and university collections to engage in open practices as part of the strategy going forward.

Image statistics - as of 12th May 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 April 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

 * Met with Kirsty Stewart from the University of Edinburgh Career Service on 11 March 2021 to discuss an accredited 80hr Wikipedia editing volunteer Edinburgh Award to begin on trial basis in October to March period.
 * Confirmed with Professor Norah Spears that the Reproductive Biomedicine BSc Wikipedia assignment will continue for its 6th year in September 2021.
 * The  Translation Studies MSc Wikipedia assignment is concluding on 14th May 2021 with students peer assessing each other's newly published translations. 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.

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 various academics, students, and Wikimedians happy to take part. The 24th of May has been pencilled in as an afternoon to come together to record the podcast.

Conferences

 * 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 for two sessions at the LILAC Information Literacy online conference in July 2021, FestivIL of LILAC.
 * Presented on Wikipedia in the Classroom – Student-led activism promoting knowledge equity and SDG4 at OER21 conference on 22nd April.
 * 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.

Events
No events.

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 Launch of the Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Network (J.E.D.I. Network) in Open Knowledge at the University of St. Andrews and presented on 5 years' of Wikipedia in the Curriculum at the University of Edinburgh.
 * Prepared a recorded presentation, Wikipedia in the Curriculum in 'the new normal': Student-led activism promoting knowledge equity and SDG4, with student contributions, for the OER21 conference on 21-22 April 2021. The presentation is available to view on Media Hopper here.

Events
No events this month.

Projects/events in development

 * Revising a proposal for a Wikipedia editing 'Edinburgh Award' where students can be accredited for completing 50hrs of Wikipedia training, editing and advocacy.
 * Women in Digital Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences editing event with the PhD students at the Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture and Society recheduled.
 * 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).
 * Three 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.
 * Reproductive Medicine BSc Wikipedia assignment scheduled to go ahead in Sept/Oct. 2021.

Upcoming events in 2021

 * May 24 - Wikimedia in Scotland event for the University of Edinburgh Digital Skills Festival.
 * May 26 - Wikipedia Women in Red editathon - monthly meetup.
 * June 15-17 - University of Edinburgh Learning and Teaching Conference 2021.
 * July 6-8 - LILAC Information Literacy Conference 2021.

Videos

 * Wikipedia in the Curriculum in 'the new normal': Student-led activism promoting knowledge equity and SDG4. - OER21 Conference presentation inc. student videos.
 * Click to see the number of pageviews on Wikipedia for April 2021 for the MOOC snippets on Wikimedia Commons.

Wikimedian in Residence - University of Edinburgh Media Hopper channel
1 March 2021 to 30 April 2021 The most played videos were:
 * The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Media Hopper now has 333 videos. 300 plays since 28 February 2021.

Wikimedian in Residence - Youtube channel

 * The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Youtube which has now received over 178,600 views in total of its 109 videos with 725 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