Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/69th 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

Access to Industry Wikipedia event at St. Cecilia’s Hall
E. McAndrew to facilitate a Wikipedia training and editing event for the ‘Access to Industry’ charity which works across Scotland with unemployed people who face barriers to employment. The project will take place at St. Cecilia’s Hall museum over two weeks’ in November 2021 and is being co-ordinated with Laura Beattie, Community Outreach Officer at University of Edinburgh Museums, and Magda Gucman, Access to Industry.

Women in Red workshops
Three new Women in Red workshops were held in September and October 2021.
 * 25 new articles were created at the 24 September event inc. Death of Sabina Nessa and Nicola Williams (barrister).
 * 552 more articles were edited.
 * 2.09K edits in total.
 * 7 editors.
 * 234K words added.
 * 1.45K references added.
 * 118 new articles were created at the global Ada Lovelace Day editathon event on 12 October inc. University of Glasgow Professor Heather M. Ferguson, Ishbel Campbell and May Badger who was one of the first women to work at the University of Manchester, her career developing until she became Head of the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratories by 1952.
 * 1.29K more articles were edited.
 * 3.47K edits in total.
 * 78 editors (only 4 in Edinburgh however)
 * 213K words added.
 * 1.11K references added.
 * 15 new articles were created at the 29 October event inc. Margaret Barclay (accused witch) and Witches of Scotland.
 * 121 more articles were edited.
 * 710 edits in total.
 * 9 editors.
 * 24.1K words added.
 * 308 references added.

Image statistics - as of 5 November 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 October 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

 * Conducted the Reproductive Biomedicine BSc Wikipedia assignment with Professor Norah Spears for its 6th year with in-person workshops on 22 September 2021 and 6th October 2021.
 * Confirmed with Philippa Sheail and Michael Gallagher that a Wikipedia component will take place on the Digital Education MSc on 15 February 2022 and discussed what it will include.
 * Three to four new case studies to be added to the Wikimedia in Education - Booklet of Case Studies. Will start writing these in late November/December with a view to having a new digital edition to be relaunched in 2022.
 * The Translation Studies MSc Wikipedia assignment commenced again on 6 October 2021 with 36-40 out of the cohort undertaking it as an elective this semester. Link to student's chosen articles this semester
 * The Korean Studies MSc Introduction to Wikipedia workshop took place on Wednesday 20th October 2021.
 * The resident submitted a dataset for the Design Informatics MA/MFA Data Fair project this semester.
 * The Global Health Challenges Pg Online Wikipedia assignment commenced on 13 October 2021 with a student cohort of 42 students working in groups online to improve stub articles about natural and manmade disasters by 1,000 words.
 * Confirmed with Dr. Glaire Anderson on the History of Art course programme that she wishes to repeat the assignment looking at evaluating, improving and illustrating articles related to Islamic Art in semester two.

Podcast on Wikimedia in education

 * A podcast series recorded on the 24th of May for the University's influential Teaching Matters blog is being edited by a student intern, Eric Berger. Topics discussed included: Wikipedia and History (1hr); Wikipedia and academia in the new normal(1hr); Wikipedia in 321 languages(1hr); Wikipedia, Medicine and Science Communication(30 mins); Wikipedia and the Gender Gap(30 mins). Professor Diana Paton, Translation Studies students, History Society students, Jason Evans, Lorna Campbell, Lucy Crompton-Reid, Prof Norah Spears, and Prof Linda Bauld all contributed. First episode is planned to be released in the next two weeks.

Conferences

 * Had weak acceptance of 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 Encyclopedia. Have withdrawn from conference on grounds that there is too much work to do elsewhere for the university.
 * Will submit an abstract for the LILAC Information Literacy conference 2022 about our new 'Edinburgh Award - Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia'.

Research data and Wikidata

 * Emailed Dr. Zsusanna Vargas to follow up on the dataset she wishes to have added to Wikidata in order to visualise the 700-900 books in the dataset and their place of publication. Zsusanna reached out to the resident on the basis of the Map of Accused Witches data project and wishes to do something similar.

Wikipedia Editing - a new Edinburgh Award

 * The first iteration of the Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia - a new Edinburgh Award to accredit students for extended project work on Wikipedia as of November 2021 to March 2022. This would allow students to develop important information literacy, digital research, communication and collaborative skills ahead of the world of work and accredit them for undertaking 70-80 hours of Wikipedia work over an extended period. The first iteration is aimed to begin with workshops on 17 and 24 November 2021 and has been negotiated in collaboration with Kirsty Stewart and Gavin McCabe at the University of Edinburgh Career Service and in collaboration with student interns, Erin Boyle and Clea Strathmann.

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

Projects/events in development

 * Women in Digital Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences themed editing event with the PhD students at the Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture and Society to be rescheduled. Liaising with Lisa Otty on this for a future date.
 * 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).
 * Wikipedia component on 'Knowledge Equity' to be delivered on Digital Education MSc in February 2022.
 * Translation Studies MSc Wikipedia assignment underway with 36-40 Masters students taking it as an elective this semester.
 * First iteration of a new Edinburgh Award for Wikipedia Editing to commence in late November 2021.
 * Being Human Festival event to be held at the university in November 2021. New nomination form created for festival participants of the 18th November Rediscovering Feminisms event to nominate Women in Humanities to have Wikipedia pages created at our monthly Women in Red workshop on Friday 26th November 2021.
 * Updating the Booklet of Case Studies of Wikimedia in UK Education to relaunch a new digital edition in January 2022.
 * Global Health Challenges Pg Online - Wikipedia project underway in October 2021.
 * History of Art assignment to go ahead in the New Year - 2nd iteration with Dr. Glaire Anderson's students evaluating, improving and illustrating articles about Islamic Art.
 * Access to Industry event at St. Cecilia's Hall, Museum to go ahead on 25th November and 2nd December.

Upcoming events in 2021

 * November 3 - Translation Studies MSc drop-in workshop 1
 * November 4 - Meeting with Timothy Rees-Jones at The Royal Society about his project on digital technology and information.
 * November 9 - Closing date for LILAC Information Literacy Conference Submissions.
 * November 10 - Wikidata workshop
 * November 10 - Wikimedia and Decolonisation discussion
 * November 11 - Closing date for University of Edinburgh Student Experience grants.
 * November 12 - Wikisource workshop
 * November 17 - Edinburgh Award workshop 1 - Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia
 * November 17 - Translation Studies MSc drop-in workshop 2
 * November 18 - Being Human Festival event on Rediscovering Feminisms.
 * November 24 - Edinburgh Award workshop 1 - Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia
 * November 25 - Access to Industry event at St. Cecilia's Hall, Museum.
 * November 26 - Wikipedia Women in Red monthly workshop
 * December 1 - Teaching with Wikipedia workshop
 * December 1 - Translation Studies MSc drop-in workshop 3
 * December 2 - Access to Industry event at St. Cecilia's Hall, Museum.

New blogposts, articles, reports

 * Chapter 13 in the new Wikipedia and Academic Libraries book on Changing the Way Stories Are Told: Engaging staff and students in improving Wikipedia content about women in Scotland.
 * Chapter 18 in the new Wikipedia and Academic Libraries book on Wikisource as a tool for OCR transcription correction: the National Library of Scotland’s response to Covid-19 by University of Edinburgh's Digitisation and Digital Engagement Manager, Gavin Willshaw.

New videos and podcasts

 * A podcast series recorded in May 2021 is currently being edited by Eric Berger for the University of Edinburgh's Teaching Matters blog. First episode to go live in an estimated two weeks' time.

Wikimedian in Residence - University of Edinburgh Media Hopper channel
1 September 2021 to 31 October 2021 The most played videos were:
 * The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Media Hopper now has 386 videos. 631 plays since 1 September 2021.

Wikimedian in Residence - YouTube channel
One of our recent additions to YouTube by student Hannah Rothmann has now been viewed over 30,196 times since it was added in September 2020.
 * The Wikimedian in Residence channel on YouTube which has now received over 233,991 views in total of its 118 videos with 913 subscribers. These videos have been viewed in 168 countries around the world over the course of the channel's lifetime.
 * How to make your own article on Wikipedia.
 * Moving a drafted article into Wikipedia's live space. - 12,751 views approx.

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
 * 128) My first week as a Wikisourceror – Guest post by student intern, Erin Boyle
 * 129) Open Data and Knowledge Equity – my first week by student intern, Clea Strathmann
 * 130) Supporting Open Collections – Guest post by Wikisourceror intern, Erin Boyle
 * 131) Wikimedia and the Diversity of Languages online – Guest post by Clea Strathmann
 * 132) Chapter 13 in the new Wikipedia and Academic Libraries book on Changing the Way Stories Are Told: Engaging staff and students in improving Wikipedia content about women in Scotland.
 * 133) Chapter 18 in the new Wikipedia and Academic Libraries book on Wikisource as a tool for OCR transcription correction: the National Library of Scotland’s response to Covid-19 by University of Edinburgh's Digitisation and Digital Engagement Manager, Gavin Willshaw.