Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/7th Month Report

Wikimeets
In addition, I organised and attended two Wikimeets in this period; one at the Jolly Botanist Gin Bar and restaurant in Edinburgh and one at the Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) in Glasgow.

I also attended the Wikimedia UK event for Education Course Leaders at the London head office on 19th July 2016 along with representatives from other UK Higher Education establishments including Martin Poulter - Former Wikimedian at the Bodleian Library/ Wikimedian of the Year; Mira Vogel - Digital Education Advisor at UCL; Raya Sharbain - Graduate & Wikimedia Campus Ambassador at UCL; Paula Aucott - University of Portsmouth, Applied Human Geography; Humphrey Southall - University of Portsmouth, Applied Human Geography; Cory Fincher - University of Warwick, Psychology; Pedro Tellers - University of Swansea, Law; Daria Cybulska - Wikimedia UK; Richard Nevell - Wikimedia UK; and Jenny Chamarette - Senior Lecturer. Film Dept, (convenor for Research Methods for Film module), Queen Mary University London.

Content

 * Updated the editathon event page for Eurostemcell Editathon 2016
 * The following pages were also improved upon during the Eurostemcell editathon among others:
 * Zebrafish
 * Thymus
 * Endoderm
 * Stem-cell therapy
 * Cell therapy
 * Regenerative medicine
 * Created and delivered a presentation at Repo Fringe 2016 - Introduction to Wikisource - which has been tweeted by the ALA and viewed 350 times since 2nd August.
 * Helped create and delivered a presentation on Wikidata - the new Rosetta Stone at Repo Fringe 2016 which has been viewed 107 times.
 * I recorded a number of videos from Repo Fringe 2016 (which are to be edited & uploaded shortly):
 * Chief Information Officer and Librarian to the University, Gavin Maclachan's opening speech - Welcome to Repository Fringe 2016.
 * Martin Poulter's keynote - Your OERs will outlive you: Open Education in the long term.
 * Wikisource Showcase - with Martin Poulter.
 * Wikidata Showcase - with Navino Evans.
 * Camtasia screen capture tutorial - How to edit Wikidata - by Sean McBirnie.
 * Camtasia screen capture tutorial - How to construct Wikidata queries - by Navino Evans.

Number of views of University of Edinburgh images in July: Total number of views (after 4 months):
 * 1,639,858 of which 1,452,596 views related to one image: 17th century map of Iceland (Gerardi Mercatoris Atlas, sive, Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura)
 * 3,931,415

Source: Baglama2

28 day Twitter summary (up to 26th August) 82 (up 13.9%) 53K (up 65.9%) 998 (up 8.1%) 53 (up 55.9%) 324 (up by 40)
 * Tweets
 * Tweet impressions
 * Profile visits
 * Mentions
 * Followers

Articles created
No entirely new articles were created in this period.

Articles improved

 * Zebrafish
 * Thymus
 * Endoderm
 * Stem-cell therapy
 * Cell therapy
 * Regenerative medicine

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

Outcomes

 * This month has been slightly shorter given I took time off from 3rd August to 15th August 2016 immediately following the Wikidata & Wikisource Showcase on 1st & 2nd August and the 6 month review meeting on 3rd August 2016. The period prior to this from 12th July to 31st July 2016 focused on laying the foundations for the many editathon events we have planned for Autumn/Winter this year as well as preparing for & promoting the Wikidata & Wikisource Showcase for Repository Fringe 2016.
 * I also lead a Eurostemcell Wikipedia editathon session with Dr. Cathy Southworth at the Centre for Regenerative Medicine on 20th July which make links with the Wellcome Library residency and European partner labs. The expectation is that this will be a regular event every year for Stemcell Awareness Day and plans are already in place to hold another Wikipedia editing session in conjunction with European partner labs in Denmark later this Autumn.
 * I have finalised arrangements with sixteen learning technologists and academic support librarians to arrange a 'Train the Trainer' event for 23rd August.
 * I submitted an entry for the NCCPE Public Engagement competition 2016 detailing how the Wikimedia residency brings people together to engage with research..
 * I have continued discussions with Dr. Charlotte Bosseaux of the Translation Studies MSc course who is keen to use Wikipedia's Content Translation tool in next semester's course. I also continued to liaised with Professor Alexander Chow who wishes to include a Wikipedia assignment in next semester's World Christianity postgraduate taught course and a Women in Religion editathon on 2nd November. I have liaised with both Course Leaders and contacts at Wiki Education to resolve issues relating to Content Translation and Word Count.
 * I attended a Wikimedia UK Course Leaders Event in London on 19th July where it was agreed we needed to communicate & share information about the courses being run in different Higher Education institutions. The action point was to create a new central webpage on the Wikimedia UK site to refer to which would detail past courses, current courses & courses planned for the future the length and breadth of the UK along with any useful resources.
 * Lancaster University made contact looking for a Wikimedian in their area so they could run an editathon so we put them in touch with one. Phil Barker at Heriot Watt is going to look into proposing they have their own Wikimedian. I continue to liaise with Sheffield University so they can run their own Sheffield Gothic editathon. Leeds University attended the Wikisource & Wikidata Showcase and are interested in releasing Bronte letters to Wikisource and to work with the National Library of Wales' Wikidata Visiting Scholar (also based at Leeds University) so we have put them in touch with one another.
 * I have continued my Skype sessions with Richard Nevell at WMUK in addition to Histropedia's Navino Evans, the National Library of Wales' Jason Evans and the Bodleian Library's Wikimedian in Residence Martin Poulter. This has assisted with the arrangements & content for the Wikisource & Wikidata Showcase on 2nd August.
 * Following discussions with Eugenia Twomey and Annie Caldwell, I created a simplified University of Edinburgh pdf guide to uploading images to Wikimedia Commons. Annie Caldwell is going to take high quality pictures of buildings around Edinburgh and upload them to Wikicommons.
 * I also set up & attended working group meetings to discuss the upcoming events for Edinburgh Gothic, Samhain and Ada Lovelace Day editathons.
 * Finally, I am to be interviewed by Beck Pitt of Opening Educational Practices in Scotland on 31st August 2016.

Partnerships

 * Partnered with the Vet School to deliver the History of Veterinary Medicine editathon for staff and Wikipedia training sessions for staff (& students potentially too) in September.
 * Partnered with Gill Hamilton (National Library of Scotland) and Imogen Gibbons of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery for the Edinburgh Gothic event - which will be supported, if not attended by Penny Fielding (Grierson Chair of English and Head of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh). The University of Sheffield's Centre for Gothic Studies are also wanting to be involved and/or run a synchronous event in Sheffield.
 * Partnered with Digital Curator Gavin Willshaw to run 'taster' training sessions for Library & Special Collections' staff and look into the best way of bulk importing CC-BY images from the Luna image database.
 * Partnered with Hamish Macleod of the PgCAP course to embed Wikipedia within the course design for this year and future years.
 * Partnered with Kacper Lyskiewicz to run a 4 week Wikipedia training course for the Online History MSc course starting on 18th July 2016.
 * Partnered with Sian Bayne & Christine Sinclair of the Digital Education MSc course to see if Wikipedia training can be embedded in their course design.
 * Partnered with James Smith (Vice Principal - International) to deliver an International Alumni editathon event in October 2016. (This has been put on the back-burner for now so maybe later in the session.)
 * Partnered with Alexander Chow to deliver a Wikipedia assignment on the World Christianity PGT course and to hold a Women and Religion editathon on 2nd November 2016 in collaboration with WikiProject Women in Red.
 * Partnered with Dr. Cathy Southworth (Centre for Regenerative Medicine) and Dr. Alice White, Wikimedian at the Wellcome Library to deliver a further Eurostemcell editathon event involving European partner labs this time.
 * Partnered with Histropedia's Navino Evans and Wikimedian of the Year, Martin Poulter, to deliver the Wikidata & Wikisource showcase event for Repo-Fringe on 2nd August and to create video tutorials on Wikidata and Wikisource.
 * Partnered with Mairi Walker (Maths Engagement Officer) and Ben Goddard (Convenor of the Publicity and Outreach Committee for Maths) to support the Women in Maths aspect of Ada Lovelace Day 2016.
 * Partnered with Dr. Chris Harlow (Reproductive Biology) and Kelly Doyle (Wikimedian in Residence for Gender Equality at West Virginia University) to deliver a Reproductive Medicine Wikipedia research session/ editathon in September 2016.
 * Partnered with Wikiproject Women in Red's Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight & Penny Fielding to run Spy Week 2017 next year. Wikiproject Women in Red have also said they would like to help support our Women and Religion editathon in November.
 * Partnered with Dr. Charlotte Bosseaux to run a 4000 word translation assignment using Wikipedia in next semester's Translation Studies MSc course.
 * Partnered with Professor Gary West and Dr. Virginia Blankenhorn of the Celtic Studies faculty along with Lila at the Beltane.org to plan & deliver the Samhain editathon on 31st October to 1st November.

Planned activities

 * To lead a further Vet School Wikipedia training sessions in Autumn 2016.
 * To attend planning meetings for the Ada Lovelace Day editathon, Between the worlds of the living and the dead editathon and the Edinburgh Gothic editathon.
 * To lead the Reproductive Medicine editathons on 21st & 28th September 2016.
 * To edit & upload the video footage from the Wikidata & Wikisource showcase at the Repro-Fringe event.
 * To convene working group meetings to further discuss the Women and Religion editathon at the School of Divinity and the History of Medicine 2017 editathons with Surgeon's Hall and the Royal College of Physicians.
 * To run a Train the Trainer event on 23rd August 2016 for sixteen staff to become Wikipedia trainers.
 * To facilitate Wikipedia course assignments in World Christianity MSc and Translation Studies MSc courses in Autumn 2016.
 * Overhaul the University of Edinburgh residency page to archive past events.
 * To meet with EUSA Global representatives to discuss areas of crossover.
 * To follow up with Christine Sinclair and Sian Bayne about involvement with the Digital Education MSc course.
 * To populate the new Universities page on Wikimedia UK's website with course details.

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

Projects Delivered

 * I delivered one editathon on Eurostemcells at the MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine.
 * I prepared & delivered two conference presentations at Repository Fringe - one on Wikisource and one of Wikidata - and assisted with a third (the Wikidata Advanced Query workshop)
 * I organised and attended two Wikimeets (one in Edinburgh and one in Glasgow).
 * I setup & monitored a 4 week taster course for the Online History MSc students until its completion.

Projects in Development

 * '150 years since the foundation of Regius Chair of Engineering' - Professor Gordon Masterton at the School of Engineering has contacted me about a possible collaboration with a view to this anniversary in 2017/2018. (To be confirmed)
 * 'International alumni - Vice Principal (International), James Smith, has been authorised to erect a number of blue plaques celebrating the contribution of Edinburgh University's international alumni on the international stage. I have been tasked with identifying suitably notable subjects for our historians to investigate & help create articles on. (To be confirmed).
 * Vet School editing training for Staff CPD - mooted for October/November 2016.
 * A continuation of the Eurostemcell editathon - with European partner labs this time - In discussions with Dr. Cathy Southworth about holding an editing session in late Autumn with a Danish partner lab if a Copenhagen-based Wikipedia trainer can be sourced.
 * Digital Education MSc - Discussions to take place about how to embed an element of Wikipedia training within this course.
 * National Library of Scotland - Kelvinhall relaunch Wikimedia event - To be confirmed as project is delayed.
 * Edinburgh Gothic - Planned in for 12th November which will cover art, architecture, music, literature (historic and contemporary), film. Penny Fielding at the English Literature department is supporting the project as are the National Library of Scotland (hosting the event), the National Galleries of Scotland and the University of Sheffield's Centre for Gothic Studies.
 * Translate-a-thon - Reaching out to international students to translate articles from English Wikipedia to their own native language Wikipedia. Pencilled in for 28th September as part of the Translation studies MSc course.
 * Festival of Architecture 2016 - Have contacted a number of people at the Edinburgh College of Art about potentially running an architecture-themed editathon to celebrate the Festival of Architecture 2016.
 * Between the worlds of the living and the dead - An editathon for Halloween/Samhain 2016 celebrating the lives of those who have passed on through creating Wikipedia pages utilising obituaries from Scottish newspaper archives and celebrating Celtic history & folklore.
 * The Library & University Collections - a number of recommendations have been submitted to the L&UC team for suggested editathon events which may be the best vehicle for making best use of their collection materials and opening them up to a global community. Taster training sessions have been identified as the way to take this forward.
 * Year of History, Heritage and Archaeology - Cara Jones, Adopt-a-Monument Project Manager from Archaeology Scotland, has suggested a collaboration on an archaeology editathon, which was one of my suggestions to the L&UC team.
 * Botanic Concrete - Collaboration proposed with Viviana Checchia, Public Engagement Curator at the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow.
 * Divinity editathon - to be held at New College immediately prior to running the Wikipedia assignment as part of the World Christianity MSc course.
 * The History of Nursing editathon - mooted for Friday 4th November 2016. Liaising with Marshall Dozier, Academic Support Librarian, about this and about potentially being involved in educating secondary school children about information literacy through Wikipedia.