Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/Images

Click here for Images uploaded in collaboration between WMUK and the University of Edinburgh

Images from the University of Edinburgh's Centre for Research Collections
The Centre for Research Collections (CRC) is the main space for anyone using the University of Edinburgh’s historic collections. Click here to view the images uploaded from the CRC

This 17th century map of Iceland in particular became a very popular OER during Euro 2016. The image ‘Gerardi Mercatoris Atlas, Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figurawas uploaded during our History of Medicine Wikipedia editathon in February 2016. It was then used to illustrate the Wikipedia article about Iceland on English Wikipedia, Simple English Wikipedia and German Wikipedia. Since then it has now been viewed more than 2 million times.

Iceland’s Euro 2016 matches were on 14 June (1-1 with Portugal), 18 June (1-1 Hungary), 22 June (2-1 victory over Austria), 27 June (2-1 win over England), and 3 July (2-5 defeat to France). Around each of these events people all over the world were keen to learn about this surprising nation. Viewing numbers ( numbers of hits) show appreciable spikes for the matches against Portugal, England, and France.

On German Wikipedia spikes against each of the matches regularly exceeded 100,000 page views.

The biggest spike was for the victory over England!

Click here to see the latest traffic statistics for Edinburgh University's uploaded images.

Adding images to Wikipedia articles
Below are more uploads from the University of Edinburgh's Centre for Research Collections. Can you help put some of these pictures in suitably relevant articles and introduce them to a whole new audience?

Images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons during a University of Edinburgh editathon
Click here to view the images uploaded during a University of Edinburgh editathon Can you help add them to a relevant Wikipedia article and thereby introduce them to a whole new audience?

The University of Edinburgh Image Collections
Some images from the university's Image Collection website are on a CC-BY licence so we will be uploading them to Wikimedia Commons in due course; including some letters from Robert Burns.

Images of Edinburgh University editathons
All the images uploaded so far during the residency, including images of all our editathons, are located at the link below. Click here for Images uploaded in collaboration between WMUK and the University of Edinburgh