Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/Year Four report

Strategic Goal 1
Increase the quality and quantity of coverage of subjects that are currently underrepresented on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects, with a particular focus on cultural content.

Outcomes

 * Our monthly Wikipedia Women in Red workshop was held on 1 February 2019 at the University of Edinburgh Library. Dashboard page with stats.
 * 7 new articles were created.
 * 2 more were drafted.
 * 47 articles were edited.
 * 147 edits in total.
 * 7 editors.
 * 6,800 words added.
 * A Wikipedia Diversithon was held on 20 February 2019 for LGBT History Month and the Festival of Creative Learning 2019 in partnership with student groups, Wellcomm Kings and UncoverEd.
 * 12 new articles were created.
 * 2 more were drafted.
 * 28 articles were edited.
 * 249 edits in total.
 * 15 editors.
 * 9,530 words added.
 * An International Women's Day event was held on 8 March 2019 celebrating the inspirational Women of Edinburgh missing from Wikipedia.
 * 12 new articles were created.
 * 52 articles were edited.
 * 449 edits in total.
 * 16 editors including 2 student editors remotely taking part in Johannesburg, South Africa.
 * 18,900 words added.
 * Our monthly Wikipedia Women in Red workshop was held on Friday 3 May 2019 at the University of Edinburgh Library. Dashboard page with stats.
 * 10 new articles were created.
 * 28 more were edited.
 * 209 edits in total.
 * 6 editors.
 * 10,800 words added.
 * Our monthly Wikipedia Women in Red workshop was also held on 31 May 2019 at the University of Edinburgh Library. Dashboard page with stats.
 * 5 new articles were created.
 * 24 more were edited.
 * 240 edits in total.
 * 9 editors.
 * 7,690 words added.
 * An editathon was held in collaboration with the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission was held on 8 June 2019. Dashboard page with stats.
 * 15 new articles were created.
 * 20 more were edited.
 * 351 edits in total.
 * 26 editors.
 * 13,700 words added.
 * An Women in STEM event was held on 5 June 2019 celebrating the inspirational Women of Edinburgh missing from Wikipedia.
 * 13 new articles were created.
 * 57 articles were edited.
 * 226 edits in total.
 * 16 editors including 2 student editors remotely taking part in Johannesburg, South Africa.
 * 16,000 words added.
 * Our last monthly Wikipedia Women in Red workshop of 2019 was held on 17 December 2019 at the University of Edinburgh Library. Dashboard page with stats.
 * 5 new articles were created (Ethel Houston, Margaret Myles, Gunnie Moberg, Fenella Paton and Margaret, 2nd Lady Nairne).
 * 13 articles were edited.
 * 189 edits in total.
 * 7 editors.
 * 4,900 words added.

Image statistics

 * 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 2019 were:

Strategic Goal 2
Support the development of open knowledge in the UK, by increasing the understanding and recognition of the value of open knowledge and advocating for change at an organisational, sectoral and public policy level.

Outcomes

 * Shortlisted for Information Literacy award at the 2019 LILAC Information Literacy Conference.
 * Won in the category of Innovative use of Technology at the Herald Higher Education Awards 2019.

Strategic Goal 3
To support the use of the Wikimedia projects as important tools for education and learning in the UK.

Outcomes

 * Hosted a Wikidata student intern through Equate Scotland's scheme to provide paid placements for Women in STEM students. Emma Carroll worked for three months geolocating the places mentioned in the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft database so the accused witches of Scotland could be plotted on a map, making over 47,000 edits to Wikidata in the process. Emma blogged about her experience every week and created a raft of map visualisations which are all available to view at the witches.is.ed.ac.uk website which has been viewed circa 100,000 times since its launch on 11 September 2019 and with the Scotsman, Herald, Guardian, Scottish Daily Mail, Vanity Fair Spain, Evening Express, Edinburgh News, Press & Journal, BBC Radio Scotland, BBC Radio 4, New York Times, John O' Groat Journal and Smithsonian.com and many more covering the story.
 * Co-wrote an article for New Case Studies of Openness in the Language Classroom with Lorna Campbell on our experience working on the Wikipedia assignment for Translation Studies MSc over the last three years. Read it here.

Course programmes involving Wikipedia assignments after year three

 * 1) Research session for Reproductive Biology Honours students. Blog article here. 5th iteration was in September 2019.
 * 2) World Christianity MSc course Blog article here. - 2nd iteration was in 2017/2018 (course leader on research leave in 2018/2019) but Dr. Alex Chow has planned a Wikipedia component in a new course he has proposed to the Board of Studies.
 * 3) Undergraduate English Literature Course: Global Modernisms: Inter/National Responses to Modernity (ENLI10369) - one iteration before the residency began in 2016.
 * 4) Translation Studies MSc. Blog article here. Being repeated - Now in its 7th iteration in 2019/2020.
 * 5) Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP) - one iteration in 2016/2017.
 * 6) Introductory Wikipedia project on the Online History MSc - one iteration in Summer 2016.
 * 7) Global Health MSc - Second iteration in 2019/2020.
 * 8) Introductory workshop in Digital Sociology MSc - Second iteration to took place in 2018/2019.
 * 9) Introductory workshop with School of Law - first iteration took place in semester one in 2018/2019.
 * 10) Wikidata project in Data Science for Design MSc - Third iteration in semester one, 2019/2020.
 * 11) Intellectual Humility (MOOC) - Ongoing Wikipedia component since 2016/2017.
 * 12) Global Health Challenges Postgraduate course (online) - first iteration took place in semester one 2019/2020.
 * 13) Korean Studies MSc - first iteration took place in semester one 2019/2020.
 * 14) Digital Education MSc - first iteration to take place in semester two 2019/2020.

Further collaborations

 * 1) Wikimedia for Online Language Learning as part of MSc in Language Teaching / MSc in TESOL.
 * 2) Psychology in Action MSc - Citizen Science Wikipedia project.
 * 3) Open Data project on the Management Science course at the University of Edinburgh Business School to be discussed.
 * 4) Public Health MSc - Wikipedia project mooted for 2019/2020 session.

Projects/events in development

 * Wikipedia Women in Red - Digital Skills intern being recruited in December 2019 for January to July position.
 * WikiCite and Natural History symposium has been accepted for holding as part of the conference for the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) and the International Council of Museums Committee for Museums and Collections of Natural History (ICOM NATHIST) in 7 to 13 June 2020.

Upcoming events in 2019

 * November 20 - Wikidata and Histropedia workshop.
 * November 21 - Global Health MSc workshop.
 * November 21 - Presentation on the Map of Witches project at the Riddles Court symposium.
 * November 26 - Translation Studies MSc drop-in clinic. (CANCELLED)
 * November 27 - Wikipedia Women in Red workshop. (CANCELLED)
 * December 4 - Introduction to Wikipedia - Digital Skills workshop.
 * December 10 - Translation Studies MSc drop-in clinic.
 * December 17 - Wikipedia Women in Red workshop.
 * December 20 - Presentation by Data Science for Design MSc students on the Lasercut wooden map of accused witches in Scotland.

New articles and blogposts

 * Article in the Scotsman: Women scientists being whitewashed from Wikipedia – Ewan McAndrew, Siobhan O’Connor, Dr Sara Thomas and Dr Alice White
 * Women and Wikipedia….Open Learning and a hobby for life!
 * Translation and Open Education – An Experiment using Wikipedia
 * Wikipedia in Higher Education: How students are shaping the open web
 * Diversifying Wikipedia for the Festival of Creative Learning 2019
 * 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
 * You can’t be what you can’t see: Creating new role models on Wikipedia to encourage the next generation of Immodest Women
 * International Women’s Day 2019
 * Recruiting a Witchfinder General
 * Wikimedia at the LILAC Information Literacy Conference 2019
 * Balance for Better – recognising notable Edinburgh women
 * Balance for Better – Teaching Matters
 * Wikimania 2019 - Digital Support Librarian Lauren Smith reports on her first-time attendance at Wikimania 2019 in Stockholm, Sweden.
 * Scotland Loves Monuments 2019 - Get involved in Wiki Loves Monuments!
 * 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.
 * Wikipedia on Olive Schreiner, like it or what? by Professor Liz Stanley.

Videos

 * Click to see the number of pageviews on Wikipedia for October 2019 for the MOOC snippets on Wikimedia Commons.
 * New videos:
 * How to create multiple sandboxes/personal draft spaces on Wikipedia
 * How to copy drafted text from one sandbox to another for a group editing assignment
 * How to edit existing pages on Wikipedia the right way
 * Playlist of videos from Wikimania 2019 from Stockholm University.
 * Playlist of videos from WikidataCon 2019 at Urania, Berlin

Wikimedian in Residence - University of Edinburgh Media Hopper channel
The most played videos were:
 * The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Media Hopper now has 287 videos. 98 views this month with 56 plays.

Wikimedian in Residence - Youtube channel

 * The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Youtube which has now received over 76,272 views in total of its 70 videos with 310 subscribers (30,700 more views in the last year and 2,200 hours watched approx. since the last report with 78 more subscribers, 331 'likes', and 330 'shares' since the last report). These videos have been viewed in 168 countries around the world over the course of the channel's lifetime. 299,852 minutes have now been watched since the channel started.

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.