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Institution Resident's Name Period Covered Date of Report List of reports to date
University of Edinburgh Ewan McAndrew 12 September - 11 October 2017 (Twenty-first month of residency) 23 October 2017 Click here to view all reports.

Running total of staff & student engagement

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Institution Resident's Name Number of training sessions delivered Number of students trained Number of staff trained Members of the public trained Number of editathons Total articles created Total articles improved
University of Edinburgh Ewan McAndrew 80 349 252 139 26 303 1366

Map of Iceland appears in Wikipedia and CC State of the Commons Report

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17th century map of Iceland digitised by the University of Edinburgh's Centre for Research Collections and uploaded to Wikipedia by Anne-Marie Scott.
17th century map of Iceland digitised by the University of Edinburgh's Centre for Research Collections and uploaded to Wikipedia by Anne-Marie Scott.

A 17th century map of Iceland digitized by the Centre for Research Collections and uploaded to flickr was added to Wikimedia Commons during a Women in Medicine Editathon in February 2016. This map was subsequently added to the German and English Wikipedia pages for Iceland and as a result of interest generated by the Euro 2016 football championship the map has now been viewed over 10 million times. The story of the Iceland map was picked up by Creative Commons who included it as a Spotlight Feature in the influential 2016 State of the Commons Report.

Projects delivered

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Strategic Goal 1

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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

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  • Monthly Wiki meetup for Women in Red held on 29 September 2017 - 4 new articles created and 2 improved.
  • Ada Lovelace Day held on 10 October - 16 attendees at the editathon, 13 articles created and 2 improved about notable women in STEM including ensuring all 19 signatories to the 1904 petition to the Chemical Society were represented. The event also had 41 signups to the talks and fun tech activities in the morning and 63 signups to the evening film screening of 'A Chemical Balance' & panel discussion with Professor Polly Arnold, Professor Jane Norman and Dr. Carole Morrison. Storify of the day.
  • Planning for the Fruitmarket Gallery editathon on Scottish Contemporary Artists continued with a meeting on 20 September 2017.
  • Planning continued for the release of theses data to Wikidata from the Edinburgh Research Archive with a meeting on 21 September 2017. Along with further discussions on a 'Wiki loves Libraries' event with SLIC and SDLC invitees.
  • Met with Lucas Agustin Reynoso, new student at the university and a new recruit to Wikimedia UK from Wikimedia Argentina, and Susan Ross, Gaelic Wikipedian in Residence at the National Library of Scotland on 22nd September 2017.
  • 2,100 images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons for Scotland's part in Wiki Loves Monuments 2017. 1,351 of which came from staff at the University of Edinburgh's Information Services. Session booked in on 23rd November to add the images to relevant pages on Wikipedia.

Activities delivered in the past month with stats:

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Event Name Date Location Attendees New Users Gender breakdown
Wiki Women in Red monthly meetup: Writing biographies of notable women
List of attendees		 29 September 2017 2pm-5pm University of Edinburgh Argyle House, 3 Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh, EH3 9DS. 5 3 60% female
Ada Lovelace Day 2017: Writing biographies of notable women in STEM
List of Attendees		 10 October 2017 2pm-5pm University of Edinburgh Argyle House, 3 Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh, EH3 9DS. 16 9 68.75% female

Image statistics

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Activities in the past month with stats:

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Event Name Date Location / Organiser Attendees (approx) Description
Thesis catchup 21 September 2017 Floor E, Argyle House, 3 Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh
Organiser:Gavin Willshaw, Digital Curator		 3 Informal discussion to model how the theses data from 27,000 records in the Edinburgh Research Archive can be imported into Wikidata.

Strategic Goal 2

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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

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  • Confirmed participation at the When Education Becomes Possible event on 25 October 2017.
  • Advocated for Wikimedia work as part of UC Louvain's strategy for open education.
  • Supported Sara Thomas at the first SLIC residency editathon and arranged for follow-up event at the Community Heritage Conference 2017 to further build on this advocacy work in this sector.
  • Accepted invitation to speak at Queen's University Belfast in March 2018.
  • Confirmed dates for an editathon at Teeside University in April 2018.
  • Melissa Highton spoke about the Edinburgh Seven and Changing The Way Stories Are Told'' with Wikipedia at the Physiological Society event on 13th October 2017.

Activities in the past month with stats:

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Event Name Date Location / Organiser Attendees (approx) Description
Open education and digital strategy meeting 13 September 2017 Floor K, Argyle House, 3 Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh
Organiser:LornaMCampbell		 5+ Informal presentations and discussions with members of the Open Education team at the Université catholique de Louvain to share best practice. Lorna has been invited back to Louvain for a return visit on the back of this meeting.
When Education Becomes Possible - planning meeting 19 September 2017 The University Chaplaincy Centre, 1 Bristo Place, Edinburgh
Organiser:Harriet Harris, University Chaplain		 15 approx. Planning discussion to build on the support for refugees at the university and the Light for Aleppo initiative by inviting colleagues from around the university to share best practice about the power of education to transform lives as part of the International Storytelling Festival. I represented the Open Education team at this meeting and suggested an Open Education Stall, a Black History Month & Wikipedia talk and a Histropedia workshop.
Hidden Gems Editathon 6 October 2017 Edinburgh Central Library
Organiser:Sara Thomas, Wikimedian in Residence at the Scottish Libraries & Information Council (SLIC)		 10 approx. The first event of the new Scottish Libraries and Information Council residency to improve the on-wiki coverage of Scotland's history, heritage and archaeology and to introduce history, heritage, archaeology and library/information professionals to learn more about Wikipedia/media and its usefulness for their sector. Attended to lend support and created a new article on the Govan Stones; winner of the Hidden Gems competition.

Strategic Goal 3

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

Outcomes

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  • Translation Studies MSc course started on 22 September 2017 - 21 students trained to translate 2000 words from one high quality article into a different language Wikipedia. Due to finish at the end of the semester.
  • Reproductive Biology Hons. course completed on 27 September - 51 students trained to work in groups to create articles missing from the field of Reproductive Biomedicine (6 new articles and 1 improved with 26.3K words added and 618,000 article views to date). Reflective blog articles to be submitted by the students at the end of the semester.
  • World Christianity MSc course began on 27 September 2017 - 8 students trained to create articles missing from the field of World Christianity. Due to finish at the end of the semester.
  • Attendee at OER17, Jeffrey Keefer informed me he has turned from a Wikipedia sceptic to a Wikipedia course leader since engaging with Wikimedians at OER17. His first course has just finished and he is keen to share his observations.
  • Finally confirmed with Joe Corneli and Benjamin Bach that the Wikidata Project on the Data Science for Design MSc course is to go ahead this semester. The Digital Sociology MSc workshop on 23rd November is similarly to go ahead and am liaising with Tanja Romankiewicz, lecturer in archaeology, about an assignment. Tanja was on the PgCAP course in 2016 that I took part in so there is a further impact to the residency.

Activities delivered in the past month with stats:

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Event Name Date Location Attendees New Users Gender breakdown
Reproductive Biology Hons. assignment - session one
List of Usernames		 20 September 2017 9.30am-12:30pm University of Edinburgh Teaching Studio LG.07, David Hume Tower Building, Edinburgh 50 50 92% female
Teaching with Wikipedia: How to get started with Wikipedia assignments
Attendee: User:Valcatal		 21 September 2017 11am-12:30pm University of Edinburgh Training Room 1.08, Main Library, 30 George Square, Edinburgh 1 1 0% female
Translation Studies MSc assignment - Getting started with Wikipedia editing
Usernames		 22 September 2017 1pm-3pm University of Edinburgh 50 George Square, Edinburgh 21 21 81% female
Train the Trainer: Dedicated training session for the Presidents of the Student Translation Society.
User:annazhigareva & User:Bluish.butterfly		 26 September 2017 11:30am-1pm University of Edinburgh Business School cafe, 29 Buccleuch Pl, Edinburgh EH8 9JS 2 0 100% female
Reproductive Biology Hons. assignment - session two
List of Usernames		 27 September 2017 9.30am-1pm University of Edinburgh Teaching Studio LG.07, David Hume Tower Building, Edinburgh 48 48 92% female
World Christianity MSc assignment - Getting started with Wikipedia editing
Usernames		 27 September 2017 2pm-5pm University of Edinburgh School of Divinity,New College, Edinburgh 6 5 83% female
Translation Studies MSc assignment - Getting started with Translating Wikipedia articles. Usernames 2 October 2017 1pm-3pm University of Edinburgh 50 George Square, Edinburgh 19 19 84% female
Getting started with Wikipedia: Editing using the new Visual Editor.
SiegLind, User:Launch.Ed, Yingzhulin, Ccratz2, Carol926 & Dasy1128		 5 October 2017 11am-1pm University of Edinburgh Room 1.08, Edinburgh University Main Library, 30 George Square, Edinburgh 6 6 50% female
World Christianity MSc assignment - follow up session - Getting started with Wikipedia editing
Usernames: Jeremyjoetan, Jonaskurlberg & Nnenwogo		 9 October 2017 4pm-5:20pm University of Edinburgh School of Divinity,New College, Edinburgh 3 3 33.33% female

Projects/events in development

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  • Awaiting word back from Stephen Kaye on the Mastercard Scholarship Foundation to follow up on conversations in Spring 2017 about holding an African Alumni & Swahili editathon in December 2017.
  • Wikidata project on the Data Science for Design MSc as part of their Data Fair on 26 October 2017 to go ahead.
  • An editathon themed on Scottish Contemporary Artists will now be held in Friday 24th November 2017 with confirmed involvement from the School of Design Informatics.
  • Met with Muireann Crowley, PhD student, 8 September 2017 to help facilitate an AHRC-funded 'Lost Literary Edinburgh' editathon on 24 November 2017. Anne-Marie Scott and Sara Thomas will lead this event.
  • Confirmed with Felix Stein at Social Anthropology about a Wikipedia editing assignment for 2017/2018 - postponed due to Felix working in Haiti at the moment.
  • Wikipedia workshop to take place in October 2017 on the Digital Sociology course with a view to further work in Spring 2018.
  • Discussed with Sophie Nicholls at Teeside University about doing a 'Regeneration' editathon and Train the Trainer events down there - dates in Spring 2018 now finalised as April 28th 2017.
  • In email contact with Tanja Romankiewicz at the School of Archaeology about an archaeology-themed editing event to mark Year of History, Heritage and Archaeology 2017 in conjunction with Sara Thomas's work at Dig It! and SLIC.
  • Collaborating with Wikisource volunteer, Sam Wilson, following Wikimania to produce materials to simplify process of working with Wikisource: the free digital library (pdf handouts, video tutorials etc.)
  • Exploring how a Wiki MOOC could be implemented which builds on the work of Wikimedia France.
  • Continuing to support colleagues at the University of Edinburgh's Digital Skills team to run their own Wikipedia training workshops.
  • Liaising with Leila Zia and Bob West to make improvements to the Gapfinder tool for the 3rd iteration of the Translation Studies MSc.
  • Showcase 'Wiki Loves Libraries' event for SDLC and SLIC representatives still mooted - liaising with Gavin Willshaw, Digital Curator on date and format.

Upcoming events in 2017

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  • September 13 - Open Education and Digital Strategy meeting with UC Louvain representatives.
  • September 20 and 27 - Reproductive Biology Hons. workshops.
  • September 21 - Teaching with Wikipedia workshop.
  • September 22 and 29 - Translation Studies MSc workshops.
  • September 26 - Train the Trainer workshop.
  • September 27 - World Christianity MSc - Wikipedia editing workshop
  • September 29 - Wiki Women in Red meetup #5
  • October 5 - Wikipedia editing training workshop
  • October 9 - Follow up training session for World Christianity MSc students.
  • October 10 - Ada Lovelace Day 2017
  • October 19 - Teaching with Wikipedia workshop.
  • October 24 - Train the Trainer workshop.
  • October 25 - Black History month editathon.
  • October 26 - Data Science and Design - Data Fair event.
  • October 27 - Wiki Women in Red meetup #6.
  • October 28 & 29 - WikidataCon
  • November 2 - Wikipedia editing workshop.
  • November 8 - Wikidata and Histropedia workshop.
  • November 14 - Teaching with Wikipedia workshop.
  • November 23 - Wiki Loves Monuments image-a-thon
  • November 23 - Digital Sociology workshop - Karen Gregory, lecturer in Digital Sociology.
  • November 24 - Scottish Contemporary Artists editathon at the Fruitmarket Gallery with the School of Design Informatics.
  • November 24 - Being Human' editathon; organised by James Loxley, Professor of Early Modern Literature.
  • December 4 - Wikipedia editing training workshop (tbc)
  • December 7 - Wikisource workshop.
  • December - Swahili editathon (tbc).
  • December 21 - Wiki Women in Red meetup #7.

Media

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New blogposts

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  1. Mortuary Chapel, Revisited - Anne-Marie Scott's blog September 30 2017.
  2. Ada Lovelace Day – Professor Elizabeth Slater - Lorna Campbell's blog on October 10 2017.
  3. Ada Lovelace Day - knitting resources
  4. Ada Lovelace Day 2017 photos.
  5. Wikipedia is a very lovely place to be - Anne-Marie Scott's blog.
  6. 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'.
  7. Wikipedia has always depended on the kindness of strangers - Wikimedian in Residence blog.
  8. Wikipedia assignments – getting past the ‘Penguin effect’ and down to the brass tacks of sharing open knowledge - Teaching Matters blog.
  9. Ada Lovelace Day 2017 – Celebrating women in STEM - Edinburgh University Science Magazine.
  10. 'Where is the W in STEM?' - Written about Ada Lovelace Day 2017 at the University of Edinburgh by student Karolina Zieba for the newspaper publication, 'The Student'.

Pictures from Ada Lovelace Day 2017

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Pictures (Wiki Loves Monuments in Scotland 2017)

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View all 2,100 pics.

Pictures (Reproductive Biomedicine 2017

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Videos

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  • The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Media Hopper now has 212 videos. 32 more than last month; 19 of which were uploaded as a result of the Wikimania 2017 conference. 110 views this month with 42 plays.
  • The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Youtube now has accrued 19,126 views of its 52 videos with 79 subscribers (Two thousand six hundred more views approx. than last month and 5 more subscribers than last month).

Press about the residency

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  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 - Wikimedian in Residence blog.
  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.
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