Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/82nd month report
| Institution | Resident's Name | Period Covered | Date of Report | List of reports to date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Edinburgh | Ewan McAndrew | 1 October 2022 - 31 October 2022 (Eighty-second month of the residency) | 7 November 2022 | Click here to view all reports. |
Awaiting updating of image stats as of 7 November 2022
Running total of staff & student engagement
[edit]| 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 | 315 | 1,797 | 603 | 679 | 138 | 1,452 | 10,703 |
Projects delivered
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Strategic Aim 1 - Knowledge Equity
[edit]- 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
Progress
[edit]The Wikidata Map of Accused Witches project
[edit]- The resident met with his line manager, Karen Howie, this month to identify areas of improvement to be made the Wikidata Map of Accused Witches in Scotland following a flurry of activity from our student interns earlier this Summer. Ten areas have been targeted for improvement with the custom timeline interface and site title identified as the most pressing. The developer, Richard Lawson, has been asked to make improvements in line with our suggestions but we are considering recruiting a student intern to work part-time to support us in terms of quality assuring the data and making sure the data and visualisations are consistent and working as expected. The resident also used the data in Wikidata to create two new data visualisations using the Flourish platform.
Women in Red workshops
[edit]One new Women in Red workshop was held on Friday 28th October 2022 - our 66th monthly workshop at the university.
- 5 new articles were created at the 28 October 2022 event inc. a new article on the Alloa witches and Katherine Campbell (accused witch) (born circa 1677; died 10 June 1697) who was a maidservant accused of theft and witchcraft during the last major witch hunt in western Europe, the Paisley witch trials.
- 20 more articles were edited inc. Wikidata items.
- 215 edits in total.
- 6 editors inc. 3 student editors on the Edinburgh Award for Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia this year.
- 3.19K words added.
- 49 references added.
Ada Lovelace Day workshop - celebrating Women in STEM
[edit]One new Women in Red workshop was held on Tuesday 11th October 2022 for Ada Lovelace Day - our annual celebration of Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. The event took place at the University's Main Library 11am-5pm with the student Computing Society collaborating and an invited guest speaker (Professor Emma Hart from Edinburgh Napier University. More details here
- 2 new articles were created at the Ada Lovelace Day event inc. a new article on Agnes Marion Moodie (6 October 1881 - 1969) who was a Scottish chemist and the first female chemistry graduate from the University of St Andrews. Also created was the article on Ethel Luis (28 August 1898 – 30 May 1998), a Scottish chemist who was one of the first women appointed to the chemistry staff of the University of Dundee during the Second World War.
- 15 more articles were edited inc. Wikidata items.
- 97 edits in total.
- 10 editors.
- 2.08K words added.
- 34 references added.
- 1 Commons upload.
Activities delivered with stats:
[edit]Events
[edit]| Event Name | Date and duration | Location | Attendees | New editors | Trainers | Gender breakdown |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ada Lovelace Day editathon Annual Women in Red editathon - creating new biography articles of notable women in STEM on Wikipedia List of usernames recorded |
11 October 2022 | University of Edinburgh, hybrid workshop. | 10 | 4 | Ewan McAndrew | 90 % female |
| Women in Red editathon Monthly Women in Red editathon - creating new biography articles of notable women on Wikipedia List of usernames recorded |
28 October 2022 | University of Edinburgh, hybrid workshop. | 6 | 3 | Ewan McAndrew | 83.33 % female |
Partnership interactions
[edit]Image statistics - as of 7 November 2022
[edit]The Baglama image statistics tool has not yet updated with October 2022 statistics as of 7 November 2022 - will check back periodically and update September 2022 numbers below asap.
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- 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.
| UoE Centre for Research Collections images | Total for October 2022 | Awaited |
| All images uploaded in collaboration between WMUK and the University of Edinburgh | Total for October 2022 | Awaited |
| UoE Centre for Research Collections images | Total for 82 months of monitoring | Awaited |
The most viewed images for October 2022 across all Wikipedias were:
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Strategic Aim 2 - Information Literacy
[edit]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
Progress
[edit]Wikimedia in the Curriculum - current work
[edit]- Five new case studies can now be added to the Wikimedia in Education - Booklet of Case Studies. Dr. Glaire Anderson, History of Art, and Evelyn Balsells PhD, Global Health Challenges Pg Online, have signed off on their case studies and images to be used. Graphic designer, Nicky Greenhorn, has submitted a new proof design for the new case studies as of 21 September 2022 and this will now be reviewed by Dr. Sara Thomas, Wikimedia UK, and myself to see if any further changes are required. NB: October was a very busy month for the residency so will return to reviewing this now.
- The Translation Studies MSc Wikipedia assignment for Semester One session is to begin with two in-person training workshops for the 2,500 word 2022/2023 assignment began on 12 October 2022 with 63 students in the cohort this year. The students have all chosen their articles now as of 7 November 2022 and been taught best practice about how to translate their article. The assignment will conclude 13 January 2023.
- The Reproductive Biology BSc Wikipedia assignment concluded on 5 October 2022 with 37 Honours students researching in a 3hr workshop on 21 September and then publishing their edits in the 3 hour workshop on 5th October 2022.
- The Korean Studies MSc workshop to introduce students to evaluating how Korean culture and history are represented online and how they can improve it took place on 19th October 2022 in the University's Main Library.
- The Global Health Challenges Pg Online 1,500 word assignment began its 4th iteration on Monday 10th October 2022. 21,000 words have been added to Wikipedia stub articles about natural and manmade disasters so far. A 30 minute video webinar on a recent case study of Wikipedia in the Curriculum on the Global Health Challenges Pg Online course programme at the University of Edinburgh was delivered on 15 June 2022 for the University's Learning and Teaching Conference 2022. This has now been published on the University's Media Hopper channel.
- The Digital Education MSc component on Wikipedia and Knowledge Equity is to go ahead in February 2023 as a 2 week block inc. training webinar, short activities, assigned reading and discussion forums.
- The Data Fair 2022 on the Design Informatics MA/MFA went ahead on Thursday 29th September 2022 where the Masters students work in groups of 3 and have 7 weeks to work practically with real-world datasets to generate creative visualisations to showcase by the end of their assignment. The residency pitched two data proposals: Witchcrafty data and Wiki Loves Monuments data. Two groups decided to work with Wiki Loves Monuments data and images over the next 7 weeks. Link to slides.
- History of Art UG course programme - awaiting confirmation that Dr. Glaire Anderson wishes to continue and do a 3rd iteration of UG students improving Wikipedia's coverage of Islamic art and science in semester two (Jan to March 2023).
Conferences
[edit]- The resident presented a 1hr session on Open Science and the University of Edinburgh during Open Access week on 27 October 2022. This event was hosted by Rute Correia, Wikimedian in Residence at NOVA FCSH, a social and human sciences faculty in Lisbon. This is a partnership with Wikimedia Portugal. The presentation was recorded and will be shared to Wikimedia Portugal's YouTube channel in due course.
Wikipedia Editing - Edinburgh Award activity to begin on 19th October for year two
[edit]- The second iteration of the Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia - a new Edinburgh Award to accredit students for extended project work on Wikipedia began with a new cohort on 19th October 2022. 44 students registered initially with 22 submitting their 400 word action plans by the Award's first deadline - Friday 28th October 2022. Their project pages will be added to our main page for the Edinburgh Award in due course.
Activities with stats:
[edit]Events
[edit]| Activity /Purpose of Meeting | Date and duration | Institute | Location | Names of Attendees | Links, if any, to Meeting/Presentation/ Conference Talk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reproductive Biology BSc Honours course programme Wikipedia training workshop & editathon | 5 October 2022 (3 hours) | University of Edinburgh - Lister Building Learning and Teaching Studio | In person workshop | Ewan McAndrew (Wikimedian) 40 Honours student editors |
Link to the dashboard page. |
| Global Health Challenges Pg Online Wikipedia training workshop | 10 October 2022 (1.5 hours) | Edinburgh College of Art | Online workshop using Blackboard Collaborate | Ewan McAndrew (Wikimedian) 22 Masters student editors |
Link to the dashboard page. |
| Translation Studies MSc Wikipedia training workshop | 12 October 2022 (2 hours) | 40 George Square | In person workshop | Ewan McAndrew (Wikimedian) 61 Masters student editors |
Link to the dashboard page. |
| Edinburgh Award - Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia Input 1 workshop | 19 October 2022 (1.5 hours) | University of Edinburgh Main library | Hybrid workshop | Ewan McAndrew (Wikimedian) 43 students in-person and 1 remote attendee |
Link to Zoom recording. |
| Korean Studies MSc Wikipedia training workshop | 19 October 2022 (1 hour) | Edinburgh College of Art | In-person workshop at University of Edinburgh Main Library | Ewan McAndrew (Wikimedian) 4 student editors |
Link to the dashboard page. |
Partnership interactions
[edit]- This month was mostly characterised by email conversations with University of Edinburgh Course Leader colleagues about setting up dates and room bookings for Wikipedia assignments this semester.
Strategic Aim 3 - Advocacy
[edit]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
Progress
[edit]- Presented on Open Science at the University of Edinburgh for Wikimedia Portugal on 27 October 2022 and collaborated with colleagues in our Scholarship Communications Team, our OER Service and the grassroots Edinburgh Open Research Initiative (EORI) to research the gamut of open research and open science work taking place at the University of Edinburgh.
- Discussed with my line manager, Karen Howie, about submitting conference abstracts to LILAC, DigiFest and the Times Higher Education's Digital Universities conferences.
- Invited by Lianna Davis of the Wikipedia and Education User Group to do a presentation on Teaching Wikidata at the University of Edinburgh on November 3rd.
- Was awarded Support Specialist of the Year for 2022 by Open Education Global on 20th October 2022. More details here.
Activities delivered with stats:
[edit]Events
[edit]| Activity /Purpose of Meeting | Date and duration | Institute | Location | Names of Attendees | Links, if any, to Meeting/Presentation/ Conference Talk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wikimedia UK and Wikimedians in Residence meeting - 1.5 hour catchup session | 18 October 2022 (1.5 hours) | Wikimedia UK | Online Zoom workshop | Ewan McAndrew (Wikimedian) 10-15 attendees |
n/a |
| Open Science/Research at the University of Edinburgh - 1 hour presentation | 27 October 2022 (1 hour) | Wikimedia Portugal | Online Zoom workshop | Ewan McAndrew (Wikimedian) 10 attendees |
Link to the Wikimedia Portugal channel on YouTube where the recording will be shared. |
| Spooky Stories - an update on the Map of Accused Witches website - 10-15 min presentation | 31 October 2022 (3 hours) | Dr. Melissa Highton, LTW, University of Edinburgh | Argyle House, Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh | Ewan McAndrew (Wikimedian) 20-30 staff |
n/a |
Partnership interactions
[edit]- October 2, Corresponded with Ellen Sussman, an Edinburgh based WikiJournals editor/contributor, about a meetup later this semester.
- October 3, Corresponded with Reem Abou-El-Fadl, an educator at SOAS University of London, to support her with advice on teaching with Wikipedia and how to set up a Wikipedia education assignment.
- October 3, Corresponded with Dr. Fiona Mackintosh, Senior lecturer in Latin American literature at University of Edinburgh, to glean her project ideas for Edinburgh Award students improving topic coverage of Paraguayan literature and Venezuelan literature.
- October 3, Contacted by a member of the Remembering the Accused Witches of Scotland group (RAWS) about help trying to read Kirk session records for three particular accused witches in Scotland.
- October 4, Corresponded with Vidminas Mikucionis, a Teaching Assistant in Informatics, about a Principal’s Teaching Award Scheme (PTAS) grant proposal to create a public website, where we would move the course materials, publish them openly and add functionality for the public to interact with them.
- October 12, Contacted by Marcela Morales at Open Education Global to be advised that I had been nominated for the Open Education Global Awards 2022. I was then notified on 20th October that I had won the Support Specialist Award for 2022.
- October 13, Corresponded with Professor Julian Goodare, Navino Evans (Histropedia), and developer Richard Lawson, about proposed changes/improvements to the Map of Accused Witches in Scotland website.
- October 18, Corresponded with Rebecca O'Neill, Wikimedia Ireland, about our student interns contributing to The World according to Wikipedia podcast about recent updates being made to the Map of Accused Witches in Scotland website.
- October 19, Contacted by Selina Brown, Communications Officer at Information Services Group, University of Edinburgh, to be advised that I had been nominated for the ISG in the Community Award 2022. The awards will take place on 23rd November 2022.
- October 20, Corresponded with Nicola Crowe, a student on the Korean Studies MSc, to support her with advice on editing Wikipedia and how to publish an article.
- October 25, Corresponded with Evelyn Balsells, an educator on the Global Health Challenges Pg online course programme at the University of Edinburgh, to support her with guidance about how the Wikimedia Dashboard platform works.
- October 25, Corresponded with Dr. Theo Andrews, Scholarly Communications Manager at the University of Edinburgh, to find out about the current state of Open Science and Open Research at the University of Edinburgh.
- October 26, Corresponded with William Cawthorn, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the University of Edinburgh/BHF Centre for Cardiovascular Science, to find out about the progress of the grassroots Edinburgh Open Research Initiative (EORI).
- October 28, Corresponded with Professor Julian Goodare, Lecturer in History, about proposed changes/improvements to the social media text being prepared for Halloween distribution by the Communications and Marketing Team at the University of Edinburgh about our Map of Accused Witches in Scotland website.
- October 31, Contacted by author Zoe Venditozzi about arranging a date to discuss the Map of Accused Witches in Scotland website on the Witches of Scotland podcast.
Projects/events in development
[edit]- Next phase of the Mapping the Scottish Reformation Wikidata project with Dr. Chris Langley (formerly of Newman University, Birmingham and now at the Open University) and Professor Mikki Brock (Washington and Lee University, USA) - to be confirmed.
- Presenting a talk about Teaching with Wikidata for the Wikipedia and Education User Group on 3rd November 2022.
- Translation Studies MSc Wikipedia assignment - new 2,500 Wikipedia assignment has begun as of 12 October 2022 and will conclude on Friday 13th January 2023.
- Digital Education MSc Wikipedia component to begin 2 week block in February 2023.
- Second iteration of a new 50-80hr Edinburgh Award for Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia began on 19 October 2022 and will conclude on 31st March 2023.
- Updating the Booklet of Case Studies of Wikimedia in UK Education to relaunch a new digital edition. Graphic designer Nicky Greenhorn has submitted a proof as of 13th July 2022 and this will be reviewed by Dr. Sara Thomas and myself asap with a view to publishing online and hopefully finalised by end of December 2022.
- Student Experience Grant (SEG) - a report and blog article are to be written on the achievements and impact of the project.
- The Map of Accused Witches site. The site just needs developer time to implement the new data visualisations and reorientate the dropdown menus.
- Been invited to participate in the Witches of Scotland podcast (details tbc.) and potentially the 2023 Edinburgh Book Festival (tbc.)
- Periodically supporting the Places of Worship in Scotland (POWiS) database being mapped into Wikidata.
- Periodically supporting the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Military Museum database being mapped into Wikidata.
- E. McAndrew to investigate submitting abstracts to LILAC, DigiFest and THE's Digital University Conference when time/opportunity allows.
- E.McAndrew to investigate applying for a Royal Society of Chemistry outreach fund award when time/opportunity allows.
Upcoming events in 2022
[edit]- November 2 - Meeting with Design Informatics MA/MFA students looking to create data visualisations from Wiki Loves Monuments images and data.
- November 2 - Translation Studies MSc - teaching students how to begin their 2,000-2,500 word translation assignment.
- November 2 - Edinburgh Award students - Wikipedia training workshop and setting up their project pages.
- November 3 - Presentation on Teaching Wikidata at the University of Edinburgh for the Wikipedia and Education user group.
- November 8 - Translation Studies MSc - drop-in clinic in Main Library.
- November 10 - Meeting to discuss the migration of the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft website to a new MySQL home.
- November 15 - Translation Studies MSc - drop-in clinic in Main Library.
- November 15 - Edinburgh Award - group research session in Main Library.
- November 16 - Introduction to Wikidata - online Zoom workshop.
- November 16 - Translation Studies MSc - drop-in clinic in Main Library.
- November 16 - Edinburgh Award - group research session in Main Library.
- November 18 - Introduction to Wikisource - online Zoom workshop.
- November 23 - Translation Studies MSc - drop-in clinic in 40 George Square.
- November 23 - Edinburgh Award - group research session in 40 George Square.
- November 25 - Wikipedia Women in Red monthly editing workshop - hybrid event.
- November 29 - GenderEd steering group meeting.
- December 1 - Wikimedia UK and WiRs meeting - online Zoom catchup.
- December 5 - Teaching with Wikipedia - online Zoom workshop.
- December 7 - Edinburgh Award - Input 2 group session.
- December 12 - Edinburgh Award - Pre-Xmas celebration with the Digital Skills Specialist Award participants.
- December 12 - DLAM Section meeting - Wikimedia skills workshop for staff.
- December 15 - Wikipedia Women in Red editathon - monthly editing workshop - hybrid event.
- December(tbc.) - Launch event for relaunch of newly improved Wikidata Map of Accused Witches site. This may need postponed as we are considering recruiting intern to help quality assure the site and the data viz to make sure everything is consistent and performs as it should.
Media
[edit]New blog articles
[edit]No new blog articles this month.
New videos and podcasts
[edit]10 new videos were created and uploaded to YouTube this month including:
- Creating a userpage and getting started on Wikipedia
- Switching the Visual Editor and Content Translation tool on
- Creating a sandbox on Wikipedia to draft content
- Creating a talk page on Wikipedia
- Wiki Love - posting a message of appreciation on a Wikipedia talk page
- How to change your username on Wikipedia
- What do I need to know to get my article published on Wikipedia?
- Edinburgh Award - how to set up a Wikipedia project page and Wikimedia dashboard
- How to choose a Wikipedia article to translate
- Translating Wikipedia articles - Best practice guide
Wikimedian in Residence - University of Edinburgh Media Hopper channel
[edit]- The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Media Hopper now has 389 videos. 236 plays since 1 October 2022.
1 October 2022 to 31 October 2022
| Number of videos | Impressions | Minutes viewed | Number of plays since 1 October 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 389 | 1,513 | 1,120 | 236 |
The most played videos were:
| Position | Video | Plays | Total plays |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Word Count tool - counting the prose text in a Wikipedia article | 24 plays | 663 plays |
| 2 | OpenRefine beginners tutorial | 13 plays | 654 plays |
| 3 | How to add an image to Wikidata | 4 plays | 50 plays |
| 4 | How to copy drafted text from one sandbox to another for a group editing assignment. | 5 plays | 59 plays |
| 5 | Wikipedia at the University of Edinburgh. | 1 play | 53 plays |
Wikimedian in Residence - YouTube channel
[edit]- The Wikimedian in Residence channel on YouTube which has now received over 345,368 views in total of its 130 videos with 1,317 subscribers. These videos have been viewed in 168 countries around the world over the course of the channel's lifetime. Ten new videos were added to the channel this month.
| Number of videos | Views this period | Hours watched this period | New subscribers | Total subscribers | Total views | Total number of countries viewing the channel |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 130 | 8,900 | 341.8 | +32 | 1,317 | 345,368 | 168 |
One of our additions to YouTube by student Hannah Rothmann has now been viewed over 72,267 times since it was added on 14 September 2020.
Image uploads to Wikimedia Commons
[edit]- Link to image uploads tracked by Ada Lovelace Day editathon on 11 October 2022.
- New images contributed by Global Health Challenges Pg Online students
Press about the residency
[edit]- Edinburgh University searches for 'Wikimedians' - Edinburgh Evening News, 8th October 2015.
- University of Edinburgh to employ ‘Wikimedian in Residence’ web editor - The Student Newspaper.org, October 13th 2015.
- The History of Medicine gets mentioned in the ILW Awards 2016
- The OER16 Conference, co-chaired by Melissa Highton and Lorna M. Campbell, won Wikimedia UK’s Partnership of the Year Award
- 'Wikidata and Wikisource Showcase' mentioned on IS News site.
- 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.
- Open Education team (including Wikimedia residency) come third in ALT Learning Technologist of the Year awards - story on the IS News site.
- Wikipedia's women problem - Melissa Highton writes for the Dangerous Women project 10th October 2016
- STV News 'Live at Five' covers the Ada Lovelace Day - Women in STEM Wikipedia editathon.
- New College take on Wikipedia edit-a-thon - Women and Religion 2 November 2016.
- Brenda Moon remembered in Wikipedia editathon - article in IS News
- Wikipedia editathon and Mary Stewart - Edinburgh Gothic Sat 12 November.
- Wikipedia editathon at the University of Sheffield's Centre for the History of the Gothic
- Collaborating to built a city of information literacy, a city of Wikipedia - Interview by OEPS Scotland
- #1Lib1Ref at the University of Edinburgh - Blog article by Gavin Willshaw, Digital Curator - 2nd February 2017
- Fake News and Wikidata - a roundup of the Wikimedia UK Education Summit
- Host a Wikimedian - You can't afford not to (blog article)
- 'Wikipedia, research and representation- - Dr Amy Burge, Academic Developer at the Institute for Academic Development, University of Edinburgh.
- Mary Susan McIntosh and the Women in Red - Lorna Campbell.
- What do you do with a dead chemist? - Anne-Marie Scott.
- Wikipedia and Writing - Michael Seery, Reader in Education, School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh.
- Language and Politics - my takeaways by Mina Theofilatou.
- How is it almost August? - Lorna Campbell.
- While in Scotland - Käbi Suvi, Wikimedia Estonia.
- Celtic Knot Conference 2017 in Edinburgh - Astrid Carlsen, Wikimedia Norge.
- Wikipedia in the Classroom: developing information literacy, online citizenship and digital research skills - Teaching Matters blog 13th June 2017.
- Congratulations to our Wikimedian of the Year - Wikimedia UK blog 1st August 2017.
- University of Edinburgh journal vol.48 no.1 - Article about the Edinburgh residency on p.25
- Ada Lovelace Day 2017 - celebrating Women in STEM - article on the WiR blog on 1st September 2017.
- Scotland loves monuments - article for Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 on the Wir Blog - Friday 8 September 2017.
- Wanderings with a Wikimedian - Blog article by Anne-Marie Scott for Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 - Monday 11 September 2017.
- Mortuary Chapel, Revisited - Anne-Marie Scott's blog September 30 2017.
- Ada Lovelace Day – Professor Elizabeth Slater - Lorna Campbell's blog on October 10 2017.
- Ada Lovelace Day - knitting resources
- Ada Lovelace Day 2017 photos.
- Wikipedia is a very lovely place to be - Anne-Marie Scott's blog.
- 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'.
- Wikipedia has always depended on the kindness of strangers - Outcomes of Ada Lovelace 2017 on the Wikimedian in Residence blog 19 October 2017.
- Wikipedia assignments – getting past the ‘Penguin effect’ and down to the brass tacks of sharing open knowledge - Teaching Matters blog.
- Ada Lovelace Day 2017 – Celebrating women in STEM - Edinburgh University Science Magazine.
- Another Story about Maps - Blogpost by Anne-Marie Scott 27 October 2017.
- Open Tumshies for Halloween - blogpost by Lorna Campbell 31 October 2017.
- Internet Transmitted Infections – I’ve got the SPLOTS - Anne-Marie Scott, 16 November 2017.
- Wikidata in the Classroom on the Wikimedian in Residence blog 22 November 2017.
- Open for all - Mansfield Traquair images hosted on Wikimedia Commons. Blog by Anne-Marie Scott 23 November 2017.
- 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.
- Wikipedia Games / SPLOTPoint - Anne-Marie Scott blog, January 1st 2018.
- 2017 Highs, Lows and Losses - Lorna Campbell blog, January 3rd 2018
- Wikipedia at 17 – Facts matter. - January 16th 2018.
- Reflections on International Women’s Day 2018 and Wikipedia – A Gude Cause - 8 March 2018.
- New SPLOT Wikidata tutorial - Wikidata Basics.
- 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.
- Libraries, Literacies & Learning – presentation at SCURL event 23 March 2018
- Digital Transformation and Data — The Wikimedia Residency at the University of Edinburgh on Medium.com
- Wikimedia resources – how to get started.
- The OER 18 EdTech editathon 'SPLOT' resource.
- Wikimedia at the Open Educational Resources Conference 2018
- 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.
- Wikipedia in Higher Education (co-authored with Jemima John, 4th year Law undergraduate student.
- Wikipedia in Higher Education… How students are shaping the open web.
- Tracings (don’t look too closely)
- NEW SPLOT resource created for the Wikidata Workshop at the Digital Day of Ideas.
- 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.
- 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.
- Wikipedia in the Classroom – how students are shaping the open web - Teaching Matters blog
- 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.
- Towards Open-ish? - a hybrid conversation organised as part of the Wikimania conference in Cape Town.
- Languages - blog about whether other language Wikipedias should refer to all places in Scotland by their Gaelic names.
- Newspapers - created a Wikipedia page as part of Mike Caulfield’s Newspapers on Wikipedia project.
- Reflections on CELT Symposium 2018 - includes mention of our Open Content Curation Student Interns and the Wikimedia in the Classroom initiatives.
- 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.
- 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.
- What I did on my holidays - taking pictures for Wiki Loves Monuments.
- Academia and Wikipedia – a presentation at Maynooth University on 18 June 2018.
- Celebrating 100 years of Votes for Women
- Ada Lovelace Day 2018 – nominate Women in STEM heroines.
- Open.Ed – OER and Open Knowledge at the University of Edinburgh.
- Wikidata in the Classroom and the WikiCite project - presentation at Repository Fringe 2018.
- University wins Wikimedia UK’s Partnership of the Year award
- University of Edinburgh wins Wikimedia UK Partnership of the Year Award.
- Open.Ed at RepoFringe18
- Scotland loves Monuments 2018
- Wiki Loves Monuments 2018
- The internet’s favourite website for information.
- 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.
- Ada Lovelace Day – 1 month to go!
- Facts and Fallacies: Cultural Representations of Mental Health
- Edinburgh Gothic for Robert Louis Stevenson Day 2018
- Witchy Wikidata – a 6th birthday celebration event for Halloween
- Editing Wikipedia as part of teaching public health? by Felix Stein, by Global Health MSc course leader at the University of Edinburgh.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Celebrating notable women of Edinburgh
- Wikimedia Women in Red internship
- Four page spread on the Map of Accused Witches Wikidata project in the May/June 2020 publication of History Scotland magazine.
- Shifting Gears and Finding Female Pioneers
- To the Future of Women in Red and Online Diversity
- My first week as a Wikimedia Training Intern - blogpost by Hannah Rothmann
- 4 weeks into my Wikimedia Internship by Hannah Rothmann on the residency blog.
- #WCCWiki Colloquium 2020 by Hannah Rothmann on the residency blog.
- Final reflections on my Wikimedia Training Internship by Hannah Rothmann on the residency blog.
- Scotland Loves Monuments 2020 on the residency blog.
- 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.
- Introducing Mapping the Scottish Reformation: Clerics, Manuscripts, and Open Data on the Wikimedia UK blog.
- 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.
- Editing Wikipedia: Stars, robots and talismans Honours course by Glaire Anderson for the Wikimedia UK blog
- Happy Birthday Wikipedia - guest blog post by Classics undergraduate student, Hannah Rothmann, for Wikipedia's 20th birthday.
- Telling the history of HIV and AIDS activism in Scotland on Wikipedia - WiR blog
- Scotland, Slavery and Black History project - WiR blog
- Those who fought: Representing HIV/AIDS activism on Wikipedia - Blog by Lorna Campbell
- My first week as a Wikisourceror – Guest post by student intern, Erin Boyle
- Open Data and Knowledge Equity – my first week by student intern, Clea Strathmann
- Supporting Open Collections – Guest post by Wikisourceror intern, Erin Boyle
- Wikimedia and the Diversity of Languages online – Guest post by Clea Strathmann
- 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.
- Teaching Matters Podcast: Wikimedia and Academia
- Teaching Matters Podcast: Wikimedia and Language
- Teaching Matters Podcast: Improving science communication with… Wikipedia?
- Podcast: Wikipedia: Where are the women? (13 minutes)
- Calls for Scotland to pardon witch-hunt victims gather pace - Guardian newspaper
- Down the Rabbit Hole with Wikipedia at the LILAC Information Literacy Conference 2022, WiR blog.
- Wikipedia, Student Activism and the Ivory Tower – talk presented at the LILAC Information Literacy Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University, 11-13 April 2022.
- Wikipedia and History – podcast series for Teaching Matters.
- Witchfinder General blog: Something wiki’d this way comes!
- Witchfinder General blog: Site Development is underway
- Witchfinder General blog: Some data processing sorcery