Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/81st month report

The resident was on annual leave from September 5th to September 16th

• 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

• The resident used the data in Wikidata to create two new data visualisations using the Flourish platform.
  • The Devil in Scotland (1563-1736) - descriptions of the devil'a appearance from the 'confessions' of the accused witches.
  • Accused witches in Scotland (1563 to 1736) - Place of residence and date of witchcraft investigation

The resident has newly accepted a role on the University's GenderEd Steering Group for 2022/2023. GenderEd is a cross-University hub for gender and sexualities studies from an interdisciplinary perspective. It showcases and promotes teaching, research, knowledge exchange and impact (KEI) in gender and sexualities studies at the University of Edinburgh and beyond. The resident attended their 5th anniversary event on Monday 26th September and attended its first 2022/2023 steering group meeting on Tuesday 27th September 2022 where under discussion was how to get the University to better incorporate Gender.Ed and Race.Ed considerations and recommendations when it comes to implementing their new Curriculum Transformation Programme.

One new Women in Red workshop was held on Friday 30th September 2022 - our 65th monthly workshop at the university.

• 24 new articles were created at the 30 September 2022 event inc. a new article on Una Flett (1939–2021) who was an author, journalist, travel writer, artist and in her youth, a ballerina with the Ballet des Champs Elysée, Paris. Also a new page for Ruby Grierson (1903–1940), a Scottish documentary film-maker and leading authority in the early documentary movement.
  • 144 more articles were edited inc. Wikidata items.
  • 489 edits in total.
  • 9 editors
  • 21.4K words added.
  • 254 Commons uploads.
  • 181 references added.

This year Ada Lovelace Day falls on Tuesday 11 October 2022 and the residency is organising an event to create and improve representation of Women on STEM on Wikipedia. Preparations are underway and rooms secured at the University's Main Library for an event 11am-5pm on Tues 11 October 2022 with the student Computing Society collaborating and an invited guest speaker (Professor Emma Hart from Edinburgh Napier University.

• • More details here

• 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 September 2022 across all Wikipedias were:

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

• 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.
• 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 to begin on 10 October 2022 with 63 students in the cohort this year.
• The Reproductive Biology BSc Wikipedia assignment took place with 37 Honours students in 3hr workshop on 21 September with publishing taking place on 5th October 2022 with Dr. Agnes Stefansdottir.
• The Korean Studies MSc workshop to introduce students to evaluating how Korean culture and history are represented online and how they can improve it is to go ahead on 19th October 2022 in the University's Main Library.
• The Global Health Challenges Pg Online 1,500 word assignment is to begin for its 4th iteration on Monday 10th October 2022. 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. 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).

• The resident will present a session on Open Science and the University of Edinburgh during Open Access week in October 2022. This event will be 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 second iteration of the Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia - a new Edinburgh Award to accredit students for extended project work on Wikipedia will begin with a new cohort on 19th October 2022. 9 students have registered so far with another 14 booked to attend an introduction session on Monday 10th October 2022.

• 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.

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

• Presented Wikipedia and Information Literacy presentation at CILIP Scotland online event on 8 September 2022 with Dr. Sara Thomas, Wikimedia UK, and Gavin Willshaw, Digitisation and Digital Engagement Manager for University of Edinburgh Library.

• September 1, Corresponded with James Gaunt about doing a presentation for Wikimedia Australia's December community meeting.
• September 2, Corresponded with Lucy Bentley at Care International to support her with advice on editing Wikipedia using non digital newspaper articles as sources.
• September 7, Met with Kirsty Ross and Abd Alsatti from University of St. Andrews about their proposed plan to increase/expand their IDEA Network.
• September 8, Corresponded with Robin Staniland, Senior Library Assistant at Kings College London about what a Wikipedia editathon entails.
• September 9, Received invitation to Peebles Witch trial memorial event taking place on Saturday 22nd October.
• September 21, Corresponded with Mark Loparco about potential University of Edinburgh PhD supervisors who could envisage supervising a Wikidata and the Semantic Web PhD proposal.
• September 27, Received email from Fiona Seivewright, researcher at the University of Aberdeen, about updating 4 accused witches' location from Keith to Innerkeith.
• September 27, Corresponded with web developer, Billy Rosendale, about a failed draft page for University of Edinburgh Regius Chair of Engineering, Themis Prodromakis.
• September 28, Corresponded with Larissa Ho about the drafting of a new page for the University's Bayes Centre and how to be transparent about COI concerns.
• September 30, Corresponded with Evelyn Balsells, Course leader on the Global Health Challenges Pg Online course, about whether the Masters students could join the Edinburgh Award this year.

• 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.
• Translation Studies MSc Wikipedia assignment - new 2,500 Wikipedia assignment to begin on 10 October 2022.
• Reproductive Biology BSc Wikipedia assignment - new groupwork assignment to conclude 7th iteration on 5 October 2022.
• Korean Studies MSc Wikipedia workshop to be held at Main Library on 19 October 2022.
• Open Science and the University of Edinburgh presentation to be delivered during International Open Access Week in October 2022 and hosted by Rute Correia, Wikimedia Portugal.
• Global Health Challenges Pg Online Wikipedia assignment to begin on Monday 10th October 2022.
• Digital Education MSc Wikipedia component to begin 2 week block in February 2023.
• Ada Lovelace Day event being prepared to celebrate Women in STEM on Tuesday 11 October 2022.
• Second iteration of a new 50-80hr Edinburgh Award for Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia to begin on 19 October 2022.
• 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 October 2022.
• Student Experience Grant (SEG) - a report and blog article are to be written on the achievements and impact of the project.
• Summer Internships have now completed their 12 week recruitment on developing 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.)
• 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 applying for a Royal Society of Chemistry outreach fund award when time/opportunity allows.

No new blog articles this month.

None this month.

• The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Media Hopper now has 389 videos. 207 plays since 1 September 2022.

1 September 2022 to 30 September 2022

The most played videos were:

• The Wikimedian in Residence channel on YouTube which has now received over 336,522 views in total of its 120 videos with 1,278 subscribers. These videos have been viewed in 168 countries around the world over the course of the channel's lifetime.

One of our additions to YouTube by student Hannah Rothmann has now been viewed over 69,534 times since it was added on 14 September 2020.

• How to make your own article on Wikipedia.

• Link to image uploads tracked by Women in Red editathon on 30 September 2022.
• New images and diagrams contributed by Reproductive Biology BSc students

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.
110. Celebrating notable women of Edinburgh
111. Wikimedia Women in Red internship
112. Four page spread on the Map of Accused Witches Wikidata project in the May/June 2020 publication of History Scotland magazine.
113. Shifting Gears and Finding Female Pioneers
114. To the Future of Women in Red and Online Diversity
115. My first week as a Wikimedia Training Intern - blogpost by Hannah Rothmann
116. 4 weeks into my Wikimedia Internship by Hannah Rothmann on the residency blog.
117. #WCCWiki Colloquium 2020 by Hannah Rothmann on the residency blog.
118. Final reflections on my Wikimedia Training Internship by Hannah Rothmann on the residency blog.
119. Scotland Loves Monuments 2020 on the residency blog.
120. 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.
121. Introducing Mapping the Scottish Reformation: Clerics, Manuscripts, and Open Data on the Wikimedia UK blog.
122. 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.
123. Editing Wikipedia: Stars, robots and talismans Honours course by Glaire Anderson for the Wikimedia UK blog
124. Happy Birthday Wikipedia - guest blog post by Classics undergraduate student, Hannah Rothmann, for Wikipedia's 20th birthday.
125. Telling the history of HIV and AIDS activism in Scotland on Wikipedia - WiR blog
126. Scotland, Slavery and Black History project - WiR blog
127. Those who fought: Representing HIV/AIDS activism on Wikipedia - Blog by Lorna Campbell
128. My first week as a Wikisourceror – Guest post by student intern, Erin Boyle
129. Open Data and Knowledge Equity – my first week by student intern, Clea Strathmann
130. Supporting Open Collections – Guest post by Wikisourceror intern, Erin Boyle
131. Wikimedia and the Diversity of Languages online – Guest post by Clea Strathmann
132. 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.
133. 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.
134. Teaching Matters Podcast: Wikimedia and Academia
135. Teaching Matters Podcast: Wikimedia and Language
136. Teaching Matters Podcast: Improving science communication with… Wikipedia?
137. Podcast: Wikipedia: Where are the women? (13 minutes)
138. Calls for Scotland to pardon witch-hunt victims gather pace - Guardian newspaper
139. Down the Rabbit Hole with Wikipedia at the LILAC Information Literacy Conference 2022, WiR blog.
140. Wikipedia, Student Activism and the Ivory Tower – talk presented at the LILAC Information Literacy Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University, 11-13 April 2022.
141. Wikipedia and History – podcast series for Teaching Matters.
142. Witchfinder General blog: Something wiki’d this way comes!
143. Witchfinder General blog: Site Development is underway
144. Witchfinder General blog: Some data processing sorcery