If you are interested in contributing to Wikimedia, in particular related to the projects spearheaded by the National Library of Scotland's Wikimedian-in-Residence programme, there are a number of different ways to do so. Those with a general interest in contributing may wish to contribute to Wikimedia Projects, and new users may find general information regarding editing and contributing to Wikimedia articles to be helpful (see below). Those who are specifically interested in working with the NLS by participating in a public outreach event such as an Edit-a-thon are encouraged to leave their user details below or to contact the NLS Wikimedian in Residence, User:ACrockford
Are you a Wikimedian, or would you like to be? Do you live in or near Scotland? To keep up to date about Wikimedia events happening throughout Scotland, to learn more about ScotWiki projects, or to publicise your own ScotWiki event or project, join the ScotWiki Mailing List now!
Please feel free to expand, correct, translate or any other improvement you can make to any Wikipedia articles, especially those related to Scottish History, Literature, and Culture. If you are new to Wikimedia projects, then welcome! New users may want to start with the New Contributors' Help Page or take the Official Tutorial, or may wish to look further for more help, advice, and information about Wikipedia. See also:
If you are not new, but you still feel that you might want to brush up on your technique or if you have any questions, you may find the following pages useful:
If you already have images or film clips related to Scottish Literature, History, or Culture on a site like Flickr or YouTube, please consider changing the license to a compatible Creative Commons License (must allow derivatives and commercial reuse) so they can be used on Wikimedia projects:
Uploading your images to Commons connects them with other information giving them context and extra information including translations of that information onto other languages.
It's interesting to share your knowledge with other people, and it's a remarkable opportunity to be part of educating people all over the world.
A much wider audience for the images, there are over 280 different language Wikipedias and the images can be used on all of them, you can even track where they're being used.
Allowing people to share, use, combine and even build upon works can have unusual outcomes. A British museum found in 2013 that their £5,000 Van Dyk copy was an original worth around £1,000,000[1].
If you are worried about losing commercial opportunities to license the images it is possible to release images under a lower resolution to Wikimedia Commons and keep the higher resolution for this purpose. The low resolution images may even increase the interest in higher quality images via the wider audience.
Please add your details here, or contact us on the discussion page. When adding your details, please include any specific projects you might be interested in contributing to (i.e. transcribing digitised texts to Wikisource), any topics you are interested in, or have significant previous knowledge of:
Interested in Scottish-Australian historical connections (eg Anderson Stuart and George McRae); Scottish-French historical connections; and the nineteenth century.
I've got your Wikipedia banner (well, the only one I know of in Edinburgh)! :P
Yes, I'm less-interested in Wikipedia than in Wikinews — but, we can do GLAM from a different perspective
I should be at next month's meetup (I've known the Malt Shovel for about 25 years now — used to sit in there after Student Union meetings until the following day's Scotsman was delivered.)
I was the interim-liaison with MGS, which work really clobbered my ability to work on; but, I've managed to get along to a few events; I am on presser lists for exhibitions and whatnot, on good-terms with a couple of local councillors — something I hope to convert into them clearing the city's public library staff to help people get involved, and to gift their video footage of public council meetings to the most-appropriate project
Of course, the first order of business at the meetup will probably be creating a Wikipedia page for the pub itself. ;)
Interests: Gaelic and Scots language and Scottish Literature. Less knowledgeable but interested in Canada, other minority languages, linguistics and folklore.
I'd be particularly keen to develop the Gaelic wiki (Uicipeid). I haven't tried transcribing digitised texts to Wikisource but that might interest me, particularly 19th century Gaelic periodicals - including one published in Australia which might interest User:Whiteghost.ink!
