Wikipedia:GLAM/Royal Society of Chemistry/Diary
Summary of tasks undertaken.
Note: This page does not list the many internal meetings, provisional discussions with potential collaborators, nor general wiki-gnoming.
Also, all new Wikipedia articles listed below were reviewed, and had corresponding Wikidata entries created.
Listed by week commencing, in reverse order:
14 September 2015 edit
Final week
- Writing handover notes
- HR paperwork
7 September 2015 edit
- Made File:Andy Mabbett - RSC - How to Edit Wikipedia - 04 - images.webm
- Arranged blacklisting of two sites that violate RSC copyright
- Created Category:Lists of missing journals and sub-categories
- Wrote update for August 2015 GLAM newsletter
- One day's leave
31 August 2015 edit
- Spoke at, photographed, and assisted running of Wikipedia Science Conference, London
- Created Template:Citation metadata navbox
- Rephotographed James Dewar portrait by René le Brun
- Created Wikipedia:ORCID/examples
24 August 2015 edit
- Remade File:Andy Mabbett - RSC - How to Edit Wikipedia - 01 - italic bold.webm in higher resolution
- Made File:Andy Mabbett - RSC - How to Edit Wikipedia - 02 - links.webm
- Made File:Andy Mabbett - RSC - How to Edit Wikipedia - 03 - references.webm
- Another day's leave
17 August 2015 edit
- Uploaded & categorised images from Catalyst editathon
- Wrote feature article for RSC intranet, "Assert your identity: Why we're encouraging our community to use ORCID"
- Gave advice to colleagues on potential CoI issue
- Gave advice to colleagues on editing issues
- Monitoring & commenting on Merck Index RfC
- Another day's leave
10 August 2015 edit
- Wrote update for July 2015 GLAM newsletter
- Follow-up from Catalyst editathon
- Gave online support, answering questions on Twitter, during American Chemistry Society conference in Boston, USA
- Wrote magazine article, "My year as Wikimedian in Residence", for RSC News (membership magazine)
- Checking & short-listing entries to Wikiquote competition
- Opened RfC on proposed improvements to citations of The Merck Index.
- Another day's leave
3 August 2015 edit
- Prepared presentation to be given by colleague at American Chemistry Society conference in Boston, USA
- Ran editathon at Catalyst
- Half-day's leave
27 July 2015 edit
- Ran editathon at Burlington House
- Photographed more artworks
- Some leave
20 July 2015 edit
- Created Ruby Levick
- 1-1 training session; trainee created:
- Edited images for List of artworks in the collection of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- Created Commons:Category:John Dalton in art
- Learning to use video screen-capture software
- Made File:Andy Mabbett - RSC - How to Edit Wikipedia - 01 - italic bold.webm
13 July 2015 edit
- Gave advice on internal MediaWiki deployment
6 July 2015 edit
- Created articles (+ Wikidata items) about artists, whose work is in the Royal Society of Chemistry's collection (these were immediately translated in to German):
- Gave advice on MediaWiki admin issue
- Trained image management team to use Wikimedia Commons; and to add images to articles
- Launched Wikiquote competition
- Wrote update for June 2015 GLAM newsletter
- Rectified images of artworks in Burlington house, e.g.:
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From this... -
...to this
29 June 2015 edit
- Ran British Society for the History of Science editathon in Swansea, after organiser was unavialable
- Four new editors trained; articles improved:
22 June 2015 edit
- Spoke to 50+ early-career researchers at iD2 conference
- ...
15 June 2015 edit
- Training session for 7 RSC staff. Articles:
- Worked on mapping freebase properties to Wikidata properties, as part of the planned Freebase import
- Proposed several new Wikidata properties required for this
- Reported issue encountered during training sessions, where CAPTCHAs present a barrier to new editors
8 June 2015 edit
- Created Wikidata property P1931, for identifier in the NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards
- Training session for 5 RSC staff. Articles:
- Wrote update for May 2015 GLAM newsletter
1 June 2015 edit
- Created Wikidata properties for vaccines
- Adding ORCID iDs to prizewinner biographies on RSC website
- Trained Wikipedian in Residence, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to edit Wikidata
- Announced Catalyst editathon, to be held on 8 August 2015 in Widnes, Cheshire
25 May 2015 edit
- Adding more 2015 award winner/ medallist details to Wikipedia & Wikidata
- Assisting Wikipedian in Residence, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (USA), with preparations for Wikidata import
- Proposed new Wikidata tool, kindly made by Magnus Manske as MultiBeacon
MultiBeacon example - Proposed new tool for finding authority control values for new biographical articles. Kindly made by Bamyers99 as PageToools. See, for example, "Tools" links in User:AlexNewArtBot/WomenScientistsSearchResult.
18 May 2015 edit
- On leave (60% of week)
- Resolved outstanding Wikidata property proposals for chemistry
- Proposed improvements to the Wikidata periodic table
11 May 2015 edit
- On leave
4 May 2015 edit
- Wrote project update for WikimediaUK
- Met with ChemSpider team, to discuss areas of mutual interest & develop further collaboration
- Drafting plan of action for internal & external promotion of ORCID
- Planning & promoting 29 July editathon - book now!
27 April 2015 edit
- More work on P1855; for example, for ChemSpider ID.
- Gave presentation on ORCID to comms team meeting
- Took photographs of artworks at Burlington House
- Wrote update for April 2015 GLAM newsletter
20 April 2015 edit
- Created {{Chemistry societies}}
- Proposed Wikidata item for FundRef registry names
- Created P1855 for documenting examples in Wikidata property documentation.
13 April 2015 edit
- Even Wikimedians in Residence get annual leave ;-)
6 April 2015 edit
- Gave a talk at the 10th Delegates Assembly of the European Young Chemists' Network, in Berlin
- Wrote update for March 2015 GLAM newsletter
30 March 2015 edit
- Gave a talk, "Wikipedia and Chemistry - how you can help", to chemistry students at the University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia
- Met with Tunisian members of the RSC, to discuss potential collaboration between them, local Wikipedians, and the society.
23 March 2015 edit
Half way!
- Mid-project review with WikimediaUK
- Took photographs of Burlington House (upload tbc)
- Project planning meeting - watch this space!
16 March 2015 edit
- Updated List of blue plaques erected by the Royal Society of Chemistry
- Added blue plaques to OpenStreetMap and to OpenPlaques
- Added OpenPlaques IDs to Commons pictures of plaques
- Submitted proposal for talk on ORCID & Wikipedia for ORCID conference
- Met with Institute of Physics
9 March 2015 edit
- Created wikidata:Property:P1738 for monographs in The Merck Index
- Updated entries for John B Goodenough Award winners on Wikipedia & Wikidata
- Added list of Ludwig Mond Awardees
- Added list of Derek Birchall Awardees
- Used Template:Timeline-links to cause lists of awardees to emit useful metadata
- Our colleagues in Barcelona held a biochemistry editathon
- Photographed RSC's blue plaque commemorating Joseph Priestley, in Birmingham
- Advised colleague on technical issue with internal MediaWiki installation
- Wrote update for February 2015 GLAM newsletter
2 March 2015 edit
- Submitted Wikimania 2015 talk proposal: Chemical collaborations
- Submitted Wikimania 2015 talk proposal: Authority Control: How it applies to you (about ORCID, etc.)
- Blogged Proposed Wikimania talk: Chemical collaborations
- Updated entries for Applied Catalysis Award winners on Wikipedia & Wikidata
- Updated entries for Beilby Medal and Prize winners on Wikipedia & Wikidata
- Updated entries for De Gennes Prize winners on Wikipedia & Wikidata
- Delivered 'Lunch & Learn' seminar on ORCID, to 50+ Royal Society of Chemistry staff
- Repeated the above for RSC overseas commercial team
- [Noted: RSC list of Hon Fellows now links each entry to Wikipedia]
- Published a proposal to update citations to The Merck Index
23 February 2015 edit
- Training session for 6 RSC staff, at Burlington House, London. Also colleagues from the Royal Astronomical Society and the Linnaean Society of London
- Added chemistry-related links to Wikidata, using the newly available Wikibooks facility
16 February 2015 edit
- Blogged "News From Catalonia"
- Gave talk in Bristol
- Gave talk to RSC regional Education Coordinators team
- Arranged activation of second batch of RSC Gold accounts
9 February 2015 edit
- Proposed Wikidata property for Merck Index Monograph IDs
- Welcomed the new Wikimedian in Residence at the National Library of Wales
1 February 2015 edit
- Organised and promoted talk in Bristol on 18 February
- Letter published in RSC News (Feb 2015, p 12) in reply to member, "Everyone can edit Wikipedia"
- Quoted in Atmetric.com’s announcement that they now index citations of research papers in Wikipedia
- Attended regional members' meeting in Birmingham
26 January 2015 edit
- More staff training. Articles:
- Issues in Environmental Science and Technology (new)
- John Howard Purnell (new)
- Institute of Chemistry of Ireland (new)
- Elizabeth Murchison (new)
- Intramolecular Vibrational Energy Redistribution (new)
- List of Royal Society of Chemistry journals (improved)
- Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts (improved)
- IUPAC book (improved)
- Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry (improved)
- Sodium nonanoyloxybenzenesulfonate (improved)
- List of blue plaques erected by the Royal Society of Chemistry (improved; by two editors)
- Arranged activation of first batch of RSC Gold accounts
- Gave user support
- Wrote update for Jan 2015 GLAM newsletter
19 January 2015 edit
- More staff training. Articles:
- Applied Catalysis Award (new)
- List of blue plaques erected by the Royal Society of Chemistry (new)
- Robert Warington (new)
- Green Chemistry Award (new)
- John B Goodenough Award (new)
- John Elliott (electronic musician) (new)
- Materials for Industry - Derek Birchall Award (new)
- Ludwig Mond Award (new)
- Pentacyanocyclopentadiene (new)
- Mary Hefferan (new)
- John Holman (chemist) (new)
- Positron annihilation spectroscopy (improved)
- Dalton Transactions (improved)
- Maud Menten (improved)
- Molecular Biosystems (unfortunately redirected; duplicated an existing article, Molecular BioSystems)
- Spoke about "ORCID and Wikipedia" at Jisc-ARMA ORCID Pilot Final Project meeting
- Attended corporate induction day
- Met with Science Council rep
12 January 2015 edit
- More staff training. Articles:
- CXCR4 antagonist (new)
- Pan Africa Chemistry Network (new)
- Pancyprian Union of Chemists (new)
- Alfred Spinks (new)
- Arthur Aiken (new)
- Edward William Abel (new)
- Judy R. Franz (new)
- Materials Horizons (new; subsequently (and hopefully temporarily) deleted)
- De Gennes Prize (new)
- John Jeyes (new)
- The Yolanda (new)
- List of Royal Society of Chemistry journals (new)
- Comet assay (improved)
- Education in Chemistry (improved)
- Noel Leaver (improved)
- Facilitated letters of support for The Wikidata for research proposal
- Welcomed new Wikimedian in Residence at Museums Galleries Scotland
5 January 2015 edit
- More staff training. Articles:
- Lord Lewis Prize (new)
- Polish Chemical Society (new)
- Adrian V Stokes (new)
- Registered Scientist (new)
- Hungarian Chemical Society (new)
- Una Lucy Fielding (new)
- Journal of Materials Chemistry C (new)
- Royal Society of Chemistry#Benevolent Fund (section added)
- Merck Index (improved)
- Polyyne (improved)
- Catalysis Science & Technology (improved)
- Teaching fellow (improved)
- Analyst (journal) (improved)
- Olga Kennard (improved)
- Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (improved)
- Drafted reply to reader's letter about Wikipedia, for Chemistry World
- Notified major non-English Wikipedias, and all others with Chemistry projects, of RSC Gold availability.
29 December 2014 edit
- Christmas break continued
- Monitoring RSC Gold applications
22 December 2014 edit
- Christmas!
- Monitoring RSC Gold applications
- Wrote update for Dec 2014 GLAM newsletter
15 December 2014 edit
- Attended "Science communicators" meetup in Birmingham
- Cleaned up entries in Category:Biography/Science and academia articles needing expert attention
- Uploaded voice files donated by RSC from its podcasts
- Launch of Wikipedia:RSC Gold, having been set up over preceding weeks
- Helped with news release and social media
- Wrote Blog post
8 December 2014 edit
- Blogged: "Tips For New Wikipedia Editors"
- Started Wikipedia:Infobox modules, documenting use of subtemplates of {{Infobox person}}, including {{Infobox scientist}}
- Gave advice to colleague on handling a specific potential CoI issue
- Assisted with Education Program:Louisiana State University/CHEM 4150 Environmental Chemistry (Fall_2014)
- Attended whole-organisation staff meeting
- Attended RSC Christmas meal ;-)
1 December 2014 edit
- Tagged Wikidata entries for chemistry related topics with BBC Things identifiers.
- Advised colleague on reusing Wikipedia content and Commons' images in RSC publications
- Wrote Wikipedia:Linking to Wikipedia
- Created Category:Presidents of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- Trained RSC staff (x7) to edit. Articles:
- Dominic Tildesley (new)
- Wilfrid Hickinbottom (new)
- Hickinbottom Award (new)
- Danish Chemical Society (new)
- Dan Eley (expanded)
- Made voice recordings of:
- Antony John Williams
- Dominic Tildesley
- Professor Sir John Holman (chemist)
- Professor Tom Welton
- Took photo of Dominic Tildesley
- Added journals and presidents to {{Royal Society of Chemistry}}
- Wrote update for Nov 2014 GLAM newsletter
Feedback from training:
Just letting you know that someone has added a picture and some links to my article. It’s really exciting starting something off on wiki and watching other people use it and add to it – thanks so much for the training!
24 November 2014 edit
- Tagged recipients of Perkin Prize for Organic Chemistry (Q18560191) in Wikidata (x6)
- Wrote a Sample citation
- More remote support of Catalan editing drive
- Tagged recipients of Faraday Lectureship Prize (Q1994574) in Wikidata (x41)
- Created {{RedQ}}
- Attended divisional team day in London.
- Arranged update of Wikipedia licence info on ChemSpider
17 November 2014 edit
- Started Wikipedia:ChemSpider (work in progress)
- Attended Open Mercia "Data divers data dating" Open Data event
- Created List of Royal Society of Chemistry medals and awards
- Worked with User:Fæ to have his bot generate usage reports for RSC-related media files
- Created Wikidata entries for all RSC awards (claim[P1027:Q905549])
- Tagged recipients of Corday–Morgan Medal (Q898961) in Wikidata (x41)
- More remote support of Catalan editing drive
10 November 2014 edit
- More collaboration on preparations for Catalan editing drive
- Remote support of ditto
- Made relevant Wikipedia projects aware of new RSC journal: Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology [1]
- Photographed award medals - see commons:Category:Royal Society of Chemistry award medals
- Compiled list of missing articles on chemistry organisations
3 November 2014 edit
- Started blog - http://my.rsc.org/blogs/490 - aimed at Chemists rather than Wikimedians
- First post "Hello world!"
- Attended "Science communicators" meetup in Birmingham
- Received anti-bribery training.
- Submitted blog to Planet Wikimedia aggregator
- Work on chemist biographies in the Welsh (cy) Wikipedia
- Listing those needing translation into English
- Adding {{Authority control}}
- Adding labels and descriptions (English and Welsh) to Wikidata
- Ditto for Catalan Wikipedia
- Collaborated to make {{Infobox scientist}} embeddable as a module in other infoboxes
27 October 2014 edit
- Arranged & promoted Catalan-language Wikipedia editing drive, to be held 14-23 November
- Improved Ramon Margalef as quid-pro-quo
- Travel to Edinburgh
- Met with RSC Edinburgh colleagues
- Recorded/ uploaded voice and took pic of Bristow Muldoon
- Attended EduWiki
- Recorded/ uploaded voice of Peter McColl
- Wrote update for Oct 2014 GLAM newsletter
20 October 2014 edit
- Staff development event: "Insights Discovery" (full day; not Wikimedia specific)
- Preparing presentation for "Lunch & Learn" staff event (40-50 attendees)
- Tetraacetylethylenediamine - improved by attendee
- Created Category:Academic journals published in the United Kingdom, Category:Academic journals published in the United States, and the parent category Category:Academic journals by country of publication.
- Received "Dignity & Diversity" training
- Delivered "Lunch & Learn" staff event to around 40 RSC employees
- Took and uploaded pics in commons:Category:John Jeyes Award
- also created John Jeyes Award (Q18340034)
- Wikidata properties Gmelin Number (P1578) and Beilstein Registry Number (P1579) created.
13 October 2014 edit
- Drafted news item for RSC News
- Assisted deployment of {{authority control}} template on cy.Wikipedia, to encourage uptake of ORCID, especially on articles about chemists and user pages of science editors
- Created president of the Royal Society of Chemistry (Q18247655) and added to relevant Wikidata items
- First team meeting in London
- First project meeting with Wikimedia UK
- Met with librarian
- Adding Wikidata property links to Chembox property articles: example
- Identified candidates for translation to/ from Welsh
- Proposed Wikidata property for Beilstein Registry Number (since created as P1579)
- Proposed Wikidata property: Gmelin Number (since created as P1578)
- Liaison with a GLAM to arrange a collaborative editathon
- Correspondence with overseas academics, regarding article translations
- Gave advice to potential new biography subject
- Requested blog on myRSC
- Investgated chemistry content in BBC Genome
- Added Wikidata descriptions for RSC journals (A-I)
- Posted invitation to collaborate on RSC, RSC-Belgium RSC-Finland and RSC-Ireland Facebook pages
6 October 2014 edit
- Installed and configured open-source software on laptop
- Liaison with colleagues from non-English Wikipedia projects
- Took photographs of Thomas Graham House: commons:Category:Thomas Graham House
- Secured agreement for upload & use of "fair-use" logo and coat of arms on Wikipedia.
- RSC footer navbox for relevant articles
- Arranged first internal training session
- Made {{User member RSChem}}
- Booked to attend EduWiki
- Converetd job description to PDF; posted on-line
- Attended "Science communicators" meetup in Birmingham
29 September 2014 edit
- Workstation training
- Signed up for MyRSC
- Started to investigate blue plaques
- Added "Landmarks of Chemistry" blue plaques to OpenStreetMap
- Created Honorary Fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- More internal meetings
- Added lists of presidents of defunct RSC predecessor organisations
- Supplied material to allow Titanium nitrate to be improved; article subsequently featured on 'Did you know'.
22 September 2014 edit
- Induction
- setting up laptop, email account, HR system etc.
- Started project page
- Reaching out to WikiProjects, other WiRs, sister projects
- Commons uploads (Commons:Category:Royal Society of Chemistry - Burlington_House, commons:Category:Royal Society of Chemistry Wikipedia editahon 2014-03-28).
- Lots of emails to new colleagues, arranging meetings, etc.
- Much Wikipedia/ Wikidata gnoming.