Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/11th Month Report

Institution	Resident's Name	Period Covered	Date of Report
University of Edinburgh	Ewan McAndrew	12 November - 11 December 2016 (Eleventh month of residency)	20 December 2016

Running total of staff & student engagement edit

Institution	Resident's Name	Number of students trained	Number of staff trained	Members of the public trained
University of Edinburgh	Ewan McAndrew	120	145	66

Projects delivered edit

Strategic Goal 1 edit

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 edit

Led an editathon for Robert Louis Stevenson Day celebrating Gothic literature and Gothic architecture. 4 new articles created , 19 improved articles, 2 new Histropedia timelines and 27 pages transcribed on Wikisource. The Sheffield Gothic editathon resulted in 6 new editors, 2 new articles and 7 improved.
Led the BBC 100 Women event at BBC Scotland in Glasgow celebrating the achievements of notable women which resulted in at least 12 new editors and 14 new articles.

BBC 100 Women Outcomes - 14 new pages created edit

BBC Glasgow editors - 12 new editors edit

Edinburgh Gothic editathon outcomes edit

4 new articles created edit

Eugene Chantrelle - French teacher who lived in Edinburgh and who was convicted for the murder of his wife, Elizabeth Dyer. He is claimed to be the inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson's character Dr Jekyll featured in "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde". Stevenson met Chantrelle at the home of Victor Richon, Stevenson's old French master. Chantrelle was hung for his crimes at Calton Prison in Edinburgh.
Thrawn Janet - a short story, written in Scots, by Robert Louis Stevenson. He wrote the story in the summer of 1881 while he stayed at the rented Kinnaird Cottage, Kinnaird near Pitlochry with his parents and wife. On reading the story to his wife Fanny she said of it that it "sent a cauld grue (shudder) along my bones" and "fair frightened" Stevenson himself. It was first published in the October 1881 issue of the Cornhill Magazine. It is a dark tale of satanic possession.
The Library Window - The Library Window is a short story by the Scottish author Margaret Oliphant. It was first published in Blackwood's Magazine in January 1896. It is a well-written ghost story where the protagonist is fascinated by a window at her aunt's house in which she sees the ghost of a young, murdered writer. It was one of Oliphant's most controversial stories. Modern interpretations consider it a statement of the oppressive conditions for women in the late Victorian period.
Corstorphine Collegiate Church - St. John’s Collegiate Church is at the old centre of Corstorphine, a village incorporated to the West area of Edinburgh. The church was transformed to the new format of worship of collegiate churches, which allowed a space for the parish to co-exist, and this included the absorption of earlier Gothic features from the previous building and the erection of the characteristic barrel vaults, which may have concluded by 1436.

19 articles improved edit

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson - Improved by new section on the real-life inspiration of Dr. Eugene Chantrelle.
Olalla (short story) - written by the Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer Robert Louis Stevenson. It was first published in the Christmas 1885 issue of The Court and Society Review, then re-published in 1887 as part of the collection The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables. It is set in Spain during the Peninsular War. The story is based on a dream that Stevenson had and in his 1888 essay "A Chapter on Dreams" he describes the difficulties he had in fitting his vision into a narrative framework. Stevenson wrote the story at the same time as he was proofing "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" (published 1886).
Author Margaret Oliphant - Wikipedia page improved with infobox and redrafting.
Author Louise Welsh Wikipedia page improved.
Author AL Kennedy Wikipedia page improved.
Author Patrick McGrath (novelist) page improved.
Robert Louis Stevenson article on Gaelic Wikipedia improved.
Touch Not the Cat by Mary Stewart - first published in 1976 and is one of her best-known works. In the United States, Touch Not the Cat was the 9th highest selling book of 1976. Like many of Stewart's novels, the story has a supernatural element. This novel is also classified as romantic suspense, mystery fiction or Gothic fiction.
Robert Louis Stevenson, Morag Joss, John Burnside, Catherine Cuthbertson, Alasdair Gray all improved with Category:Writers of Gothic Fiction.
Catherine Cuthbertson - Wikipedia article improved.
Sydney George Hulme Beaman - author & illustrator best known as the creator of the Toytown stories and their characters including Larry the Lamb. He also illustrated the 1930s John Lane, edition of a Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
Holyrood Abbey - article improved.
Architecture of Scotland in the Middle Ages - Rosslyn Chapel belongs to a very unique group of collegiate churches built throughout the 15th century. The majority are barrel vaults over single naves and votive or burial aisles, many built even till the 17th century. Their stonework is usually dressed but overall the structures are heavy as they are roofed by flagstones and the space of the pitch is filled with rubble. There are also a few domical vaults, like the Lady Aisle of the choir in St. Giles High Kirk, Edinburgh (before 1419).
Feck - In his 1881 short story Thrawn Janet, Robert Louis Stevenson invokes the sense of feck meaning Amount; quantity (or a large amount/quantity) e.g. "He had a feck o' books wi' him—mair than had ever been seen before in a' that presbytery..."
The Merry Men (short story) - a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson first published in 1882 in Cornhill Magazine.

Histropedia Timeline edit

Gothic Fiction timeline created by Melissa Highton

Wikidata edit

Prior to the editathon, there were only 6 writers of Gothic fiction listed in Wikidata.

This Gothic writers timeline shows the new timeline of 26 Gothic writers in Wikidata, according to their date of birth & colour-coded by place of birth.
Gothic writers on Wikidata arranged by place of birth displayed on map. Change 'Display' dropdown to 'Map' and click RUN.

Wikisource (the free content library) edit

27 pages were proofread of the transcription of Ann Radcliffe's 1792 novel A Sicilian Romance. Ann Radcliffe was an English author & Gothic novel pioneer.

Editors in attendance at Edinburgh Gothic edit

Sheffield Gothic outcomes - 2 new articles and 7 improved edit

Ann Radcliffe - (née Ward, 9 July 1764 – 7 February 1823) was an English author and pioneer of the Gothic novel. Her style is Romantic in its vivid descriptions of landscapes and long travel scenes, yet the Gothic element is obvious through her use of the supernatural. It was her technique, "the explained supernatural" as the final revelation of inexplicable phenomena, which helped the Gothic novel achieve respectability in the 1790s. 2500 approx characters added to the article.
Boy in Darkness - a novella written by Mervyn Peake. Upon publication of the work in 1956, a Glasgow Herald reviewer called it "completely hair-raising". Edwin Morgan referred to Boy In Darkness as a ‘very different’ piece, ‘a nouvelle, a sinister epic incident, a reflection in miniature of Titus Groan and Gormenghast.’The story is one of Mervyn Peake's short works. After this he wrote only Titus Alone (1959); by the time it was published, Parkinson's disease had made writing almost impossible for him, although he continued to draw, intermittently, for several more years. Improved by Littleljn
Marchmont (novel) - Marchmont is Charlotte Smith's ninth novel, and follows the story of her heroine, Althea Dacres, and the Marchmont family. It was published in August 1796. New article created by Maz Going.
Eleanor Sleath - New article created by Edwardx. Eleanor Sleath was an English novelist, best known for 1798 gothic novel, The Orphan of the Rhine, listed as one of the seven "horrid novels" by Jane Austen in her novel Northanger Abbey.
The Old English Baron - an early Gothic novel by the English author Clara Reeve. Copyedited.
Eliza Parsons - (1739 – 5 February 1811) was an English Gothic novelist. Her best-known novels in this genre are The Castle of Wolfenbach (1793) and The Mysterious Warning (1796) – two of the seven Gothic titles recommended as reading by a character in Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey. Copyedited.
Copyedited The Midnight Bell - a gothic novel by Francis Lathom. It was one of the seven "horrid novels" lampooned by Jane Austen in her novel Northanger Abbey.

Dear creature! How much I am obliged to you; and when you have finished Udolpho, we will read the Italian together; and I have made out a list of ten or twelve more of the same kind for you. Have you, indeed! How glad I am! What are they all? I will read you their names directly; here they are, in my pocketbook. Castle of Wolfenbach, Clermont, Mysterious Warnings, Necromancer of the Black Forest, Midnight Bell, Orphan of the Rhine, and Horrid Mysteries. Those will last us some time. Yes, pretty well; but are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? —Northanger Abbey, ch. 6

Patrick McGrath (novelist) - Gothic writer. Infobox added.
Trauma (novel) - 2008 novel by Gothic author Patrick McGrath, centered on post-traumatic stress disorder cases as narrated by an American psychiatrist. 2458 characters added.

Sheffield Gothic attendees edit

Festival of Architecture 2016 editathon edit

New article created for German-born architect, Isi Metzstein, who worked at Gillespie, Kidd & Coia and taught at the Glasgow School of Art.[1] He became known for his postwar architectural designs working in the European modernist style of Le Corbusier and the American Frank Lloyd Wright.
Wikidata timeline created of Scottish female architects.

Activities delivered in the past month with stats: edit

Event Name	Date	Location	Attendees	New Users	Gender breakdown
BBC 100 Women editathon at BBC Glasgow	8 December 2016	BBC Scotland, Pacific Quay, Glasgow.	12	12	91.666% female
Wikipedia training at Kings Buildings (Science & Engineering)	7 December 2016	University of Edinburgh Kings Buildings	3	2	66.666% female
Festival of Architecture Wikipedia editathon 2016	16 November 2016	University of Edinburgh, Main Library 'Maker Space', Edinburgh.	2	0	50% female
Edinburgh Gothic Wikipedia editathon for Robert Louis Stevenson Day 2016	12 November 2016	National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh.	19	10	63.5% female

Image statistics edit

46 images uploaded to Commons (44 pics still to be re-uploaded).
All uploads can be monitored via Images uploaded in collaboration between WMUK and the University of Edinburgh
BaGLAMa (page views for Wikipedia articles containing images from the University of Edinburgh)
Baglama2 (page views for only those images released by the Centre for Research Collections
Total number of page views for images released from University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections for November 2016: 602,842
Total number of page views for images released from the University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections for 11 months of monitoring: '6,543,433

Strategic Goal 2 edit

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 edit

Attended Wikimedian in Residence summit at Wellcome Library on 24 November.
Held further discussions with Sophie Nicholl, Lecturer in Creative Writing MA at Teeside University, about an initial two-day training session & editathon in late April 2017.
Continuing discussions about the 12 new Wikimedia Ambassadors and the Digital Skills team at the university can feasibly contribute to ensuring a sustained relationship with Wikimedia during the residency and post the residency; in particular with Gavin Willshaw (digital curator - keen to progress with Wikisource and Wikidata tagging) and Stephanie Farley (keen to support regular Wikipedia and Wikisource training sessions)
Submission to the LILAC Conference on 10-12 April 2017 was declined.
3 proposals for sessions to the OER17 Conference on 5-6 April 2017 were approved.
Continuing discussions with Edinburgh University Student Association about an International Women's Day event in March 2017.
Arranged with Edinburgh University Translation Society (student society) to hold editathon with their 100+ members in January or March 2017.
Arranged with Gavin Willshaw (digital curator) to hold #1lib1ref event on January 20th 2017.
Arranged with Jenny Lauder to hold Engineering 150 editathon on January 11 2017.
Arranged with Agomoni Ganguli Mitra to hold Gender, Global Health & Justice editathon on February 21st 2017.
Wrote 4 short Christmas-themed blog articles for entry on the Open Advent Calendar (2 x Histropedia, 1 x Wikisource and 1 x Wikipedia) - To be uploaded once advent calendar has completed.

Activities delivered in the past month with stats: edit

Event Name	Date	Location	Attendees	New Users	Gender breakdown
Introduction to Wikipedia - Training for University of Edinburgh Library & Archive Staff	29 November 2016	University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections, Main Library, 30 George Square, Edinburgh, 6th floor seminar room.	2	2	100% female

New editor accounts created:

Strategic Goal 3 edit

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

Outcomes edit

Arranged to video interview Reproductive Biology students and Translation Studies MSc on their experiences creating new Wikipedia articles as part of a class assignment; with a view to continuing both assignments next year.
Continued discussions on the Wikipedia in the Classroom assignment in World Christianity MSc where students conduct a literature review to create unrepresented terms on World Christianity on Wikipedia. Follow-up meetings are being arranged to dissect best practice and how to improve for next time. 7 new articles created here.
Continued to support the Translation Studies MSc with 3 drop-in clinics offered this month where students translate 4000 word articles from one language Wikipedia to another by the end of the semester (deadline 8th December) as part of their independent study module. 36 new articles have now been contributed as a result of this assignment. The intention is to continue this assignment next semester too.
Arranged a student research project in Veterinary Medicine to be held on February 22nd 2017 which Eoghan Clarkson and Brian Mathers will lead.
Attended event at University of Glasgow on 23rd November where Dr. Mia Spiro shared best practice on the Wikipedia assignment she conducted with students on her Theology & Religious Studies course.

Activities delivered in the past month with stats: edit

Event Name	Date	Location	Attendees	Gender breakdown
Translation Studies MSc - Wikipedia assignment Drop-in clinic	29 November 2016 3-5pm	University of Edinburgh 50 George Square Computing Labs, Edinburgh.	17	82.35% female
Translation Studies MSc - Wikipedia assignment Drop-in clinic	1 December 2016 4-6pm	University of Edinburgh 50 George Square Computing Labs, Edinburgh.	8 approx	87.5% female
Translation Studies MSc - Wikipedia assignment Drop-in clinic	7 December 2016 4-6pm	University of Edinburgh 50 George Square Computing Labs, Edinburgh.	8 approx	87.5% female

Digitisation edit

Collections identified for potential future upload:

A request has been made to upload handpicked CC-BY images from the images.is.ed.ac.uk website. The request will be considered by the Centre for Research Collections senior management upon receipt of a completed proposal. (Proposal being drafted)
Gavin Willshaw (digital curator) has confirmed his interest in running a project of digitising Edinburgh University'sopen books onto Wikisource.

Projects/events in development edit

Continued planning arrangements with Gill Hamilton at the National Library of Scotland for early discussions on a Moving Image Archive editathon at new Kelvinhall site in Spring 2017 and for future NLS & University of Edinburgh collaborations building on Edinburgh Gothic.
Continuing discussions with Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh), Lothian Health Service Archives, Surgeons' Hall Museum, colleagues in Information Services and the College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine; and now the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons (Glasgow) regarding the History of Medicine editathon on 23 & 24 February.
Continuing planning arrangements with Blythe Day of the Student Association at Edinburgh University ways in which Wikimedia can support diversity at the university through a proposed event during Gather Festival in March 2017.
Continued planning arrangements with colleagues in Veterinary Medicine to run their first student Wikipedia editing session (utilising Dr. Chris Harlow's Reproductive Medicine sessions as their guideline).
Continued planning arrangements for the Edu Wiki Conference at Middlesex University on 20 February 2016 and OER17 Conference.
Discussed Wikipedia editathon on Gender, Global Health & Justice for Festival of Creative Learning on 21st February 2016.
Three sessions for the OER17 conference in London on 5th & 6th April have been confirmed but need tweaked for the 23rd of January 2017.
'World of Wikipedia' event for Jo Spiller's Future Teacher Series planned for March 6th 2016.
Met with Lorna Campbell to discuss a 'Languages of Britain Wiki Conference' - venues to be secured around end of June 2016/start of July 2016 in first instance with Informatics at University of Edinburgh a first port of call.

Upcoming events in 2017 edit

January 11th - School of Engineering 150th anniversary editathon
January 18th - Videoing interviews with staff & students of the Translation Studies MSc Wikipedia assignment.
January 20th - #1Lib1Ref campaign - Librarians adding one reference to Wikipedia using the Citation Hunt tool for Wikipedia's birthday.
January 27th - Translation Studies MSc - Wikipedia translation assignment for semester two begins.
February 20th - Wiki Education summit at Middlesex University.
February 21st - Wikipedia editathon for Festival of Creative Learning - Gender, Global Health and Justice.
February 22nd - Veterinary Medicine Wikipedia editathon for students.
February 23rd - Wikipedia editathon for Festival of Creative Learning - History of Medicine.
February 24th - Wikipedia editathon for Festival of Creative Learning - History of Medicine.
March 6th - Future Teacher Series - World of Wikipedia.
April 5th - OER17 Conference in London.
April 6th - OER17 Conference in London.