| Institution | Resident | Period Covered | Date of Report | Full Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wellcome Library | Alice White | 04 May - 04 June 2016 (first month of residency) | 16 June 2016 | 1st Month Report - read in full |
| Wellcome Library | Alice White | 04 June - 04 July 2016 (second month of residency) | 16 July 2016 | 2nd Month Report - read in full |
| Wellcome Library | Alice White | 04 July - 04 August 2016 (third month of residency) | 8 August 2016 | 3rd Month Report - read in full |
| Wellcome Library | Alice White | 04 August - 04 September 2016 (fourth month of residency) | 16 September 2016 | 4th Month Report - read in full |
| Wellcome Library | Alice White | 04 September - 04 October 2016 (fifth month of residency) | 4 October 2016 | 5th Month Report - read in full |
| Wellcome Library | Alice White | 04 October - 04 November 2016 (sixth month of residency) | 18 November 2016 | 6th Month Report - read in full |
| Wellcome Library | Alice White | 04 November - 04 December 2016 (seventh month of residency) | 9 March 2017 | 7th Month Report - read in full |
| Wellcome Library | Alice White | 04 December 2016 - 04 January 2017 (eighth month of residency) | 9 March 2017 | 8th Month Report - read in full |
| Wellcome Library | Alice White | 04 January - 04 March 2017 (ninth month of residency) | 27 March 2017 | 9th Month Report - read in full |
| Wellcome Library | Alice White | 04 March - 04 April 2017 (tenth month of residency) | 21 April 2017 | 10th Month Report - read in full |
Content
editWe ran more sessions to train staff at the Wellcome this month – there was particular demand for the Wednesday session, and we got 16 new editors set up with accounts. To date, the editors have added more than 30,000 bytes and made more than 200 edits.
Activities & Events
edit| Event Name | Date | Location | Attendees | New Users | Gender breakdown |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wellcome Staff Training | 16th August 2016 | Viewing Room, Wellcome Library | 6 | 6 | 83% (5/6) women |
| Wellcome Staff Training | 17th August 2016 | Viewing Room, Wellcome Library | 10 | 10 | 80% (8/10) women |
Objectives
edit| Wikimedia UK's objectives | Residency's objectives |
|---|---|
| Strategic Goal 1: 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 | Develop a policy and workflow for adding to Wikimedia, Wikipedia, etc., in a sustainable and ongoing fashion that will continue long after the residency ends.
Add more resources to Wikimedia Commons. |
| Strategic Goal 2: 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 | Work with staff, including librarians and curators, to identify areas of Wikipedia and sister projects that could be enriched with resources and knowledge from the Library’s collections.
Be an advocate for open knowledge within the Library and externally. |
| Strategic Goal 3: To support the use of the Wikimedia projects as important tools for education and learning in the UK | |
| Develop, involve and engage with WMUK volunteers | Organise and host Wikimedia-related events.
Work with the Library to develop an outreach policy to coordinate contributions from the Library and the wider communities to support the development of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia community in under-represented areas. |
Outcomes
editThis month, within the Wellcome Library, Trust, and Collection we conducted training, spread knowledge of the project further across the institution, and organised support for upcoming events.
- Two training sessions were held for staff, the second of which was particularly in demand. The days varied to enable as many part-time staff to attend a session as possible, and Wednesday was obviously a good day for many! Participants expressed support for the idea of a Wellcome Wikiclub (suggested last month).
- I met with Simon Chaplin, Director of Culture & Society, to discuss the project with him.
- Human resources staff trained in mental health support have offered suggestions and their support for events associated with the Bedlam exhibition. We’ll now be running some events for World Mental Health Awareness Day (10th October).
Partnerships/potential collaboration
editVarious plans for collaborative ventures have been extended or created this month.
- Plans for the Women Engineers editathon are going well.
- The People’s History of the NHS project team at Warwick have been in touch, and we are planning some training and for some NHS-themed editing.
- We’re looking into the possibility of bringing together two potential collaborators and introducing history of medicine students to the collections of the Hearing Library, to help the former to learn whilst making practical contributions and the latter to make more of their content available online.
- I’m working with the Communications Officer of the British Society for the History of Science to plan some training and editathons.
Planned activities
editKey projects for next month and beyond include:
- Holding the first WellcomeWikiClub session, and planning future sessions for staff.
- Attending more Meetups with other London-based Wikimedians.
- Making plans for a UK-based Wikimedian in Residence summit, to get-together and share information and ideas.
- Making arrangements for postgraduate groups from various universities to visit the Library and take part in wiki-training.
- Planning editathons & events on history of mental health and psychiatry (linked with Bedlam).
- Developing plans with the BSHS to train historians and others interested in the history of science (with a particular focus on improving diversity).
- Working with the Open Access team here at the Wellcome Trust to help researchers to think about how to make their work really accessible using Wiki.
- Finalising plans for the Women Engineers editathon in October.
- Continuing to develop plans for NHS and women in medicine editathons.
Press about the residency
editFirst, a belated mention of press from July: the residency was featured in the American Association for the History of Medicine’s Newsletter.
In August, much of the press about the residency has been focussed on Twitter, where Wikiproject Women in Red have been particularly helpful in helping us to reach out to others and find the gaps in Wikipedia’s coverage of history of psychiatry.
The Royal College of Psychiatrists have also very kindly featured the residency on their website.