Wikipedia:GLAM/Wellcome/8th Month Report

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

Projects delivered

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Strategic Goal 1

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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.

Strategic Goal 2

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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.

  • Members of Wellcome Library staff attended a Wiki-Club session and continued to develop their skills and add and improve pages.
  • I scheduled a meeting with Navino Evans, Sean McBirnie, and the web redevelopment team here at Wellcome Trust, at which we discussed how Wikidata could be integrated into the redevelopment of the website, with the potential to provide data to wiki and context to enrich the information available on the Wellcome Library.
  • I met with Alasdair Brooks of the British Red Cross to discuss how the organisation can be involved in wiki-activities and provide resources to facilitate editing at some of our upcoming medical-themed editathons. He is going to work on a webpage covering some of the key figures in the organisation's history so that it can be used as a source to help people to find information and create articles on notable figures in medical history.

Strategic Goal 3

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

  • I met with Dr Jess Wade to discuss plans for holding editor training sessions with school students.

Projects/events in development

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Press about the residency

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