Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/15th Month Report

Institution Resident's Name Period Covered Date of Report
University of Edinburgh Ewan McAndrew 12 March - 11 April 2017 (Fifteenth month of residency) 14 April 2017

Running total of staff & student engagement

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Institution Resident's Name Number of students trained Number of staff trained Members of the public trained
University of Edinburgh Ewan McAndrew 176 199 94

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.

Outcomes

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Activities delivered in the past month with stats:

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No editathon events were held this month.

Image statistics

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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.

Outcomes

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Activities delivered in the past month with stats:

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Event Name Date Location / Organiser Attendees (approx) Title
Wikidata: the new Rosetta Stone
Lightning talk at the Open Knowledge Edinburgh meet-up #23
27 March 2017 Napier University.
Organiser:Ewan Klein
30 This meet-up is part of a broader effort to effort to grow a community around Edinburgh Open Government and to explore overlaps with Open Knowledge. Open Knowledge Meet-ups are friendly and informal evenings for people to get together to share and argue all areas of openness.
OER17 5-6 April 2017 Resource for London.
Organiser:Association for Learning Technology
185 Annual Open Educational Resources Conference.

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.

Outcomes

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  • Edited and uploaded 5 videos interviews including a compilation of interviews with staff and students who have taken part in our 3 Wikipedia in the Classroom assignments this year.
  • Supported the Translation Studies MSc and Edinburgh University Translation Society students so that they can get much-needed published translation practice in translation and develop an ongoing relationship with Wikimedia UK. Both projects have now concluded and a discussion on best practice is to be arranged for mid May 2017 with the Translation Studies MSc course leaders.
  • Held a Wikipedia in Education: Event for Course Leaders event for 3rd April 2017 so course leaders from last semester (Dr. Chris Harlow) could share their good practice.
  • Delivered a How to run a Wikipedia editathon: Staff Skills Training event (inside & outside the curriculum) on Friday 17th March 2017.

Activities delivered in the past month with stats:

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Event Name Date Location Attendees New Users Gender breakdown
Wikipedia Editing Training Workshop 15 March 2017 11:30am-1pm University of Edinburgh Library, Training Room 1.08, 1st floor, 30 George Square, Edinburgh 1 1 0% female
Wikipedia drop-in clinic 15 March 2017 3:30pm-6pm University of Edinburgh Rm. 1.09, Main Library, 30 George Square, Edinburgh 3 0 100% female
How to run an editathon - Train the Trainer event 17 March 2017 2:30pm-5pm University of Edinburgh Rm. 1.11, Main Library, 30 George Square, Edinburgh 2 0 50% female
Wikipedia drop-in clinic 29 March 2017 3:30pm-6pm University of Edinburgh Rm. 1.09, Main Library, 30 George Square, Edinburgh 8 0 87.5% female
Introduction to Wikidata and Histropedia 31 March 2017 3:30pm-5pm University of Edinburgh Teaching Studio LG.07, David Hume Tower, George Square, Edinburgh. 13 9 53.8% female
Teaching with Wikipedia: Event for Course Leaders 3 April 2017 11am-12:30pm University of Edinburgh Rm. G.06, 50 George Square, Edinburgh. 5 4 60% female

Digitisation

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Collections identified for potential future upload:

  • Gavin Willshaw, Digital Curator, has uploaded a test case of Thomas Jehu's PhD thesis to Wikisource during the History of Medicine editathon on 23 & 24 February 2017 and is looking to upload selected other PhD theses and Open Books to Wikisource in the coming months.
  • A WiR and Library proposal has been drafted and passed to colleagues at Library & University Collections.
  • Paul Barnaby is liaising with Navino Evans to see if Histropedia can be employed with the Our History site.
  • We have been given permission to upload images where WW1 nurse orderly Ethel Moir is the creator from the Capital Collections website.

Projects/events in development

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  • Arranged with Stephen Kaye on the Mastercard Scholarship Foundation to hold an African Alumni & Swahili editathon in December 2017 (to be followed up in September 2017).
  • Awaiting further news from Ruth Burgon (Fruitmarket Gallery) about an editathon themed on art and artists in November 2017 with potential involvement from the History of Art course.
  • Continuing discussions with Pauline Ward and Navino Evans about a Wikidata Showcase event at Repository Fringe 2017 - focus areas being the involvement of students and the donation of data to Wikidata (bulk importing).
  • Continuing discussions with Jake Broadhurst and Jamie Cross about a Wikimedia event for 60-70 undergraduate students attending the Undergraduate Research Conference on 28 June 2017.
  • Continued discussions with Melissa Highton, Lorna Campbell and Daria Cybulska about the Celtic Knot: Wikipedia Language Conference on Thursday 6 July 2017. Abstracts are to be decided upon in discussion with Susan Ross (National Library of Scotland's Gaelic Wikimedian) and Lorna Campbell on Friday 21st April. Keynote speakers have now been secured. A website has also now been created and booking will open shortly.

Upcoming events in 2017

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  • April 13 - Train the Trainer (Digital Skills staff)
  • April 27 - Wikimedia as an Open Educational Resource
  • April 28 - Open Knowledge Network event including Wikidata and Histropedia showcase.
  • May 3 - Wikipedia editing training.
  • May 3 - Wikimedia drop-in clinic.
  • May 11 - Train the Trainer event for the Usher Institute staff.
  • June 7 - Wikipedia editing training.
  • June 28 - Undergraduate Research Conference - Editathon for 70 students from all around the world.
  • July 6 - Celtic Knot: Wikipedia Language Conference.
  • July 7 - Wikimedian in Residence meetup at the National Library of Scotland.
  • August 3 & 4 - Wikidata Showcase at Repository Fringe 2017
  • October 10 - Ada Lovelace Day 2017

Media

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OER17 presentations

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Pictures

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Videos

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  • The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Youtube now has accrued 9193 views of its 32 videos with 51 subscribers (1000+ views than last month and 7 more subscribers than last month).

Press about the residency

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  1. Edinburgh University searches for 'Wikimedians' - Edinburgh Evening News, 8th October 2015.
  2. University of Edinburgh to employ ‘Wikimedian in Residence’ web editor - The Student Newspaper.org, October 13th 2015.
  3. The History of Medicine gets mentioned in the ILW Awards 2016
  4. The OER16 Conference, co-chaired by Melissa Highton and Lorna M. Campbell, won Wikimedia UK’s Partnership of the Year Award
  5. 'Wikidata and Wikisource Showcase' mentioned on IS News site.
  6. The Wikimedia Residency, as part of the University Of Edinburgh's Open Education team, won 3rd place in ALT's Learning Technologist of the Year awards.
  7. Open Education team (including Wikimedia residency) come third in ALT Learning Technologist of the Year awards - story on the IS News site.
  8. Wikipedia's women problem - Melissa Highton writes for the Dangerous Women project 10th October 2016
  9. STV News 'Live at Five' covers the Ada Lovelace Day - Women in STEM Wikipedia editathon.
  10. New College take on Wikipedia edit-a-thon - Women and Religion 2 November 2016.
  11. Brenda Moon remembered in Wikipedia editathon - article in IS News
  12. Wikipedia editathon and Mary Stewart - Edinburgh Gothic Sat 12 November.
  13. Wikipedia editathon at the University of Sheffield's Centre for the History of the Gothic
  14. Collaborating to built a city of information literacy, a city of Wikipedia - Interview by OEPS Scotland
  15. #1Lib1Ref at the University of Edinburgh - Blog article by Gavin Willshaw, Digital Curator - 2nd February 2017
  16. Fake News and Wikidata - a roundup of the Wikimedia UK Education Summit
  17. Host a Wikimedian - You can't afford not to (blog article)