Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/12th Month Report

Institution	Resident's Name	Period Covered	Date of Report
University of Edinburgh	Ewan McAndrew	12 December - 11 January 2017 (Twelfth month of residency)	16 January 2017

Running total of staff & student engagement

Institution	Resident's Name	Number of students trained	Number of staff trained	Members of the public trained
University of Edinburgh	Ewan McAndrew	120	149	66

Projects delivered

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.

Outcomes

• Led a taster editathon for staff celebrating 150 years of the Regius Chair of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh's School of Engineering on 11th January 2017. 1 new article drafted , 3 improved articles and 2 new Histropedia timelines.

Engineering 150 Outcomes

• Jeffery Collins - page improved.
• Arnold Hendry - page began in User:JennyFlemington/sandbox2.
• Hudson Beare - link fixed.
• School of Engineering page redrafted at User:Billy_Rosendale/sandbox
• Histropedia Wikidata timeline created of engineers & civil engineers educated at the University of Edinburgh (colour coded by place of birth)
• Histropedia timeline showing the Regius Professors of Engineering at Edinburgh University.

Activities delivered in the past month with stats:

Event Name	Date	Location	Attendees	New Users	Gender breakdown
Engineering 150 editathon at the School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh	11 January 2017	University of Edinburgh College of Science and Engineering, Fleeming Jenkin Building, Kings Buildings, Edinburgh.	4	2	50% female

Image statistics

• 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: 563,580
• Total number of page views for images released from the University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections for 12 months of monitoring: 7,107,013

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.

Outcomes

• Continuing discussions with Christina Hussell in the Digital Skills team at the university can feasibly contribute to ensuring a sustained relationship with Wikimedia during the residency and post the residency.
• 4 proposals for sessions to the OER17 Conference on 5-6 April 2017 were approved (1 presentation on the Edinburgh Residency, 1 lightning talk on Content Translation, 1 lightning talk on the WikiCite project and 1 workshop on Gamifying Wikimedia).
• 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 Friday January 20th 2017.
  • Wrote accompanying blogpost: #1Lib1Ref Wikipedia turns 16
• Arranged with Professor Gordon Masterton, Jenny Lauder & Billy Rosendale to hold further Engineering 150 editathons throughout the year.
• 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)
  • - The Yule Lads (blogpost)
  • - Histropedia - knowledge from Wikipedia visualised as dynamic timelines (blogpost)
  • - A Christmas Sermon – Robert Louis Stevenson on Wikisource (blogpost)

Activities delivered in the past month with stats:

Not applicable - on leave.

Strategic Goal 3

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

Outcomes

• Prepared for video interviews of Reproductive Biology students and Translation Studies MSc students 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.
• Wikipedia assignment - Translation Studies MSc (blogpost)
• Reflections on a Wikipedia assignment: Reproductive Medicine Honours students' group research project (blogpost inc. guest post from student contributor Aine Kavanagh)

Activities delivered in the past month with stats:

Not applicable - on leave.

Digitisation

Collections identified for potential future upload:

• The proposal for CC-BY images to be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons will be submitted to library staff this week.
• The Wikisource community have confirmed that selected digitised PhD theses from the university would be appropriate to uplaod to Wikisource and be within the project scope. The university has been digitising its collection of PhD theses for the last few months and is now at a stage where it can consider uploading a test case to Wikisource: a medical thesis by British physician & geologist Thomas James Jehu pending approval. In addition, the Wikisource community have intimated that a number of the Open Books could also be imported, pending approval.

Projects/events in development

• Arranged with Gill Hamilton at National Library of Scotland and Gavin Willshaw, Digital Curator at the University, to take part in the global #1Lib1Ref campaign to celebrate Wikipedia's 16th birthday.
• 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 relating to supporting the new Gaelic Wikimedian in Residence.
• 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.
• Have begun discussions with Johanna Holtan, James Smith and Stephen Kaye to hold an African Alumni & Swahili editathon in March 2017.
• Continued planning arrangements for a Wikidata Workshop with Navino Evans at the the Edu Wiki Conference at Middlesex University on 20 February 2016
• Discussed Wikipedia editathon on Gender, Global Health & Justice for Festival of Creative Learning on 21st February 2016.
• Four 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.
• Continued email discussions with Lorna Campbell to discuss a 'Languages of Britain Wiki Conference' at end of June 2016/start of July 2016. Venues are being sourced at the moment with the 'Digital Day of Ideas' being used as a format model.

Upcoming events in 2017

• January 16th - Open Knowledge event at National Library of Scotland introducing new Gaelic Wikimedian in Residence.
• January 18th - Videoing interviews with staff & students of the Translation Studies MSc Wikipedia assignment.
• January 19th - Meeting to discuss Gather Festival editathon.
• January 20th - #1Lib1Ref campaign - Librarians adding one reference to Wikipedia using the Citation Hunt tool for Wikipedia's birthday.
• January 31st - Presentation at Lorna Campbell's Open Knowledge Network event.
• January 31st - Wikipedia Editing training session at Edinburgh University library.
• January 31st - Final planning meeting for History of Medicine 2017 editathon.
• February 3rd - 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.

Media

Pictures

No pics uploaded in this period except twelve illustrations in Edinburgh (1914) by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Texts

Edinburgh (1914) by Robert Louis Stevenson - out of copyright text uploaded to Wikisource. 68 pages OCR-ed and proofread so far out of 160 oages in total.

Videos

1. The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Media Hopper now has 89 videos. 13 have newly been uploaded.
   1. Wikipedia to the Moon
   2. Wikipedia: Facts Matter
   3. Wikipedia Research Showcase - December 2016
   4. The top fifteen photos of Wiki Loves Monuments 2016
   5. CREDIT - Mediawiki Showcase December 2016
   6. Programs and Events Dashboard Demo - how to manage a Wikipedia course
   7. A chat with Katherine Maher - Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation
   8. Wikipedia Research Showcase - November 2016
   9. [Wikipedia Research Showcase - October 2016
   10. Free, open, shared: a conversation about copyright with Mike Masnick
   11. Privacy and Harassment on the Internet - Katherine Maher (Wikimedia Foundation) at Mozfest 2016
   12. #1Lib1Ref - How to add citations to Wikipedia
   13. #1Lib1Ref - How to get started (Creating an Account and switching on Visual Editor)
2. The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Youtube has 30 videos and 34 subscribers.

In addition, 2 are ready to be uploaded relating to the guest speakers at November's Women and Religion event, Roger Bamkin from WikiProject Women in Red and Dr. Lesley Orr, pending their approval.

Press about the residency

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