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Institution Resident's Name Period Covered Date of Report List of reports to date
University of Edinburgh Ewan McAndrew 12 November - 11 December 2017 (Twenty-third month of residency) 24 January 2018 Click here to view all reports.


Running total of staff & student engagement[edit]

Institution Resident's Name Number of training sessions delivered Number of students trained Number of staff trained Members of the public trained Number of editathons Total articles created Total articles improved
University of Edinburgh Ewan McAndrew 99 421 312 152 32 363 1373

In addition: we now have 3219 items of data on the accused witches in Wikidata (Spanning 1563 to 1736). We also now 2356 individuals involved in trying these accused witches. Finally we have items of data on the 3210 witch trials themselves.

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]

  • Two editathons for Women in Red held on 24 November 2017:
    • Lost Literary Women editathon and the AHRC Festival 2018 on 24 November in collaboration with James Loxley, Professor of Early Modern Literature, and the LitLong project. The editathon resulted in 8 published articles, 11 drafted articles and 5 improved articles.
    • Scottish Living Artists editathon on 24 November in collaboration with The university's Centre for Design Informatics and the Fruitmarket Gallery. The editathon resulted in 8 new published articles and 1 improved.
  • Ran a Wikisource workshop with Gavin Willshaw, Digital Curator, on 7 December 2017 to demonstrate how to add texts to Wikimedia Commons, transcribe to Wikisource and proofread so that it can be enjoed by others in 100% searchable HTML. We used a text, Daughter of the Rich, by one of the new Lost Literary Edinburgh authors, Mary Ella Waller, as our practical exercise. 15 pages proofread.
  • Met with Siobhan O'Connor from Edinburgh Napier University on 7 December 2017 to discuss her proposed plan for a three day editathon to improve coverage on Wikipedia relating to women working in Nursing Informatics.

Activities delivered in the past month with stats:[edit]

Event Name Date Location Attendees New Users Gender breakdown
Lost Literary Edinburgh editathon
List of Attendees		 24 November 2017 9:30am-4pm Computer Lab 1.02, 50 George Square, University of Edinburgh. 19 15 73.68% female
Scottish Living Artists 2017
List of Attendees		 24 November 2017 12:30pm-4:45pm Fruitmarket Gallery, 45 Market St, Edinburgh EH1 1DF 10 6 80% female
Wikisource workshop
List of Attendees:
User:Meadows.Lib
User:Gweduni
User:Abuabid
User:Seaston8190
User:Rosaliedobson
User:129.215.208.161
User:Mandy Tso		 7 December 2017 2pm-4pm University of Edinburgh, Training Room 1.08, Main Library, 30 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LJ 7 6 71.4% female

Image statistics[edit]

Activities in the past month with stats:[edit]

Event Name Date Location / Organiser Attendees (approx) Description
Thesis catchup 14 November 2017 Floor E, Argyle House, 3 Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh
Organiser:Gavin Willshaw, Digital Curator		 3 This session proposed how the data from 27,000 records in the Edinburgh Research Archive should be modelled on Wikidata to the University's satisfaction so our proposal was then shared to the Wikidata community for discussion. Once agreed, the import can then be achieved.
MOOC snippet video clips on Wikimedia Commons 27 November 2017 Floor D, Argyle House, 3 Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh
Organiser:Lucy Kendra, Media Production		 1 Follow-up discussion to see if the openly-licensed snippet video clips from the University of Edinburgh MOOCs could be hosted on Wikimedia Commons and added to relevant Wikipedia pages. Uploaded the drone footage of Arthur's Seat Wikimedia Commons and inserted into the Wikipedia page for Arthur's Seat.

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]

  • Met with Bruce Munro from BBC Scotland on 14 November and recorded an interview with him for his technology podcast.

Activities in the past month with stats:[edit]

Event Name Date Location / Organiser Attendees (approx) Description
Learning, Teaching & Web Services All-Staff meeting 5 December 2017 Playfair Library
Organiser:Melissa Highton, Assistant Principal, University of Edinburgh		 40-50 approx. This was the Christmas all-staff meeting of the University of Edinburgh's Learning, Teaching & Web Services Division. I provided a one hour Wiki Games practical workshop where staff were introduced to Wiki Races, Citation Hunt and Histropedia.

Strategic Goal 3[edit]

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

Outcomes[edit]

  • Wrote an article about Wikidata in the Classroom for the Wikipedia in Education monthly newsletter and the Wikimedian in Residence blog.
  • Ran a 2 hour Wikipedia workshop in the curriculum of the Digital Sociology MSc course. This introduced the students to Wikipedia's main policies and guidelines, the state of the project, its areas of convergence with sociology and how to edit with the new Visual Editor.
  • Supported three drop-in clinics for the Wikipedia translation assignment on the Translation Studies MSc course this month and faciliated the publishing of 22 newly translated articles.
  • Trained 6 students on the Data Science for Design MSc how to mass edit Wikidata to add verifiable data referenced back to the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft. We now have 3219 items of data on the accused witches in Wikidata (Spanning 1563 to 1736). We also now 2356 individuals involved in trying these accused witches. Finally we have 3210 witch trials themselves. Now we can link and enrich the data further by adding location data, dates, occupations, places of residence, social class, marriages, penalties arising from the trial etc.
  • As a result of the project the two student groups produced two videos visualising their analysis of the datasets. These are both now available on Creative Commons licences on Media Hopper. Video 1. Video 2.
  • Trained Lucy Rodgers, the new Wikimedian in Residence for University of Stirling Archives, how to edit Wikipedia and invited her to attend further training sessions if she requires them.
  • Met with Alastair Kilpatrick, bioinformatician at the Centre for Regenerative Medicine at Little France, on 14th November. Alastair has been involved with WikiProject Computational Biology for a few years now and is the main organiser of a competition for students run by the WikiProject in collaboration with the International Society for Computational Biology (more details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Computational_Biology/ISCB_competition_announcement_2017-18) He has also been trying to promote the use of Wikipedia in the (bioinformatics) classroom so we discussed the residency to date and explored whether there was scope for collaboration.

Activities delivered in the past month with stats:[edit]

Event Name Date Location Attendees New Users Gender breakdown
Translation Studies MSc Drop-in clinic
List of usernames:
User:Sallymillywang
User:Loiter9
User:Thegiantelk
User:XUENIUMU
User:X.wen
User:FrancescaRebecca
User:Fannyvalouis		 13 November 2017 2pm-3:30pm University of Edinburgh 50 George Square, Edinburgh 7 0 57% female
Translation Studies MSc Drop-in clinic
List of usernames:
User:Thegiantelk
User:XUENIUMU
User:X.wen
User:FrancescaRebecca
User:Fannyvalouis
User:SHERRY1991		 20 November 2017 2pm-3:30pm University of Edinburgh 50 George Square, Edinburgh 6 0 83% female
Mass importing witches into Wikidata - workshop for Data Science for Design MSc students
List of usernames:
User:Tyyyyo
User:Zouder1994
User:Chicone1003
User:ZongchengZHU
User:Lihongfu1995
User:Rosyshu		 22 November 2017 11:30am-2pm University of Edinburgh Room 1.08, Edinburgh University Main Library, 30 George Square, Edinburgh 6 6 50% female
Digital Sociology MSc - Introductory Wikipedia workshop
List of usernames:
User:Hello what's next
User:Auselman
User:TankTo
User:BethArmstrong94
User:State of the resource
User:Betty Zhao
User:Carol926
User:Sunyiping1993
User:LINYC		 23 November 2017 2pm-3:30pm University of Edinburgh 50 George Square, Edinburgh 9 9 66.66% female
Translation Studies MSc Drop-in clinic
List of usernames:
User:Bunbunbunka130
User:Mimosatree
User:Loiter9
User:FrancescaRebecca
User:Yiling35
User:YaqiZ
User:Florasch		 27 November 2017 2pm-3:30pm University of Edinburgh 50 George Square, Edinburgh 7 0 100% female
Wikipedia editing training
List of usernames:
User:Skillznthrillz
User:LMRodger		 4 December 2017 11am-1pm University of Edinburgh Room 1.08, Edinburgh University Main Library, 30 George Square, Edinburgh 2 1 50% female

Projects/events in development[edit]

  • Confirmed with Felix Stein at Social Anthropology about a Wikipedia editing assignment for the Global Health MSc course - postponed until October 2018 due to Felix working in Haiti at the moment.
  • Discussed with Sophie Nicholls at Teeside University about doing a 'Regeneration' editathon and Train the Trainer events down there - dates in Spring 2018 now finalised as April 28th 2017.
  • Continuing to support colleagues, Andrew Kirk and Christina Hussell, at the University of Edinburgh's Digital Skills team to run regular Wikipedia training workshops. Scheduled extra monthly workshops in January to March which they will now lead.
  • Showcase 'Wiki Loves Libraries' event for SDLC and SLIC representatives still mooted - liaising with Gavin Willshaw, Digital Curator on date and format.
  • Planned Wikisource workshop on 7 December 2017 with Gavin Willshaw, Digital Curator, in addition to continuing the import of thesis data to Wikidata from the Edinburgh Research Archive.
  • Three events for the university's Festival of Creative Learning (19-23 February 2018) are going ahead: a Wikidata hackathon, a Histropedia workshop and a Women in Medicine editathon.
  • Liaising with Susan Ross, Gaelic Wikipedian at the National Library of Scotland, on a submission for the Gaelic Studies Conference at the University of Edinburgh next summer.
  • Proposals accepted for three presentations at the Open Educational Resources Conference (OER18): Wikidata in the Classroom (lightning talk), Stories of Student Empowerment - Wikipedia in the Classroom (15 minute presentation) and an EdTech editathon workshop.

Upcoming events in 2017/2018[edit]

  • December 21 - Wiki Women in Red meetup #7.
  • January 18 - Wikipedia editing training.
  • January 24 - Train the Trainer event.
  • January 26 - Practice run through of Wikipedia Training with new trainers.
  • January 26 - Women in Red meetup.
  • February 1 - #1Lib1Ref meetup
  • February 2 - Translation Studies MSc assignment - Semester Two project begins.
  • February 3 - Wikimedia UK meetup in London - Talk between Lucy Crompton-Reid and Katherine Maher.
  • February 14 - Wikipedia editing training.
  • February 16 - Train the Trainer event.
  • February 20 - Histropedia workshop for the Festival of Creative Learning 2018.
  • February 21 - Wikidata Hackathon for the Festival of Creative Learning 2018.
  • February 22 - Women in Medicine editathon for the Festival of Creative Learning 2018.
  • March 23 - Presentation with Gavin Willshaw at the SCURL event, University of Strathclyde.
  • April 18 - OER18 Conference.
  • April 19 - OER18 Conference.
  • April 28 - Regenerating Middlesbrough event.
  • April 29 - Regenerating Middlesbrough event.
  • May 3 - Webinar for Queens' University, Belfast.
  • July 5 - Celtic Knot 2018, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.
  • July 6 - Celtic Knot 2018, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.
  • July 9-13 - Wikipedia editathon workshop at the EAHIL Conference.

Media[edit]

Timelines[edit]

SPLOT resources[edit]

  • Wiki Basics - SPLOT Wordpress site developed by Anne-Marie Scott and Ewan McAndrew to simplify how to get started with Wikipedia editing, specifically to aid new editors before an editathon. Used ahead of the Lost Literary Women editathon on 24 November 2017.
  • Wiki Games - SPLOT Wordpress site building from Anne-Marie Scott's Mozfest presentation with a view to enabling members of staff at Learning, Teaching and Web Services (and other new editors) to engage with short, fun ways of contributing to the Wikimedia projects. Used in the LTW Staff meeting on 5 December 2017.
  • Wikisource - Wordpress site to simplify the process of engaging with Wikisource, the free digital library. Used in the Wikisource workshop on 7 December 2017.

Books[edit]

  • A daughter of the rich, by M. E. Waller
    A daughter of the rich, by M. E. Waller
  • Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson. Records of a family of engineers
    Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson. Records of a family of engineers
  • The wood-carver of 'Lympus by Waller, Mary E. (Mary Ella), 1855-1938
    The wood-carver of 'Lympus by Waller, Mary E. (Mary Ella), 1855-1938

Images[edit]

  • Data Fair at the University of Edinburgh - 26 October 2017
    Data Fair at the University of Edinburgh - 26 October 2017

45 Public Domain images imported from the British Museum's Flickr site of illustrations from Robert Louis Stevenson's Edinburgh:Picturesque Notes.

Added illustration of Thrawn Janet, Robert Louis Stevenson's gothic horror story to Wikimedia Commons. The article was first created by User:Triptropic at our Edinburgh Gothic editathon in November 2016. The image was then used to illustrate a talk on Revenants and Robert Louis Stevenson - The Scottish Undead in literature by Dr Louise Yeoman, previously co-director of the Scottish Witchcraft Survey which I attended on 23 November 2017.

Blog posts this month[edit]

  1. Internet Transmitted Infections – I’ve got the SPLOTS - Anne-Marie Scott, 16 November 2017.
  2. Wikidata in the Classroom on the Wikimedian in Residence blog 22 November 2017.
  3. Open for all - Mansfield Traquair images hosted on Wikimedia Commons. Blog by Anne-Marie Scott 23 November 2017.
  4. After the Wiki rush - Blog post by Anne-Marie Scott following the Lost Literary Edinburgh editathon 26 November 2017
  5. Take an Equal Bite - Blogpost by Melissa Highton about EqualBITE: Gender equality in higher education and the the positive power of wikipedia editathons. 2nd December 2017.

Videos[edit]

George Square and Appleton Tower - Edinburgh
  • The MOOC snippet clip (right) was added to Wikimedia Commons and inserted in the Arthur's Seat Wikipedia page. 302 views from 27/11/2017 to 11/12/2017 already, averaging 20 views a day.
  • The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Media Hopper now has 224 videos. 52 views this month with 50 plays.
  • The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Youtube now has received over 22,261 views this month of its 61 videos with 107 subscribers (Two thousand two hundred more views approx. since last month and 11 more subscribers and 21 'likes' since last month).
  • Data Science for Design MSc students created two videos on the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft which are both now available on Creative Commons licences on Media Hopper. Video 1. Video 2.

Press about the residency[edit]

  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)
  18. 'Wikipedia, research and representation- - Dr Amy Burge, Academic Developer at the Institute for Academic Development, University of Edinburgh.
  19. Mary Susan McIntosh and the Women in Red - Lorna Campbell.
  20. What do you do with a dead chemist? - Anne-Marie Scott.
  21. Wikipedia and Writing - Michael Seery, Reader in Education, School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh.
  22. Language and Politics - my takeaways by Mina Theofilatou.
  23. How is it almost August? - Lorna Campbell.
  24. While in Scotland - Käbi Suvi, Wikimedia Estonia.
  25. Celtic Knot Conference 2017 in Edinburgh - Astrid Carlsen, Wikimedia Norge.
  26. Wikipedia in the Classroom: developing information literacy, online citizenship and digital research skills - Teaching Matters blog 13th June 2017.
  27. Congratulations to our Wikimedian of the Year - Wikimedia UK blog 1st August 2017.
  28. University of Edinburgh journal vol.48 no.1 - Article about the Edinburgh residency on p.25
  29. Ada Lovelace Day 2017 - celebrating Women in STEM - article on the WiR blog on 1st September 2017.
  30. Scotland loves monuments - article for Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 on the Wir Blog - Friday 8 September 2017.
  31. Wanderings with a Wikimedian - Blog article by Anne-Marie Scott for Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 - Monday 11 September 2017.
  32. Mortuary Chapel, Revisited - Anne-Marie Scott's blog September 30 2017.
  33. Ada Lovelace Day – Professor Elizabeth Slater - Lorna Campbell's blog on October 10 2017.
  34. Ada Lovelace Day - knitting resources
  35. Ada Lovelace Day 2017 photos.
  36. Wikipedia is a very lovely place to be - Anne-Marie Scott's blog.
  37. The 17th century map of Iceland released by the University of Edinburgh's Centre for Research Collections gets a mention in Creative Commons' influential 'State of the Commons report'.
  38. Wikipedia has always depended on the kindness of strangers - Outcomes of Ada Lovelace 2017 on the Wikimedian in Residence blog 19 October 2017.
  39. Wikipedia assignments – getting past the ‘Penguin effect’ and down to the brass tacks of sharing open knowledge - Teaching Matters blog.
  40. Ada Lovelace Day 2017 – Celebrating women in STEM - Edinburgh University Science Magazine.
  41. Another Story about Maps - Blogpost by Anne-Marie Scott 27 October 2017.
  42. Open Tumshies for Halloween - blogpost by Lorna Campbell 31 October 2017.
  43. Internet Transmitted Infections – I’ve got the SPLOTS - Anne-Marie Scott, 16 November 2017.
  44. Wikidata in the Classroom on the Wikimedian in Residence blog 22 November 2017.
  45. Open for all - Mansfield Traquair images hosted on Wikimedia Commons. Blog by Anne-Marie Scott 23 November 2017.
  46. After the Wiki rush - Blog post by Anne-Marie Scott following the Lost Literary Edinburgh editathon 26 November 2017
  47. Take an Equal Bite - Blogpost by Melissa Highton about EqualBITE: Gender equality in higher education and the the positive power of wikipedia editathons. 2nd December 2017.
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