Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/58th month report

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Institution Resident's Name Period Covered Date of Report List of reports to date
University of Edinburgh Ewan McAndrew 1 August 2020 - 31 October 2020 (Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh and Fifth-eighth month of the residency 5 November 2020 Click here to view all reports.

The resident was on annual leave from 14 October until 28 October 2020

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 245 1,309 524 484 100 828 2,890

Projects delivered[edit]

Strategic Aim 1 - Knowledge Equity[edit]

External videos
video icon Why I am editing Wikipedia - Talk by Dr. Jess Wade at the University of Edinburgh's Women in STEM Connect edit-a-thon on Sunday 16th August 2020.
  • Develop partnerships that increase access to underrepresented cultural heritage
  • Support the development of minority and indigenous language Wikipedias
  • Encourage new and existing partners to help tackle the gender gap on Wikimedia
  • Identify other areas of inequality and bias and create partnerships to help address these
  • Engage with volunteers and partners across the UK, widening the charity’s geographic reach
  • Diversify content producers by recruiting new editors from under-represented communities
  • Support the development of a more inclusive culture across the Wikimedia projects
  • Ensure that Wikimedia UK’s own policies and practices support diversity and inclusion

Progress[edit]

Maggie Wall's memorial
Jessica Borger
Professor Devi Sridhar, image added on 30 October Wikipedia Women in Red event.
  • Two new Women in Red workshops were held in August & September 2020 themed on Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM). The Women in Red event on 16 August 2020 was held in collaboration with Dr. Jess Wade and the University of Edinburgh's Women in STEM student society. The 17th September event was held in collaboration the University of Edinburgh's Science Magazine for Student Welcome Week (14-18 September 2020).
    • 7 new articles were created at the Women in STEM Connect event inc. Jessica Borger, Australian T Cell immunologist, Lecturer and Graduate Course Coordinator at the Central Clinical School, Monash University. Her research has added to the understanding of the molecular mechanisms of T cell function. Jessica also advocates for gender equality in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
    • 45 more articles were edited.
    • 228 edits in total.
    • 15 editors.
    • 15.9K words added.
    • 2 new articles were created at the Edinburgh University Science Magazine event inc. Maria Elena Zavala, an American plant biologist. She was the first Mexican-American woman to earn a PhD in botany in the United States.
    • 30 more articles were edited.
    • 165 edits in total.
    • 15 editors.
    • 7.96K words added.
  • 607 images of listed buildings and scheduled monuments shared by colleagues at the University of Edinburgh during September 2020 for the annual Wiki Loves Monuments competition. This helped push the total of images shared by Scotland to 2,412, almost double the tally in September 2019. Wikidata map of listed buildings and monuments in Scotland with open images.
  • An Ada Lovelace Day event was held, with only 2 weeks' planning, on Tuesday 13th October 2020 to celebrate Women in STEM. The lunchtime Lightning Talks drew 50-60 attendees and the editathon created new articles for Talat Yaqoob, a Scottish campaigner and writer focused on women’s equality, race equality and intersectional analysis of policy and Isabel Gal, a Jewish Hungarian paediatrician who was responsible for highlighting the link between use of the hormonal pregnancy test Primodos and severe birth defects, among others.
    • 6 new articles were created at the Ada Lovelace Day - Women in STEM event.
    • 9 more articles were edited.
    • 101 edits in total.
    • 7 editors.
    • 3.82K words and 49 references were added.
  • A Wikipedia Women in Red event was held on 30 October 2020 for Halloween. New pages were created for Maggie Wall, the memorial monument in Perthshire inscribed with "Maggie Wall burnt here 1657 as a witch", and Mary Kirk, an English woman accused of witchcraft in Huntingdon, England. She was condemned to death by Huntingdon assizes on 28 July 1716 along with her nine-year-old daughter, Elizabeth Hicks, and is thought to be the last person executed in England for witchcraft.
    • 2 new articles were created at the Halloween - Wikipedia Women in Red event.
    • 14 more articles were edited.
    • 136 edits in total.
    • 5 editors.
    • 5.09K words, 69 references and 1 image of Professor Devi Sridhar were added.
  • Emma Carroll, former Data & Visualisation student intern on the Wikidata Map of Accused Witches Project has been invited to present on the project at the second ever Remembering the Accused Witches of Scotland (RAWS) Conference on 8 November 2020 as the growing movement to memorialise what happened to these women grows and RAWS becomes a registered charity.
  • Attended to support the second day of the Scots Wikipedia editathon on 30th-31st August 2020 organised by Dr. Sara Thomas.

Activities delivered with stats:[edit]

Events[edit]

Event Name Date and duration Location Attendees New editors Trainers Gender breakdown
Women in STEM Connect - a Women in Red editathon for the Edinburgh University Women in STEM Society
Monthly Women in Red workshop - creating new biography articles of notable women in STEM on Wikipedia

List of usernames recorded
16 August 2020 University of Edinburgh, online webinar. 15 13 Ewan McAndrew and Dr. Jess Wade 100% female
Women in STEM for the Edinburgh University Science Magazine - a Women in Red editathon for Welcome Week 2020
Monthly Women in Red workshop - creating new biography articles of notable women in STEM on Wikipedia

List of usernames recorded
17 September 2020 University of Edinburgh, online webinar. 15 13 Ewan McAndrew and Helena Cornu, Edinburgh University Science Magazine 100% female
Women in STEM for Ada Lovelace Day 2020 - a Women in Red editathon
Monthly Women in Red workshop - creating new biography articles of notable women in STEM on Wikipedia

List of usernames recorded
13 October 2020 University of Edinburgh, online webinar. 8 5 Ewan McAndrew 100% female
Accused witches of Scotland - a Women in Red editathon for Halloween 2020
Monthly Women in Red workshop - creating new biography articles of notable accused witches on Wikipedia

List of usernames recorded
30 October 2020 University of Edinburgh, online webinar. 5 2 Ewan McAndrew 80% female

Partnership interactions[edit]

Activity /Purpose of Meeting Date and duration Institute Location Names of Attendees Links, if any, to Meeting/Presentation/ Conference Talk
Meeting with Hannah Rothmann, Wikimedia Training intern, to discuss the new Wikimedia residency site on the University of Edinburgh website 3 August 2020
1 hour
University of Edinburgh MS Teams meeting. Hannah Rothmann, University of Edinburgh Blog about Hannah's internship
Meeting with Hannah Rothmann, Wikimedia Training intern, and the Open.Ed team 4 August 2020
1 hour
University of Edinburgh MS Teams meeting. Hannah Rothmann, University of Edinburgh
Lorna Campbell and Charlie Farley, Open.Ed team, University of Edinburgh
Open.Ed website
Meeting with Hannah Rothmann, Wikimedia Training intern, and Melissa Highton, Assistant Principal for Online Learning 6 August 2020
1 hour
University of Edinburgh MS Teams meeting. Hannah Rothmann, University of Edinburgh
Melissa Highton, University of Edinburgh
Melissa Highton's blog
Meeting with Helena Cornu to discuss Edinburgh University Science Magazine collaboration for Welcome Week 2020 6 August 2020
1 hour
University of Edinburgh MS Teams meeting. Helena Cornu, University of Edinburgh Edinburgh University Science Magazine web page
Meeting with Hannah Rothmann, Wikimedia Training intern, to discuss the new Wikimedia residency site on the University of Edinburgh website 13 August 2020
1 hour
University of Edinburgh MS Teams meeting. Hannah Rothmann, University of Edinburgh Blog about Hannah's internship
Presentation by Hannah Rothmann, Wikimedia Training intern, about her internship as part of the Edinburgh Award 18 August 2020
1 hour
University of Edinburgh MS Teams meeting. Hannah Rothmann, University of Edinburgh 6 minute video presentation by Hannah Rothmann
Meeting with Hannah Rothmann, Wikimedia Training intern, and Dr. Vicki Madden to discuss an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Wikipedia editing event 27 August 2020
1 hour
University of Edinburgh MS Teams meeting. Hannah Rothmann, University of Edinburgh
Dr. Vicki Madden, Digital Skills
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at University of Edinburgh
Meeting with Hannah Rothmann, Wikimedia Training intern, to discuss the homepage for the new website 8 September 2020
1 hour
University of Edinburgh MS Teams meeting. Hannah Rothmann, University of Edinburgh New Wikimedia residency website at University of Edinburgh
Meetings with Hannah Rothmann, Wikimedia Training intern, to review all the content for the new website 9-11 September 2020
1 hour
University of Edinburgh MS Teams meeting. Hannah Rothmann, University of Edinburgh New Wikimedia residency website at University of Edinburgh
Exit interview with Hannah Rothmann, Wikimedia Training Intern 11 September 2020
1 hour
University of Edinburgh MS Teams meeting. Hannah Rothmann, University of Edinburgh New Wikimedia residency website at University of Edinburgh
Ada Lovelace Day planning meeting 28 September 2020
1 hour
University of Edinburgh MS Teams meeting. Melissa Highton, James Slack, Lilinaz Rouhani, Emma Charlesworth, Vicki Madden, Lorraine Spalding, Lauren Johnston-Smith, Sarah Lappin, Jenni Garden, Satu Kapiainen and more Ada Lovelace Day at University of Edinburgh

Image statistics - as of 6th November 2020[edit]

The most viewed image for October 2020 was the photo of the Samhuinn Wikipedia editathon at University of Edinburgh editathon on 31st October 2016 on the Wikipedia page for Samhain with 332,248 pageviews
UoE Centre for Research Collections images Total for October 2020 648,807 views
All images uploaded in collaboration between WMUK and the University of Edinburgh Total for October 2020 1,876,725 views
UoE Centre for Research Collections images Total for 58 months of monitoring 44,183,181 views

The most viewed images for October 2020 were:

Rank Wikipedia page Monthly views Link to image/video on Commons
1 Samhain 332,248 views Samhuinn Wikipedia editathon at University of Edinburgh editathon - 31st October 2016 - 05
2 Iceland 211,696 views Gerardi Mercatoris Atlas, sive, Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura (24696368309).jpg
3 Rabbit 89,796 views Set of wax models showing development of the rabbit heart, twentieth century (24226156252).jpg
4 Glasgow 79,373 views Pedestrians in Buchanan Street, Glasgow.webm.
5 Alexander McQueen 73,742 views Lee Alexander McQueen Headstone Back.png and Lee Alexander McQueen Headstone.png.
6 Stan Laurel 71,301 views Stan Laurel plaque at Britannia Music Hall, Glasgow. Uploaded as part of Wiki Loves Monuments 2017.
7 Escherichia coli 69,620 views E.coli image.
8 Robert Louis Stevenson 59,370 views Robert Louis Stevenson mit sieben Jahren
9 Noah's Ark 58,140 views Woodcut of Noah's Ark from Anton Koberger's "German Bible".
10 Odessa 36,166 views Odessa during first days of Revolution - 1916. From the WW1 diary of Ethel Moir.
External videos
video icon Reflections on the Edinburgh Award - Presentation by Wikimedia Training Intern, Hannah Rothmann on the Summer 2020 project
External videos
video icon Final interview with Wikimedia intern, Hannah Rothmann - This video interview was recorded on 11 September 2020.
Germ cell migration. Image added as part of the Reproductive Biology BSc Wikipedia assignment
External videos
video icon Teaching with Wikipedia - a practical 'how to' guide.

Strategic Aim 2 - Digital Literacy[edit]

Work with partners to develop digital, data and information literacy through Wikimedia

  • Support the education sector’s engagement with Wikimedia as a digital literacy tool
  • Facilitate Wikimedia-based digital, data and information literacy projects with other partners
  • Create content and resources for learners and educators
  • Advocate for the inclusion of Wikimedia in curriculum, syllabus and course development
  • Collaborate with the civil society sector and other partners to combat misinformation


Progress[edit]

Monsoon rainfall July 2020 (NASA Earth Observatory) - Image added as part of the Global Health Challenges PgCert Online group Wikipedia assignment - on the article 2020 Assam floods
Ernest Hemingway's 1923 passport photo taken a year before the publication of "Indian Camp", one of 53 student translations this semester on the Translation Studies MSc
  • Three How to teach with Wikipedia workshops were held online on 2nd, 9th and 16th September 2020.
  • Five How to improve representation online with Wikipedia presentations were held online Monday to Friday during Student Welcome Week (14-18 September 2020).
  • Contacted Digital Education MSc course leaders to discuss the Wikipedia assignment running in January 2021.
  • Professor Devi Sridhar is on research leave during the Coronavirus pandemic so she can focus on this very important work so the Masters in Public Health (MPH) Wikipedia assignment is on hiatus until her return to teaching in the next academic year (2021/2022).
  • The other Masters in Public Health (MPH) course leader, Dr. Felix Stein, has moved to University of Oslo but is keen to link up to continue to improve anthropology-related and public health articles on Wikipedia.
  • Dr. Karen Gregory on the Digital Sociology MSc is happy to schedule a Wikipedia workshop to run in tandem with coursework and relevant guest lectures in January 2021. Under discussion as course programme is in flux following move to remote teaching in light of Coronavirus pandemic.
  • The Reproductive Biology Bsc Wikipedia assignment went ahead and was concluded at end of September 2020.
  • A new assignment on the History of Art course, Medieval Islamic Visual Culture, was discussed and run this semester. The results were very positive and the course leader, Glaire Anderson, has agreed to write a blog article about the assignment.
  • A new iteration of the Data Fair project (slides) on the Design Informatics MA/MFA programme commenced on 1st October 2020 with the resident pitching that the Masters students again work with the university's Survey of Scottish Witchcraft Database to import data relating to the devil, religious motifs, white magic, and ritual objects mentioned in historical records into Wikidata. Five Masters students will analyse, process and creatively visualise the data as part of the assignment before the end of the semester.
  • The Translation Studies MSc Wikipedia assignment began again in semester one with an increased cohort of 53 students. The students have all now chosen a quality article they wish to translate and will upload their 1,500 to 2,000 word translations by 21 December, peer review by 8th January 2021, and publish to Wikipedia by 15th January 2021. List of articles on assignment page.
  • The Global Health Pg Online Wikipedia assignment commenced its 2nd iteration this semester on 6th October 2020. The resident will help assess the students' contributions by Friday 13th November 2020 on such articles as 2020 Assam floods, 2013 drought in Maharashtra and 2014 Malta migrant shipwreck (boat from Egypt).
    • 4 new articles were created on the Global Health Challenges PgCert Online group Wikipedia assignment.
    • 10 more articles were edited.
    • 319 edits in total.
    • 15 editors.
    • 7.89K words, 109 references and 3 images added.
  • The Korean Studies MSc Wikipedia workshop was held on Thursday 22nd October 2020 where students were introduced to how information related to their discipline gets online and how they can help improve knowledge shared openly. Link to workshop video
  • Wikimedia Trainer Intern. Hannah Rothmann, a Classics undergraduate completed her 12 week full-time basis this Summer to work on developing professional looking and scaffolded resources that would chunk the challenge of taking someone from beginner to advanced in Wikipedia and Wikidata. She created 20 new short instructional 'how to' video tutorials which have been given captions and shared to the university's Media Hopper channel and the residency's YouTube channel also. Hannah has also created a new 41 page website on the University of Edinburgh's Digital Skills site to pull all the best resources for understanding Wikipedia and Wikidata into one place and support staff and students to work with these projects in a much more scaffolded, self-directed way as part of teaching and learning.
  • Attended EdWeb training session on 24 September 2020 at the University of Edinburgh so that I am upskilled to edit and improve the new Wikimedia residency website created by Hannah Rothmann, our Wikimedia Training Intern.
  • Discussed a Wikipedia project looking at Scotland, Slavery and Black History with Professor James Smith, Vice Principal International, and Diana Paton, William Robertson Professor of History and Caribbean history. The resulting project is to go ahead in four sessions in November 2020 and January 2021 in collaboration with the student History Society, Race.Ed, Black.Ed and UncoverEd projects.
  • Met with Karen Howie, Head of Digital Learning Applications and Media, on 9 October 2020 to see new website for the Wikimedia residency published on the University of Edinburgh's Digital Skills site. The new site will support staff, students and members of the public the how and why of getting started with Wikipedia and Wikidata in a much more scaffolded and self-directed way, with 41 clear webpages and 20 short video 'how to' tutorials. The new website is now live here.

Activities with stats:[edit]

Events[edit]

Event Name Date and duration Location Attendees New editors Trainers
Teaching with Wikipedia - practical workshop
Slides pt1 - Getting started with Teaching with Wikipedia
Slides pt 2 - How to edit Wikipedia workshop
2nd September 2020, 12pm-3pm University of Edinburgh, Blackboard Collaborate 12 n/a Ewan McAndrew
Teaching with Wikipedia - practical workshop
Slides pt1 - Getting started with Teaching with Wikipedia
Slides pt 2 - How to edit Wikipedia workshop
9th September 2020, 12pm-3pm University of Edinburgh, Blackboard Collaborate 3 n/a Ewan McAndrew
How to improve representation online with Wikipedia - Presentation for undergraduate & postgraduate student induction 14-18th September 2020, 3-3.30pm (Student Welcome Week 2020) University of Edinburgh, Blackboard Collaborate 3-10 each day n/a Ewan McAndrew
Teaching with Wikipedia - practical workshop
Slides pt1 - Getting started with Teaching with Wikipedia
Slides pt 2 - How to edit Wikipedia workshop
16th September 2020, 12pm-3pm University of Edinburgh, Blackboard Collaborate 2 n/a Ewan McAndrew
Reproductive Biology BSc - Wikipedia research workshop
List of usernames recorded
23rd September 2020, 9.30am-12:30pm University of Edinburgh, Zoom 41 39 Ewan McAndrew
Medieval Islamic Visual Culture - Wikipedia research workshop for History of Art undergraduates
List of usernames recorded
23rd September 2020, 3pm-4:30pm University of Edinburgh, Zoom 15 15 Ewan McAndrew
Reproductive Biology BSc - Editing and publishing workshop
List of usernames recorded
30th September 2020, 9.30am-12:30pm University of Edinburgh, Zoom 41 39 Ewan McAndrew
Translation Studies MSc 2020/2021 - Introduction to the Wikipedia assignment
List of usernames recorded
30th September 2020, 2pm-3:15pm University of Edinburgh, Zoom 53 53 Ewan McAndrew
Data Fair for the Design Informatics MA/MFA 2020/2021 - Pitching the new Scottish Witches data project, "Desperately Seeking Satan"
[Link to slides for all the data challenges pitched]
1st October 2020, 10am-1pm University of Edinburgh, Blackboard Collaborate 80 n/a Ewan McAndrew
Global Health Challenges PgCert online 2020/2021 - Introduction to the Wikipedia assignment
List of usernames recorded
6th October 2020, 2pm-3:30pm University of Edinburgh, Blackboard Collaborate 15 15 Ewan McAndrew
Introduction to Open data with Wikidata workshop
List of usernames recorded
7th October 2020, 12pm-1pm University of Edinburgh, Zoom 5 5 Ewan McAndrew
Translation Studies MSc 2020/2021 - Getting started with the Content Translation tool
List of usernames recorded
7th October 2020, 2pm-3pm University of Edinburgh, Zoom 53 53 Ewan McAndrew
Korean Studies MSc 2020/2021 - Unwritten Korea Wikipedia workshop
List of usernames recorded
Link to workshop video
22nd October 2020, 2pm-4pm University of Edinburgh, Zoom 8 8 Ewan McAndrew

Partnership interactions[edit]

Activity /Purpose of Meeting Date and duration Institute Location Names of Attendees Links, if any, to Meeting/Presentation/ Conference Talk
Meeting with Prof. Diana Paton to discuss Scotland's links with slavery 18 August 2020
1 hour
University of Edinburgh MS Teams meeting Prof. Diana Paton, University of Edinburgh Prof. Diana Paton's profile page
Meeting with Dr. Richard Smith and Ruth Jenkins, Academic Support Librarian, to discuss upcoming Reproductive Medicine BSc Wikipedia assignment 18 August 2020
1 hour
University of Edinburgh MS Teams meeting Dr. Richard Smith
Ruth Jenkins
Assignment page
Meeting with Hannah Rothmann, Wikimedia Training intern, and the University of Edinburgh Digital Skills Team 18 August 2020
1 hour
University of Edinburgh MS Teams meeting. Hannah Rothmann, University of Edinburgh
Jenni Houston, Digital Skills
6 minute video presentation by Hannah Rothmann
Meeting with Glaire Anderson, Edinburgh College of Art, to discuss new History of Art Wikipedia assignment 20 August 2020
1 hour
University of Edinburgh MS Teams meeting Glaire Anderson Assignment page
Meeting with Dr. Alex Chow, School of Divinity, and Glaire Anderson, Edinburgh College of Art, to discuss new History of Art Wikipedia assignment 24 August 2020
1 hour
University of Edinburgh MS Teams meeting Glaire Anderson, Edinburgh College of Art
Dr. Alex Chow, School of Divinity
Assignment page
Meeting with Andrew Kirk, Digital Skills team at University of Edinburgh, to discuss the new site Hannah Rothmann has created to support learning about Wikipedia and Wikidata 28 August 2020
1 hour
University of Edinburgh MS Teams meeting Andrew Kirk, Digital Skills
Hannah Rothmann, Wikimedia Training Intern
The new Wikimedia residency site
End of project presentation by Hannah Rothmann, Wikimedia Training intern, for the University of Edinburgh Digital Skills Team 10 September 2020
1 hour
University of Edinburgh MS Teams meeting. Hannah Rothmann, University of Edinburgh
Jenni Houston, Digital Skills
6 minute video presentation by Hannah Rothmann
Meeting with Prof. Diana Paton and the student History Society to discuss Scotland's links with slavery 16 September 2020
1 hour
University of Edinburgh MS Teams meeting Prof. Diana Paton, University of Edinburgh
Scarlett Kiaras-Attari, Lucy Parfitt and Connall Maclennan, History Society
Prof. Diana Paton's profile page
Meeting with Hristo Meshinki, Interactive Content Team at University of Edinburgh, and Prof. Mikki Brock and Chris Langley, Mapping the Scottish Reformation 23 September 2020
1 hour
University of Edinburgh MS Teams meeting Hristo Meshinki, Interactive Content Team at University of Edinburgh
Prof. Mikki Brock and Chris Langley, Mapping the Scottish Reformation
Mapping the Scottish Reformation page
Developing the new map website: meeting with Hristo Meshinki and Stewart Cromar, Interactive Content Team at University of Edinburgh, and Prof. Mikki Brock and Chris Langley, Mapping the Scottish Reformation 2 October 2020
1 hour
University of Edinburgh MS Teams meeting Hristo Meshinki and Stewart Cromar, Interactive Content Team at University of Edinburgh
Prof. Mikki Brock and Chris Langley, Mapping the Scottish Reformation
Mapping the Scottish Reformation page
Developing the new map website: meeting with Hristo Meshinki and Stewart Cromar, Interactive Content Team at University of Edinburgh, and Prof. Mikki Brock and Chris Langley, Mapping the Scottish Reformation 9 October 2020
1 hour
University of Edinburgh MS Teams meeting Hristo Meshinki and Stewart Cromar, Interactive Content Team at University of Edinburgh
Prof. Mikki Brock and Chris Langley, Mapping the Scottish Reformation
Mapping the Scottish Reformation page
Meeting with Prof. Mikki Brock, Washington & Lee University, to discuss how best to model data related to the devil (as recorded in historical documents on Scottish witchcraft) into Wikidata 12 October 2020
1 hour
University of Edinburgh Zoom meeting Prof. Mikki Brock, Washington & Lee University Prof. Mikki Brock's profile page
Developing the new map website: meeting with Hristo Meshinki and Stewart Cromar, Interactive Content Team at University of Edinburgh, and Prof. Mikki Brock and Chris Langley, Mapping the Scottish Reformation 16 October 2020
1 hour
University of Edinburgh MS Teams meeting Hristo Meshinki and Stewart Cromar, Interactive Content Team at University of Edinburgh
Prof. Mikki Brock and Chris Langley, Mapping the Scottish Reformation
Mapping the Scottish Reformation page
Meeting with Prof. Diana Paton and the student History Society to discuss Scotland's links with slavery 22 October 2020
1 hour
University of Edinburgh MS Teams meeting Prof. Diana Paton, University of Edinburgh
Scarlett Kiaras-Attari, Lucy Parfitt and Connall Maclennan, History Society
Prof. Diana Paton's profile page
Developing the new map website: meeting with Hristo Meshinki and Stewart Cromar, Interactive Content Team at University of Edinburgh, and Prof. Mikki Brock and Chris Langley, Mapping the Scottish Reformation 23 October 2020
1 hour
University of Edinburgh MS Teams meeting Hristo Meshinki and Stewart Cromar, Interactive Content Team at University of Edinburgh
Prof. Mikki Brock and Chris Langley, Mapping the Scottish Reformation
Mapping the Scottish Reformation page
Developing the new map website: meeting with Hristo Meshinki and Stewart Cromar, Interactive Content Team at University of Edinburgh, and Prof. Mikki Brock and Chris Langley, Mapping the Scottish Reformation 30 October 2020
1 hour
University of Edinburgh MS Teams meeting Hristo Meshinki and Stewart Cromar, Interactive Content Team at University of Edinburgh
Prof. Mikki Brock and Chris Langley, Mapping the Scottish Reformation
Mapping the Scottish Reformation page
Meeting with Design Informatics MA/MFA students to work out how best to model data related to ritual objects, religious motifs, white magic and the devil (as recorded in historical documents on Scottish witchcraft) into Wikidata 30 October 2020
1 hour
University of Edinburgh Zoom meeting Five Masters students on the Design Informatics MA/MFA

Strategic Aim 3 - Advocacy[edit]

Create changes in policy and practice that enable open knowledge to flourish

  • Support and enable individual organisations to adopt more open policies and practice
  • Promote and facilitate sector-level change towards open knowledge
  • Work with national and international partners to build the case for free knowledge
  • Advocate for open knowledge within the UK’s public policy and legislative arena
  • Contribute to international advocacy activities and programmes as appropriate

Progress[edit]

  • Planned an afternoon of talks and workshops at the Open University, with Anna Comas-Quinn, themed on Wikipedia in Higher Education and with a focus on Wikipedia in Language Teaching and Translation. This will take place on 18 November 2020 with Dr. Sara Thomas and Dr. Richard Nevell from Wikimedia UK also presenting.
  • Advocated for Wikidata supporting work in the Digital Humanities as part of ongoing collaboration with Dr. Chris Langley, Newman University in England, and Professor Mikki Brock, Washington & Lee University, Virginia USA. Stewart Cromar, Interactive Content Team Manager at University of Edinburgh, is helping us create a Wikidata-driven website to visualise all the data added to Wikidata as part of the Mapping the Scottish Reformation project. A new 'proof of concept' map website should be developed by 10 December 2020. Read more about the project here: Introducing Mapping the Scottish Reformation: Clerics, Manuscripts, and Open Data on the Wikimedia UK blog.
  • Discussed with colleagues at Wikimedia UK, the University of Edinburgh Press Office and Vice Principals at the university at how to support notable academics at the university in managing their online identity on Wikipedia in terms of looking at issues of balance on their pages, verifiability, neutral point of view, conflict of interest and sharing high quality profile pics. This has come to the fore in the light of a number of academics becoming high profile in news media and social media in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.
  • Submissions for the LILAC Information Literacy Conference 2021 on Wikipedia in Teaching and Learning and The Wikidata Map of Accused Witches project.
  • Submission entered for the Association of Learning Technologists (ALT) Winter Conference on Wikipedia in Teaching and Learning.
  • Article on Mapping of Scotland's Accused Witches with Open Data project appeared in an article on the Heritage Fund UK website on 27 October 2020 in the run up to Halloween.

Activities delivered with stats:[edit]

Events[edit]

Partnership interactions[edit]

Activity /Purpose of Meeting Date and duration Institute Location Names of Attendees Links, if any, to Meeting/Presentation/ Conference Talk
Meeting with Chris Langley, Newman University, to discuss Mapping the Scottish Reformation in Wikidata 21 August 2020 University of Edinburgh MS Teams Meeting Chris Langley, Newman University Mapping the Scottish Reformation website.
Meeting with Gavin Willshaw, National Library of Scotland, to meet Brodie and discuss new Wikipedia internship at NLS 24 August 2020 University of Edinburgh MS Teams Meeting Brodie, Wikipedia Intern at NLS
Gavin Willshaw, National Library of Scotland
n/a
Meeting with Lorraine Spalding, Communications Manager at Learning, Teaching and Web Services, to discuss communicating effectively to colleagues about the new website and resources available for staff and students to make use of 11 September 2020 University of Edinburgh MS Teams Meeting Lorraine Spalding, Communications Manager at Learning, Teaching and Web Services n/a
Meeting with Chris Langley, Newman University, and Professor Mikki Brock, Washington and Lee University, to discuss Mapping the Scottish Reformation in Wikidata 18 September 2020 University of Edinburgh MS Teams Meeting Chris Langley, Newman University Mapping the Scottish Reformation website.
Meeting with Anna Comas-Quinn, Open University, to discuss a Teaching with Wikipedia afternoon of presentations and workshops focused on Translation 7 October 2020 University of Edinburgh Phonecall Anna Comas-Quinn, Open University Open University - Teaching with Wikipedia
Meeting with Elizabeth Herman, History student of Professor Mikki Brock, Washington and Lee University, to discuss ideas of Scottish identity and how they are informed by out understanding of Scottish history 29 October 2020 University of Edinburgh Zoom Elizabeth Herman, History student at Washington and Lee University n/a

Projects/events in development[edit]

Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville by Sir Thomas Lawrence
  • Writing a 3,000 word chapter for October 1st 2020 on "Changing The Way Stories Are Told" for a new book on Wikipedia and Academic Libraries. This chapter has been reviewed and alterations are to be made by 1st December 2020.
  • Collaboration between the residency and the Mapping the Scottish Reformation project and with the University of Edinburgh's Interactive Content Service is going ahead with the brief to create a 'proof of concept' website by 10 December 2020 to showcase 7 Wikidata visualisations based on the work of the project.
  • Wikipedia editing event focused on Henry Dundas and Scotland's links with slavery is going ahead with 4 sessions planned in November 2020 and January 2021.

Upcoming events in 2020[edit]

  • November 4 - Introduction to Wikidata workshop
  • November 6 - Introduction to Wikisource workshop
  • November 8 - Remembering Scotland's Accused Witches virtual conference.
  • November 18 - Wikipedia and the Open University workshops
  • November 18 - Scotland, Slavery and Black History workshops with History Society, Race.Ed, Black.Ed and UncoverEd project.
  • November 19 - Wikipedia Women in Red workshop.
  • December 1 - Redraft of chapter on Changing the Ways Stories Are Told" to be completed for the new book on Wikipedia and Academic Libraries.
  • December 1 - Wikidata workshop.
  • December 2 - Teaching with Wikipedia workshop.
  • December 2 - How to Edit Wikipedia workshop.
  • December 4 - Wikipedia Women in Red workshop.
  • December 10 - Development work on the new Wikidata-driven site for the Mapping the Scottish Reformation project to be completed.
  • January 2021 - Three workshops to take place editing on Scotland, Slavery and Black History looking at pages like Henry Dundas.
  • January 8 - Peer review of student translations on the Translation Studies MSc to be completed.
  • January 15 - Publishing of newly translated Wikipedia pages to be completed as part of the Translation Studies MSc.

Media[edit]

New website on the Wikimedia residency[edit]

  • New 41 webpage site created by Hannah Rothmann, student intern, on University of Edinburgh's Digital Skills site.

New articles and blogposts[edit]

Videos[edit]

Wikimedian in Residence - University of Edinburgh Media Hopper channel[edit]

  • The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Media Hopper now has 333 videos. 33 more since last report with WikiCite 2020 videos added and new 'How to edit' Wikipedia and Wikidata videos created by student intern, Hannah Rothmann. 844 plays since 31 July 2020.

1 August to 31 October

Number of videos Impressions Minutes viewed Number of plays since 31 July
333 2,480 3,317 844

The most played videos were:

Position Video Plays Total plays
1 Moving a drafted article into Wikipedia's live space. 121 plays 1,110 plays
2 Word Count tool - counting the prose text in a Wikipedia article 62 plays 313 plays
3 The wicked Wikidata tale of how the 3,141 accused witches were placed on the map 29 plays 63 plays
4 How to add a heading for references 2 plays 2 plays
5 Wikimedia in Teaching and Learning - the Wikimedia residency at the University of Edinburgh 1 play 25 plays

New videos added - WikiCite 2020[edit]

  1. The state of WikiCite - an initiative to collect bibliographic and citation information, particularly references cited
  2. Author items
  3. Citations in Swedish Parliamentary documents
  4. Research output items
  5. Knowledge Organization, identifier mappings, bibliographic data, Zotero.
  6. The frontend of WikiCite
  7. Gene Wiki
  8. OpenVirus and Scholia interfaces
  9. Advancing Librarianship and Scholarly Communications

New videos added by Wikimedia intern Hannah Rothmann: How to edit Wikipedia and Wikidata[edit]

  1. How to create an account on Wikipedia.
  2. How to enable the visual editor on Wikipedia
  3. How to create a user page on Wikipedia
  4. How to make your own Wikipedia article.
  5. Exploring the Wikipedia main page
  6. How to format your Wikipedia article - adding bolds, headings, links and italics.
  7. How to add a citation on Wikipedia
  8. How to move your article into the live space.
  9. How to upload an image onto Wikimedia Commons.
  10. How to use an image from Wikimedia Commons on Wikipedia.
  11. How to add a heading for references.
  12. How to edit Wikipedia - a 1 hour tutorial
  13. A brief introduction to Wikidata and how to create an account.
  14. How to use the Wikidata Query Service - Mapping the Scottish Reformation's Dr. Chris Langley
  15. How to use QuickStatements - a tool to bulk upload data onto Wikidata. By Dr. Sara Thomas
  16. How to add a new item to Wikidata.
  17. How to add an image to Wikidata.
  18. Wiki Loves Monuments

Wikimedian in Residence - Youtube channel[edit]

  • The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Youtube which has now received over 128,609 views in total of its 95 videos with 514 subscribers. These videos have been viewed in 168 countries around the world over the course of the channel's lifetime. 25 videos have been added to the channel since last report with new videos and playlist created on how to edit Wikipedia and Wikidata.
Number of videos Views this period Hours watched this period New subscribers Total subscribers Total views Total number of countries viewing the channel
95 14,556 894 59 514 128,609 168
Teampull Clann a'Phiocair, Uibhist a Tuath - shared to Wikimedia Commons for Wiki Loves Monuments 2020

Image uploads to Wikimedia Commons[edit]

Selected images shared to Wikimedia Commons this period[edit]

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. 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.
  47. Wikipedia Games / SPLOTPoint - Anne-Marie Scott blog, January 1st 2018.
  48. 2017 Highs, Lows and Losses - Lorna Campbell blog, January 3rd 2018
  49. Wikipedia at 17 – Facts matter. - January 16th 2018.
  50. Reflections on International Women’s Day 2018 and Wikipedia – A Gude Cause - 8 March 2018.
  51. New SPLOT Wikidata tutorial - Wikidata Basics.
  52. Collaborated with John Lubbock at Wikimedia UK to produce Wikimedia UK blogpost: Data on the history of Scottish witch trials added to Wikidata on 9 March 2018.
  53. Libraries, Literacies & Learning – presentation at SCURL event 23 March 2018
  54. Digital Transformation and Data — The Wikimedia Residency at the University of Edinburgh on Medium.com
  55. Wikimedia resources – how to get started.
  56. The OER 18 EdTech editathon 'SPLOT' resource.
  57. Wikimedia at the Open Educational Resources Conference 2018
  58. Whit’s fur ye’ll no go by ye – reflection on 12 months by Ruth Jenkins, Academic Support Librarian at the University of Edinburgh Medical School.
  59. Wikipedia in Higher Education (co-authored with Jemima John, 4th year Law undergraduate student.
  60. Wikipedia in Higher Education… How students are shaping the open web.
  61. Tracings (don’t look too closely)
  62. NEW SPLOT resource created for the Wikidata Workshop at the Digital Day of Ideas.
  63. NEW 'SPLOT' resource for running a Wikipedia translation workshop created for the Celtic Knot 2018 conference at the National Library of Wales on 5-6 July.
  64. NEW 'SPLOT' resource for running a Wikipedia 'micro' editathon workshop initially created by the resident and then Academic Support Librarian colleagues tailored & populated the resource for use at the EAHIL conference in Cardiff on 13 July.
  65. Wikipedia in the Classroom – how students are shaping the open web - Teaching Matters blog
  66. Case study about the Wikidata in the Classroom project on the Data Science for Design MSc course. Uploaded to Wikimedia Commons and shared in Wikidata Status Updates.
  67. Towards Open-ish? - a hybrid conversation organised as part of the Wikimania conference in Cape Town.
  68. Languages - blog about whether other language Wikipedias should refer to all places in Scotland by their Gaelic names.
  69. Newspapers - created a Wikipedia page as part of Mike Caulfield’s Newspapers on Wikipedia project.
  70. Reflections on CELT Symposium 2018 - includes mention of our Open Content Curation Student Interns and the Wikimedia in the Classroom initiatives.
  71. The Soul of Liberty: Openness, Equality and Co-creation - transcript of Lorna Campbell's keynote at CELT 2018 - includes Wikipedia in the classroom initiatives and Wikidata projects at the University of Edinburgh.
  72. Circular Records Hall on Atlas Obscura - one of Lorna's photographs was featured in Atlas Obscura. It was one that she uploaded to Wikimedia Commons as part of the Wiki Loves Monuments competition last year.
  73. What I did on my holidays - taking pictures for Wiki Loves Monuments.
  74. Academia and Wikipedia – a presentation at Maynooth University on 18 June 2018.
  75. Celebrating 100 years of Votes for Women
  76. Ada Lovelace Day 2018 – nominate Women in STEM heroines.
  77. Open.Ed – OER and Open Knowledge at the University of Edinburgh.
  78. Wikidata in the Classroom and the WikiCite project - presentation at Repository Fringe 2018.
  79. University wins Wikimedia UK’s Partnership of the Year award
  80. University of Edinburgh wins Wikimedia UK Partnership of the Year Award.
  81. Open.Ed at RepoFringe18
  82. Scotland loves Monuments 2018
  83. Wiki Loves Monuments 2018
  84. The internet’s favourite website for information.
  85. How to run a Wikipedia editathon – a workshop for health information professionals at the EAHIL conference - This post was authored by Ruth Jenkins, Academic Support Librarian at the University of Edinburgh.
  86. Ada Lovelace Day – 1 month to go!
  87. Facts and Fallacies: Cultural Representations of Mental Health
  88. Edinburgh Gothic for Robert Louis Stevenson Day 2018
  89. Witchy Wikidata – a 6th birthday celebration event for Halloween
  90. Editing Wikipedia as part of teaching public health? by Felix Stein, by Global Health MSc course leader at the University of Edinburgh.
  91. JISC Case study:Wikimedia in the curriculum - addressing the challenges of digital and information literacy, digital scholarship and open knowledge at the University of Edinburgh.
  92. The New Statesman:From Chinese spies to award-winning geologists, we’re making women visible on Wikipedia - co-authored with Siobhan O'Connor, Sara Thomas and Alice White.
  93. Wikimedian in Residence blog:You can’t be what you can’t see - creating new role models on Wikipedia to encourage the next generation of #ImmodestWomen.
  94. Article in the Scotsman: Women scientists being whitewashed from Wikipedia – Ewan McAndrew, Siobhan O’Connor, Dr Sara Thomas and Dr Alice White
  95. Women and Wikipedia….Open Learning and a hobby for life!
  96. Translation and Open Education – An Experiment using Wikipedia
  97. Wikipedia in Higher Education: How students are shaping the open web
  98. Diversifying Wikipedia for the Festival of Creative Learning 2019
  99. JISC case study – Wikimedia in the curriculum: Addressing the challenges of digital and information literacy, digital scholarship and open knowledge at the University of Edinburgh
  100. You can’t be what you can’t see: Creating new role models on Wikipedia to encourage the next generation of Immodest Women
  101. International Women’s Day 2019
  102. Recruiting a Witchfinder General
  103. Wikimedia at the LILAC Information Literacy Conference 2019
  104. Balance for Better – recognising notable Edinburgh women
  105. Balance for Better – Teaching Matters
  106. Wikimania 2019 - Digital Support Librarian Lauren Smith reports on her first-time attendance at Wikimania 2019 in Stockholm, Sweden.
  107. Scotland Loves Monuments 2019 - Get involved in Wiki Loves Monuments!
  108. Learning to become an online editor: the editathon as a learning environment by Allison Littlejohn, Nina Hood, Martin Rehm, Lou McGill, Bart Rienties and Melissa Highton.
  109. Wikipedia on Olive Schreiner, like it or what? by Professor Liz Stanley.
  110. Celebrating notable women of Edinburgh
  111. Wikimedia Women in Red internship
  112. Four page spread on the Map of Accused Witches Wikidata project in the May/June 2020 publication of History Scotland magazine.
  113. Shifting Gears and Finding Female Pioneers
  114. To the Future of Women in Red and Online Diversity
  115. My first week as a Wikimedia Training Intern - blogpost by Hannah Rothmann
  116. 4 weeks into my Wikimedia Internship by Hannah Rothmann on the residency blog.
  117. #WCCWiki Colloquium 2020 by Hannah Rothmann on the residency blog.
  118. Final reflections on my Wikimedia Training Internship by Hannah Rothmann on the residency blog.
  119. Scotland Loves Monuments 2020 on the residency blog.
  120. Wikipedia as Learning Technology: Teaching Knowledge Activism vs Passive Consumption by Hannah Rothmann, Wikimedia Training Intern, for the University of Edinburgh's Teaching Matters blog.
  121. Introducing Mapping the Scottish Reformation: Clerics, Manuscripts, and Open Data on the Wikimedia UK blog.
  122. Article on Mapping of Scotland's Accused Witches with Open Data project appeared in an article on the Heritage Fund UK website on 27 October 2020 in the run up to Halloween.