Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/104th month report
| Institution | Resident's Name | Period Covered | Date of Report | List of reports to date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Edinburgh | Ewan McAndrew | 1 August 2024 – 31 August 2024 (One hundred and fourth month of the residency) | 16 September 2024 | Click here to view all reports. |
NB E. McAndrew and R. Imrie at Wikimania conference 6–13 August and on leave 22–23 August.
Summary of main points this month
[edit]- Assistant Wikimedian, E. Whitehead, underwent media training and has scheduled filming of Professor Julian Goodare and BBC broadcaster, Louise Yeoman, for 12 and 19 September 2024 so we can create YouTube clips for each of the 18 stops on our Curious Edinburgh walking tour of witchcraft locations in Edinburgh as final step before launch later this semester.
- E.McAndrew attended this year's Wikimania Conference in Katowice, 7–10 August 2024, and presented on Student engagement with openness: 8 years of Wikipedia in the Curriculum at the University of Edinburgh with 'Witchfinder General' Data Visualisation Intern, Ruby Imrie, also presenting on the Map of Accused Witches in Scotland(Wikidata-driven website) after 5 years' improvements also.
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 | 371 | 2,165 | 684 | 756 | 157 | 2,195 | 15,153 |
Strategic Aim 1 – Knowledge Equity
[edit]- 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]Update on the Wikidata Map of Accused Witches project – our student intern has begun her final 12 week role as of 15 July 2024
[edit]- Ruby Imrie's started full-time for a final 12 weeks as of 15 July 2024) to (1) perform the important Nuxt.js upgrade to the site (2) improve the site design and UX experience and (3) build new features e.g. a Map of Memorials and Glossary pages. Beta site is available to look at: test.witches.is.ed.ac.uk.
- Ruby has been using R to compare Wikidata with the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft to quality assure the witchcraft data. Checked datasets are marked with a
on the Wikidata project page. - Current progress since end of August 2024 includes:
- E. Whitehead has completed an expanded Glossary of terms related to Scottish witch trials. R. Imrie has almost completed the Nuxt.js upgrade (A. Millington to review before upgrade is deployed to live site) and has added the Glossary of Terms to the website and made it searchable by A–Z listing and by category (e.g. Ritual Objects).
- E. Whitehead has completed new Introduction to the Scottish witch trials and Further Reading pages.
- R. Imrie is due to conclude her internship on 11 October 2024 so plans are underway to launch the new improved Version Two of the website in time for her leacing date or soon after.
Women in Red workshops
[edit]Three new 'Women in Red' workshops in planning stages.
- Scottish Castles and Witch Lore – E. Whitehead and E. McAndrew planning Scottish Castles and Witch/Ghostlore editathon for Friday, 27 September 2024 to tie in with Wiki Loves Monuments.
- Ada Lovelace Day event celebrating Women in STEM planned for Tues 8 October 2024 and will have Robotics/AI theme.
- Celebration of Nursing – E. Whitehead and E. McAndrew continue to liaise with colleagues at Queen’s Nursing Institute, Royal College of Nursing and Senior Lecturers in Nursing at the University of Edinburgh to form a small planning committee for an event to (potentially) held at the EFI building later this year. International Nurses Day on 12 May 2025 has been mooted but conversations with Patricia Erskine and Marti Balaam have suggested alternative dates may work better. NB: This has fallen on the back burner for now.
Activities delivered with stats:
[edit]Events
[edit]- No events this month.
Partnership interactions
[edit]- Curious Edinburgh – new witch tour of Edinburgh – E. Whitehead has been trained by Geoff Fortescue, Media Suite Manager, in August to be able to undertake professional film recording of Professor Julian Goodare and Louise Yeoman reading the 100–200 words on each of the 18 stops of the walking tour. Filming to take place on 12 and 19 September 2024. After the editing of these clips, the tour can be launched (hopefully in time for Halloween or soon after).
- Edinburgh Theses Data – E.McAndrew approached Alasdair MacDonald and Gavin Willshaw at Library & University Collections about uploading University of Edinburgh theses data to Wikidata following University of Otago's exemplary work detailed at Wikimania 2024. This response has been favourable and we should be able to work to achieve this in due course.
Image statistics – as of 16 September 2024
[edit]NB: August 2023 to August 2024 statistics do not seem available on the Baglama metrics tool at this time of writing. The Wikimedia Foundation's Tech Team have been made aware of this problem with metrics tools as of Wikimania 2023 in August. Am now trying the Glamorgan metrics tool instead as of 14 November 2023.
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- All uploads can be monitored via Images uploaded in collaboration between WMUK and the University of Edinburgh.
- Baglama2 (page views for only those images released by the Centre for Research Collections
- Baglama2 (page views for images in the parent category – Images uploaded in collaboration between WMUK and the University of Edinburgh.
| UoE Centre for Research Collections images | Total for August 2024 | 1,115,347 views |
| All images uploaded in collaboration between WMUK and the University of Edinburgh | Total for August 2024 | 2,160,745 views |
The most viewed images for August 2024 across all Wikipedias were:
Strategic Aim 2 – Information 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]Wikimedia in the Curriculum – current work
[edit]- SEVEN new case studies have now been added to the Wikimedia in Education – Booklet of Case Studies and this was presented at Wikimania 7–10 August.
- Renewing collaborations with History of Art's Dr. Glaire Anderson and Dr. Martin Poulter with a view to a Non-Western art editing assignment in Semester One in session 2024/2025.
- Digital Education MSc will have a Wikipedia and Knowledge Equity 2 week component again in Semester One in session 2024/2025.
- Digital Sociology MSc have requested a Wikipedia editathon to improve the topic coverage of digital sociology as an understood discipline – this has been postponed until course organisers have a better idea about how best to frame the rewrite given in-person editors and remote editors would all be collaborating on the same Wikipedia article.
- Translation Studies MSc – met with Professor Charlotte Bosseaux on 27 August 2024 to discuss improvements for the Wikipedia translation project for Semester One (2024/2025) and it was mutually decided to withdraw the project if tutors did not have the capacity to provide translation support to help quality assure the articles being published.
- Discussing with line manager Karen Howie about the (ongoing) Curriculum Transformation Programme's working group on 'experiential learning' and whether Wikipedia could/should play a role.
- Professor Charles West, Medieval History, has reached out to arrange a Wikipedia project for the Online History MSc in Semester Two (Jan to March 2025) with involvement from Dr. Richard Nevell, Wikimedia UK, and Ewan McAndrew.
- Dr. Evelyn Balsells, Global Health Challenges Pg Online, has arranged with Ewan McAndew for the Wikipedia assignment on natural and manmade disasters to continue in Semester One (Sept to December 2024) with a introductory workshop taking place on 10 October 2024.
- Dr. Youngmi Kim, Korean Studies MSc and East Asian Studies MSc, has met with Ewan McAndew to discuss the Wikipedia workshop to continue in Semester One (Sept to December 2024) with a introductory training workshop taking place on 2 October 2024.
Conferences
[edit]- E.McAndrew presented at this year's Wikimania Conference 7–10 August 2024 on Student engagement with openness: 8 years of Wikipedia in the Curriculum at the University of Edinburgh with 'Witchfinder General' Data Visualisation Intern Ruby Imrie also agreeing to present on theMap of Accused Witches in Scotland Wikidata-driven website after 5 years' improvements also.
- E. McAndrew to attend the Celtic Knot Conference in Waterford, Ireland, on 25–27 September 2024 as a volunteer/helper.
Wikipedia Editing – 55–80hr Edinburgh Award preparing for its 4th iteration/year
[edit]- New workshops and promotional materials created for the upcoming the Edinburgh Award for 2024/2025 and details have been updated and published on our website. First workshops to take place on 16 and 23 October.
- Four completing students from 2023/2024 have been surveyed by the Edinburgh Award team on their reflections on the skills and experiences they feel they developed while on the Award.
Student Internships
[edit]- Ruby Imrie's Data Visualisation internship role has begun her position for 12 weeks f/t through the Summer of 2024 starting on 15 July 2024. She is due to conclude on 11 October 2024.
- Ellie Whitehead's Assistant Wikimedian (0.4 FTE) role is due to conclude on 29 October 2024.
New digital skills workshops
[edit]The University of Edinburgh's Wikimedia workshops for Semester One (2024/2025) have now been scheduled with Ellie Whitehead, Assistant Wikimedian, to lead on the 'Wikipedia Women in Red' workshops.
Activities with stats:
[edit]Events
[edit]No events this month.
Partnership interactions
[edit]None this month.
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]- Booklet of Case Studies of Wikipedia in UK education – The updated Booklet of Case Studies of Wikipedia in UK education has had seven new case studies added and has been shown at Wikimania in August 2024. Ellie Whitehead, Assistant Wikimedian, has recommended the Contents page be colour-coded by subject area so will ask graphic designer to make this the final change to the booklet.
- Social Media Strategy L. Campbell, C. Farley and E. McAndrew met to continue discussing social media strategy and coordinating communications going forward. C. Farley is drafting an Open Education Social Media Presence proposal which we plan to take forward after moving teams within Information Services.
Activities delivered with stats:
[edit]Events
[edit]- Held meeting with Jason Evans, Wikimedian at National Library of Wales, to discuss creating easy-to-understand webpages and short 2–3 min 'primer' video about the how and why of Wikikbase so we can better support researchers and dataset holders at the University, and beyond.
Partnership interactions
[edit]The Wikimedian in Residence received enquiries from the Data-Driven Innovations team, Remembering the Accused Witches of Scotland group, Professor Laura Jeffrey (Anthropology), Kirsty Stewart (the Edinburgh Award), Professor Charlotte Bosseaux (Translation Studies MSc), the Captioning Service, Emily Martin (School of Informatics).
Projects/events in development
[edit]- Plan Wikipedia editing event to celebrate nursing history, community nursing, international nursing and the future of nursing as part of the new EFI Building and International Nurses Day 2024 (date tbc.)
- E. McAndrew and E. Whitehead have created an event to coincide with Wiki Loves Monuments on Friday 27 September 2024, Scottish Castles and Witch Lore.
- Planning Wikipedia editing event to celebrate women in STEM (Robotics and A.I. theme this year) as part of Ada Lovelace Day on Tuesday 8 October 2024.
- Finished working with graphic designer Nicky Greenhorn to finish the edits/updates to the 2024 Booklet of Case Studies of Wikimedia in Education (7 new case studies) so just need to colour-code the Contents page as a final last step.
- Continuing developing the Map of Accused Witches in Scotland website. R. Imrie has commenced a twelve week 1.0FTE final position on 15 July 2024 following her annual leave and started with deploying a new Glossary of Terms page to the test site (searchable by A–Z and category) and continuing an important a Nuxt.js upgrade of the site.
- E. McAndrew and E. Whitehead have evaluated the Wikimedia at University of Edinburgh website to see if its pages/content can be updated and improved for session 2024/2025 including YouTube video tutorials. They have both been editing the webpages to be more accurate, up-to-date and useful.
- E. McAndrew and E. Whitehead to evaluate the Wikimedia at University of Edinburgh project page on Wikipedia to see if its pages/content can be updated and improved for session 2024/2025.
- Crowdsourcing advice about creating a new self-directed training resource on Wikidata for Researchers. E. Whitehead and E. McAndrew liaising with Jason Evans about creating a new webpage and video primer to support people interested in learning about Wikibase, at the university and beyond.
- E. McAndrew and E. Whitehead researching and curating articles about Wikipedia in 2024 in terms of: Wikipedia and AI, Wikipedia and EDI, Wikipedia and research impact.
- Liaising with Dr. Youngmi Kim about improvements to the Wikipedia workshop for Semester One (2024/2025) on Korean Studies MSc and East Asian Studies MSc.
- Scheduling filming of Professor Julian Goodare and BBC broadcaster, Louise Yeoman, for 12 and 19 September so we can create YouTube clips for each of the 18 stops on our Curious Edinburgh walking tour of witchcraft locations in Edinburgh.
Upcoming events in 2024
[edit]- Sept – Wiki Loves Monuments starts.
- Sept 17 – Wikipedia training and editathon for staff of the Data Driven Innovation team at the University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh Futures Institute).
- Sept 19 – Filming day with Professor Julian Goodare for our Curious Edinburgh walking tour of witchcraft related locations in Edinburgh.
- Sept 25–27 – Celtic Knot conference in Waterford, Ireland.
- Sept 27 – Heritage themed editathon on 6th floor of Main Library – Scottish castle and witchlore.
- Oct 2 – Korean Studies MSc Wikipedia workshop.
- Oct 8 – Ada Lovelace Day: Women in STEM editathon as part of day of celebration.
- Oct 11 – Final day of the Wikidata Data Visualisation internship.
- Oct 16 – Edinburgh Award year 4 commences for the Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia award.
- Oct 29 – Final day of the Assistant Wikimedian position.
Media
[edit]New articles
[edit]New videos and podcasts
[edit]- E.McAndrew and R. Imrie presented at this year's Wikimania Conference in August 2024.
Wikimedian in Residence – University of Edinburgh Media Hopper channel
[edit]- The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Media Hopper now has 408 videos.
1 August 2024 to 31 August 2024
| Number of videos | Impressions | Minutes viewed | Number of plays since 1 August 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 408 | 2,287 | 1,141 | 254 |
Wikimedian in Residence – YouTube channel
[edit]- The Wikimedian in Residence channel on YouTube which has now received over 515,863 views in total of its 146 videos with 1,863 subscribers. These videos have been viewed in 168 countries around the world over the course of the channel's lifetime.
| Number of videos | Views this period | Hours watched this period | New subscribers | Total subscribers | Total views | Total number of countries viewing the channel |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 146 | 10,775 | 261.5 | +38 | 1,863 | 515,863 | 168 |
Image uploads to Wikimedia Commons
[edit]Images uploaded by R. Imrie:
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A modernist church in Katowice, Poland -
Neon sign hung in Katowice where the tourist information is located
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Press about the residency
[edit]- Edinburgh University searches for 'Wikimedians' – Edinburgh Evening News, 8 October 2015.
- University of Edinburgh to employ ‘Wikimedian in Residence’ web editor – The Student Newspaper.org, October 13, 2015.
- The History of Medicine gets mentioned in the ILW Awards 2016
- The OER16 Conference, co-chaired by Melissa Highton and Lorna M. Campbell, won Wikimedia UK’s Partnership of the Year Award
- 'Wikidata and Wikisource Showcase' mentioned on IS News site.
- 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.
- Open Education team (including Wikimedia residency) come third in ALT Learning Technologist of the Year awards – story on the IS News site.
- Wikipedia's women problem – Melissa Highton writes for the Dangerous Women project 10th October 2016
- STV News 'Live at Five' covers the Ada Lovelace Day – Women in STEM Wikipedia editathon.
- New College take on Wikipedia edit-a-thon – Women and Religion 2 November 2016.
- Brenda Moon remembered in Wikipedia editathon – article in IS News
- Wikipedia editathon and Mary Stewart – Edinburgh Gothic Sat 12 November.
- Wikipedia editathon at the University of Sheffield's Centre for the History of the Gothic
- Collaborating to built a city of information literacy, a city of Wikipedia – Interview by OEPS Scotland
- #1Lib1Ref at the University of Edinburgh – Blog article by Gavin Willshaw, Digital Curator – 2 February 2017
- Fake News and Wikidata – a roundup of the Wikimedia UK Education Summit
- Host a Wikimedian – You can't afford not to (blog article)
- 'Wikipedia, research and representation – Dr Amy Burge, Academic Developer at the Institute for Academic Development, University of Edinburgh.
- Mary Susan McIntosh and the Women in Red – Lorna Campbell.
- What do you do with a dead chemist? – Anne-Marie Scott.
- Wikipedia and Writing – Michael Seery, Reader in Education, School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh.
- Language and Politics – my takeaways by Mina Theofilatou.
- How is it almost August? – Lorna Campbell.
- While in Scotland – Käbi Suvi, Wikimedia Estonia.
- Celtic Knot Conference 2017 in Edinburgh – Astrid Carlsen, Wikimedia Norge.
- Wikipedia in the Classroom: developing information literacy, online citizenship and digital research skills – Teaching Matters blog 13 June 2017.
- Congratulations to our Wikimedian of the Year – Wikimedia UK blog 1 August 2017.
- University of Edinburgh journal vol.48 no.1 – Article about the Edinburgh residency on p.25
- Ada Lovelace Day 2017 – celebrating Women in STEM – article on the WiR blog on 1 September 2017.
- Scotland loves monuments – article for Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 on the Wir Blog – Friday 8 September 2017.
- Wanderings with a Wikimedian – Blog article by Anne-Marie Scott for Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 – Monday 11 September 2017.
- Mortuary Chapel, Revisited – Anne-Marie Scott's blog September 30 2017.
- Ada Lovelace Day – Professor Elizabeth Slater – Lorna Campbell's blog on October 10 2017.
- Ada Lovelace Day – knitting resources
- Ada Lovelace Day 2017 photos.
- Wikipedia is a very lovely place to be – Anne-Marie Scott's blog.
- 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'.
- Wikipedia has always depended on the kindness of strangers – Outcomes of Ada Lovelace 2017 on the Wikimedian in Residence blog 19 October 2017.
- Wikipedia assignments – getting past the ‘Penguin effect’ and down to the brass tacks of sharing open knowledge – Teaching Matters blog.
- Ada Lovelace Day 2017 – Celebrating women in STEM – Edinburgh University Science Magazine.
- Another Story about Maps – Blogpost by Anne-Marie Scott 27 October 2017.
- Open Tumshies for Halloween – blogpost by Lorna Campbell 31 October 2017.
- Internet Transmitted Infections – I’ve got the SPLOTS – Anne-Marie Scott, 16 November 2017.
- Wikidata in the Classroom on the Wikimedian in Residence blog 22 November 2017.
- Open for all – Mansfield Traquair images hosted on Wikimedia Commons. Blog by Anne-Marie Scott 23 November 2017.
- Take an Equal Bite – Blogpost by Melissa Highton about EqualBITE: Gender equality in higher education and the the positive power of wikipedia editathons. 2 December 2017.
- Wikipedia Games / SPLOTPoint – Anne-Marie Scott blog, January 1 2018.
- 2017 Highs, Lows and Losses – Lorna Campbell blog, January 3, 2018
- Wikipedia at 17 – Facts matter. – January 16, 2018.
- Reflections on International Women’s Day 2018 and Wikipedia – A Gude Cause – 8 March 2018.
- New SPLOT Wikidata tutorial – Wikidata Basics.
- 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.
- Libraries, Literacies & Learning – presentation at SCURL event 23 March 2018
- Digital Transformation and Data — The Wikimedia Residency at the University of Edinburgh on Medium.com
- Wikimedia resources – how to get started.
- The OER 18 EdTech editathon 'SPLOT' resource.
- Wikimedia at the Open Educational Resources Conference 2018
- 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.
- Wikipedia in Higher Education (co-authored with Jemima John, 4th year Law undergraduate student.
- Wikipedia in Higher Education… How students are shaping the open web.
- Tracings (don’t look too closely)
- NEW SPLOT resource created for the Wikidata Workshop at the Digital Day of Ideas.
- 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.
- 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.
- Wikipedia in the Classroom – how students are shaping the open web – Teaching Matters blog
- 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.
- Towards Open-ish? – a hybrid conversation organised as part of the Wikimania conference in Cape Town.
- Languages – blog about whether other language Wikipedias should refer to all places in Scotland by their Gaelic names.
- Newspapers – created a Wikipedia page as part of Mike Caulfield’s Newspapers on Wikipedia project.
- Reflections on CELT Symposium 2018 – includes mention of our Open Content Curation Student Interns and the Wikimedia in the Classroom initiatives.
- 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.
- 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.
- What I did on my holidays – taking pictures for Wiki Loves Monuments.
- Academia and Wikipedia – a presentation at Maynooth University on 18 June 2018.
- Celebrating 100 years of Votes for Women
- Ada Lovelace Day 2018 – nominate Women in STEM heroines.
- Open.Ed – OER and Open Knowledge at the University of Edinburgh.
- Wikidata in the Classroom and the WikiCite project – presentation at Repository Fringe 2018.
- University wins Wikimedia UK’s Partnership of the Year award
- University of Edinburgh wins Wikimedia UK Partnership of the Year Award.
- Open.Ed at RepoFringe18
- Scotland loves Monuments 2018
- Wiki Loves Monuments 2018
- The internet’s favourite website for information.
- 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.
- Ada Lovelace Day – 1 month to go!
- Facts and Fallacies: Cultural Representations of Mental Health
- Edinburgh Gothic for Robert Louis Stevenson Day 2018
- Witchy Wikidata – a 6th birthday celebration event for Halloween
- Editing Wikipedia as part of teaching public health? by Felix Stein, by Global Health MSc course leader at the University of Edinburgh.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Article in the Scotsman: Women scientists being whitewashed from Wikipedia – Ewan McAndrew, Siobhan O’Connor, Dr Sara Thomas and Dr Alice White
- Women and Wikipedia….Open Learning and a hobby for life!
- Translation and Open Education – An Experiment using Wikipedia
- Wikipedia in Higher Education: How students are shaping the open web
- Diversifying Wikipedia for the Festival of Creative Learning 2019
- 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
- You can’t be what you can’t see: Creating new role models on Wikipedia to encourage the next generation of Immodest Women
- International Women’s Day 2019
- Recruiting a Witchfinder General
- Wikimedia at the LILAC Information Literacy Conference 2019
- Balance for Better – recognising notable Edinburgh women
- Balance for Better – Teaching Matters
- Wikimania 2019 – Digital Support Librarian Lauren Smith reports on her first-time attendance at Wikimania 2019 in Stockholm, Sweden.
- Scotland Loves Monuments 2019 – Get involved in Wiki Loves Monuments!
- 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.
- Wikipedia on Olive Schreiner, like it or what? by Professor Liz Stanley.
- Celebrating notable women of Edinburgh
- Wikimedia Women in Red internship
- Four page spread on the Map of Accused Witches Wikidata project in the May/June 2020 publication of History Scotland magazine.
- Shifting Gears and Finding Female Pioneers
- To the Future of Women in Red and Online Diversity
- My first week as a Wikimedia Training Intern – blogpost by Hannah Rothmann
- 4 weeks into my Wikimedia Internship by Hannah Rothmann on the residency blog.
- #WCCWiki Colloquium 2020 by Hannah Rothmann on the residency blog.
- Final reflections on my Wikimedia Training Internship by Hannah Rothmann on the residency blog.
- Scotland Loves Monuments 2020 on the residency blog.
- 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.
- Introducing Mapping the Scottish Reformation: Clerics, Manuscripts, and Open Data on the Wikimedia UK blog.
- 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.
- Editing Wikipedia: Stars, robots and talismans Honours course by Glaire Anderson for the Wikimedia UK blog
- Happy Birthday Wikipedia – guest blog post by Classics undergraduate student, Hannah Rothmann, for Wikipedia's 20th birthday.
- Telling the history of HIV and AIDS activism in Scotland on Wikipedia – WiR blog
- Scotland, Slavery and Black History project – WiR blog
- Those who fought: Representing HIV/AIDS activism on Wikipedia – Blog by Lorna Campbell
- My first week as a Wikisourceror – Guest post by student intern, Erin Boyle
- Open Data and Knowledge Equity – my first week by student intern, Clea Strathmann
- Supporting Open Collections – Guest post by Wikisourceror intern, Erin Boyle
- Wikimedia and the Diversity of Languages online – Guest post by Clea Strathmann
- Chapter 13 in the new Wikipedia and Academic Libraries book on Changing the Way Stories Are Told: Engaging staff and students in improving Wikipedia content about women in Scotland.
- Chapter 18 in the new Wikipedia and Academic Libraries book on Wikisource as a tool for OCR transcription correction: the National Library of Scotland’s response to Covid-19 by University of Edinburgh's Digitisation and Digital Engagement Manager, Gavin Willshaw.
- Teaching Matters Podcast: Wikimedia and Academia
- Teaching Matters Podcast: Wikimedia and Language
- Teaching Matters Podcast: Improving science communication with… Wikipedia?
- Podcast: Wikipedia: Where are the women? (13 minutes)
- Calls for Scotland to pardon witch-hunt victims gather pace – Guardian newspaper
- Down the Rabbit Hole with Wikipedia at the LILAC Information Literacy Conference 2022, WiR blog.
- Wikipedia, Student Activism and the Ivory Tower – talk presented at the LILAC Information Literacy Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University, 11-13 April 2022.
- Wikipedia and History – podcast series for Teaching Matters.
- Witchfinder General blog: Something wiki’d this way comes!
- Witchfinder General blog: Site Development is underway
- Witchfinder General blog: Some data processing sorcery
- Finding impossible witches – Data Visualisation intern blog by Claire Panella.
- “Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia” – the Edinburgh Award – Wikimedian in Residence blog.
- Recovering Histories – Improving Equality and Diversity Online – Wikimedian in Residence blog.
- Reading up about... Wikipedia – Wikimedian in Residence blog.
- A Witchfinder's quest: ensuring data accuracy and enhancing the website – Witchfinder General blog.
- Weeks 2 and 3: Unravelling anomalies and starting the website transformation – Witchfinder General blog
- From witches to widgets: a Witchfinder intern's update – Witchfinder General blog
- Internship wrap up – Ruby Imrie on the Map of Accused Witches blog.
- Wikipedia in Classics Education by Anna P. Judson, Katharine Shields and Victoria Leonard.
- EduTec Journal paper published – Campbell, L., Highton, M., & McAndrew, E. (2023). Apoyando la práctica educativa abierta: estudios de casos reflexivos de la Universidad de Edimburgo / Supporting open education practice: Reflective case studies from the University of Edinburgh. Edutec. Revista Electrónica De Tecnología Educativa, (85), 9-28. https://doi.org/10.21556/edutec.2023.85.2865
- Some wicked wiki news for Halloween – Wikimedian in Residence blog.
- Ellie Whitehead wrote new article on the Robert Burns Night editathon from 25 January 2024 on the Wikimedian in Residence blog.
- 7 years of Wikipedia and the Translation Studies MSc on the WiR blog
- Wikipedia, Inclusive Practice and Improving Representation Online on the WiR blog
- Edinburgh Award 2023/2024 success on the WiR blog
- Teaching data literacy with real world (witchy) datasets – WiR blog.
- Wikipedia editing for World Music Day 2024 – WiR blog.
- Wikimania 2024: A Conference of Collaboration, Learning and Culture – Witchcraft Visualisation blog by Wikidata Data Visualisation intern, Ruby Imrie.
- Scotland Loves Monuments 2024 – WiR blog.