Institution | Resident's Name | Period Covered | Date of Report | List of reports to date |
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University of Edinburgh | Ewan McAndrew | 12 January 2020 - 1 May 2020 (Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first, and Fifty-second month of the residency | 1st May 2020 | Click here to view all reports. |
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 |
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University of Edinburgh | Ewan McAndrew | 208 | 1,115 | 490 | 332 | 87 | 695 | 2,464 |
Increase the engagement and representation of marginalised people and subjects
Event Name | Date and duration | Location | Attendees | New editors | Trainers | Gender breakdown |
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Monthly Women in Red workshop - creating new biography articles of notable women on Wikipedia List of usernames recorded |
5 February 2020 | University of Edinburgh, Main Library, Edinburgh. | 10 | 4 | Ewan McAndrew and Laura Rose Wood | 100% female |
Monthly Women in Red workshop - creating new biography articles of notable women on Wikipedia List of usernames recorded |
8 April 2020 | University of Edinburgh, online webinar. | 7 | 6 | Ewan McAndrew | 100% female |
Women of Climate Change and sustainable development - an Earth Day 2020 editathon Monthly Women in Red workshop - creating new biography articles of notable women on Wikipedia List of usernames recorded |
20 April 2020 | University of Edinburgh, online webinar. | 14 | 6 | Ewan McAndrew and Laura Rose Wood | 85.7% female |
Activity /Purpose of Meeting | Date and duration | Institute | Location | Names of Attendees | Links, if any, to Meeting/Presentation/ Conference Talk |
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Meeting with Wikipedia Women in Red intern | 14 January 2020 Full day |
University of Edinburgh | Argyle House, Edinburgh. | Laura Rose Wood | Wikipedia Women in Red at the University of Edinburgh website. |
Meeting to discuss import of the Tower Block UK archive into Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata | 16 January 2020 1 hour |
University of Edinburgh | Argyle House, Edinburgh. | Kat Breen (Database Assistant) and Prof Miles Glendinning | Tower Block archive website. |
Meeting with Wikipedia Women in Red intern and first training | 21 January 2020 two hours |
University of Edinburgh | Argyle House, Edinburgh. | Laura Rose Wood | Wikipedia Women in Red at the University of Edinburgh website. |
Meeting with Wikipedia Women in Red intern and Melissa Highton to discuss internship focus | 21 January 2020 1 hour |
University of Edinburgh | Argyle House, Edinburgh. | Laura Rose Wood Melissa Highton |
Wikipedia Women in Red at the University of Edinburgh website. |
Meeting with Wikipedia Women in Red intern to promote and plan events | 28 January 2020 2 hours |
University of Edinburgh | Argyle House, Edinburgh. | Laura Rose Wood | Wikipedia Women in Red at the University of Edinburgh website. |
Metadata Crosswalk discussion to process Tower Block UK archive into Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata | 28 January 2020 1 hour |
University of Edinburgh | Argyle House, Edinburgh. | Kat Breen (Database Assistant) Pauline Ward |
Tower Block archive website. |
Meeting to begin import of the Tower Block UK archive into Wikimedia Commons | 30 January 2020 3 hours |
University of Edinburgh | Argyle House, Edinburgh. | Kat Breen (Database Assistant) | Tower Block archive website. |
Wikipedia and Health Information | 9 April 2020 One hour |
Wikimedia UK | online. | Wikimedia UK staff Wikimedians in Residence |
Discussion about how Wikimedia could support the Covid-19 efforts. |
Meeting with Wikipedia Women in Red intern | 14 April 2020 One hour |
University of Edinburgh | online. | Laura Rose Wood | Wikipedia Women in Red at the University of Edinburgh website. |
Wikimedia work during the pandemic | 16 April 2020 One hour |
Wikimedia UK | online. | Wikimedia UK staff Wikimedians in Residence |
Discussion about how Wikimedia events could run/operate during lockdown. |
UoE Centre for Research Collections images | Total for March 2020 | 802,432 views |
All images uploaded in collaboration between WMUK and the University of Edinburgh | Total for March 2020 | 1,491,471 views |
UoE Centre for Research Collections images | Total for 51 months of monitoring | 39,246,422 views |
The most viewed images for February 2020 were:
Work with partners to develop digital, data and information literacy through Wikimedia
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Event Name | Date and duration | Location | Attendees | New editors | Trainers |
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Translation Studies MSc - Drop-in clinic to publish new translations | 14 January 2020, 12-2pm | University of Edinburgh, 50 George Square Computing Lab, Edinburgh. | 12 | 12 | Ewan McAndrew |
Translation Studies MSc - Drop-in clinic to publish new translations | 15 January 2020, 12-2pm | University of Edinburgh, 50 George Square Computing Lab, Edinburgh. | 9 | 9 | Ewan McAndrew |
Translation Studies MSc - Drop-in clinic to publish new translations | 16 January 2020, 12-2pm | University of Edinburgh, 50 George Square Computing Lab, Edinburgh. | 10 | 10 | Ewan McAndrew |
Digital Education MSc - Webinar on 'Knowledge Equity and Wikipedia' | 29 January 2020, 12-2pm | University of Edinburgh, Argyle House, Edinburgh. | 5 | 4 | Ewan McAndrew |
Translation Studies MSc - Review and training session for semester two assignment | 31 January 2020, 4-5.30pm | University of Edinburgh, 50 George Square Computing Lab, Edinburgh. | 38 | 0 | Ewan McAndrew |
Translation Studies MSc - Drop-in clinic to publish new translations | 1 April 2020, 4-6pm | Remote support. | 3 | 0 | Ewan McAndrew |
Activity /Purpose of Meeting | Date and duration | Institute | Location | Names of Attendees | Links, if any, to Meeting/Presentation/ Conference Talk |
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Digital Education MSc - planning session for webinar | 8 January 2020 1 hour |
University of Edinburgh | Main Library, Edinburgh. | Marshall Dozier, Academic Support Librarian | Digital Education site. |
Meeting with Marketing and Communications Manager for Online Learning and Media Studio Service Manager. | 14 January 2020 1 hour |
University of Edinburgh | Main Library, Edinburgh. | Emma Charlesworth, Marketing and Communications Manager for Online Learning Kate Yee, Media Studio Service Manager. |
Meeting to discuss areas of collaboration in promoting and reusing Wikimedia-related video content. |
Meeting with Mapping the Scottish Reformation project team to discuss working with Wikidata | 22 January 2020 3 hours |
University of Edinburgh | Digital Scholarship Centre, 6th floor, University of Edinburgh Main Library. | Mikki Brock Chris Langley |
Mapping the Scottish Reformation site. |
Meeting with Shenxiao Tong, Academic Support Librarian | 19 February 2020 1 hour |
University of Edinburgh | Argyle House, Edinburgh. | Shenxiao Tong, Academic Support Librarian | Meeting to discuss areas of collaboration in supporting the Translation Studies MSc cohort now it has doubled in size. |
Data Carpentry workshop | 16-17 April 2020 Two full days |
University of Edinburgh | Online Zoom meeting | Lucia Michielin | Online training workshops to learn about data manipulation in spreadsheets, OpenRefine and Python. |
Meeting with Ian Watt (Open Data Institute Aberdeen) | 23 April 2020 1 hour |
University of Edinburgh | Online Zoom meeting | Ian Watt, Open Data Institute Aberdeen and Code the City | Meeting to discuss areas of collaboration in supporting data-driven solutions to the Covid-19 pandemic. |
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Create changes in policy and practice that enable open knowledge to flourish
Event Name | Date and duration | Location | Attendees | Usernames | Trainers |
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Mapping the Scottish Reformation with Messy Day - seminar presentation | 24 January 2020 2 hours |
University of Edinburgh, Digital Scholarship Centre, 6th floor, University of Edinburgh Main Library. | 40 attendees approx | not applicable | Chris Langley and Mikki Brock |
Needful Things - Wikimedia in Education and a NEW booklet of case studies ( a video presentation) |
1 April 2020 25 mins |
OER Conference 2020, online recording. | 1,000 registered attendees for the conference | not applicable | Ewan McAndrew |
Activity /Purpose of Meeting | Date and duration | Institute | Location | Names of Attendees | Links, if any, to Meeting/Presentation/ Conference Talk |
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Suffer the Witch - a symposium on the Scottish witchcraft panics in the 1590s | 23 January 2020 | Patrick Geddes Centre | Riddles Court, Edinburgh | 60 attendees (sold out) | 15 minute presentation on the Map of Accused Witches project. |
Wikimedia UK and University of Edinburgh partnership meeting | 24 January 2020 | University of Edinburgh | Argyle House, Edinburgh | Karen Howie Dr. Sara Thomas. |
Discussion about any changes needed to the partnership agreement. |
Podcast with Terry Greene | 6 February 2020 | Online | "Getting Air" Open Pedagogy podcast | Terry Greene | Half hour podcast discussion about the origins and notable moments of the Wikimedia residency at the University of Edinburgh |
Wikimedia in Education - a summit at Coventry University | 26 February 2020 | Disruptive Media Learning Lab | The Frederick Lanchester Library, Coventry University | 20-30 attendees | 15 minute presentation on University of Edinburgh residency by Dr. Sara Thomas |
Interview with Shani Everstein | 20 April 2020 | Online | Shani Everstein, Tel Aviv University | Shani Everstein | Interview discussion about the work of the Wikimedia Residency at the University of Edinburgh, its origins and its notables successes. |
Wikisource planning session | 27 April 2020 | Online | Wikimedia UK | Dr. Sara Thomas | Planned introduction to Wikisource webinar presentation with Dr. Sara Thomas for library colleagues interested in contributing during lockdown. |
Number of videos | Views this month | Percentage increase | Number of plays this month | Percentage increase |
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291 | 140 | +12% | 69 | +3% |
The most played videos were:
Position | Video | Plays this month | Total plays |
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1 | OpenRefine Beginners Tutorial - how to process and reconcile datasets by Emma Carroll | 21 plays | 55 plays |
2 | The Wicked Findings of the Witchfinder General - Putting Scotland's accused witches on the map using linked open data | 7 plays | 51 plays |
3 | Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor:Part 2.3 Adding an image | 6 plays | 197 plays |
4 | Moving a drafted article into Wikipedia's live space. | 4 plays | 819 plays |
5 | An introduction to Wikidata by Ewan McAndrew at Repository Fringe 2016 | 3 plays | 27 plays |
Number of videos | Views this month | Hours watched this month | New subscribers | Total subscribers | Total views | Total number of countries viewing the channel |
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70 | 7,189 | 498.6 | 11 | 321 | 83,461 | 168 |
Institution | Resident's Name | Period Covered | Date of Report | List of reports to date |
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University of Edinburgh | Ewan McAndrew | 12 January 2020 - 1 May 2020 (Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first, and Fifty-second month of the residency | 1st May 2020 | Click here to view all reports. |
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 |
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University of Edinburgh | Ewan McAndrew | 208 | 1,115 | 490 | 332 | 87 | 695 | 2,464 |
Increase the engagement and representation of marginalised people and subjects
Event Name | Date and duration | Location | Attendees | New editors | Trainers | Gender breakdown |
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Monthly Women in Red workshop - creating new biography articles of notable women on Wikipedia List of usernames recorded |
5 February 2020 | University of Edinburgh, Main Library, Edinburgh. | 10 | 4 | Ewan McAndrew and Laura Rose Wood | 100% female |
Monthly Women in Red workshop - creating new biography articles of notable women on Wikipedia List of usernames recorded |
8 April 2020 | University of Edinburgh, online webinar. | 7 | 6 | Ewan McAndrew | 100% female |
Women of Climate Change and sustainable development - an Earth Day 2020 editathon Monthly Women in Red workshop - creating new biography articles of notable women on Wikipedia List of usernames recorded |
20 April 2020 | University of Edinburgh, online webinar. | 14 | 6 | Ewan McAndrew and Laura Rose Wood | 85.7% female |
Activity /Purpose of Meeting | Date and duration | Institute | Location | Names of Attendees | Links, if any, to Meeting/Presentation/ Conference Talk |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Meeting with Wikipedia Women in Red intern | 14 January 2020 Full day |
University of Edinburgh | Argyle House, Edinburgh. | Laura Rose Wood | Wikipedia Women in Red at the University of Edinburgh website. |
Meeting to discuss import of the Tower Block UK archive into Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata | 16 January 2020 1 hour |
University of Edinburgh | Argyle House, Edinburgh. | Kat Breen (Database Assistant) and Prof Miles Glendinning | Tower Block archive website. |
Meeting with Wikipedia Women in Red intern and first training | 21 January 2020 two hours |
University of Edinburgh | Argyle House, Edinburgh. | Laura Rose Wood | Wikipedia Women in Red at the University of Edinburgh website. |
Meeting with Wikipedia Women in Red intern and Melissa Highton to discuss internship focus | 21 January 2020 1 hour |
University of Edinburgh | Argyle House, Edinburgh. | Laura Rose Wood Melissa Highton |
Wikipedia Women in Red at the University of Edinburgh website. |
Meeting with Wikipedia Women in Red intern to promote and plan events | 28 January 2020 2 hours |
University of Edinburgh | Argyle House, Edinburgh. | Laura Rose Wood | Wikipedia Women in Red at the University of Edinburgh website. |
Metadata Crosswalk discussion to process Tower Block UK archive into Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata | 28 January 2020 1 hour |
University of Edinburgh | Argyle House, Edinburgh. | Kat Breen (Database Assistant) Pauline Ward |
Tower Block archive website. |
Meeting to begin import of the Tower Block UK archive into Wikimedia Commons | 30 January 2020 3 hours |
University of Edinburgh | Argyle House, Edinburgh. | Kat Breen (Database Assistant) | Tower Block archive website. |
Wikipedia and Health Information | 9 April 2020 One hour |
Wikimedia UK | online. | Wikimedia UK staff Wikimedians in Residence |
Discussion about how Wikimedia could support the Covid-19 efforts. |
Meeting with Wikipedia Women in Red intern | 14 April 2020 One hour |
University of Edinburgh | online. | Laura Rose Wood | Wikipedia Women in Red at the University of Edinburgh website. |
Wikimedia work during the pandemic | 16 April 2020 One hour |
Wikimedia UK | online. | Wikimedia UK staff Wikimedians in Residence |
Discussion about how Wikimedia events could run/operate during lockdown. |
UoE Centre for Research Collections images | Total for March 2020 | 802,432 views |
All images uploaded in collaboration between WMUK and the University of Edinburgh | Total for March 2020 | 1,491,471 views |
UoE Centre for Research Collections images | Total for 51 months of monitoring | 39,246,422 views |
The most viewed images for February 2020 were:
Work with partners to develop digital, data and information literacy through Wikimedia
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Event Name | Date and duration | Location | Attendees | New editors | Trainers |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Translation Studies MSc - Drop-in clinic to publish new translations | 14 January 2020, 12-2pm | University of Edinburgh, 50 George Square Computing Lab, Edinburgh. | 12 | 12 | Ewan McAndrew |
Translation Studies MSc - Drop-in clinic to publish new translations | 15 January 2020, 12-2pm | University of Edinburgh, 50 George Square Computing Lab, Edinburgh. | 9 | 9 | Ewan McAndrew |
Translation Studies MSc - Drop-in clinic to publish new translations | 16 January 2020, 12-2pm | University of Edinburgh, 50 George Square Computing Lab, Edinburgh. | 10 | 10 | Ewan McAndrew |
Digital Education MSc - Webinar on 'Knowledge Equity and Wikipedia' | 29 January 2020, 12-2pm | University of Edinburgh, Argyle House, Edinburgh. | 5 | 4 | Ewan McAndrew |
Translation Studies MSc - Review and training session for semester two assignment | 31 January 2020, 4-5.30pm | University of Edinburgh, 50 George Square Computing Lab, Edinburgh. | 38 | 0 | Ewan McAndrew |
Translation Studies MSc - Drop-in clinic to publish new translations | 1 April 2020, 4-6pm | Remote support. | 3 | 0 | Ewan McAndrew |
Activity /Purpose of Meeting | Date and duration | Institute | Location | Names of Attendees | Links, if any, to Meeting/Presentation/ Conference Talk |
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Digital Education MSc - planning session for webinar | 8 January 2020 1 hour |
University of Edinburgh | Main Library, Edinburgh. | Marshall Dozier, Academic Support Librarian | Digital Education site. |
Meeting with Marketing and Communications Manager for Online Learning and Media Studio Service Manager. | 14 January 2020 1 hour |
University of Edinburgh | Main Library, Edinburgh. | Emma Charlesworth, Marketing and Communications Manager for Online Learning Kate Yee, Media Studio Service Manager. |
Meeting to discuss areas of collaboration in promoting and reusing Wikimedia-related video content. |
Meeting with Mapping the Scottish Reformation project team to discuss working with Wikidata | 22 January 2020 3 hours |
University of Edinburgh | Digital Scholarship Centre, 6th floor, University of Edinburgh Main Library. | Mikki Brock Chris Langley |
Mapping the Scottish Reformation site. |
Meeting with Shenxiao Tong, Academic Support Librarian | 19 February 2020 1 hour |
University of Edinburgh | Argyle House, Edinburgh. | Shenxiao Tong, Academic Support Librarian | Meeting to discuss areas of collaboration in supporting the Translation Studies MSc cohort now it has doubled in size. |
Data Carpentry workshop | 16-17 April 2020 Two full days |
University of Edinburgh | Online Zoom meeting | Lucia Michielin | Online training workshops to learn about data manipulation in spreadsheets, OpenRefine and Python. |
Meeting with Ian Watt (Open Data Institute Aberdeen) | 23 April 2020 1 hour |
University of Edinburgh | Online Zoom meeting | Ian Watt, Open Data Institute Aberdeen and Code the City | Meeting to discuss areas of collaboration in supporting data-driven solutions to the Covid-19 pandemic. |
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Create changes in policy and practice that enable open knowledge to flourish
Event Name | Date and duration | Location | Attendees | Usernames | Trainers |
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Mapping the Scottish Reformation with Messy Day - seminar presentation | 24 January 2020 2 hours |
University of Edinburgh, Digital Scholarship Centre, 6th floor, University of Edinburgh Main Library. | 40 attendees approx | not applicable | Chris Langley and Mikki Brock |
Needful Things - Wikimedia in Education and a NEW booklet of case studies ( a video presentation) |
1 April 2020 25 mins |
OER Conference 2020, online recording. | 1,000 registered attendees for the conference | not applicable | Ewan McAndrew |
Activity /Purpose of Meeting | Date and duration | Institute | Location | Names of Attendees | Links, if any, to Meeting/Presentation/ Conference Talk |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Suffer the Witch - a symposium on the Scottish witchcraft panics in the 1590s | 23 January 2020 | Patrick Geddes Centre | Riddles Court, Edinburgh | 60 attendees (sold out) | 15 minute presentation on the Map of Accused Witches project. |
Wikimedia UK and University of Edinburgh partnership meeting | 24 January 2020 | University of Edinburgh | Argyle House, Edinburgh | Karen Howie Dr. Sara Thomas. |
Discussion about any changes needed to the partnership agreement. |
Podcast with Terry Greene | 6 February 2020 | Online | "Getting Air" Open Pedagogy podcast | Terry Greene | Half hour podcast discussion about the origins and notable moments of the Wikimedia residency at the University of Edinburgh |
Wikimedia in Education - a summit at Coventry University | 26 February 2020 | Disruptive Media Learning Lab | The Frederick Lanchester Library, Coventry University | 20-30 attendees | 15 minute presentation on University of Edinburgh residency by Dr. Sara Thomas |
Interview with Shani Everstein | 20 April 2020 | Online | Shani Everstein, Tel Aviv University | Shani Everstein | Interview discussion about the work of the Wikimedia Residency at the University of Edinburgh, its origins and its notables successes. |
Wikisource planning session | 27 April 2020 | Online | Wikimedia UK | Dr. Sara Thomas | Planned introduction to Wikisource webinar presentation with Dr. Sara Thomas for library colleagues interested in contributing during lockdown. |
Number of videos | Views this month | Percentage increase | Number of plays this month | Percentage increase |
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291 | 140 | +12% | 69 | +3% |
The most played videos were:
Position | Video | Plays this month | Total plays |
---|---|---|---|
1 | OpenRefine Beginners Tutorial - how to process and reconcile datasets by Emma Carroll | 21 plays | 55 plays |
2 | The Wicked Findings of the Witchfinder General - Putting Scotland's accused witches on the map using linked open data | 7 plays | 51 plays |
3 | Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor:Part 2.3 Adding an image | 6 plays | 197 plays |
4 | Moving a drafted article into Wikipedia's live space. | 4 plays | 819 plays |
5 | An introduction to Wikidata by Ewan McAndrew at Repository Fringe 2016 | 3 plays | 27 plays |
Number of videos | Views this month | Hours watched this month | New subscribers | Total subscribers | Total views | Total number of countries viewing the channel |
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70 | 7,189 | 498.6 | 11 | 321 | 83,461 | 168 |