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
Women in Red workshop
One new Women in Red workshops was held on 3 February 2021. The resident prepared 3 years' worth of obituaries to make sure these women were celebrated and remembered on Wikipedia.
19 new articles were created at the 3 February event inc. May Moar (1825 – June 2, 1894) who was a British crofter in the Shetland Isles who was awarded an RNLI silver medal for rescuing fishermen off the island of Yell.
53 more articles were edited.
386 edits in total.
14 editors.
16.6K words added.
202 references added.
HIV Scotland editathon
Lorna Campbell and I wrote blog articles about the HIV Scotland editathon at end of January 2021.
Received feedback from the event also.
Worked with Sarah Lappin, President of the student Women in STEM Society, to promote our IWD editathon event on 6 March and to crowdsource a
worklist of articles to improve/create.
Wikimedia student internships in Summer 2021
Awaiting word on when we can go ahead with recruiting an Open Collections ('Wikisourceror') student internship next Summer to support the Library & University Collections team develop workflows to share collections to Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource.
Awaiting word on when we can go ahead with recruiting an Open Edinburgh (Open Data and Knowledge Equity) student internship next Summer to develop new resources, and course activities to support the teaching of data science and support equality, diversity and inclusion in teaching and learning at the university.
Professor Diana Paton and Lucy Parfitt, President of the Edinburgh University History Society
n/a
Image statistics - as of 10th March 2021
The most viewed image for February 2021 was the plaque for Stan Laurel on the Wikipedia page for
Stan Laurel with 275,907 pageviews on English Wikipedia
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
Wikimedia in the Curriculum
#SayHerName is a social movement that seeks to raise awareness for Black female victims of police brutality and anti-Black violence in the United States - one of the articles being translated this semester on the Translation Studies MSc
The Translation Studies MSc Wikipedia assignment from semester two commenced with an online workshop on reviewing best practice taking place on 10 February 2021. This semester students have been invited to consider how best to support global understanding of black and postcolonial history through their 1,500-2,000 word translation assignment.
Been approached to discuss Wikidata in the Curriculum assignments with Stacy Allison-Cassin at the University of Toronto - to be arranged.
Ran an introductory editathon workshop on the Computer Science course programme at invitation of course leader, Judy Robertson, and Open Source advocate and student, Ritwik Sarkar. A crowdsourced list of Forgotten Heroines of Computer Science was compiled at short notice. Though numbers were very low, the discussions on the process of creating new pages was warmly received and the hope is this will lead to further project work with the undergraduate programme.
Glaire Anderson, Lecturer and course leader on the Stars, Talismans and Robots Honours course on Islamic Art, wrote a blogpost on her experiences teaching with Wikipedia and seems keen to repeat the experience in the following years. A 4-part podcast series with the University's influential Teaching Matters blog is being discussed with Glaire happy to take part in conversation with her students on 18 March 2021.
PhD student editathon on Women in Digital Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Discussed with Lisa Otty at the Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture and Society about a Women in Digital Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences event to be held on March 17th 2021 for their PhD students.
Event page now created and booking is open. Due to lack of signups this may be rescheduled.
Conference submissions
Been approved for a panel session at the University of Edinburgh's Learning and Teaching Conference 2021 on Wikipedia in the Classroom – Student-led activism promoting knowledge equity and SDG4 - Professor Diana Paton and History Society student Scarlett Kiaras-Attari have agreed to take part and present on the project to improve coverage of
Scotland, Slavery and Black History.
Been approved to present on Wikipedia in the Classroom – Student-led activism promoting knowledge equity and SDG4 at OER21 conference in April also.
Considering submitting an abstract on Wikipedia in Translation based on the work conducted on the Translation Studies MSc for the December 2021 conference, Understanding Wikipedia’s Dark Matter: Translation and Multilingual Practice in the World’s Largest Online Encyclopaedia.
Proposals for student project work
Redrafted proposal for the student Edinburgh Award (50hrs) for Wikipedia editing. Meeting with Kirsty Stewart at the Careers Service on 11 March 2021 to discuss changes to get this implemented in October 2021.
Met with Lorna Campbell, University of Edinburgh OER Service, on Thursday 4th February 2021 to discuss Student Experience Grants (up to £5000 available for projects) and put together a proposal once I'd identified 4 students willing to collaborate on a project. This will likely have to be shelved until next Student Experience Grant funding window in Autumn/Winter 2021.
Activities with stats:
Events
Event Name
Date and duration
Location
Attendees
New editors
Trainers
Introduction to Translation Studies MSc - Semester Two workshop
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
Attended Wikimedia UK meeting on Friday 26 February 2021 to share developments and challenges experienced with Wikimedia UK and other Wikimedians in Residence at other institutions. Next meeting planned for end of March 2021.
Submitted chapter for a new Open Access book on Wikipedia and Academic Libraries on the work of the residency to improve the number of biographies of women on Wikipedia over the last five years. The chapter has been reviewed by the publishers and will be published in September 2021.
Activities delivered with stats:
Events
No events this month.
Partnership interactions
Activity /Purpose of Meeting
Date and duration
Institute
Location
Names of Attendees
Links, if any, to Meeting/Presentation/ Conference Talk
Meeting with Wikimedia UK and UK Wikimedians in Residence
Meeting with Wikimedia UK and UK Wikimedians in Residence
n/a
Projects/events in development
New semester two project ongoing with Translation Studies MSc students on 10 February 2021.
Revising a proposal for a Wikipedia editing 'Edinburgh Award' where students can be accredited for completing 50hrs of Wikipedia training, editing and advocacy.
International Women's Day event on 6 March 2021 with Edinburgh University Women in STEM Society, keynoted by
Linda Bauld.
Women in Digital Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences editing event with the PhD students at the Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture and Society on 17 March 2021.
Phase Two of the Mapping the Scottish Reformation Wikidata project with Dr. Chris Langley (Newman University, Birmingham) and Professor Mikki Brock (Washington and Lee University, USA).
Two student internships to be recruited for 12 weeks this Summer.
Wikipedia component on 'Knowledge Equity' to be delivered on Digital Education MSc in January 2022.
Upcoming events in 2021
March 3 - Introduction to Wikidata workshop.
March 5 - Women in Red monthly editathon.
March 8 - International Women's Day editathon with Edinburgh University Women in STEM Society.
March 10 - Teaching with Wikipedia workshop.
March 12 - Introduction to Wikisource workshop.
March 17 - Women in Digital Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences editathon event with Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture and Society.
March 31 - Women in Red monthly editathon.
April 2 - Teaching with Wikipedia workshop.
April 2 - Introduction to Wikidata workshop.
April 21-22 - OER21 Conference
June 15-17 - University of Edinburgh Learning and Teaching Conference 2021.
July 6-8 - LILAC Information Literacy Conference 2021.
The
Wikimedian in Residence channel on Youtube which has now received over 158,838 views in total of its 108 videos with 640 subscribers. These videos have been viewed in 168 countries around the world over the course of the channel's lifetime.
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.
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
Women in Red workshop
One new Women in Red workshops was held on 3 February 2021. The resident prepared 3 years' worth of obituaries to make sure these women were celebrated and remembered on Wikipedia.
19 new articles were created at the 3 February event inc. May Moar (1825 – June 2, 1894) who was a British crofter in the Shetland Isles who was awarded an RNLI silver medal for rescuing fishermen off the island of Yell.
53 more articles were edited.
386 edits in total.
14 editors.
16.6K words added.
202 references added.
HIV Scotland editathon
Lorna Campbell and I wrote blog articles about the HIV Scotland editathon at end of January 2021.
Received feedback from the event also.
Worked with Sarah Lappin, President of the student Women in STEM Society, to promote our IWD editathon event on 6 March and to crowdsource a
worklist of articles to improve/create.
Wikimedia student internships in Summer 2021
Awaiting word on when we can go ahead with recruiting an Open Collections ('Wikisourceror') student internship next Summer to support the Library & University Collections team develop workflows to share collections to Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource.
Awaiting word on when we can go ahead with recruiting an Open Edinburgh (Open Data and Knowledge Equity) student internship next Summer to develop new resources, and course activities to support the teaching of data science and support equality, diversity and inclusion in teaching and learning at the university.
Professor Diana Paton and Lucy Parfitt, President of the Edinburgh University History Society
n/a
Image statistics - as of 10th March 2021
The most viewed image for February 2021 was the plaque for Stan Laurel on the Wikipedia page for
Stan Laurel with 275,907 pageviews on English Wikipedia
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
Wikimedia in the Curriculum
#SayHerName is a social movement that seeks to raise awareness for Black female victims of police brutality and anti-Black violence in the United States - one of the articles being translated this semester on the Translation Studies MSc
The Translation Studies MSc Wikipedia assignment from semester two commenced with an online workshop on reviewing best practice taking place on 10 February 2021. This semester students have been invited to consider how best to support global understanding of black and postcolonial history through their 1,500-2,000 word translation assignment.
Been approached to discuss Wikidata in the Curriculum assignments with Stacy Allison-Cassin at the University of Toronto - to be arranged.
Ran an introductory editathon workshop on the Computer Science course programme at invitation of course leader, Judy Robertson, and Open Source advocate and student, Ritwik Sarkar. A crowdsourced list of Forgotten Heroines of Computer Science was compiled at short notice. Though numbers were very low, the discussions on the process of creating new pages was warmly received and the hope is this will lead to further project work with the undergraduate programme.
Glaire Anderson, Lecturer and course leader on the Stars, Talismans and Robots Honours course on Islamic Art, wrote a blogpost on her experiences teaching with Wikipedia and seems keen to repeat the experience in the following years. A 4-part podcast series with the University's influential Teaching Matters blog is being discussed with Glaire happy to take part in conversation with her students on 18 March 2021.
PhD student editathon on Women in Digital Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Discussed with Lisa Otty at the Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture and Society about a Women in Digital Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences event to be held on March 17th 2021 for their PhD students.
Event page now created and booking is open. Due to lack of signups this may be rescheduled.
Conference submissions
Been approved for a panel session at the University of Edinburgh's Learning and Teaching Conference 2021 on Wikipedia in the Classroom – Student-led activism promoting knowledge equity and SDG4 - Professor Diana Paton and History Society student Scarlett Kiaras-Attari have agreed to take part and present on the project to improve coverage of
Scotland, Slavery and Black History.
Been approved to present on Wikipedia in the Classroom – Student-led activism promoting knowledge equity and SDG4 at OER21 conference in April also.
Considering submitting an abstract on Wikipedia in Translation based on the work conducted on the Translation Studies MSc for the December 2021 conference, Understanding Wikipedia’s Dark Matter: Translation and Multilingual Practice in the World’s Largest Online Encyclopaedia.
Proposals for student project work
Redrafted proposal for the student Edinburgh Award (50hrs) for Wikipedia editing. Meeting with Kirsty Stewart at the Careers Service on 11 March 2021 to discuss changes to get this implemented in October 2021.
Met with Lorna Campbell, University of Edinburgh OER Service, on Thursday 4th February 2021 to discuss Student Experience Grants (up to £5000 available for projects) and put together a proposal once I'd identified 4 students willing to collaborate on a project. This will likely have to be shelved until next Student Experience Grant funding window in Autumn/Winter 2021.
Activities with stats:
Events
Event Name
Date and duration
Location
Attendees
New editors
Trainers
Introduction to Translation Studies MSc - Semester Two workshop
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
Attended Wikimedia UK meeting on Friday 26 February 2021 to share developments and challenges experienced with Wikimedia UK and other Wikimedians in Residence at other institutions. Next meeting planned for end of March 2021.
Submitted chapter for a new Open Access book on Wikipedia and Academic Libraries on the work of the residency to improve the number of biographies of women on Wikipedia over the last five years. The chapter has been reviewed by the publishers and will be published in September 2021.
Activities delivered with stats:
Events
No events this month.
Partnership interactions
Activity /Purpose of Meeting
Date and duration
Institute
Location
Names of Attendees
Links, if any, to Meeting/Presentation/ Conference Talk
Meeting with Wikimedia UK and UK Wikimedians in Residence
Meeting with Wikimedia UK and UK Wikimedians in Residence
n/a
Projects/events in development
New semester two project ongoing with Translation Studies MSc students on 10 February 2021.
Revising a proposal for a Wikipedia editing 'Edinburgh Award' where students can be accredited for completing 50hrs of Wikipedia training, editing and advocacy.
International Women's Day event on 6 March 2021 with Edinburgh University Women in STEM Society, keynoted by
Linda Bauld.
Women in Digital Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences editing event with the PhD students at the Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture and Society on 17 March 2021.
Phase Two of the Mapping the Scottish Reformation Wikidata project with Dr. Chris Langley (Newman University, Birmingham) and Professor Mikki Brock (Washington and Lee University, USA).
Two student internships to be recruited for 12 weeks this Summer.
Wikipedia component on 'Knowledge Equity' to be delivered on Digital Education MSc in January 2022.
Upcoming events in 2021
March 3 - Introduction to Wikidata workshop.
March 5 - Women in Red monthly editathon.
March 8 - International Women's Day editathon with Edinburgh University Women in STEM Society.
March 10 - Teaching with Wikipedia workshop.
March 12 - Introduction to Wikisource workshop.
March 17 - Women in Digital Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences editathon event with Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture and Society.
March 31 - Women in Red monthly editathon.
April 2 - Teaching with Wikipedia workshop.
April 2 - Introduction to Wikidata workshop.
April 21-22 - OER21 Conference
June 15-17 - University of Edinburgh Learning and Teaching Conference 2021.
July 6-8 - LILAC Information Literacy Conference 2021.
The
Wikimedian in Residence channel on Youtube which has now received over 158,838 views in total of its 108 videos with 640 subscribers. These videos have been viewed in 168 countries around the world over the course of the channel's lifetime.
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.