The Edinburgh Award 2023/2024 in a nutshell:
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You should have received event invites to the following important sessions for the Award. Let me know if not received.
I run monthly Wikipedia editing sessions in Room 1.07 and the CRC in the Main Library that you are welcome to join for any part of the afternoon. Book via MyEd
# | Student name | Wiki Username | Topic focus | Link to Wiki project page | Link to dashboard |
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1. | Example user Ewan McAndrew |
Example wiki username Stinglehammer |
Witches of Scotland | Link to project page | Link to dashboard page |
2. | Ewan McAndrew | Stinglehammer | Gothic architecture and film | Gothic architecture and film | Dashboard link |
3. | Maria Juliana Rodriguez Cubillos | Majurocu95 | Improving the Open Science website in Spanish | Open Science | Dashboard link |
4. | Silje Yang (Julia) | Malyiaisbestgirl | Glass ceiling in Asia | Glass ceiling in Asia | Dashboard link |
5. | Shay Zeng (Xuelun Zeng) | Szeng74 | Techno-Orientalism | Techno-Orientalism | Dashboard link |
6. | Heng Du | Backfire1122 | Improving the Coverage of Galleries and Museums of Edinburgh | Galleries and Museums of Edinburgh | Dashboard link |
7. | Ana A. | Seeräuber Áine | Improving coverage on Latin American literature in English | Latin American literature | Dashboard link |
8. | Yousof Sulaiman | YousofSulaiman | Population genetics topics in Arabic and events in Islamic history. | Population Genetics and Islamic History | Dashboard link |
9. | Vicrant Yang | Vicang Y | Women in Science | Women in Science | Dashboard link |
10. | Phoebe Huang | 醒了不起的盖茨比 | Neuroscience terms | Septo-hippocampal system | Dashboard link |
11. | Julie Ding | Didirjulie | Mental health condition about various populations in China | Mental Health in China | Dashboard link |
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Main training tutorial:
How to begin editing Wikipedia (53 mins)
These are all embedded in
our student-created Wikimedian in Residence website here to make the how & why of editing Wikipedia much easier to engage with. Undergraduate student Hannah Rothmann’s work creating
this website and the video resources above in lockdown Summer 2020
won an Open Education Global award recently. Because we felt that students, educators and everyone should be able to do this much more simply and have this ‘need to know’ information readily and openly available so I hope this is of use to you.
The main policies and guidelines can be found at the following pages:
Once you've learned the basics of editing using Wikipedia’s Visual Editor, I hope that you'll stay logged in and edit or create more articles. I've added some booklets and some links below that you may find useful. As a first step you may like to check out what What Wikipedia is not along with its 5 guiding principles: The 5 pillars.
Prior to the event:
The Edinburgh Award 2023/2024 in a nutshell:
|
You should have received event invites to the following important sessions for the Award. Let me know if not received.
I run monthly Wikipedia editing sessions in Room 1.07 and the CRC in the Main Library that you are welcome to join for any part of the afternoon. Book via MyEd
# | Student name | Wiki Username | Topic focus | Link to Wiki project page | Link to dashboard |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1. | Example user Ewan McAndrew |
Example wiki username Stinglehammer |
Witches of Scotland | Link to project page | Link to dashboard page |
2. | Ewan McAndrew | Stinglehammer | Gothic architecture and film | Gothic architecture and film | Dashboard link |
3. | Maria Juliana Rodriguez Cubillos | Majurocu95 | Improving the Open Science website in Spanish | Open Science | Dashboard link |
4. | Silje Yang (Julia) | Malyiaisbestgirl | Glass ceiling in Asia | Glass ceiling in Asia | Dashboard link |
5. | Shay Zeng (Xuelun Zeng) | Szeng74 | Techno-Orientalism | Techno-Orientalism | Dashboard link |
6. | Heng Du | Backfire1122 | Improving the Coverage of Galleries and Museums of Edinburgh | Galleries and Museums of Edinburgh | Dashboard link |
7. | Ana A. | Seeräuber Áine | Improving coverage on Latin American literature in English | Latin American literature | Dashboard link |
8. | Yousof Sulaiman | YousofSulaiman | Population genetics topics in Arabic and events in Islamic history. | Population Genetics and Islamic History | Dashboard link |
9. | Vicrant Yang | Vicang Y | Women in Science | Women in Science | Dashboard link |
10. | Phoebe Huang | 醒了不起的盖茨比 | Neuroscience terms | Septo-hippocampal system | Dashboard link |
11. | Julie Ding | Didirjulie | Mental health condition about various populations in China | Mental Health in China | Dashboard link |
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Main training tutorial:
How to begin editing Wikipedia (53 mins)
These are all embedded in
our student-created Wikimedian in Residence website here to make the how & why of editing Wikipedia much easier to engage with. Undergraduate student Hannah Rothmann’s work creating
this website and the video resources above in lockdown Summer 2020
won an Open Education Global award recently. Because we felt that students, educators and everyone should be able to do this much more simply and have this ‘need to know’ information readily and openly available so I hope this is of use to you.
The main policies and guidelines can be found at the following pages:
Once you've learned the basics of editing using Wikipedia’s Visual Editor, I hope that you'll stay logged in and edit or create more articles. I've added some booklets and some links below that you may find useful. As a first step you may like to check out what What Wikipedia is not along with its 5 guiding principles: The 5 pillars.
Prior to the event: