Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/100th month report
| Institution | Resident's Name | Period Covered | Date of Report | List of reports to date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Edinburgh | Ewan McAndrew | 1 April 2024 - 30 April 2024 (One hundredth month of the residency) | 20 May 2024 | Click here to view all reports. |
Jury service and Easter break at start of April meant this was a shorter month.
Summary of main points this month
- E. McAndrew was on Jury duty from 8 April to 15 April 2024 but planning has been put in place to hold a Wikipedia celebration of nursing event in collaboration with Senior Nursing Lecturers for May 2024 and a World Music Day event on 21 June 2024 at St. Cecilia's Hall museum.
- E. McAndrew and E. Whitehead attended the Playfair Library on 25 April 2024 for the 2023/2024 Edinburgh Award completers reception in support of the four students who successfully achieved the 55-80 hour Edinburgh Award for ‘Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia’ in 2023/2024. Review of year three to take place with Jonathan Mori (UoE Digital Skills team) in due course.
Running total of staff & student engagement
| 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 | 370 | 2,154 | 673 | 745 | 156 | 2,181 | 15,128 |
Strategic Aim 1 - Knowledge Equity
- 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
Update on the Wikidata Map of Accused Witches project - our student intern continues 1 day a week until May 2024
- Ruby Imrie's full-time internship came to an end of 25 August 2023 so she has been extended to continue work on a 0.2 FTE basis from w/c 11 September 2023 until May 2024 (and is going full-time for 12 weeks in Summer 2024) to continue to (1) quality assure the witchcraft data in Wikidata (2) improve the site design and UX experience and (3) build new features e.g. an AI chat interface if possible and a map of memorials. 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 w/c 20 May 2024 includes:
- Ruby has continued worked on Nuxt.js upgrade of the site.
- Ruby has continued working on the Map of Witch Memorial sites visualisation.
- E. Whitehead has written descriptions of each memorial location.
- E. Whitehead working on an expanded Glossary of terms related to Scottish witch trials.
- E. Whitehead working on a new Introduction to the Scottish witch trials landing page.
- Professor Julian Goodhead has written a dedicated page on the Interrogation and investigation process.
Women in Red workshops
- No 'Women in Red' workshops held this month. Two in planning stages for May and June 2024.
Activities delivered with stats:
Events
- Met with Dr. Marti Balaam on 29 April 2024 to discuss a Celebration of Nursing event to coincide with the opening of the new Edinburgh Futures Institute building (the Old Royal Infirmary building).
Partnership interactions
- Curious Edinburgh – new witch tour of Edinburgh E. McAndrew and student intern R. Imrie met with Curious Edinburgh’s Niki Vermeulen on 24 August 2023 to discuss how a Scottish witchcraft tour of Edinburgh could be added as a new walking tour on the Curious Edinburgh website and mobile app. Ewan McAndrew researched in October 2023 using the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft, Wikidata, Wikipedia and witchcraft books including a new book about Agnes Finnie, the ‘Witch of Potterow’, to develop the walking tour of places in Edinburgh related to the Scottish witch hunts. E. McAndrew is liaising with Professor Julian Goodare on revising the draft text to ensure historical accuracy and further researching some of the locations and individuals/events mentioned (inc. Principal of University of Edinburgh William Colvill and the Witches’ Well) and met PhD researcher on Scottish witch memorials/memorialisation, Stephanie Shakay Tierney, on 24 November 2023 where she invited us to make use of her research in the final walking tour.
- Update for 20 May 2024 - E. Whitehead has revised the route and drafted text and submitted for independent checking by Scottish witchcraft expert and broadcaster, Louise Yeoman, and Professor Julian Goodare to continue to improve veracity and narrative flow of the walking tour. They have now provided corrections/suggestions which E. Whitehead has incorporated into the tour. They have also agreed that when the 100% final copy is complete they will record YouTube audio/video clips for greater engagement and interactivity for each stop.
- An International Nurses Day Wikipedia event is planned for later this year (date being arranged) with collaboration from Dr. Martina Balaam, Senior Nursing Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, the Queen's Nursing Institute and the Royal College of Nursing. A small steering group will meet w/c 3rd June 2024 to discuss the theme, location and date.
- A World Music Day event is planned to be held at St Cecilia's Hall Musical Instrument Museum on 21 June 2024 with Luke Whitlock, BBC Radio 3 Producer, collaborating on his research into unknown female composers from the archives.
Image statistics - as of 20 May 2024
NB: August 2023 to April 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 April 2024 | 1,181,496 views |
| All images uploaded in collaboration between WMUK and the University of Edinburgh | Total for April 2024 | 2,295,859 views |
The most viewed images for April 2024 across all Wikipedias were:
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Strategic Aim 2 - Information Literacy
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 - current work
- Six new case studies can now be added to the Wikimedia in Education - Booklet of Case Studies. Graphic designer, Nicky Greenhorn, has been provided with amendments and will make these after her return from annual leave on 16 April 2024 with a view to getting the Contents page updated and final signoff agreed by contributors, Wikimedia Uk and Dr. Melissa Highton for the University of Edinburgh. 20 May update: awaiting news from Nicky.
- 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.
- Met to discuss new collaboration with Professor Charles West on the Online History MSc and how to structure such an assignment using past experiences as a model. This has now started and is entitled Charles Martel in the Digital Age and has continued to see editing activity in March and April 2024.
- 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.
- E. McAndrew has contacted Dr. Matt Graham at the University of Dundee regarding Wikipedia in the Curriculum work he is doing there on South African history. 20 May update: Matt Graham has submitted written case study for Booklet of Case Studies. this has been shared with graphic designer, Nicky Greenhorn.
- E. McAndrew has been contacted by Kathryn Rudy about conducting Wikipedia in the Curriculum work at the University of St. Andrews in early 2025 and this has been referred to Dr. Sara Thomas, Wikimedia UK, for next steps.
Conferences
- E. McAndrew is discussing a Suffer the Witch symposium to take place in 2024 and discussing with possible stakeholders and participants as to its scope, format and date. Needing funding from the University as to whether this can take place. No news presently on this.
- E.McAndrew has submitted two abstracts for this year's Wikimania Conference in August 2024. The first would be 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.
Wikipedia Editing - 55-80hr Edinburgh Award concluded its 3rd iteration/year
- 4 attended have been approved to receive the Award and attended the Edinburgh Award completers reception at the prestigious Playfair Library on 25 April 2024 and receive their Award certificates.
- E. McAndrew and E. Whitehead will review the award and issue an End of Award survey to the 2023/2024 students to enable better action plan for the 4th iteration of the Award in session 2024/2025.
New Student Internships
- Ruby Imrie has concluded her Summer internship (12 weeks 1.0 FTE) on the Map of Accused Witches Wikidata project as our third Summer Witchfinder General: Data Visualisation intern. Start date of 5 June 2023 and finish date 25 August 2023. This has now received a 0.2FTE extension during term time to start 14 September 2023 until May 2024. Update for 12 March 2024: Ruby's role has been greenlit for extending her position for 12 weeks f/t through the Summer of 2024 starting on 15 July 2024. She has also agreed to present at Wikimania on a 25 min lecture about her work since Summer 2023.
- Interviewed a p/t role of Assistant Wikimedian in Residence to support the work of the residency in the longer term (events management and promotion, community building for Women in Red and Edinburgh Award, outreach to different geographically distant parts of the university and more) on a 1 year 0.2-0.4FTE basis. This role has now been appointed and Eleanor Whitehead held her first Wikipedia editathon for 'Women in Red' to coincide with Burns Night on 25 January 2024. The latest one was for International Women's Day on 8 March 2024 and two editathons are planned for May (International Women's Day 2024) and June (World Music Day).
New digital skills workshops
The University of Edinburgh's Wikimedia workshops for Semester 2 (2023/2024) have now concluded. There are no further workshops planned just now while E. McAndrew had jury duty as of 8 April 2024.
Activities with stats:
Events
No events in April 2024.
Partnership interactions
- Planning a Wikipedia training workshop and editathon with the University's Data-driven Innovation staff team on 19 March 2024 (rescheduled for September 2024).
- E.McAndrew has been in contact with Dr. Matt Graham, lecturer in African history at the University of Dundee, about contributing a new case study of Wikipedia in the Curriculum.
Strategic Aim 3 - Advocacy
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
- Met with Dr. Chris Langley (Open University) in online meeting on 18 April 2024 to discuss his new project collating resources about King Charles I and working out a platform (Omeka potentially) for supporting researchers, educators and students. Also discussed Mapping the Scottish Reformation site and Map of Accused Witches in Scotland site.
Activities delivered with stats:
Events
- The University of Edinburgh's OER Service & Wikimedian in Residence met to discuss and coordinate new social media strategy for 2024/2025.
Partnership interactions
The Wikimedian in Residence received enquiries from Dr. Chris Langley (Open University), Kristen Mapes (Michigan State University), Karen Clarke (National Museum of Royal Navy), Melissa Bradner (Richmond, Virginia), Professor Chris Williams (School of Informatics), Dr Martina Balaam (Senior Lecturer in Nursing Studies), Kathryn Rudy FRSE (University of St.Andrews), Dr. Matt Graham (University of Dundee), Louise Yeoman (BBC broadcaster), Luke Whitlock (BBC Radio 3), Ragnhild Ljosland (UHI and Orkney Heritage Society).
Projects/events in development
- 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.
- Continue to plan a World Music Day event at St. Cecilia’s Hall museum on 21 June 2024.
- Liaise 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).
- Continue quality assuring the data about Scottish accused witches in Wikidata and developing the Map of Accused Witches in Scotland website. R. Imrie will end her 0.2FTE role on 31 May 2024 and commence a twelve week 1.0FTE final position on 15 July 2024 following her exams.
- Evaluate the Wikimedia at University of Edinburgh website to see if its pages/content can be updated and improved for session 2024/2025.
- 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.
- Crowdsource advice about creating a new self-directed training resource on Wikidata for Researchers.
Upcoming events in 2024
- May 2 - Raising Awareness - Social media strategy discussion with OER Service.
- May 7 - Translation Studies MSc - Portfolio Tutors discussion.
- May 9 - Ada Lovelace Day planning discussion.
- May 24 - Wikidata and Map of Accused Witches in Scotland website discussion - planning for the 12 week internship w/c 15 July 2024.
- May 28 - Wikimedia UK and Wikimedian in Residence meetup (online).
- May 31 - Ruby Imrie's last day on 0.2FTE role as Wikidata Data Visualisation Intern.
- Jun - International Nurses Day editathon (date tbc.)
- Jun 3 - Gender.Ed steering group meeting.
- Jun 18 - Translation Studies MSc - Machine translation discussion.
- Jun 21 - World Music Day editathon at St. Cecilia's Hall museum.
- Jul 15 - Ruby Imrie's first day on 1.0FTE role as Wikidata Data Visualisation Intern for next 12 weeks.
- Aug 7 - Wikimania 2024 in Katowice.
Media
New articles
- Edinburgh Award 2023/2024 success on the WiR blog
- Wikipedia, Inclusive Practice and Improving Representation Online on the WiR blog
- 7 years of Wikipedia and the Translation Studies MSc on the WiR blog
New videos and podcasts
- Edinburgh Award presentation - student Julie Ding on improving Wikipedia content about Mental Health in China.
- Edinburgh Award presentation - student Phoebe Huang on improving Wikipedia content about Neuroscience topics.
- Edinburgh Award presentation - student Yousof Sulaiman on improving Wikipedia content about Population Genetics and Islamic Culture topics.
- Edinburgh Award presentation - student Ana Aldazabal on improving Wikipedia content about Latin American literature topics.
Wikimedian in Residence - University of Edinburgh Media Hopper channel
- The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Media Hopper now has 393 videos.
1 April 2024 to 30 April 2024
| Number of videos | Impressions | Minutes viewed | Number of plays since 1 April 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 393 | 1,989 | 1,190 | 326 |
Wikimedian in Residence - YouTube channel
- The Wikimedian in Residence channel on YouTube which has now received over 484,933 views in total of its 144 videos with 1,764 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 144 | 8,268 | 269 | +24 | 1,764 | 484,933 | 168 |
Image uploads to Wikimedia Commons
No new image uploads this month.
Press about the residency
- Edinburgh University searches for 'Wikimedians' - Edinburgh Evening News, 8th October 2015.
- University of Edinburgh to employ ‘Wikimedian in Residence’ web editor - The Student Newspaper.org, October 13th 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 - 2nd 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 13th June 2017.
- Congratulations to our Wikimedian of the Year - Wikimedia UK blog 1st 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 1st 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. 2nd December 2017.
- Wikipedia Games / SPLOTPoint - Anne-Marie Scott blog, January 1st 2018.
- 2017 Highs, Lows and Losses - Lorna Campbell blog, January 3rd 2018
- Wikipedia at 17 – Facts matter. - January 16th 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