Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/9th Month Report

Institution	Resident's Name	Period Covered	Date of Report
University of Edinburgh	Ewan McAndrew	12 September - 11 October 2016 (Ninth month of residency)	18 October 2016

Running total of staff & student engagement

Institution	Resident's Name	Number of students trained	Number of staff trained	Members of the public trained
University of Edinburgh	Ewan McAndrew	109	127	34

Activities

Event Name	Date	Location	Attendees	New Users	Gender breakdown
Reproductive Biomedicine research session for 4th year undergraduates	21st & 28th September 2016	University of Edinburgh David Hume Tower Room LG.07	39	39	100% female
Translation Studies MSc - 4000 word translation assignment	23rd & 30th September 2016	University of Edinburgh Computing Lab 1.02, 50 George Square	30	30	80% female
World Christianity MSc training session - Literature review assignment	5th October 2016	University of Edinburgh McIntyre Room, New College, Mound Pl, Edinburgh EH1 2LX	9	8	44% female
Ada Lovelace Day - Women in STEM editathon	11th October 2016	University of Edinburgh Training Room 1.12, Main Library, University of Edinburgh	13	7	77% female
Wikipedia editing training session	12th October 2016	University of Edinburgh David Hume Tower Room LG.07	2	2	50% female

Projects delivered

Strategic Goal 1

Increase the quality and quantity of coverage of subjects that are currently underrepresented on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects

Outcomes

Discussed with Assistant Principal Melissa Highton about holding a 'Languages of Britain' Wikipedia Conference in June at the university.
Finalised plans for the Women and Religion editathon at the School of Divinity on 2nd November 2016 in conjunction with WikiProject Women in Red.
Led a Reproductive Biomedicine Wikipedia Research session attended by 39 undergraduate students (The cohort were 100% female)
Held a Women in STEM Wikipedia editathon for Ada Lovelace Day on 11th October 2016 which garnered attention from STV News.
Led a Translation Studies MSc project to translate articles to different language Wikipedias.
Arranged meeting with the university's Gaelic Officer, Bria Mason, to discuss ways in which Wikimedia & the university's Gaelic Plan can support one another; in addition to supporting the upcoming role of Gaelic Wikipedian in Residence at the National Library of Scotland.
Discussed with Blythe Day of the Student Assocation at Edinburgh University ways in which Wikimedia can support diversity at the university through a proposed event during Gather Festival 2017.

Accounts created

6 during Ada Lovelace Day.
30 during Translation Studies MSc project.
39 created for the Reproductive Biomedicine project.

Image statistics

0 images uploaded to Commons.

All uploads can be monitored via Images uploaded in collaboration between WMUK and the University of Edinburgh

BaGLAMa (page views for Wikipedia articles containing images from the University of Edinburgh)

Total monthly page views for August 2016: 559,463

Strategic Goal 2

Support the development of open knowledge in the UK, by increasing the understanding and recognition of the value of open knowledge and advocating for change at an organisational, sectoral and public policy level

Outcomes

Contacted the Edinburgh Science Festival 2017 with a view to leading a session.
Discussing preparations for Library & Special Collections 'Taster' sessions taking place over the next couple of months.
Advocated for an image proposal for CC-BY images from the university's images.is.ed.ac.uk website which will hopefully be the first of many collections to move to an open basis.
Continuing discussions about the 12 new Wikimedia Ambassadors at the university can feasibly contribute to ensuring a sustained relationship with Wikimedia during the residency and post the residency.
Continung discussions advocating for student volunteers & requests for feedback for the Wikipedia and Libraries white paper.
Met with the Student Association's Sabbatical Officers and contacted each of the 260 Student Societies with a view to collaborating together.

Staff Workshops and Events

One Wikipedia training session took place for staff in October on the 12th of October. This has led to increased interest in Wiki Loves Monuments and further workshops planned for the Science & Engineering on 7th December 2016.

Media/Blogs

Strategic Goal 3

Outcomes

Ran a Wikipedia in the Classroom assignment in Reproductive Biomedicine to 4th year undergraduates - the intention is to video interview students on their experiences creating the 8 new Reproductive Biology articles and continue the assignment next year. Only this time as a summative assessment.
Ran a Wikipedia in the Classroom assignment in World Christianity MSc where students conduct a literature review to create unrepresented terms on World Christianity on Wikipedia.
Ran a Wikipedia in the Classroom assignment in Translation Studies MSc where students translate 4000 word articles from one language Wikipedia to another by the end of the semester as part of their independent study module. The intention is to continue this assignment next semester too.
Met with Peter Evans of the Digital Education MSc course as he is keen to include a Wikipedia element in the portfolio of digital skills portion of the Wider Themes module.
Met with course leaders from Social Anthropology to discuss a Wikipedia editathon assignment researching terms related to Social Anthropology as a starting point for future collaborations and assignments.
Met with course leaders from the Reid School of Music to discuss the residency, Wikipedia Education assignments and how they might go about including a Wikipedia assignment in their course design.
Discussed the Edinburgh Digital Ambassador programme with EUSA Sabbatical Officers and they are keen tnat students are rewarded for their interactions with Wikimedia either through course credits or through initiatives like the Edinburgh Digital Ambassador Scheme.
Continued planning arrangements with colleagues in Veterinary Medicine to run a) a further staff editathon on 26th October 2016 and b) their first student Wikipedia editing session (utilising Dr. Chris Harlow's Reproductive Medicine sessions as their guideline).

Upcoming events

October 20th - CILIP Scotland Autumn Gathering in Glasgow.
October 26th – Veterinary medicine editathon for staff at Easter Bush campus.
October 31st & November 1st – Samhuinn Wikipedia editathon:Gaelic Festival for the Dead.
November 2nd – Women and Religion Wikipedia editathon (in collaboration with WikiProject Women in Red).
November 7th – Wikipedia training workshop for staff & students.
November 12th - Edinburgh Gothic: Wikipedia editathon for Robert Louis Stevenson Day 2016.

Digital collections for release

Collections identified for potential future upload:

A request has been made to upload handpicked CC-BY images from the images.is.ed.ac.uk website. The request will be considered by the Centre for Research Collections senior management upon receipt of a completed proposal.

Lothian Health Service Archives blog pics images. The licensing of pics already uploaded to the LHSA blog has been queried. Awaiting response before any images can be uploaded.

Historic statistics

All uploads can be monitored via Images uploaded in collaboration between WMUK and the University of Edinburgh category

BaGLAMa (page views for Wikipedia articles containing images from the University of Edinburgh)

2016

April - Page Views - 339,725
May - Page Views - 194,744
June - Page Views - 1,757,088
July - Page Views - 1,639,858
Aug – Page Views 559,852

Content

I created a class assignment pages for Reproductive Biomedicine and Translation Studies with resources and how-to guides clearly laid out so the assignments can be repeated in the future.
I created a blog article for Ada Lovelace Day - Desperately Seeking Ada.
I created a blog article for Samhuinn: Gaelic Festival for the Dead- Samhuinn Gaelic editathon for the dead
I edited further videos from Repo Fringe 2016 (Intro to Wikisource) which have been uploaded to Youtube and migrated these across (along with now a total of 76 other media clips) to a newly created 'Wikimedian in Residence' channel on the the University of Edinburgh's 'Media Hopper' service.
I edited the 'Ada Lovelace Day: the Maths of Ada Lovelace' video by Dr. Chris Hollings from the University of Oxford and uploaded to Media hopper here.
Artwork for Ada Lovelace Day, Samhuinn and Edinburgh Gothic has all been successfully created and sent to the printers for processing.

Number of views of University of Edinburgh images in August

559,582 of which 300,221 views related to one image: 17th century map of Iceland (Gerardi Mercatoris Atlas, sive, Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura)

Total number of views (after 5 months):

4,490,997

Source: Baglama2

28 day Twitter summary (up to 18th October)

Tweets

 101 (up 23.2%)

Tweet impressions

 59.4K (up 2.2%)

Profile visits

 1400 (up 27.6%)

Mentions

 65 (up 80.6%)

Followers

 377 (up by 25)

Articles created

Reproductive Biomedicine assignment

World Christianity MSc - Literature review assignment (in progress)

New pages connected to the residency

Research page on Wikipedia in Higher Education

Ada Lovelace Day

Sheila May Edmonds - British mathematician, a Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, and Vice-Principal of Newnham College from 1960 to 1981.
Ann Katharine Mitchell - Decrypted messages encoded in the German Enigma cypher at Bletchley Park. Wrote several academic books about the psychological effects of divorce on children. Won a place to study maths at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford (1940–1943). At the time relatively few women went to Oxford and even fewer studied maths. There were only 5 women in Ann Williamson's year at Oxford and she remarked that the men coming to university had been taught maths much better at school than the girls. Indeed, it was suggested to her by the headmistress of her school that studying maths was "unladylike" and her parents had to overrule her school to allow her to take up her place at Oxford. Returned to university in 1970s to study social policy and in 1980 she graduated with a Master of Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh.
Margaret Marrs - Senior Operator of the original Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Computer (EDSAC). EDSAC was an early British computer constructed at the University of Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory in England, and the second electronic digital stored-program computer to go into regular service.
Code First: Girls - Not for Profit Social Enterprise that works exclusively with women in Britain to develop coding skills. The organisation promotes gender diversity and female participation in the technology sector by offering free and paid training and courses for students and professional women. It also supports businesses to train staff and develop talent management policies. As of June 2016, Code First: Girls is reported to have provided in excess of £1.5 million worth of free coding courses to more than 1,500 women since 2013.
PLUS another 5 Wikipedia articles were translated from English Wikipedia to Portuguese Wikipedia by Lucy Viegas using Wikipedia's new Content Translation tool.

Tamar Ziegler translated to Tamar Ziegler here. Ziegler is an Israeli mathematician known for her work in ergodic theory and arithmetic combinatorics. Much of her work has focused on arithmetic progressions, in particular extensions of the Green–Tao theorem.
Vyjayanthi Chari translated to Vyjayanthi Chari here. Chari is an Indian–American professor of mathematics at the University of California, Riverside, known for her research in representation theory and quantum algebra. In 2015 she was elected as a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
Stefanie Petermichl translated to Stefanie Petermichl here. German mathematical analyst who works as a professor at the University of Toulouse, in France. Topics of her research include harmonic analysis, several complex variables, stochastic control, and elliptic partial differential equations. She became a member of the Institut Universitaire de France in 2013.
Cornelia Druțu translated to Cornelia Druțu here. Romanian mathematician working in the areas of geometric group theory, topology, and ergodic theory and its applications to number theory. She is a fellow and a tutor in pure mathematics at Exeter College, and lecturer in the Oxford University's mathematical institute.
Mildred Sanderson translated to Mildred Sanderson here. American mathematician, best known for her mathematical theorem concerning modular invariants. She is mentioned in the book Pioneering women in American mathematics. A Mildred L. Sanderson prize for excellence in mathematics was established in her honor in 1939 at Mount Holyoke College.

Translation Studies MSc - 4000 word article translation in progress

Class list
#	Wiki Username	Chosen article(s)	Language translating from	Language Translating to	Newly translated article
1.	Stinglehammer	Barack Obama	English	Arabic	باراك أوباما
2.	Raghadalhabyan	الأدب العربي الحديث	Arabic	English
3.	YINGSHAN YUE	Long-toed salamander	English	Chinese
4.	XieTingting	The Portrait of a Lady The Wings of the Dove La Curee	English	Chinese
5.	Kingsley19941010	Crime in New York City	English	Chinese
6.	JLD1751	Osterreichisch-Ungarische Nordpolexpedition Frankfurter Hauserkampf Deutsche National hymne	German	English
7.	Zhangjing Lou	United States Presidential Election Debates	English	Chinese
8.	EmilieKi	Romanticism in Scotland	English	French
9.	Jaccon Pauline	Romanticism in Scotland	English	French
10.	Hoenir1	Various books by Jens Bjorneboe Johan Augustinussen Lerchendal gard	Norwegian (bokmal)	English
11.	LewisAlunWilliams	丸目長恵	Japanese	English
12.	Norah.Huzaim	ديةمهند أبو	Arabic	English
13.	Maxliu1993	Cosmetics in Ancient Rome Japanese street fashion	English	Chinese
14.	Zilingbai	The Penelopiad 北宋 - 维基百科，自由的百科全书	English Chinese	Chinese English
15	Bixuan Chen	The Book of Hours Letters to a Young Poet The Waves Flush: A Biography	English	Chinese
16	Roxana.franga	Anarchism in Chile	Spanish	English
17	JessieSHuang	Harry Potter influences and analogues	English	Chinese
18	YIFAN ZHAO	Art for Art's sake 唐宋與吐蕃關係史	English Chinese	Chinese English
19	Lorezunalv	Anarchism in Chile	Spanish	English
20	Cococui	Ichabod Crane Charlie Chaplin filmography	English	Chinese
21	Iraklisp	Ada Lovelace	English	Greek
22	Handedemirhan	Cultural studies	English	Turkish
23	S1235872	Anarchism in Chile	Spanish	English
24	Ayabelinda	Dick Turpin	English	Japanese
25	Qingshanzhuhun	Kray Twins	English	Chinese
26	Yuminlin	Self-efficacy	English	Chinese
27	Sariputrahan	Credentialism and educational inflation	English	Chinese
28	Huancarrie	The Wizarding World of Harry Potter (Universal Orlando Resort) Christianity in Morocco	English	Chinese
29	Matthewsher	Gypsy Jazz Chuck Schuldiner	English	Chinese
30	Kateplum07	Reactive attachment disorder	English	Chinese

Articles improved

Event pages improved

Articles improved - Ada Lovelace Day

Fpapado added place of education data (University of Edinburgh) to Mary Fergusson (Q37215) and created new improved Histropedia timeline of female graduates of University of Edinburgh working in mathematics and engineering.
FleetWolf added an infobox and added information to the early life and academic career sections of Nora Calderwood's page.
Catkop fixed links, references & formatting in Margaret Rock's page - Rock was an English cryptoanalyst who worked as a code-breaker at Bletchley Park during World War II.
Hwedinburgh doubled the size of the Athena SWAN page.
Strollerman improved links from Joan Robinson (British economist well known for her work on monetary economics) linked to John Eatwell(British economist and the current President of Queens' College, Cambridge) and then Nicholas Kaldor(Cambridge economist in the post-war period) linked to Joan Robinson. Text has been drafted in sandbox to improve the Cathie Marsh page. Marsh was a sociologist and statistician who lectured at the University of Cambridge and University of Manchester. The Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research (CMIST) at the University of Manchester was named following her early death from breast cancer, aged 41.
Spelling mistake fixed on the Sue Black (computer scientist) page.
Hut 6 linked to Ann Katharine Mitchell's page.
Mafrado learnt about Wikidata and improved the Wikidata list on female mathematicians. She also identified sources to create the Katherine Clerk Maxwell page.
LornaMCampbell expanded the 'Sweden' section in the Elizabeth Blackwell (illustrator) page which covers the fact that Blackwell has a genus of plants named after her.
Entrepreneur First improved by ETwomey making link to Code First: Girls

Articles improved - Reproductive Biomedicine assignment

Partnerships

Partnered with the Vet School to deliver the History of Veterinary Medicine editathon for staff on 26th October 2016 and one for students on 16th November 2016.
Partnered with Alice Doyle of the Lothian Health Service Archive to discuss ways in which they could release content openly and contribute to the History of Medicine event in February 2017.
Partnered with Yujia Xie to develop artwork for the Samhuinn editathon and Stuart Brett to develop artwork for the Ada Lovelace & Robert Louis Stevenson editathon.
Partnered with Gill Hamilton (National Library of Scotland) for the Edinburgh Gothic event - which will be supported, if not attended by Penny Fielding (Grierson Chair of English and Head of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh). The University of Sheffield's Centre for Gothic Studies are also wanting to be involved and/or run a synchronous event in Sheffield.
Partnered with Digital Curator Gavin Willshaw to run 'taster' training sessions for Library & Special Collections' staff and look into the best way of bulk importing CC-BY images from the Luna image database.
Partnered with Hamish Macleod of the PgCAP course to embed Wikipedia within the course design for future years and in a module on Gamification on the Digital Education MSc course.
Partnered with Kacper Lyskiewicz to review the 4 week Wikipedia training course we developed for the Online History MSc course on their VLE.
Partnered with Peter Evans, Sian Bayne & Christine Sinclair of the Digital Education MSc course to see if Wikipedia training can be embedded in their course design as part of the 'Wider Themes' module.
Partnered with James Smith (Vice Principal - International) to deliver an International Alumni editathon event in October 2016. (This has been put on the back-burner for now so maybe later in the session.)
Partnered with Alexander Chow to deliver a Wikipedia assignment on the World Christianity PGT course and to hold a Women and Religion editathon on 2nd November 2016 in collaboration with WikiProject Women in Red.
Partnered with Dr. Cathy Southworth (Centre for Regenerative Medicine) to run annual Eurostemcell editathons and also involving European partner labs; starting with a Copenhagen editathon on 30th November 2016.
Partnered with Histropedia's Navino Evans to create more helpful Wikidata video tutorials given the success of the first batch.
Partnered with Mairi Walker (Maths Engagement Officer) and Ben Goddard (Convenor of the Publicity and Outreach Committee for Maths) to support the Women in Maths aspect of Ada Lovelace Day 2016.
Partnered with Dr. Chris Harlow (Reproductive Biology)to deliver a Reproductive Medicine Wikipedia research session/ editathon on 21st & 28th September 2016.
Partnered with Wikiproject Women in Red's Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight & Penny Fielding to run Spy Week 2017 next year. Wikiproject Women in Red have also said they would like to help support our Women and Religion editathon on 2nd November.
Partnered with Dr. Charlotte Bosseaux to run a 4000 word translation assignment using Wikipedia this semester and in next semester's Translation Studies MSc course too.
Partnered with Emily Lyle and Neill Martin of the Scottish Studies faculty along with Lila & Dr. Neil Rhind at the Beltane.org to plan & deliver the Samhuinn editathon on 31st October & 1st November.

Planned activities

To lead a further Vet School Wikipedia training sessions on 26 October 2016 for staff and on 16th November for students.
To meet with History of Medicine experts, Iain McIntyre and David Wright, to discuss the History of Medicine 2017 editathon.
To lead the Between the worlds of the living and the dead editathon and the Edinburgh Gothic editathon.
To follow-up and document the Reproductive Medicine editathons on 21st & 28th September 2016 with video interviews and case studies.
To create further video tutorials for Wikidata & Wikisource to better support engagement & understanding of these two projects.
To convene working group meetings to further discuss the History of Medicine 2017 editathons with Surgeon's Hall and the Royal College of Physicians.
To follow up and continue supporting the Wikipedia assignments on the World Christianity MSc and Translation Studies MSc courses later this semester.
To create an explanatory page for Wikisource and one for Wikidata linked to the main WP:University of Edinburgh residency page.
To follow up with Social Anthropology about Wikipedia's involvement with the Social Anthropology course.
To further discuss the next EduWiki Conference 2017 at Middlesex University.
To discuss with Lorna Campbell & Melissa Highton whether the University of Edinburgh should hold its own Wikipedia Conference next year and the format it should take.
To meet with Bria Mason, the university's Gaelic Officer, to discuss how Wikimedia and the university's Gaelic plan can support one another.
To prepare for the Library & Special Collections 'taste' sessions in November.
Monthly Wikipedia editing training sessions have now been booked in for the whole semester up until Christmas - a room procured & booking page setup for each session.
To contact Rich Farnborough about using the AutoWikiBrowser tool for pulling in all the uncategorised images on WikiCommons uploaded in our earlier editathons.
To write more blog articles about the work we have been undertaking and have coming up.
To undertake preparatory research for our upcoming editathons and ensure the events are promoted properly.

Press about the residency

Media

Videos

The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Media Hopper now has 76 videos.
The Wikimedian in Residence channel on Youtube has 28 videos and 22 subscribers.

The latest ones are the 'Intro to Wikisource' and 'Ada Lovelace and her mentors' videos.

Pics from Ada Lovelace Day on 11 October 2016

Ada Lovelace Day 01
Ada Lovelace Day 05
Ada Lovelace Day 07
Ada Lovelace Day 08

Pics from the Wikipedia in the Classroom project in Reproductive Biomedicine on 21st & 28th September 2016

Reproductive Biomedicine 03
Reproductive Biomedicine 04
Reproductive Biomedicine 05
Reproductive Biomedicine 07
Reproductive Biomedicine 08
Reproductive Biomedicine 09
Reproductive Biomedicine 10
Reproductive Biomedicine 12
Reproductive Biomedicine 13
Reproductive Biomedicine 15
Reproductive Biomedicine 18
Reproductive Biomedicine 20
Reproductive Biomedicine 22

Projects in Development

'150 years since the foundation of Regius Chair of Engineering' - Professor Gordon Masterton at the School of Engineering has contacted me about a possible collaboration with a view to this anniversary in 2017/2018. Update 18/10 - Have followed up on this and Gordon Masteron has confirmed they would like to run a Wikipedia event for this anniversary.
'International alumni - Vice Principal (International), James Smith, has been authorised to erect a number of blue plaques celebrating the contribution of Edinburgh University's international alumni on the international stage. I have been tasked with identifying suitably notable subjects for our historians to investigate & help create articles on. (To be confirme). - Update 18/10 - Have chased up on this and offered support but no word as yet.
Vet School editing training for Staff CPD - mooted for October/November 2016. Update 18/10 - This is now going ahead with a Veterinary Medicine staff event on 26th October 2016 and one for students on 16th November 2016.
A continuation of the Eurostemcell editathon - with European partner labs this time - In discussions with Dr. Cathy Southworth about holding an editing session in late Autumn with a Danish partner lab. Update 14/09 - The editathon is going ahead in a European partner lab in Copenhagen on 30th November now that a Danish Wikipedia trainer has been sourced.
Digital Education MSc - Discussions to take place about how to embed an element of Wikipedia training within this course on the Wider Themes module. Update 18/10 - Met with Peter Evans and discussed all the different options available for student involvement. To be continued.
National Library of Scotland - Kelvinhall relaunch Wikimedia event - To be confirmed as project is delayed. Update 18/10 - The KelvinHall has just opened as of 14th September and Gill Hamilton has said they would b ready for an editathon in Spring 2017.
Edinburgh Gothic - Planned in for 12th November which will cover art, architecture, music, literature (historic and contemporary), film. Penny Fielding at the English Literature department is supporting the project as are the National Library of Scotland (hosting the event), the National Galleries of Scotland and the University of Sheffield's Centre for Gothic Studies.
Translate-a-thon - Reaching out to international students to translate articles from English Wikipedia to their own native language Wikipedia. Training sessions were held on 23rd September 2016 and 30th September as part of the Translation studies MSc course and the students have until the end of the semester to complete the assignment. Early indications are that this worked extremely well and can be continued in future semesters at the course leader's request.
Festival of Architecture 2016 - Have contacted a number of people at the Edinburgh College of Art and at the Festival of Architecture itself about potentially running an architecture-themed editathon to celebrate the Festival of Architecture 2016.Update 16/09 - The finale for FOA is 18th November 2016 so have put out feelers to FOA and the Edinburgh College of Art about whether we could put something on for this event.
Between the worlds of the living and the dead - An editathon for Halloween/Samhain 2016 celebrating the lives of those who have passed on through creating Wikipedia pages utilising obituaries from Scottish newspaper archives and celebrating Celtic history & folklore.
The Library & University Collections - a number of recommendations have been submitted to the L&UC team for suggested editathon events which may be the best vehicle for making best use of their collection materials and opening them up to a global community. Taster training sessions have been identified as the way to take this forward.
Year of History, Heritage and Archaeology - Cara Jones, Adopt-a-Monument Project Manager from Archaeology Scotland, has suggested a collaboration on an archaeology editathon, which was one of my suggestions to the L&UC team.
Botanic Concrete - Govanhill Community Editathon collaboration proposed with Viviana Checchia, Public Engagement Curator at the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow.
Divinity editathon - to be held at New College on 2nd November in conjunction with WikiProject Women in Red.
The History of Nursing editathon - mooted for Friday 4th November 2016. Liaising with Marshall Dozier, Academic Support Librarian, about this and about potentially being involved in educating secondary school children about information literacy through Wikipedia. Update 18/10 - This will now be included in the History of Medicine 2017 editathon we have planned for 23-24 February 2017.