* ”’NLHF application”’ – E. McAndrew contributing to discussions and strategy documents about the NLHF bid application about creating a ‘golden copy’ of the historic data on Scotland’s accused witches.
* ”’NLHF application”’ – E. McAndrew contributing to discussions and strategy documents about the NLHF bid application about creating a ‘golden copy’ of the historic data on Scotland’s accused witches.
*”’300th anniversary of the Medical School”’ – E. McAndrew has been invited to support preparations for the University’s celebrations next year for the 300th anniversary of the Medical School.
*”’300th anniversary of the Medical School”’ – E. McAndrew has been invited to support preparations for the University’s celebrations next year for the 300th anniversary of the Medical School.
*”’Jewish Staff Network editathon”’ – EM and MH liaising with Dr. Itamar Kastner to prepare, promote and deliver an editathon in collaboration with the Jewish Staff Network.
*”’Jewish Staff Network editathon”’ – EM and MH liaising with Dr. Itamar Kastner to prepare, promote and deliver an editathon in collaboration with the Jewish Staff Network
* ”’Wikimedia in the Curriculum:”’ (1) Global Health Challenges Pg Online assignment (2) Korean Studies MSc workshop (3) Chinese Politics workshop (4) Online History MSc discussion with students.
* ”’Wikimedia in the Curriculum:”’ (1) Global Health Challenges Pg Online assignment (2) Korean Studies MSc workshop (3) Chinese Politics workshop (4) Online History MSc discussion with students.
* ”’Recruitment of Assistant Wikimedian in Residence:”’ Advert went live for part-time one year role in October 2025. 24 applications received. Interviews to take place in mid November 2025.
* ”’Recruitment of Assistant Wikimedian in Residence:”’ Advert went live for part-time one year role in October 2025. 24 applications received. Interviews to take place in mid November 2025.
* ”’Philosophy and Epistemic Justice”’ – EM to meet Philosophy Society students on 7 November 2025 to start organising an editathon for January 2026 on ‘Philisophy and epistemic justice’ aimed for staff and students.
* ”’Philosophy and Epistemic Justice”’ – EM to meet Philosophy Society students on 7 November 2025 to start organising an editathon for January 2026 on ‘Philisophy and epistemic justice’ aimed for staff and students.
* ”’Geographical Outreach”’ – EM and line manager Tess Higgins creating a plan to reach out and attend different geographical parts of the wider University estate to refresh our offering to colleagues and raise awareness of our services.
==Upcoming events in 2025==
==Upcoming events in 2025==
NB: The resident was on annual leave from 1 September to 14 September.
- Recruitment of Assistant Wikimedian in Residence: Advert went live for part-time one year role in October 2025. 24 applications received by 29th Oct. Interviews to take place in mid November 2025.
- Wikimedia in the Curriculum – The following Wikimedia in the curriculum projects are in progress for academic year 2025/2026.
- Online History MSc – Professor Charles West (discussion & editing assignment on 7 November 2025).
- Gender and Politics – Dr Sarah Liu (1hr training workshop on 22 October 2025)
- Global Health Challenges Pg Online – Dr. Evelyn Balsells. (4 week assignment started 16th October 2025).
- Korean Studies MSc and East Asian Studies MSc – Dr. Youngmi Kim. (2hr training workshop on 16 October 2025)
- Information and Data Literacy internship – Dervla Craig concluded her 12-week f/t internship on 29 August 2025 to support the creation of a National Lottery Heritage Fund bid related to supporting and preserving the Scottish Accused Witches dataset in the longer term. She is continuing in the role on a one day a week part-time basis until Christmas 2025.
- Ada Lovelace Day 2025 – EM has liaised with the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, the Paleontology Society, CompSoc, Edinburgh Hoppers, and Geosciences Society to have a series of lightning talks and crowdsourced ideas for the editathon.
- Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia – 55–80hr Edinburgh Award– 24 students have now registered for this extracurricular accredited project where students volunteer to improve topic coverage on Wikipedia for 55-80hrs from 21 October until 31 March 2026.
- EMS300 – EM to support the EMS300’s organisers’ plans for the University of Edinburgh’s celebration of 300 year anniversary of its Medical School. There looks to be a funded Student Experience Grant application arising from this related to a project theme of 300 Faces from EMS300.
- Wikimedia talk at Edinburgh Future’s Institute – EM and Dr. Melissa Highton introduced Wikimedia LLC’s Senior Director, Lane Becker, at his presentation on “The Future of Free” with 100 signups at the Edinburgh Future’s Institute on 22nd October 2025.
- Jewish Staff Network editathon – EM and MH liaising with Dr. Itamar Kastner to prepare, promote and deliver an editathon in collaboration with the Jewish Staff Network and student society for February 2026.
- 85 images contributed for Wiki Loves Monuments 2025.
| 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 | 402 | 2,331 | 717 | 781 | 172 | 2,410 | 16,347 |
Hold equity, diversity and inclusion at the heart of the organisation and our charitable activities, increasing the involvement and representation of the global majority and other minoritised groups and subjects.
- E. McAndrew and D. Craig met with Wikipedia in the Curriculum educator Dr. Sarah Liu on 6 August 2025 to interview her about her recent Wikimedia work teaching Gender and Politics at the University.
- Ada Lovelace Day day – E. McAndrew hosted a series of lightning talks on 14 October celebrating women in STEM from the student Paleontology Society, student Computing Society, Edinburgh Hoppers (Informatics students), Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and the Molly Ferguson Initiative for Women in Engineering.
- Women Medical Doctors in the UK (1877-1914) – E. McAndrew continuing to support Emeritus Professor Roger Jeffrey to import UoE datashare data into Wikidata about 1,400+ brilliant women medical doctors who qualified in the United Kingdom in 1877-1914 and went on to play important roles during the First World War and afterwards both at home and across the world. Roger has been adding referencing to Wikidata and 1893 images to Wikimedia Commons.
- Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia – 55–80hr Edinburgh Award – 24 registered and attended the first mandatory meeting on 21 October 2025.
- EMS300 – EM discussed how the Wikimedia projects could support the EMS300’s organisers’ plans for the University of Edinburgh’s celebration of 300 year anniversary of its Medical School through a Student Experience Grant application.
- Jewish Staff Network editathon – EM and MH liaising with Dr. Itamar Kastner to prepare, promote and deliver an editathon in collaboration with the Jewish Staff Network. This is pencilled in for Wed 4th February 2026.
Women in Red workshops
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Two new ‘Wikipedia Women in Red’ workshops (#96 and #97) took place in the month of October.
The first was held on Tuesday 14 October 2025 at the University of Edinburgh’s Main Library for Ada Lovelace Day 2025.
- 7 attendees.
- 3 articles edited.
- 38 edits.
- 647 words added.
- 5 references added.
The second was held on Friday 31 October 2025 at the University of Edinburgh’s Main Library for Halloween.
- 12 attendees.
- 4 articles created.
- 15 articles edited.
- 174 edits.
- 6,170 words added.
- 61 references added.
Activities delivered with stats:
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Partnership interactions
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- Women Medical Doctors in the UK (1877-1914) – E. McAndrew continuing to support Emeritus Professor Roger Jeffrey via MS Teams to import UoE datashare data into Wikidata about 1,400+ brilliant women medical doctors who qualified in the United Kingdom in 1877-1914 and went on to play important roles during the First World War and afterwards both at home and across the world. 442 women have now been added to Wikidata and map visualisations depicting their place of birth, place of education and place of death. Referencing is next as well as discussions over uploading images taken in 1893 of the medical students.
- EMS300 – EM visited the Little France campus on 14 August 2025 to discuss how the Wikimedia projects could support the EMS300’s organisers’ plans for the University of Edinburgh’s celebration of 300 year anniversary of its Medical School.
Image statistics – for the months of September and October 2025
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| UoE Centre for Research Collections images | Total for September 2025 | 1,149,984 views |
| All images uploaded in collaboration between WMUK and the University of Edinburgh | Total for September 2025 | 2,237,714 views |
The most viewed images for September 2025 across all Wikipedias were:
Support the public’s ability to make informed decisions about critical issues by developing information literacy skills, promoting digital citizenship, advocating for the responsible use of AI, and campaigning for public policy measures that support and sustain a healthy information ecosystem
Information and Data Literacy internship
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- Information and Data Literacy internship – Dervla Craig concluded her 12-week f/t internship on 29 August 2025 to support the creation of a National Lottery Heritage Fund bid related to supporting and preserving the Scottish Accused Witches dataset in the longer term. She will continue in the role on a one day a week part-time basis until Christmas 2025. Latest developments include sending a one page A4 description of our project proposal to the National Museum of Scotland as of 3rd November 2025 by way of initiating a partnership discussion. We will next meet with colleagues at the University with expertise in public enaggement in research and also send a project enquiry to the National Lottery Heritage Fund for comment.
Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia – 55–80hr Edinburgh Award
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- First meeting held on 21st October 2025 – 24 registered students. Next step is they submit their 400 word project plans by 10th November at latest.
New digital skills workshops
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- A new list of Edinburgh Award workshops and Digital Skills workshops has been submitted to the Digital Skills Design and Training team administrator for Semester One for academic year 2025/2026. Semester Two workshops to be submitted 15th November 2025.
Workshops that took place in September and October 2025 included:
- Editing and Illustrating Wikipedia 1hr workshop, 24th September, 2 attendees (students).
- Women in Medicine (1877-1914) project – 1hr workshop on uploading images to Commons, 25th September, 1 attendee (staff).
- Monthly Wikipedia editing workshop, 31st October, 12 attendees (students, staff, public).
- Global Health Challenges Pg Online workshop (1.5hrs), 16 October, 9 attendees (29 students taking part in assignment in total).
- Korean Studies MSc and East Asian Studies MSc workshop (2hrs), 16th October, 15 attendees (students).
- Chinese Politics MSc workshop (1hr), 22 October, ~40 student attendees (approx).
November 2025 will include:
- Edinburgh Award – Wikipedia training, 5th November.
- Teaching with Wikipedia 1hr workshop, 5th November.
- Online History MSc assignment, 7th November.
- Edinburgh Award – Wikipedia project page creation, 19th November.
- Wikipedia and AI seminar, 1 hr, 19 November.
- Monthly Wikipedia editing workshop, 28th November.
Activities with stats:
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| Event Name | Date and duration | Location | Attendees | New editors | Presenter | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Editing and Illustrating Wikipedia | 24 September 2025, 1 hour | University of Edinburgh Main Library | 2 | 2 | Ewan McAndrew | 2 interested students stayed for extra 30-45 mins afterwards. |
| Women in Medicine (1877-1914) project | 25 September 2025, 1 hour | Teams meeting | 1 | 1 | Ewan McAndrew | Prof. Roger Jeffrey needed support uploading images to Commons. |
| Global Health Challenges Pg Online | 16 October 2025, 1 hour | Blackboard Colloborate meeting | 9 | 9 | Ewan McAndrew | 29 students taking part in total in this group editing assignment over next 4-6 weeks on natural and manmade disasters. |
| Korean Studies MSc and East Asian Studies MSc | 16 October 2025, 2 hours | In person, 50 George Square Computer Labs | 15 | 15 | Ewan McAndrew | 15-20 students approx. trained during this 2hr one-off discussion & workshop. |
| Chinese Politics MSc | 22 October 2025, 1 hour | In person, Patersons Land campus | 40 | 40 | Ewan McAndrew | ~40 students approx. trained during this 1hr one-off discussion & workshop as part of an editing assignment on Chinese politics. |
Partnership interactions
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See below for all partnership interactions and enquiries. The following Wikimedia in the curriculum projects are being arranged for academic year 2025/2026.
- Online History MSc – Professor Charles West.
- Gender and Politics – Dr Sarah Liu.
- Global Health Challenges Pg Online – Dr. Evelyn Balsells.
- Korean Studies MSc and East Asian Studies MSc – Dr. Youngmi Kim.
EM has also reached out to the new course leaders on the Design Informatics MA/MFA to see if there is any appetite for more collaborations when teaching practical data skills to their Masters students.
Increase free, verified and open access to knowledge and information about the climate crisis and other important topics, by delivering impactful projects with relevant partners, and advocating for the release of content.
- Ada Lovelace Day planning – E. McAndrew and C. Farley have taken part in the working group meetings to plan and prepare for Ada Lovelace Day 2025 at the University. Theme is likely to be Earth Sciences and Climate Change and have a women in archaeology and paelaeontology themed editathon. EM has liaised with the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, the Paleontology Society, CompSoc, Edinburgh Hoppers, and Geosciences Society to have lightning talks and crowdsourcing ideas for the editathon.
- Dervla Craig has written her second blogpost about her internship and this has been shared with the Project Team for approval before it can be published.
- Ewan McAndrew published a blogpost on the 2024/2025 Edinburgh Award achievers to promote registration for this year’s 2025/2026 award.
- Throughout August EM posted on BlueSky and LinkedIn about Wikimania (the annual Wikimedia Conference) and the outcomes of the August Wikipedia editathon with UoE interns. 265 impressions and 167 members reached.
Activities delivered with stats:
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- Supporting new case studies – E. McAndrew met with and interviewed Huw Halstead, History lecturer at the University of Edinburgh to find out about his Wikipedia in the Curriculum assignments. A further interview has been arranged for 6 August with lecturer in Politics, Dr. Sarah Liu, to learn more about her Wikipedia in the Curriculum experiences.
- Wikibase explainer videos – J. Evans at National Library of Wales has added animation graphics to these videos recorded at the University of Edinburgh – just need to amend the captioning so these videos can be published and shared openly.
- Wikimedia talk at Edinburgh Future’s Institute – EM and Dr. Melissa Highton invited to introduce Wikimedia Enterprise’s Senior Director, Lane Becker, when he is due to give a keynote presentation at the EFI on 22nd October 2025.
- Student interns – Ben Young, one of our ISG Summer interns, has added details of Wikipedia editing workshops to the Learn Foundations student interns’ Sharepoint site to encourage takeup of Wikipedia workshops in future years.
- Edinburgh Book Festival 2025 – The Survey of Scottish Witchcraft and our Map of Accused Witches in Scotland open data project got mentioned during a Book Festival talk on Sunday 17th August 2025, Women not Witches.
Partnership interactions
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The Wikimedian in Residence received enquiries in September 2025 from: Kathleen Mansfield (Borders playwright); Ellie Whitehead (UoE PhD student); Emeritus Professor Roger Jeffery; Christopher McKenzie (Head of Digital Education Unit, Edinburgh Medical School); Dr. YoungMi Kim (Uoe Lecturer in Korean Studies MSc); Jason Evans (National Library of Wales); Dr. Sarah Liu (UoE lecturer in Gender and Politics); Dr. Evelyn Balsells (UoE lecturer in Global Health Challenges); Mandy Dalgleish (Researcher in Scottish witchcraft); Niki Vermeulen (UoE Curious Edinburgh); Laura Beattie (L&UC Engagement Officer); Patricia Erskine (EFI); Liam Wyatt (Wikimedia LLC); Gina Helfrich (EFI); Dr. Oisin Plumb (UHI); Tatjana Baleta (Wikimedian in Residence for Climate at the Global Systems Institute).
The Wikimedian in Residence received enquiries in October 2025 from:
- Year five of the Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia Edinburgh Award (October 2025 to March 2026) is now open for student participation. First meeting was held on 21 October 2025. 24 registered students.
- ‘How & why’ short video explainers for Wikibase: Jason Evans, National Library of Wales, to finish editing the two ‘how & why’ short video explainers for Wikibase for researchers/dataset holders following our recording session earlier this year.
- UK Women doctors dataset – E. McAndrew continues supporting Professor Roger Jeffrey (UoE SPS) to process an MS Access spreadsheet database of 1,400+ UK Women doctors to be shared as linked open data to Wikidata and/or Wikibase as part of a Research Data Service project with interns.
- Edinburgh theses – E. McAndrew liaising with Alasdair MacDonald, Library and University Collections, to discuss the Edinburgh Research Archive thesis metadata and how it could be processed into Wikidata as linked open data. Awaiting first subset of the data to model.
- NLHF application – E. McAndrew contributing to discussions and strategy documents about the NLHF bid application about creating a ‘golden copy’ of the historic data on Scotland’s accused witches.
- 300th anniversary of the Medical School – E. McAndrew has been invited to support preparations for the University’s celebrations next year for the 300th anniversary of the Medical School.
- Jewish Staff Network editathon – EM and MH liaising with Dr. Itamar Kastner to prepare, promote and deliver an editathon in collaboration with the Jewish Staff Network for 4th February 2026.
- Wikimedia in the Curriculum: (1) Global Health Challenges Pg Online assignment (2) Korean Studies MSc workshop (3) Chinese Politics workshop (4) Online History MSc discussion with students.
- Recruitment of Assistant Wikimedian in Residence: Advert went live for part-time one year role in October 2025. 24 applications received. Interviews to take place in mid November 2025.
- Philosophy and Epistemic Justice – EM to meet Philosophy Society students on 7 November 2025 to start organising an editathon for January 2026 on ‘Philisophy and epistemic justice’ aimed for staff and students.
- Geographical Outreach – EM and line manager Tess Higgins creating a plan to reach out and attend different geographical parts of the wider University estate to refresh our offering to colleagues and raise awareness of our services.
- Ada Lovelace Day planning meeting, 8 September.
- Approval for National Lottery Heritage Fund Bid Plans with Dr Melissa Highton, 9 September.
- Edinburgh Award mentors meeting, 15 September.
- Edinburgh Award planning meeting with C. Farley, 17 September.
- Ada Lovelace Day planning meeting, 22 September.
- NLHF planning meeting with Roy Biddle (UoE Development and Alumni), 24 September.
- NLHF catchup meeting with Dervla Craig, 24 September.
- Wikipedia editing workshop (1hr), 24 September.
- Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons support for Professor Roger Jeffrey, 25 September.
New videos and podcasts
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- No new videos or podcasts this month. However, Jason Evans has edited the two videos explaining Wikibase we recorded in March 2025 so that they now include animation cutaways and are nearing readiness for publishing.
Wikimedian in Residence – University of Edinburgh Media Hopper channel
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1 September 2025 to 31 October 2025
| Number of videos | Impressions | Minutes viewed | Number of plays since 1 Sept 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 437 | 7,123 | 2,131 | 674 |
Wikimedian in Residence – YouTube channel
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- The Wikimedian in Residence channel on YouTube which has now received over 608,774 views in total of its 153 videos with 2,153 subscribers. These videos have been viewed in 168 countries around the world over the course of the channel’s lifetime.
| Number of videos | Views in Sept & Oct 2025 | Hours watched in Sept & Oct 2025 | New subscribers | Total subscribers | Total views | Total number of countries viewing the channel |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 153 | 11,324 | 326.8 | +26 | 2,153 | 602,151 | 168 |
Media uploads to Wikimedia Commons
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- Edinburgh University searches for ‘Wikimedians’ – Edinburgh Evening News, 8 October 2015.
- University of Edinburgh to employ ‘Wikimedian in Residence’ web editor – The Student Newspaper.org, October 13, 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 – 2 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 13 June 2017.
- Congratulations to our Wikimedian of the Year – Wikimedia UK blog 1 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 1 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. 2 December 2017.
- Wikipedia Games / SPLOTPoint – Anne-Marie Scott blog, January 1 2018.
- 2017 Highs, Lows and Losses – Lorna Campbell blog, January 3, 2018
- Wikipedia at 17 – Facts matter. – January 16, 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
- Teaching data literacy with real world (witchy) datasets – WiR blog.
- Wikipedia editing for World Music Day 2024 – WiR blog.
- Wikimania 2024: A Conference of Collaboration, Learning and Culture – Witchcraft Visualisation blog by Wikidata Data Visualisation intern, Ruby Imrie.
- Scotland Loves Monuments 2024 – WiR blog.
- Witch Lore and Scottish Castles September Editathon – Ellie Whitehead on the WiR blog.
- Celtic Knot Wikipedia Language Conference – “Strength in Unity” – E. McAndrew on the WiR blog.
- The Final Countdown – Ruby Imrie on the Witchract Visualisation blog.
- Final Reflections on my Wikipedia Journey – Ellie Whitehead on the WiR blog.
- Wikipedia and artificial intelligence – WiR blog.
- Booklet of 21 case studies of Wikimedia in UK education – Open.Ed
- Mapping the Accused Witches of Scotland in place and time (Open Ed blog)
- Preserving Scottish (witchy) heritage – WiR blog written by student intern, Dervla Craig.
- Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia – open for 2025/2026 student participation
- Separating Legend from Legacy: Remembering the Accused Witches of Scotland – Dervla Craig on the WiR blog.
- Ten years of Ada Lovelace Day at the University of Edinburgh – WiR blog.
