Dear colleagues,
The annual conference for Wikipedia and its sister projects,
Wikimania<https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Program>am>, took place last week
(13-17 August) with a range of interesting talks about how knowledge is currently created,
curated and contested online now curated on our Media Hopper
channel<https://media.ed.ac.uk/channel/Wikimedian%2Bin%2BResidence%2BChannel/51020161>
including:
*
Preventing COVID-19 misinformation: Wikipedia, public health experts, and news
media<https://media.ed.ac.uk/playlist/dedicated/51020161/1_sj3h9a73/1_ffrqsw35>
*
An overview of the COVID-19-related content of Wikimedia
projects<https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/An+overview+of+the+COVID-19-related+content+of+Wikimedia+projects/1_jpieil3i>
*
Wikipedia and the Collaborative
Humanities<https://media.ed.ac.uk/playlist/dedicated/51020161/1_fkz9yu7y/1_jwnfyvfq>
*
NEW Wikimedia projects - WikiFunctions and Abstract
Wikipedia<https://media.ed.ac.uk/playlist/dedicated/51020161/1_fkz9yu7y/1_2eoce2bg>
*
Improving Wiki counter vandalism into the
2020's<https://media.ed.ac.uk/playlist/dedicated/51020161/1_fkz9yu7y/1_bznpco5i>
*
Sharing decolonization strategies throughout Wikimedia
projects<https://media.ed.ac.uk/playlist/dedicated/51020161/1_fkz9yu7y/1_wuw0vej9>
*
Wikimedia and Sustainability-Selecting topics for
impact<https://media.ed.ac.uk/playlist/dedicated/51020161/1_sj3h9a73/1_gm4q2s8v>
*
Exploring a cultural gap on Wikimedia: the case of the visual
arts<https://media.ed.ac.uk/playlist/dedicated/51020161/1_sj3h9a73/1_yj7kgkex>
*
Can we rid Wikipedia of its content gender
gap?<https://media.ed.ac.uk/playlist/dedicated/51020161/1_fkz9yu7y/1_n08gcokd>
*
and many many more.
Also, if you are interested in editing Wikipedia then please join us tomorrow for our 52nd
monthly
workshop<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-in-red-event-adding-inspiring-women-missing-from-wikipedia-tickets-165738928597>:
Women in Red
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-in-red-event-adding-inspiring-women-missing-from-wikipedia-tickets-165738928597>
- a Wikipedia editing event celebrating the lives and contributions of all the inspiring
women of Scotland (and beyond) missing from the world's go-to site for information
(and where currently only 19.04% of biographies are about women).
* Wikipedia is the 5th most visited website in the world but lacks diversity in its
editors and its
articles<https://www.theguardian.com/careers/2019/nov/28/making-the-edit…er>.
This event will focus on improving the representation of inspiring women online. Only
18.7% of biographies on Wikipedia are about women meaning so many are missing from our
search results.
Participants will learn how to edit Wikipedia pages during an online webinar and will be
supported over the afternoon to help create new pages for notable individuals who are not
currently on Wikipedia. Suggested worklist
here<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh/Eve…
but you are free to edit on any topic. No prior knowledge required as training will be
provided for those with no Wikipedia editing experience.
You'll learn a new digital skill in a social & supportive setting and meet
like-minded event participants all passionate about improving representation online to
help close the gender gap for the benefit of millions of readers all around the world.
Join us as we help make Wikipedia
better!<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-in-red-event-adding-inspiring-women-missing-from-wikipedia-tickets-165738928597>
Want to suggest a collaboration?
Get in touch! The university's Wikimedia
residency<https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/help-consultancy/is-skills/wikimedia>
is a free resource available to all staff and students to learn how to benefit from and
contribute to the free and open Wikimedia projects and includes advice on citing
Wikipedia<https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/help-consultancy/is-skills/wikimedia/wikipedia/citing>,
teaching with Wikipedia
<https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/help-consultancy/is-skills/wikimedia/wikipedia/wikipedia-teaching>
and more. We've recently worked on projects to improve coverage of Islamic
Art<https://www.teaching-matters-blog.ed.ac.uk/editing-wikipedia-stars-robots-and-talismans-honours-course/>,
Scotland's links with slavery on
Wikipedia<https://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wir/scotland-slavery-and-black-history-and-wikipedia/>
and created new pages covering the history of HIV/AIDS awareness and activism in
Scotland<https://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wir/telling-the-history-of-hiv-and-aids-activism-in-scotland-on-wikipedia/>.
Best wishes,
Ewan McAndrew
Wikimedian in Residence
Website for the
residency<https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/help-consultancy/is-skills/wikimedia>
and Map of Accused Witches site<http://witches.is.ed.ac.uk/>
Email: ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk<mailto:ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk> Blog: WiR
blog<https://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wir/>
Tel: 07867 593450 Subscribe to the Scotwiki mailing
list<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSctpnDjO_PHZeOTrA0yjtVLqE4…
My working hours are 9:30am to 5:30pm Monday to Friday.
Wikipedia Project Page:
Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedi…
Media Hopper channel: Videos and video
tutorials<https://media.ed.ac.uk/channel/Wikimedian%2Bin%2BResidence%2BChannel/51020161>
YouTube: Wikimedian in Residence
channel<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSDRSVKM4ceUSPI-7-BFeoQ?view_as…
Wikimedia in Education: New booklet of UK Case
Studies<https://open.ed.ac.uk/wikimedia-in-education/>
Join Wikimedia in Scotland<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Wikimedia_in_Scotland>
events and UoE
events<https://www.events.ed.ac.uk/index.cfm?eventssearch=wikipedia&event=search&eventStart=0&eventProviderId=&cw_inChannelLink=1&cw_passThrough=marked>.
The University of Edinburgh, Floor H (West), Argyle House, 3 Lady Lawson Street,
Edinburgh, EH3 9DR.
www.ed.ac.uk<http://www.ed.ac.uk/>
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registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th' ann an Oilthigh Dhùn
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