Dear colleagues,
We have a number of exciting Wikipedia editing events coming up in Edinburgh this Summer
which are free to attend and open to all! Please disseminate to interested colleagues in
your networks as appropriate.
* 31 May - Women in Red editing
workshop<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh…
at University of Edinburgh Library. Monthly editing workshop open to all with a special
focus on creating new biographies of inspirational women missing from the free and open
online encyclopedia.
* 5 June - Young Academy Scotland editing
event<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh/Ev…
at the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Creating new entries for female fellows of the RSE and
celebrating Women in STEM.
* 20 June - Conectando: Scottish Encounters with Spanish &
Portuguese<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinbur…
(inc. Tour of exhibition). Celebrating 100 years of the Spanish Degree at the University
of Edinburgh, this exhibition and editing event is arranged into five themed sections:
Learning; The Student Experience; Journeys; Treasures; and Solidarity (the latter with a
particular focus on Chile under Pinochet, and the Spanish Civil War).
* 10 July - Feminist Writers editing
event<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh/Ev…
at the Chrystal Macmillan Building, Edinburgh. Guest talk from Liz Stanley and a focus on
feminist writers, their works and the Olive Schreiner archive. Booking to open shortly so
please save the date.
Find out more:
* about Wikipedia at 18 years
old<https://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wir/the-internets-favourite-website-for-information/>
and the Wikimedia Residency at University of
Edinburgh<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburg…gh>.
* our video channel on Media
Hopper<https://media.ed.ac.uk/channel/Wikimedian%2Bin%2BResidence%2BChannel/51020161>
and video about the
residency<https://media.ed.ac.uk/playlist/dedicated/51020161/1_h7l8sw8a/1_0vpvvye1>.
* our presentation at the recent LILAC Information Literacy
conference<https://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wir/wikimedia-at-the-lilac-information-literacy-conference-2019/><https://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wir/the-internets-favourite-website-for-information/>.
* the Times Higher Education article: Teaching intelligence: putting Wikipedia at the
heart of a
class<https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/teaching-intelligence-pu…
- Like it or not, Wikipedia is used by students around the world – so academics should
teach them how to use it, writes Caroline Ball.
"It is amazing that humanity has managed to produce Wikipedia.
Somebody recently said "You know what? For all of the defending of the open net and
the open web, it would have been worth it if we just got Wikipedia."
- Sir Tim Berners-Lee, 29 May 2018 giving his Turing Award lecture in
Amsterdam.<https://youtu.be/BaMa4u4Fio4>
Best wishes,
Ewan McAndrew
The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with
registration number SC005336.