Dear colleagues,
Invitation to Ada Lovelace Day 2017
The University of Edinburgh’s Information Services team would like to invite you our 2017
Ada Lovelace Day event<http://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/ada-lovelace-day/> on Tuesday 10
October: celebrating Women in STEM. The sessions are free, open to all and are now live
for
booking<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh/…es>.
The event is being held at the James Clerk Maxwell Building and this year there is a
special focus on Women in Chemistry and the 19 petitioners to the Royal Society of
Chemistry in 1904<http://research.library.mun.ca/506/1/pounding_on_the_doors.pdf>.
· 11am to 2pm: Talks and Fun Science/Tech activities. (Book your
place).<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh/…
· 2pm to 5pm: a Wikipedia edit-a-thon to create/improve pages on Women in STEM while
indulging in Ida
Freund’s<http://www.rsc.org/diversity/175-faces/all-faces/ida-freund> Periodic Table
cupcakes<http://www.rsc.org/diversity/175-faces/all-faces/ida-freund>nd>. (Book your
place<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh/Ev…)M>).
· 5pm to 6:15pm: Film screening of A Chemical
Imbalance<http://www.chemicalimbalance.ed.ac.uk/> and panel discussion chaired by
Anne-Marie Scott with Professor Polly
Arnold,<http://www.ed.ac.uk/equality-diversity/celebrating-diversity/inspiring-women/academic-staff/polly-arnold>
Professor Jane
Norman<http://www.ed.ac.uk/centre-reproductive-health/professor-jane-norman> and Dr.
Carole Morrison<http://www.chem.ed.ac.uk/staff/academic-staff/dr-carole-morrison>.
(Book your
place<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh/Ev…)l>).
Find out more here.<http://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/ada-lovelace-day/> Can’t make it? We
also hold monthly Women in Red editing
events<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh/E…
where you can learn how to edit in a supportive environment Full list of upcoming events
here<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh#Upc…ts>.
Wiki Loves Monuments 2017.
Before that, the world’s largest photo competition, Wiki Loves
Monuments<http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org.uk/>, takes place during the whole of
September. Share your high quality pics of listed buildings and monuments to Wikimedia
Commons<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard> and help preserve
our cultural heritage online. After days out, weekend breaks and holidays at home &
abroad, there will be gigabytes of pics taken in recent months and years. These could
remain on your memory card or be shared to Commons and help illustrate
Wikipedia<https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Illustrati…
for the benefit of all. Entry is free and the best pics will win a
prize<http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org.uk/judging>.
Aside from being great fun, Wiki Loves Monuments is a way of capturing a snapshot of our
nation’s cultural heritage for future generations and documenting our country’s most
important historic sites. See the rules<http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org.uk/rules>
and how to enter<http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org.uk/getting-started>. The
WikiShootMe
tool<https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikishootme/> also helps identify places
local to you requiring images.
The Wikimedia residency at Edinburgh University extends until 2019.
The ‘Wikipedia in the Classroom’<http://www.teaching-matters-blog.ed.ac.uk/?p=1740>
assignments from last year are all continuing in 2017/2018 and are being added to with
workshops in three more disciplines - doubling our work in the curriculum. An article
summarising the residency<https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/1_h70uinvt>, which has now
been extended until January 2019, has been published in the University of Edinburgh
journal
(p.25)<http://www.dev.ed.ac.uk/gradassoc/documents/Volume%2048/UofE%20Journal%20Vol%2048,%20No%201%20-%202017.pdf>.
There are also now 208 videos on the residency’s Media Hopper
channel<https://media.ed.ac.uk/channel/Wikimedian%2Bin%2BResidence%2BChannel/51020161>
including playlists on ‘How to edit
Wikipedia’<https://media.ed.ac.uk/playlist/dedicated/51020161/1_zpsapxek/1_pt99tk1d>,
WikiCite 2017<https://media.ed.ac.uk/playlist/dedicated/51020161/1_du678ywz/> and
Wikimania 2017<https://media.ed.ac.uk/playlist/dedicated/51020161/1_5zx0celc/>; how
Internet Archive are working with
Wikimedia<https://media.ed.ac.uk/playlist/dedicated/51020161/1_5zx0celc/1_b5pwxfys>
to resolve link rot; Wikimedia
2030<https://media.ed.ac.uk/playlist/dedicated/51020161/1_5zx0celc/1_toqvb83u>; how
Wikidata supports the impact of
GLAMs<https://media.ed.ac.uk/channel/Wikimedian%2Bin%2BResidence%2BChannel/51020161>
(Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) and the biocuration of genomic linked
data<https://media.ed.ac.uk/channel/Wikimedian%2Bin%2BResidence%2BChannel/51020161>;
and a presentation by Assistant Principal, Melissa Highton, and
myself<https://media.ed.ac.uk/playlist/dedicated/51020161/1_5zx0celc/1_lca1yf3d> on
the work we have been doing here at the University of Edinburgh.
If you would like to know more or are interested in collaborating then feel free to email
me at ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk<mailto:ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk>. The potential for the
sharing of Open Knowledge and promoting better exposure of scholarly
outputs<http://strathoa.tumblr.com/post/163709145420/contributing-to-wik…
is certainly worth exploring.
Best wishes,
Ewan McAndrew
Wikimedian in Residence
Tel: 07719 330076
Email: ewan.mcandrew(a)ed.ac.uk
Subscribe to the mailing list: wikimedia(a)mlist.is.ed.ac.uk
My working hours are 10.30am to 6.30pm Monday to Friday.
Wikipedia Project Page for the residency:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh, Floor H (West), Argyle House, 3 Lady Lawson Street,
Edinburgh, EH3 9DR.
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