Wikimedia & Education enthusiasts,Ewan will speak about his experiences with Wikdiata in his role as Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Edinburgh. He's been in the role since January 2016 supporting the university’s commitment to open knowledge, and developing 21st century information literacy and digital research and data skills. The University hosted the first 'Celtic Knot' Wikipedia Language Conference in 2017, won a Herald Higher Education Award in 2019 for its Wikipedia in the Curriculum work and produced a booklet of Case Studies of Wikipedia in UK education in 2020 (newly updated in 2022).

Latterly, Ewan has joined the University's GenderEd steering group and submitted a chapter for the open access book, Wikipedia and Academic Libraries, on "Changing the Way Stories Are Told" based on the University's gender equality work. Prior to this, Ewan has worked as an English and Media teacher in the Far East (Japan, Singapore and South Korea) and in Scotland. He completed an Information Management degree in 2018, volunteered with the Glasgow School of Art archives on their WW1 Roll of Honour project, and has continued to manage a series of student internships which have created, and updated, am Open Ed Global award winning website to pull all the best resources together for understanding Wikipedia and its sister projects as well as an open data Map of Accused Witched in Scotland website.

This meeting will be held via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89734385766

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LiAnna
Chair, Wikipedia & Education User Group