Please disseminate as appropriate in your networks. This is an invitation to participate
in Wikipedia editathon events run by the University of Edinburgh’s Information Services.
Robert Louis Stevenson Day Wikipedia editathon – Saturday 12 November
This is a final call for tomorrow’s Edinburgh Gothic
event<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh/Ev…
at the National Library of Scotland for Robert Louis Stevenson Day.
This free event includes:
· Access to the Robert Louis Stevenson exhibition area.
· Gothic badge-making activities using original collage designs by Tessa
Asquith-Lamb.
· The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde’ stickers and souvenir certificates
printed on the Treasure Island press;
· “Jekyll and Hyde: Illustrating Stevenson’s characters”: a presentation by National
Library of Scotland curator, Andrew Martin.
· Lunch provided for free by the National Library of Scotland and possibly also some
moustache cookies too.
· The Gothic Wikipedia editathon itself which will take place with exclusive access
to the National Library of Scotland’s reading room after it has closed to the public with
its focus on improving the quality of articles about all things Gothic; be it creating a
page for Robert Louis Stevenson's short story 'Thrawn Janet'; be it improving
content on Angela Carter, Alasdair Gray, Louise Welsh or Ali Smith; or even improving
Gothic architecture pages or Gothic film pages such as the Ken Russell's movie,
'Gothic'
Come along to learn about how Wikipedia works and contribute a greater understanding of
Gothic. Book
here.<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh/Ev…
Festival of Architecture Wikipedia
editathon<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburg…
We are also putting on an evening editathon on Wednesday 16th November 3pm to 7.30pm in
Room 1.12 of the Edinburgh University Main Library to mark the end of the Festival of
Architecture
2016<http://www.foa2016.com/>m/>. So many names, especially women
architects<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_…re>,
are missing from Wikipedia, the #1 Information
site<http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/05/people-love-w…8/>,
so if you’d like to take part and help redress the balance then you’d be more than
welcome.
Full training is given along with suggested pages to work on (although feel free to
suggest your own!). There are only 3000 or so very active Wikipedians in the world
curating the world’s knowledge (which amounts to the size of a small town like Kinghorn in
Fife... or half the size of North Berwick) so if you’d like to contribute to sharing
knowledge globally and are interested in architecture, even if it is just to share some
openly-licensed pictures to Wikimedia Commons, then please do come along. Book your place
and find out more
here.<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh/Ev…
In remembrance
Finally, as today is all about remembrance, I thought I’d share with you the outcomes of
the Halloween
Wikipedia<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburg…
event as there are now some fantastic pages on notable lives that were just not there
before, including:
· Recognising the scientific work of Katherine Clerk
Maxwell<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Clerk_Maxwell>
· Professor William Lindsay
Renwick<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lindsay_Renwick>ck>, the founder of the
School of Scottish Studies at Edinburgh University (also commemorated on the Glasgow
School of Art’s WW1 Roll of Honour).
· Ernest Francis
Bashford<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Francis_Bashford> the influential
British oncologist who pioneered the biological approach to the study of cancer.
· Brenda
Moon<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenda_Moon> – the first female
chief of a university library in Scotland who played a role in bringing Edinburgh
University Library into the digital age.
· Janet Anne Galloway <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Anne_Galloway>
(1841–1909) promoted higher education for women in Scotland. As a result of the limited
educational opportunities open to women, Janet became an active supporter of the movement
for higher education provision for women.
Full outcomes are detailed
here<http://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wir/2016/11/10/samhuinn/> and you can find the
Storify with pics &
tweets<https://storify.com/emcandre/samhuinn> from the day
here<https://storify.com/emcandre/samhuinn>nn>.
Many thanks,
Ewan McAndrew
Wikimedian in Residence
Tel: 07719 330076
Email: ewan.mcandrew(a)ed.ac.uk
Working hours are 2.5 days per week, usually Monday to Wednesday.
Wikipedia Project Page for the residency:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh, Learning, Teaching & Web Services, Hugh Robson Building,
15 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9XD.
www.ed.ac.uk
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Scotland, with registration number SC005336.