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.
This is a final call for tomorrow’s
Edinburgh Gothic event at the National Library of Scotland for Robert Louis Stevenson Day.
This free event includes:
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Access to the Robert Louis Stevenson exhibition area.
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Gothic badge-making activities using original collage designs by Tessa Asquith-Lamb.
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde’ stickers and souvenir certificates printed on the
Treasure Island press;
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“Jekyll and Hyde: Illustrating Stevenson’s characters”: a presentation by National Library of Scotland curator, Andrew Martin.
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Lunch provided for free by the National Library of Scotland and possibly also some
moustache cookies too.
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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.
Festival
of Architecture Wikipedia editathon
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. So many names, especially
women architects, are missing from Wikipedia, the
#1 Information site, 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.
Finally, as today is all about remembrance, I thought I’d share with you the outcomes of the
Halloween Wikipedia event as there are now some fantastic pages on notable lives that were just not there before, including:
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Recognising the scientific work of
Katherine Clerk Maxwell
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Professor
William Lindsay Renwick, the founder of the School of Scottish Studies at Edinburgh University (also commemorated on the Glasgow School of Art’s WW1 Roll of Honour).
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Ernest Francis Bashford the influential British oncologist who pioneered the biological approach to the study of cancer.
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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.
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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 and you can find the
Storify with pics & tweets
from the day here.
Many thanks,
Ewan McAndrew
Wikimedian in Residence
Tel: 07719 330076
Email: ewan.mcandrew@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