Dear colleagues,
Please disseminate this ‘open’ invitation to interested colleagues in your networks as
appropriate. So much information is missing from the world’s #1 information site!
We would be delighted if you could join us in celebrating & surfacing our brilliant
Scottish artists and authors on 24 November. All welcome. After all, art & literature
is no trivial pursuit.
1. Scottish Living Artists – Friday 17th November at 10am Neil Lebeter, Art
Collections Curator and Deputy Head of Museums will bring out a selection of Jonathan
Owen<http://www.inglebygallery.com/artists/jonathan-owen/>’s artwork. Neil will give
an insight into Jonathan’s work and processes, as well as how the work is acquired by the
University. Places are limited, please ensure you email
designinformatics@ed.ac.uk<mailto:designinformatics@ed.ac.uk> if you would like to
come to this bonus event.
2. Lost Literary Edinburgh – 24 November In this event for the Being Human
festival<https://beinghumanfestival.org/event/lost-literary-edinburgh-a-…
(
video<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7xvj6jlqns>) celebrating research in the
humanities we’ll be creating and improving Wikipedia pages for neglected or overlooked
authors. Visit bit.ly/LostEdinburgh<http://bit.ly/LostEdinburgh> to see the loooong
list of missing but brilliant authors we need help with. How many have you read? Come for
half a day (morning or afternoon) or stay for the whole day! Free lunch too!
3. Scottish Living Artists editathon – 24 November In celebration of the
Jacqueline Donachie exhibition, participants at the Fruitmarket Gallery have a unique
chance to receive a tour of the exhibition & contribute content to the Wikipedia pages
of some of Scotland’s most prominent living artists. Visit
bit.ly/ScottishLivingArtists<http://bit.ly/ScottishLivingArtists> for more info.
4. Wiki Meetup – St. Andrew’s Day – 30 November: Join us for an informal social
meetup for Wikipedia editors (& would-be editors). All are welcome to join us for an
informal Wiki meetup for St. Andrew’s Day at one of Edinburgh’s cosiest cafes. If you have
ever edited Wikipedia or ever wanted to find out more about what is all about then this is
the meetup for you. More details
here.<https://attending.io/events/wiki-meetup-st-andrew-s-day>
Open Data – Wikidata as the central hub of structured linked open (political) data
· MySociety’s EveryPolitician
project<https://media.ccc.de/v/wikidatacon2017-10035-well_structured_political_data_for_the_whole_world_impossible_utopia_or_wikidata_at_its_best>
are appealing for people to hold Wikidata workshops for Global Legislative Openness
Week<https://www.mysociety.org/2017/10/12/join-the-glow-run-a-wikidata-w…
(GLOW) from November 20-30 to add political data which can allow research &
investigations to better hold politicians to account. If you are interested in
participating then do let me know by return email. (NB: A working title could be “It’s my
(political) party and I’ll cry if I want to.”)
Open Images: Help us add 2,100 pics of Scotland’s listed buildings & monuments to
Wikipedia on 23 November.
· 2,100 images of Scotland’s listed buildings & monuments were shared for the
recent Wiki Loves Monuments competition. From 11am to 1pm on Thursday 23rd November, you
can join us in an informal Wiki to add these images to better illustrate relevant
Wikipedia pages for anyone to share & reuse. Visit
bit.ly/ScotPics<http://bit.ly/ScotPics> to see the new images and click here to see
the winners of the UK
competition.<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monum…
Email me at ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk<mailto:ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk> if you would like
to lend a hand.
Open Books – Join us at the Wikisource
workshop<https://www.events.ed.ac.uk/index.cfm?event=showEventDetails&scheduleId=26901&start=&eventssearch=wikisource&eventStart=0>
on 7 December to share the joy of reading!
* Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes is a travel book written by Robert Louis
Stevenson<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Louis_Stevenson>on>, who had his
birthday on Monday. It was first published in 1878 as "a
paean<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paean> to his birthplace" and was his
second published book. It has now been transcribed to
Wikisource<https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Edinburgh_(Stevenson)>n)>, the free digital
library, for others to enjoy and has been viewed 750 times since January 2017 when it was
uploaded & linked to the Wikipedia page for
Edinburgh<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh#19th_and_20th_centurie…es>, 1 click
away. It also, as of today, has its own Wikipedia
page<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh:_Picturesque_Notes> so people can
better discover all about this work which “To the Scot, it ought to be a sort of Bible.”
How many other brilliant texts could be transcribed & shared online for others to
enjoy? View the Histropedia timeline of all Stevenson’s
texts<tinyurl.com/RLSworks2>
to read about them all.
Best wishes,
Ewan McAndrew
Wikimedian in Residence
Tel: 07719 330076
Email: ewan.mcandrew(a)ed.ac.uk
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