Hi folks,

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This Friday 29^th April (1-5pm) marks our 60^th monthly Wikipedia ‘Women in Red’ meetup! You can read about 5 years’ of the University of Edinburgh’s Wikipedia editing work tackling gender bias online in this new open access book: Wikipedia and Academic Libraries

“You and your students can dramatically affect the most popular and important reference work in the world”

Editing will be on creating new pages about the women missing from our search results as currently only 19.23% of biographies on English Wikipedia are about women but you’re also more than welcome to edit on any subject e.g. recent new pages inc. Raptor persecution and the Loch Lomond Wanderer.

Training for any new or less experienced editors will take place from 1pm-2:15pm, and then you can apply these valuable new digital research skills by writing new articles of 50-100 words (or more) which we’ll publish by the end of the afternoon. An excellent CPD opportunity 😊

Come for the initial training at 1pm and stay as long as you like to experience how fun, satisfying and tangibly impactful it is to contribute to the knowledge freely available online via the 8^th most visited site in the UK, and 9^th most visited globally (rankings by Alexa).

Eventbrite signup here: tinyurl.com/WikiWorkshop29April

NB: Yes, anyone can edit but you have to cite what you write and editing Wikipedia inside or outside the curriculum is a free and impactful way of improving the information available online to improve global understanding of topics and make for a more inclusive and representative internet. Quick facts about Wikipedia at 21 years old.

Current projects supported by the Wikimedia residency.

Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia – the Edinburgh Award.
Improving LGBT History, Gender History and Black History online – current Student Experience Grant project.
Improving the Map of Accused Witches in Scotland – new internships this Summer.
Adding images of Islamic Art to Wikipedia – Dr. Glaire Anderson, History of Art UG programme.
Global Health Challenges Pg Online – improving topic coverage of natural & manmade disasters.
5 new case studies to be added to our Wikimedia in UK education booklet.
5 Wikimedia related podcast episodes in the Teaching Matters series

Feel free to attend on Friday and feel free to suggest future collaborations. The Wikimedia residency is a free Information Services resource available to all staff and students. Curious? Here’s our website and a 7 min video on how to write a Wikipedia page which our student intern won an Open Education Global award for, among other brilliant work on making Wikipedia’s how & why easier to engage with in Higher Education.

Best wishes,

Ewan McAndrew
Wikimedian in Residence

Website for the residency and Map of Accused Witches site
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Wikipedia Project Page: Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh

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Wikimedia in Education: New booklet of UK Case Studies

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