Dear colleagues,

The annual conference for Wikipedia and its sister projects, Wikimaniahttps://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Program, took place last week (13-17 August) with a range of interesting talks about how knowledge is currently created, curated and contested online now curated on our Media Hopper channelhttps://media.ed.ac.uk/channel/Wikimedian%2Bin%2BResidence%2BChannel/51020161 including:

* Preventing COVID-19 misinformation: Wikipedia, public health experts, and news mediahttps://media.ed.ac.uk/playlist/dedicated/51020161/1_sj3h9a73/1_ffrqsw35 * An overview of the COVID-19-related content of Wikimedia projectshttps://media.ed.ac.uk/media/An+overview+of+the+COVID-19-related+content+of+Wikimedia+projects/1_jpieil3i * Wikipedia and the Collaborative Humanitieshttps://media.ed.ac.uk/playlist/dedicated/51020161/1_fkz9yu7y/1_jwnfyvfq * NEW Wikimedia projects - WikiFunctions and Abstract Wikipediahttps://media.ed.ac.uk/playlist/dedicated/51020161/1_fkz9yu7y/1_2eoce2bg * Improving Wiki counter vandalism into the 2020'shttps://media.ed.ac.uk/playlist/dedicated/51020161/1_fkz9yu7y/1_bznpco5i * Sharing decolonization strategies throughout Wikimedia projectshttps://media.ed.ac.uk/playlist/dedicated/51020161/1_fkz9yu7y/1_wuw0vej9 * Wikimedia and Sustainability-Selecting topics for impacthttps://media.ed.ac.uk/playlist/dedicated/51020161/1_sj3h9a73/1_gm4q2s8v * Exploring a cultural gap on Wikimedia: the case of the visual artshttps://media.ed.ac.uk/playlist/dedicated/51020161/1_sj3h9a73/1_yj7kgkex * Can we rid Wikipedia of its content gender gap?https://media.ed.ac.uk/playlist/dedicated/51020161/1_fkz9yu7y/1_n08gcokd * and many many more.

Also, if you are interested in editing Wikipedia then please join us tomorrow for our 52nd monthly workshophttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-in-red-event-adding-inspiring-women-missing-from-wikipedia-tickets-165738928597:

Women in Red https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-in-red-event-adding-inspiring-women-missing-from-wikipedia-tickets-165738928597 - a Wikipedia editing event celebrating the lives and contributions of all the inspiring women of Scotland (and beyond) missing from the world's go-to site for information (and where currently only 19.04% of biographies are about women).

* Wikipedia is the 5th most visited website in the world but lacks diversity in its editors and its articleshttps://www.theguardian.com/careers/2019/nov/28/making-the-edit-why-we-need-more-women-in-wikipedia?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other. This event will focus on improving the representation of inspiring women online. Only 18.7% of biographies on Wikipedia are about women meaning so many are missing from our search results.

Participants will learn how to edit Wikipedia pages during an online webinar and will be supported over the afternoon to help create new pages for notable individuals who are not currently on Wikipedia. Suggested worklist herehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh/Events_and_Workshops/Women_in_Red#Women_of_Edinburgh but you are free to edit on any topic. No prior knowledge required as training will be provided for those with no Wikipedia editing experience.

You'll learn a new digital skill in a social & supportive setting and meet like-minded event participants all passionate about improving representation online to help close the gender gap for the benefit of millions of readers all around the world.

Join us as we help make Wikipedia better!https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-in-red-event-adding-inspiring-women-missing-from-wikipedia-tickets-165738928597

Want to suggest a collaboration?

Get in touch! The university's Wikimedia residencyhttps://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/help-consultancy/is-skills/wikimedia is a free resource available to all staff and students to learn how to benefit from and contribute to the free and open Wikimedia projects and includes advice on citing Wikipediahttps://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/help-consultancy/is-skills/wikimedia/wikipedia/citing, teaching with Wikipedia https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/help-consultancy/is-skills/wikimedia/wikipedia/wikipedia-teaching and more. We've recently worked on projects to improve coverage of Islamic Arthttps://www.teaching-matters-blog.ed.ac.uk/editing-wikipedia-stars-robots-and-talismans-honours-course/, Scotland's links with slavery on Wikipediahttps://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wir/scotland-slavery-and-black-history-and-wikipedia/ and created new pages covering the history of HIV/AIDS awareness and activism in Scotlandhttps://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wir/telling-the-history-of-hiv-and-aids-activism-in-scotland-on-wikipedia/.

Best wishes,

Ewan McAndrew Wikimedian in Residence

Website for the residencyhttps://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/help-consultancy/is-skills/wikimedia and Map of Accused Witches sitehttp://witches.is.ed.ac.uk/ Email: ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.ukmailto:ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk Blog: WiR bloghttps://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wir/ Tel: 07867 593450 Subscribe to the Scotwiki mailing listhttps://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSctpnDjO_PHZeOTrA0yjtVLqE4oDfjLtYhWzQVTwk712BSJJQ/viewform My working hours are 9:30am to 5:30pm Monday to Friday. Wikipedia Project Page: Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburghhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh

Media Hopper channel: Videos and video tutorialshttps://media.ed.ac.uk/channel/Wikimedian%2Bin%2BResidence%2BChannel/51020161

YouTube: Wikimedian in Residence channelhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSDRSVKM4ceUSPI-7-BFeoQ?view_as=subscriber

Wikimedia in Education: New booklet of UK Case Studieshttps://open.ed.ac.uk/wikimedia-in-education/

Join Wikimedia in Scotlandhttps://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Wikimedia_in_Scotland events and UoE eventshttps://www.events.ed.ac.uk/index.cfm?eventssearch=wikipedia&event=search&eventStart=0&eventProviderId=&cw_inChannelLink=1&cw_passThrough=marked.

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