Dear colleagues,

We have a number of exciting Wikipedia editing events coming up in Edinburgh this Summer which are free to attend and open to all! Please disseminate to interested colleagues in your networks as appropriate.

* 31 May - Women in Red editing workshophttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh/Events_and_Workshops/Women_in_Red at University of Edinburgh Library. Monthly editing workshop open to all with a special focus on creating new biographies of inspirational women missing from the free and open online encyclopedia. * 5 June - Young Academy Scotland editing eventhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh/Events_and_Workshops/YAS_editathon_2019 at the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Creating new entries for female fellows of the RSE and celebrating Women in STEM. * 20 June - Conectando: Scottish Encounters with Spanish & Portuguesehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh/Events_and_Workshops/Conectando_editathon_2019 (inc. Tour of exhibition). Celebrating 100 years of the Spanish Degree at the University of Edinburgh, this exhibition and editing event is arranged into five themed sections: Learning; The Student Experience; Journeys; Treasures; and Solidarity (the latter with a particular focus on Chile under Pinochet, and the Spanish Civil War). * 10 July - Feminist Writers editing eventhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh/Events_and_Workshops/Feminist_Writers_editathon_2019 at the Chrystal Macmillan Building, Edinburgh. Guest talk from Liz Stanley and a focus on feminist writers, their works and the Olive Schreiner archive. Booking to open shortly so please save the date.

Find out more:

* about Wikipedia at 18 years oldhttps://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wir/the-internets-favourite-website-for-information/ and the Wikimedia Residency at University of Edinburghhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh. * our video channel on Media Hopperhttps://media.ed.ac.uk/channel/Wikimedian%2Bin%2BResidence%2BChannel/51020161 and video about the residencyhttps://media.ed.ac.uk/playlist/dedicated/51020161/1_h7l8sw8a/1_0vpvvye1. * our presentation at the recent LILAC Information Literacy conferencehttps://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wir/wikimedia-at-the-lilac-information-literacy-conference-2019/https://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wir/the-internets-favourite-website-for-information/. * the Times Higher Education article: Teaching intelligence: putting Wikipedia at the heart of a classhttps://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/teaching-intelligence-putting-wikipedia-heart-class - Like it or not, Wikipedia is used by students around the world – so academics should teach them how to use it, writes Caroline Ball.

"It is amazing that humanity has managed to produce Wikipedia.

Somebody recently said "You know what? For all of the defending of the open net and the open web, it would have been worth it if we just got Wikipedia."

- Sir Tim Berners-Lee, 29 May 2018 giving his Turing Award lecture in Amsterdam.https://youtu.be/BaMa4u4Fio4

Best wishes,

Ewan McAndrew

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