I work at the University of Edinburgh / University of Hogwarts and am the Wikimedian in Residence there.
Our website is on the University of Edinburgh website here.
I am at an amazing training session run by the University of Edinburgh.
Things I want to edit about
LGBTQ+ History
Gender History
Black History
My research area
Women in STEM
My example citation
Cite what you write. Write in your own words.
I read a fab article on the BBC News website about Harry and Meghan which I cite after the full stop. [1]
[2][3]
And then I can reuse the same citation later in my article. [3][2][1]
If I have web address URL, a journal article DOI code, book ISBN number or a Pubmed Identifier I can auto generate citations using the Cite dropdown menu and these will also save as references at the foot of the page when I publish my edits. [4]
Templates I can add
This is a new user
Infobox Wikipedia user (for your own userpage)
Infobox person (for generic biography articles)
new user article (for putting on Talk pages of articles you have newly published in the Wikipedia main space).
My example image
I will do a keyword search of the 85 million free to use images in Wikipedia's sister project, Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. I can upload my own 'open-licensed' images to Wikimedia Commons if they are my own work, public domain or CC-0, CC-BY or CC-BY-SA licensed. I can look for open licensed images using image search aggregator tools like the Creative Commons "CC Search tool" and filtering my search for Public domain, CC-0, CC-BY or CC-BY-SA images.
Categories
These appear at the foot of the Wikipedia page and are added to published pages in the Wikipedia main article space. You can find categories in the Visual Editor dropdown menu indicated with 3 horizontal lines.
I have a second Wikipedia account (User:EMcAndrew) which I use for training purposes. And User:VidEwan for video tutorials.
This is one of the many reasons why we do this: WATCH "Life in a Day - Abel and his laptop" (with thanks to Martin Poulter for providing the heads up on the link)
If you ever feel like getting involved in some of our projects or training sessions then message me, by all means. I'd be glad to hear from you.
The old project page for the residency is located here: Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh and my blog is here: http://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wir/. But our new (since 2020) student-created website can be accessed here.
About me
I have an MA in English (Literature & Language) & Modern History from University of Glasgow, a postgraduate diploma (PgDip) in Software Development from Glasgow Caledonian University and a PGDE in English & Media Teaching from University of Strathclyde. I also hold a TEFL certificate from I-to-I and have undertaken short courses in creative writing & screenwriting. I most recently completed on the Information Management MSc course at the University of Northumbria (accredited by CILIP and the ARA).
Witches
Our students have helped created a Wikidata map of Accused Witches in Scotland: Accused Witches in Scotland
Wikimedia in the Curriculum
We created a new booklet of case studies of Wikimedia in the Curriculum (UK) which is available at: Wikimedia in UK Education
Celtic Knot
We hosted the first Celtic and Minority Language Wikipedia Conference in 2017 and happily this has been repeated every year since with hosts such as the National Library of Wales, the University of Exeter/Cornish Wikipedia, Wikimedia Ireland, and Wikimedia Norge.
Things I like
I love travelling, music, history, cinema and literature, and this all feeds into my regular day-job of teaching of English & Media Studies. I'm interested in all kinds of stories (movies, books, plays) and create my own stories from time to time. Above all, I'm passionate about the idea of lifelong learning and broadening your horizons. Hence why I'm here and why I'm trying to learn how to play the guitar, piano and mandolin (all very badly).
Edinburgh
The beach at my hometown: Newburgh, Aberdeenshire.
WMUK GLAM booklet 2014
Article by Martin Poulter on libraries involving more people in an authentic experience through the digital world.
A tool which 'scores' a Wikipedia page. (tick the checkbox for WP10 once you've selected enwiki from the dropdown menu)
Cat-a-lot gadget for Wikicommons
Citation Hunt tool
Free Image search tool
Geograph.org.uk to Commons tool
Flickr2commons tool
Wikidata map of all the Wikipedia articles located within a 2km radius of University of Edinburgh
FlickrFree shows free, recently uploaded images on Flickr, ready for transfer to Commons.
URL2Commons can transfer files from a list of URLs to Commons.
Reasonator - Wikidata "in pretty".
Todo, little things you can do on Wikidata.
BaGLAMa, monthly view counts for pages containing images from selected Commons categories.
(Wikipedia where in OSM) is a project to show for a Wikipedia article geometric objects from OpenStreetMap.
GLAMorous, a tool to keep track of Commons images used on other projects.
Wikishootme: Have a camera? Find places nearby that have items on Wikidata but no images yet, and see your pictures beautify an article or two!
Uptrends on English Wikipedia this week
Wikiradio is an audio service transmitted via Internet streaming. Each sound is the that the community has chosen to be highlighted as some of the finest on Wikipedia and Commons.
Geohack for Edinburgh
Convert PDF to SVG.
Autolist 2
Catnap
Catfood
Video2commons
Wikimedia search
Tool to turn Excel table into Wiki code
Recent deaths tool - gets recent celebrity deaths from Find-A-Grave, and compares it with Wikidata items
Page views tool
Herding tool - Useful for tracking edits of user groups after an event.
Passing On is a design experiment in using data, stories, and cooperation to change women's representation online.
Telling the stories of rural England with Wikipedia
Dr Humphrey Southall, Reader in Geography, University of Portsmouth, written with Dr Martin Poulter, describe a Wikipedia-based assignment given to first-year students in Applied Human Geography and also looking at how academics can inform the widest public about their subject, and raise awareness of the reliable sources used in research.
Teaching translation through editing Wikipedia
UCL Centre for Translation Studies (CenTraS) ran an event for 36 postgraduate translation studies students, all new to editing Wikipedia, to learn how to contribute to the online encyclopedia anyone can edit. Co-organiser Dr Mira Vogel discusses its success.
When UCL students write Wikipedia
Prezi presentation.
Blog posts and Case Studies from the Wikimedia Ambassador at Jisc
Teaching with Wikipedia - Blog post on University of Edinburgh's Teaching Matters site 08/04/2016
Wikipedia 15 and Education - WikiEdu blog.
'You probably haven’t even noticed Google’s sketchy quest to control the world’s knowledge' The Washington Post - Caitlin Dewey, May 11 2016
Click here for the Wikipedia & Altmetric folder
A tool which 'scores' a Wikipedia page. (tick the checkbox for WP10 once you've selected enwiki from the dropdown menu)
^ a b"Kermit the Frog honoured in new fossil find". BBC News. 2024-03-21. Retrieved 2024-03-21.
^ a b"Gary Lineker says he will 'keep speaking for those with no voice' after asylum row". BBC News. 2023-03-08. Retrieved 2023-03-08.
^ a b"Harry and Meghan Netflix: I said we need to get out of here - prince". BBC News. 2022-12-15. Retrieved 2022-12-15.
^Fallone, C. A. (2000-11). "Epidemiology of the antibiotic resistance of Helicobacter pylori in Canada". Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology = Journal Canadien De Gastroenterologie. 14 (10): 879–882. doi:10.1155/2000/562159. ISSN 0835-7900. PMID 11111111. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)