 Okay, hello, hopefully people can hear me potentially spotlight me. There we go. Hi. So please introduce yourself in the chat and I think because we've got a good amount of people joining us today that we might just have to mute everyone for them. At least initially. But yeah, we've got a chat option on the right hand side. You can just say hello there. And just get a sense of who's joining us from what part of the country and which institutions I saw that a good many universities are joining us or staff from those universities rather. Okay, and we have a good range of speakers joining us today as well. We've got Sarah Lapin up first from University of Edinburgh's Women in STEM Society. Hannah Rothman are brilliant Wikimedia intern and classics undergraduate University of Edinburgh. We have also Lorna Campbell from our OER service our open education resources service. We've also got some faces that I know very well as well Karen Bowman, who's written about 60 articles for us, mostly about Scotland suffragettes. And we've also got Lucy Crompton Reed, who is the chief executive of Wikimedia UK, which is the nonprofit organization that supports Wikipedia work in the UK. So we've got a lot of speakers. Dr Sarah Thomas who is the Scotland program coordinator for Wikimedia in Scotland, got her injection her vaccination yesterday so she unfortunately is not going to join us because she's feeling a bit poorly. But she has recorded a video for us about all the brilliant work that's been that she's helping support throughout Scotland so hopefully we'll get a chance to show that. My name for those that don't know me is Ewan McCandrew and I worked for the last five years now at the University of Edinburgh as Wikimedia in residence. And someone else joining us. So I'm because we've got so many sort of brilliant speakers I'm just going to launch into our presentations and hopefully we'll have a little pause where you can ask maybe a couple of questions but feel free to keep introducing yourself in the chat and also to maybe pose some questions for some of our speakers. I think that's the main thing. This is part of the University of Edinburgh's digital skills festival which will run all week. And we are planning this session to run up until 1pm today. Okay, so that being said, I'm going to pass over to Sarah Lapin. Lapin? I'm not sure if I've got to say that right. And then I'll stop spotlighting me and spotlight you. Hi everyone, I'll just get some slides up one second. There we go, can you see that? Yep, we can see that. Okay, so yeah, as you said, I'm Sarah, I am just finishing up my undergrad at Edinburgh University and for the past year I've been the president of the Women and STEM Society at the University. So yeah, I'm just going to talk about why and how we've been working to tackle the gender gap on Wikipedia. Before we begin, can I get into why we're doing this, what is the problem in the first place? So as of last week, there was 18.9% of all English language, Wikipedia, biographies were all women. And the last statistics I had, it was 15% in 2014, so obviously it's increasing. And that's thanks to campaigns such as the Women in Red campaign, which is aiming to increase the representation of women on Wikipedia. But the problem isn't only just in the articles, it's also on the editors. Sorry, the silence is coming by. Yeah, so the statistics I found, I found something at different ones this morning, so you can correct me if I'm wrong, was that there's between 15% and 30% of all contributors to Wikipedia are women. So why does this matter? So obviously for centuries, history has been told mostly by rich white men and rich white men, we'll have to talk about other rich white men. And so a lot of women have been written out of history, but even more recently, women are not being recognised for their achievements and their contributions in society. So the user market says women don't, and I don't think they should get that, but there's sort of one important issue as well. So Wikipedia is the fifth most visited website in the world, and people around the world rely on it for accurate information. And if these women are not, stories are not being told, they can't be found by other women and can't be used as role models. Just as an example, yesterday I googled Scottish scientists. I even look at you'll see that there's actually, I don't know if there's a single woman on that list when you click that link. And also there is Scottish female Scottish scientists, it's not that they don't exist. It's not that they love less notable life than men, it's just their stories are not being told. So what do we need to do. So there's two things, there's increased the number of biographies of women on Wikipedia, and also more diverse contributors and make an inclusive and welcoming environment for the people that are using Wikipedia as well. So what we've been doing, as women in STEM society, is we've found two editons this year. So these are basically events where Ewan has delivered some training, and then we've gone off and we've tried to try to have as big an impact on Wikipedia as we can. So we create a big work list and just work through it and add new articles and edit to improve other ones that already exist. So we had one that was focused on women's STEM in particular, we had Dr Jess Wade as a guest speaker, if you don't know who she is and haven't heard, she does amazing talks on this exact issue. So I'm sure lots of you can send, but I would recommend listening to some of her talks. And then the second one we did was for international women's day, and we had Professor Linda Bald as a speaker. And you can see the top one there, that was the one we had for women's STEM, so we had five articles created, over all 14.4k words added. We did a bit of a bigger impact in the second one that was run over a week rather than a day, and we had 32 articles created. So you can see we have a direct impact very quickly in these events, but it also does more than that. So they obviously provide training, so now I didn't have any experience at the time before we held this event, so now I can go off and I can keep doing this. So it's not one time thing, everyone that joins these events can continue to do it, and obviously adds to the diversity of both articles and editors. And they also have provided really good inspiration. So personally, I really enjoyed running these events because I get to quit the work list and I get to read about all the amazing stories of these women, they're not being told. And then you get to see them go off and be told and get people actually really interested in these stories. So just as an example, this is Deja Fox, so this is an article I wrote at our last one. And it was created in March and it's already had over 3,000 views. So you can see it's instantly having that impact and people are really interested in these stories. So yeah, that's kind of all for me. I hope everyone keeps editing and telling more stories of women on Wikipedia because there's so many that haven't been told. So I think we could give a virtual round of applause for Sarah there, this little clap icon. But yeah, that's brilliant, Sarah. And there's a comment in the chat there from Laura, the Devil's Porridge Museum, saying great talk. The Devil's Porridge are hoping to contribute to eradicate the gender gap with a new research project into Her Majesty's Fatima Gretna where thousands of women worked in World War One. Interesting, there were lots of women in STEM at Gretna, many were described as laboratory systems. So there we go. Yeah, anyone have a quick question for Sarah before we crack on. It's okay if you if you do think of a question just post it in the chat and we'll maybe bring Sarah back. I'm going to now segue quite swiftly on to our next speaker. Thank you Sarah. My name is Lorna Campbell, my my nemesis and longtime colleague at the University of Edinburgh. And I will spotlight Lorna and remove Sarah. There we go. Hopefully you can all see Lorna's smiling face. Thanks, Ewan. It loves me really. I'm Lorna Campbell and as Ewan said, I'm the open education resources service manager here at the University of Edinburgh. And I'm also a trustee of Wikimedia UK. So if you just give me a second, I am actually just going to share my screen. I have got some web pages that I want to show you. Can you see that? Okay, Ewan. Yep. Oh, good. Brilliant. Okay. Wikimedia's vision is to imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. However, as we've already heard from Sarah, Wikimedia, its communities and its projects are not yet representative of the diversity of the world and the diversity of knowledge to be shared. Women, people of colour, Indigenous communities and LGBTQ individuals are all underrepresented in Wikimedia communities and projects of which Wikipedia is the best known. LGBTQ lives, histories and experiences are particularly poorly represented on Wikipedia, but there are a number of initiatives that are helping to redress the balance. Wikipedia has an LGBT plus user group that aims to increase the quantity and quality of LGBT plus content on the encyclopedia and encourage LGBT plus cultural organisations to adopt the values of free culture and use Wikimedia projects as tools for strengthening queer communities. The user group supports a range of activities, including Wikiluv's Pride and Wikipedia for Peace, which among other things, run to editathons to coincide with the EuroPride festivals. In 2019, supported by a generous grant from Wikimedia UK, I was able to attend the Wikipedia for Peace editathon at EuroPride Vienna as part of a group of 12 editors from all over the world who created and translated 113 new articles on LGBT plus topics in a range of European languages and also uploaded hundreds of photographs of the EuroPride parade on Wikimedia Commons, making a significant contribution to improving the quality, diversity and queer representation on Wikipedia. It was while taking part in the EuroPride editathon that I noticed that the history of HIV and AIDS activism in Scotland was completely absent from the encyclopedia. Scottish AIDS Monitor, Face West, two prominent AIDS awareness organisations had no articles at all, and although an article already existed for Derek Og, the founder of Scottish AIDS Monitor, it only touched on his legal career and made no mention at all of his important AIDS activism. So when the university's disabled staff network and staff pride network decided to run an editathon for LGBT History Month in February this year to follow up their successful pride editathon on LGBT plus books in Scotland and beyond, I suggested HIV and AIDS activism in Scotland as a topic. The networks were keen to address this omission, and HIV Scotland also came on board to support the event. With sterling support from you and I'm pleased to say that six new articles were created and several others improved, making a significant contribution to representing the history of HIV and AIDS activism in Scotland on Wikipedia. We created new articles for Scottish AIDS Monitor, Face West and HIV Scotland, and improved biographical articles and created new ones for activists Derek Og, Ken Cowan and Maureen Moore. But of course there's still a huge amount of work to be done, and numerous other activists, organisations, films, plays, artworks are still missing from Wikipedia, as highlighted by this list which is curated by Wikipedia AIDS, a community collaboration dedicated to improving articles about HIV and AIDS. Shortly after the HIV Scotland editathon, I also created a Wikipedia article for Jill Nolder, the actress and activist who inspired the central character of Jill Baxter in It's a Sin, Russell T. Davis TV series focusing on a group of gay men and their friends during the early days of the AIDS crisis in the UK. Nolder, who also plays the fictional Jill's mother in the TV series, became involved in HIV and AIDS activism while living in London in the 1980s at the height of the AIDS crisis. With other members of the West End theatre community, she organised fundraising campaigns and benefit performances to support AIDS awareness and research. And she also supported HIV positive gay men and visited AIDS patients in hospitals around London, something we see the fictional Jill doing in the TV series. Although It's a Sin received widespread critical acclaim, it was criticised in some quarters for stereotyping women as carers and for centring the experiences of cis women rather than gay men. And while there's a discussion to be had there, it's important to acknowledge that many women did play an important role in awareness raising, fundraising, befriending and caring for people living with AIDS in the earliest years of the pandemic. If we don't remember the contribution of these women, it's very easy to assume that they simply weren't there. And while I was putting this talk together, I actually discovered another AIDS activist who's missing from Wikipedia, Aileen Goetzer, a nurse who features in the award-winning American documentary film about the HIV and AIDS crisis in San Francisco, We Were Here. During the airing of It's a Sin, the hashtag Be More Jill started trending to raise awareness of HIV and AIDS and the importance of activists like Jill and her fictional counterpart. And one of the things that you can do to be more Jill is to join a Wikipedia edit then learn to edit and help to ensure that LGBTQ lives and histories are represented on the world's most important source of free and open knowledge. Thank you. Thank you, Lorna. That's brilliant. Yeah, we're hoping to sort of continue this work sort of with our new student intern as well. She's going to have a very strong focus this summer on equality, diversity and inclusion. And we want to sort of like continue to sort of add more stories about the work of awareness and activism of supporting HIV and AIDS in Scotland. So it's definitely an area of Oh yeah, there's a comment. Thank you Lorna, very good work remembering recent past before materials get lost. If anyone that's wanting to know about the links, you should be able to click the links within the chat I've noticed that zoom doesn't allow you to copy and paste but if anyone needs any of them I can send them on after today's event as well. But you should be allowed. I think they might be clickable, but not copyable. If you see what I mean. Does anyone have any questions for Lorna or Sarah or. Okay, that's how can you join an editor Thon. Are they institution specific. I think I should let you answer that when you. We tend to run sort of very focused events on a particular theme at the university but we tend to try and make them open as possible and post events on Eventbrite and on the Wikimedia in Scotland pages and on the Wikimedia UK pages, but there are tons of thons that happen throughout the UK and throughout the world, basically, and it's just making sure that you're aware of mailing lists and where these events are posted. And normally you should be able to sign up for free and at all levels of ability are welcome basically. I was going to suggest if you keep an eye on Wikimedia UK's website, they post regular updates of events running up and down the country and also if you're not in the UK. A lot of other countries have their own Wikimedia chapters who will also be running events as well. So the first step is to find your local Wikimedia chapter, find out what events they're running. And now that so many of these events are taking place online, it's easier than ever before to learn how to edit. Yeah, we do have an editathon on Wednesday, women in red events. If anyone wants to join an editathon, I'll put the link in that in the chat if I can find it. I think what I'll do now is I'll try and see if I can play Sarah's video, because she might be able to give us a nice summary of the work that's been done in Scotland. And I'll find that link for the editathon on Wednesday. So hopefully this should work. I'm going to just try and share my screen. No, that didn't work. Okay, one moment. Okay. So this is Dr Sarah Thomas who's unfortunately unable to join us today but she supports work in Scotland as the Scotland Programme Coordinator for Wikimedia UK so she's recorded us this talk and hopefully let me know if you cannot hear this. I just want to check that people can hear that. Okay, sound is a bit patchy says Alice. Yeah, it's cutting a quite a bit. Okay, what I'll do then is I will send that on to people. And we will move on. Sometimes it's nice to include everything. So let's try and move on to my tour. Okay, so like I say this is part of our University of Edinburgh Digital Skills Festival event. And if you want to find out more about our Digital Skills Festival then you can go to digitalskillsfestival.ed.ac.uk. And I'll speak a little bit about the work we do at the University of Edinburgh now. So I can hear some typing in the background if someone could mute their microphone. Thank you. Okay. Wikipedia has been around since 2001 now. And it was acclaimed in 2011 by the Chronicle of Higher Education, the ed come of age, and could play a formal role in education settings. So that's 10 years ago where are we today. Well, the residency at the University of Edinburgh had its beginnings back in 2014. Well, when if you cast your mind back a national debate was taking place in Scotland, but had to make a fairer, better, more inclusive society in the run up to the referendum on Scottish independence. I hear that the Students Association at the University of Edinburgh encouraged the university's senior managers to explore how learning materials could be made open, not only for students within the university across Scotland, and the wider world. And co-creation have been fundamental aspects of open education resources work at the university ever since. And the role of Wikimedia in residence has been positioned to go alongside other learning technologists to further embed open practice at the university. The idea would be that this is a multiple return on investment in that the role acts as a free resource and to support key institutional commitments, such as the sharing of open knowledge, information literacy, developing digital skills, and supporting equality, diversity and inclusion. Here's me at supporting colleagues at our Centre for Regenerative Medicine pre-COVID with the idea of improving articles related to the euro stem cells. Oh, someone's saying something. Are you able to share your slides? Oh, are they not shared? No, I think we were still on your, the video that didn't work. I beg your pardon. I do beg your pardon. Let me just close that down. I'll just check. Can you see my slides? That's them come up now, Ian. Colleges. You might want to go full screen for them. There we go. So this is what you missed. Essentially, Wikimedia has come of age, talking about how the university student association challenged our senior managers to make more resources open. It was back in 2014, and that then led to the development of an OER policy. And as part of that, a Wikimedia in residence position to support and embed open practice at the university. Essentially, I go around like an Avon lady or traveling salesman, talking about Wikipedia and delivering digital skills training events, like our euro stem cell editing event. With the idea, the role has been about developing important 21st century digital research skills. And a more robust sense of information literacy among our staff and students and resetting the relationship between academia and Wikipedia, away from the abstinence model of that hasn't really worked for us. And more being about an active, engaged role in sharing knowledge outside the ivory tower, because right now Wikipedia is the largest open education resource in human history, and our staff and students are using it now today. It's incredibly useful in an introductory and clarificatory role as part of their initial digital research. So we as people as members of this university need to be supporting them in developing good practice. And as such, we've been working now in teaching and learning for about five years with positive results year on year. The pace of change and embedding innovation the curriculum can be incredibly slow at times, but we've grown to around 10 to 12 course programs, engaging with Wikimedia in the curriculum. And as a result of experience, brick by brick students are engaged and helping to build the open web in the spirit in which it was originally intended, communicating their scholarship to readers all around the world, and taking on the mantle of the expert, taking this responsibility incredibly seriously and considering how to build understanding of their disciplines globally. What teaching fun indeed. This is our very first editing event back in February 2015, when we could all be in a room together. And it focused on to what extent our staff and students were being supported formally and informally in the developing of a more robust information literacy and learning new professional digital skills. And if so, could this be used to encourage to be more widespread across teaching and learning. The event itself was focused on creating and improving pages about the Edinburgh seven, the first group of matriculated female students to study at a UK University, when they began studying medicine, Edinburgh in 1869. And the Edinburgh seven edge of dawn has been cited as an example of good practice in preparation for the Athena Swan silver award to encourage more women to undertake STEM careers. And as we are research led institution Professor Allison little john was invited to evaluate the editing event. And this point from her research really stuck home that participants of the editing event felt that they had agency. They could see the knowledge gaps and the problems in representation, and they felt motivated and empowered that they could make an impact here by addressing those gaps. So we need to reframe Wikipedia and education sit lesser as a problem of passive consumption and think instead of Wikipedia as a form of learning technology that we can actively engage with and contribute to and gain so much from in terms of developing core competencies and transferable graduate attributes. We can become knowledge activists, particularly where Scotland has a rich story to tell. The mapping the Scotland's accused witches project gained a lot of traction in the news media. And what I like about this project is that students are also opening up research data sets for further research and inquiry and learning important data and science skills ahead of the world of work through working practically with link open data in Wikipedia sister project wiki data. I believe that this project has also led to discussions and how best to memorialize the persecution of these women with the talk of statues, or new museums, and that this isn't is in too important a subject suit to remain hidden. This work has then begat further work with research data sets with a new digital humanities project taking place with Newman University in Birmingham, and the University of Washington and Lee in the US on mapping the Scottish Reformation. And what we find quite often is that we tend to create open knowledge enthusiasts as part of our work, getting positive experiences and nodes of learning that bring in other colleagues, other projects, and other collaborations because of their positive experiences. And we try and document as we go, so that people can continue to build on prior learning sharing knowledge openly and globally and transparent is never been more important in the building of understanding, whether it is about cove it, or black lives matter, or anything else, and the need for a neutral platform where you can gain access to knowledge online for free has never been more vital in this era of hybrid teaching remote working and homeschooling. What we find is that while course organizers have scrambled to adapt to hybrid teaching in this new normal. We've continued to work with course programs and expanded our work, and that Wikipedia is suitable for face to face work in a editathon environment where you can have tea and cupcakes and chats with colleagues, but also we can create that in an online environment as much as possible. Here are some examples of some of the courses we've worked with global health challenges. Students collaborating groups online over the course of four weeks to evaluate short, less than 300 word Wikipedia articles that are about a natural or man made disaster like the 2020 exam floods. And they then proceed to research the topic and improve each article's coverage by about 1000 words. We've also worked with Professor Debbie Sridhar, the university who's often a staple on our TV screens these days, where students on the Masters in Public Health course added improved or created new contact content for global health related articles, and showed how crucial it is to make medicine and information global health more accessible with a new study concluding that enriching Wikipedia content is a powerful way to improve health literacy. And edits to pages about obesity are now viewed 3000 times a day on average. This is a course program that we've worked with for the last five years every year where students from the reproductive biology BSE course research a reproductive medical term not represented on Wikipedia in a three hour workshop working with the academic support librarian colleagues. In the second, in the second three hour workshop, they then put the article together and publish it, but before doing a short oral presentation on their group efforts. And this is a brand new collaboration that we've done this year with Dr. Glare Anderson on the history of Islamic arts course, who approached me and said, can we work together do you think. Yes, absolutely. And students evaluated the quality of articles on the Islamic art and Wikipedia as part of their course program and presented on their findings. They then worked in groups of three to four to add 500 words or more to the topic and adding citations and illustrating them with images of scientific instruments and illustrated manuscripts. And what I liked about this was that glare had some concerns introducing a new technological skill would already make the students more stressed out than they needed to be when in fact the students felt that they. This was actually what a highlight of their course. The conclusion that glare came to was that in a year that brought pervasive systemic justices into belief. Her experiment and apply our knowledge outside the classroom gave the students a sense that we're creating something positive, something that mattered. And once you commented really love the Wikipedia project it feels like my knowledge is actually making a difference in the wider world, if in a small way. And it's students that are leading the way. That's what I like about the work that we do. And then they suggest and initiate collaborations with like the Scotland slavery and black history project. This was a volunteer project where students on the history on the history society and just students coming from across the university wanted to reexamine the legacy of Scotland's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade. And they wanted to balance it against also providing a more positive examination of black history in Scotland as well by creating new pages such as University of Edinburgh graduate Jesse Ewing Glasgow. In all 16,000 words were added over the course of this project. And just to finish up. Let's just continue this work and support students. So we're developing a Wikipedia Edinburgh award to give accreditation to look to students that want to engage with Wikipedia so that they can learn a new digital skill and have and received an award for for their efforts, whatever field or area they want to examine that they will accrue 80 hours from October to March, and we're creating employing three new student interns as well this summer to support our library and university collections to be more open and be used as open education resources in teaching and learning, and to support open data work in the curriculum and improved work supporting quality diversity and inclusion in the curriculum as well. And one of our brilliant student interns that from last summer is Hannah Rothman and she's going to talk next about making Wikipedia easier to learn the students and course leaders alike. And just to finish, the Edinburgh seven now have their degrees posthumously 150 years later than planned. And the presentation matters. Learning about these stories matters whether it is about the Edinburgh seven or Scotland suffragettes or Scotland's witches or anything else gaps in our shared knowledge exclude the vitally important contributions of many within our community. Universities can help remove barriers and kick open more doors. And with that and ethical responsibility to share that knowledge for the greater good. Wikipedia editing events and assignments are one way of nudging that door open. Thank you. So I'm going to hand over to Hannah, I've given you a little bit of an introduction. And I will spotlight you and remove myself. All right, hi everyone. And my name is Hannah and as you and said, last summer I was the Wikimedia training intern, working with him to develop training materials training materials during that time which now does feel quite quite a long time ago. We created easy to follow how to videos for Wikipedia and other platforms within the Wikimedia foundation such as wiki data. Now, why did I spend that first and fingers crossed only lockdown summer creating videos for Wikipedia, along with a platform to share them. Firstly, we wanted to ensure that anyone at the university would feel empowered to contribute to these platforms. Starting to edit as a beginner can feel daunting as the information you need is out there, but often it is buried under a web of blue links. This was something I experienced as when I started last June I was new to the world of wiki finding easily accessible materials and information was hit on this, because there was a lot of information out there, which is great. But sometimes finding it is pretty difficult when you're new to the platform. Therefore we wanted to make these videos to ensure that people were not put off before they even started. Also we wanted to spread the word as it were about Wikipedia throughout the university. The majority of people I know use Wikipedia constantly, whether it is to Google plots of films while watching them something I've done a lot over the past few winter months much to the noise of my flatmates to help out an arguments or just to answer those burning questions you get just when you're about to go to sleep. However, not nearly as many people contribute to or edit Wikipedia. I had never edited it before I started my internship and I hadn't thought about where the seemingly endless and it is endless information comes from Wikipedia self described as the free Wikipedia that anyone can edit. Therefore, part of the goal of creating all these materials was to increase Wikipedia editing and contribution across the university and elsewhere. An idea of knowledge activism, as mentioned by you and earlier, as opposed to passive consumption is inherent in the goal to get more people to contribute. The universities many staff and students like myself are in excellent positions to contribute, improve and edit articles. They can access resources, they have specific subject expertise and with some persuasion, a desire to improve Wikipedia. This could mean that they could be valuable editors and empowered knowledge activists. On the screen you'll see this is the site that we created. So if you type in Wikipedia the University of Edinburgh. It comes up. I don't know whether my Google algorithm is just really excited about Wikipedia now but it should come up on your feed and as mentioned on the site. This is the Wikipedia in red and see we'll go to Wikipedia. Sorry. And so as mentioned on the homepage, Wikipedia in 2016 87.5% of students said that they used Wikipedia during their studies. Therefore, as it is already an informal part of education learning at university. We need to get the same students to contribute to and edit Wikipedia. And so on the left hand side of the page you can see that we have before you start, which has information about key information you should know before you start editing Wikipedia, such as the important of neutrality. And when you're writing articles and avoiding conflicts of interest. We're addressing knowledge gaps, which sets out some of the reasons why people should get involved in Wikipedia, which has been addressed already by Lorna and Sarah such as the gender gap and representation online. And also we have exploring Wikipedia, how to create an account, how to edit, making a Wikipedia article and so on. So on these pages, these feature videos made throughout my internship, and we decided that this website was one of the clearest ways to show people how to use Wikipedia. And we also set up a channel on media hopper. Well the channel was already set up you contributed videos to the channel and media hopper to host the videos. And there's also a YouTube channel. There's also a YouTube channel. So that others outside of the university can access and use the content themselves. And we thought this was quite important as Wikipedia isn't a site for open knowledge and access to knowledge so to have it available to everyone is important. There are about 20 videos, some by me and some by others within the Wikipedia community. And on the YouTube channel there's some positive feedback, along with some arbitrary comments. And this demonstrates that these resources have been helpful to the people that they were made for and they have helped to introduce people to Wikipedia. Our website also features a section on how to contribute with to Wikipedia once you're ready to start editing. And these are the edited ones I've already been mentioned. It is an easy way these edits and funds to try to create some social justice. Overall, the videos and resources I helped to create with you and, and others within the Wikimedia community, aim to ensure that anyone anywhere has the tools that they need to contribute to Wikipedia. And if you have some spare time over the summer. Check out the website and how you can help contribute to the world's free insight to PDF. Thanks. Well done. So we've had sort of good responses from people on YouTube, and from people at University of Toronto have been using your resources. It's really pleasing to see, but you know people are now engaging and finding it a little bit easier to get into. I think that's the thing people know about Wikipedia but it's not really obvious how to get started. So yeah, we only have one final speaker, which is Lucy. But if people want to add any questions into the chat hopefully we'll have a couple of minutes at the end just to sort of tease out anything that people want to ask. So is Lucy ready. Where's Lucy. Yes, sorry I just realized I needed to unmute and turn on my video. I am ready. So where's my. Okay, you're ready to go. Can you able to do you have any slides you're just going to talk. I'm just going to talk. Keeping it simple. Thanks here and thank you for organizing this event and providing me to contribute to it. I don't know about the rest of you but I've really enjoyed hearing all of these likely talks. And I think the past hour has really demonstrated the huge diversity of the work that's going on in Scotland to open up knowledge, much of which involves the university in some way or another. Edinburgh has just been such an amazing partner for Wikimedia UK over the past five years really showcasing what such partnership can look like and achieve and I was I was reflecting on this earlier thinking why why has that been so successful and although everybody's probably got a different explanation I think that comes out of three things. And one of those is you and work and his linchpin role in convening facilitating chipping advocating and delivering Wikimedia activities. And I think another thing is having Melissa Highton who's the director of learning teaching a web and assistant principal at the university championing the work and taking ownership at the senior level and creating that that buy in at the same level. But then also the fact that there's been this real proliferation of interest and multiple others from the university community like Sarah Laughlin Lorna Campbell and Hannah Rotman who we've heard from today, getting involved and taking the initiative and just really understanding the potential for working with Wikimedia at university. So that's just been fantastic to see. But in this talk I wanted to take a step back from our partnership with the university and give a broader view of Wikimedia UK's current strategy and program, and also share a few insights into what we're thinking about in terms of the next few years. So as has probably come across through the course of the day, we at Wikimedia UK are the national charity for Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects. And we aim to demystify and drive engagement and open knowledge. So we're currently delivering activities across four interconnected programs strands, which are to increase knowledge equity and develop digital literacy change policy and practice and grow our own profile and capacity. And, and I mean of course 2020 has been was a really extraordinary year for everybody and Wikimedia UK was no exception. So in the context of the pandemic, we were particularly focused on that on that last strand of work and in particular, developing our own organizational resilience and capacity and supporting that of our partners, many of whom in the cultural and education sectors have been really significantly affected by successive lockdowns. We've also been trying to put more of an emphasis on documenting and communicating our work, particularly regarding our learning around online delivery and new models of engagement. And we've been thinking about how we support the wellbeing of our staff and volunteers through this incredibly challenging time. And I think it's, we shouldn't underestimate the impact, not just of moving to working remotely and delivering an online program but also the impact of the pandemic and the economic fallout and health concerns that we've all been living through and dealing with. But I think as a Wikimedia chapter and community, we've got lots to be proud of over the past year. And I'm going to share with you a few highlights of the program all of which are things that take place outside Scotland. And obviously, there's been a focus in Scotland from the other speakers. So firstly, I wanted to talk about the Celtic knot conference, which Wikimedia UK worked with Wikimedia Island to deliver online in July 2020, which had over 100 participants and, and we think offered a really valuable mixture of talks workshop to these shooting spaces to help attendees work through the barriers that they experienced on their language workings. But I must mention here, the first Celtic knot, which took place in 2017 was actually in partnership with the University of Edinburgh and a collaboration between Wikimedia UK and the university and of course took place in person in it back in the day. And over the past year, we've been working with the London College of Communications student changemakers program to design and launch a new decolonizing Wikipedia network. And that's really, I guess, deepened our thinking around decolonization and reflects our commitment to knowledge equity and decolonization. And we've supported an ongoing collaboration between the Welsh Government, the National Library of Wales and the Anglesey Language Enterprise Mentormong in the delivery of a really innovative Wikipedia based education program in Welsh secondary schools. And as an aside to that, we were really pleased a couple of years ago that Wikipedia and Wikipedia module became part of the Welsh Baccalaureate after a number of years of advocacy and lobbying for that. We've been working closely with the British Library, who actually accommodated one of our host of one of the first ever Wikimedians in residence nine years ago. And we've been developing the internal case and support and funding for a second Wikimedian in residence. Lucy Henning, who was appointed this spring and has a board room across the library. And we've also been working with the Science Museum where they have a Wikimedian residence, but also they've seconded one of our staff one day to support them in some very innovative work around Wikidata. And just another example, an example, not so much of a project or a collaboration but advocacy work, which is that I joined the National Library Heritage Funds licensing review advisory group last summer and the outcome of that is that the HF now has an open licensing requirement on the digital outputs of one of its funded projects, which is going to make, I think, over the next few years, a really significant impact in terms of the accessibility of cultural heritage. So that's just a round robin, a set of highlights and pulling out a few pieces of our work. As of going forward in our priorities, we will retain that focus on knowledge equity and information literacy, but also there are some new themes emerging and three that I wanted to mention. One of those is around health information. And, you know, obviously this has been sparked by the pandemic that I think is going to be highly relevant over the next few years, at least. The climate crisis is increasingly something that we're that we're looking at in terms of information on Wikipedia and on Wikipedia. And the particular angle that we're bringing to it at the moment is exploring the theme of threatened heritage, which both draws on our programmatic commitment to climate issues but also our expertise around heritage and archaeology. We're going to be doing post COVID recovery, both for ourselves but also our partners and potential partners. And all of those are going to feature or I think a lucky to feature more strongly in our in our next strategy from 2022 to 2025, which will be working on this year. I'm just conscious of time I think I've gone over but I wanted to mention that this year 2021 is the 20th birthday of Wikipedia. We had an event on the on the day January 15. But we're going to be doing different things throughout the year to celebrate the extraordinary contribution of volunteers to Wikipedia to try and get more supporters, more donors, more members and to really have some fun. So we're hoping to hold in person Wicnics and looking media fitness this summer. So look out for those and any other 20th birthday activities. And please follow us if you don't already so you know what we're up to. Thanks again to you and I really really enjoyed the past hour. Thank you. Thank you, Lucy. Let me just say that I think there was a comment in the chat. Let's see. I don't know why it scrolls all the way to the top there. Yeah. Yeah, so that there are, there are quite a lot more examples of work that we've done with with cultural bodies. I think it's worth mentioning here that the National Heritage Fund in addition to changing their licensing they're currently delivering a whole set of cultural recovery projects and Wikimedia UK has got some funding as part of that. And that is going to be very much focused on us working with smaller and medium sized cultural heritage organizations to develop their understanding and awareness of how they can work with sustainable digital preservation. There will be a lens of knowledge equity so thinking particularly about collections that represent marginalized histories. But ultimately it's really about outreach and education, because, as you say, I mean, you know, a curator in a relatively small collection. It's very press for time and needs to have things very clear. So that they understand exactly what they can do and also if they need to advocate for an internal change of policy that they have the case studies and the arguments to hand to do that. Another second question there. So the decolonization network, and at the moment that is specifically a non ecology communications thing, however, and not necessarily in the public domain but we're on YouTube, and but we were exploring how we can extend that further. And so, I guess what's the space sorry to not be able to give you anything more concrete than that at this point but we think it's a really exciting program. But there is a wikimedia UK mailing list. I'm imagining that if any sort of note further developments would be announced on that. Yes, absolutely. Yeah, and there's a newsletter. I don't think I'll be able to type in the links in time but I mean a quick Google will probably get you to those places. And if you just sort of contact wikimedia UK, wikimedia UK event website. You can go at wikimedia.org.uk please don't tell a fitness because we're all still working remotely. So, does anyone have any further questions just before we run out of time for any of our speakers. Yes, we are we are talking to and who's knowledge and we speak to and I see you regularly but thank you Jim and good call anymore for any more. I'll put my own email in the chat as well just to sort of, and in case I want to find out a bit more about the work that we do at the university or in Scotland. But I will also upload Dr Sarah Thomas's talk to YouTube is we missed unfortunately weren't able to catch that. And she's talking about other brilliant work we've done in Scotland as well as supporting Scots wikipedia. So I think that's our hour up. I'll email out Sarah's talk and any the talk recording. I do have a question really I mean I'm really, I've known Edinburgh have been very much involved in wikipedia and wikimedia for a while now and I'm at the University of Sussex. I guess I'm interested in the kind of it's quite untraditional it's not necessarily traditional universities aren't necessarily engaging in the same way as Edinburgh. I would like to see much more of them doing so but I just wanted to once now a bit more about your philosophy and really why why you are taking this. And it's really we were sort of tasked with how we could sub best support information literacy and digital skills at university a bit better, but really it was a student. It was the student association law and I can speak to this as well about the that they were encouraging us to make more open resources more open education resources and challenged our senior managers to do more and that. And that that therefore lent us to develop a policy, which then for OERs and that required people to then implement that policy. So we have an OER service and a wikimedia to help embed open practice at the university and raise awareness of why it's a good thing. And how and how the how and the why. So but all of our work is very closely aligned with our institutional commitments to sharing open knowledge to developing data science skills to developing digital skills. And this helps leverage funding for doing this work and what we find is that this is a multiple return on investment as well. In that respect in what you can actually achieve. Yeah, I think you've actually covered everything I would have said to you and but yet this is part of a much wider commitment that the University of Edinburgh has to open this in many forms and as you and said we do see it has been very much part of the university's vision and mission to share knowledge. And one of the best ways to do that is to make knowledge open and whether it's an education resources sharing information wikipedia whether it's. I think the lawn is frozen. Okay. No it's fantastic. So we lost you a bit there. Are you back. Laura. Yes, sorry, did I cut out there. Yeah, I mean I guess and also obviously Edinburgh's made that commitment but perhaps all university would be nice to see all universities doing something similar, I suppose. Yeah, it's understanding why that this is wouldn't get is a good idea and trying to sort of understand where the funds would come from to sort of because for many I don't think they will see it as a priority, but they will see the things that it can achieve as a priority. So we're bringing those things up. So, we're also very keen that this summer, our students are presented with a video short video of why the university is partnered with wikipedia in this way, and why digital research skills the sporting of digital research skills, particularly now is something that we're going to be thinking about more. We're going to get students to create that video, and then disseminate it to all our new undergraduates and rolling in the autumn, so that because we don't just want it just to be 10 or 12 courses that I think about these things. And embedded as a, what is our relationship with Google and wikipedia and our disciplines. And as soon as we start thinking about researching a topic. You know, we do really have to start thinking about these things in a much more coherent way than we are currently doing. I'm going to have to go because I've got another meeting to go to but it's, I would like to thank everyone that participated today, and for everyone's contributions, and feel free to follow up with me or anyone else after today as well. Okay. Thanks so much. Hi. Thanks, Hannah. Thanks. Thanks Sarah and Karen and everyone else came by.