{"id":1044,"date":"2016-02-24T17:33:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T17:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2016-02-25T10:33:42","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T10:33:42","slug":"body-of-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/2016\/02\/24\/body-of-work\/","title":{"rendered":"body of work"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1046\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1046\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/02\/23707548313_7d4a452525_o.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1046\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1046 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/02\/23707548313_7d4a452525_o-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"23707548313_7d4a452525_o\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/02\/23707548313_7d4a452525_o-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/02\/23707548313_7d4a452525_o-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/02\/23707548313_7d4a452525_o.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1046\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dermatome man, early twentieth century. (c) University of Edinburgh https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/crcedinburgh\/23707548313\/in\/album-72157661120362394\/ CC BY-SA 2.0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>During our &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/2016\/02\/13\/creating-an-open-body-of-knowledge\/\">Creating an open body of knowledge&#8217; wikipedia editatho<\/a>n last week we managed to upload over 500 images, create 4 brand new articles and 56 improved articles.\u00a0\u00a0 Our <a href=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/2015\/10\/01\/be-our-wikimedian-in-residence\/\">Wikimedian in Residence<\/a>, Ewan reports that:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are now some astonishingly interesting additions to Wikipedia which just simply weren\u2019t there before&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anne&#8217;s article on Norman Dott &#8211; the first holder of the Chair of Neurological Surgery at the University of Edinburgh.<\/li>\n<li>Gavin\u2019s one man \u2018Citation Hunt\u2019 crusade to plug those pesky \u2018citation needed\u2019 labels in articles.<\/li>\n<li>Chris\u2019s work on Robert Battey &#8211; an American physician who is known for pioneering a surgical procedure then called Battey&#8217;s Operation and now termed radical oophorectomy (or removal of a woman&#8217;s ovaries).<\/li>\n<li>Melissa\u2019s noteworthy work doubling (if not trebling) the article on Mary Fairfax Somerville &#8211; a Scottish science writer and polymath, at a time when women&#8217;s participation in science was discouraged. As well as editing articles on Isabel Thorne, Matilda Chaplin Ayrton and the Scottish Blood Transfusion Service.<\/li>\n<li>Christine\u2019s new \u2018Controversy\u2019 section on the intriguing case of James Miranda Barry.<\/li>\n<li>Eoin\u2019s really helpful mapping tool of the buildings to be photographed: <a href=\"https:\/\/mapalist.com\/map\/573668\">https:\/\/mapalist.com\/map\/573668<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Our historian of medicine, James\u2019s work on The Brunonian system of medicine &#8211; a theory of medicine which regards and treats disorders as caused by defective or excessive excitation.<\/li>\n<li>Mary\u2019s first ever article on Leith Hospital \u2013 illustrated with pictures she took herself and uploaded to Wikicommons.<\/li>\n<li>Eugenia\u2019s articles on Frances Helen Simson (a Scottish suffragist) and The Edinburgh Royal Maternity and Simpson Maternity Hospital Pavilion. Ably added to by Luise Kocaurek\u2019s work on Lady Tweedale.<\/li>\n<li>Anne-Marie\u2019s work on Emily Bovell\u2019s article and a brand new article on the New Zealand Army Nursing Service page which came into being in early 1915, when the Army Council in London accepted the New Zealand government&#8217;s offer of nurses to help in the war effort during the First World War.<\/li>\n<li>Neil\u2019s articles on \u2018Fabry disease\u2019 &#8211; a rare genetic lysosomal storage disease \u2013 and on \u2018Alport Syndrome\u2019 &#8211; a genetic disorder<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alport_syndrome#cite_note-1\">]<\/a><\/sup> affecting around 1 in 5,000 children, characterized by glomerulonephritis, end-stage kidney disease, and hearing loss.<\/li>\n<li>Sara\u2019s sterling work uploading images and flitting about improving articles on Leith Hospital, Edinburgh University\u2019s Women\u2019s Union and many more articles.<\/li>\n<li>Kimberley\u2019s work on Frances Hoggan &#8211; the first British woman to receive a doctorate in medicine from a university in Europe, and the first female doctor to be registered in Wales.<\/li>\n<li>And much much more besides&#8230;. including LiuLing\u2019s work on The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh on Chinese Wikipedia!&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During our &#8216;Creating an open body of knowledge&#8217; wikipedia editathon last week we managed to upload over 500 images, create 4 brand new articles and 56 improved articles.\u00a0\u00a0 Our Wikimedian in Residence, Ewan reports that: &#8220;There are now some astonishingly interesting additions to Wikipedia which just simply weren\u2019t there before&#8230;. 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