{"id":1237,"date":"2016-07-30T06:51:36","date_gmt":"2016-07-30T06:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2016-07-30T20:37:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-30T20:37:00","slug":"iceland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/2016\/07\/30\/iceland\/","title":{"rendered":"impact of football OER"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 312px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Gerardi_Mercatoris_Atlas,_sive,_Cosmographicae_Meditationes_de_Fabrica_Mundi_et_Fabricati_Figura_(24696368309).jpg#\/media\/File:Gerardi_Mercatoris_Atlas,_sive,_Cosmographicae_Meditationes_de_Fabrica_Mundi_et_Fabricati_Figura_(24696368309).jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/1\/18\/Gerardi_Mercatoris_Atlas%2C_sive%2C_Cosmographicae_Meditationes_de_Fabrica_Mundi_et_Fabricati_Figura_%2824696368309%29.jpg\" alt=\"Gerardi Mercatoris Atlas, sive, Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura (24696368309).jpg\" width=\"312\" height=\"207\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">By Centre for Research Collections University of Edinburgh &#8211; Gerardi Mercatoris Atlas, sive, Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura, CC BY 2.0, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=47041923<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A 17th Century map of Iceland became our most popular OER for football fans during Euro 2016. The image &#8216;<em>Gerardi Mercatoris Atlas, Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura<\/em> &#8216; which belongs to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98144996@N07\/with\/24696368309\/\">Centre for Research Collections<\/a> was added to Wikimedia in February as part of our <a href=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/2016\/02\/26\/wor-wikimedian\/\">Wikimedian in Residence<\/a> partnership project. It was then used to illustrate\u00a0 an article about Iceland on English and German Wikipedia. It has now been viewed more than 2 million times.<\/p>\n<p>Iceland&#8217;s Euro2016\u00a0 matches were on 14 June (1-1 with Portugal), 18 June (1-1 Hungary), 22 June (2-1 victory over Austria), 27 June (2-1 win over England), and 3 July (2-5 defeat to France).\u00a0 Around each of these events people all over the world were keen to learn about this surprising nation.\u00a0 Viewing numbers ( numbers of hits) show appreciable spikes for the matches against Portugal, England, and France.<\/p>\n<p>On German Wikipedia <a href=\"https:\/\/tools.wmflabs.org\/pageviews\/?project=de.wikipedia.org&amp;platform=all-access&amp;agent=user&amp;range=latest-90&amp;pages=Island\">spikes against each of the matches<\/a> regularly exceeded 100,000 page views.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest spike was for the victory over England!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 17th Century map of Iceland became our most popular OER for football fans during Euro 2016. The image &#8216;Gerardi Mercatoris Atlas, Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura &#8216; which belongs to our Centre for Research Collections was added to Wikimedia in February as part of our Wikimedian in Residence partnership project. 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