{"id":654,"date":"2015-02-21T21:13:08","date_gmt":"2015-02-21T21:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/?p=654"},"modified":"2015-03-03T01:31:47","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T01:31:47","slug":"we-can-edit-yes-we-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/2015\/02\/21\/we-can-edit-yes-we-can\/","title":{"rendered":"we can [edit], yes we can"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We can edit and we can eat cake. Picture taken by me, no rights reserved, and no leftovers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The ‘<\/a>Women, Science and Scottish History editathon<\/a>‘ series of events in Innovative Learning Week<\/a> at University of Edinburgh was a great success. We ran sessions on 4 days, had plenty of new students, staff and friends join us, edited more than 30 articles and trained dozens of novice wikipedia editors.
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Each day, the one-hour introduction to editing Wikipedia focused on offering tips and insight into different approaches as well as practical training. Participants were welcome to\u00a0 attend as many days as they would like: everyday we\u00a0 added something new. Our Wikimedia trainers (principally Ally, the Wikimedian in Residence at the National Library of Scotland)\u00a0 was on hand\u00a0 to provide assistance, and our librarians ( Marshall, Gavin and Grant)\u00a0 provided specialised materials focusing on the subjects covered.<\/p>\n

Knowledge was shared openly. Articles\u00a0 were created or improved. Networks of connections were made and\u00a0 shared topics of interest explored.\u00a0\u00a0 Copious cake and cookies were eaten, and a fun time was had by all. We plan to do further events and some research to maintain and sustain momentum<\/a> and support our fledgling crowd community<\/a>. In December, at\u00a0 the EduWiki conf<\/a>\u00a0 Ally reported that she had not seen much engagement\u00a0 from University of Edinburgh in Wikipedia projects . At least that’s changed.<\/p>\n

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The hashtag was #ILWeditathon<\/a>. Read Our story in a storify<\/a><\/p>\n

Articles improved<\/span><\/p>\n