{"id":443,"date":"2017-03-15T14:52:01","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T14:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/?p=443"},"modified":"2017-03-15T17:44:43","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T17:44:43","slug":"wikimedia-on-the-edge-of-oer17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wikimedia-on-the-edge-of-oer17\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikimedia- on the  edge of OER17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/oer17.oerconf.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">The 2017 Open Educational Resources Conference (OER17)<\/a> will be held at Resource for London on the 5th and 6th April. The conference theme is &#8220;<em>The Politics of Open<\/em>&#8221; and has never been more timely. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Registration closes 16th March so don&#8217;t delay.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Once again, there is a strong presence of people associated with Wikimedia UK, as well as other Wikimedians. As Wikipedia edges towards 17 years old and we get ever closer to OER17, here&#8217;s a look at the presentations coming up from Wikimedia &#8211; <em>on the edge of OER17.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_449\" style=\"width: 261px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-449\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-449\" src=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/03\/Stevie_Nicks_2-251x300.jpg\" alt=\"Stevie Nicks. By User:SandyMac [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons\" width=\"251\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/03\/Stevie_Nicks_2-251x300.jpg 251w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/03\/Stevie_Nicks_2.jpg 334w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-449\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stevie Nicks. By User:SandyMac [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>(Sadly there will be no Stevie Nicks.)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The conference is co-chaired by Wikimedia UK trustee <a title=\"Board\" href=\"https:\/\/wikimedia.org.uk\/wiki\/Board#Josie_Fraser\">Josie Fraser<\/a> and Creative Commons Poland co-founder Alek Tarkowski.<\/li>\n<li>Wikimedia UK Chief Executive <a title=\"User:LucyCrompton-Reid (WMUK)\" href=\"https:\/\/wikimedia.org.uk\/wiki\/User:LucyCrompton-Reid_%28WMUK%29\">Lucy Crompton-Reid<\/a> is one of the keynote speakers.<div id=\"attachment_384\" style=\"width: 159px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-384\" class=\"wp-image-384\" src=\"http:\/\/oer17.oerconf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2016\/12\/Lucy-Compton-Reid-300x300.jpg\" width=\"149\" height=\"149\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-384\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lucy Crompton-Reid (CEO Wikimedia UK) &#8211; By Simoncromptonreid (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>Lucy Crompton-Reid has a career in the cultural, voluntary and public sectors spanning two decades, with a strong emphasis on leading and developing participatory practice and promoting marginalised voices. As Chief Executive of Wikimedia UK since October 2015, she has led the development of a new strategy focused on eradicating inequality and bias on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects, with an emphasis on the gender gap and geographic bias. In the past year Lucy has given talks on equality and diversity at the <a href=\"http:\/\/theodi.org\/lunchtime-lectures\/friday-lunchtime-lecture-editing-out-the-gender-gap\">Open Data Institute<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/conferences.oreilly.com\/oscon\/open-source-eu\/public\/schedule\/speaker\/253532\">Open Source Convention <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/mozillafestival.org\/\">MozFest<\/a>, and recently spearheaded an international partnership between Wikimedia UK, Wikimedia communities around the world and the BBC, focused on closing the gender gap on Wikipedia. Lucy will be presenting: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/oer17.oerconf.org\/sessions\/open-as-inclusive-equality-and-diversity-on-wikimedia-1557\/\">&#8220;Open as inclusive: Equality and Diversity on Wikimedia&#8221; at OER17.<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Sara M\u00f6rtsell, Education Manager of <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/se.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Huvudsida\/en\" rel=\"nofollow\">WikimediaSE<\/a>, will present on &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/oer17.oerconf.org\/sessions\/how-openness-in-mainstream-k-12-education-can-advance-with-wikimedia-and-glams-in-sweden-1512\/\"><em>How openness in mainstream K-12 education can advance with Wikimedia and GLAMs in Sweden<\/em><\/a>&#8221; &#8211; This proposal addresses how mainstream K-12 education can transition to use and share open educational resources and play a part in the future direction of the open educational movement (Weller 2014). The presentation is based on practical experience of a one year OER project in 2016 with 230 students in K-12 education from both minority and dominant communities in the city of Stockholm.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_445\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-445\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-445\" src=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/03\/Sara_M\u00f6rtsell_2015-05-07-300x265.jpg\" alt=\"Sara M\u00f6rtsell. Pic by Jonatan Svensson Glad [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons\" width=\"300\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/03\/Sara_M\u00f6rtsell_2015-05-07-300x265.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/03\/Sara_M\u00f6rtsell_2015-05-07-768x680.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/03\/Sara_M\u00f6rtsell_2015-05-07-1024x906.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-445\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sara M\u00f6rtsell. Pic by Jonatan Svensson Glad [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<li>Stefan Lutschinger, an academic and Wikipedia Campus Ambassador at Middlesex University, will present on &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/oer17.oerconf.org\/sessions\/open-pedagogy-and-student-wellbeing-academic-confidence-building-with-wikipedia-assignments-1566\/\"><em>Open Pedagogy and Student Wellbeing: Academic Confidence Building with Wikipedia Assignments<\/em><\/a>&#8220;. Stefan&#8217;s talk talk will introduce the use of Wikipedia assignments in higher education, present a case study, discuss its benefits for students\u2019 academic confidence building and propose a framework for evaluation and critical reflection. The evidence is based on the compulsory course module (level 6) \u2018MED3040 Publishing Cultures\u2019 of the BA (Hons) Creative Writing and Journalism degree programme at Middlesex University, Department of Media, developed in cooperation with Wikimedia UK and the Wiki Education Foundation.<\/li>\n<li>\n<div id=\"attachment_107\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-107\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-107\" src=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/04\/Mallaig-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Me in Mallaig after walking the West Highland Way and riding the Harry Potter train.\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/04\/Mallaig-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/04\/Mallaig-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/04\/Mallaig-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/04\/Mallaig.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-107\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ewan McAndrew &#8211; Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Edinburgh (Own work CC-BY-SA)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ewan McAndrew, <a class=\"extiw\" title=\"w:Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh\">Wikimedian In Residence at the University of Edinburgh<\/a>, is delivering a presentation on <a href=\"https:\/\/oer17.oerconf.org\/sessions\/lo-and-behold-reveries-of-a-connected-campus-reflections-from-the-wikimedian-in-residence-at-the-university-of-edinburgh-1499\/\"><em>&#8220;Lo and Behold: Reveries of a Connected Campus: Reflections from the Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Edinburgh&#8221;.\u00a0 <\/em><\/a>While there have been previous Wikimedia residencies based in UK cultural institutions focussing on opening up collections, five years have now passed since Grathwohl (2011) acclaimed Wikipedia had \u2018come of age\u2019 in formal education settings with Wikipedia still representing the oft-ignored <a href=\"http:\/\/septentrio.uit.no\/index.php\/nordlit\/article\/view\/2377\"><em>\u201celephant in the room<\/em>\u201d<\/a> (Brox, 2012). Hosting a Wikimedian at a Higher Education institution to embed the creation of OER in the curriculum does therefore represent something of a shift in the paradigm. This presentation discusses one such residency and the lessons learnt from the first 15 months.<\/li>\n<li>\n<div id=\"attachment_366\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-366\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-366\" src=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/01\/From_One_Language_to_Another_Weiner-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The artwork &quot;Een vertaling van de ene taal naar de andere&quot; \/ &quot;A Translation from one language to another&quot; by Lawrence Weiner. Placed in 1996 at the Spui (square) in Amsterdam. It consists of three pairs of two stones placed against each other. On each stone there is an inscription &quot;A Translation from one language to another&quot;, in another language - Dutch, English, Surinam and Arabic. Author: brbbl (CC-BY-SA)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/01\/From_One_Language_to_Another_Weiner-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/01\/From_One_Language_to_Another_Weiner-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/01\/From_One_Language_to_Another_Weiner-1024x769.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/01\/From_One_Language_to_Another_Weiner.jpg 1028w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-366\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The artwork &#8220;Een vertaling van de ene taal naar de andere&#8221; \/ &#8220;A Translation from one language to another&#8221; by Lawrence Weiner. Author: brbbl (CC-BY-SA)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ewan will also be giving a lightning talk on &#8220;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/oer17.oerconf.org\/sessions\/building-bridges-not-walls-wikipedias-new-content-translation-tool-1505\/\">Building bridges not walls \u2013 Wikipedia\u2019s new Content Translation tool&#8221;<\/a><\/em>. Wikipedia\u2019s new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediawiki.org\/wiki\/Content_translation\">Content Translation tool<\/a> offers an impactful means of sharing open knowledge globally between languages as it brings up an article on one side of the screen in one language and helps translate it, paragraph by paragraph, to create the article in a different language taking all the formatting across to the new article so a native speaker just has to check to make sure the translation is as good as it can be. This presentation will outline the successful models already employed in a Higher Education context.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><div id=\"attachment_103\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-103\" src=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/04\/Martin-Poulter-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Martin Poulter By Ziko (Own work) [GFDL (http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/copyleft\/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 4.0-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0)], via Wikimedia Commons\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/04\/Martin-Poulter-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/04\/Martin-Poulter-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/04\/Martin-Poulter-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-103\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Martin Poulter By Ziko (Own work) [GFDL (http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/copyleft\/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 4.0-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0)], via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>Martin Poulter, <a class=\"extiw\" title=\"w:Wikipedia:GLAM\/Oxford\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:GLAM\/Oxford\">Wikimedian In Residence at the University of Oxford<\/a>, is giving a presentation on &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/oer17.oerconf.org\/sessions\/putting-wikipedia-and-open-practice-into-the-mainstream-in-a-university-1522\/\"><em>Putting Wikipedia and Open Practice into the mainstream in a Universit<\/em><\/a>y&#8221;. OER Conference attendees are often part of a minority group of Open Education advocates in their institutions, and it is a hard challenge to change wider institutional policy and culture. This presentation will share lessons learned from experience in a UK university, using Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects as well as Open Access research publication as levers to encourage an open approach to education. The drive towards open access to the outputs of research, and open access to the collections of cultural institutions, are potentially powerful drivers for the creation of open educational content. This session explores how to push academic culture in that direction.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<div id=\"attachment_371\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-371\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-371\" src=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/01\/citation-needed-300x225.gif\" alt=\"#1Lib1Ref - 1 Librarian adding 1 Reference\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/01\/citation-needed-300x225.gif 300w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/01\/citation-needed-768x577.gif 768w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/01\/citation-needed-1024x769.gif 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-371\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Citation (desperately) needed. #PoliticsOfOpen<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ewan and Martin are jointly giving a lightning talk on &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/oer17.oerconf.org\/sessions\/citation-needed-digital-provenance-in-the-era-of-post-truth-politics-1502\/\">Citation Needed: Digital Provenance in the era of Post-Truth Politics<\/a>&#8220;.This session covers why the most important frontier of Wikipedia is not its content but its 30 million plus citations (Orlowitz, 2016) and the latest developments behind the WikiCite project after its first year. <strong>The WikiCite<\/strong> initiative is to build a <a title=\"w:bibliographic database\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/bibliographic_database\">repository<\/a> of all Wikimedia citations and bibliographic metadata in <a title=\"Wikidata\" href=\"https:\/\/meta.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Wikidata\">Wikidata<\/a> to serve all Wikimedia projects. The ultimate goal to make Wikipedia\u2019s citations as \u201c<em>reliable, open, accessible, structured, linked and free as our Knowledge is<\/em>.\u201d(Orlowitz, 2016)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<div id=\"attachment_301\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-301\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-301\" src=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/10\/Ada-Lovelace-Day-3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Gamifying Wikimedia - Learning through play (Pic from Ada Lovelace Day 2016 at the University of Edinburgh - own work CC-BY-SA).\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/10\/Ada-Lovelace-Day-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/10\/Ada-Lovelace-Day-3-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/10\/Ada-Lovelace-Day-3-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-301\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gamifying Wikimedia &#8211; Learning through play (Pic from Ada Lovelace Day 2016 at the University of Edinburgh &#8211; own work CC-BY-SA).<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ewan and Martin will also be running a workshop on &#8220;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/oer17.oerconf.org\/sessions\/gamifying-wikimedia-learning-through-play-workshop-1560\/\">Gamifying Wikimedia \u2013 Learning through Play (Workshop)<\/a><\/em>&#8220;. This workshop will demonstrate that crowd-sourcing contributions to Wikimedia\u2019s family of Open Education projects does not have to involve a heavy time component and that short fun, enjoyable activities can be undertaken which enhance the opportunities for teaching &amp; learning and the dissemination of open knowledge. Participants will be guided through a series of Wikimedia tools; running through the purpose of each tool, how they can be used to support open education alongside practical demos.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Wikimedia UK volunteer Navino Evans is giving a workshop on &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/oer17.oerconf.org\/sessions\/histropedia-building-an-open-interactive-history-of-everything-with-wikimedia-content-1573\/\"><em>Histropedia \u2013 Building an open interactive history of everything with Wikimedia content<\/em><\/a>&#8220;.<div id=\"attachment_446\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-446\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-446\" src=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/03\/Navino_Evans_presenting_Histropedia-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"By Wittylama (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/03\/Navino_Evans_presenting_Histropedia-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/03\/Navino_Evans_presenting_Histropedia-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/03\/Navino_Evans_presenting_Histropedia-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-446\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Navino Evans and Histropedia. Pic by Wittylama (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.histropedia.com\" target=\"_blank\">Histropedia<\/a> is a web application aiming to create free interactive timelines on every topic in history using open data from Wikimedia projects like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikidata.org\" target=\"_blank\">Wikidata<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\" target=\"_blank\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a>.All Histropedia timelines are published under an open licence, which means they can be reused and remixed for any purpose, both within Histropedia and elsewhere on the web. Tools like Histropedia provide an incentive for donating text, data and images to Wikimedia projects, as it can instantly be visualised in exciting ways without incurring any cost.\n<div id=\"attachment_447\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-447\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-447\" src=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/03\/Wikipedia-and-Academic-Research-1-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Histropedia timeline of University of Edinburgh female alumni; colour-coded by place of birth and with language labels in Japanese, Russian, Arabic and English.\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/03\/Wikipedia-and-Academic-Research-1-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/03\/Wikipedia-and-Academic-Research-1-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/03\/Wikipedia-and-Academic-Research-1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-447\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Histropedia timeline of University of Edinburgh female alumni; colour-coded by place of birth and with language labels in Japanese, Russian, Arabic and English.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It also shows how data becomes more valuable when it\u2019s open, as it can be combined and compared with other data in a way that is not possible when kept in isolation. It\u2019s our hope that Histropedia can play a role in getting more educational institutions to engage with Wikimedia content and other open resources, as well as inspire others to build innovative applications on top of the wealth of free knowledge that\u2019s available. In this workshop, we will learn how to use <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.wikimedia.org\/2016\/10\/30\/histropedia\/\">Histropedia<\/a> by completing a sequence of practical exercises to find, combine and improve content.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Alice White, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:GLAM\/Wellcome\">Wikimedian in Residence at the Wellcome Library,<\/a> will also in attendance running a Wikimedia session in the Lewis Suite.<div id=\"attachment_448\" style=\"width: 176px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-448\" class=\" wp-image-448\" src=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/03\/Wellcome_Library_Wikimedian-in-Residence2.jpg\" alt=\"Alice White- By Zeromonk (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons\" width=\"166\" height=\"158\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-448\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alice White- By Zeromonk (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>Something for everyone there. Look forward to seeing you there!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2017 Open Educational Resources Conference (OER17) will be held at Resource for London on the 5th and 6th April. The conference theme is &#8220;The Politics of Open&#8221; and has never been more timely. Registration closes 16th March so don&#8217;t delay. 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