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Have you ever wondered why the information in Wikipedia is extensive for some topics and scarce for others? As part of the Wikimedia residency at the University of Edinburgh, the University's Information Services team will run an informal Wiki meetup focused on improving Wikipedia's representation of notable women; turning red-linked articles that don't yet exist into blue clickable ones that do.
Wikipedia is a tertiary resource, which relies upon secondary sources. Wikipedia is not a place for original research. For more guidance on the use of sources, see this guide here. Editors will also have access to some University of Edinburgh e-resources. Search for articles on Google Scholar.
University of Edinburgh: Podcast recording: 60 minute podcast recording with Stephanie 'Charlie' Farley, University of Edinburgh OER Service, to discuss how the university's Media Hopper video channel can support learning about Wikipedia and OERs: Will be shared at later date, once edited.
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, including alumni of constituent institutions, for example the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies. "Alumni" (see Alumnus) is used here in the (correct) broad sense, to include people who have spent a notable period of their career studying at the institution, not in a narrower, legal sense ...
The University of Edinburgh's Digital Skills team have requested a list of upcoming Wikimedia workshops for Semester 2 (2023/2024) and E.McAndrew has prepared a list of dates and workshop descriptors to tie in with this upcoming semester's themed approach including: Workshops planned are as follows:
Edinboro University was founded as the Edinboro Academy, a private training school for Pennsylvania teachers in 1857, by the region's original Scottish settlers. It is the oldest training institution west of the Allegheny Mountains and the second-oldest in Pennsylvania. Edinboro initially consisted of a modest two-story building, including six ...
The most viewed image for October 2021 was from the article on the Gaelic Festival of Samhain taken at the University of Edinburgh's Samhain Wikipedia editing event in October 2016. It now has 372,131 pageviews on English Wikipedia for October 2021.
