Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia 25/26
Video presentations by our 2025/26 students who completed the Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia – Edinburgh Award. The Edinburgh Award is a programme that students can undertake alongside a particular activity and aims to recognise student involvement in these activities and enhance these experiences.
The Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia Edinburgh Award is a 55-80 hour programme that allows students to get official recognition for their involvement in extracurricular activities and demonstrate their digital capabilities to employers.
Students can undertake Wikipedia editing as part of The Edinburgh Award and receive accreditation for developing important digital research skills and applying these to improving the knowledge freely available online.
These are our ’25/26 student’s end of project presentations recorded in the teaching rooms of Old College on 25 March 2026.
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Japanese Dress and Art History
Emma worked on improving topic coverage on Wikipedia relating to 20th century Japanese dress and art history.
Emma is currently in her first-year of a PhD in History of Art focused on the social and material history of monpe, a Japanese female work trouser, especially its histories during the Pacific War (1937-1945). Her project looked to address some gaps on Wikipedia relating to key Japanese fashion designers, artists, and collectors she encountered in her early research. As a secondary focus, she also wanted to add more information to the ‘sōsaku-hanga’ pages and artists, and improve overall understanding of Japan’s early and mid-twentieth century art and fashion landscape.
The talk features: the project focus, the initial approach taken, the challenges faces, the project outcomes and final reflections.
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Pictish Stones
Alice worked on improving topic coverage on Wikipedia relating to the Pictish Stones of Scotland.
This is her end of project presentation recorded in the teaching rooms of Old College on 25 March 2026.
The talk features: the project focus, the initial approach taken, the challenges faces, the project outcomes and final reflections.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh/Edinburgh_Award/Pictish_Sculpture
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Artefacts of the Republic of Congo
Audrey worked on improving topic coverage on Wikipedia relating to Artefacts of the Republic of Congo.
This is her end of project presentation recorded in the teaching rooms of Old College on 25 March 2026.
The talk features: the project focus, the initial approach taken, the challenges faces, the project outcomes and final reflections.
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Japanese Fashion Subcultures (Gothic Lolita)
Wenyu Jia worked on improving topic coverage on Wikipedia relating to Japanese fashion subcultures like Gothic Lolita and Classic Lolita fashion.
This is her end of project presentation recorded in the teaching rooms of Old College on 25 March 2026.
The talk features: the project focus, the initial approach taken, the challenges faces, the project outcomes and final reflections.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh/Edinburgh_Award/Gothic_Lolita_Fashio…
This project focused on three related fashion labels: Gothic Lolita, Classical Lolita, and Jirai-kei and Ryōsangata Fashion. The aim was to conduct a basic compilation and introduction of their style characteristics and cultural background. Although these fashion styles vary in their presentation, they all originated in the Japanese popular culture context and, during their development, have drawn on various Western historical and aesthetic elements.
- Gothic Lolita and Classical Lolita often present an imagination and reinterpretation of Western styles such as Gothic, Victorian, or Rococo through clothing silhouettes, decorative details, and overall atmosphere.
- Jirai-kei and Ryōsangata Fashion more prominently reflect the emotional expression of contemporary youth culture. Its connection to Western styles is relatively indirect, mainly manifested in the continuation of aesthetic atmosphere and emotional logic.
Through the parallel presentation of these three labels, this project aims to provide clear and easily understandable background explanations for the related fashion styles, helping readers better understand their positions in contemporary fashion and subculture.
Lolita Fashion, Gothic Lolita Fashion and Gothic Lolita
- The project began in October 2025 aiming to distinguish Gothic Lolita fashion from Lolita fashion as a broader category and to highlight the specificity of its substyles. Following community feedback, the page was renamed to align with common usage and linked to the main Lolita fashion entry. While remaining part of the larger framework, the Gothic Lolita page continues to contribute more detailed and structured content to the overall topic.
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Ugandan cultural heritage
Helena worked on improving topic coverage on Wikipedia relating to:
This is her end of project presentation recorded in the teaching rooms of Old College on 25 March 2026.
The talk features: the project focus, the initial approach taken, the challenges faces, the project outcomes and final reflections.
Singaporean biographies
Hansen worked on improving topic coverage on Wikipedia relating to Singaporean biographies.
This is his end of project presentation recorded in the teaching rooms of Old College on 25 March 2026.
The talk features: the project focus, the initial approach taken, the challenges faces, the project outcomes and final reflections.
These video created by students at the University of Edinburgh are available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence.
