OER Service Digital Skills Events
The OER Service runs a wide range of workshops and events as part of the University's Digital Skills programme. Our up and coming events are listed below, and you can find a full list of workshops we offer here: OER Service Digital Skills. If you would like us to come to your school or college to run a session tailored to your requirements, please contact us at open.ed@ed.ac.uk.
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Witchy Wikipedia editathon for Halloween
Come join us as we set a place for the dead; through helping to create new biography articles and improving existing articles as part of a day of celebration.
Have you ever wondered why the information in Wikipedia is extensive for some topics and scarce for others? On Halloween, Thursday 31st October 2019, the University’s Information Services team are running an edit-a-thon to mark Samhuinn: the Gaelic Festival for the Dead and further document the accused witches of Scotland as part of our ongoing project work on the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft database.
Programme
- 1:00pm – 1:05pm: Housekeeping and Welcome.
- 1:05pm – 2pm: Crash course in Wikipedia training.
- 2pm – 4:30pm: Research and editing.
- 4:30pm – 5pm: PUBLISH! Transferring drafted text to Wikipedia’s live space.
We will provide training on how to edit and participate in an open knowledge community. Participants will be supported to develop articles covering areas which could stand to be improved in order to improve Wikipedia’s representation of notable lives; be they connected to the university, to Edinburgh, to Scotland or further afield.
Between the worlds of the living and the dead
Samhuinn is a Gaelic festival marking the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter or the “darker half” of the year. Traditionally, it is celebrated from the very beginning of one Celtic day to its end, or in the modern calendar, from sunset on 31 October to sunset on 1 November. Samhuinn was seen as a liminal time, when the boundary between this world and the Otherworld could more easily be crossed. This meant the Aos Sí, the ‘spirits’ or ‘fairies’, could more easily come into our world. Offerings of food and drink were left outside for them. The souls of the dead were also thought to revisit their homes seeking hospitality.
New editors very welcome. Full Wikipedia training given. Come learn a new digital skill with likeminded colleagues in a social and supportive setting.
Desktop computers are available but bring a laptop if you prefer.
*Lunch is not provided but tea, coffee & nibbles will all be available.
Internal Bookings via MyEd: https://edin.ac/2NifYUT
If from outside the University you can book your place here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/between-the-worlds-of-the-living-the-dead-a-witchy-wikipedia-editathon-tickets-28330759063
