19th-Century Photographs by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson
David Octavius Hill (1802-70), a painter-photographer from Perth, and Robert Adamson (1821-48), from Burnside near St Andrew’s, paired up to […]
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Scotland, Slavery and Black History – Wikipedia in the Classroom
This open seminar is a collaboration by Ewan McAndrew our Wikimedian in Residence with Professor Diana Paton and Lucy Parfitt […]
Read moreLGBT+ History Month 2023
The University of Edinburgh’s Staff Pride Network promoted a number of activities and events throughout LGBT+ History month February 2023. […]
Read moreMain Library Construction Images
Did you know that The University of Edinburgh’s Main Library was deliberately designed to look like a bookcase? Opened in […]
Read moreM&M Podcast on Knowledge Equity
Earlier this week I had the very great pleasure of joining my colleagues Myles Blaney and Michael Gallagher for their fabulous M&M Podcast to talk about knowledge equity. I’m a big fan of the M&M Podcast and knowledge equity is a topic that is very close to my heart so I really enjoyed the experience. […]
Read moreIf it’s September, it must be Wiki Loves Monuments!
How is it September already?! Time always seems to fly at the end of summer but this year has been particularly weird as we’ve started to ease out of lockdown. July seemed to run on for ages, and then August disappeared in the blink of an eye! The best thing about September is that it […]
Read moreDunfermline College of Physical Education: A personal connection
While I was off on strike I was able to spend some time finishing a project I’ve been working on for a couple of months; editing the Wikipedia page for Dunfermline College of Physical Education. I was inspired to update the existing page by the recent Body Language exhibition at the University of Edinburgh Library […]
Read moreReadings of ‘The Cantos of Ezra Pound’
Ezra Pound’s monumental poem The Cantos is the longest and most sustained literary effort made by a poet of the […]
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Advice from HR was not to call this job ‘Witchfinder General’. So we didn’t. But we wanted to. University of Edinburgh has a database of Scottish Witches. It has been published as open data and we are looking for a Data and Visualisation Intern to work with our Wikimedian in Residence to help us develop …
Read moreWiki Loves Monuments 2018 – Pipped at the post!
Wiki Loves Monuments, Wikimedia’s annual photography competition, came to a close at the end of September. An astonishing 4,374 images of Scottish scheduled monuments and listed buildings were uploaded to Wikimedia Commons over the course of the month, over double last year’s total of 2,104 and almost a third of the 14,203 images uploaded in the UK. […]
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