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From Ewan McAndrew on October 22nd, 2019
As part of the Equate Scotland and Careerwise scheme to give Women in STEM students a paid placement in industry, Emma Carroll was employed on a paid internship in… -
From Ewan McAndrew on October 18th, 2019
A sandbox is where you draft content before it goes into the Wikipedia live space. Wikipedia is always going to be a work in progress but it is best practice to draft… -
From Ewan McAndrew on October 18th, 2019
This video demonstrates first how to copy drafted text from one Wikipedia sandbox (one editor's personal draft space) to another user's sandbox i.e. so that a… -
From Ewan McAndrew on October 18th, 2019
This video demonstrates how you should edit existing pages on Wikipedia the correct way. i.e. being logged in using a Wikipedia account and adding an 'In use'… -
From Stewart Cromar on October 1st, 2019
'The Wicked Findings of a Witchfinder General' – using linked open data to put accused witches on the map. Emma Carroll – Data and Visualisation… -
From Ewan McAndrew on September 13th, 2019
A tutorial on using OpenRefine an open source software used to edit spreadsheets and upload data easily to Wikidata. This tutorial will cover the basics of using… -
From Ewan McAndrew on September 12th, 2019
The Wicked Findings of the Witchfinder General: Using linked open data to put accused witches on the map. Seminar event hosted by the Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture… -
From Ewan McAndrew on September 4th, 2019
For more details about this and other conference session visit https://altc.alt.ac.uk/2019/programme Session DescriptionWorking with Wikipedia in the curriculum helps… -
From Ewan McAndrew on August 22nd, 2019
Michael Peter EdsonCo-Founder, the Museum for the United Nations – UN Live Share your story about the SDGs https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Program -
From Ewan McAndrew on August 2nd, 2019
A tutorial on using OpenRefine an open source software used to edit spreadsheets and upload data easily to Wikidata. This tutorial will cover the basics of using… -
From Ewan McAndrew on April 22nd, 2019
Executive Director of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation Katherine Maher keynoted WikiCite 2018 with her talk on: Wikimedia as the essential infrastructure of the… -
From Ewan McAndrew on April 22nd, 2019
Katherine Maher, Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director, gave a talk on the future of Wikipedia at Newspeak House in Shoreditch, East London as part of an event hosted… -
From Ewan McAndrew on March 25th, 2019
The Wikimedia residency at the University of Edinburgh has been shortlisted for the 2019 LILAC Information Literacy Awards. The CILIP Information Literacy Group is… -
From Ewan McAndrew on January 30th, 2019
Dr. Jess Wade is a physicist who, alongside being a postdoc researcher at Imperial College London in plastic electronics, campaigns tirelessly to increase diversity in… -
From Ewan McAndrew on November 23rd, 2018
Over the past several years, interest in leveraging Wikidata as an open knowledge base has been growing in areas ranging from cultural heritage institutions and…
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