Wikipedia and Libraries - Interview with Digital Curator, Gavin Willshaw

From Ewan McAndrew on April 17th, 2018

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Gavin Willshaw is the Digital Curator of the University of Edinburgh. In March 2018, he was interviewed about his experiences editing Wikipedia, adding image collections to Wikimedia Commons, adding openly-licensed texts to Wikisource, and running his own editing event in his spare time at his local library in Portobello.

Wikipedia page for Dr Thomas John Jehu FRSE FGS (1871 – 18 July 1943) who was a British physician and geologist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_John_Jehu

PhD thesis by Dr Thomas John Jehu added to Wikisource, Wikipedia's sister project, the free digital hyper library.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Some_problems_in_variation_and_heredity

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Wikipedia and Libraries - Interview with Digital Curator, Gavin Willshaw

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