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Wikimedian in Residence at the Wellcome From October 2017, Wellcome Collection took on their Wikimedian in Residence as a full-timie Digital Editor. This followed on from Wellcome Library and Wikimedia UK's support of a Wikimedian in Residence from May 2016 - October 2017. The WiR engaged with librarians, members of the public, researchers and other organisations to encourage contributions to the development of Wikipedia articles and to make the Library's content more publicly accessible. The Digital Editor role continues the work of the Residency (and involves work on the Wellcome Collection website too). This project page can be used as a site for discussion, and also provides information on ongoing and future projects involving Wellcome and Wikimedia. The Wellcome WiR There was a Wikimedian in Residence at the Wellcome Library from May 2016 - October 2017. This role was then incorporated into the full-time position of Digital Editor at Wellcome Collection, so Wikimedia-related activities are continuing! The aim of the residency, and the continuing aim of the Digital Editor's Wikimedia work is to engage with Library staff and users, members of the public, researchers and visitors to Wellcome Collection and staff of the Wellcome Trust to encourage contributions and to make Wellcome Collection’s digitised content more accessible. Activities Wiki-at-Wellcome involves activities such as: Working with staff, including librarians and curators, to identify areas of Wikipedia and sister projects that could be enriched with resources and knowledge from the Library’s collections. Developing a policy and workflow for adding to Wikipedia, Wikidata, Commons, etc., in a sustainable and ongoing fashion. Organising and hosting Wikimedia-related events. Adding even more resources to Wikimedia Commons. Working with Wellcome Collection to develop an outreach policy to coordinate contributions from the Library and the wider communities to support the development of Wikimedia in under-represented areas. Supporting researchers, practitioners, librarians, etc., to engage with Wiki-users and editors and to make their work more accessible. Being an advocate for open knowledge within Wellcome Collection and externally. and other activities (get in contact if you have any ideas!). Themes So far, we've particularly focussed on a couple of themes: addressing the gender gap by helping people to add some wonderful women to Wikipedia. For instance, we've held editathons in conjunction with the Institution of Engineering and Technology to add women engineers, and the Royal College of Nursing to add nurses. Check out the Resources page to find resources on these women and help to contribute. the History of Mental Health, helping to add more content to this relatively under-developed topic. This coincided with a project to digitise historical records of key UK psychiatric institutions and personnel, and two exhibitions at the Wellcome Collection: States of Mind: Tracing the edges of consciousness and Bedlam: The asylum and beyond. Events and workshops We run a number of projects, editing events, training sessions, conferences, seminars and workshops. A log of these will be updated here. If you have an idea for an event then get in touch! Contact If you're interested in becoming involved in any way, please get in contact via email, or leave a message on the project talk page or my personal talk page: I'm user Zeromonk. Background to the Residency Wikimedian in Residence Programme Review - WMUK 2014 What is a Wikimedian in Residence? A Wikimedian in Residence (WiR) is someone who works with an organisation to promote open knowledge generally and specifically to enable more people to engage with Wikimedia (and Wikipedia, and Wikidata, etc., etc.). For general information about how Wikimedian-in-Residence programmes work, take a look at these articles: Wikimedia UK The GLAM-Wiki Initiative Ongoing GLAM Projects around the world Wikimedians in Residence article on Wikimedia Outreach Wikipedians in Residence article on Wikipedia Background to the Wellcome Residency The Wellcome Library is part of the Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation. The Library is free and open to anyone, and has particularly extensive collections concerning medical history, health and welfare. It is located on Euston Road, where it has been since 1945 (it opened to the general public in 1949). As well as physical holdings, the Wellcome Library has a number of digital resources. The Wellcome Library is in the process of digitising a substantial proportion of its holdings and making the content freely available on the web in various forms, including the Library Website, Youtube, and the Internet Archive. The Residency at the Wellcome Library was first advertised in January. This follows on from a bulk-upload in 2015, when nearly 100,000 images were uploaded from the Wellcome to Wikimedia Commons. Many of those images are not yet being used on other wiki-pages, so one of the aims of the Residency is to promote greater use of images already uploaded and improve how accessible they are. You can read more on the following pages: The Wellcome Trust's Official Webpage and Wikipedia Page. The Wellcome Library Official Webpage and Wikipedia Page. Digitisation at the Wellcome. The Wellcome Library Blog where librarians, researchers and others post about what is in the collections. Reports Institution Resident Period Covered Date of Report Full Report Wellcome Library Alice White 04 May - 04 June 2016 (first month of residency) 16 June 2016 1st Month Report - read in full Wellcome Library Alice White 04 June - 04 July 2016 (second month of residency) 16 July 2016 2nd Month Report - read in full Wellcome Library Alice White 04 July - 04 August 2016 (third month of residency) 8 August 2016 3rd Month Report - read in full Wellcome Library Alice White 04 August - 04 September 2016 (fourth month of residency) 16 September 2016 4th Month Report - read in full Wellcome Library Alice White 04 September - 04 October 2016 (fifth month of residency) 4 October 2016 5th Month Report - read in full Wellcome Library Alice White 04 October - 04 November 2016 (sixth month of residency) 18 November 2016 6th Month Report - read in full Wellcome Library Alice White 04 November - 04 December 2016 (seventh month of residency) 9 March 2017 7th Month Report - read in full Wellcome Library Alice White 04 December 2016 - 04 January 2017 (eighth month of residency) 9 March 2017 8th Month Report - read in full Wellcome Library Alice White 04 January - 04 March 2017 (ninth month of residency) 27 March 2017 9th Month Report - read in full Wellcome Library Alice White 04 March - 04 April 2017 (tenth month of residency) 21 April 2017 10th Month Report - read in full References