This year, a record 2,100 high quality pics of listed buildings and monuments were added to Wikimedia Commons to help preserve our cultural heritage online. Now that they are Commons, these can now help illustrate Wikipedia for the benefit of all.
This drop-in session is open to all and will show how easy it is to add these newly taken images to relevant Wikipedia pages.
This Copyright and Licensing training course is well-suited to those who require a basic understanding of copyright law, licensing, and open educational resources. For those who already have some knowledge of copyright law and licensing, this course can serve as a refresher.
This collaborative event between Edinburgh University’s Centre for Design Informatics, the University’s Wikimedian in Residence, and the Fruitmarket Gallery will give participants a chance to shape information about living Scottish artists for future researchers.
Hands-on workshop to create a n OER board game. Explore prototyping and play testing and adding variety and fun by employing different game mechanics.
This session will introduce you to Wikisource: Wikimedia’s free library of openly-licensed source texts.
Including: what Wikisource is and how you can engage with it, a short practical activity where you will learn how to navigate Wikisource and proofread a page of text, and an example of how an out-of-copyright/openly-licensed PhD thesis has been transcribed to Wikisource so the text is now 100% searchable, quality-checked and linked to from Wikipedia just 1 click away.
In November 2014, just over 15% of the English Wikipedia’s biographies were about women. Founded in July 2015, WikiProject Women in [...]
In November 2014, just over 15% of the English Wikipedia’s biographies were about women. Founded in July 2015, WikiProject Women in [...]
The practical applications in Higher Education of the most recent social or technical development (MOOCs, social media, digitisation and online [...]
Copyright IP Online is an important way to build confidence, awareness and skills, enabling compliance with the law and open educational resources. This session is being run for students of the School of Social and Political Science (SPSS) and students participating in this year's Edinburgh Digital Award.
The practical applications in Higher Education of the most recent social or technical development (MOOCs, social media, digitisation and online [...]
