Wikipedia:IDEA network/ideanetwork events
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Outputs from events
Overall campaign dashboard (Open Knowledge + University of St Andrews)
The IDEA Network Events History:
| Event name | Date | Location | Event details | Organiser |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wiki Workshop for Youth Scotland | 01/24 - 02/24 | Online | Purpose: train youth workers as editors, and introduce them to the breadth of opportunities posed by the Wikiprojects. | Kirsty Ross |
| Lost in Translation STEP 2024 | 06/24 - 08/24 | Online | Purpose: train undergraduates in Wiki editing, supporting them to make their first translations | Kirsty Ross and Pauline Souleau |
| Antibiotics Under Our Feet STEP 2024 | 06/24 - 08/24 | Online | Purpose: train undergraduates in Wiki editing about microorganisms | Kirsty Ross and Clarissa Czekster |
| Event name | Date | Location | Event details | Organiser |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Launch of the IDEA Network | 01/04/2021 | Online | Purpose: bring together staff, students, and potential external collaborators to share experiences of using Wikipedia and her sister projects in research, teaching, knowledge exchange and public engagement. It was followed by a new editor training session. | Kirsty Ross, Abd Alsattar Ardati and Sara Thomas |
| EXPLORATHON 2021 72 hour Editathon | 23/09/21 - 26/09/21 2021 | Online | Purpose: build capacity by recruiting new editors from Italy, Malta, Spain, Sweden, and UK/Ireland. 5 editor training sessions were delivered in the run up to a 72-hour editathon over the weekend of European Researchers' Night 2021. 57 people registered for the training, 44 editors signed up to the Dashboard, and 13 edited over the course of the weekend. | Kirsty Ross and EXPLORATHON, Scotland's contribution to European Researchers' Night |
| Open Research Launch | 22/11/21 | Online | Purpose: raise awareness of Wikipedia and her sister projects at the University of Strathclyde. | Kirsty Ross |
| Scottish Refugee Festival 2021 | 19/06/21 | Online | Purpose: enable participants at the Refugee Festival Scotland to find out where their knowledge might improve Wikipedia and make it a better place for everyone. | Kirsty Ross, Abd Alsattar Ardati and Refugee Festival Scotland |
| Scottish Graduate School of the Arts and Humanities Mind the (gender) gap | 21/06/22 | Online | Purpose: train arts and humanities postgraduate researchers in Wiki editing. | Kirsty Ross |
| Contributing to Open Knowledge: Mind The (Gender) Gap Wiki Workshop | 23/04/22 | Online | Purpose: Chevening organisation, Global Share social enterprise & the IDEA Network hosted a Wiki Workshop where they worked together on adding biographies of women to Wikipedia. Those who took part developed new skills and challenge systemic biases at the same time. | Kirsty Ross, and Abd Alsattar Ardati |
| Wiki STEP Project 2022 | 06/22 – 07/22 | Online | Purpose: fill knowledge gaps in English and Simple English Wikipedia relating to topics such as soil microbes, historians, and mathematicians. 19 students and 2 staff members received new editor training, and everyone edited over the summer. | Kirsty Ross and CEED at the University of St Andrews |
| EXPLORATHON 2022 72-hour pan-European Editathon | 30/09/22 - 02/10/22 | Online | Purpose: build capacity for editing Wikipedia by recruiting new editors from Croatia, Italy, Malta, Spain, Sweden, and UK/Ireland then running 5 editor training sessions in the run up to a 72 hour editathon over the weekend of European Researchers' Night 2021. 73 people registered for the training, 30 editors signed up to the dashboard, and 8 edited over the course of the weekend. | Kirsty Ross and EXPLORATHON, Scotland's contribution to European Researchers' Night |
| WikiLovesMonuments Fun Palace | 30/09/22 - 02/10/22 | Online | Purpose: encourage folks to added photos of listed buildings to WikiCommons by offering asynchronous training on the Fun Palace website over September 2022. This was very much a last-minute Fun Palace! 3 editors signed up to the dashboard, and 2 edited over the course of the weekend. | Kirsty Ross and Fun Palaces |
| EXPLORATHON 2022 72-hour CDT Editathon | 30/09/22 - 02/10/22 | Online | Purpose: build capacity for editing Wikipedia by recruiting new editors from UKRI Centres for Doctoral Training or Doctoral Training Partnerships by running 3 editor training sessions in the run up to a 72-hour editathon over the weekend of European Researchers' Night 2021. 30 people registered for the training, 8 editors signed up to the dashboard, and 3 edited over the course of the weekend. | Kirsty Ross, OPTIMA CDT, and EXPLORATHON, Scotland's contribution to European Researchers' Night |
| Mind The Gap | 19/10/22 | Onsite | Purpose: introduce trainee primary teachers to the possibilities offered by Wikipedia and her sister projects. 16 editors were trained, 8 signed up to the dashboard, and 5 edited over the course of the session. | Kirsty Ross and Jane Essex, both of the Erasmus+ project, Diversity in Science and Science Inclusion (DiSSI) |
| Melting Pot Wiki Workshop | 10/06/22 | Hybrid | Purpose: introduce those in the Syrian Scottish Network to editing Wiki. 8 editors were trained, all signed up to the dashboard, and 6 edited over the course of the session. | Kirsty Ross, Abd Alsattar Ardati and Sara Thomas |
| Collaborate and Celebrate the First Female Alumni | 12/08/22 | Hybrid | Purpose: encouraging members of the Postgraduate Society at the University of St Andrews Students' Association to collaborate on researching digitised archival information about St Andrew’s first female alumni.
The event aimed to spark a discussion and encourage attendees to become “knowledge activists” by looking for additional information about these women. |
Abd Alsattar Ardati, Kirsty Ross and University of St Andrews Students' Association |
| User Troubles during “Shoot St Andrews to Green”! | 20/08/22 | Onsite | Purpose: encourage students and residents of St Andrews to improve Wikicommons by uploading photographs of listed buildings. | Abd Alsattar Ardati of The IDEA Network and University of St Andrews Students' Association |
| Whose knowledge counts session for the New Scots men's group. | 27/11/22 | Onsite | Purpose: introduce those from the New Scots Connect program to Wiki editing. The program supports a community based and youth work-based approach with children and adults from diverse migrant and refugee backgrounds to support confidence, wellbeing, English and general communication skills through workshops focused on Engineering. | Abd Alsattar Ardati, Science Ceilidh, Multicultural Family Base, and Edinburgh Napier University |
| PCST Wiki Workshop with the IDEA Network | 15/04/23 | Online | Purpose: introduce public engagement professionals to the basics of editing Wikipedia and her sister projects, and to register as editors. | Kirsty Ross andAbd Alsattar Ardati |
| Wiki Workshop for Youth Scotland | 01/24 - 02/24 | Online | Purpose: upskill teaching staff and youth leaders from Youth Scotland. | Kirsty Ross |
| European Researchers' Night - Middle Ages | 14/09/23 | Online | Purpose: upskill Middle Ages researchers to understand the basics of editing Wikipedia and her sister projects, and to get them signed up as editors. | Kirsty Ross |
| School of Modern Languages Wiki Workshop & beyond | 31/08/23 | Onsite | Purpose: upskill those in the School of Modern Languages to understand the basics of editing Wikipedia and her sister projects, and to get them signed up as editors. | Kirsty Ross |
| Work experience for High School students | 07/23 - 08/23 | Online | Purpose: one to one support for summer high school work experience. | Kirsty Ross |
| Bacterial Plant Diseases Programme | 06/23 - 01/24 | Online | Purpose: consultancy project with the cross-university Bacterial Plant Diseases Programme researchers. Enable them to understand the basics of editing Wikipedia and her sister projects, and to get them signed up as editors. | Kirsty Ross |
| American Society for Micobiology Day of Wiki Editing | 04/05/23 | Online | Purpose: connected to the Antibiotics Under our Feet STEP Programme, this international day of editing focused on microbiology topics. | Kirsty Ross |