Scotland’s Suffragettes and facilitated a student internship that was awarded the Digital Humanities Award for Best Data Visualization 2019 for the Wikidata Map of Accused Witches in Scotland.
This chapter will showcase stories of student engagement and collaboration inside and outside the curriculum, providing exemplars of how students have engaged with, and been intrinsically motivated by, researching and publishing their scholarship online in a real-world application of their learning. This chapter will also outline why employing a Wikimedian-in-Residence, alongside other learning technologists and digital skills trainers, is a worthwhile return of investment for universities.
Keywords
University of Edinburgh, Wikimedian-in-Residence, Gender gap, Digital skills, Information literacy.
So [in Wikipedia] we’ve created the greatest creation of the 21st century and we talk about open, we talk about open a lot. And yet, we’ve created a place where a group of people, who are not a minority . . . Hands up anyone who has met a woman? Any in their families? . . . Wikipedia seemed such an amazing opportunity to democratise information and for everyone to participate but we’re already at a place where we’ve created a place where women are choosing not to spend time or contribute . . . We need to be doing more. (Highton, 2015)
Introduction
Founded in 1582, the University of Edinburgh is one of Scotland’s ancient universities and the sixth oldest in the English-speaking world. Its mission is the creation, dissemination and curation of knowledge and it aims to make a “significant, sustainable and socially responsible contribution to Scotland, the UK and the world” (Vision and Mission, 2016)
In 2014, a national debate was taking place in Scotland about how to make a fairer, better, more inclusive society in the run up to the
