I am Assistant Principal and Director of IT at University of Edinburgh. I research and write about open educational resources, online education and digital leadership in higher education.
Work with wikipedia
editI edit wikipedia pages on topics which interest me. Sometimes I learn about women who do not have wikipedia pages but are notable enough to have one, so I write them. I've been editing since about 2013. I encourage students and colleagues at University of Edinburgh to edit Wikipedia, often as part of organized editathons around academic and social justice themes[1]. University of Edinburgh hosts a Wikimedian in Residence and the resident works in my team as part of the Directorate of Learning, Teaching and Web Services. We have a particular focus on digital skills for staff and students, open knowledge activism and embedding wikipedia activities in the curriculum.[2][3][4][5]
I don't see very well and on a magnified screen I often miss spaces and punctuation. I am grateful to bots and humans for their assistance.
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Frederick Douglass Mural Photo
editIn June 2021 a picture I shared on Wikimedia was discovered by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and given as a gift to US President Joe Biden, which just goes to show that serendipitous things happen when you share openly. This incident gained a wee bit of media coverage and debates continue as to whether all the artists rights have been released satisfactorily for hosting on Wikipedia. I am in contact with the mural artist, who is generally pleased with the coverage his artwork has gained and the image has been shared worldwide in the media. You can read the story here: https://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/melissa/2021/06/10/joe-biden/[6][7][8]
If you would like a higher resolution version of the image ( which is what I gave to Downing Street) please just ask.
References
edit- ^ "Wikipedia's Women Problem". Dangerous Women Project. 2016-10-10. Retrieved 2021-07-18.
- ^ Littlejohn, Allison; Hood, Nina; Rehm, Martin; McGill, Lou; Rienties, Bart; Highton, Melissa (2019-07-27). "Learning to become an online editor: the editathon as a learning environment". Interactive Learning Environments. 0 (0): 1–14. doi:10.1080/10494820.2019.1625557. ISSN 1049-4820.
- ^ Highton, Melissa (2018-06-22). Gender balancing Wikipedia entries. Brill Sense. ISBN 978-94-6351-143-8.
- ^ "Submissions/The Value of a Wikimedian - Wikimania". wikimania2017.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 2021-04-02.
- ^ December 16, Stephen Adu Gyamfi; Am, 2020 at 11:29 (2020-11-02). "Open at Heart: An Interview with AACE Keynote Speaker Melissa Highton". AACE. Retrieved 2021-04-02.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Reporter, Eleni Courea, Political. "Picture of Edinburgh anti-slavery mural given to President Biden by PM". ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2021-06-13.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "PM gifts photo of Edinburgh anti-slavery mural to Biden". BBC News. 2021-06-11. Retrieved 2021-06-13.
- ^ Farzan, Antonia Noori (13 June 2021). "Did Biden give Boris Johnson a $6,000 bike and get a Wikipedia printout in return? Not exactly". Washington Post.