Wikipedia:GLAM/Coventry University/Diary

• Completed training course: "GDPR" (required annually)

• Some disappointing news: the planned Wikimedia course module has been cancelled, due to low uptake.

• Completed training course: "Returning to Campus"

• Bank Holiday Monday
• Completed mandatory course – 'The Coventry Way – Understanding Your Role in Supporting Teaching and Learning'
• Sourcing and uploading images of out-of-copyright topographical artworks depicting Coventry locations

• Annual leave

• Annual leave

• Set up The Monumental Inscriptions in the Parish Church of S. Michael, Coventry transcription project on Wikisource

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• Identifying Coventry University faculty in [https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org/#/catalog/3677 Mix'n'match catalogue 3677] (UK Research and Innovation person ID) and matching/creating, and populating, Wikidata items.
• Work on upcoming courses

• Annual leave

• Work on upcoming courses
• Half-day annual leave

• Annual leave

• Annual leave

• Attended EduHack event, part 2

• Delivered two staff trainings sessions in Wikipedia editing
• Attended EduHack event

• Assisted at Edinburgh University online 'Women in Sport' editathon
• Briefing "Curriculum 2025" team
• Attended training session for EduHack facilitators

• Work on upcoming courses

• Work on upcoming courses

• Advising colleague on potential use of Wikivoyage, for proposed "Virtual Trip Engagement - Online Cultural Games and Workshops"
• Work on upcoming courses

• Advising colleague on resolution of concerns with their Wikipedia biography
• Work on upcoming courses

• Responding to Research Councils UK consultation on a new Open Access policy

• Learning to use screen-recording software
• Obtaining OTRS ticket ref for image uploads

• Wrote funding bid for future project
• Attended [https://oer20.oerconf.org/ OER20 conference] (online)
• Created Wikidata items for event (:d:Q89186153), and all main speakers

• Created {{Wikidata entity link|Q88539446}}, in order to better describe the unit's visiting fellows.
• Work on a standard for modelling Visiting Fellow roles.

• Wikipedia editor staff training session
• Arranging indefinite working-from-home, due to COVID-19
• Last visit to Coventry campus for foreseeable future

• Attending two-day DigiFest conference

• Taught day-long workshop in Wikidata, to journalism undergraduates
• Wikidata editor staff training session

• [https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2020/01/announcing-the-wikimedia-in-education-uk-summit/ Wikimedia in Education UK summit]
• Assisted with preparations
• Gave hands-on Wikipedia workshop
• Ran afternoon-long unconference-style session
• Sat on closing panel
• Gave video interview

• Wikimedia in Education summit planning & preparation
• Uploading various images to Wikimedia Commons

file:Coventry University Ellen Terry Building ceiling - 2020-02-12 - Andy Mabbett - 01.jpg

• Attended vice-chancellor's briefing
• Photographed another memorial bench and [https://openbenches.org/bench/15532 added to OpenBenches]
• Took photographs of the plaster ceiling in the university's Ellen Terry Building (example above)
• Founds and uploaded scans of William Henry Brooke's {{'}}Coventry 1819' - The Album of a Visit

• Delivered training course in "Wikipedia editing" for Coventry University staff
• Delivered Wikidata workshop for 21 students of data journalism
• Work on adding newly-released official parliamentary photos of Coventry MPs to their pages/ items, and categorising them on Wikimedia Commons
• Completed quarterly project report for WikimediaUK

• Attended "Wikipedia & Education User Group Open Meeting" (online)
• Adding developments adjacent to the campus to OpenStretMap
• Completed quarterly project report for WikimediaUK
• More publicity for Education Summit

• #1Lib1Ref
• Found articles on several Coventry University academics, which had not been classified as such; worked to update and improve them and the corresponding Wikidata items
• Advised academic with concerns about their Wikipedia biography
• Planned contributions to two post-graduate courses
• Photographed James Starley building demolition; see :c:Category:James Starley building
• Begun photographing nearby buildings, with no available free image, according to [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikishootme/ WikishootMe]
• Negotiated with several Flickr users to release under open licence their pictures of Coventry Cathedral's The Angel with the Eternal Gospel window, which was sadly smashed during a burglary; see :c:Category:Coventry Cathedral Great West Window (Screen of Saints and Angels); updated Wikipedia accordingly, and liased with editors of other language Wikipedias to do likewise

File:Creative Commons for Educators and Librarians.pdf

• Internal publicity for #1Lib1Ref
• Started reading "Creative Commons for Educators and Librarians" (which is openly available under a CC by licence!)
• Launch publicity for the [https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2020/01/announcing-the-wikimedia-in-education-uk-summit/ Wikimedia in Education UK Summit], to be held at Coventry University on 26 February

• Trained library staff to add citations, in readiness for #1Lib1Ref
• Met with an external partner, regarding a possible collaboration/ media donation
• Resolved several quality/ BLP issues on a biographical article about a Coventry University academic
• Installed and configured an instance of MediaWiki, as a test-bed for a developing project

..and a Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas...

• Delivered another training course in "Wikipedia editing" for Coventry University staff
• Giving online assistance to a recent trainee
• Revamped Wikivoyage article on Coventry
• Noted demolition of the University's James Starley building, on Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap

• A week off!

• Delivered another training course in "Wikidata editing" for Coventry University staff
• Attended training session: "Exam alternatives – what are the options?"
• Took photo and made voice recording of guest lecturer, John Everard (diplomat)

• Quarterly meeting with WikimediaUK
• Planning Wikimedia & Education summit
• Preparation for #1Lib1Ref
• Delivered lecture as part of "The Informed Citizen in the Digital Age" elective module
• Another "Finding and Evaluating Information" workshop

• A colleague wrote a [https://libguides.coventry.ac.uk/rsp/blog/Wikidata-and-You blog post about our project].
• Delivered training course in "Wikipedia editing" for Coventry University staff
• Adding metadata about published Coventry University faculty to their Wikidata items, for Wikicite
• Submitted pitch for presentation at external conference
• Had my photograph taken, again

• Taught six more student "Digital Leaders" to edit Wikipedia
• Delivered training course in "Wikidata editing" for Coventry University staff
• Completed quarterly project report for WikimediaUK
• Delivered workshop as part of an elective "Finding and Evaluating Information" module

• Added two memorial benches to OpenBenches ([https://openbenches.org/bench/14342], [https://openbenches.org/bench/14343])
• Presentation on "Teaching writing with Wikipedia " to 15 staff of the Centre for Academic Writing
• Delivered training course in "Wikipedia editing" for Coventry University staff
• Uploading open-licensed images of Coventry University from Flickr to Commons
• Taught four student "Digital Leaders" ([https://digitalleaders.coventry.domains/]) to edit Wikipedia

• Presentation on "Developing Digital Fluency with Wikipedia and other Wikimedia platforms" as part of "Information Literacy Week 2019"
• Spoke at another presentation on Collaborative Overseas Interactive Learning
• Time off to attend WikidataCon!

• Ran workshop on WikiCite, as part of Open Access Week
• Time off to attend WikidataCon!

File:Coventry Municipal Art School - Prospectus 1927-1928.jpg

• Created :simple:Coventry University
• Created :simple:Wikimedian in Residence
• Created Wikidata items for keynote speakers at [https://dmll.org.uk/event/remix-play-3/ Remix Play 3]
• Found and uploaded 1927-1928 prospectus image (above)
• One-hour presentation to 30+ university librarians
• Discussed 'Wikipedia in Education' with three visitors from the University of Oldenburg
• Attended two-hour seminar/ workshop on teaching "Reading, Reasoning & Writing Development through Shared Inquiry"
• Spoke at another presentation on Collaborative Overseas Interactive Learning
• Advised a student who wants to upload content to Commons

• Delivered training course in "Wikipedia editing" for Coventry University staff
• made Women in Red/Missing articles by education/Coventry University

• Delivered training course in "Wikipedia editing" for Coventry University staff
• Spoke at presentation on Collaborative Overseas Interactive Learning

File:Harrier T4 XW270 at Coventry University - 2019-09- 27- Andy Mabbett - 04.jpg

• Photographed the University's Harrier jet aircraft; see: :commons:Category:XW270 (aircraft)
• Blogged: [http://wikimedian.coventry.domains/a-gathering-of-wikimedians-in-residence/ A Gathering of Wikimedians in Residence]

• Routine tasks

• Corporate induction
• Attended Science Week [https://stemineducation.eventbrite.co.uk STEM in Education] event (evening)
• Wrote entry for the This Month in GLAM newsletter (August edition)

• Worked with an Academic Liaison Librarians, to develop a workshop and a course module on finding and evaluating sources
• Started to create Wikidata items about academics who are members of the senior management team
• Resolving issues of duplicate ORCID iDs and conflated identities on Publons

• Hosted Wikimedia UK's "Wikimedian in Residence Summit", attended by UK staff and a number of UK Wikimedians in Residence.

• Routine tasks

• Setting up new laptop
• Created Wikisource transcription project for Frederick Lanchester's "Aerial Flight, Volume 1: Aerodynamics"
• Created Wikisource portal for Frederick Lanchester's publisher, Cornish Brothers Ltd.
• Update meeting with Wikimedia UK
• Gave interview to the Universty's [https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/about-us/getting-to-know-us/innovate-magazine/ Innovate Magazine]

• Leave
• First Wikipedia editor training, for colleagues
• Wrote entry for the This Month in GLAM newsletter (July edition)

• Leave

• Improved Lanchester's laws
• Attended "Copyright Literacy Card Game workshop" and "The Publishing Trap board game workshop" sessions - tools that may be useful in teaching Wikimedia-related concepts to students.
• Half-day leave

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• Found and uploaded images of paintings by Coventry School of Art alumnus Sydney John Bunney
• Photographed Gus John and recorded his speaking voice
• Gave feedback on "Staff Voice" initiative
• Resolved issue IP block affecting user-creation rights
• Drafted blog post
• Completed 'Display Screen Equipment' training
• Some much-needed Wikimedia Commons categories:
• :c:Category:Coventry City Council
• :c:Category:Street furniture in Coventry
• Took images in :c:Category:Coventry Corporation Waterworks
• Added the University's Delia Derbyshire plaque to OpenStreetMap: [https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/6629402979]; and to OpenPlaques: [http://openplaques.org/plaques/51914]

• Email catchup
• Gave feedback on staff conference
• Completed consumer rights training
• Completed 'disclosure of sexual incidents' training
• Completed 'Bribery Act' training
• Completed 'Working With International Students' training
• Completed 'Inclusive, Cohesive & Safe Campuses' training
• Completed 'Diversity in the Workplace' training
• Wrote entry for the This Month in GLAM newsletter
• Located and uploaded PDF of Frederick Lanchester's 1914 James Forrest Lecture, "The Flying Machine From An Engineering Standpoint"
• Recorded the speaking voice of Duncan Lawson (see WP:WikiVIP)
• Created Wikidata items:
• {{Q|Q65463976}}
• {{Q|Q65464031}}
• Trained a work experience student to edit Wikidata

• Not working at Coventry, due to prior commitment at Wikipedia:GLAM/PoliMi/2019 - though my work at Coventry was discsssed more than once there!

• Attended WikiEdu webinar [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C6jrTGrFIS51L9qGIWXZiLfRBHSNZF8vKcO1uSTshuQ/]
• Attended (1.5 day) [https://scea.orgdev.coventry.domains/ Coventry University staff conference]
• Photographed Gus John
• Began discussions about an international collaboration, with overseas universities and an overseas WMF chapter
• Photographed the Lanchester Library's new entrance
• Underwent health & safety training
• Spoke at meeting of subject librarians
• Met with the archivist
• Added list (red links!) of historic Principals/ Directors/ Vice-Chancellors at Coventry University#Notable people

• Gave presentation at (School of) Art and Design Planning Day
• Created {{Wikidata entity link|Q64698644}} so that we can identify related papers and articles in Wikidata
• Wrote biography for DMLL website
• My first DMLL team meeting
• Set up blog
• Ongoing Authority control work
• Ongoing linkrot fixes on Wikipedia & Wikidata
• Created wikiquote:Frederick W. Lanchester
• Adding campus features to OpenStreetMap
• [http://wikimedian.coventry.domains/new-wikimedian-in-residence-coventry-university/ Introductory blog post]

File:Andy Mabbett, newly-appointed Wikimedian in Residence at Coventry University, June 2019.png

• Adding authority control identifiers for Coventry University academics, to Wikidata (and templates to Wikidata articles)
• Fixing linkrot on ditto
• Initial meetings with library team members
• Initial meetings with archives team
• Initial meeting with Research and Scholarly Publications team
• DMLL published a blog post about the project
• Initial meeting with WikimediaUK
• Created {{tl|Coventry University}} (seen at the foot of this page)
• Had my photo taken (above)!

• Induction
• setting up email account, HR system etc.
• GDPR training
• Started project page
• Reaching out to WikiProjects, other WiRs, sister projects
• Uploaded videos:
• :File:Wikimedian in Residence with Martin Poulter.webm
• :File:Active Learning with Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects with Martin Poulter.webm
• Created :c:Category:Wikimedians in Residence
• Attended full-day EduHack event and ran a Wikipedia strand there
• Re-wrote :simple:Coventry
• Created :wikisource:Author:Frederick W. Lanchester

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