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''This post was written by Robin Owain, Wikimedia UK’s Wales Manager. [[Template:Main_Page_cy|Welsh language text is available here]]''
''This post was written by Ally Crockford, Wikimedian in Residence at the National Library of Scotland''


Following an agreement between [http://www.colegcymraeg.ac.uk/en/thecoleg/ Coleg Cymraeg] (the Welsh language federal university) and Wikimedia UK, the Coleg would like to employ a Wikipedian in Residence who will report back on how best to share educational resources on the Wikimedia platforms, including Wikipedia, under a relevant licence. [http://www.colegcymraeg.ac.uk/cy/ycoleg/swyddi/ The advertisement can be found in Welsh here]
The weather may not have been co-operating, but the National Library of Scotland's [[Anybody_but_Burns_editathon|Anybody but Burns edit-a-thon]] was not going to be held up by a little bit of wind and rain this past Saturday.


The applicant will have a solid academic background, a good understanding of copyright laws and the Coleg / Wikimedia missions. The WiR will have organisational skills and will deliver wiki editing skills training to Coleg’s academic staff in established universities such as Bangor, Cardiff, Swansea, UWIC, the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, the University of South Wales and Aberystwyth.
Thirteen participants, some established Wikipedians and some new initiates, braved the bluster to help raise the profile of some of those Scottish poets who are doomed to live in the shadow of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Burns The Bard].


The Coleg’s main aim is: “to increase, develop and broaden the range of Welsh medium study opportunities at universities in Wales… and to develop effective collaborative partnerships in order to extend the range of academic provision, and train a new generation of lecturers for the future in partnership with universities.”
There may not have been any haggis or whisky, but there was an unprecedented (and highly appropriate) supply of cake on hand to fuel hungry contributors as they set to. Even though early Wi-Fi troubles made the training session somewhat unconventional to say the least, the day went on to see the successful creation of five new articles, the majority for female poets, and many more were improved.


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Special thanks go to the [http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/ Scottish Poetry Library] for their support in co-organising the event, and to User:Graeme Arnott, User:Triptropic, and User:Lee Bunce for their assistance throughout.
 
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