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''This post was written by John Byrne, Wikimedian in Residence at the Royal Society''
''This post was written by Dr Martin Poulter, Jisc Wikimedia Ambassador''


I’m now a month and a half into my six months as Wikmedian-in-residence at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Society Royal Society], the United Kingdom’s National Academy of Science, though as the role is supposed to be one day a week only, that in theory amounts to less than two working weeks.  In practice I’ve been much busier than that.
To influence education institutions, we need to speak their language and we need to put information in the places where they are looking for it.


So far everything I’ve done has been internal to the Royal Society staff and parts of their wider scientific community, but on Tuesday March 4th we are having the first public event with an editathon celebrating (slightly in advance) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Women%27s_Day International Women’s Day].  We’re trying what I think is a somewhat novel structure, with the room booked between 2 and 9 pm, and places booked for the afternoon or evening, but with fewer available for the evening so that if some afternoon people want to stay on they can.  If lots of people want to stay it could get interesting!  Apart from the training presentations, we are fortunate that [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athene_Donald Dame Athene Donald], FRS, Professor of Experimental Physics at Cambridge will be with us for a while in the afternoon and will introduce the afternoon session with a short talk on diversity in science, and the work the Royal Society is doing in this area. She also serves on the University of Cambridge Council and is their Gender Equality Champion. Both sessions will have a short tutorial presentation on editing followed by getting stuck in. See the [http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/feb/23/stop-female-scientists-written-out-wikipedia-history-royal-society-edit-athon piece in last weekend’s Observer].
The Jisc infoKits are online booklets for management, technologists and other staff in Higher and Further Education. This is where such people come for advice about Programme Management, Learning Spaces, Cloud Computing and many other topics. Today there is a new infoKit that I’ve written as part of the Jisc/Wikimedia UK partnership. “Crowdsourcing: the wiki way of working” shows how professionals and volunteers can collaborate to produce reference materials for education and research.


All 36 places have now gone, but people can join the waiting list (currently empty) as we may have cancellations. Of course online participants will be very welcome – see the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Royal_Society/Women_in_Science_Wikipedia_Edit-a-thon_at_the_Royal_Society,_March_2014 event page on Wikipedia here]. The next public event will be on Tuesday March 25th, an editathon on the broad theme of diversity in science in gender, culture and geography.  That is planned to have the same structure, as adjusted by the lessons of March 4th.  There are also other events the week of International Women’s Day offering basic editing training, including the [[Women_Archaeologists_editing_event_at_the_Petrie_Museum|Women Archaeologists editing event at the Petrie Museum]] and the [https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Women%27s_Arts_Practices_editing_event_at_Women%27s_Art_Library,_Goldsmiths Women’s Arts Practices editing event at Women’s Art Library, Goldsmiths], on the day itself, Saturday March 8th —  see the [[Events|Wikimedia UK events page]].
Like all infoKits, “Crowdsourcing” can be read from beginning to end or dipped into for short, self-contained examples and case studies. It culminates in a discussion of how collections of photographs and other digital media can benefit from sharing on Wikimedia Commons. Each section ends with a succinct summary of the lesson learned.
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At around ten thousand words’ length, it is still only a skim over an enormous topic. No one has a sure recipe for success in crowdsourcing, but there are general and specific lessons to be learned from the most visibly successful crowdsourced projects: Wikipedia its sister sites.
 
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