English subtitles for clip: File:National Library of Scotland - The GLAM-Wiki Revolution.webm

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What drew me to working with the National Library
of Scotland is the love that I have for the library.

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I’ve worked here for the last eight years as a
researcher and I think it’s an amazing organisation. 

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So when I saw a call for a Wikimedian at the National
Library I thought it was an incredible opportunity.

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To be able to provide access to the collections

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I thought was wonderful and I jumped at the
possibility of working with them.

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Back in December of 2013, we organised an
editathon with the Medical Research Council,

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with the Royal Society of Edinburgh and also
obviously with the National Library of Scotland

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and Wikimedia UK, and it was I think a really
successful event. We had about twenty plus

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people who came along to contribute. We had
about fifteen articles, new articles that

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were created, and I think about five more
were improved, and these were all about women

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in science, a lot of them who had specific
connections with the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

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We had speakers as well coming, women who
currently have a very significant position

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in the scientific community. Sally Mcintyre
for example was one of the speakers, and it

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was really quite fascinating because we had
a participant who created a Wikipedia article

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about her, and then later on she was there
speaking. And I think that was a really fantastic

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connection to make - to be able to say, “you
now have a place on Wikipedia”.

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I really enjoyed working on the Anybody But
Burns event. I was really, really pleased

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with how that came together. It was probably
the first event where we saw Wikimedians from

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the community coming as well as contributors
who had never used Wikimedia before but were

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just very interested in Scottish poetry. We
were working with the Scottish Poetry Library

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which was a fantastic opportunity, and it
was in the end declared one of the most interesting

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Burns Night events in the UK, which I was
very proud of.

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The Wikimedian in Residence programme I think
has had a significant impact on the local

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community, particularly with respects to the
Wikimedia community, and also to the GLAM

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community, if you want to call it that. There
has been a significant re-emergence of a Scot-Wiki

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community over the last year which didn’t
really exist when I took up the position,

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and I certainly don’t take credit for that
personally but I think that having more of

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a presence in Scotland
has had a significant impact.