English subtitles for clip: File:Royal Society - The GLAM-Wiki Revolution.webm

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The Royal Society sees itself as having the
lead in the presentation of science to the

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general public, and that’s a big concern.
So it’s very interested in the popularisation of science.

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It has lectures, some of which
are very popular. It has book prizes for popular

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books about science, and
it sees Wikipedia in that context.

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It also does a lot on social media and so forth.
So Wikipedia fits very well into that.

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The project involved several public events,
mostly training workshops, where we had a

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lot of helpers from the existing community,
that was great. It was harder to involve the

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wider scientific editing community, but we
did manage that in some cases.

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The Ada Lovelace day in October 2013 was before
I actually started at the Royal Society, but

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I came along and helped. It was a very successful
training editathon, concentrating on biographies

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of women scientists, which is a real issue
in the scientific sector. We’ve had a number

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of events - I did another one for International
Women’s Day while I was working.

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We’re very lucky that both the women’s events,
the Ada Lovelace Day and the International

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Women’s Day were addressed by female fellows
of the Royal Society who’d come in especially

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which was tremendous. Ada Frith FRS actually
trained in the Ada Lovelace Day and produced

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two articles, which is great, and they were
really good days, both of them.

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It’s actually harder to do on other subjects
but women in science is a topic that’s very

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easy to recruit for, and you get excellent
results. Another thing I’m pleased about

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is I’ve got access to the nine or so scientific
journals the Royal Society publishes for Wikipedians

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for a year on a trial basis, which I hope
will go on afterwards. This will I think improve

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referencing on quite a lot of articles which
is great.

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The Royal Society is really keen to continue
collaborating with Wikipedia, which is great

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because not all Wikipedian in Residence projects
have had that result. Some of them have sort

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of been one thing, and when it was done, the
institution moved on to something else.

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The Royal Society had already been working with
Wikipedia for about two years before I became

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involved, and they’re very keen to go on.
We’ve learned a lot of lessons about what

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to do and what not to do, so I’m confident
that programme will keep going at some level.