Courses running in 2024-2025
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| Computing Science Junior Honours | N/A in 2024/25 | |||
| Computer Science Senior Honours (CS4098/99) | September 2023 | March 2024 | 1 students (KR) - x 22 weeks x 10 hours per week per student.
Student working on building a database of theatrical productions in Scotland, and connecting the results to Wikidata. | |
Courses running in 2023-2024
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| Computer Science Masters dissertation (CS5098) | February 2024 | August 2024 | 2 students investigating open access research from Scotland's universities and it's presence on multiple languages versions of Wikipedia. |
| Computer Science Junior Honours (CS3098/99) | September 2023 | March 2024 | 105 students spent 25% of their time every week over 2 semesters - 10 hours per week each (40 hour week) x 22 weeks (11 semester weeks).
5 supergroups creating Wikidata visualisations connected to popular Wiki projects, namely Film & TV, Paleontology & Dinosaurs, Sports, Video Games, & Weather. |
| Computer Science Senior Honours (CS4098/99) | September 2023 | March 2024 | 5 students (KR) - x 22 weeks x 10 hours per week per student.
Students were working on Wikidata visualisations connected to Wiki Loves Monuments (x2), Wiki Loves Earth, Glasgow Womens' Library, and Scottish Brick Museum. |
| Antibiotics Under our Feet - Summer Team Enterprise Programme 2023 | 6 June 2023 | 7 July 2023 | Remote summer programme - 15 student editors working 6 hours/week over 6 weeks on a public engagement project linking with schools project - creating & improving pages on English & Simple English Wikipedia to ensure good coverage of topic area used by schools studying antibiotics. |
| Historical Mathematicians - Summer Team Enterprise Programme 2023 | 2 June 2023 | 31 July 2023 | Remote summer programme - 10 student editors working 6 hours/week over 6 weeks, filling in gaps around the topic of historical mathematicians. Editing in Chinese & English Wikipedias. |
| Wiki STEP 2022 | 15 June 2022 | 15 August 2022 | Remote summer programme - 20 student editors working 6 hours/week over 6 weeks, filling in gaps around the topic of historical mathematicians and soil microorganisms. |
Courses running in 2020-2021
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| Computer Science Masters dissertation at the University of St Andrews. | May 2021 | August 2021 | Project 1 - Wikipedia Editors – Fickle Individualists or Stable Communities?
In collaboration with Wikimedia UK this project used data on Wikipedia editing events in combination with Wikipedia data dumps containing information about edits to answer questions like the ones above. Project 2 - Notability – Who and What Deserves To Be on Wikipedia? Two studnets worked on this project to study the way the concept of notability operates in the Wikipedia community. Project 3- Getting Onboard with Wikipedia The aim of this project was to build a Firefox extension to reduce the barrier to entry for new Wikipedia users. |
Courses running in 2019-2023
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| Computer Science PhD project dissertation at the University of St Andrews. | May 2019 | September 2023 | PhD research, titled "Ethnographically-informed Distributed Participatory Design Framework for Sociotechnical Change: Co-designing a Collaborative Training Tool to Support Real-time Collaborative Writing," introduced a new framework that involves diverse and widely distributed online communities in creating grassroots solutions.
The thesis shows how participatory design sessions and community engagement led to the creation of WikiSync, the first Wikipedia training tool for real-time collaborative editing. WikiSync was co-designed with the Wikipedia community through various phases, each focusing on different aspects and levels of user participation. By using online social ideation and voting tools, the broader Wikipedia community helped evaluate the desirability and applicability of the solution. |