Galleries, libraries, archives and museums from across Leeds are starting to work together to share best practice about how they can work with Wikimedia including Wikipedia to share collections and research.
This page is a space for people interested in Leeds' cultural institutions to get together.
Future Goals include: a Leeds-focused edit-athon
Leeds Museums & Galleries edit
- internal staff training on editing wikipedia
- our new Project Placement User:Leedsproject2019 has started and will be working with us until March 2020
- Leeds Museums & Galleries first ever wikithon runs on 7 March! https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/leeds-to-innovation-wikithon-tickets-88837674877?aff=ebdssbdestsearch - aimed at new editors, we'd welcome everyone to come, have a tour of the museum and make some changes!
- The second is on 13 March at Abbey House Museum from 1.30-4pm and focusses on Women in Museic! https://www.leedsinspired.co.uk/events/women-music-wikithon
Pages Created for Leeds Museums and Galleries relating to Leeds Project edit
Leeds University Library edit
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Wikimedia and universities: contributing to the global commons in the Age of Disinformation edit
http://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.509
Wikipedia is one of the most popular websites in the world and acts as a bridge between informal discussion and scholarly publication. It is linked to other Wikimedia platform including Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons that can be used together to disseminate openly licensed research outputs. This paper considers the benefits for universities of strategic engagement with Wikimedia which include information literacy and research impact.
Activities to date edit
Special Collections
- Wikipedia articles about Leeds University Library's Cookery Collection and Leeds University Library's Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections.
- articles about people featured in our collections Greville Poke, Roger Harold Metford Warner, Amyas Phillips, Godfrey Bingley.
- Wikipedia/Wikimedia Project, March-August 2020. Article about Alf Mattison added, articles about Dorothy Una Ratcliffe and Edward Brotherton, 1st Baron Brotherton enhanced. Article added about one of our unique manuscripts Epitome margaritae eloquentiae. The project involves further exploration of how Special Collections can contribute to Wikidata.
- over 340 'archives at' references added to Wikidata items. This work is ongoing and was a part of the above project.
Library
GOLNY archive (German Operetta in London and New York): digitised scores preserved in RDL and uploaded to WikCommons.
RDM Engagement Award: Manage it locally to share it globally: RDM and Wikimedia Commons is exploring linking research data with the Wikimedia suite of tools via editathons across the White Rose Consortium (Universities of York, Sheffield and Leeds).
- cross-Library group convened to consider future developments related to Wikimedia
- group remit to explore policies to ensure appropriate oversight of activities
- currently developing Wikimedia workshop to be delivered as part of the Researcher Skills Development programme
Guides edit
Creating a library Wikimedia account
Wikidata and Special Collections Parties Records
Blog posts edit
Working with Wikipedia in Special Collections
Wikipedia, information literacy and open access
Open in order to…contribute to the global digital commons: University collections and Wikimedia
RDM Engagement: Project launch
RDMengage project update: local before global
Wikimedia, research and global impact
Making Medieval Studies Open through Digital Humanities: International Medieval Congress 2019
Special Collections' lockdown project
Electrifying Women edit
This nine month project started in June 2019 to mark the centenary of the UK’s Women’s Engineering Society (WES) and produced a range of outputs including enhanced Wikipedia coverage of past women in engineering.
https://electrifyingwomen.org/
Category:British_women_engineers
On 24th June there will be a collaborative online Wikithon to be hosted by the Institution of Engineering & Technology Archives
West Yorkshire Queer Stories edit
- set up a page dedicated to LGBT culture in Leeds
- hosted an introduction to editing as part of LGBT History Month 2019