Wikipedia:GLAM/Leeds

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

 * 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

 * Cyril Livingstone
 * Emily Meynell-Ingram
 * Elizabeth Gascoigne
 * Eileen Ingham

Wikimedia and universities: contributing to the global commons in the Age of Disinformation
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
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
Creating a library Wikimedia account

Writing a Wikipedia article

Wikidata and Special Collections Parties Records

Quickstatements

Blog posts
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

Wikimedia in Universities

Making Medieval Studies Open through Digital Humanities: International Medieval Congress 2019

Special Collections' lockdown project

Electrifying Women
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

 * set up a page dedicated to LGBT culture in Leeds
 * hosted an introduction to editing as part of LGBT History Month 2019