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

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LDC Inside

Pages Created for Leeds Museums and Galleries relating to Leeds Project

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Leeds University Library

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The Parkinson Building, University of Leeds (brighter)

Wikimedia and universities: contributing to the global commons in the Age of Disinformation

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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

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Special Collections

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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

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Creating a library Wikimedia account

Writing a Wikipedia article

Wikidata and Special Collections Parties Records

Quickstatements

Blog posts

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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

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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

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