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
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.
Special Collections
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).
Creating a library Wikimedia account
Wikidata and Special Collections Parties Records
Quickstatements
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
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