On 21st April we welcomed Dr Martin Poulter former 'Wikimedian in Residence' at the Bodleian Library to learn how the Wikimedia suite of tools can extend the reach and impact of research to support teaching and learning. Martin talked about his work as a Wikimedian, and some of the projects at the Bodleian that demonstrate the combined use of Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, and Wikipedia to extend the reach and impact of research outputs. Wikimedia also aligns with the University of Leeds Libraries Vision for 2030: Knowledge for all, and Open Research Advisor Nick Sheppard discussed how we are planning to work with Martin as part of our open research strategy. Wikipedia, "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit" is one of the most visited website in the world. Perhaps less well-known are a wide range of related projects under the Wikimedia umbrella. - Wikimedia Commons is a repository of openly licensed media files including photographs, diagrams, video and audio - Wikisource is a free library of out-of-copyright texts Wikiversity and Wikibooks encourage collaborative creation of open educational resources (OERs) - Wikidata is a store of structured data that can be read and edited by humans or machines.

1. welcome
A global commons: turning
research into educational
material with Wikimedia
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and introduce yourself!
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2. programme
12:30 Welcome and introduction, Leeds University Library
12:40 Martin Poulter – Wikimedia Consultant
Former Wikimedian in Residence at the Bodleian Library,
University of Oxford
13:05 Nick Sheppard – Open Research Advisor, Leeds
University Library
13:15 Q&A / open discussion
13:30 Close

3. Today’s Special
A global commons: turning research into
educational material with Wikimedia
Dr Martin Poulter, Wikimedia Consultant
Former Wikimedian in Residence at the Bodleian Library,
University of Oxford
Nick Sheppard, Open Research Advisor, Leeds University
Library

4. questions
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Q&A session.
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5. upcoming events
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Keep your options open: understanding
the new UKRI open access policy
Rachel Bruce, Head of Open Science, UKRI
(May, TBC)
Citizen science: a bridge to the ivory
tower
Kirsty Wallis, Head of Research Liaison at UCL
June, TBC)
Catch up with previous events at: https://leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/tag/open-lunch/

6. “The challenges facing our society today can
only be solved through global cooperation,
collaboration and openness. The University
of Leeds Libraries will foster the open culture
that is needed to make a meaningful
difference in this world, and support learning
and research that is able to address
challenges on a local, national and global
scale”
Knowledge for all: University of Leeds
Libraries Vision for 2030
Knowledge for all
Knowledge
for all
Digital futures
Open higher
education
Sustainable
environments
Enriched
experiences

7. Open research
• Increasing emphasis in universities
• Ensuring research outputs freely available to reuse/redistribute
• Largely driven by ‘replicability’ crisis
• Impact of research and its broader contribution to society
• Citizen Science
Wikimedia = open infrastructure that easily enables research outputs, media, digital assets to be
distributed at scale with clear provenance and © linked back to institutional systems via PIDs

8. programme
12:30 Welcome and introduction, Leeds University Library
12:40 Martin Poulter – Wikimedia Consultant
Former Wikimedian in Residence at the Bodleian Library,
University of Oxford
13:10 Nick Sheppard – Open Research Advisor, Leeds
University Library
13:10 Q&A / open discussion
13:30 Close

9. • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_Armistead
• British Quaker merchant, slavery abolitionist and
author from Leeds
• In 1851 he hosted Ellen and William Craft, including
them on the census return as 'fugitive slaves' in an act
that has been described as "guerrilla inscription“
• Bennett, B. 2020. Guerrilla inscription: Transatlantic
abolition and the 1851 census. Atlantic Studies. Taylor
& Francis. 17 (3): 375–398.
10.1080/14788810.2020.1735234
• Open access from WRRO:
http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/145070/
Wilson Armistead
Wilson Armistead
(1819 - 1868)

10. Pageviews
Total: 4,375 pageviews

11. • Over 1500 DOIs cited across Wikipedia (April
2019)
- only around 50% open access
- data via Altmetric.com and Unpaywall
• 960 links to White Rose Research Online
(insource search results) [13/04/2022, up from
527 on 16/10/19, 93 on 18/10/17]
• 472 links to White Rose Etheses Online
(insource search results) [up from 262 on
16/10/19]
• Significant referrer to both WRRO and WREO
Links from Wikipedia to Leeds Research
Tattersall, A., Sheppard, N., Blake, T., O'Neill, K., Carroll, C. 2022. Exploring Open Access Coverage of
Wikipedia-cited Research Across the White Rose Universities. Insights 35: 3. http://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.559

12. • Manage it locally to share it globally: RDM and
Wikimedia Commons (2018)
• Data Management Engagement award -
Cambridge University, SPARC Europe, Jisc
• link RDM with the open science movement
via the Wikimedia suite of tools
• Wikimedian in Residence
• Edinburgh
• Coventry
• Oxford (Bodleian)
Wikimedia in Universities
‘Universities really can’t afford not to have a Wikimedian in Residence
these days. It still surprises me how few do.’
Melissa Highton, Director of Learning, Teaching and Web Services, University of Edinburgh

13. PEATMAP
https://doi.org/10.5518/252

15. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peat
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q58417726
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q483130

16. • Past editathons supported by Wikimedia UK
• Histories of Women in the British Film and Television Industries, 1933-89 (Feb 2020)
• Prof Melanie Bell (Media and Communication)
• An editathon for Black History Month citing African scholars on Wikipedia (Oct 2021)
• Leeds University Centre for African Studies (LUCAS)
• Event dashboard:
Editathons
https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/University_of_Leeds/An_editathon_for_Black_History_Month_citing_African_scholars_on_Wikipedia/home

17. • Editathon per faculty
• Wikidata hackathons
• Specific school/research project?
e.g. Harold Pinter database -> Wikidata
(School of English)
• Work with Martin as consultant
• Funding available (Wikimedia UK)
• Colleagues from Special Collections
• Inter disciplinary, inter silo
• Community of practice?
• Leeds Museums
• Leeds Libraries
What next?

18. questions
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