This document discusses Wikimedia residencies at the British Library and other UK cultural institutions. It provides examples of projects conducted by Wikimedia residents including algorithmically extracting illustrations from digitized books to upload to Flickr and crowdsourcing tags, hosting Wikithons to contribute information to Wikipedia articles, and supporting an exhibition on imaginary cities by uploading images of artifacts to Wikimedia Commons. The residencies aimed to increase contributions to Wikimedia projects from cultural collections and support open collaboration between institutions and online communities.

1. Wikimedia Residencies:
Reflecting on Wikimedian Residencies in
the GLAM sector, UK and Ireland
National Libraries Now 2021
Stella Wisdom, Digital Curator
British Library

2. Andrew Gray at the GLAM WIKI UK 2013 Conference, photograph taken by Sebastiaan ter Burg (CC BY 2.0)

3. Participants of the GLAMcamp London at the British Library September 2012, photograph taken by Christoph Braun (CC0 1.0)

4. https://www.bl.uk/projects/british-library-labs

5. "Gotta Tag 'Em All!" - a digital maps Halloween tag-a-thon, 31 October 2014

6. Illustrations were extracted algorithmically from digitised books:
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xmlns:xsi="http://ww
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xmlns:mets="http://w
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Image snipped out
Algorithmically
From ALTO XML
Image taken from page 207 of 'London and its Environs. A
picturesque survey of the metropolis and the suburbs ...
Translated by Henry Frith. With ... illustrations'
ALTO XML

7. The illustrations were uploaded to Flickr and albums were
created through crowd-sourced tagging

9. Imaginary Cities Exhibition, April to September 2019, Michael Takeo Magruder

10. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:-_Upper_cover_(c132i57).jpg

12. Oxford Food Symposium Wikithon in the Boardroom of the British Library, 10 November 2017,
photograph taken by Andrew Davidson (CC BY-SA 4.0)

13. References:
https://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2013/02/wikipedia-and-the-british-library.html
https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2013/05/wikipedian-in-residence-conclusions.html
https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2014/09/andrew-gray-british-library/
AHRC Podcast: Wikipedian in Residence:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwlWjLsKOS4
AHRC Podcast: Top Tips for using and contributing to Wikipedia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luDvVDG1rsI
https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2013/12/a-million-first-steps.html
https://blogs.bl.uk/magnificentmaps/2014/09/maps-tag-a-thon-event.html
https://www.bl.uk/projects/georeferencer

14. References continued:
https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2016/10/maurice-nicholson-british-library-flickr-commons-map-
tagger-and-top-georeferencer.html
https://blogs.bl.uk/magnificentmaps/2020/06/flickr-maps-on-the-georeferencer-finished.html
https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2019/06/imaginary-cities-exhibition.html
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:British_Library_Bookbindings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Oxford_Food_Symposium
https://www.oxfordsymposium.org.uk/our-wiki-food-and-mostly-women-project/
https://www.bigissue.com/latest/technology/female-wikipedians-are-overthrowing-the-male-
dominated-world-of-wiki-food/