Increasing reach and access through Wikimedia
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Lucy Crompton-Reid discussed increasing reach and access through Wikimedia. She is the Chief Executive of Wikimedia UK, the national chapter for the global Wikimedia movement. She highlighted several libraries' page views on Wikimedia sites, ranging from 60 million for Bodleian to 387 million for Wellcome Library. She described Wikimedia residency programs at the National Library of Wales and Bodleian Libraries, focusing on opening diverse content, events, and advocacy.
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Increasing reach and access through Wikimedia
- 1. #CILIPConf17 Sponsored by Media partners Organised by Engaging Audiences Briefing
- 2. #CILIPConf17 Sponsored by Media partners Organised by Increasing reach and access through Wikimedia Lucy Crompton-Reid, Chief Executive, Wikimedia UK
- 3. INCREASING REACH AND ACCESS THROUGH WIKIMEDIA Lucy Crompton-Reid
- 4. The national chapter for the global Wikimedia movement CC by SA 3.0, Jorge Royan
- 5. Whose knowledge? NASA, public domain
- 6. Working with libraries Margaret Hamilton with the computer code she wrote for the Apollo Project (1969) - Public Domain
- 7. Page views on Wikimedia By March 2017 Bodleian - 60 million National Library of Scotland - 71 million National Library of Wales - 262 million Wellcome Library - 387 million
- 8. Residency at the National Library of Wales CC by SA 4.0, Zachary McCune
- 9. Wikimedia in Residence Bodleian Libraries Phase one - focused on opening up diverse content, delivering events and advocating for open Phase two - working across the university, engaging with research projects and working with Wikidata
- 11. Building an inclusive online community CC by SA Henry Iddon/BBC
- 12. Art+Femism CC by SA 4.0, Zachary McCune
- 13. #1Lib1Ref CC by SA Vicky Francis/DfID
- 14. YOUR QUESTIONS Life Science Database, CC BY-SA 2
- 15. THANK YOU
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- Thanks to CILIP for putting on this fantastic conference and for the opportunity to speak to you today. I’m Lucy Crompton-Reid, and I’m the Chief Executive of Wikimedia UK, the national chapter for the global Wikimedia movement. We believe that open access to knowledge is a fundamental right, and a driver for social and economic development. Wikimedia UK is an independent registered charity, so although we work closely with the movement globally, we have our own board, staff team and strategy. We currently have three strategic goals, which are essentially to increase underrepresented content on Wikimedia, to promote and advocate for open knowledge, and to develop Wikimedia as a tool for teaching and learning. To deliver this we work with a very wide range of organisations from the cultural and education sector and beyond to open up content, remove barriers to knowledge and engage learners, but I’m going to focus particularly today on our work with libraries across the UK.
- Wikipedia needs no introduction, but I’m going to do one anyway. The vision of Wikipedia is a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. As the sixth most visited website, and the only non profit in the top 70 websites, it is generally considered to beone of the most influential sources of information in the world. The free encyclopaedia that anyone can edit now has over 40 million articles in nearly 300 languages, created by a global community of volunteer editors. I believe Wikipedia is a pretty extraordinary achievement, and indeed it has been described to me as being “everything we were told the internet could be”. However, it’s not perfect, by any means. In particular, a lack of diversity in both the content of the site and the community that creates the encyclopaedia means that the information available can sometimes be biased and incomplete, and can perpetuate dominant forms of knowledge. So whilst the focus of this presentation is on engaging audiences with library collections, I will be looking at that through a lens of diversity and equality.
- Wikimedia UK has worked with a number of libraries over the past five years, and we have ongoing partnerships with the Bodleian, British Library, National Library of Wales, National Library of Scotland, the Scottish Libraries and Information Council, Senate House Library and the Wellcome Library, among others. This work can takes different forms, from hosting an event where members of the visiting public learn to edit Wikipedia, through to our flagship Wikimedian in Residence programme. As the name suggests, Wikimedians in Residence are based within a host instituion - in fact, they’re employed by them, on either a full or part time basis. The specific activities of residents vary but they all act as change makers, advocating for open knowledge within their host institutions and supporting, facilitating and embedding new practice. I mentioned earlier our three strategic goals, which are around underrepresented content, advocacy, and education. Our work with libraries can cut across all of these, but when it comes to engaging audiences, our content related goal is key because the thing is, however many visitors you have to your library, and however popular your website, engaging with Wikimedia will significantly increase your reach, as our partners have discovered.
- As of March 2017, these were the pageviews on Wikimedia of content from some of our current library partnerships, where we can directly attribute the open release of these files to the work of our Wikimedian in Residence in each institution (or in the case of Wellcome, to the work of Wikimedia UK volunteers prior to the appointment of the resident). It’s also important to mention what this content actually is that people are looking at. So for example in the case of the Bodleian, the resident focused very closely on opening up images and other content related to world history, and underdocumented cultural heritage. Rather than uploading the entirety of the Bodleian’s digitised collection, he handpicked 8000 items from the collection which represented hidden histories, and subjects that are generally underrepresented on Wikimedia because of its white, male, western perspective and bias. It’s also important to note that our Wikimedians in Residence work across different Wikimedia projects, and different languages. The National Library of Wales residency, which I’m going to look at in more detail, has been entirely bilingual, while our new partnership with the NLS - following a previous successful residency - is for a Gaelic Wikipedian, who is working to develop Uicipeid and the Gaelic Wikimedia community. Residents don’t just work with Wikipedia but with Wikimedia Commons, Wikisource and, increasingly, Wikidata, the free and open knowledge base that can be read and edited by both humans and machines and acts as central storage for the structured data of sister projects. We contribute to the creation and distribution of educational content through our work with the cultural and education sectors. In particular, our Wikimedians-in-Residence act as change makers, advocating for open knowledge within their host institutions and supporting and facilitating new practice. We currently have Wikimedians in Residence at the University of Edinburgh, Hypatia Trust in Cornwall, National Library of Wales, Oxford University, Wellcome Library and we’re working in partnership with NLS on a Gaelic Wikipedian to support the development of Uicipeid. We are actively involved in sector-level initiatives to open up resources and to embed the principles of open at a policy level, for example with UK funders and scholarly publishers We advocate for changes to public policy and legislation that support free and open access to educational resources We promote public understanding and recognition of the value of open knowledge Advocacy is also very important to Wikimedia UK in creating ambassadors and champions for this work, who can then advocate on our behalf
- Longest running Wikimedian in Residence in the UK, from January 2015 The entire residency has been run bilingually 31 editing events and other training workshops held, attended by 355 people. He’s also delivered presentations at a wide range of events and conferences, reaching a further 600 people. Through the resident the library shared over 11,000 images to Wikimedia Commons including several complete collections of images to Commons, such as the Welsh Landscape Collection. These have now received 262 million page views. The creation of a Wikidata Visiting Scholar has led to nearly 7000 pages or items added to Wikidata The resident has had a fantastic public profile with 22 media interviews on television and radio, and high levels of social media interaction Releasing content under an open licence has now been embedded into the library’s workflow and is a key consideration in assessing what should be digitised A Business Case for increased Open Access has been created and will be available under an open licence The library has now made the Wikimedia post a permanent, fully funded position, embedded within the digital access team
- First year - 8000 images, events e.g. Ada Lovelace day (week of events), advocating for the use of Wikimedia across the university, securing funding for a second year from the Innovation Fund. Second year - focus on Wikidata and research projects. Advice or training given to a dozen other research projects, on topics including open education, open-access publishing, data visualisation, and impact. Data about 3238 doctoral theses (using some to improve Wikipedia articles about the thesis authors) Data about 3102 people of the Enlightenment, to encourage creation of Wikipedia articles Data about 4147 hillforts (every hillfort site in the British Isles), to encourage creation of Wikipedia articles
- I don’t have time to talk about Wikidata much here, but it’s an amazing tool, and can do some really cool visualisations and timelines...here’s one I made earlier using Histropedia!
- I’ve alluded to a lack of gender diversity on Wikimedia already, but to give this some context, only around 15% of editors are female and 17% of biographies on the English Wikipedia are about women. Addressing gender inequality and other forms of bias are therefore a common theme of our work with libraries and other partners, as we try to combat Wikimedia’s androcentricism and diversify content and contributors. This picture comes from the BBC 100 Women partnership, 100wikiwomen, in December 2016. NLW organised an editathon at the BBC in Cardiff and Jason Evans, the resident, described it as one of two events were the people involved were the most passionate and committed, the other being Art+Feminism.
- Art+Feminism is a global campaign, coinciding with International Women’s Day in March, which will be in its fifth year in 2018. The idea is for art galleries, museums, libraries, universities and other interested partners to hold an editathon event where people are trained in editing Wikipedia and improve content related to art and feminism. So far, hundreds of events have been held and thousands of articles on Wikipedia have been improved and created. In the UK, we’ve been involved in Art+Feminism for the past two years and would love to involve more libraries in this campaign in 2018. Through Wikimedia UK, libraries can get involved in a number of global initiatives.
- Another global campaign, this time focused solely on the library sector, is 1lib1ref, where Wikimedia asks you to imagine a world where every librarian added one more reference to Wikipedia Global campaign, launched in January 2016 to mark Wikipedia’s 15th birthday by the Wikipedia Library Catalan libraries, West Virginia University, National Library of Wales and librarians in Australia, Netherlands and Denmark Improving the research ecosystem of Wikipedia for its readers and editors and targeting a profession that is mostly women Wikimedia UK involved for the first two years and are planning to work in partnership with CILIP to engage many more libraries in this initiative in January 2018, so please look out for more information about that later this year.
- We’re keen to find more ways of working with libraries and supporting public engagement with collections. Please come to us with ideas! In the meantime, very happy to answer questions on any of this. Thanks for listening.
- How you can be involved? Become a member of Wikimedia UK for just £5 a year for an individual and £100 for institutional membership Engage more proactively with Wikimedia and open knowledge, hold a training event for your staff, students or visitors, or think about introducing Wikipedia in the Classroom To think about what knowledge or content your institution might hold, particularly in relation to underrepresented subjects such as women and non Western languages and cultures, and think about how your educational resources could add value to the Wikimedia projects