1. Crowdsourcing for information professionals: University
collections and Wikimedia
Multimedia Information and Technology Group
19 March 2018
Nick Sheppard
Research Data Management Advisor, Leeds University Library
@mrnick
@OpenResLeeds
#mmitcrowds
Leeds University Library
Research Data Leeds

2. Leeds University Library
Research Data Leeds
Wikipedia and its sister projects
Initiative to create a bibliographic database based on Wikidata.
The goals of WikiCite include improvement of citations in Wikimedia projects and an
open, collaborative repository of bibliographic data for innovative applications.

3. SPAM!?
“I noticed that various Nature journal article links were
changed to point at this site instead (example). The site
appears to be academic, although I wonder if this is
suspect or acceptable, input welcome.”
“I notified the editor. Looks like he's trying to substitute
references with open access ones. I have no opinion yet
on the merits of this approach, other than it needs
examination and discussion.”
WikiProject_Spam (Archive)
Leeds University Library
Research Data Leeds
By MasterFinally (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ABaby_diving.jpg

4. Wikipedia
• Launched in 2001
• Wikipedia and its sister projects develop at a rate of over 10
edits per second (Wikipedia:Statistics)
• 3.2 billion edits (and counting)
• Model of collaborative authorship (form of peer review?)
• Reference peer reviewed sources by DOI – paywalls
• Inaccessible without access to a subscription
• Laypeople who might benefit most
• Wikipedia, information literacy and open access (Leeds
University Library Blog)
Leeds University Library
Research Data Leeds
Kremlin.ru [CC BY 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)], via
Wikimedia Commons

5. Leeds University Library
Research Data Leeds
Altmetrics
• Traditional metrics (citation count, h-index, JIF)
• Article level metrics
• Various flavours:
• Plum analytics - https://plumanalytics.com/
• Impactstory - https://impactstory.org/
• Altmetric.com – http://altmetric.com/

6. Leeds University Library
Research Data Leeds
Dr Crispin Little, School of Earth and
Environment, University of Leeds

7. Leeds University Library
Research Data Leeds
(Title -> https://www.nature.com/articles/nature21377)

8. Leeds University Library
Research Data Leeds
“Green” open access (self archiving)
• Published in a subscription journal
• Repository in line with publisher T & C
• Nature = AAM with 6 month embargo

9. Leeds University Library
Research Data Leeds
(Title -> http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/112179/)
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia
_talk:WikiProject_Open&oldid=808193554
(Archived from the original -> https://www.nature.com/articles/nature21377)

10. Leeds University Library
Research Data Leeds
• 105 links to records in WRRO
• 176 links to etheses in WREO
• White Rose consortium
• Leeds / Sheffield / York
• Referrals from Wikipedia are significant
• 17th - WRRO
• 19th – WREO
• Wikipedia was the sixth referrer of DOI
clicks in 2015/2016 (Wass, 2016)
• Where do DOI clicks come from?
Open in order to…contribute to the global digital
commons: University collections and Wikimedia

11. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Open&
oldid=808193554
Leeds University Library
Research Data Leeds
Manual to automated?
• Altmetric for Institutions -
https://www.altmetric.com/audience/institutions/
• Tattersall, A. and Carroll, C. (2018) What Can Altmetric.com Tell
Us About Policy Citations of Research? An Analysis of
Altmetric.com Data for Research Articles from the University of
Sheffield. Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, 2. 9.
• 1004 DOIs associated with the University of Leeds (978 articles /
26 books / 4 chapters) cited across 1197 individual Wikipedia
pages [October 2017]
(Thanks for the data Altmetric!)
Open in order to…contribute to the global digital
commons: University collections and Wikimedia

12. Leeds University Library
Research Data Leeds
Oabot
• Easily edit articles to add OA links to Wikipedia citations
• Uses unpaywall API*
• Claim access to 18.6 million OA articles
• http://unpaywall.org/data
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:OABOT
• https://tools.wmflabs.org/oabot/
“We think we've found an open access version of an article cited on Wikipedia!
Can you review our guess and edit Wikipedia to include a link to it?”
* Also see browser plugin

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Research Data Leeds
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10701-015-9944-z
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger_equation#cite_note-one-43

14. Leeds University Library
Research Data Leeds
• CORE aggregator
• https://core.ac.uk/
• 10.5 million full texts*
• Dataset to facilitate text and data analytics
• Potentially more reliable than unpaywall data
• Greater automation
• [citation needed]
• Integrate CORE recommender
* number of actual documents identified/downloaded and
hosted on the CORE servers and made available to others

15. Leeds University Library
Research Data Leeds
Wikimedia Commons
• Repository of openly licensed media files
• Anyone can upload or edit material
• Easily embedded across Wikimedia projects
“Haua Fteah is a large karstic cave located in the Cyrenaica
in northeastern Libya.” (Wikipedia)
• Section on stratigraphy and layout of the cave
• Cites a 2014 article archived in WRRO
• “Gold” OA under CC-BY
• Illustrate Wikipedia via Wikimedia Commons

16. Leeds University Library
Research Data Leeds
Research Data
• Research Data Leeds
• http://archive.researchdata.leeds.ac.uk/
• Datacite DOIs
• A dataset can be cited in Wikipedia in the same way as a
journal article
• A unique source of additional material
“Hugh Seymour Davies (23 April 1943 – 1 January 2005)
was a musicologist, composer, and inventor of experimental
musical instruments” (Wikipedia)
• Subject of extensive research by Leeds academic Dr
James Mooney

17. Leeds University Library
Research Data Leeds

18. Leeds University Library
Research Data Leeds
Galleries • Libraries • Archives • Museums (GLAM)
The GLAM-WIKI project supports GLAMs and other institutions who want to work with Wikimedia to produce open-
access, freely-reusable content for the public - https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM

19. Leeds University Library
Research Data Leeds
Special Collections
• Wikimedia internship in 2016-2017
• 5 Designated collections - mark of distinction awarded
by Arts Council England
• Cookery collection
• https://library.leeds.ac.uk/special-
collections/collection/703/cookery_collection
• Leeds University Library's Cookery Collection (Wikipedia)

20. Leeds University Library
Research Data Leeds
What next?
• Billy no mates
• Cross library working group
• Library strategy
• Wikimedian in Residence??
• https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_in_Residence
• University of Edinburgh
• University of Oxford (Bodleian)
• Advocacy
• Editathons
“When preparing your data files consider if you can include images, videos or other media
which can be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons in order to expose your data to a wider
audience (see this example https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baxter_full.webm)”