Wikipedia:GLAM/LEEDS 2023

LEEDS 2023 is partnering with Wikimedia UK to share cultural content relating to an independent year of culture, held in Leeds. Initially proposed as a bid to the host city for European Capital of Culture, post-Brexit exclusion from European Union initiatives meant that Leeds could no longer bid. This resulted in Leeds City Council and partners deciding to run an independent year of culture in 2023.

Background

This short-term, small-scale project will release images to Wikimedia Commons, with a focus on knowledge equity, as well as some imited page creation and DYK nomination. The project is due to end on 31 January 2024. Wikimedian Lucy Moore was employed on a freelance basis. The project ended on 1 March 2024, to include capacity for forthcoming evaluation.

You can read a case study, written for Creative Commons here.

Key metrics

Article creation

1. Leeds 2023
2. Hibiscus Rising
3. Kully Thiarai

Wikidata items

Structured data relating to key moments in the programme all link from the LEEDS 2023 Wikidata item.

Images uploaded

Images are uploaded from an alt account c:User:Lajmmoore (L23 WIR) See Category:Uploaded_by_Leeds_Culture_Trust

List of pages images manually added to

1. 1001 stories here & here
2. 2 worlds 2 voice here & here
3. A City without Seams here
4. ECHOES here & here & here & here
5. This Is A Forest here
6. Hibiscus Rising here & here
7. Nest here
8. The Awakening here & here
9. River of Hope here
10. The Gifting here
11. Reflections of Carnival here