Wikipedia:GLAM/Connected Heritage/Partners

Our partnerships so far[edit]

Mixed Museum[edit]

The Mixed Museum, an online digital museum which preserves and shares the social history of racial mixing in the United Kingdom, was one of the first Connected Heritage partners, co-hosting Wiki Interns from Queen Mary University in March 2022 and March 2023. The partnership grew into a Wikimedian in Residence from September 2022-March 2023.

Royal Albert Memorial Museum[edit]

The Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) is a museum and art gallery in Exeter, Devon, the largest in the city. From February to March 2023, a Wikimedian in Residence was hosted at the RAMM, working alongside the GLAM-E Lab at Exeter University. This followed a pilot upload of historical RAMM images to Wikimedia Commons. See our Residencies tab for further information.

Blackpool Social Club[edit]

In September 2023, Antonia Charlesworth Stack took on the role of Wikimedian in Residence at Blackpool Social Club. Blackpool Social Club is ‘the home of creativity on the Fylde Coast’. They work with creative minds and artists throughout the area to promote and celebrate the vibrant Blackpool cultural scene. The Social Club is part of the Aunty Social Network.

See our Residencies tab for further information.

Queer Britain[edit]

From September 2023 Evie Moore (she/her), member of the Museum Welcome Team, will be working to embed Wiki practice within the museum’s collections as their Wikimedian-in-Residence. Queer Britain is the UK’s first and only LGBTQ+ museum.

See our Residencies tab for further information.

Almeley Quakers[edit]

The Almeley Quakers, headed by Kit Byatt, uploaded scans of a 17th century Quaker Meeting Accounts book to Wikimedia Commons with the help of the Connected Heritage team.

Create Place[edit]

Create Place, based in Staffordshire, is a leadership development programme for people working in the cultural heritage sector. As a part of their exploration on digital placemaking, programme leader Carola Boehm invited Lucy and Leah to lead wikithons for two different cohorts in 2022. The hope is to embed wiki training for these aspiring leaders going forward, even after the Connected Heritage project finishes. To see the dashboard for these events (and any other), have a look at our Events page.

Rotherwas Together[edit]

Rotherwas Together is a community history group, dedicated to understanding and sharing information about their local area. Their particular interest with Connected Heritage was to improve information available on Wikipedia about the local munitions factory, which employed women during both world wars. We hosted a hybrid wikithon in April 2022 for their members.

The Wildlife Trusts[edit]

For the Wildlife Trusts, Leah and Lucy designed a bespoke version of the Connected Heritage Webinar, which explained how and why Wildlife Trust staff and stakeholders might like to edit Wikimedia projects. We discussed the natural world as part of the UK's cultural heritage as well as ways that Wikimedia Projects can work hand in hand with citizen science initiatives.

The Audience Agency[edit]

Connected Heritage ran a condensed 90 minute online Wikithon for clients of the Audience Agency in February 2022.

Workers Educational Association[edit]

The Workers Educational Association was the first Connected Heritage partner. Based in the North East of England, this chapter of the WEA developed a set of multimedia history walks in Newcastle, Durham and South Tyneside, highlighting neglected working class histories. Connected Heritage hosted a Wikipedia editathon in June 2022 to coincide with the launch of the first of these history walks.

King's College London Libraries[edit]

The Connected Heritage team supported the Digital Collections Manager in the King's College London Archives to upload images to Wikimedia Commons and capture metrics on the uploaded images. The Digital Collections Manager is currently exploring the potential for adding to Wikidata.

University College London Libraries[edit]

As a part of the Liberating the Collections initiative in the University College London Libraries, Connected Heritage led a Wikithon for Library staff in September 2022. The theme for the wikithon was inspired by the Liberating the Collections agenda, and staff were encouraged upload images, add references and identify Wikipedia gaps around that theme.

Manar al-Athar[edit]

Three student interns at the Manar al-Athar at the University of Oxford were trained to edit Wikipedia and upload to Wikimedia Commons as a part of a week-long microinternship in May 2022. The internship will ran again in March 2023.

Scottish Jewish Heritage Centre[edit]

With the Scottish Jewish Heritage Centre and the Scottish Jewish Archives Centre, which are based in Glasgow, the Connected Heritage team designed a two-part, full online Wikithon in February 2023. This consisted first of an introductory session and a second hybrid sharing event with a week of asynchronous editing in between. Participants were invited from the SJHC community and opened more widely to anyone interested in sharing more about the history and culture of Judaism in Scotland.

Wheal Martyn Clay Works[edit]

The Wheal Martyn Clay works is a Victorian-era china claymining museum in Cornwall. We planned a hybrid Wikithon with an interested group of ex-miners and current volunteers for September 2022 but sadly the event was cancelled by Wikimedia UK because of the death of Queen. The event went ahead without a formal Connected Heritage leader because the archivist had already been trained by Leah and Lucy and as she said "we muddled through the set up together and I think people have at least got some sort of idea of what to do."

Faversham Society[edit]

The Faversham Society, a local history society, first hosted the Connected Heritage team for an in-person wikithon in Kent in October 2022.

We were delighted to return in August 2023 as part of the Open Faversham event, to host further training for members of the local community.

Reimagining Lincolnshire[edit]

Reimagining Lincolnshire is a public history project based at the University of Lincoln which aims to uncover hidden and neglected stories from Lincolnshire. The project teamed up with Connected Heritage in October of 2022 to offer an online wikithon in honour of Black History Month.

Leeds City Museum[edit]

In conjunction with an exhibition on women in sport, Leeds City Museum hosted the Connected Heritage team in a conference room to train volunteers on how to edit Wikipedia and upload to Wikimedia Commons in November

Heritage Trust Network[edit]

Heritage Trust Network is a UK-wide network of members devoted to knowledge sharing, skills development and advocacy for local heritage groups. Connected Heritage ran two online wikithons for the HTN. The first was internal for staff members only, and the second was opened up to volunteers and stakeholders.

ArtUK[edit]

A group of ArtUK staff members joined Connected Heritage for an online wikithon in January 2023.

Queer Heritage & Collections Network[edit]

In March 2023, we were invited to deliver a 2 hour session for network members at Queer Britain in London and online. The session had multiple goals: to give experienced editors a space to edit on topics of their choice and to educate newcomers about the benefits and impacts of editing Wikimedia projects. The second half of the session focussed on live edits to Wikipedia, improving the accuracy of information on Queer heritage sites in England.

Washington Heritage Partnership[edit]

In July 2023 we delivered a Wikithon to the Washington Heritage Partnership in the North East of England, in advance of 2024's Washington at 60 celebrations.

Doing History in Public and Cambridge University Digital Library[edit]

A collection of researchers, students, librarians and Cambridge University staff participated in a training event in May 2023 followed by an all-day editathon. A second event is planned for November 2023: stay tuned for more details!