Wikimedia and Open Research

 Dr Martin Poulter from the University of Bristol will be speaking at the Leeds ReproducibiliTea journal club on Wikimedia and Open Research, and how these tools can be used to support public engagement with research.

This will be an online session on Microsoft Teams. Please register for the session here: https://shorturl.at/cprJ0

Wikipedia, the world's most popular reference work, is just one of a connected system of open knowledge projects. These Wikimedia sites share open knowledge in the form of text, digital media, and data. These are platforms on which open research outputs can be shared, reaching a global, multilingual audience. They also give ways to remix and contextualise research outputs such as figures and data sets. This session will look at how openness and reproducibility are central to Wikimedia, and how researchers are using these sites to promote the reach of, and public engagement with, their research.

The optional recommended reading before the session is 'Wikimedia and universities: contributing to the global commons in the Age of Disinformation' Sheppard & Poulter: https://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.509. Please feel free to join the session though without prior reading as the topic will be summarised in the session.

Session is open to Leeds University staff.

What is ReproducibiliTea?

ReproducibiliTea is an early career researcher led journal club. It aims to create a space for transdisciplinary discussions of the latest research into reproducibility and open research practices, which involves making the whole research cycle open and transparent. In our sessions, we invite the experts and dissect the latest papers to spark debate and carry this conversation forwards.