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Martin L Poulter

Martin L Poulter

Reaching millions of readers through Wikipedia

I have long thought that Wikipedia articles about exhibitions are a great way for cultural institutions to get continuing benefits from…

1 min readApr 4, 2024

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The Journey to the Heart of Islam article on English Wikipedia

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Martin L Poulter

Three ways to make links between collections

A theme of my work is using Wikimedia projects to make links between different cultural collections. I look forward to the day when…

5 min readMay 4, 2023

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Three ways to make links between collections

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Wiki Playtime

Historical people and modern collections: a Wikidata exploration

In a previous blog post, I mentioned that Wikidata could help us “Find manuscripts that are in some way related to Shah Jahan (commissioned…

4 min readFeb 7, 2022

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Historical people and modern collections: a Wikidata exploration

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Martin L Poulter

Manuscripts on Wikidata: the state of the art?

Thanks to the generosity and cooperation of the Khalili Collections, I have recently been sharing images and catalogue data for a beautiful…

9 min readOct 14, 2021

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Manuscripts on Wikidata: the state of the art?

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Wiki Playtime

Bridging real and fictional worlds

Wikidata has many, many statements about the real world, but also describes worlds of fiction or myth. Fictional entities can have almost…

4 min readSep 13, 2017

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Bridging real and fictional worlds

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Wiki Playtime

Wikidata for winners (in Economics)

One of my jobs brings me into contact with lots of economists, so although I’m not an economist myself the subject is much on my mind when…

4 min readMar 10, 2017

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Wikidata for winners (in Economics)

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Wiki Playtime

Wikidata for wizards

A new post has come out on the Wikimedia Foundation blog, introducing Wikidata and explaining why institutions should share data with it…

1 min readMar 9, 2017

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Wikidata for wizards

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Wiki Playtime

Wikidata, Wikipedia and Voltaire

This week the Voltaire Foundation have published my guest blog post which describes how we constructed Histropedia timelines to support the…

1 min readFeb 22, 2017

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Wiki Playtime

Historical intellectual connections

Wikidata has a doctoral advisor (P184) relation, so the entry for a person can identify the person who supervised their doctoral degree.

5 min readFeb 14, 2017

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Historical intellectual connections

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Wiki Playtime

Probing Parliament(s) with Wikidata

Wikidata has entries for Members of Parliament and for constituencies, although at the moment the two sets of data are not linked together…

4 min readFeb 7, 2017

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Probing Parliament(s) with Wikidata

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Martin L Poulter

Martin L Poulter

Wikimedian In Residence at the Khalili Foundation; Former Wikimedian In Residence at the University of Oxford, exploring open data and open content

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