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GLAM 2010 outcomes

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Backstage pass access to Hoxne Hoard artefacts.

In June the British Museum was the first organization to run a "Wikipedian-in-residence" program by taking Liam Wyatt in-house. A free backstage pass tour for Wikipedians was followed up by the "Hoxne challenge" where a team of volunteer Wikipedia editors were hosted for a day by the museum to collaborate with curators and experts. The Hoxne Hoard article gained Featured Article status a few days later. Other events included Feature Article prizes, a school translations project (to translate lead sections of BM articles into French) and one-to-one on-site collaborations with the Asia and Prints departments.

Outcomes include:

• a growth in British Museum-related articles from 148 to 255, all of the new articles being a higher quality
• rise in overall quality with articles being re-written, photographs add to Commons and direct links to the new BM online object database added
• four articles getting to be Today's Featured Article on the main page of Wikipedia each resulting in 47,000 to 100,000 views in one day

Meeting of Smithsonian staff and Wikimedian volunteers.

With the British Museum as model, similar programs have been run at the Smithsonian Institution and the Children's Museum of Indianapolis.

Expert panel session at GLAM-WIKI conference.

The first GLAM-WIKI conference was hosted in November by the British Museum with presentations and representation from a number of institutions including the National Portrait Gallery, Natural History Museum and National Maritime Museum.

A mailing list to discuss relationships between Wikimedia and cultural institutions (the GLAM sector) is available to support volunteers and is being used as a focus for follow-up activities. See http://lists.wikimedia.ch/listinfo/chapters-cultural-partners.

--Fæ 12:35, 28 December 2010 (UTC)