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[[File:Hoxne Hoard back-room discussion of items not on display.JPG|thumb|Backstage pass access to Hoxne Hoard artefacts.]] | [[File:Hoxne Hoard back-room discussion of items not on display.JPG|thumb|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 [[User:Witty lama|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. | In June the British Museum was the first organization to run a "Wikipedian-in-residence" program by taking [[User:Witty lama|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. | ||
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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. | 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. | ||
Revision as of 13:48, 28 December 2010
GLAM 2010 outcomes
(version: sketch 12:48, 28 December 2010 (UTC) )
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
- over 50 main page Did you knows on BM-related articles
With the British Museum as model, similar programs have been run at the Smithsonian Institution and the Children's Museum of Indianapolis.
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.