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[[File:Rod Dunican presents at EduWiki Conference 2013 2.JPG|thumb|250px|Rodney Dunican delivering his keynote at EduWiki 2013]]
[[File:Pat Hadley and Stuart Ogilvy discuss Tempest Anderson's Slides.jpg|thumb|200px|Pat Hadley and Stuart Ogilvy looking over the Tempest Anderson slides in the YMT stores]]


Educators and Wikimedians from around the world met this weekend in Cardiff for Wikimedia UK’s second annual [[EduWiki Conference 2013|EduWiki Conference]].
This post was written by Pat Hadley. You can read the original here.


The conference addressed issues that concern both the education sector and the Wikimedia movement. These include: how we promote digital literacy, how we discourage plagiarism, how we assess learner contributions, and how we can use the data about users and their behaviour (“learning analytics”) that online tools give us.
So, three weeks into my role as York Museums Trust’s (YMT) I already feel like things are more complicated – but more exciting – than I’d imagined they could be.


The two-day conference brought together academics, students, librarians, and support staff-as well as contributors to [[:Wikipedia:Main page|Wikipedia]], [[:Wikiversity:Main page|Wikiversity]] and Wikinews-for talks, presentations and workshops including three keynotes. [http://garethmorlais.co.uk/Gareth-Morlais-English.html Gareth Morlais], Digital Media Specialist at the Welsh Government, spoke about the difficulty of getting minority languages recognised by the web’s big names such as Google. The size of [[:cy:Hafan|Welsh Wicipedia]] is one marker of the importance of the language, and this is one way Wicipedia creates opportunities for Welsh speakers. Gareth delivered his presentation in Welsh, with live translation through headsets.
I’ve been learning a great deal about the character at the centre of our test collection: Tempest Anderson. Doctor, gentleman, explorer, volcanologist and the owner of York’s first telephone. Dial 1 for Anderson.


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We will be uploading a few low-resolution scans of Anderson’s fantastic photographs in the near future as a teaser before the main release of ~300. These are being specially cleaned and scanned in the next few weeks.
 
All the while, I’ve been at least as excited about the scope for other elements of the project. I attended a meeting with the curators and am beginning to get a feel for the vast and fascinating collections the Trust cares for. Learning this from the expert curators is a real bonus!
 
I’ve been excited to learn that there will be a forthcoming partnership with the [http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/home Google Cultural Institute] on the trust’s fantastic [http://www.yorkartgallery.org.uk/Page/ViewCollection.aspx?CollectionId=7 studio pottery] collections. The images will be uploaded with rich accounts written by curator Helen Walsh that will be great for the public and excellent source material for Wikipedia articles.
 
The Trust is going to be hugely involved in York and Yorkshire’s reflections on 1914 as the centenary comes around. The buzz generated in the run up to the 1914: When the World Changed Forever exhibition will be a great help in getting local volunteers and Wikimedians to help connect the trusts excellent military history and social history material to the wider world through Wikimedia projects.
 
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