Derby Backstage Pass
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What is it?
A Backstage Pass tour is an event aimed at sharing the expertise of real-world cultural institutions with our wiki-expertise. Principally this involves an organisation or interest group hosting a private tour for the benefit of local Wikimedians and in reciprocation we help improve the content on Wikipedia that is relevant to that organisation.
Simply put the day is in three parts:
- Private guided tour of 'backstage' areas of the museum with the experts.
- Lunch together (sponsored by Wikimedia UK and Derby Museums)
- Sitting down with the curators individually/small groups to collaborate on topics discussed during the tour.
This event is being organised in collaboration with Wikimedia UK and will be the first time a museum outside London has sat down with Wikipedians. The contact person for this activity is Roger Bamkin aka Victuallers
When/where is it?
Saturday, April 9th, 2010 at Derby Museum and Art Gallery. See the Museum's getting here instructions for transport information.
Meet at 10:30 by the Information desk. Bring your own laptop.
Advantages for the Museum
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Advantages for Wikimedia
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Derby Museums have been bold enough to get involved with this project. They are keen to integrate their collection with communities, online and in real life and therefore we are a good way to do that. Like many museums in the U.K. they are currently restructuring as thet adapt to a changing economic climate. They will have closed one of their museums, but they will reopen it for this event. An ambitious programme of building work is in in progress that means that some exhibits will not be available, however the museum will be creating temporary exhibitions of usually hidden artefacts and showing wikipedians their backstage areas.
What
A private tour of the public and storage areas of the museum and other areas as requested. We'll then have lunch and they will give us access to a wifi enabled meeting room where we can all work on-wiki after the tour.
Departments that will be opening their doors to us include:
| Time | Activity | Room | Led by |
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| 10.15 - 10.30 | Meet | Foyer of Derby Museum in the Strand|align=center| | |
| 11.00 - 12.15 | Option 1: Tour of ????? (max. 20 people) | Room 11, finishing Room 18 | Ian Jenkins & Andrew Shapland |
| Option 2: Coins and Medals (max. 4+4) | Behind the scenes tour* | Ian Leins & Megan Gooch | |
| Option 3: Egyptian Department (max. 10) | Behind the scenes tour* | Liam McNamara | |
| 12.15 - 13.30 | Lunch @ Staff Canteen - Curators and Wikipedians | ||
| 13:30 - 14.30 | Option 3: ??? (Repeat) (max. 10) | Behind the scenes tour* | Liam McNamara |
| 14.30 - 15.00 | Introduction to the Wikimedia UK - Derby Museums collaboration | Lecture Room | Jonathon W, Assistant Head of Derby Museums Roger Bamkin, Wikipedian-in-residence |
| 15.00 - 15.30 | General discussion | Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Clore Centre | open |
| 15.30 - 16.00 | Break | ||
| 16.30 - 18.00 | Discussions between British Museum staff and Wikipedians, looking at articles, documentation, bibliographies, etc. | Sackler Room, Clore Centre | All |
| 18.00 onwards | End and Pub | Penderel’s Oak, High Holborn (map) | All invited |
What (Wikimedians)
First come, first served! In the event that there is an oversubscription, members of Wikimedia UK will be given preference. Please bring your laptop and we'll hang out in the lounge during the second part of the day to collaborate.
The British Museum curators will "pitch" objects that are their personal favourites and we can work with them to start articles - following assessment of "notability"
Other types of content that could be improved:
- Articles about existing articles of specific artefacts in the museum collection. See Category: Collection of the British Museum
- Using photographs/information about BM objects to improve other more generic topics
- Suggesting text that BM owns that could be incorporated into Wikipedia if it had appropriate copyright licensing.
- The museum's own article
Sign Up
If you don't sign up we won't know you're coming! Please make sure that we can contact you if needs be - enable "email user" in your user settings if you are logged in.
If you do not want to list your name publicly, please contact me privately.
Attending:
Interested (but not confirmed yet):
---If you're interested in attending future events like this, please let us know on the talk page---
Any Questions? Add your own.
- Do I have to register to attend, or can I just arrive on the day?
- You do not have to register, but preference will be given to those who do by signing up on this page.
- Is there a minimum number of Wikipedia edits I have to have made to be allowed to attend?
- Of course not. All are welcome - even if you've never edited Wikipedia before. Being "a Wikipedian" is a self-defined thing, so if you call yourself a Wikipedian (or would like to become one) then come along.
- Do I have to be a member of Wikimedia UK?
- No, this is open to all. However if you would like to join Wikimedia UK and get involved in other projects like this or start your own, you can do so here
- If I come and take the tour, will I be obliged to make Wikipedia contributions about British Museum topics?
- No. As volunteers, there is no obligation to do anything. Of course, it is encouraged for you to stay after the tour to share your wiki-expertise with the interested curators (that's the quid pro quo of this free event after all) but you are under no obligation to do so. Equally, it is hoped that you'll be inspired to write about some of the things/ideas you've seen for Wikipedia and maybe collaborate with the curators doing so, but you don't have to.
- Can I bring my camera?
- Yes
- 5b) The museum's policy seems to only allow photography for personal use, which is of no use to Wikimedia, will they allow us to take any photographs for Wikimedia use?
- The policy is a generic one for the public-at-large and is being rewritten and should be availble on the day. Nevertheless you can assume that if Derby Museum staff allows you to take photography in a particular area, then they allow you to load the photograph into Wikimedia Commons. Many photographs taken within the public areas of the museum are already uploaded to Wikimedia Commons and the museum has no problem with this.
- What about lunch?
- Lunch will be in one of the museums and is being paid for.
- How much wiki-expertise/knowledge of wikimedia policies and procedures will participants be expected to possess?
- None - in fact we are also inviting keen amateur historians in order that we can encourage a new relationship between local historians, museums and wikipedia.
- Do you have to own/bring a laptop?
- It will certainly help if you are intending to assist in the second half of the event - Derby Museums will not be supplying computers for us, only wifi.
- It is not stated how many places there are. Will we receive invitations individually after the attendees are chosen?
- No, Derby Museum will place a cap on the number of attendees and that means places have been limited.
- There will be no other official invitation other than the information at this page. You can assume that if this page has not been deleted then just turn up on the day.
- My friend and I are both 13. Would we be allowed to come along for the tours or is there an age requirement?
- There is no minimum (or maximum) age limit - as long as you're interested and have permission from the relevant parent
Past example
Backstage Pass at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney - organisation page.
- Working with Wikipedia - Backstage Pass at the Powerhouse Museum
- Powerhouse collection documentation goes Creative Commons
Results of the day
Here's a summary of the Wiki contributions made on the day (shortcut to this subsection: bit.ly/bBackstageOutcomes ):
- Announcement of the Wright Challenge
- Photographs taken and contributed to Wikimedia Commons commons:Category:Backstage Pass at Derby Museum
- Creation of articles:
- Unlike previous events we already have a number of shorter articles and some have been DYKs. Articles that were created after the day are listed below.
- Contribution to existing articles:
- Creation of categories:
- Creation of templates:
- User accounts created:
- Media coverage
- Miscellaneous
- Tools
- Track usage of images from the British Museum on Commons in Wiki(mp)edia projects here. Turn on "details" for individual files and their usage. The top image is used 2210 times (as part of a template). In general, 2/3 of the BM images on Commons are used on Wiki(mp)edia.
- Find most wanted new articles in the British Museum category tree on English Wikipedia here.
- Find British Museum-related articles that do not have an image, and potential images on Commons and other projects, here.
- BM articles grouped by common categories here.
- Draft BM article checklist on Wikipedia talk:GLAM/BM