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, 2011 at Derby Museum and Art Gallery. See the Museum's getting here instructions for directions. (8:25 am from St Pancras, London arr. Derby 10:09 am (8:55 am arr. 10:25 am) 15 minutes walk to city centre from Derby)
Download as an ics file to add to your calendar.
Coffee from 10:00 ask at the Information desk. Do 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 they 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 progress, therefore some exhibits will be unavailable, but the museum will be creating temporary exhibitions of usually hidden artefacts and showing wikipedians "their backstage areas".
What
An introduction to GLAM WIKI and what it is and what has been achieved elsewhere and here so far. Some speed dating with artefacts. 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. (For those who would like to find out more before they arrive then you can try resource 1, 2 or 3.)
Guest speaker
Terence Eden will be talking about QRWP codes. These are like QR codes except that the information is automatically supplied in your language without using translation facilities. You will have not seen this done elsewhere before and this will be the first demonstration. Steal, blag or borrow a smart phone and make sure you can read a normal QR Code before you get there.
Schedule
| Time | Activity | Room | Led by |
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| 10.15 - 10.30 | Meet | Foyer of Derby Museum in the Strand | |
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Introduction to the Derby Museums - Wikimedia UK collaboration | Top Floor Gallery | Jonathon Wallis, Derby Museums Roger Bamkin, Wikimedia UK |
| 11.00 - 12.00 | Option 1: Tour of Gallery & Painting store (max. 10 people) | Art Gallery - Main museum | Painting expert tha |
| Option 2: Hidden Herbatarium and Natural History (max. ??) | Top Gallery and tour | tbc | |
| Option 3: Mystery Tour of Treasures (max. 10) | Behind the scenes tour | Jonathon Wallis | |
| 12.15 - 13.00 | Meet for Lunch in the Silk Mill - Curators and Wikipedians | ||
| 13.00 - 13.30 | Cultural Differences - How is a museum different from Wikipedia? | Silk Mill museum | "GLAM Ambassador" for Wikimedia UK |
| 13.30 - 14.30 | Option 4: Tour of the mothballed Silk Mill Museum (max. 30) | Industrial/Silk Mill Museum | Roger Shelley? |
| Option 5: Tour of the Museum's main store (max. 18) | Behind the scenes tour* | Jonathon Wallis | |
| Option 6: Return to main museum for repeat of one morning event (max. 10) | Behind the scenes tour* | TBA | |
| 14.30 - 15.30 | Tea and then General discussion | Top Floor Gallery of main museum | All |
| 15.30 - 15:50 | Q & A | Expert panel | |
| 15.50 - 16.00 | Thanks and announcement of the Wright Challenge | Jonathon Wallis | |
| 18.00 onwards | Optional End and Pub | Standing Order, nearby (it's filled with Derby Museum reproductions) (map) | All invited |
Who (Wikimedians)
First come, first served! In the event that there is an oversubscription, early contributors and 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 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:Collections of Derby Museum and Art Gallery
- Using photographs/information about Derby Museum objects to improve other more generic topics
- Suggesting text that Derby Museums own 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 on gmail - user name Victuallers.
Attending:
- Victuallers
- Parkywiki
- Clemrutter
- Mike Peel
- Dwclarke
- en:Derby Archaeology Society (two delegates)
- Ironholds (by email)
- Andrew Turvey (by email)
- Ron Broxted
- MUBU
- Museums Association delegate
- Chevin
- MeganGara
- Erin Hollis
- Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing) - Herbatarium and Natural History, please.
- Dave.Dunford +1 friend
Interested (but not confirmed yet):
- Sparklism +2 friends
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 Derby 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 available 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?
- A free lunch will be provided in one of the museums.
- 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.
- Are there age requirements to attend this event?
- There is no minimum (or maximum) age limit - as long as you're interested and have permission from the relevant parent
- What are the car parking arrangments?
- What are the bike parking/ storage arrangements?
Resources
A few resources have been prepared to advertise the event. Please feel free to create and add any here.
A poster advertising the event.
A poster advertising the event.
A leaflet advertising the event (it doesn't render correctly here, but it does look OK when printed, don't worry).
Metadata
(Emits hCard microformat)
- Derby Backstage Pass
- 20110409T1030+01:00-20110409T1600+01:00
- Derby Museum and Art Gallery, 52.923018,-1.480166
Past example
Backstage Pass at the British Museum in London - Backstage Pass.
Results of the day
Here's a summary of the Wiki contributions made on the day:
- 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