Grants talk:PEG/WM FI/WMFI 2015 H1/Report

Thank you for submitting this report and sharing details about the projects and activities that Wikimedia Finland has been engaged in in 2015. From the report we learned that volunteer led projects and the events that WMFI hosted with GLAMs were successful in terms of high participation from the community and new contributors, and in terms of content added to Wikimedia projects. We look forward to seeing how those projects evolve in the future. It would be helpful to get answers to the questions below:

• The maps project is mentioned several times in this report, we would love to learn more about it. Where can we find the report on the maps project?

The Wikimaps Nordic is reported to the Nordic Culture Fund with this report. /Susannaanas (talk) 07:51, 1 March 2016 (UTC) (I write in the capacity of a volunteer, since I am no longer employed by the chapter. I will in this capacity manage the ongoing projects which will end in June 2016)

• It sounds like the drone monument project was popular. What do you think made this project a success? Will you continue doing similar projects now that you have the equipment?

The project resonates well with ideas about historical location that have been worked on in many of WMFI activities (Wikimaps, Historical Street View hack in the Wiki Loves Maps hackathon) as well as topics about the reuse of cultural data. /Susannaanas (talk) 07:51, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

• The editing triathalon and Gallen Kallela sounds like they were successful in terms of bring in new editors, and in content created - have any of the new editors continued to contribute to projects?
• Did volunteers who participated in the weekly meetings on Wikidata and bots get involved with the projects to verify infobox information?
• Did you learn any lessons from the library project? Are you planning to expand it?
• Why was there just one large scale GLAM import? Was it an issue with tools, or as you note in the project metrics section, lack of clarity about how to use imported content? What would you do differently on this project? What prevented WMFI from transferring cultural datasets into Wikidata? Is this something you will pursue in the future?

Mass uploads are not easy. It is somewhat easy to upload large amounts of images, without trying to enhance the messy metadata that exists. To solve this and the Wikidata uploads we initiated two projects with funding from the Ministry of Culture in Finland.

The Metapipe project will create a tool that can import a metadata set from several sources, make transformations to the data and finally upload it to Wikimedia Commons or Wikidata, and others.

The Mobilizing Cultural Data project learns together with 10 Finnish institutions the use of Wikidata. The highlights of the project include assisting the Finnish Broadcasting Company in their transition from Freebase to Wikidata, creating learning resources while learning together with local museums, such as the Pori Art Museum, or creating a property for the FInnish National Library authority ID in WIkidata, which eventually can connect all Finnish heritage records to data in WIkidata.

Our persistent challenge is the lack of skilled and/or willing people to work with uploads. There are no bot makers. We have conducted a mass upload of 8000 maps from Kartverket with GWToolset as part of the Wikimaps project and several smaller uploads from different sources in Finland. We are negotiating with Finnish institutions advising them to open their data in CC0 which will allow them to be uploaded to Wikidata. Without anyone specifically working on this it does not happen./Susannaanas (talk) 07:51, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

• It is good to hear that you found other ways to work with Wikidata and public data sets to improve quality on projects. Will you continue this work? What information would you share with other language communities who want to do similar projects?

Please let us know if you need clarification about the questions and comments above. Thank you, --KHarold (WMF) (talk) 23:11, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

Hi Susannaanas, thank you for providing such thorough answers to our questions. We have accepted this report, however, the remaining questions should be answered by other project volunteers before additional grants are made. Thank you again for all of your hard work on this project and report. Cheers, --KHarold (WMF) (talk) 21:50, 27 April 2016 (UTC)