Wikimedia Argentina/GLAM Program 2015

GLAM Program

Program Manager

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Anna Torres (WMAR)
Giselle Bordoy (WMAR)

Social Media

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Facebook: WMAR's Facebook page
Twitter: WMAR's twitter account
Instagram: WMAR's instagram account

Strategic approaches

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GLAM program is framed through the following strategic approaches:

  • Digitize, liberalization and creation of content : Activities driven by WMAR, Wikimedia community and cultural institutions in order to promote the release and designed of quality content to improve Wikimedia projects.Among the activities within this project we include photography contests and editing challenges.
  • Strengthening cultural institutions : Project aimed to strengthen the cultural institutions we work with, through activities to improve theirs skills in the field of free culture.
  • Construction of the local culture : Project which aims to promote the construction of the local culture and identity in Argentina

Main projects 2016

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Activity Public and audience Strategic approach involved Comments Institutions involved 2015 2016 institutions involved
Editing online challenges Active editors and new editors This activity responds to WMAR’s strategic approach for the GLAM program: Construction of the local culture To support Wikipedia editors’ interests. This initiative is currently being implemented with very satisfactory results. We are approaching the community to assess their needs Spanish Wikipedia More information regarding our editing project here
Editing photo contest Active editors, new editors and new users registered This activity responds to WMAR’s strategic approach for the GLAM program: Construction of the local culture To improve the presence of Argentina in Wikimedia Commons as a way to preserve its heritage. To invite photographers and other users to become editors by turning the photo contest into a combined editing and photo contest WikiTour Argentina supported by LAN Argentina or Cultural heritage UNESCO editing contest
Institutions take GLAM! Cultural institutions This activity responds to WMAR’s strategic action plan for the GLAM Program: Empower cultural institutions The Institutions Take GLAM project, promotes the following activities:
Stage 1:
Analysis of the institution’s suitability to WMAR’s strategic line for the GLAM Program
Stage 2:
Editing workshop for at least 2 cultural experts within the institution.Uploading of materials to Wikimedia Commons prior to the start of the activity
Stage 3:
Cooperation with the institution in the organization of the edit-a-thon, where the content previously uploaded to Wikipedia and its sister projects will be used and its value enhanced by the participants.
Stage 4:
Definition, on the day of the edit-a-thon, of the material that can be highlighted as interesting, and of the articles that can be improved.Sustained cooperation with the institution in the improvement of content.Study of the content available at the institution
National Museum of Fine Arts
Bicentennial Museum
National Archive of the province of Buenos Aires
Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo
City Government
Biblioteca de la legislatura de la provincia de Buenos Aires
Redifining Edith-a-tons Active editors, new users, wikimedians, all publics This activity responds to WMAR’s strategic action plan for the GLAM Program: Empower cultural institutions Edit-a-thons are one of our main face-to-face activities. Redefined by WMAR in terms of impact, it continues to be the best event to engage new users and introduce them to editing IIPE Unesco
2 edith-a-tons within the National School of the province of Buenos Aires
2 edith-a-tons within Bicentennial Museum
Colon theatre
Biblioteca de la legislatura de la provincia de Buenos Aires
Spanish Cultural Center
National Museum of Fine Arts
Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo
City Government department of diversity
Edith-a-ton along with Wikimedia Chile and the University of Mendoza
Guggaton
Online Course Cultural Institutions This activity belongs to our strategic approach:Strengthening cultural institutions We are going to carry out our first distance-learning initiative in the GLAM program. Although we want to promote the course in a similar way as the Education course, the activities and contents will be designed differently, given that cultural institutions in Argentina are at an earlier stage in terms of knowledge about the program and its projects, and about Wikimedia projects in general. The estimated duration of the online course will be 4 weeks.

In this regard, our objectives are:

  • To improve the awareness of cultural institutions on the concept of free culture, the Wikimedia projects and how they can relate to their own activities.
  • To increase the knowledge of the program in Argentina, and to improve our coordination with new institutions outside Buenos Aires.
  • To position cultural leaders as promoters of the program in different institutions throughout the country.
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Spreading GLAM projects New publics, audiences This activity belongs to our strategic approach: Construction of the local culture
  • To reach, through strategic positioning, new profiles of people who can support the GLAM program.
  • To generate debate on free culture in cultural environments, a concept which does not exist in Argentina.
  • To establish a firm base of stable contacts on which to position our actions from a strategic point of view, to attract new participants to our activities.
  • To reach alliances with local governments as doorways to cultural spaces and massive convocation of our activities.
UNCuyo
Biblioteca de la legislatura de la provincia de Buenos Aires
City Government department of diversity
Spanish Cultural Center
National University of la Plata
MediCon Argentina 2015
Digitizing project Cultural institutions, Wikimedians, Volunteers This activity belongs to our strategic approaches: Digitalization, liberation and creating content - Construction of the local culture We are presently working with 4 cultural institutions. The main objective of the project is to favor the release of content by those organizations which have been consistently working with us, providing them with the training and tools necessary for the correct release and upload of content.

The strategic objective is the release of quality material focused on our goal to build Argentina’s memory through the preservation of its cultural and historical heritage.
In this regard, the objectives of the program are defined below:

  • To improve and increase the content of Wikimedia Commons concerning the history and cultural patrimony of Argentina, promoting the increase of the local patrimony available under public domain or free license.
  • To improve the content of Wikipedia and other projects by positioning and making use of the released material.
  • To involve cultural and educational institutions in the construction of historical memory through the materials released for free use.
  • To favor the release of material that highlights local historical patrimony through new projects such as Wikisource.
National Museum of Fine Arts
Historial Archive of the province of Buenos Aires
Biblioteca de la legislatura de la provincia de Buenos Aires
Archivo General de la Nación Academia Argentina de Letras
Retain the main four cultural institutions.
Assist the 1st WIR Cultural institutions, wikipedians, volunteers This activity belongs to our strategic action: Building local culture Placing the first Wikipedian in Residence in Argentina, as a way to ensure the sustainability of the work we have been carrying out with different cultural institutions.

In line with our priorities, the WIR will be in charge of selecting, according to specific quality standards, the historical and cultural material under public domain or free license that support our line of work in the construction of the Argentine identity, and enhancing their value.

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GLAM Metrics as December 2015

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Metrics Edith-a-tons Editing Workshops Editing Challenges Digitizing project Photo Contests Total
# of new editors 244 138 10 n/a 278 668
# of active editors involved 163 52 120 10 19 364
# of individuals involved 399 312 130 10 297 1148
# of new images/media added to Wikimedia articles/pages 55 n/a 151 544 79 829
# of articles added or improved on Wikimedia projects 304 13 1745 n/a n/a 2062
Absolute value of bytes added to or deleted from Wikimedia projects 499,675 15,827 470,0639 n/a n/a 5,216,141
Number of images/documents released 166 n/a n/a 7335 + 92 new books = +16000 pages 1186 17280

Other metrics, November, 2015

Metrics Edith-a-tons Editing Workshops Editing Challenges Digitizing project Photo Contests
# Institutions involved 10 6 n/a 4 2
# Volunteers involved 53 2 3 10 n/a

Institutions involved per activity 2015

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Edith-a-tons

Editing workshops/spreading GLAM program

Editing Challenges
Find the editing challenges in the following page
Digitizing project

Institutions involved per activity 2016

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Edith-a-tons

Página del encuentro WIKILESA I Página del encuentro WIKILESA II

Editing challenges

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Editing challenges

Iberocoop contest

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The results of the editing contest The women you never met

Meeting and stories 2016

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In this section are all the meetings that involves GLAM program

Resources

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Most of our resources are in Spanish
Material released

Contests

Posters 2015

Experiences

Videos

Learning & sharing

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GLAM Program in the media

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Gender and Wikipedia

Interviews

Activities 2015

Princess of Asturias

Media press regarding the initiative to change the current copyright law in Argentina

Activities 2016

Plans & Reports

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Anual Memorial
Anual Memorial 2014
Anual Memorial 2015
Strategic plan
Strategic planning 2016-2018 (only available in spanish)
Reports
Progress Report 2014-2015
Anual Grant proposal 2015-2016
Mentions in the newsletter
Newsletter GLAM