Wikimedia Conference 2014/Documentation/20
20 Sharing is caring / best practice
- Speakers: Lori Phillips, Dominic McDevitt-Parks (GLAM-Wiki US Consortium), Dorothy Howard (WMUS-New York)
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Notes
edit- Meta: Best practices in sharing best practices!
- Much more GLAMs than wikipedians available for collaboration
Lori & Dominic
edit- Creating the GLAM-wiki US wiki page
- Centralizing resources: GLAM bookshelf
- The English Wikipedia might not necessarily be the best place for gathering documentation for other languages & cultures; non-Anglophone Wikipedians are generally not as familiar with en-wp
- International GLAM-WIKI documentation can be found on Wikimedia Outreach portal
- Evolution: GLAM professionals becoming knowledgeable, being able to help other GLAMs - The GLAM-wiki US user group
- The goal is to allow the GLAM professionals become part of the Wikimedia community
- GLAM boot camp: inviting and training wikipedians and giving them the skills to do outreach and engage in GLAM projects
Dorothy
edit- travel all funded
- emphasis on diversity and new editors, areas with limited representation
- structured program vs. typical Wikimedia/GLAM? unconference
- adding library related and archival content a key question
- Creating a press releaase a standard practice increases interest outside the Wikimedia community
- Tumblr
- Event recaps, documentation (Wikimetrics)
- Outcomes page for large projects covering several institutions and virtual attendees
- Video, interviews eg SVE, Columbia University reach new audiences
Questions/Remarks
edit- A very interresting part of GLAM collaborations are QRpedia projects. I hope speakers will go on that path a little: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/QRpedia
- GLAM metrics do not always do justice to all the benefits of an edit-a-thon. Edit-a-thons as a means to boost membership and get the community closer together? More about raising public awareness and a tool for outreach.
- Edit-a-thon for staff a good idea, a way to educate
- Scanathon: integrate with the archives processes, aim for a lasting partnership
- Photo hunts in collaboration with WIki Loves Monuments, with maps and IDs of monuments