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This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue VIII, August 2015

Argentina report • France report • Germany report • Mexico report • Spain report • Sweden report •
UK report • Special story • Open Access report • Wikidata report • Calendar •

Two edit-a-thons

By Giselle Bordoy WMAR

Edit-a-thon in Teatro Colón

On Saturday 22 August the edit-a-thon was held at the Teatro Colón, the aim of this meeting was to open the doors of one of the most emblematic buildings of the City of Buenos Aires and relive part of their history in the articles of Wikipedia. The event began with a tour of the building where specialized guides explained the history of the theatre and the audience took pictures of the place. The attendees released about 20 new articles and and thousands of new pictures to commons:.

Teatro Colón Editatón - Salón Dorado
Teatro Colón Editatón - Salón Dorado
Teatro Colón Editatón - Biblioteca

Edit-a-thon in the Library of the Legislature of the Province of Buenos Aires

The August 26 Wikimedia Argentina made an edition workshop in the Library of the Legislature of the Province of Buenos Aires for students of librarianship. These people experience repeated and Saturday August 29 will be encouraged to publish articles on the history of the city of La Plata. The attendees released about 10 new articles.

Editatón de la Legislatura de la Provincia de Buenos Aires
Editatón de la Legislatura de la Provincia de Buenos Aires
Editatón de la Legislatura de la Provincia de Buenos Aires

August in Brittany

By Sophie Roset & Anne-Laure Prévost on behalf of our tremendous French GLAM community

A week-end of editing at "the end of the Earth"

This summer, the Conservatoire Botanique National de Brest (CBN), Finistère opened its doors to Wikipedians. At the initiative of Gaëlle Fily , coordinator of Brest local group, local volunteers were granted access, since the beginning of July, to the CBN greenhouses. For once, it's not about archives files and dusty books, but about natural heritage ! Early August, the local group was joined by other editors from Brittany: the first edit-a-thon was then held at the Conservatoire, with more than ten people attending. The objective was to create and improve a dozen Wikipedia articles and to photograph more than thirty protected species in the four tropical greenhouses of CBN.
To know more about the event, please read the blog's post here (in french)

Château de Josselin (by Martin Selway CC BY-SA 2.0)

Wiki takes Josselin !

On the initiative of Tsaag Valren, a wiki-meetup in Josselin (Morbihan) was held on August 29th and 30th. The weekend was an opportunity to enrich photographs from Josselin, a city with a rich architectural heritage. Saturday morning was dedicated to a session of editing at the local library. Participants then left to search the city for beautiful pictures.

Sharing is Caring

By Barbara Fischer (WMDE)

New learning guide on GLAM partnership published

Summer is vacation time and time to reflect on what what has been achieved. We sat down and thought of sharing our learnings for how to start a GLAM partnership. In a learning guide we have summarized our experiences, please let us know how it does coincide with yours.

Upcoming events

GLAM on Tour is back after its summer pause. We will take a castle during Wiki loves monuments. We will have an edit-a-thon with Wikipedians and volunteers from the Berlin museum of Technology focussing on the new exhibition "The Net" starting September. There for the first time a Wikimedia object becomes part of a museum exhibition: the data pump, refreshed with new data sets from Coding da Vinci this year edition. We are getting old, I guess. And we will visit Dresden's amazing technical collections with old cameras and radios to take pictures and to write new articles in late November. We will report on it.

Pilot program to make freely licensed animation clips

By Leigh Thelmadatter

Popular Art Museum begins collaboration with Wiki Learning of Tec de Monterrey

Students working with the Popular Art Museum

The Popular Art Museum of Mexico City has signed on with the Mexico City campus of the Tec de Monterrey and Wiki Learning to start a pilot program with digital art and animation students from the campus. The students are working with this Wiki program as part of their "servicio social," community service hours required of all Mexican undergraduate students by law. These same students created two major video projects, one a tutorial for uploading files into Commons (in Spanish) here and the other a short testimonial on Wiki activities at the Tec de Monterrey which was premiered at Wikimania 2015

In this pilot project, these students and museum staff have agreed to the making of short animation clips of about 20 seconds each, related to the mission of the museum, which is to educate about and promote Mexican traditional handcrafts and folk art. The museum has agreed that all products of this collaboration will be placed in a Creative Commons license, so that it can not only be used in Commons and other Wikimedia projects, but also freely in various social media, a medium which the institution is only beginning to explore. The production schedule and first topics have already been set, with the first clips set to be ready by the beginning of October.

Museum of African Art "Jiménez-Arellano Alonso"; Wiki Loves Monuments in Spain

By Millars

Museum of African Art "Jiménez-Arellano Alonso"

The Museum of African Art, from the Alberto Jiménez-Arellano Alonso Foundation, released, with the collaboration of Wikimedia Spain, 45 images of their collections of African art. The Alberto Jiménez-Arellano Alonso Foundation is a non-profit organization, enrolled in the University of Valladolid framework, whose essential aim is to promote arts. The Foundation concentrates in the promote of knowledge and investigation of contemporary art, Sub-Saharian African art and culture and all those artistic and cultural expressions related with collections that are housed in the Foundation, located in Santa Cruz Palace.

5th edition of Wiki Loves Monuments in Spain

Wikimedia Spain organizes the 5th edition of Wiki Loves Monuments in Spain. This year the contest will focus on monuments and municipalities without pictures on Wikimedia Commons.

Odd submarines, new strategy and an old contest

By Axel Pettersson

Maritime connectivity and upload

The Swedish National Maritime Museums (SMM) and Wikimedia Sverige are working on a special liked data, upload and edit-a-thon project. The first part of the project was to increase the connectivity between Kulturnav, an authority and vocabulary knowledgebase used by cultural institutions, and Wikidata. This will allow these connections to be used during the batch upload stage. In addition to this the data in Kulturnav was used to create and/or source statements in Wikidata for items for which the SMM can be considered an authority. To date at least 613 items have been enhanced with 2831 statements/sources.

For the image upload part, 550 images have been uploaded. The selection was made by curators and staff at the Maritime Museum, Vasa Museum and Marinmuseum with input from the community. A list of keywords were filtered out from the metadata and categories were matched to all different objects, people, places and years coming out of their database. After the upload is done staff from the museums will participate in an edit-a-thon/workshop focusing on putting images to use on Wikidata and Wikipedia, but also to increase the number of links to and from relevant articles.

Model of Osebergskeppet
Model of an odd submarine
Paniting of Ovidia
Drawing of Don Carlos

Wikimedia Sverige strategy meeting

The GLAM topic was a big part as Wikimedia Sverige worked on a new strategy at an open meeting in the end of august. Participants at the meeting (both members, board and staff) came up with both new ideas for partnerships as well as new ways to work with current partners. Among the ideas for new partners were both the Royal court, county museums and sport clubs, and ideas for projects for next year included variations from covering ESC to hosting batch upload sessions to running edit-a-thons to creating folders on what free licenses is. Nothing really new and exciting, but plenty to work with as we'll put our agenda for next year together.

Posting post-it notes on the wall
Post-it notes with ideas for partners. Green dots for positive votes and red dots for negative votes.

WLM preparations

With September and Wiki Loves Monuments coming up preparations were done to make it as great a photo contest as possible. With the ground work done previous years the Swedish competition continues to use four categories:

Among the prices in the Swedish competition a nice one is a visit to The Swedish Air Force Museum and a 30 minute flight in the Gripen simulator.

QRpedia AWOL; RSC holds another edit-a-thon

By Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing) & Martin Poulter

QRpedia

QRpedia was offline for part of the month (and into September) due to a server security-certificate expiry issue. See discussion on the WikimediaUK wiki.

Royal Society of Chemistry

Andy Mabbett's residency at the Royal Society of Chemistry is ongoing.

Another edit-a-thon was held, this time at Catalyst Science Discovery Centre alongside the river Mersey. For details of the articles created and improved, and pictures taken, see the event page.

See the project diary and the blog (aimed at non-Wikipedians) for other news.

Oxford

August's uploads from the Bodleian Libraries include files relating to Oxford Armenian gospels, the Persian folk tale of Layla and Majnun, Arabic maps and naval charts, dance and music in 19th century Burma, and 11th century astrology and astronomy.

Martin Poulter visited Oxford's Museum of the History of Science to talk about future events and other ways they could benefit from Wikimedia. Announced for next month are four events on Women In Science to celebrate two hundred years since the birth of Ada Lovelace.

New toolkit on Photo Events documents best practices, strategies and more

By María Cruz

Thanks to all the contributions we've had to the toolkit since we published a Special Story two months ago, we are happy to announce the Photo Events toolkit is now live! This new resource has improved user interface, and brings together community leaders knowledge on how to run a photo event, like Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves Earth and WikiExpeditions.

What will you find in the toolkit?

This new release has a few improvements on the way of sharing Learning Patterns. On the first page, users will find quick links to the main topics that go across the toolkit: hosting the first photo event as a community engagement strategy, improving results from the second time onwards, and advice on trying new concepts to avoid burnout. The toolkit also has lessons on how to best support a community of photographers. These lessons, along with strategies to increase images in use, are some of the processes that the Photo Events toolkit brings together, that could not be found on other community forums in the movement.
Unlike previous toolkits, this new release is more directly linked to Learning Patterns, showing the resources with just one click. The resource was also designed to work better on mobile devices.

Join the knowledge hub on Photo Events!

This new toolkit is a work in progress, and it needs more community voices! Although the main topics are outlined, some details still need development. If you have experience on topics such as:

how to chose the best topic for a photo contest
how to plan an award ceremony and follow up events
how to create a webpage for your photo contest
how to create a list of monuments to photograph
how to help photographers develop their skills

... join the conversation! Share what you know and expand the toolkit. Find the Learning Pattern needed template and share your knowledge. You can also add your profile on the Connect page and invite others to ask you questions around specific topics related to photo events.

Go to Photo Events Toolkit.

Happy photo-shooting!

Wikipedia as an amplifier; horse face recognition, rhythm perception, fossil rodent teeth

By Daniel Mietchen

Amplification of Open Access through Wikipedia generates further discussion

The role of Wikipedia in amplifying the impact of open access (see also June report) receives further attention with a review in the Research Newsletter. This complements an earlier review as well as a more recent commentary by the senior author of the original paper.

Recent uploads: horse face recognition, rhythm perception, fossil rodent teeth

The following represents a selection of the files that have been uploaded this month from open-access sources. Most of these came from PubMed Central through the Open Access Media Importer, whose uploads now total about 20,300. If you can think of wiki pages where these files (or other files from the same source articles) could be useful, please put them in there or let us know.

Wikidata this month

By Daniel Mietchen & Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing)

Tech developments

A major step forward with the introduction of measurements for properties (for example for the height and width of paintings) happened in early September, but is worth reporting ASAP
Arbitrary access is now available on most Wikipedias, with another batch (including the largest, the English Wikipedia) due on 16 September.
Wikidata has been optimized for viewing on mobile devices. You will be redirected to m.wikidata.org automatically when using a mobile device soon the same way it already happens on Wikipedia. (Editing will only be possible via the special pages!)

GLAM news

New page: Wikidata:OpenStreetMap to facilitate cooperation with our colleagues at OpenStreetMap
Inventaire now shows links to ProjectGutenberg ebooks based on Wikidata data (example)
EventZoom.net extended with OpenStreetMap support, increasing the options for visualizing historical events from Wikidata.
WikiProject Sum of all Paintings reached the milestone of 100.000 paintings.
Mix-n-Match has new catalogs including the National Library of Australia.
@happybirthdayauthors is a new Twitter account posting reading suggestions based on Wikidata data.
Discussion of how to tag art movements

New GLAM-related properties

For full Wikidata news, see the weekly status updates.

September's GLAM events

Check back for a new edition next month.

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