GLAM/Newsletter/January 2011

Events

Touring NARA during the WikiX DC event.

During January, there have been plenty of events.

Coinciding with Wikipedia's 10th anniversary, the Derby Museum announced that they were starting a collaboration with Wikipedia. To celebrate this cooperation, there will be a Backstage Pass and GLAMWIKI on April 9, 2011 at the Derby Museum and Art Gallery. This marks the first regional GLAMWIKI in the UK. The museum have been eager to see that articles about their artifacts be written in other languages than English. Read more about the project here

Also, during the Wikipedia 10 years celebration, an Edit-a-thon was held at the British Library. Read more about it at the event page on Wikimedia UK wiki and ongoing collaboration page on Wikipedia.

GLAM fellow Liam Wyatt let Richard McCoy guest blog about the fact that Indianapolis museum students have written Wikipedia articles in class. Together the students created the WikiProject about Public art and uploaded hundreds of images to FlickR.

The end of November saw the GLAM-WIKI:UK 2010 with a lot of prominent guests. Now the slides and audio from the conference have been published on the Wikimedia UK wiki.

The WikiX DC event was held on January 22 at NARA (USA national archives). It included a Backstage Pass tour, Lightning talks and a mini conference. See the full schedule for more details and the extensive w:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2011-01-24/WikiXDC Wikipedia Signpost coverage.

Briefly

• Brooklyn Museum's exhibition incorporating Wikipedia has been prononounced success.
• The GLAM-WIKI:Fr 2010 event was held in Paris on December 4-5.
• Popular museum critic and author of "The participatory museum" Nina Simon writes a post in her blog Museumtwo: Want to get your content out there? Put it in Wikipedia.

Technology

• A Hack-a-ton was held in Amsterdam on Friday 14th 2011. See Wikipedia editor TheDJ's blog post. Results of the event included:
  • Europeana are taking part in Translatewiki. For more information see GerardM's blog post or the stats.
  • A video upload button from Open Beelden to Commons.
  • An iPhone photo upload application was written, called WikiSnaps.
  • The pywikipedia framework is now supported at translatewiki.net, Messages left by a bot may now be properly in the language of the wiki.

Content donations

• Amsterdam Museum have donated 50,000 images to the public sphere via Wikimedia Commons.See Gerard M's blogpost for more information.
• The State Library of Queensland have donated 50,000 images - see the project page for more information