Museums and Wikipedia. Museu Picasso

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Museums & Wikipedia

Best practices. Difficulties.Museu Picasso, march 23rd, 2011

hashtag: #glamwiki

Atracting new audiences?

Brooklyn Museum, NY, april 2010. Photo: Conxa Rodà

Tate Modern, 2010Contrast with the previous image

Mission of Wikipedia

“to provide a free, high quality encyclopediato every single person on the planet

in their own language”

Jimmy Wales, jan 2011

Spreading knowledge reaching the maximum audience

with the highest quality

Museums & Wikipedia: Common Ground

From “sentenced to understand”...

…to “comitted to collaborate”

  WIKIPEDIA

Free encyclopedia Most consulted in the world >250 active editions

MUSEUMS

Expertise content All knowledge areas

Relationship

Museus and Wikipedia: Axes

Equation Museums / Wikipedia

Museumexpertise

Best User’sService

To advance

Learn Wikipedia editing criteria

Learn about procedures (discussion pages)

Image policy understanding (when the museum is not the copyright holder)

How are we? How do we look like?

MUSEUMS

© Texts and images Academicism Paid work Scientific Rigour Original research Vulnerable contributions Transmitting information Closed & reserved world

WIKIPEDIA

Free and reusable texts Populism Volunteer work Questionable reliability Referenced sources Erasing promotional contents Is considered advertising Open and shared world

http://chistesgeeks.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/wikipedian_protester.png

Everything must be referenced

“content improves with more people involved. There are now 10.000 very active

editors. Many eyes checking and editing loads of information. System mistakes are fixed by

the community. So, we want university, research centers, professionals and

specialists from different areas to become part of the community, sharing their

experience. This will automaticly improve the quality”.

Kul Wadhwa (UOC, Open University of Catalonia, 2010) Wikimedia Head of Bussiness Developement

Best practicesBritish Museum

Wikipedian in Residence

Hoxne Challenge 

Feature Article Prize

School Translations project

One to one collaborations

Photos requested listings

Photo: [[User:Klafubra]] - CC-BY-SA

British Library

Editathon

Backstage Pass

Photo: Mike Peel- Mikepeel.net - CC-BY-SA

Best practices

Derbyshire Museums

Curators editing Wikipedia

“If our staff can share their knowledge with wikipedians, anyone will be

able to learn more about our collections.” 

Alan GrimadellCouncillor of Derby's Museums

Photo: Chris Harris - Public Domain

Best practices

Palais de Versailles

Long-term Wikipedian in Residence

Photo: BrokenSphere / Wikimedia Commons

Best practices

Brooklyn Museum

Wikipop: Ipads instead of labels, linking to Wikipedia entries

Best practices

Indianapolis Museum of Art

Museum and University

Wiki loves public Art

E-Volunteer program

Photo: [[User:Opal Art Seekers]] - CC-BY-SA

Best practices

Art Museum of Girona

El Gran dia de Girona (curators checking Wikipedia content)

Best practices

Enciclopedia of Life

Smithsonian Institution

Harvard University

Sloan Foundation

Biodiversity Heritage Library

Natural History Museums

Experts + volunteers =exponential amountof quality information

Best practices

Museum Crowdsourcing

Victoria & Albert Museum

Brooklyn Museum  Wikipedia loves Art

Best practices

Wiki Loves Monuments

patrimoni.gencat (Catalan government heritage listing )

Alghero Towncouncil

Photo: [[User:Beria]] - CC-BY-SA

Best practices

Museu Picasso Barcelona

Linking to wikipedia entries on museum’s official blog

Wikiproject: Museums Students from a Postgraduate Course in Museum Management creating museum-related entries on Catalan Wikipedia

Best practices

Photo: Conxa Rodà

Preventions / difficulties From Museums

Losing control

Losing academic prestige

Copyright management

Low reliability / quality (“so, let’s improve it!”)

Experts doesn’t want to “waste time” on Wikipedia

Giving information and sources

Editorial control of Wikipedia

Wikipedia editing usability

From Wikipedia

• Wikipedia is not a place for original research

• Entries must have a minimum notability

• Wikipedia is about reliability, not about advertising

• Avoid promotional external links

• Museums not sharing content

Preventions / difficulties

Partners

Full list at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Partnerships

Things you can do tomorrow

Contact local Wikimedians

Tell about future exhibits

Backstage passes to Wikimedians

Content monitoring

Identify museum-related content gaps

Tell about your highlights list

Create a contest about museum entries

Collaborate with educational department.

Engage school visits to edit

Include basic bibliography

Release text on CC-BY-SA

Edit entries!!

Photo: [[User:Yearofthedragon]] - CC-BY-SA

Things you can do tomorrow

@nyergler: To paraphrase @wittylama, "If your content is not interoperable, it's not findable, and if it's not findable, who cares." #openculture20103:01 PM Oct 14th,

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Thanks!

Àlex Hinojo and Conxa Rodà- Barcelona – March, 23rd 2011 - CC-BY-SAPhoto: [[User:1997]] - CC-BY-SA