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Àlex Hinojo & Conxa Rodà Amical Viquipèdia | 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,
2010 via identicaRetweeted by 3 people
Àlex Hinojo : @kippelboyConxa Rodà : @innova2
Thanks!
Àlex Hinojo and Conxa Rodà- Barcelona – March, 23rd 2011 - CC-BY-SAPhoto: [[User:1997]] - CC-BY-SA
