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Using Wikipedia for GLAM

Part I: Tracy H. Jentzsch, Program Assistant,

Museum Studies at the University of Delawarejentzsch@udel.edu @Tracy_Jentzsch

What is WikiPedia?

Most Popular Websites

Most Popular Websites

#6 - Wikipedia

What is WikiCommons?

GLAM WIKI

The Five Pillars of WikiPedia

Wikipedia is an Encyclopedia

The Five Pillars of WikiPedia

-Wikipedia is an Encylopedia-Wikipedia is written from a Neutral point of view

The Five Pillars of WikiPedia

-Wikipedia is an Encylopedia-Wikipedia is written from a Neutral point of view

The Five Pillars of WikiPedia

-Wikipedia is an Encylopedia-Wikipedia is written from a Neutral point of view-Wikipedia is free content that anyone can use, edit, modify & distribute

The Five Pillars of WikiPedia

-Wikipedia is an Encylopedia-Wikipedia is written from a Neutral point of view-Wikipedia is free content that anyone can use, edit, modify & distribute-Editors should treat each other with respect and civility

The Five Pillars of WikiPedia

-Wikipedia is an Encylopedia-Wikipedia is written from a Neutral point of view-Wikipedia is free content that anyone can use, edit, modify & distribute-Editors should treat each other with respect and civility-Wikipedia does not have firm rules

What does a WikiPedia page look like?

What does a WikiPedia page look like?

What does a WikiPedia page look like?

Wikipedia – GLAM Partnerships

• Meeting informational needs• Building new or “unintended” audiences• Find additional information relevant to your

collections and build partnerships• Facilitating deeper levels of engagement

Getting Involved

• Wikipedia Meetups– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup

• Wikipedia Chaptershttp://bit.ly/1l2e7AM • Wikipedia & Libraries List serv– libraries@lists.wikimedia.org

Getting Involved

• Wikipedia Loves Libraries– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Library

Using Wikipedia for GLAM

Part II: Mary Mark Ockerbloom, Wikipedian in Residence,

Chemical Heritage FoundationMOckerbloom@chemheritage.org @MMOckerbloom

www.chemheritage.org

Chemical Heritage Foundation is a library, museum and archive. Our vision is to collect, study and communicate human stories about the sciences and technologies that shape material culture.

The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is … to collect and develop educational content … and to disseminate it effectively and globally.

The Goal

To improve the quality of articles on Wikipediaby sharing Chemical Heritage Foundation resources

“People see maybe 1% of what we have”books, artworks, artifacts, papers, photographs, oral history

events, awards, media (videos, magazine &website)

What Do I Do?Image release on Wikimedia Commons:

People (Events)Rare books (Alchemy)

Artworks, Artifacts, Other

Editing of articles on Wikipedia:Adding images and video, improving citations, writing

Creating new articles (often for special events)

Outreach:GLAM Café

Art And Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

Art And Feminism Edit-a-thon

Quality, Accuracy & Integrity

Wikipedia “Did You Know”

Wikipedia article traffic statistics: Creation at edit-a-thon: 80 visitsDYK (February 8-9) : 1200 visits

Ada Lovelace Day 2013

Wikipedia Pages Bring Together Resources From Across The Institution

The Curse of Wikipedia

Thomas Wijck“The Alchemist in his Study”

Descriptive Metadata

Wikimedia Licensing

For Each Image, An Editable Page== {{int:filedesc}} =={{Photograph |photographer =Gregory Tobias |title =|Description ={{en|1=Set of Bakelite Buttons

Set of 24 [[w:Bakelite|Bakelite]] [[w:Button|buttons]] of various shapes, sizes, and colors; colors include different shades of green, red, white, and amber; some have brass fasteners.

}}

|depicted people = |depicted place = |date =2007 |medium = |dimensions = |institution = {{Institution:Chemical Heritage Foundation}} |department = |references = |object history = |exhibition history = |credit line = |inscriptions = |notes = Image downloaded with permission from the Chemical Heritage Foundation, as part of the

[[w:Wikipedian in Residence|Wikipedian in Residence]] initiative. |accession number = 2007.068 |source = [http://www.chemheritage.org/ Chemical Heritage Foundation], Photograph by Gregory Tobias |permission ={{CHF-cooperation}} {{CC-BY-SA-3.0 | Chemical Heritage Foundation}} |other_versions =}}

[[Category:Images from the Chemical Heritage Foundation]][[Category:Bakelite]][[Category:Textile closures]][[Category:Buttons (clothing)]]

Canonical Examples: Artwork

Canonical Examples: Photograph

Save the Date: March 11, 2014

The second Tuesday of each month, 5-8 p.m.

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Using Wikipedia for GLAM

Part III: HANDS ON

Mary Mark Ockerbloom, Wikipedian in Residence,

Chemical Heritage FoundationMOckerbloom@chemheritage.org @MMOckerbloom

How-To Guides

Best Practices– Present a neutral point of view in an impartial voice. You are writing an

encyclopedia, not a press release or journal article.– Accuracy and verifiability: Reference known facts using verifiable sources

and fact-check references for accuracy. – Avoid Conflict of Interest: Editing articles about yourself, or an organization

or person for whom you work, is a potential conflict of interest. Simple factual changes (maybe); more substantive changes (propose first on talk page)

– Transparency: Disclose your affiliation to any organization for whom you work on your user page.

This summary has been adapted from NARA (National Archives and Records Administration)’s Guidelines.

– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/National_Archives_and_Records_Administration/Guidelines

Go to English Wikipedia

Searching

• Wikipedia tries to be as helpful as possible

• It assumes you want content• It takes you straight to a

page if you match its title• You see more alternatives if

you don’t exactly match the title of a target page

To Find Pages Which Mention a TopicSearch “Content pages”

To Find Images, Search “Multimedia”

To Learn About How Wikipedia Works, Search “Help and Project Pages”

Go to English Wikipedia

Create an Account

You are Now an Editor!

Create Your User PageWhile logged in, click on your name to go to your user page. Say yes if it asks you to start or create the user page.

This is Your User Page

• Your user page “belongs” to you• All other pages are communal• All pages in Wikipedia are editable• It’s impolite to edit someone else’s user page

Disclose Your Affiliation

Congratulations!

You’ve just created your first page and made your first edit to Wikipedia!

Internal Links

Sandboxes Are For Preparation

Invoking the EditorYou can either:

Click the edit this page tab at the top of the page

Or click the [edit] box next to a section

First You Write

Then You Cite

Describe Your Citation

Then You Preview

Help! What Happened?

Then You Save

History

Contributions

Learn From Examples

A Good Article Should:

• Be neutral in tone• Be a reasonable length• Be well organized and readable• Include inline citations supporting all

information, for the article’s {{reflist}}• Link to other relevant topics on Wikipedia• Be linked to by other relevant topics on

Wikipedia • Contain relevant images when possible

Tips for Creating New Articles

• Start in your Sandbox• Create an article of some length – don’t stop

at three sentences• The ‘lead’ or first paragraph must establish the

significance of the topic of the article – why should this person/thing be in an encyclopedia

• If robots or people leave messages, ask yourself “How can I improve my article?”

Exploring and Asking for Help• If you like what someone has done on a page, click edit on the page to see

how they did it• Read the talk page of an article to assess the integrity of the content and

past questions or concerns.• Ask for advice on Project talk pages (e.g. Chemistry) if you have a concern

about something you want to write

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Beginner's_guide_to_Wikipedia

• Search on both Content and Help and Project pages• Explore the Help item on the sidebar and its decision tree• Go to the Teahouse “A friendly place to ask questions”• Add a {{helpme}} template to your talk page with an outline of your

question to attract a volunteer

Q & A

Mary Mark Ockerbloom, Wikipedian in Residence,Chemical Heritage Foundation

MOckerbloom@chemheritage.org @MMOckerbloom

Tracy H. JentzschStaff Assistant, University of Delaware Museum Studies Program

jentzsch@udel.edu @Tracy_Jentzsch

Final Resource:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing