Wikipedia in the Archives: What, Why, and How
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Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums
Lori Byrd Phillips | Jennifer NoffzeMidwest Archives Conference
September 2013
us.glamwiki.org@glamwiki | @TCMIndy#glamwiki
Wikipedia in the Museum
What, Why, and HowArchives
WhatThe Children’s Museum & WikipediaWhat is WikipediaWhat is GLAM
WhyMissionAccessExpertise
HowGLAM: US PortalGLAM: US Consortium
What, Why, and
HowWikipedia in the Museum
Archives
The Children’s Museum & Wikipedia
What
The Children’s Museum of
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Wikipedian in Residence
Backstage Pass| November 2010
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Backstage Pass | November 2010
Backstage Pass Event
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Caplan Edit-A-Thon
Caplan Edit-A-Thon
100 Toys Digital Project
One of the many benefits…
The Future…
How Wikipedia has changed us
The (Ever-Important) Stats
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Work with what you have
Edit-a-Thons
Caplan Collection Edit-a-Thon | August 2011
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Beyond Edit-a-Thons
Translate-a-Thon | August
2011
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Multimedia donations
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ElectrolyticReduction.ogg
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Featured Article Collaboration
Wikipedia Policies & Culture
What
Wikimedia | Wikipedia
Five Pillars
Encyclopedic
A topic has received significant coverage
in reliable sources that are
independent of the subject
Notable
Neutral
Wikipedia
outsources truth via
authoritative sources.
No OriginalResearchVerifiable
Citations:Outsourcing truth
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What about our article?
A note on Conflict of Interest
Free
Free as in speech.Free as in beer.
ReusableRe-mixable
Creative Commons & Wikipedia
Civil
Find consensus and assume good faith.
Don’t bitethe newbies
No Rules
Sometimes improving Wikipedia requires making an exception to a rule.
Be bold
GLAM-WikiWhat
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“The GLAM initiative
American Association of Museums | Minneapolis
is a prime example
of how Wikipedia and
continues to move
as a mainlineinformation resource.”
-Robert Connolly
front and center
user-generated content
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– David Ferriero
Wikipedia
"Our work
is changingthe way
we thinkabout ourwork.”
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“Breaking New Ground Again”
The Big Picture
National GLAM Coordinators PanelWikimania 2012 | Washington DC
MissionAccess
Expertise
Why
Mission
“Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That’s what we’re
doing.”- Jimmy Wales
...to empower and engage people around the world
to collect and develop educational content
under a free license or in the public domain,
and to disseminate it effectively and globally.
How globally accessible are you?
“Your brilliant contributions will be made
better,not worse!”
– Dr. Adrianne Wadewitz, Professor and scholar of
English Literature, IU
“We're doing the same thing,
for the same for the same people,
in the same
…Let'stogether.”
- Liam Wyatt
reason,
medium...
do it
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“If Wikipediais good enough for the
United Statesthen it’s good enough
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Archivist of the
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GLAM:US PortalGLAM:US Consortium
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glamwiki.orgbest practices & case studies
us.glamwiki.org
GLAM/US/Connect
GLAM/US/Bookshelf
GLAM-Wiki US
Consortium
WP:GLAM/US/Consortium
Anatomy of an article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrannosaurus