THE ART OF GLAM-WIKI

#ARLIS2013#GLAMwiki

The Basics of Sharing Cultural Knowledge with the World on Wikipedia

PART 1: HOW WIKIPEDIA WORKS, AND WHY LIBRARIES, ARCHIVES, & MUSEUMS SHOULD CARE

Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia

Free as in beer & free as in speech; no advertising

Created and maintained by volunteers, supported by the Wikimedia Foundation

“A hybrid of tool and community” All edits/versions are recorded

indefinitely 4 million+ articles, 285 languages

Encyclopedia Number of Articles

English Wikipedia 4,168,694

Encyclopedia Britannica (online) 120,000

Encyclopedia Britannica (print, 2002) 65,000

Size of English Wikipedia (August 2010) if it were printed and bound

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Monthly Visitors to Smithsonian Websites vs. Wikipedia.org

What or who merits an article on Wikipedia?

If a person or topic has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject, then it is deemed “notable,” and may merit its own Wikipedia article.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability

Core Wikipedia Policies

Neutral Point of View Verifiability

reliable sources, cited correctly No “original research”

i.e. unpublished data, opinions, speculation

Assume good faith towards other editors

Avoid conflict of interest (i.e. editing page about self, boss)

See Wikipedia: Policies and guidelines

WikiProjectsWikiProjects = venues on Wikipedia where editors

coordinate coverage around a particular field or topic

Real examples:

WikiProject Architecture

WikiProject Fungi

WikiProject Visual Arts

WikiProject Martial Arts

WikiProject Feminism

WikiProject District of Columbia

Lactarius indigo, Dan Molter [CC-BY-SA-3.0]

GLAM-Wiki Project: A Global Network and Community

Wikipedia & GLAMs: a relationship of mutual benefit

Wikipedia benefits from GLAM resources and people, resulting in better articles and higher quality of sources cited

GLAMs benefit from having information about their collections available to a much larger audience, and from the experience of working with volunteers from the Wikimedia community

Google Wikipedia GLAM website

Typical research process:

Wikipedia is frequently a midpoint, not an endpoint

GLAM-wiki benefits the public too!

Online researchers & students benefit from consulting better quality, authoritative Wikipedia articles

Editors benefit from the learning experience of researching, writing and collaborating on articles

PART 2: ANATOMY OF AN ARTICLE

3 Standard Parts of a Typical ArticleLead section

Summary paragraphs—should read like an abstract, summarizing the article as a whole

Table of Contents Infobox, an image (maybe)

Main body Up to 4 levels of sub-sections (think h2, h3, etc.)

Closing sections See also, References, Notes Bibliography, Further reading, External links Categories, interwiki links

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Template: Infobox Artist{{Infobox artist

| name = Louise Nevelson

| image = Louise and Neith Nevelson.jpg

| imagesize = 250px

| caption = Louise Nevelson and granddaughter [[Neith Nevelson]]

| birth_name = Leah Berliawsky

| birth_date = {{birth date |1899|9|23|}}

| birth_place =[[Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi|Perislav]], [[Poltava Governorate]], [[Russian Empire]]

| death_date = {{death date and age |1988|4|17|1899|9|23|}}

| death_place = New York City

| nationality = American

| field = Sculpture

}}

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For overachievers!

Related articles

Footnotes

Non-Wiki external links

PART 3: LETS START EDITING!

Creating a user account

Sharing an account is not allowed, so you should not create an account for your organization

You can edit without an account, but your IP address is recorded (less privacy, in the end)

User name: real name or pseudonym up to you Other advantages of an account:

• A record of your work builds credibility• Ability to create/rename articles, upload images• More likely to receive help from others

Creating a user page

Can be as personal or impersonal as you want Can state which WikiProjects you belong to,

show awards (Barnstars) that you have received from the community

Good place to put a conflict of interest statement for GLAM employees

Conflict of interest statement for GLAM employee user page

Conflict of Interest Statement

I, User: [username here], am an employee of [your institution], and a cultural institution per Wikiproject:GLAM. I accept the editing conditions specified at that page. I will not make any edits that would not be beneficial to the goals of Wikipedia.

My main edits will tend to consist of the following activities:– Example1– Example2

I will modify my editing behavior based on problems cited by other editors or if my editing conflicts with other Wikipedia guidelines. I ask that other editors do not hesitate to contact me, via my user talk page, if I appear to be going against this declaration. [sign here]

Creating a user sandbox

A sandbox is a place to experiment. If your sandbox link is red, click on it to create the page.

You can make multiple sub-sandboxes by adding another / after sandbox and adding a new directory name

Keep search engines at bay: template {{Userspace draft}}

User Talk pages

New posts go at the bottom Users may reply either on your talk page, or on

the page where you posted When you post something, always sign your

name by clicking or typing ~~~~ You can choose to be notified by email when

someone posts to your talk page See Help: Using talk pages

Article Talk pages

Work very much the same way as user talk pages A place for editors to discuss the topic Give you a good feel about whether or not the

article has issues, controversies If you feel that part of an article has problems or

errors, this is a place where you can make suggestions instead of editing it yourself

Watchlist & Contributions

My watchlist - see the latest changes in your watched articles (Tip: Atom feed link left nav column, get updates instantly in your feed reader or email client)

My contributions – a record of your edits

Editing Wiki Markup

• What you see is not what you get• Use the buttons or type in the markup by hand• Find the “cheat sheet” by typing WP:CHEAT into

the search box, or save this PDF to your computer

Creating or Editing an Article

NEW:Search (unsuccessfully) then click on the resulting

redlink to create the page

“Submit for review” is not required for registered editors

EXISTING:“Edit this page” tab edits the whole article

“[edit]” links appear in major section headingsSee also: WP:CREATE

Adding Sources (cite templates)

References

1. "A Finding Aid to the Macbeth Gallery records, 1838-1968". Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 15 February 2013.

The citation lives in the body of the article, but it displays at the bottom of the article via template {{Reflist}}

Adding Sources (cite templates)

1st mention of source<ref name=aaa>{{cite web|title=A Finding Aid to the

Macbeth Gallery records, 1838-1968|url=http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/macbeth-gallery-records-9703/more|publisher=Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution|accessdate=15 February 2013}}</ref>

2nd mention of source (named reference)<ref name=aaa />

Cite menu

(see demonstration – adding by ISBN, using named references)

Tips & shortcuts for adding citations

• Always assign a “Ref Name” (easy to cite multiple times)• The “cite book” template has an ISBN lookup feature• Using WorldCat for URL field encourages library use

Other time saving tools:– Google Books Citation Tool reftag.appspot.com– New York Times Citation Tool reftag.appspot.com/nytweb.py– DOI Citation Tool reftag.appspot.com/doiweb.py

Some websites include ready-made Wikipedia citations (i.e. Cooper-Hewitt)

Action!

1. Choose an article that you think needs some love. Copy and paste text to your sandbox.

2. Try adding a reference to the article in your sandbox.

3. Preview & save – don’t forget the edit summary!

Images: Wikimedia Commons vs. “Non-free Use” rationale

• Wikimedia Commons image– commons.wikimedia.org– Example: Teton Range (Ansel Adams

government photograph)

• Non-free image– en.wikipedia.org– Example: Look Mickey (Roy

Lichtenstein painting)

Wikimedia Commons donations

• Children’s Museum of Indianapolis• Walters Art Museum case study• Archives of American Art case study

Share the WikiLove!

This Wikipedia tutorial for GLAM professionals was created by Sara Snyder (user:Sarasays) for the ARLIS-NA 2013 conference workshop held on April 26, 2013.

Please feel free to expand, improve, re-use, and share!