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THE TEYLERS CHALLENGE
Geert-Jan Janse, Project Manager Digitisation, Teylers Museum
Sandra Fauconnier, Volunteer, Wikimedia Nederland
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Mission
In perpetuation of the ideals of the Enlightenment, Teylers Museum wishes to serve society by stimulating people to discover the world for themselves and to find pleasure in art and science. -Teylers Museum-
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.That's our commitment. -Wikimedia- https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Vision
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Oval Room Teylers Museum (1784) = Wikipedia 18th century
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Why a competition?
• Inspiring example: Wright Challenge: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Derby/Multilingual_Challenge
• Long tradition of Essay Competitions Teyler Societies http://www.teylersmuseum.eu/teylersuniversum/index.php?m=narratio&id=39&nvlng=en
• Competition could attract new volunteers for Wikimedia
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The Challenge
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Project Timeline
21 Jan 2012: New Year’s reception WMNL at Teylers; Kickoff with guided tour + Speed dates curators
28 April: edit-a-thon
16 June: award ceremony Photo: CC-BY-SA Ziko van Dijk
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Kickoff
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Prizes
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Photo Requests
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Inspiring Examples
• Contributions from all over the world • Active Catalan community around 17 year
old student DavidPar • Online Discoveries: letter of John Adams
on medal in Teylers collection: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Georg_Holtzhey
• Original Articles of scientific value • Better use of online museum resources
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New Contributors
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Some Statistics
At the end of the Challenge: ca. 600 articles on Teylers related subjects in 13 different language wikipedias = 100% increase in article coverage (300 > 600)
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Translations
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Lessons learned
• Competition does work! • Discussion within Wikimedia NL
community: Conflict of Interest ? • Difficult to attract and retain new
volunteers/editors • Specialized topics > few contributors • Significant media coverage
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Museum Experience
Editathon, Wikipedians and curators working together
• Kickoff: new visitors; great atmosphere • Challenge eases decision on CC-0 use images for WikiCommons • Difficult to get curators to actually work as Wikipedia editors!
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What’s next?
• Wikipedian in Residence? • Follow-up in correspondance with
Rembrandt exhibition > Wiki loves Rembrandt??
• No COI but a new mode of collaboration between GLAM institutions & Wikimedia
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First Prize for Lodewijk Gelauff; second prize for DavidPar - Sent by mail to Barcelona!