Museus & Wikipedia. Best practices. Difficulties

Museums & Wikipedia Best practices. Difficulties. Museu Picasso, march 23rd, 2011
Àlex Hinojo & Conxa Rodà
Amical Viquipèdia | Museu Picasso
alexhinojo@gmail.com | [email_address]
hashtag : #glamwiki

Atracting new audiences? Brooklyn Museum, NY, april 2010. Photo: Conxa Rodà

Tate Modern, 2010 Contrast with the previous image

Mission of Wikipedia “ to provide a free, high quality encyclopedia to 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 Museum expertise Best User’s Service

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 practices
British 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.”
Best practices Alan Grimadell Councillor of Derby's Museums Photo: Chris Harris - Public Domain

Palais de Versailles
Long-term Wikipedian in Residence

Best practices Photo: BrokenSphere / Wikimedia Commons

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
Best practices Photo: [[User:Opal Art Seekers]] - CC-BY-SA

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
Best practices Experts + volunteers = exponential amount of quality information

Museum Crowdsourcing
Victoria & Albert Museum
Brooklyn Museum

Wikipedia loves Art
Best practices

Wiki Loves Monuments
patrimoni.gencat
(Catalan government heritage listing )
Alghero Towncouncil
Best practices Photo: [[User:Beria]] - CC-BY-SA

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

Preventions / difficulties 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

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

Things you can do tomorrow
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

@nyergler : To paraphrase @ wittylama , "If your content is not interoperable, it's not findable, and if it's not findable, who cares." #openculture2010 3:01 PM Oct 14th, 2010 via identica Retweeted by 3 people

[email_address] www.museupicasso.bcn.cat /en Thanks! Àlex Hinojo : @kippelboy Conxa Rodà : @innova2 Àlex Hinojo and Conxa Rodà- Barcelona – March, 23rd 2011 - CC-BY-SA Photo: [[User:1997]] - CC-BY-SA

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