Presentation by Iolanda Pensa at OD4CH Open Data For Cultural Heritage, Politecnico di Milano, 27 April 2017.

1. Make It a Wikipedia-Friendly Cultural Heritage:Why and How
Iolanda Pensa, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI) - http://iopensa.it

2. Edit Wikipedia. Communication campaign in public libraries. Project by Iolanda Pensa and design by Alessandro Serravalle, 2015, cc by-sa.

3. Wikipedia. © & ™ All rights reserved,Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
Wikipedia is not like any other website.

4. © Information Architects,Web Trand Map 2007/V2, 2007.

5. Wikimedia Commons
Immagini e video
WikiData
collegamenti interwiki e
informazioni statistiche
Wikipedia
400 milioni di lettori
280 versioni linguistiche
70.000 volontari
30 milioni di articoli
Wikisource
Documenti,
pubblicazioni e
manoscritti
I PROGETTI WIKIMEDIA
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I contenuti dei progetti Wikimedia
sono liberi. Chiunque può usarli e
modificarli per fini commerciali e non
(citando la fonte e condividendoli con
la stessa licenza Creative Commons).
Wiki voyage
Informazioni turistiche
OpenStreetMap
Mappa con dati georeferenziati
Wikipedia is under Creative Commons attribution share-alike which allows content to be used also for commercial purposes.
Slide from the guidelines produced within the project The Alps onWikipedia (IT-CH, 2013-2015).https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Alps_on_Wikipedia

6. Distribution of offline Wikipedia on DVD, USB key and in classrooms. Credits:Wikimedia Commons, cc by-sa.
Wikipedia Zero. Access to Wikipedia on mobile phones for free. Kiwix.Wikipedia offline on a USB key.

7. Wikipedia is an new territory.

8. The windmills of Kinderdijk,The Netherlands,Author:Tarod,Wikimedia Commons, 2012, cc by-sa.
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.Author:Thaler – Tamás Thaler,Wikimedia Commons, 2013, cc by-sa.
Monastery and chateau in Zbraslav, Prague, Czech Republic.Author: Zdeněk Fiedler,Wikimedia Commons, 2013, cc by-sa.
Baptistery of St. Peter, San Pietro in Consavia church,Asti, Italy.Author: Marco Odina,Wikimedia Commons, 2012, cc by-sa.
It is not all about visibility.
Photos participating in the contest Wiki Loves Monuments.Wikimedia Commons, cc by-sa.

9. Visibility is the easiest metric.
GLAMVisual Tool (SUPSI support WMCH, 2016-2017). Concept I. Pensa, design G. Profeta. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:GLAM_visual_tool

10. The Alps onWikipedia (IT-CH, 2013-2015).https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Alps_on_Wikipedia
Use-friendly (also for commercial purposes).

11. “The big opportunity with open licenses is far more practical:
it has the potential to dramatically increase the impact, reach
and scale of the ideas we invest in…”
The Shuttleworth Foundation, 2008

12. DensityDesign Research Lab-INDACO Department Politecnico di Milano, Fondazione Cariplo onWikipedia in Italian, 09/2011, CC BY-SA.
User-friendly (one is enough, but you need at least one).

13. Writing an article on Wikipedia. DensityDesign Research Lab-INDACO Department Politecnico di Milano, ShareYour Knowledge, 2011-2012, cc by-sa.

14. Correcting a mistake on Wikipedia. DensityDesign Research Lab-INDACO Department Politecnico di Milano, ShareYour Knowledge, 2011-2012, cc by-sa.

15. Adding text to an article on Wikipedia. DensityDesign Research Lab-INDACO Department Politecnico di Milano, ShareYour Knowledge, 2011-2012, cc by-sa.

16. Mounir Fatmi, Les connexions, 2003-2004, installation
Forking-friendly.

17. articles under examination
August 2015 March 2016
incoming links per article (average)
outgoing links per article (average)
Google page rank (average)
Issues per article (average)
total amount of editors
number of edits
174 176(2 new articles)
342(+10.6%)309
386 667(+173%)
5,19
0,59
845
1463
5,18(-0,003%)
0,52(-12%)
773(-8,5%)
1481(+1,2%)
Network of the articles
under examination
life skills
South Africa
materials and others
sound
transport
Acid
Alcoholism
Aloe
Apartheid
Atom
Automobile
Bias
Bicycle
Biome
Boiling
Borehole
Bullying
Ceramic
Clay
Climate
Coal
Cooking
Decanting
Design
Discrimination
Drakensberg
Economy of South Africa
Ecosystem
Farm
Fiber
Food security
Food
Freedom Day (South Africa)
Gangster
Gas
Gauteng
Glass
Health
History of South Africa
HIV
HIV/AIDS
Human nutrition
Hydraulics
Kaditshwene
Khoikhoi
Latitude
List of South Africans
Longitude
Malaria
Map
Mapungubwe
Mpumalanga
Music of South Africa
Nelson Mandela
Nest
Paper
Pneumatics
Politics of South Africa
Pollution
Rail transport
Reproduction
San people
Sand
Settling
Sexism
Sieving
Soil
Sound
South African cuisine
Stereotype
Steve Biko
Textile
Trade
Transport in South Africa
Transport
Vibration
Walter Sisulu
Water pollution
Wax
Wetlands
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Wood
Wool
Wikipedia Primary School (SUPSI 2014-2017).Wikipedia articles related to the South African primary school curriculum. Concept I. Pensa, design G. Profeta.
Evaluating differently: filling the knowledge gap.

18. The Alps onWikipedia (IT-CH, 2013-2015).https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Alps_on_Wikipedia

19. GLAMVisual Tool (SUPSI support WMCH, 2016-2017). Concept I. Pensa, design G. Profeta. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:GLAM_visual_tool

20. Esino Lario (host of Wikimania 2016 - the Wikipedia World Conference) uses the cc by-sa on all its documentation since 2006.
Content accessible (without opening hours)
Supports new uses, publications, projects (which are costs).
Free storage; easy to search and retrieve.
Support from unexpected people.