BBC Anchor Project Talk in Bristol Feb 2011

1. Bristol & Wikipedia Presented by Steve Virgin at BBC Anchor project - February 26th, 2011

3. Recognized by Foundation, but independent

4. Founded 2008

6. Wikipedia building a growing relationship with city

7. Bristol-Wikipedia Connection Global Fund Raising Conference May ‘10

8. Wikipedia @10 – January 13 2011

9. Wikipedia is a 411m a month window on the world

10. Wikimedia reach – per month

11. A ‘City’ pages comparison from 2009 – likely to be higher now The ‘Bristol’ Wikipedia Page saw 696,928 hits (avg: 58,077 per month) The ‘Birmingham’ Wikipedia Page saw 908,310 hits (avg: 75,692) The ‘Manchester’ Wikipedia Page saw 1,132,595 hits (avg: 94, 382) The ‘Leeds’ Wikipedia page saw 572,105 hits (avg: 47,605) Setting targets for Bristol – all the pages across all the languages?

12. Content sharing

13. Projects Wikipedia have been involved in Summer ‘10 - Get involved BackStage Pass British Museum Hosts expert tour day for Wikimedians to encourage cooperation & collaboration on pages Share content German State Archive puts 82,500 low res images on Wikimedia Commons Share content Museum of the Tropics Amsterdam – 45,000 images on Maroon & their culture June 2010 – Wikipedian in Residence @ British Museum Summer ‘10 – Hoxne Challenge Museum team work together to edit Hoxne Hoard Wikipedia article with aim to meet exacting quality standards 2010 Share content New images from the salvage of the Mary Rose

14. Large Donation Case Study – Bundesarchiv

15. Large Donation Case Study – Bundesarchiv Between Bundesarchiv and Wikimedia Deutschland Starting on December 4, 2008 Wikimedia Commons received more than 80,000 files. Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike (CC-BY-SA) 800 px in size on the longer side

16. Large Donation Case Study – Bundesarchiv Success for the Bundesarchiv Website traffic doubled Print sales increased 50% 1000+ corrections in metadata Permanent link backs to archive Success for Wikimedia At the time, the single largest image donation to Wikipedia 15000 images in use on 42000 articles.

17. There is stunning content to share

18. How about restoring old documents?

19. John Quincy Adams(Library of congress)

20. John Quincy AdamsRESTORED by LiseBroer

21. Wounded Knee aftermathORIGINAL (Library of Congress)

22. Wounded Knee aftermath - RESTORED by LiseBroer

23. Videos, books, pictures, text – many ways to beef up Bristol content

24. What about languages?

25. More than 200+ languages Wikipedia languages Englishcontains 3,562,751 articles. Then German with 1,192,312 followed by French with 1,070.096. Other Wikipedias are available; some of the largest are listed below. More than 500,000 articles: Deutsch ·Español ·Français ·Italiano ·Nederlands ·日本語 ·Polski ·Português ·Русский More than 150,000 articles: Bahasa Indonesia ·Català ·Česky ·한국어 ·Magyar ·‪Norsk (bokmål)‬ ·Română ·Suomi ·Svenska ·Tiếng Việt ·Türkçe ·Українська ·中文 More than 100,000 articles: العربية ·Bahasa Melayu ·Български ·Dansk ·Esperanto ·עברית ·فارسی ·Lietuvių ·Slovenčina ·Slovenščina ·Српски / Srpski More than 50,000 articles: Eesti ·Ελληνικά ·Simple English ·Euskara ·Galego ·Hrvatski ·‪Norsk (nynorsk)‬ ·ไทย

26. Wikipedia sees rapid growth for developing world content

27. Can we get our own ethnic groups to contribute?

28. Teaching?

29. Teaching/learning with Wikipedia Controls on Wikipedia encourage discipline & learning... Verifiability— material already published by notable source No original research – so reading source, learning & applying it Inline citations – teaches style, presentation, academic referencing Skills - copy editing, proofreading, source analysis, material selection Collaborative working – work in teams to produce results Neutral point of view – teaches ability to see ALL points of view Writing for the global audience – increase scope & responsibility

30. Get classes involved with cool projects around globe Donation by the State Library of Queensland The State Library of Queensland has donated 50,000 copyright-free photographs documenting some of the history of Queensland. We need help categorizing the images, and completing and re-wording image descriptions. You can read more about how to help here. Though there was none of the pomp and circumstance associated with the Sun King, Monday was nevertheless a historic day for the Château de Versailles, as it officially welcomed Wikipedia intern BenoîtEvellininto the palace for six months. From within the historic institution,Evellinischarged with organizing a community of contributors to improve Wikipedia articles on Versailles and to create digital images. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of plant and animal species. Starting in June of 2010, the IUCN red list has authorized the production of distribution maps from their spatial data. There are currently ~25,000 species on the Red List

31. Trying something new

32. Trying something new! QR Codes at Derby Museum

33. QR Mobile Codes – Quick Response QR codes have become more prevalent in marketing circles and have been integrated into both traditional and interactive campaigns. Media where QR codes have been deployed include: billboard ads, guerilla marketing campaigns, in-store displays, event ticketing and tracking, trade-show management, business cards, print ads, contests, direct mail campaigns, websites, email marketing, and couponing just to name a few.

34. So what can you do

36. Add more links across the pages – adds to click through

37. If you are spoken about in notable sources use them to enhance your page – press writes about you in flattering terms

38. Add lively content to Wiki pages increases hits, increases standing

40. Bristol Project – join others already doing it

41. Scavenger Hunts for Content A drive to increase Wikimedia Commons photographs of museum content the month-long competition featured a series of events that began at the Victoria and Albert Museum

43. Teach & train highest quality article standards

44. Challenge the city to get a page on the Featured Article page

45. Make the pages edited topical/educational content

46. Involve academic, celebrities

48. Is Bristol taking full advantage of Wikipedia? Page viewed only 855 times in January The Matthew page viewed only 1,523 times in January Page viewed only 602 times in January Page viewed only 1,089 times in January Page viewed only 6,431 times in January Page hardly ever viewed 288 times in January Page viewed only 1,318 times in January

49. Already using - BBC Wildlife Finder

51. Our wider objective