Talk at GoldBrick House to celebrate Social Media Day

1. Bristol & Wikipedia Presented by Steve Virgin Mashable Open Day 30 June 2011

2. Our wider objective

4. Recognized by Foundation, but independent

5. Founded 2008

7. Wikipedia building a growing relationship with city

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

9. Wikipedia @10 – January 13 2011

10. Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia 6’ 42’ Promo Video Talk at the University of Bristol (Jan 13, 2011) Celebrating 10th Birthday of Wikipedia

11. Wikimedia reach – per month

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. What did this involve? Sharing Content Bringing ‘unseen’ images to the public Writing descriptive text – critical analysis, with evidence-based sources Training ‘the curators’ to lead teams to work on Wikipedia Providing links back to original site Following an article quality standards guide to bring best possible info to public Encouraging an interest and understanding of our shared cultural heritage

15. 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.

16. How about restoring old documents?

17. John Quincy Adams(Library of congress)

18. Wounded Knee aftermathORIGINAL (Library of Congress)

19. What about languages?

20. Rapid growth for developing world content

22. Open up new pictures to the world

23. Improve understanding of their homeland

24. Increase own skills (linguistic + ICT)

26. Do the basics – improve your own schools page on Wikipedia Get classes involved with cool projects around globe

27. Develop material about your local area with local groups Teaching?

28. Build understanding for Exams

29. 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

30. Trying something new… QR Coding the UK’s Cultural Heritage

31. 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, guerrilla 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.

32. QR Mobile Codes viewing museum exhibits

33. QR Mobile Codes viewing anything

34. The Wright Challenge – Derby Museum More than 600 pages created in less than 6 weeks

35. People of Bristol – WMUK wants you + your content

36. Wikimedia UK outreach has only just begun

37. Thank you for listening Questions? Contact: Steve.Virgin@Wikimedia.org.uk or Steve@MediaFocusUK.com Follow on Twitter: @BarkingBirdy @MediaFocusUK @WikimediaUK Follow on Facebook: Media Focus UK or Wikimedia UK Follow on Linked In: Steve Virgin