This document discusses digital curation on Wikipedia through GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) partnerships in Poland. It describes how GLAM institutions can work with Wikimedia to curate content on Wikipedia by selecting topics, checking articles, and providing images and references from their collections. This helps make GLAM collections more visible internationally while creating engaging content. Specific examples highlighted include projects with the National Museum in Warsaw and Museum of the City of Łódź. The document encourages additional regional institutions to participate in GLAM Wiki projects to help curate and translate content about Polish culture and history.

1. To curate or not to curate?
GLAM WIKI
Marta Moraczewska
kultura@wikimedia.pl

2. Digital Curators
● Curator = teacher / artist
● Wiki and GLAM – aligned mission
● Curation = choice (countering digital noise, excess of information,
chaos)
● Citizen curation = participative communities, feedback from visitors
● Visibility for GLAM work – local and international

3. Digital Curators
● Michael Edson, Smithsonian Institute 'Lego Beowulf...'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67O6NLUruT0

4. GLAM in Poland

5. GLAM Wiki in Poland
● https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:GLAM_in_Poland
● https://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
● On the Wiki side: extreme flexibility
● Diversity of resulting projects
● Largest projects are based on PD collections
● Largest projects based on first 'test run' then mutually agreed
minimum plan for 6 months

6. We curate together
● National Museum in Warsaw – checking the status on Wikipedia -- major
artworks, article about the museum
● Feedback from the museum about what needs to be improved
● https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiprojekt:GLAM/Kolekcja_Muzeum_Narodowego_w_W
arszawie

7. We curate together
● Topics selected together, articles checked by expert

8. Visibility

9. Project 'curates itself'
● Project based on collections which are available (already
digitised, public domain, uncontroversial...) and
useful/interesting for users
● https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiprojekt:GLAM/Kolekcj
a_Muzeum_Miasta_%C5%81odzi
● https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_con
tributed_by_the_Museum_of_the_City_of_Lodz

15. Reuse – not just on Wikipedia
● Through Wikimedia Commons back into the
world...
● Ideas brought in by GLAM (workshops, arts and
crafts, inviting members of the community)
● Local pride, engagement in traditions,
circulation

19. Regional institutes, centres, ethnography

20. A GLAM-only team
● The National Library of Poland
● 500 references, 500 external links, 200 images in 3 months
● Canon of Polish literature and history
● Hand-picked subjects and illustrations
● Wikipedians and new people to join soon...

21. Translations
● 'Faras in Wikipedia' project, Carpathian ethnography
● Writing articles in English opens doors to translations into other
languages

22. Make news!
● Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, social media,
Wikimedia blogs, GLAM website, interest
groups online...

23. More about us:
● https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:GLAM_in_Poland
● https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Otwarte_projekty_cyfrowe.
_Zbiory_MNW_w_Wikipedii.pdf
● https://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
● kultura@wikimedia.pl
● Marta.moraczewska@wikimedia.pl
Thank you!