Liam Wyatt was a Wikipedian in Residence at the British Museum, working to build a proactive relationship between Wikipedia and the museum to improve content through various initiatives like translating articles, adding multimedia, and leveraging communities. The goal was mutual benefit without undermining principles, focusing on personal relationships, community involvement, and improving existing content rather than the resident's own work. Wyatt suggests a model where Wikipedia Chapters provide professional liaisons to manage relationships and place individual Wikimedians with cultural institutions based on needs.

1. Wikipedian
in Residence
Liam Wyatt
[[Witty lama]]
@wittylama
Wikimania 2010

2. British Museum - Wikipedia
homepage is
http://www.enwp.org/
WP:GLAM/BM
all of this can be found there.

3. Bringing Wikipedia in-house to find ways
of building a proactive relationship, of
mutual benefit, without undermining
the principles of either.

4. Reporting

5. Qualitative

6. Quantitative

7. Quantitative (cont.)

8. Communication:
Varied and Often
• Direct mailouts, existing mailing lists, To dos, Own
blog posts, Signpost, Tweets, Mainstream press,
GLAM blogs, Wikimedia blogs

9. Backstage Pass

10. One-on-One Collaborations

11. Feature Article Prize
Royal Gold Cup
in English
Tabula Rosettana
in Latin Epifania de Miquel
Àngel in Catalan

12. Hoxne Challenge

13. School translations

14. Partnering
© Steve Forrest for The New York Times

15. Unexpected

16. Things to note
• All of these are about improving the content
- better articles, more articles, translations.
• All of these focus on personal relationships
- this makes it more sustainable, thoroughgoing.
• All of these are about leveraging the communities
- new contributors, existing contributors, experts.
• None of these focus on the resident’s own work.
• None of these are content donation projects.

17. NOT about
“content liberation”

18. Wikimedian focus on
GLAM Multimedia
But of course, I’m working on this behind the scenes.
A lot.

19. How many GLAMs have a volunteer team?
...a e-volunteer team?

20. Bringing Wikipedia in-house to find ways
of building a proactive relationship, of
mutual benefit, without undermining
the principles of either.

21. We’re doing the same thing, for the same
reason, for the same people, in the same
medium. Let’s do it together.

22. However, this was a proof of concept.
I do not think it is feasible for people
to volunteer full time like I did.
So - how to make it scale?
I believe the next step is for Chapters to provide a
professional contact person to manage
relationships and for that person to identify
and place individual Wikimedians with
GLAMs to suit their respective needs.

23. Peace, Love & Metadata
liamwyatt@gmail.com
[[user:witty lama]]
@wittylama
www.wittylama.com/blog