Lori Byrd Phillips | Angela McNew Association of Midwest Museums July 2012 What, Why, and How Wikipedia in the Museum -WIKI Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums us.glamwiki.org @glamwiki #glamwiki What, Why, and How Wikipedia in the Museum What The Children’s Museum & Wikipedia What is Wikipedia What is GLAM Why Mission Access Expertise How GLAM: US Portal GLAM: US Consortium What The Children’s Museum & Wikipedia Wikipedian Backstage Pass| 2010 November in Residence cc by-sa 3.0, The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis From 1 …to 21 National GLAM Coordinators Panel Wikimania 2012 | Washington DC Backstage Pass Backstage Pass | November 2010 November | Pass Backstage Events cc by-sa 3.0, The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis Image donations Image cc by-sa 3.0 The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis Multimedia donations http:// commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ElectrolyticReduction.ogg cc by-sa 3.0, The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis Edit-a-Thons The Children’s Museum of of Indianapolis The Children’sMuseum 3.0, 3.0, sa - cc by cc Caplan Collection Edit-a-Thon | August 2011 Featured Article Collaboration “I like the idea that what we accomplish as a team will be on the web for anyone with internet access and a computer to see.” Lori PhillipsLori 3.0, 3.0, sa - cc by cc Museum Apprentice Program QRpedia “With technology today people can share, collaborate, and of IndianapolisThe Children’sMuseum 3.0, 3.0, improve information from all over the world. You can do this sa for carousels, and you can do it for anything.” - – Jimmy Wales by cc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ywFNLX_1OQ What Wikipedia Policies & Culture Wikimedia | Wikipedia Five Pillars Encyclopedic A topicNotable has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject Neutral No Original Research Verifiable Wikipedia outsources truth via authoritative sources. Free Reusable Re-mixable Free as in speech. Free as in beer. Creative Commons & Wikipedia Civil Don’t bite the newbies Find consensus and assume good faith. No Rules SometimesBe boldimproving Wikipedia requires making an exception to a rule. Anatomy of an article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrannosaurus What GLAM-Wiki GLAMcamp New York | 2011 Spring New GLAMcamp cc by-sa 3.0, Sarah Stierch “Museums & Wikipedia: The Future of Collaboration & Accessibility” American Association of Museums How far has GLAM-Wiki come? June 2011 March 2012 Smithsonian Institution Libraries Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History The Children’s MuseumNational Air & Space Museum Delaware Art Museum of Indianapolis Denver Art Museum Natural History Museum of Los AngelesNew York Public Library The Brooklyn Museum Metropolitan Museum of Art Cincinnati Museum CenterNational Archives and Birmingham Museum of Art The Walters Art Museum The Field MuseumRecord Administration Shedd Aquarium The Henry Ford Atlanta-Fulton Central Library Archives of AmericanChemical Heritage Foundation Art Balboa Park Online Collaborative Chippewa Nature Center Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago Museum of Modern Smithsonian ArchivesIndiana Historical Society Frye Art Museum Art The Kress Foundation City of Riverside Museum DepartmentIndianapolis Museum of Art Minnesota Historical Society Ronald Reagan Presidential Library City of Milwaukee Indiana Historical Bureau The Walker National Museum Natural History Natural History Museum of LA Delaware Art Museum Minnetrista The Children’s Museum ofNational Air & Space Museum Computer History Museum Denver Art Museum Oakland Museum of California Indianapolis OCLC The Met City of Riverside Smithsonian Institution ArchivesCincinnati Museum Center Erie Art Museum National Archives at Smithsonian AmericanIndiana Art Historical Birmingham Museum of Art The Henry Ford Society Kansas City The Field Museum Clark Atlanta University New York Public Library Shedd Aquarium Carnegie Mellon University The Brooklyn MuseumMuseum of Motherhood Nasher Museum of Art LACMA Maryland HumanitiesArchives Council of American Art St. Augustine 450th Atlanta-Fulton CentralNational Library WWII Museum ʻImiloa Astronomy CenterBiodiversity Heritage Library The Henry Ford Board of Broadcasting Governors Chemical Heritage Foundation National Building Museum National Archives and Balboa Park National Gallery of Art Chippewa Nature Center Johns Hopkins Museum StudiesRecord Administration Smart Museum of Art Quincy Art Center The Walters Art Museum Center for History & New Media MoMA Indiana State Museum Women’s Museum Indianapolis MuseumEncyclopedia of Art of Life Dallas Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago Arizona Women’s Heritage Trail Toledo Museum of Art National Archives at Boston National Museum of the American Minneapolis Institute of Arts Indian Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Frye Art Museum The Getty Minnesota Historical Society Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton “The GLAM initiative is a prime example of how Wikipedia and user-generated content continues to move front and center as a mainline information resource.” Stierch -Robert Connolly Sarah 3.0, 3.0, sa - cc by cc American Association of Museums | Minneapolis “The Smithsonian as a Wikipedia of the physical world.” - Nancy Proctor MuseumNext 2012 | Barcelona "Our work with Wikipedia is changing the way we think about our work.” – David Ferriero “I was delighted to find that Wikipedia had an initiative that is so closely linked to the mission of libraries & cultural heritage institutions everywhere.” - Merrilee Proffitt, OCLC q Undead Undead 3.0, 3.0, sa - cc by cc Why Mission Access Expertise Mission ...to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally. “Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That’s what we’re doing.” - Jimmy Wales “If Wikipedia is good enough for the Archivist of the United States then it’s good enough for you.” - David Ferriero Wallroth 3.0 Sebastian 3.0 sa - c by c c Wikimania 2012 |Closing Plenary http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47pEcmXjt8E Global & Multilingual Accessibility Thelmadatter Leigh Leigh 3.0, 3.0, sa - cc by cc Translate-a-Thon | August 2011 How globally accessible is information about your museum? But are we now saying Wikipedia is reliable? Wikipedia ≠ reliable source GLAM content = reliable source WIKI “Your brilliant contributions will be made better, not worse!” – Dr. Adrianne Wadewitz, Professor and scholar of English Literature, IU “We're doing the same thing, for the same people, for the same reason, in the same medium... …Let's do it c c - by - together.” 3.0 David HoweDavid 3.0 - Liam Wyatt How GLAM:US Portal GLAM:US Consortium Does your museum have a volunteer program? ...an e-volunteer program? Online vs. On-Site E-Volunteers Existing Motivation Assets Needs Benefits Resources Special WikiProjects Apply Understanding Digitized, access to Online & local expertise to of Wikipedia organized digital Wikipedians a useful task community resources content Guides/ Museum Traditional Loyalty to Access to on- assistance to On-site programs & volunteer the museum site resources learn events appreciation Wikipedia glamwiki.org best practices & case studies The GLAM-Wiki Support System Helpameout 3.0 3.0 sa - Cc by Cc Wikimania 2012 | Washington DC Diversify your museum’s tribe us.glamwiki.org GLAM:US/Connect 0 - cc Campus Ambassadors: Wikipedia in Higher Education GLAM/US/Bookshelf GLAM-Wiki US Consortium WP:GLAM/US/Consortium Indiana Historical Society | 2012 PKM. PKM. cc - by - sa Info us.glamwiki.org Twitter @glamwiki | #glamwiki Facebook GLAMWiki.US Email [email protected] [email protected] .