An Open Future for the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland By Doug Rocks-Macqueen, Wikimedian in Residence 1 Contents Executive Summary .................................................................................................................... 5 Introduction ............................................................................................................................... 8 Section 1: Recommendations .................................................................................................... 9 Policies ................................................................................................................................... 9 Policy Benefits .................................................................................................................... 9 One Grant, One Edit ......................................................................................................... 10 One Grant, One Post ........................................................................................................ 11 Change Licencing for Publications ................................................................................... 11 Open Data for Publishing ................................................................................................. 12 Open Data for the Society ................................................................................................ 13 Open and Secure Video Catalogue .................................................................................. 14 LOCKSS Approach to Continued Access ........................................................................... 14 Encouraging Openness in Projects and Programmes ...................................................... 15 Encourage Openness by Fellows ..................................................................................... 16 Society Outcomes ............................................................................................................ 16 Projects ................................................................................................................................ 17 Highlighting the Societies Collections and Connections with QRpedia ........................... 17 Data the Society ............................................................................................................... 19 Data Visualisation Events/Competitions ......................................................................... 20 Newsletter - Header Photo .............................................................................................. 22 Newsletter - Meet A Fellow, Meet A Resource ............................................................... 23 Scots Musical Museum .................................................................................................... 23 2022 Year of Storytelling project ..................................................................................... 23 Local Archaeology in Local Languages ............................................................................. 24 Wikimedia and Dig It! TV ................................................................................................. 24 Tool Tips on the Society’s Websites ................................................................................ 25 Rhind Lectures + ............................................................................................................... 26 The Fellows Book ............................................................................................................. 26 Society Editathons ........................................................................................................... 27 How Do You Say It?/Howfur dae ye say it?/Ciamar a chanas tu e? ................................ 27 Run a MOOC with Wikiversity.......................................................................................... 28 Testing Open Peer Review ............................................................................................... 28 2 Saving Local History ......................................................................................................... 28 A Society Wikirace ........................................................................................................... 29 Photo/Media Competition ............................................................................................... 29 Wikinews Article(s) Experiment ....................................................................................... 29 The Society in Your Pocket – Kiwix .................................................................................. 30 WikiVoyage and Dig It! TV ............................................................................................... 30 Wikipedia Club/Wikimedia Club ...................................................................................... 31 Wikimedia Interns ............................................................................................................ 31 Photo safaris/field trips ................................................................................................... 31 Programs & Events Dashboard ........................................................................................ 32 What’s New in Wikimedia................................................................................................ 32 Section 2: What is Wikimedia? ................................................................................................ 33 Wikimedia Organisations ......................................................................................................... 34 The Wikimedia Foundation .................................................................................................. 34 Chapters ............................................................................................................................... 34 Thematic Organisations ....................................................................................................... 35 User Groups ......................................................................................................................... 35 Utilising Wikimedia Organisations ....................................................................................... 37 Funding Support ............................................................................................................... 37 Training Support .............................................................................................................. 38 Technical Support ............................................................................................................ 38 Wikipedia ................................................................................................................................. 39 Wikipedia = Wikipedia(s) ................................................................................................. 39 Free and Open? ................................................................................................................ 39 Size ................................................................................................................................... 40 Wikimedia Commons ............................................................................................................... 42 Wikibooks ................................................................................................................................. 43 Wikiversity ............................................................................................................................... 44 Wikisource ............................................................................................................................... 45 Wikivoyage ............................................................................................................................... 46 Wikinews .................................................................................................................................. 47 Wikiquote ................................................................................................................................. 48 Wikispecies .............................................................................................................................. 49 3 Limited Opportunities for Immediate Society Engagement ................................................ 49 Wiktionary ................................................................................................................................ 50 MediaWiki ................................................................................................................................ 50 Meta-Wiki ................................................................................................................................ 52 Wikidata ................................................................................................................................... 53 Acknowledgments of Images ................................................................................................... 54 4 Executive Summary The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (referred to as ‘the Society’ throughout this report) hosted a twelve-month Wikimedian in Residence supported by Wikimedia UK (WMUK) from the beginning of 2019 to 2020. An output of that residency was this report presenting ten policy recommendations and twenty-six project ideas