Wikipedia:GLAM/British Library (2012–2013)

Activities

• 8 October 2016 Europeana Sounds edit-a-thon at the British Library
• AHRC podcasts on the Wikipedian in Residence project and how to use and contribute to Wikipedia
• Wikipedia:Participation by academic projects - guidance on how research projects can engage with & use Wikipedia
• request some digitised books! - now superseded by the Mechanical Curator collection on Commons.
• Articles relating to the British Library
• Training workshops - now completed
• Events - now completed
• One on one collaborations - currently inactive, but get in touch!

Tools and templates

• {{User:Rock drum/BL stub button}}
• {{User:Rock drum/BL button}}
• {{BritishLibrary-stub}}
• {{BLCAT}} (a simple link to the BL integrated catalogue or a particular record)
• {{IDP}} (links to a record on the IDP database)
• {{User:Fae/Userboxes/GLAMBL}}

GLAM / British Library project contributor

• {{User:Fæ/Userboxes/GLAMBL barnstar}}
• Recent changes to British Library articles: Special:RecentChangesLinked/User:Mike_Peel/BLlist or use the Wikiproject Watchlist tool
• http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/bl.uk (useful for showing where people are visiting from and search engine queries going to BL)
• Example tineye image search to show where an image is used http://www.tineye.com/search/7bc7007cc0021cc88da5e170f9f05e30e7387646/
• Links to bl.uk as shown on Linkypedia

On other Wikimedia projects

• Wikimedia Commons category
• Portal:British Museum on Wikisource (includes BL-related books)

Press coverage

• January 2011
  • Ian Douglas (10 January 2011). "A collaboration of Wikipedians to gather at the British Library". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 15 January 2011.
  • "British Library hosts 2-day Wikimedia Editathon". British Library. 10 January 2011.
  • Mention in IT Pro article, 14 January 2011.
  • Darren Allan (15 January 2011). "Wikipedia is 10 years old today". TechWatch.
  • blog post by Tom Morris, a participant at the Editathon
  • Laura O'Brien (15 January 2011). "Wikipedia celebrates its 10th birthday". Silicon Republic.
• June 2011
  • Wikimedia UK blog post by Fæ on 28th May announcing the English and Drama editathon.
  • Editathon-ing away, the Victorians rule the waves! 6th June, Judith Flanders' blog post about the editathon experience.
  • Lauren Collins (29 August). "Nerd Out". New Yorker. About the English and Drama editathon held on 11 June.