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From October 2013 to April 2014, YMT hosted a Wikipedian in Residence: PatHadley (talk · contribs).
Yorkshire Museum
York Castle Museum
York Art Gallery
Museum Gardens
York St Marys

Legacy

This project is now complete. Please view the video (left) browse the report (right) or these pages to learn more. The project led to the county-wide Yorkshire Network Project.

  • GLAMwiki In Yorkshire
  • York Museums Trust Wikimedian in Residence final case study report (July 2014)
    York Museums Trust Wikimedian in Residence final case study report (July 2014)

Continuation

Staff of YMT have informally continued this project beyond its end-date. For detail see Legacy projects.

Aims

Like any GLAMwiki project, this is a partnership between the institution and the Wikimedia community facilitated by Wikimedia UK. It aims to:

  • Create a sustainable partnership between YMT and the Wikimedia community through:
    • Training of staff and volunteers in the use of Wikimedia
    • The upload and distribution of relevant images to Commons from the trusts collection
    • The facilitation of access to YMT's collections and experts for Wikipedians
    • The promotion of Wikimedia as a positive route for sharing and engagement amongst YMT's stakeholders and user community

Activities online

Wikipedia Contributions

The trust has artifacts, collections and expertise that are important to the city, the region and the world. The project aims to provide opportunities to improve the Wikipedia content related to each of these.

Multimedia on Commons

The trust has a fantastic collection of curatorial and educational images. Many of these may be licensed appropriately for Wikimedia Commons. Further, there are existing images on Commons and across the web that may be enfolded into the project.

Other Wikis

There is scope for YMT to connect with other language wikipedias and other projects such as Wikidata and Wikiversity.

Tempest Anderson test collection

A key test collection for the project is material related to Tempest Anderson. In particular, YMT is providing hi-resolution scans of c.250 images from Anderson's unique photographic collection.

Activities offline

Events

Public and internal events are being run throughout the residency.

Display case

There is a plan to fill a display case in the foyer of the Yorkshire Museum with various items from the collection, labelled and explained. These will be linked with QRpedia and a general explanation of the WiR project will be attached.

Resources

For some introductory information, these two are great:

For information about how Wikipedia works with cultural institutions, there are a huge number of resources on the GLAMwiki Bookshelf. A few of the best, and some relevant extras can be found below (click show).

Connections and contributors

In addition to YMT staff and volunteers there are other local and online communities that the project intends to engage with. These include:

WikiProjects

On Wikipedia, there are plenty of WikiProjects relevant to the trusts diverse collection:

Reports

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