Wikipedia:GLAM/Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa/What We've Done
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Events
[edit]Wikimania
[edit]Te Papa staff attended and presented at Wikimania 2023, with the support of Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand.
1Lib1Ref
[edit]Te Papa regularly joins in the 1Lib1Ref campaign, getting new staff involved as editors and making the knowledge in our publications more widely available.
Staff learning sessions
[edit]In 2024 we held 4 sets of learning sessions for staff to provide inspiration, guidance, and practical experience in editing Wiki projects. We covered:
- Referencing
- Small but impactful improvements to articles
- Uploading images
- Fixing bias
Each session involved a short presentation covering the value of these kinds of edits, and how they were applicable to staff members' roles. We then demonstrated how to make these edits, and got them involved in trying it out for themselves. This was helped by preparing the content for them, such as providing a spreadsheet of sources and the articles they could be referenced in.
Other events
[edit]- Stitchbird2, Einebillion and others attended the Worlds of Wikimedia [[1]] and 2023 ESEAP Wikimedia Conference [[2]] in Sydney from 16–20 November 2022.
- Stitchbird2, Avocadobabygirl, Einebillion and others participated in the Women in STEAM Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon [[3]] in Wellington on 8 October 2022, editing or creating new pages in Wikipedia and Wikidata.
- Te Papa held two editathons about Te Maori, the landmark exhibition of Māori taonga that started in 1984. As well as improving related articles, we developed tikanga for running Māori-focused editathons.
GLAM project guidance
[edit]Stitchbird2 and Avocadobabygirl presented Te Papa's framework for scoped contribution projects as part of Wikimania 2023. It's a useful way for an organisation to get some positive Wiki work done without overcommitting.
The framework was developed from a project to load 350 photos of Myosotis specimens using OpenRefine and a specially-created Commons template.
WikiProject Exhibitions
[edit]This project aims to develop a detailed and flexible schema for exhibitions, along with good exemplars and solid guidance. Eventually we hope to have all Te Papa's exhibitions represented in Wikidata.
WikiProject Aotearoa Asian Artists
[edit]This project builds off the directory of artists at Satellites, making that information more accessible and laying groundwork for the creation of articles.
We have created Wikidata items for all the artists who were previously missing, and have started enriching these with more details from Satellites and other sources.
WikiProject Aotearoa Asian Artists
Mix n Match set
[edit]We have an up to date Mix n Match set for Te Papa agents (party records), and are regularly running checks to pull new matches into our own collection management system.
Blog posts and news
[edit]As we publish updates and stories around the web, you'll find them here
- Blog Post: Planting our forget-me-nots in Wikipedia
- Blog post: Museology, Myosotis, and metadata
- Blog post: If this, then that - Blastochor data and Google Art
- Blog post: Agreeing to agree: Roundtripping people identifiers with Wikidata
- Blog post: Kiwi Wikipedians at Wikimania 2023
Tools
[edit]As they're developed, we'll share templates, helpful scripts and more.