Chapters meeting 2010/Documentation/Outreach II
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Wikimedia Nederland - Library project: Wiki loves bieb!
[edit]Libraries have a similar mission as Wikimedia, and want to go digital.
- Goal: establish a structure of collaboration
- 3 areas:
- media literacy
- local cultural hertiage
- including/linking library expertise & collections in Wikipedia
Roles
- Project commissioned by the Dutch Association of Public Libraries
- libraries take care of funding and staff
- WMNL:
- provide information for library staff
- provide feedback / format are being developed*
Scalability
- materials and formats will be testest -> RESEARCH
- create package transferrable to other libraries and cities
Media Literacy
[edit]target groups:
- teachers ~ multipliers
- students (14-18)
materials & formats to be developed
- brochure
- guest lesson - what format - video?
- workshop - how does WP work?
- video
- teach the teacher workshops
- lesson plans
- evaluation
focus on proper use of WP (no focus on edit). Rationale:
- low quality of editing is a problem
- gets rejected by community
- blocked school IPs
- first teach proper use
- plagiarism
- sources
Knowledge transfer
- Wikimedia NL gives trainings
- Media Coaches for Library train
- Teachers teach
- students
Local cultural hertiage
[edit]- cooperation WM & local heritage institutions together
- round tables
- produce information materials, such as on free licences
- evaluation
Linking in the library
[edit]- libraries have collections: link to collection as references
- "help desk functions": free licensed anwers on Wiki
- example of German PND (getting metadata)
Discussion
[edit]- is "wiki" the right term (in "wiki loves bieb")?
- resolution discussion: low resolution vs. no content at all
- linking to companies or to companies galleries
- common sharing place: outreach-wiki
- wiki-page with library partnerships!
- wiki-page with school partnerships!
- city-wikis: plattforms that may have information that is not suitable for wikimedia projects
- seperate projects
Wikimedia Polska - Wiki Expedition
[edit]Tomasz (WM PL)
photo-expedition
- July 2009
- travelling around taking photos in a remote region of PL (Podlasie)
- area with no pictures on Wikipedia
- showing local people how to contribute to WM Projects
facts + numbers
- 15 people
- Wikipedians
- Open Street Mappers
- Storm Hunters
- 10 days
- 4 cars
- bikes for more inaccessible areas
- 3 sleeping bases
- total costs: 10 000 Zlotys
- budget: 3800€; spent ~1500€
- 2000 pictures uploaded; 200 articles enhanced
Preparation
- research: route planning, accomodation
- contact local institutions
Results
- many pictures, articles enhanced
- great media coverage
Lessons:
- some maps are useless or not detailled enough (paper maps might be better)
- separating into smaller groups might be better
- do not plan too precisely!