Wikipedia:GLAM/Natural History Museum and Science Museum/7th Month Report

Projects delivered within the past month

Presentations

Chart showing page views per day of Science Museum images released under a Creative Commons license on Wikipedia

• ONS presentation at the Department for Education: Wikipedia’s role in education and how statistics work on Wikipedia, a copy of the presentation is linked to from this page.
• Science Museum All staff briefing: presentation on the impact of open licensing, the presentation given can be viewed here.

Training events

British Computer Society Women Wikipedia editathon at BCS London

• British Computer Society women training events in London and Southampton, link to event page
• Office for National Statistics training event: Wikipedia editing, link to event page
• Helped at the Medical Research Council Women in Science Wikipedia edit-a-thon event at the Royal Society, link to event page

TrowelBlazers

Talk about female paleontologists in the earth sciences library, Natural History Museum as part of the Trowelblazers event.

• TrowelBlazers: a one-day Wikipedia editathon dedicated to improving the Wikipedia pages of key women in archaeology, palaeotology and geology, link to the event page.

A brief outline of how the projects delivered link with the general objectives of the residency, and the Wikimedia UK’s mission

• Understanding of Wikimedia
• The contributions that institutions can make to open licensing and mechanics of doing so
• Teaching people to edit Wikipedia

Projects in development

• Planning at ways the Science Museum can contribute text and media to Wikipedia as part of exhibition development

Planned projects

• Working with staff at Imperial College to look at the possibility of making Wikipedia as part of courses