Summary of tasks undertaken.
Note: This page does not list the many internal meetings, provisional discussions with potential collaborators, nor general wiki-gnoming.
Listed by month, in reverse order:
June 2015
edit- Training event; three attendees. Articles:
- Christopher Wray Lighting works
- Velocette Viceroy
- Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (improved)
- Michael Kaiser (improved)
May 2015
edit- Wrote Thinktank section of UK's April report for Wikimedia community's monthly GLAM newsletter
- Created and populated:
- Second editathon, at Birmingham Museum Collection Centre
April 2015
edit[Two weeks away]
- Spoke about the residency during WikiArabia in Monastir, Tunisia
- Categorising image uploads from the first editathon; see commons:Category:Files from 2015 Thinktank residency
- Created and populated:
- commons:Category:The Automobile Association
- commons:Category:Badges in the collection of Thinktank, Birmingham
- commons:Category:Badges of World War II
- commons:Category:Foden Steam Wagon DD4894
- commons:Category:Motorcycles in Thinktank, Birmingham
- commons:Category:Heinkel Kabine at Thinktank, Birmingham
- commons:Category:Riley Elf at Thinktank, Birmingham
- commons:Category:Wage tins
- commons:Category:Warship Week
- commons:Category:Watches in England
- commons:Category:Watches in the collection of Thinktank, Birmingham
- Launched page for our second editathon: Wikipedia:GLAM/Thinktank/Event 2
- Set up commons:Category:Files from 2015 Thinktank residency/Reports/index
- Wrote Thinktank section of UK's March report for Wikimedia community's monthly GLAM newsletter
- Launched regular Wikidata report for Wikimedia community's monthly GLAM newsletter
- Article on the Smethwick Engine now in Arabic: ar:محرك سميثويك
- More uploads of donated images; and adding metadata to the respective pages
- Created and populated:
- commons:Category:Taxidermied animals in the collection of Birmingham Museums Trust
- commons:Category:Joseph Gillott
- commons:Category:Tangye Limited
- commons:Category:Phillips Cycles
- commons:Category:Statue of James Watt in Greenock, Scotland
- commons:Category:Belliss & Morcom high-speed steam engine at Thinktank, Bimringham
- commons:Category:Easton & Amos gas pumping engine at Thinktank, Birmingham
- commons:Category:Galloway uniflow engine at Thinktank, Birmingham
- commons:Category:General Electric household appliances
March 2015
edit- Wrote Thinktank section of UK's February report for Wikimedia community's monthly GLAM newsletter
- Created Commons:Commons:Thinktank, Birmingham
- Added accession numbers to Wikipedia (e.g. [1]) and Commons (e.g. [2])
- Made commons:Template:Object available as a redirect for commons:Template:Artwork, and added new parameters, to allow museum objects to be better described, with structured metadata, on Commons.
- Started upload of donated images (see commons:Category:Images donated by Birmingham Museums Trust) with first 29 pics
- Editathon!
- New articles:
- Articles improved:
- New templates:
- New category:
- Articles etc. created in follow-up activity
- Articles etc. improved in follow-up activity
- Bank of England note issues
- Cataract (beam engine)
- Elsecar Heritage Centre
- Engineering Heritage Awards
- Fairbottom Bobs
- Old Bess (beam engine)
- Resolution (beam engine)
- Six-column beam engine
- Soho Manufactory
- Sun and planet gear
- Thomas Newcomen
- Timeline of steam power
- Watt steam engine
- Whitbread Engine
- Template:Steam engine configurations
- + many more minor edits, links, navboxes & categories added, etc.
- Cleanup and further expansion of new & related articles from editathon
- Added all new articles from editathon to Wikidata
- Cleanup (categories, etc.) of image uploads from editathon
- Marked closure of former coach park (now a construction site) on OpenStreetMap
- Cleaned up Wikidata items for the Trust's sister museums.
February 2015
edit- First training session for eight (8) staff and volunteers.
- Articles:
- Jigginstown Castle (new)
- Master of the Annunciation to the Shepherds (new)
- William Ick (new)
- Almonry Museum and Heritage Centre (new)
- Bewdley Museum (new)
- Weoley Castle (house) (improved)
- Chad Valley (toy brand) (improved)
- Rolls-Royce Griffon (improved)
- British Plant Gall Society (improved)
- Images uploaded:
- Articles created subsequent to training:
- Articles:
- Created Commons:Institution:Museums Collections Centre, Birmingham
- Recorded and uploaded audio files of engines
- File:Amos gas engine - Thinktank - Andy Mabbett - 2015-02-12 -01.flac
- File:Robey steam engine generator set (model) - Thinktank - Andy Mabbett - 2015-02-12 -01.flac
- File:Belliss steam launch engine - Thinktank - Andy Mabbett - 2015-02-12 -01.flac
- File:Savery steam launch engine - Thinktank - Andy Mabbett - 2015-02-12 -01.flac
- File:Savery steam launch engine - Thinktank - Andy Mabbett - 2015-02-12 -02.flac
- File:Murray engine - Thinktank - Andy Mabbett - 2015-02-12 -01.flac
- Wrote Thinktank section of UK's January report for Wikimedia community's monthly GLAM newsletter
- Made and populated commons:Category:Murray engine (Thinktank)
- Made Commons:Template:GLAM Thinktank
- First training session for eight (8) staff and volunteers.
- Articles:
- Thimblemill Library (new)
- George Edward Hunt (jeweller) (new)
- Birmingham Museum Collection Centre (new)
- The Real Junk Food Project (new)
- Chad Valley (toy brand) (further improvements)
- Anchor telephone exchange (improved)
- Longstone Lighthouse (improved)
- Articles:
- Took photos of Commons:Category:Curzon Street wall, Birmingham
- Received training in the museum's cataloguing system
- Added accession numbers to articles, Wikimedia Commons categories, Wikidata
- Created Wikidata items for exhibits, which though significant, have no Wikipedia article (e.g. the Spitfire & Hurricane; tram)
- Created Commons:Template:Birmingham Museums Trust accession
January 2015
edit- Induction
- setting up IT, email account, etc.
- Started project page
- Notified relevant pages, projects & mailing lists
- Added coordinates of various features, to Birmingham Corporation Tramways
- Preliminary visit to the Museum collection Center (stores)
- Created and populated Commons:Category:Collection of Thinktank, Birmingham
- Created and populated Commons:Category:Thinktank museum (exterior)
- Made Commons:Institution:Thinktank, Birmingham
- Arranged upload of over 400 open-licence images from Flickr (thanks, Fæ, Ellrbrown)
- Reviewed and categorised images
- Started list articles to write/ improve
- Created and populated Commons:Category:Thinktank, Birmingham (Science Garden)
- Created and populated Commons:Category:Lanchester petrol-electric car
- Created and populated Commons:Category:Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company
- Created and populated Commons:Category:Chad Valley toys
- Arranged and promoted 7 March editathon