Wikipedia:Meetup/Ocean City, MD/Wiki Loves Small Museums

Wiki Loves Small Museums is a workshop event, to be held Sunday, February 15, 2015, at the Small Museum Association (SMA) Conference in Ocean City, MD. We are seeking Wikipedia volunteers with relevant skills and knowledge to help in this project. See below for details.

When: Sunday, February 15, 2015

Where: Clarion Resort Fontainebleau Hotel, 10100 Coastal Highway, Ocean City, MD

How to Volunteer: Add your Wikipedia user name in the Registration section below, or email me at MOckerbloom(at)chemheritage.org or celebration.women(at)gmail.com.

What to Bring: Please bring your own laptop and power cord.; Bring a scanner and a flash stick if you can.; Bring your knowledge and skills.

Wiki Loves Small Museums Workshop Description

Contributing to a Digital Presence on Wikipedia:
Wiki Loves Small Museums Edit-a-thon
Session: 12.00-4.00 p.m. Sunday, February 15, 2015

Speaker: Abram Fox, Laurel Historical Society, Laurel, MD

Workshop Coordinator: Mary Mark Ockerbloom, Wikipedian in Residence, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, PA

Learn how your institution can engage with the public through Wikipedia, and contribute images to Wikipedia directly during an on-site edit-a-thon. Hosting a Wikipedia edit-a-thon or encouraging the contributions of content experts in your community are valuable ways to build partnerships and enhance your online presence. Abram Fox will provide an overview of how to organize a Wikipedia editing event at your institution. Mary Mark Ockerbloom will lead a "Wiki Loves Small Museums" workshop where you can see first-hand how to contribute to public knowledge. 1) Take a photograph (or several) of your institution 2) Bring it to our SMA workshop 3) Expert Wikipedians will help you to release images you bring to the event, and edit Wikipedia articles.

About the Small Museum Association

The annual Small Museum Association (SMA) Conference attracts more than 250 museum professionals, board members, and volunteers from a wide variety of small museums. This year's theme is Museums in Harmony: exploring the ways in which museum staff, boards, volunteers, and communities can work together to meet the challenges of economic, educational, and social conditions.

Conference : February 15 - 17, 2015
Where: Clarion Resort Fontainebleau Hotel,
10100 Coastal Highway
Ocean City, MD
Conference Information:
https://sma25.wildapricot.org/

Information handouts

Overview page for Wikipedia volunteers
Proposed procedures for Wikipedia volunteers
Information page for distribution to potential attendees
Abram Fox, Contributing to a Digital Presence on Wikipedia slides

Example uploads

Here is the Upload Wizard.

Be sure to use the category "Wiki Loves Small Museums 2015" for all image uploads!

Personal photograph by uploader: Use CC license.
Personal photograph by someone else: Photographer must sign permission form, use CC-BY-SA-3.0 license with photographer's name and "subst:OP" template
Public domain (before 1923): use PD license.
Public domain due to copyright nonrenewal: use license template "PD-US-not renewed"
Public domain (before 1923) - Many postcards are very easily dated, e.g. on the postmark
Many are quite beautiful (Shickshinny PA Presbyterian church, PD)
Many small towns have large numbers of images available (Sheakeyville PA Presbyterian church, PD)
Many fairly narrow topics can be well illustrated (Slippery Rock PA United Presbyterian Church, PD). Above 4 postcards from the Presbyterian Historical Society archives.

Previous conference attendees

Previous attendees have been associated with the institutions mentioned below. Feel free to improve or add to their Wikipedia pages.

AIA Legacy Octagon Museum, Washington, D.C.
Air Mobility Command Museum, Dover, Delaware
Accokeek Foundation, Accokeek, MD
Alice Moseley Folk Art and Antique Museum, Bay St. Louis, Mississippi
American Alliance of Museums, Washington, DC
Anacostia Trails Heritage Area, Hyattsville, MD
Arden Craft Shop Museum, Arden, DE
Armed Forces Heritage House, Wrightstown, NJ
Auburn Heights Preserve, Yorklyn, DE
Baltimore Museum of Industry, Baltimore, MD
Baltimore National Heritage Area, Baltimore, MD
Barratt's Chapel & Museum, Frederica, DE
Bolduc House Museum, Ste. Genevieve, MO
Brunswick Heritage Museum, Brunswick, MD
Burlington County Historical Society, Burlington, NJ
Canfield-Morgan House, Cedar Grove, NJ
Cape Charles Museum and Welcome Center, Cape Charles, VA
Captain Avery Museum, Shady Side, MD 20764
Carlyle House Historic Park, Alexandria, VA
Catoctin Furnace Historical Society, Thurmont, MD
Cedar Grove, Philadelphia, PA
Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels, MD
Chesapeake Beach Railway Museum, Chesapeake Beach, MD
Children's Discovery Museum of West Virginia, Morgantown, WV
Children's Museum, Bloomsburg, PA Done
City of Bowie Museums, Bowie, MD
- Belair Mansion (Bowie, Maryland)
- Belair Stable Museum (Bowie, Maryland)
College Park Aviation Museum, College Park, MD
Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation, Ridley Creek State Park, Media, PA
Colvin Run Mill Historic Site, Great Falls, VA
Committee for Maryland Conservation History, Accokeek, MD
Connecticut Landmarks, Hartford, CA
- Amasa Day House, Moodus, CT
- Amos Bull House, Hartford, CT
- Bellamy-Ferriday House and Garden, Bethlehem, CT
- Butler-McCook House & Garden, Hartford, CT
- Buttolph-Williams House, Wethersfield, CT
- Joshua Hempsted House, New London, CT
- Nathaniel Hempsted House, New London, CT
- Isham-Terry House, Hartford, CT
- Nathan Hale Homestead, Coventry, CT
- Phelps-Hatheway House & Garden, Suffield, CT
Cumberland County Historical Society, Carlisle, PA
Delaware Division of Historical & Cultural Affairs, Dover, DE
Delaware Historical Society, Wilmington, DE
Delaware River Mill Society, Stockton, NJ
Dorfman Museum Figures, Baltimore, MD
Dumbarton House (The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America), Washington, DC
Dundalk Patapsco Neck Historical Society & Museum, Dundalk, MD
Durant Kenrick House, Newton, MA
Eastern Shore of Virginia Historical Society, Onancock, VA
Ephrata Cloister, Ephrata, PA
Fairfax County Park Authority, Fairfax, VA
Fire Museum of Maryland, Lutherville, MD
First State Heritage Park, Dover, DE
Four Rivers Heritage Area (Annapolis, London Town & South County)
Frederick County Fire & Rescue Museum, Emmitsburg, MD
Friends of Belmont Hall, Smyrna, DE
Gaithersburg Community Museum, Gaithersburg, MD
Galesville Heritage Society, Galesville, MD
Glenn L. Martin Maryland Aviation Museum, Middle River, MD
Goshen Farm Preservation Society, Annapolis, MD
Governor Ross Plantation, Seaford, DE
Greenbelt Museum, Greenbelt, MD
Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, DE
Hammond-Harwood House, Annapolis, MD
Heritage Preservation, Washington, DC
Heurich House Museum, Washington, DC
Historic Annapolis Foundation, Annapolis, MD
- William Paca House and Garden, Annapolis, MD
- Waterfront Warehouse, Annapolis, MD
- Shiplap House, Annapolis, MD
- Hogshead, Annapolis, MD
Historic London Town & Gardens, Edgewater, MD
Historic Ships in Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
Historic Speedwell, Morristown, NJ
Historical Society of Baltimore County, Cockeysville, MD
Historical Society of Frederick County, Frederick, MD
Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Historic Sugartown, Sugartown, PA
Hunterdon County Historical Society, Flemington, NJ
Imperial Valley Desert Museum, Ocotillo, CA
James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA
Jefferson Patterson Park & Museum, St. Leonard, MD
Jewish Museum & Cultural Center, Portsmouth, VA
Jewish Museum of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
Kleinman Family Holocaust Education Center, Brooklyn, NY
Laurel Historical Society, Laurel, MD
Lee-Fendall House Museum and Garden, Alexandria, VA
Lewes Historical Society, Lewes, DE
Liberty Hall Museum, Union, NJ
Lightship Overfalls (LV118) (Overfalls Foundation), Lewes, DE
Marshall Steam Museum at Auburn Heights Preserve, Yorklyn, DE
Maryland Historical Trust, Crownsville, MD
Maryland Humanities Council, Baltimore, MD
Maryland Veterans Memorial Museum, Broomes Island, MD
Maurice River Historical Society, Heislerville, NJ
Meridian International Center
Middletown Historical Society, Middletown, DE
Middletown Valley Historical Society, Old Stone House, Middletown, DE
Milford Museum, Milford, DE
Milton Historical Society, Milton, DE
Monroe County Historical Association, Stroudsburg, PA
Mount Pleasant (mansion), Philadelphia, PA
Mount Harmon Plantation, Earleville, MD
Museologica, Bellefonte, PA
Mütter Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History & Culture, Salisbury, MD
NASA Wallops Visitor Center, Wallops Island, VA
National Capitol Radio & Television Museum, Bowie, MD
National Cryptologic Museum, Ft. George, G. Meade, MD
National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Frederick, MD
National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Emmitsburg, MD
National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington, CD
Naval War College Museum, Newport, RI
New Castle Historical Society, New Castle, DE
North Myrtle Beach Area Historical Museum, North Myrtle Beach, SC
Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), Andover, MA
Old Line Museum, Delta, PA
Penn State All-Sports Museum, University Park, PA
Peter Wentz Farmstead, Lansdale, PA
Poe Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
Poplar Hill Museum, Salibury, MD
Preservation Maryland, Baltimore, MD
PSU Earth & Mineral Sciences Museum, University Park, PA
Queen Anne's County Historical Society, Centreville, MD
Rackliffe House Trust, Berlin, MD (article created)
Rappahannock Historical Society, Washington, VA
Riverwood, Nashville, TN
Rockwood Museum, Wilmington, DE
Rose Hill Manor Park & Museum, Frederick, MD
Sandy Spring Museum, Sandy Spring, MD
Schifferstadt, Frederick, MD
Seaford Historical Society, Seaford, DE
Shofuso Japanese House and Gardens, Philadelphia, PA
Seiberling Mansion, Howard County Historical Society, Kokomo, IN
Shore Line Trolley Museum, East Haven, CT
Skeptiseum, Amherst, NY
Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections
Steppingstone Farm Museum, Havre de Grace, MD
Susquehanna Museum at the Lock House, Havre de Grace, MD
Tilghman Watermen's Museum, Tilghman, MD (article created)
Tulsa Air and Space Museum, Tulsa, OK
Union Mills Homestead, Westminster, MD
Virginia Field Trips Guide, Abingdon, VA
Wharton Esherick Museum, Malvern/Paoli, PA

Workshop Planning

Wikipedia events often focus on uploading photos. I have approached the SMA about organizing a Wikipedia event at the conference, to encourage people from the Small Museums Association to provide pictures of their institutions and artifacts, under a free license which will allow them to be re-used not only in Wikipedia but everywhere by everyone. By going to where the institutions are, at this conference, we can make contact with many more organizations than we could approach individually.

My intention in working with the Small Museum Association is to overcome barriers to involvement in Wikipedia by bringing together a group of Wikipedians with scanners, computers, and knowledge to help people from small museums upload photos of their institutions and artifacts, and correct out-of-date information in existing articles.

I envision :

An attendee at the SMA conference will walk up to a table and present a print photograph or a digital image.
Wikipedia volunteers will review the copyright status of the image with the attendee.
The attendee will sign a permission form identifying the source and copyright status of the image and authorizing its use.
Wikipedia volunteers will scan the photo (if not already digital) and the permission form.
Wikipedia volunteers will upload the digital image to Wikimedia Commons, and email the scanned permissions form to OTRS.
Wikipedia editors could then display the image on existing pages.
Wikipedia editors could also do other work on relevant pages as interest and time permit, and explain what they are doing to attendees.

We will need:

Experienced Wikipedians to bring scanners, computers and memory sticks to SMA
Space at the conference, with plug-ins, tables, and minimal security
Network connectivity at the conference
Advance access to the SMA mailing list to inform SMA in advance about the proposed activity and the copyright issues involved
SMA members who are enthusiastic about submitting materials
If you can commit to coming to Ocean City, MD, let me know.

I have created a list of previous attendees so that we can see who does and doesn't have Wikipedia pages. (With luck this may inspire people to create them.) I have prepared permissions forms that will be acceptable to Wikimedia Commons, in advance, and discussed procedures for submitting permissions with the OTRS.

Information for Volunteers

Volunteers do not need to have all of the skills mentioned above. You do need to have some of the skills mentioned above. By working together, we can make this event happen.

Workshop Registration

Please indicate whether you can attend to help staff this event, and list the skills and equipment that you can provide.

Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 19:46, 16 December 2014 (UTC).[reply]

Knowledge of copyright law YES; scanner YES; computer YES; flash stick YES; experience in uploading to Wikimedia Commons YES; experience with OTRS YES; experience in editing Wikipedia YES.

Dorevabelfiore (talk) 15:40, 18 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Knowledge of copyright law - basic; scanner (Epson Expression 10000XL) YES; computer YES, flash stick YES; experience in editing Wikipedia YES.

Smallbones_(smalltalk) 15:53, 5 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Knowledge of copyright law YES; scanner NO; computer YES; flash stick YES; experience in uploading to Wikimedia Commons YES; experience with OTRS a small bit; experience in editing Wikipedia YES. (Attended remotely due to weather.)

Tracy Jentzsch (University of Delaware) from UDel, attendees at SMA, will bring 2 scanners and 2 laptops (unable to attend; sent equipment with Stephanie Lampkin)
Stephanie Lampkin, University of Delaware
Abram Fox, speaker at SMA
John Mark Ockerbloom
Blaire Gagnon, speaker at SMA
Dorothy Howard, Wikipedian in Residence, New York OR drohowa (talk) 04:27, 17 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Slowking4

Knowledge of copyright law YES; scanner NO; computer YES; flash stick YES; experience in uploading to Wikimedia Commons YES; experience with OTRS NO; experience in editing Wikipedia YES.

jweaver28

laptop, flash stick, experience editing wikipedia and uploading to wikimedia

David Thomsen, virtual attendee creating and updating articles.

Conference Registration

Volunteers who are coming to SMA to help with this workshop are NOT required to register for the conference. You are, of course, welcome to do so if you wish to enjoy other sessions and events: the conference registration page is here.

Volunteer Support

Ocean City, MD is pretty far away from everything else, so some volunteers may need to stay in the area before or after the event. If you are attending the conference on behalf of your institution, as I am, you may be able to get funding from your institution to cover costs of travel, food, and lodging. For editors who do not have other sources of funding for this event, I have submitted a grant proposal to Wikimedia Foundation (D.C.) to apply for funding to help with such expenses, which has been approved. RECEIPTS WILL BE REQUIRED.

Edit-a-thon Outcomes

Attendance

People registered for the conference (228 registrants)
People registered for the session (30)
People who attended the talk (22)
People who remained for the workshop (6-8 attendees, not counting volunteers)
Volunteers at the workshop (9)
Volunteers working remotely (2)

Images released

See Commmons Category: 72 images, 5 event photos, 4 documents related to the event

Event Photos

Abram Fox, introductory speaker
Scanning stations and volunteers
SMA 2015 Wikipedia Session
Volunteer Wikipedia Editors assist SMA 2015 Conference Participants
Wikipedia Hands-On Session at SMA 2015