User:Petropoxy (Lithoderm Proxy)/CAM WIR report

I have impressed upon them frequently that this editing must be undertaken as an extension of the museum's mission, rather than mere marketing.

I decided to go deep rather than wide, as my focus has always been on research and article creation.

Overall goal - creation of high quality, in depth articles about museum collection items in a way that fills gaps in Wikipedia coverage.


 * Museum gets - high quality articles on relevant collection items
 * Wikipedia gets - expert review of articles, donation of targeted high quality images relevant to the expanded content, expansion of coverage in lacking areas

Some personal history
The partnership came about in an odd way. Ten years ago I was very active on Wikipedia, and as a senior majoring in art history I thought a Wikipedian in Residence program at one of Cincinnati's several GLAM institutions would be a perfect internship to start me out.

It didn't go great. The CAM and the Taft ignored my emails. I had a meeting with someone from the public library whom I never heard back from afterward. The Cincinnati Museum Center seemed most interested, but their idea of working with me was to hand me a press release and ask me to type it up on their Wiki page. When I tried to explain what was and wasn't acceptable for me to do as an editor, they decided that "our goals do not align at this time".

And somehow, my name was still on a list of regional GLAM contacts.

I saw my chance, took it, and made pretty much the same pitch I would've given them a decade ago. As Mark Twain supposedly said, Cincinnati's the place to be when the world ends because everything happens ten years later here.

Articles in progress

 * 'Ajami (art) - Work page
 * Edward Timothy Hurley - Work page
 * Sara Sax - Work page
 * Carl Schmidt - Work page
 * Tleson Painter - Work page
 * Sunday Morning in Virginia - Work page
 * Herbert Greer French - Work page

Longer articles created

 * The Duchess of Montesquiou-Fezensac - Reviewed by Dr. Peter Bell, Curator of European Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings
 * Archbishop William Henry Elder - Reviewed by Dr. Julie Aronson, Curator of American Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings
 * Joseph Henry Gest - Reviewed by Geoff Edwards, museum archivist
 * Joseph Longworth - Reviewed by Geoff Edwards, museum archivist

Shorter articles created

 * Chimera Painter

Categories created

 * Category:Cincinnati Art Museum
 * Category:People associated with the Cincinnati Art Museum
 * Category:Directors of the Cincinnati Art Museum
 * Category:Rookwood Pottery Company

Navigational templates created

 * Template:Cincinnati Art Museum
 * Template:Rookwood Pottery

Added images to

 * Reuben R. Springer
 * Harriet Wilcox
 * Louise Abel
 * Clara Chipman Newton
 * Catawba (grape)
 * Longworth family

Added sources to

 * Mary Emery
 * Longworth family

Images uploaded

 * 11 etchings by Edward Timothy Hurley
 * 3 books by Edward Timothy Hurley
 * 9 artworks by Joseph Henry Gest
 * 5 other images related to Joseph Henry Gest
 * 1 film still of Sara Sax
 * 1 book re. Rookwood Pottery
 * 1 table of Rookwood artist marks extracted from said book
 * 1 portrait of Joseph Longworth
 * 1 portrait of Reuben R. Springer
 * 1 postcard of Rookwood Estate
 * 1 portrait of Nicholas Longworth

Categories created

 * Joseph Henry Gest