Wikipedia:GLAM/British Museum/2010

Major activities

 * Backstage Pass tour (see Results of the day)
 * Feature Article Prize - 5x£100 giftshop voucher prize for new Featured Articles related to BM collection in any language. See link for details, including the winners.
 * One on one collaborations - for where individual Wikipedians are working with curators on a particular topic.
 * Photos requested listings
 * "Hoxne challenge" - project to focus effort on one article with all resources made available
 * School translations project - project to have high school students in France translate the opening section of high importance articles, before coming to visit the museum
 * A History of the World in 100 Objects - crowdsourcing the creation of articles about each object in the list before its appearance on the BBC radio series of the same name.
 * In-house presentations/training (ongoing):
 * Wikimedia presentations given to departments of: Asia; Greece & Rome; Prints & Drawings; Prehistory & Europe; Portable Antiquities;...
 * Other discussions held with: Legal department (re. copyright); British Museum Company (image sales & shop) (re.commercial re-use of WP content); Community outreach department (re. engagement with digital visitors); IT department (re. MediaWiki)...
 * Visits to other institutions: The V&A; The British Library; JISC & Culture 24 sponsored workshop;Nordiska Museet and industry workshop, Stockholm;...

Mainstream Press

 * Nat Torkington, Oreilley Radar, 12 March Four short links
 * Paul Reynolds on "Afternoons with Jim Mora" Radio New Zealand
 * NMDC June mailout, headline notice, "British Museum appoints first 'volunteer Wikipedian in residence'"
 * NMDC June mailout, headline notice, "British Museum appoints first 'volunteer Wikipedian in residence'"

Blogposts
Museum Sector:
 * Jenny Walklate, 11 March
 * Paul Reynolds (MCG guest blogger), 13 March
 * Krisitina Alexanderson, 8 June (swedish)
 * Art Review, 8 June
 * Australian Museum Blog, 9 June
 * Roger Pearse, 8 June,
 * Best of 3, "Embedded", June 11
 * Culture 24, about a workshop given for JISC/C-24, June 14
 * Chris Batt, June 15
 * Shane Greenstein, June 25
 * British Library Blog, June 26

Wikimedia Community:
 * Gerard Meijssen, blogpost, 13 March
 * Wikimedia France, blogpost, 15 March (French)
 * Wikimedia UK, backstage pass blogpost, 17 May
 * Wikipedia Signpost, News and Notes, 15 March - Initial announcement Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-03-15/News_and_notes
 * Wikipedia Signpost, News and Notes, 17 May - Backstage Pass Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-05-17/News_and_notes
 * Wikipedia Signpost, News and Notes, 7 June - Follow up with backstage and announceing the FA Prize Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-06-07/News_and_notes
 * Phoebe Ayres, blogpost, June 13
 * The Wikipedian blog, June 18, about the FA prize
 * Wikimedia Sweden, about a Workshop given in Stockholm, June 11 and June 18 (Swedish)
 * Andrew Lih, June 19
 * Wikimedia France blog, June 19, about the FA Prize - (French)
 * Poulpy, blogspot, 25 June (French)
 * Wikimedia Foundation blog, 10 July "The royal gold cup bridges Wikipedia and the British Museum


 * Describing concept of "Wikipedian in residence": "Wikipedian in Residence & Notability"
 * Announcement of the residency: "The British Museum and Me"
 * Relationship of Wikipedia article quality to clickthroughs: "The British Museum by the numbers"
 * Backstage pass & Featured article prizes: "Backstage pass and its achievements"
 * The results of the "Hoxne Challenge": Hoxne Challenge
 * Conclusion and advice for other similar projects: "End of my Residency"

Featured

 * Hoxne Hoard – featured on the main page on 16 November 2010 57,400 views
 * Lindow Man – featured on 26 December 2010, 47,600 views
 * Royal Gold Cup – featured on 10 July 2010, 13,400 views (incomplete stats)
 * Rosetta Stone – featured on 14 September 2010, 100,000 views
 * Sweet Track – featured on 3 June 2012, 43,000 views

Good Articles

 * Burney Relief
 * Gebelein predynastic mummies
 * Parthenon Frieze
 * Seax of Beagnoth
 * Book of the Dead
 * Cyrus Cylinder
 *  Current candidates:

Did you knows

 * Minoan Bull-leaper (10 June 2010, 4,800 views)
 * Seax of Beagnoth (10 June 2010, 3,800 views)
 * Nereid Monument (11 June 2010, 1,300 views)
 * Holy Thorn Reliquary (13 June 2010, 504 views), FA in 2011
 * Ship's chronometer from HMS Beagle (13 June 2010, 266 views)
 * Hedwig glass (16 June 2010, 6,700 views)
 * Lothair Crystal (16 June 2010, 3,400 views)
 * Bassae Frieze (16 June 2010, 730 views)
 * John Henning (1771–1851) (16 June 2010, 612 views)
 * Harpy Tomb (18 June 2010, 5,500 views)
 * Royal Gold Cup (23 June 2010, 7,200 views), later FA
 * Little Thetford flesh-hook (1 July 2010, 3,500 views)
 * Hoxne Hoard (3 July 2010, 1,900 views), later FA
 * Ormside bowl (5 July 2010, stats unavailable)
 * Empress pepper pot (7 July 2010, stats unavailable)
 * Isabella Brant (drawing) (9 July 2010, stats unavailable)
 * Frome Hoard (13 July 2010, 8,800 views)
 * Shrewsbury Hoard (19 July 2010, 2,800 views)
 * Tregwynt Hoard (28 July 2010, 3,200 views)
 * Copper Bull (29 July 2010, 9,800 views)
 * Seated Buddha from Gandhara (2 August 2010, 2,900 views)
 * Ain Sakhri lovers (4 August 2010, 13,500 views)
 * Chairman Mao badge (6 August 2010, 3,900 views)
 * Broighter Gold (7 August 2010, 2,100 views)
 * Mechanical Galleon (7 August 2010, 10,500 views)
 * Milton Keynes Hoard (10 August 2010, 7,400 views)
 * Winchester Hoard (17 August 2010, 12,400 views)
 * Swimming Reindeer (18 August 2010, 30,000 views)
 * Rock gong (21 August 2010, 2,400 views)
 * Admonitions Scroll (23 August 2010, 5,500 views)
 * Witham Shield (28 August 2010, 4,800 views)
 * Ipswich Hoard (30 August 2010, 3,700 views)
 * Dunstable Swan Jewel (30 August 2010, 7,000 views)
 * John Thomas Smith (1766-1833) (1 September 2010, 1,400 views)
 * Double-headed serpent (6 September 2010, 4,900 views)
 * Kakiemon elephants (16 September 2010, 8,200 views)
 * Lycurgus Cup (19 September 2010, 2,400 views)
 * Penrith Hoard (25 September 2010, 2,100 views)
 * Ribchester Helmet (25 September 2010, 3,500 views)
 * Waterloo Helmet (26 September 2010, 9,500 views)
 * Meyrick Helmet (27 September 2010, 7,000 views)
 * Feathered Helmet (30 September 2010, 3,300 views)
 * Akan Drum (4 October 2010, 10,400 views)
 * Wandsworth Shield (7 October 2010, 5,000 views)
 * Throne of Weapons (8 October 2010, 13,500 views)
 * Russian Revolutionary Plate (11 October 2010, 2,400 views)
 * Tree of Life (Kester) (28 October 2010, 11,500 views)
 * Paracas Textile (31 October 2010, 12,200 views)
 * John Henry Keen (26 November 2010, 1,200 views)
 * Guisborough Helmet (26 November 2010, 8,200 views)
 * List of Book of the Dead spells (17 December 2010, 2,100 views)
 * Andrea Crestadoro (22 December 2010, 1,600 views)

Other articles created

 * Briggs Enigma
 * Ethnography at the British Museum
 * Herculean Sarcophagus of Genzano
 * Ian Jenkins (curator)
 * Oxborough dirk
 * Tomb of Payava
 * Valerie Flint

Other

 * Improvement of all articles in "high importance/stub quality"
 * Links back from the British Museum catalogue to Feature articles
 * Two Wikipedians working on-site to improve articles with the Asia and Prints departments respectively.
 * Hundreds of images added from the Portable Antiquities Scheme pictures added here i.e. where license allows.
 * Webcitation reports 741% increase in traffic for A History of the World in 100 Objects ... oh and 1,500,000 % traffic increase for another BM article

Qualitative


One goal of this experimental project is to use a WikiProject-tag-like system via the template  to generate an assessment matrix for British Museum-related articles as known through Wikipedia's category for the British Museum. To prevent problems associated with conflict of interest (since these metrics are intended for people at the museum), subcategories for people employed at the museum are excluded.

Quantitative
''Note: To make a more readable graph, "pageviews" have been dropped down by two orders of magnitude. This now clearly shows an average ratio of pageviews to clickthroughs of 100:1.''

This data is generated using the Treeview tool. This combines the pageviews for articles in any given category/categories into a total number. For some months the data did not fully compile and has been extrapolated. The specific search criteria being tracked as the main measurement is listed as one of the two example searches for the tool. Specifically, this is en.wp only, searching Category:British Museum with all subcategories, but excluding the subcategories "British Museum directors", "Employees of the British Museum" and "Trustees of the British Museum". This matches the criteria used in the qualitative measurement. When running the same script across all languages the numbers for May increase to 586 919.

Before the assessment of all British Museum related articles (see "qualitative") many articles were not listed in British Museum categories. As a result of this comprehensive assessment many new BM related articles were discovered, added to the categories and therefore counted in the quantitative survey. The results gave a significant increase in pageviews reported. For example, under the initial schema the combined pageviews for March 2010 were thought to be 350,340. After the comprehensive survey this figure increased to 513,049 - an increase of 32%

June 2010
June 2010 is the month during which the "Wikipedian in Residence" project took place. Due to continued focus on many BM-related articles and the creation and DYK featuring of a dozen new articles, this month represents the single largest month of organically generated pageviews and clickthroughs (only beaten by the abberation of the release of the Crystal Skull Indiana Jones film in July 2008). No new Feature Articles were created in this month but several will appear in the subsequent months increasing this total further.

September 2010
The Treeview figures have been typically of the order of 500,000 each month although Augusts is missing. The figure for September (on the 28th) was 789 808. That is 50% or so up on the summer figures. (It could be seen as double the March figure previously reported, but if that is remeasured using today's categories then its figure is also now c. 500,000) Victuallers (talk) 08:46, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

Multimedia

 * Commons:Category:British Museum has 3194 images of which 1355 are in use (as of August 2010)
 * These images are used in 1,114 pages in the English language edition of which the most viewed is "England" (which uses two images). All pages with BM related images were viewed 14,617,720 times on the English language edition in May 2010 and 23,083,071 over all languages.
 * The individual images most used are File:Greek_pottery.png (2,240 times) and File:Cameo August BM Gem3577.jpg (1,260 times) - both used in templates.

Ongoing To Do list

 * Redlink suggestions using highlights, A History of the World in 100 Objects and common clickthroughs to the BM: Tanit stelae, Copper Bull (Ubaid), Kurlil statue (Ubaid), Stelae of Nabonidus...
 * was deleted after discussion at Stub types for deletion/Log/2011/January/3, follow-up may be needed to check on any tidy-up or to challenge the deletion discussion (which only had one opinion expressed).


 * Resolve problem of Category:Natural History Museum being a child-category of category:British Museum
 * Assess all BM-related articles in quality matrix
 * For future projects, this is much easier with WP:AWB and its Kingbot assessmentplugin
 * Generate more months of quantitative data, and create a graph of the results.
 * Get the numbers of clickthroughs by month, overlay on the previous graph.
 * Redo the treeview stats with the new numbers.
 * Create "all language" results for the quantitative data.
 * Add "MB related" tagging to category:people associated with the British Museum and classify them
 * Create mailing list for all interested people to be informed about activities
 * Identify a "key article" the BM wishes to bring to FA status and will support in this effort. Perhaps something from A History of the World in 100 Objects - superceded by Feature Article Prize
 * create and announce Feature Article Prize - especially to the chapters mailing list


 * Ideas for what to do with the Wikireader
 * Create a BM barnstar, potentially a revamped version of the Rosetta Barnstar?
 * Possibly something like this? File:Barnobolus.png


 * Add the "BM stub" template to all stub-articles assessed as related here.
 * Identify upcoming exhibition and create competition around that in time for the opening
 * Revamp template:British Museum especially the "places" and "people" section
 * Create a list of redlinks based off A History of the World in 100 Objects) and articles which generate lots of inbound traffic to the BM.
 * Fix linkrot for anything linking to www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/compass (assigned to user:matthewcock!
 * Create One on one collaborations subpage, populate with proposed projects
 * Assess for quality/importance the "unassessed articles in the qualitative matrix (above) adding category:British Museum (or sub-category where needed) and the template.
 * Run "forest for the trees" http://toolserver.org/~magnus/forest4trees.php and check those articles for potentially adding into the category/assessment structure.
 * Ensure all articles about objects are linked to from their department description page (or similar) - perh. using collapsible box?) e.g. El-Amra clay model of cattle and Farnese Diadumenos not currently linked.
 * Follow up with Wikibooks (begun ).


 * LOTE projects (see also One on one collaborations):
 * Find Featured Articles in Other languages (FAOL) and have them translated. e.g. Venus tablet of Ammisaduqa.
 * Work with Swedish community to improve article Daniel Solander
 * Investigate a new translation of the Rosetta Stone text for Wikisource vs. the BM's version BM's version.