Wikipedia:GLAM/Institute of African Studies/SOIMA2017

SOIMA 2017 SOIMA 2017 takes places from 9 July until 23 July 2017 at the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana in Accra, Ghana. During the course two 90 min. sessions are dedicated to online access of audiovisual collections through Wikimedia platforms.

Session Overview

 * Digitization of photographic materials
 * Introduction to Wikimedia and the Wikimedia platforms: Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wiki Data
 * Advantages for GLAM institutions in collaborating with Wikimedia
 * Hands-on
 * Wrap-up

Handy links

 * Tutorial
 * Cheatsheet with basic wikisyntax
 * Annotated article
 * Sandbox - generic page where you can test and try
 * Your personal sandbox
 * File:Editing Wikipedia brochure EN.pdf

Guidelines
The (simplified) guidelines on Wikipedia, resting on the five pillars, include:
 * Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, the content that you add must fit in an encyclopedia.
 * Write in a neutral point of view.
 * All content added must be free content that anyone can use, edit, and distribute. (copyrights)

Further:
 * Use references to source facts in your article.
 * Sign your messages in talk pages with.

Organisation

 * Judith Opoku-Boateng - Institute of African Studies
 * Hilke Arijs - WMBE
 * Aparna Tandon - ICCROM

Participants

 * Forget Chaterera - (National University of Science and Technology)
 * Samsfire55 (talk) 16:40, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
 * NAASLU (talk) 16:41, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Mandisa Silinda - M-Net
 * Stanley Sello - Robben Island
 * Carolina Cappa (talk)- Museo del Cine "Pablo Ducros Hicken"
 * Selilaryea (talk) 16:46, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
 * MarinaRoconi (talk) 16:49, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Jyldyz Bekbalaeva - (American University of Central Asia)
 * Namante (talk) 17:17, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Gggyesaw (talk)- Institute of African Studies
 * worlash (talk)
 * SKibaara (talk) 17:23, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Terrencedarko (talk)ghana broadcasting corporation

Results

 * Institute of African Studies
 * Ghana Institute of Journalism
 * University of Ghana
 * American University of Central Asia
 * Ghana Broadcasting Corporation
 * Museum of Transport and Technology
 * National Museum of the Philippines