Wikipedia:GLAM/Lincoln

Dr Mike Dickison was employed as Lincoln University Wikipedian in Residence at Lincoln University, New Zealand, from November–December 2019. This placement was a proof-of-concept to develop a Wikipedia strategy for the University for implementation in 2020. (Unfortunately budget constraints and the impact of COVID-19 stopped this from happening.)

Resources
Mike was assisted by LTL staff Deborah Fitchett, Eunju Jung, Anisha Thomas, and Craig Murray. The project was organised through a Google Doc, Lincoln University WiR To Do list. In the spirit of Wikimedia, anyone is welcome to help fill in the gaps. The following resources will be useful.
 * Living Heritage Tikaka Tūku Iho, Lincoln's repository of publications, images, video, and news.
 * The Ron Blackmore collection (3000 photographs taken by the university's Visual Aids Officer 1947–1966).
 * Research@Lincoln, an open-access repository of Lincoln research papers and theses, with permalinks
 * Data@Lincoln, a collection of data, figures, and images used in publications
 * Te Ara biographies, e.g. Malcolm Burns

Presentations to staff

 * Wikipedia as an outreach tool: talk for Lincoln staff (see outline here). Mon 9 Dec, 12:00–1:00, Ivey building L114.
 * Introduction to Wikidata: workshop for library staff (University of Canterbury to be invited). Thu 12 Dec, 1:30–4:00, Ivey Building L206.

Goals

 * 1) Begin a partnership with the Christchurch Wikipedia community  (done): see Buildings photography volunteers
 * 2) Create a To Do list of articles and categories to improve (done)
 * 3) Bulk upload of some images – Lincoln CC BY copyrighted or public domain – that can be used to illustrate articles on the university, the town Lincoln, and other New Zealand articles. (done)
 * 4) Attempt to release staff profile pictures to accompany Wikidata items. (done) for Entomology
 * 5) Begin Wikidata and Wikicite projects with a selection of  researchers and publications (done)
 * 6) Improve the Lincoln Wikipedia article to US or UK standards, and monitor analytics  (not done; the article has been much improved, but needs some dedicated work involving other volunteers)
 * 7) Create a long-term Wikipedia strategy for Lincoln (done)

Media

 * Lincoln University. (4 December 2019). "Wikipedian in Residence first for Southern Hemisphere university" Lincoln University News and Events.

Lincoln University

 * Created a Commons Institution template for Lincoln
 * New Wikidata item for, and improved . Uploaded photos of both to Wikidata and created new Commons categories Ruth Burns and Malcolm Burns
 * Created and

Lincoln University buildings
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 * Created/improved Wikidata items and Commons categories for main campus buildings:

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 * On December 9, Wikipedia volunteers Schwede66 and Podzemnik came out to Lincoln from Christchurch and spent an hour photographing campus buildings for upload to Category:Buildings of Lincoln University. We added 180 images of buildings and 40 of public artworks and created 20 new categories.

Trees of Lincoln University

 * Created publications and
 * Created a Cradle template for individual trees, with 26 properties
 * Added the individual trees, , , , , and ; these are likely the best-documented individual trees on Wikidata
 * Photographed them and added them to a new category, Trees of Lincoln University, New Zealand

Lincoln University Art Collection

 * Created item for and wrote the article Lincoln University Art Collection
 * Nominated the article for Did You Know? on Wikipedia's main page
 * Began photographing or locating already-existing photographs of artworks; these had to be available under NZ Copyright Act (1994) Freedom of Panorama provisions (sculptures permanently mounted in a public place), or in the public domain; added them to Category:Lincoln University Art Collection
 * Worked with other Wikipedians to create Wikidata items for the works, , and  (this could and should be done for the entire art collection, whether the works have photos in Commons or not)

Lincoln University Entomology Research Collection
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 * Created or improved Wikidata items for people connected with the Entomology Department:

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 * Worked with Entomology Department archives to select, scan, and bulk-upload photos representing staff, field trips, and research; created Commons Category:Entomology at Lincoln University.


 * Created Wikidata item and the article Lincoln University Entomology Research Collection
 * Performed author disambiguation on Entomology Department authors, including Rowan Emberson, Mike Bowie, John Marris, and Graham Osborne, to make the publications in Wikidata use the author Wikidata item, instead of a name string.

Ron Blackmore photos

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 * Developed a metadata template for Blackmore photos, using the Ruth Burns photo as an example
 * Uploaded 255 scanned negatives from the Blackmore Collection to Commons as Category:Photographs_by_Ron_C._Blackmore: a mixture of building projects, class photos, University staff, and official visits during Blackmore's time as Visual Aids Officer, 1947–1966. About 70 photos added to subcategories of Buildings of Lincoln University, supplementing the ones newly-added by volunteers.


 * Photos were used to illustrate Wikipedia articles on agricultural lime, fertilizer, wheat, barley, disc harrow, List of agricultural machinery, and seed drill, which together have about 70,000 readers a month. All these articles need substantial improvement and would be good Wikipedia assignments to set Lincoln students.
 * Improved Wikidata, article, and added image for

Baseline (2019-11-26)

 * Lincoln University (New Zealand) had received in 2019 28,263 page views (a daily average of 86), and had had 12 edits by 9 editors. It was a 14.4 KB, C grade article. There were currently articles on Lincoln University in 11 language Wikipedias.
 * had 14 identifiers and 12 properties (and was using the wrong logo)
 * Category:Lincoln University had 14 images, most just of one earthquake-damaged building
 * 41 Wikipedia pages cited sources from at Research@Lincoln, and 13 linked to content at Living Heritage (source: Deborah Fitchett)