Wikipedia:GLAM/METRO/Introduction

This page provides an overview of GLAM-Wiki and Institutional Partnerships with Wikipedia

Why do Institutions Contribute to Wikipedia?

 * Meet demand for information where people are seeking it.
 * Increase platforms for sharing, post-digitization.
 * Wikipedia's content is embedded and used all over the web.
 * Provide contextualization and information about temporary exhibitions
 * Encourage digital learning environments.
 * Start a tradition of donating content to the public domain.
 * Multi-lingual, global community

How do Institutions Engage with Wikipedia?

 * Develop content of high importance
 * Staff Wikipedia editing workshops
 * Public Events- Backstage Pass, Edit-a-Thons - establishing a regular group of Wikipedia volunteers.
 * Large-scale image and data uploads/content donations: Wikimedia Commons, WikiSource, WikiData
 * Participation in WikiConference USA or other local or international Wikipedia conferences

How do institutions connect with the Wikipedia community?

 * Publish progress on a GLAM Page or WikiProject page on Wikipedia. Selected list of GLAM pages: GLAM/Projects.
 * Anyone may project updates to the This Month in GLAM Newsletter, get in touch with editors to post in The Wikipedia Signpost, and utilize Wikipedia’s many other internal newsletters and sites of documentation.
 * Track growth-project accounting using Wikimetrics and report them to the Wikimedia Foundation.
 * Attend a local Wikimedia Chapter meeting [in New York, Wikimedia New York City]– and report on the status of your project to local Wikipedians.
 * Start a newsletter or mailing list to post project updates to interested community members and stakeholders.

What kinds of things do institutions contribute to Wikipedia?

 * Improve collections sections, possible create pages for collections
 * Create articles for museum libraries, links to their digital collections
 * Add article content, links, media, audio, documents for pages related to upcoming exhibitions
 * Add references, links, to applications of technologies to museums.
 * Wiki Women’s History Month in March, Editing articles on famous women in history to close the gender gap. There are numerous such projects/canned events related to Wikipedia, online culture, and the gender gap.