Wikipedia:GLAM/Metropolitan New York Library Council/Aug 2013- Sept 2014 Report

13-month Report for METRO Wikipedian-in-Residence and Open Data Fellow
Completed by Dorothy Howard and the Metropolitan New York Library Council.

GLAM-Wiki Institutional Partners

 * Barnard College
 * Center for Jewish History
 * Columbia University Libraries
 * Frick Collection
 * Józef Piłsudski Institute of America
 * Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library
 * New York Public Library
 * Queens Library
 * Broad Channel Historical Society
 * Guggenheim Museum
 * Pratt Institute School of Information and Library Science
 * Westchester County Library System, Briar Cliff Manor Public Library

Edit-a-thons/ Events

 * Jozef Pilsudski Institute of America – Training with institutional volunteers (7/17/14)
 * Westchester County Edit-a-thon at BriarCliff Manor Public Library (8/24/14)
 * Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum “Gugg-a-thon”Edit-a-thon on Museum Architecture. (10/7/14)
 * "One Year of Wikipedia at METRO" – Wikipedia reception and networking event + 'State of the Wiki' address at the Metropolitan New York Library Council (10/16/14)
 * Pratt Institute Manhattan, Edit-a-thon on Pratt History and Libraries (11/1)

Webinars

 * 3 Part METRO Wikipedia Webinar Series:
 * 1) Youtube Webcast: Reference and Citation on Wikipedia and the Library (10/27)
 * 2) Youtube Webcast: Wikipedia and Education (11/24)
 * 3) Youtube Webcast: Wikipedia and Medicine (12/8)
 * Train-the-Trainer Edit-a-thon at CUNY Graduate Center co-run with Wikipedia ArtandFeminism group. (10/27).

Outreach Strategy

 * Email blasts to METRO members and targeted event invitations
 * Event announcements, event recaps, blogging, announcement of WMF Grant and continuing partnership
 * Use of Wikipedia mailing lists on and off Wiki, to inform and include local Wikipedians.

Big Picture

 * Continued interaction and event coordination with Wikimedia NYC, and membership, attendance at Wikimedia NYC meetings and meetups.
 * Professional Development for METRO members: Several Institutional Partners who have been working with us since fall, winter, and spring, 2013, who have now begun to present on Wikipedia to their own communities.
 * Increasing Awareness of Wikimedia Projects and the Open Knowledge / Free Content Movement
 * Increasing Participation of Content Experts in Open Knowledge Projects
 * Increasing Skills for editing/contributing
 * Increasing Volunteer motivation and commitment
 * Increasing perceptions of credibility and/or quality about Wikipedia
 * Effort to improve categorization of institutional images related to or containing images from METRO members and local GLAMs.

Documents Created

 * Edit-a-thon Sign-in sheet + opt-in Wikimetrics consent form.
 * Beginner's Edit-a-thon lesson plan.
 * day-of lesson plan curricula

Media

 * Wikipedia Signpost interview: “Improving the visibility of digital archival assets using Wikipedia.” (08/20/14)
 * OpenGLAM Blog post: “New York Cultural Heritage and Open Access Update.” (09/12/14)
 * Regular updates on “This Month in GLAM” Newsletter.
 * Hosted September U.S. GLAM-Out (09/04/14)
 * Tweeting about grant activities at: @DorothyR_Howard
 * Commons institutional pages created for METRO members, and categorizes created for METRO members with GLAM-Wiki initiatives, to help trace collections and institutional contributions on Wikimedia Commons.
 * Affiliate William Blueher blogs about Wikipedia. “Watson Library Collaborates with Wikipedia.” (07/30/14)

Press/Calendars

 * New York Archives Week 2014 Events Calendar: "Wikipedia Edit-a-thon for Museum Architecture at the Guggenheim." (10/14)
 * Guggenheim Edit-a-thon featured in: “This Week in New York.” Art in America Magazine. (10/07/14)
 * “Wikipedia Edit-a-thon with the Guggenheim Museum Library and Archives.” By Sarah Haug. (10/02/14)
 * “Go Gugg-a-thon: How we Collaboratively Edited Architecture Pages on Wikipedia.” Rebecca Mir. (10/17/14)

Totals

 * meetings with potential institutional partners
 * supervised GLAM institutional partners in the New York City area.
 * training/edit-a-thon events
 * Wikipedia webinars
 * METRO blog articles written
 * GLAM Project pages

Wikimedia Commons Institutional Images Uploaded

 * 1445 images contributed by Jozef Pilsudski Institute
 * 73 images contributed by the Frick Collection
 * Creation or regional library branch categories RE: Commons:Category:Queens Borough Public Library branches.

Edit-a-thon Stats
Gathered for
 * Circa in attendance of all Edit-a-thon events
 * pages created by event attendees.