Wikipedia:GLAM/Museo Galileo

The Museo Galileo contributes to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects with high-quality contents. A Wikimedia Italia consultant has been working for some month in-house at the museum and remotely in order to support a fruitful collaboration between the Museo Galileo and Wikipedia.

The Wikipedian in Residence made this project start and promoted understanding of the Wikimedia world among museum staff. He was also in charge of organizing resources to be shared with the Wikipedia community and supporting the uploading of contents (images, bibliographical sources, texts, and translations).

What is Museo Galileo


The Museo Galileo is located in Florence owns one of the world’s major collection of scientific instruments, notably the original instruments of Galileo Galilei. The collection includes the rare scientific instruments that belonged to the Medici and Lorraine collections 16th-19th centuries). The museum is housed in the Palazzo Castellani, also known as Castello d’Altafronte, an 11th-century fortress on the right bank of the River Arno. The Museo Galileo library houses about 150,000 books concerning the history of science. The antique book collection consists of nearly 5,000 works and includes the Medici-Lorraine Collection, made of volumes mostly about physics and mathematics which were gathered over the centuries by both Tuscan dynasties.

The collaboration in a nutshell
The figure of the Wikipedian in Residence at the Museo Galileo was established in February 2016, following an agreement between Wikimedia Italy, ICOM Italy and [Museimpresa (press release, Italian only). After a public selection, a consultant has been shortlisted for a two-month work.

Wikimedia Italia members will enjoy free access to the Museo Galileo for a 5-year period starting from February 4, 2016.

Who is working on the project
The 2016 Wikipedian in Residence at the Museo Galileo is Simone Massi ("Archeologo" on the wiki projects). Contact him for any questions.

Museo Galileo
See participants' contributions.


 * Marco Berni
 * Elena Della Valle
 * Elisa Di Renzo
 * Elena Fani
 * Alessandra Lenzi
 * Laura Manetti
 * Anna Passavanti
 * Ilaria Poggi
 * Daniela Pozzi
 * Camilla Rotoli

Wikimedia Italia

 * Board of Directors, legal representative
 * Giuliana Mancini, Director General

Training
• May 4, 2016. Introductory workshop: “From wiki to Wikipedia” 

• May 11, 2016. Advanced workshop: “No Panic: How to Use Wikipedia”

• June 6, 2016. Training workshop with young researchers in the history of science from the European University Institute in Florence

Editing
The museum staff had already created some dozens of articles in the past, most of them on the protagonists of the history of science. These pages have been checked together with the Wikipedian in Residence in order to find weak points and improve their quality, and correct possible shortcomings or differences from project guidelines as well.

• 50 of 50 pages

Articles
The Museo Galileo made available a series of contents pertinent to instruments, biographies and historical scientific subjects, both in Italian and English, which have been used to create new articles or improve articles already present in Wikipedia.

• 388 articles created/modified (in Italian) • 57 articles created/modified (in English)

Images
A number of images of instruments from the museum collections and portraits of scientists have been uploaded in Wikimedia Commons to be used for illustrating the related articles.


 * pictures uploaded in Commons Category: Museo Galileo

Other
• Question-and-answer session with Simone Massi on reddit.com, June 15, 2016 (in Italian)

The project goes on
The museum will continue to collaborate with Wikipedia with the help of its own staff as well as the researchers who permanently work with the institution. Moreover, every contribution that Wikipedia users may offer will be appreciated. Main goals of the projects will be the following:

• amplify and improve the articles that are too concise and/or lacking in bibliographic references

• create and translate articles in different languages.

Press releases

 * Wikimedia Italia's press release, February 3, 2016 (in Italian)
 * Museo Galileo's web news, February 6, 2016
 * Nuncius Newsletter no. 21, March 23, 2016
 * Museo Galileo's web news, July 7, 2016

Press reviews

 * Notizie Tiscali: Collaborazione tra Museo Galileo e Wikimedia Italia, February 6, 2016 (in Italian)
 * A spasso in Toscana: Collaborazioni nel 2016 tra Wikimedia Italia ed il Museo Galileo di Firenze, February 8, 2016 (in Italian)
 * Florence is You: Il Museo Galileo selezionato da Wikimedia Italia, February 8, 2016 (in Italian)
 * Art&Culture: Il Museo Galileo selezionato da Wikimedia Italia, February 8, 2016 (in Italian)
 * tuttosu.virgilio.it: Collaborazioni nel 2016 tra Wikimedia Italia ed il Museo Galileo di Firenze, February 8, 2016 (in Italian)
 * wn.com: Cooperation between Museo Galileo and Wikimedia Italia, February 8, 2016
 * Artribune: Wikipediani in residenza nei musei italiani. Dal Museo Galileo di Firenze al MUSE di Trento, February 19, 2016 (in Italian)
 * wn.com: A Wikipedian in Residence at the Museo Galileo, July 14, 2016

Other

 * Attendance at the event celebrating the conclusion of the “Wikipedians in Residence” project, Milan (Italy), May 21, 2016, on the occasion of the “Wikipedia, mappe libere e musei” conference (in Italian)


 * Attendance at the conference on “GLAM and Cultural Heritage in Italy,” Varenna (Italy), June 22, 2016, on the occasion of “Wikimania 2016”

To learn more

 * http://www.museogalileo.it/

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