Wikipedia:GLAM/NLS/Participate

If you are interested in contributing to Wikimedia, in particular related to the projects spearheaded by the National Library of Scotland's Wikimedian-in-Residence programme, there are a number of different ways to do so. Those with a general interest in contributing may wish to contribute to Wikimedia Projects, and new users may find general information regarding editing and contributing to Wikimedia articles to be helpful (see below). Those who are specifically interested in working with the NLS by participating in a public outreach event such as an Edit-a-thon are encouraged to leave their user details below or to contact the NLS Wikimedian in Residence, User:ACrockford

Contribute to a Wikipedia article
Here are some ideas specifically on how to contribute to Wikimedia if you are Library staff or a participant in an edit-a-thon hosted by a library (the NLS or otherwise). These may also give you some ideas on how to incorporate Wikimedia into your work at the NLS or any other GLAM organisation.

Please feel free to expand, correct, translate or any other improvement you can make to any Wikipedia articles, especially those related to Scottish History, Literature, and Culture. If you are new to Wikimedia projects, then welcome! New users may want to start with the  New Contributors' Help Page or take the  Official Tutorial, or may wish to look further for more help, advice, and information about Wikipedia. See also:


 * A formal introduction...
 * Five pillars of Wikipedia (a summary of our fundamental principles)
 * How to edit a page
 * How to write a great article

If you are not new, but you still feel that you might want to brush up on your technique or if you have any questions, you may find the following pages useful:


 * Wikipedia's Manual of Style
 * Help page/An overview of policies and guidelines
 * List of policies
 * List of guidelines

Upload images and videos to Wikimedia Commons

 * | Guide to uploading media files to Wikimedia Commons
 * | A guide for converting video files
 * | A guide to converting audio files, on Wikimedia Commons, the file types accept are: Ogg (using FLAC, Speex, Opus or Vorbis codecs), WebM (using Vorbis), or MIDI (with extension .mid)

Donate images, videos and audio
If you already have images or film clips related to Scottish Literature, History, or Culture on a site like Flickr or YouTube, please consider changing the license to a compatible Creative Commons License (must allow derivatives and commercial reuse) so they can be used on Wikimedia projects:

Flickr

 * | Changing the license of your images on Flickr to Creative Commons Share Alike

YouTube

 * | Changing YouTube video licenses to Creative Commons Attribution

Releasing Content
If you are concerned about releasing content from a gallery, library, archive, or museum collection, consider some of the possible benefits listed below, or read on for more information about Creative Commons licensing and GLAM content, and successful case studies.


 * Why release images under an open license?


 * Uploading your images to Commons connects them with other information giving them context and extra information including translations of that information onto other languages.
 * It's interesting to share your knowledge with other people, and it's a remarkable opportunity to be part of educating people all over the world.
 * A much wider audience for the images, there are over 280 different language Wikipedias and the images can be used on all of them, you can even track where they're being used.
 * Allowing people to share, use, combine and even build upon works can have unusual outcomes. A British museum found in 2013 that their £5,000 Van Dyk copy was an original worth around £1,000,000.
 * If you are worried about losing commercial opportunities to license the images it is possible to release images under a lower resolution to Wikimedia Commons and keep the higher resolution for this purpose. The low resolution images may even increase the interest in higher quality images via the wider audience.

Participants
Please add your details here, or contact us on the discussion page. When adding your details, please include any specific projects you might be interested in contributing to (i.e. transcribing digitised texts to Wikisource), any topics you are interested in, or have significant previous knowledge of:

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 * user:ACrockford
 * NLS Wikimedian-in-Residence; open to contributing in any way
 * Interested in Scottish women writers; Scottish women scientists, nineteenth-century Scottish literature, medical history in Scotland


 * user:triptropic
 * Happy to help correct typos and reformat articles. I work in a HUGE library so can help contribute and find references


 * user:Lee Bunce
 * Happy to help with events, planning, anything really.


 * user:SatuSuro
 * Happy to help from a distance - project tagging and sorting... Etc sats 09:10, 9 August 2013 (UTC)


 * user:Catherine Booth
 * Curator of Science Collections in the Library
 * Acting Curator of Russian Collections
 * Interested in anything to do with science and scientists either modern or in history; modern Russian printed books


 * User:Whiteghost.ink
 * Interested in Scottish-Australian historical connections (eg Anderson Stuart and George McRae); Scottish-French historical connections; and the nineteenth century.


 * User:Karlalbaker
 * Bartholomew Archive Curator at the National Library of Scotland
 * Interested in all things Bartholomew with an interest in maps and history generally


 * Brian McNeil
 * I've got your Wikipedia banner (well, the only one I know of in Edinburgh)! :P
 * Yes, I'm less-interested in Wikipedia than in Wikinews &mdash; but, we can do GLAM from a different perspective
 * I should be at next month's meetup (I've known the Malt Shovel for about 25 years now &mdash; used to sit in there after Student Union meetings until the following day's Scotsman was delivered.)
 * I was the interim-liaison with MGS, which work really clobbered my ability to work on; but, I've managed to get along to a few events; I am on presser lists for exhibitions and whatnot, on good-terms with a couple of local councillors &mdash; something I hope to convert into them clearing the city's public library staff to help people get involved, and to gift their video footage of public council meetings to the most-appropriate project
 * Of course, the first order of business at the meetup will probably be creating a Wikipedia page for the pub itself. ;)


 * user:thisissusanbell
 * Interests: Gaelic and Scots language and Scottish Literature. Less knowledgeable but interested in Canada, other minority languages, linguistics and folklore.
 * I'd be particularly keen to develop the Gaelic wiki (Uicipeid). I haven't tried transcribing digitised texts to Wikisource but that might interest me, particularly 19th century Gaelic periodicals - including one published in Australia which might interest User:Whiteghost.ink!