Wikipedia:GLAM/NM

The National Museum, New Delhi (official website) was established in 1949 and is administered by the Ministry of Culture. The GLAM project at the National Museum is organized by Wikimedia India Chapter and consists of a short program spanning December 2013 and January 2014. The activities at the Museum will involve training participants on aspects of licensing and Wikipedia contribution. Articles for creation or improvement will be chosen mainly on the English Wikipedia but translation to other languages are most welcome. All those interested may watch this page for articles that are chosen for improvement. Please use the talk page for any discussions. Add requests for media, articles that need to be created or improved. Volunteers and participants at the site will try and respond to media requests, requests for reliable sources or other information.

Organization

 * Contact for administration, logistics and communications: Sowmyan Tirumurti (Executive Manager, Wikimedia India Chapter) mobile: 09632911650 email: tsowmyan at wikimedia.in
 * Contact person for the National Museum: Indra Vats email: indrav06 at gmail dot com

Projects
The following are projects planned during the 4 day workshop:


 * 1) GLAM and Museums: Collaboration & Project Opportunities - A talk for Museum staff
 * 2) Wikipedia Editing workshop for Volunteers and Staff
 * 3) Applying QRpedia for a department
 * 4) Improving the Museum Wikipedia page
 * 5) Creating Pages for specific collections / objects
 * 6) Talks by global GLAM volunteers
 * 7) Volunteer photo contributions to commons

Completed sessions

 * 2 January 2014
 * 10 AM - Inauguration
 * introductory session
 * Afternoon: hands-on sessions
 * Logging in
 * User pages
 * Basic editing in sandbox
 * 3 January 2014
 * Identifying articles to improve, media
 * Hands-on - with selected articles
 * 4 January 2014
 * Talks & hands-on sessions
 * 5 January 2014
 * Understanding Copyright and licensing (Shyamal)

Pre-workshop event

 * 23 December 2013
 * Talk by Andrew Gray at the Auditorium, National Museum, Jan Path, New Delhi (1500 IST)
 * Andrew Gray is a librarian who has been working as a volunteer with the Wikimedia projects since first encountering them as a student in 2004. In 2012-13 he was the Wikipedian in Residence at the British Library in London, helping researchers and academics work with Wikipedia and other open-content projects. He is currently working as the librarian at a scientific research institute in Cambridge, UK.


 * Andrew's talk will be on "Wikipedia and culture: experiences so far"
 * Overview of Wikipedia/Wikimedia projects - audience, community, where we've got to
 * GLAM partnerships around the world - who we've worked with and what we did
 * Experiences at the British Library - what we did, how we did it, and how it worked out
 * The effect - what are people doing with these articles/collections?
 * The future - what's coming up, in India and elsewhere

Participants
Please include your names by adding three tildes like * (only after you have logged into the Wikipedia server) For information on why and how to register a user name for Wikipedia see LOGIN.

At venue

 * Shyamal (talk) (On-site between 2 and 5 January)
 * Sowmyan (talk) 16:59, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Arunram (talk)
 * Swapnil Narendra (talk)
 * Kondi (talk)

Supporting wikipedians

 * -- Around The Globe  सत्यमेव जयते (remotely coordinating on behalf of WMIN)
 * Rsrikanth05 (talk) (Remote coordination from WMIN)
 * Rohini Conducted an offline follow-up session on January 31, 2014 to help resolve queries pertaining to editing.

Participants at the museum
Please register your user name in advance of the workshop where possible. We need you to register your names so as to be able to follow-up, communicate and examine the effectiveness of the sessions. If you have not done any editing so far, just go to the Edit tab on the right top of this page. While in this Edit page, add your name to the list below by adding three ~ signs * and save (scroll down to find the save button).

You can also add the membership userbox on your user page

Museum sponsor

 * Dr.Venu Vasudevan - Director General, National Museum

Museum leadership

 * Dr. V.K. Mathur - Curator (Education) - Administration, Education & Painting & Public Relations
 * Smt. Anamika Pathak - Curator (Decorative Art) - Decorative Art & Publication

Museum staff

 * Shubha Banerji (talk) (Assistant Curator, Pre-columbian & Western Art)
 * Kalyaniaruna (talk) 09:02, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Indira Vats (talk)
 * Dipti Myra (talk)
 * Malik Namita (talk)
 * Ms. Renu Nawani (Hindi officer)
 * Ms. Rime Mara Bagra (Museum Librarian)

Museum volunteers

 * Anupam Sharma ( talk)
 * Tanu sachhar (talk)
 * Aakriti Gupta (talk)
 * shivangi Naithani (talk)
 * Saswatichaudhuri (talk) 08:51, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Bhavnadelhi (talk)
 * kanikagupta06 (talk)
 * Gunjan2604 (talk) 09:05, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Nomu420 (talk)
 * Flor peregrina (talk)
 * Manisha Goel (talk)
 * Vishnulaxmi (talk)
 * Sonal Jain
 * Kavita
 * Meenakshi
 * Swatanter swami (talk)
 * Anwar Hussain (talk)
 * Shalini Varma(talk)

Others

 * Dr. Anubhuti Yadav
 * Blessinvarkey
 * Asowmyan (talk) 09:06, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Varuncjniko (talk) 09:07, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

Remote/online participants

 * AshLin (talk) 15:12, 17 December 2013 (UTC) (tentative)
 * Cesdeva (talk)

Resources for self-learning on GLAM and Wikipedia editing
Check the Beginners guide and then Explore the Bookshelf link at the top of this page. Once you have gained some confidence you can do with just the cheat sheet. You can also consider downloading (or printing) a copy of the GLAM help guide.

More about GLAM

 * Museums and Open culture
 * GLAM-Wiki project at the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis
 * Opening up the Museum by Nina Simon video slides
 * Walters Art Museum
 * Why don’t all museums and archives want to open up like the Rijksmuseum?
 * The Age of Scale by Michael Edson slides
 * The Commons and Digital Humanities in Museums by Michael Edson

Objectives

 * Enhance the museum experience for the "Decorative Art" department with the following:
 * 1) Focused article creation for key objects
 * 2) Article improvement
 * 3) QR code implementation.

Overall coordination

 * Arunram (talk)
 * Shyamal (talk)
 * kanikagupta06 (talk)
 * Anwar (talk)
 * Rime Mara Bagra (Museum Librarian)

Team 1
Collection/Object: Wooden Vahanas collection


 * Saswatichaudhuri (talk)
 * shivangi Naithani (talk)
 * Flor peregrina (talk)
 * Swatanter swami (talk)

Page link: Carved wood vahanas in National Museum Related material: GLAM/NM/Articles/Vahanas

Team 2
Collection/Object: Jade Collection in National Museum
 * Aakriti Gupta (talk)
 * Nomu420 (talk)
 * Shalini Varma (talk)

Page link: Jade Collection in National Museum Related material: GLAM/NM/Articles/Jade from Mughal era

Team 3
Collection/Object: Gyan Chauper (Original Snakes & Ladders game and its variants)


 * Kalyaniaruna (talk) 09:02, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Bhavnadelhi (talk)
 * Renu N
 * sowmyan (talk)
 * tanu sachhar(talk)

Page link: Gyan chauper Related material: GLAM/NM/Articles/Chauper

Team 4
Collection/Object: Buddha Ivory Tusk carving


 * Shuban27 (talk)
 * Gunjan2604 (talk)
 * Manisha Goel (talk)

Page link: Ivory carved tusk depicting Buddha life stories Related material: GLAM/NM/Articles/Ivory Carvings in India

Team 5
Collection/Object: Ivory carving of Dashavathar


 * Renu Nawani (talk)
 * Swapnil Narendra

Page link: Ivory Carved Dashavtar (Hindi)] | Ivory Carved Dashavtar (English)

Others

 * Indira Vats (talk)
 * Dipti Myra (talk)
 * Malik Namita (talk)


 * Meenakshi
 * Anupam Sharma ( talk)
 * Vishnulaxmi (talk)
 * Sonal Jain
 * Kavita

Media requests and release information
Do add any requests for media relating to the collections held at the National Museum - you can see the catalogue listed at http://nationalmuseumindia.gov.in/collections.asp (use the menu) - do indicate the article(s) where they can be used as well. Release of media is not guaranteed at this point of time but requests will help in setting priorities.

Reference requests
If you are seeking any Indian history / culture / antiquities references or pages that need to be looked up, please add them here. Volunteers will try and look them up the library and hopefully also be able to share page photographs with the requester. The museum unfortunately does not have an online library catalogue but do let us know if you have a hunch on any book or journal. Please sign your request so that we can get back to you.

Here is a gallery of some spines of the books in the library to give some sense of what you can find. Due to possibly copyright problems, these images are not on Wikimedia Commons. We have introduced the librarian to WP:RX but for practical reasons it may be easy for us to forward requests to her email addressn. She is open to helping out Wikipedians in the longer run by looking up reference requests.

Articles to be created/improved
Add articles that ought be created or improved as part of this project. (Any Wikimedian or museum participant can add based on the available collections and context)
 * Pasupati seal media
 * Indus seals
 * Mughal jade
 * National Museum, New Delhi (improve referencing)
 * Indus script (improve referencing)
 * Ustad Mansur (enhance)
 * Ivory carving (India section)
 * Tanjore painting
 * Mysore painting
 * Rajput painting
 * Pahari painting
 * Kharosthi
 * Brahmi script
 * Edicts of Ashoka Ashokan Edicts in Delhi List of Edicts of Ashoka Ashoka's Major Rock Edicts