Wikipedia:GLAM/Natural History Museum and Science Museum/7th Month Report

Presentations

 * ONS presentation at the Department for Education: Wikipedia’s role in education and how statistics work on Wikipedia, a copy of the presentation is linked to from this page.
 * Science Museum All staff briefing: presentation on the impact of open licensing, the presentation given can be viewed here.

Training events

 * British Computer Society women training events in London and Southampton, link to event page
 * Office for National Statistics training event: Wikipedia editing, link to event page
 * Helped at the Medical Research Council Women in Science Wikipedia edit-a-thon event at the Royal Society, link to event page

TrowelBlazers

 * TrowelBlazers: a one-day Wikipedia editathon dedicated to improving the Wikipedia pages of key women in archaeology, palaeotology and geology, link to the event page.

A brief outline of how the projects delivered link with the general objectives of the residency, and the Wikimedia UK’s mission

 * Understanding of Wikimedia
 * The contributions that institutions can make to open licensing and mechanics of doing so
 * Teaching people to edit Wikipedia

Projects in development

 * Planning at ways the Science Museum can contribute text and media to Wikipedia as part of exhibition development

Planned projects

 * Working with staff at Imperial College to look at the possibility of making Wikipedia as part of courses