The Teylers Challenge: Working Together from Shared Ideals
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THE TEYLERS CHALLENGE Geert-Jan Janse, Project Manager Digitisation, Teylers Museum Sandra Fauconnier, Volunteer, Wikimedia Nederland
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Presentation by Geert-Jan Janse (Teylers) & Sandra Fauconnier (Wikimedia NL) for the GLAM-Wiki conference, April 2013, British Library, UK. https://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM-WIKI_2013 The Dutch chapter of Wikimedia and Teyler Museum organised a writing challenge from January till June 2012 to expand the coverage on various topics related to Teylers Museum and its rich collections. Curators and Wikipedians have successfully worked together, resulting in over 300 new articles in more then 13 languages, including Esperanto,Catalan and Volapük. Why did this project take place, how was it organised, what were our experiences, what are the lessons learned and how do we hope to continue our fruitful collaboration?
Transcript of The Teylers Challenge: Working Together from Shared Ideals
THE TEYLERS CHALLENGE
Geert-Jan Janse, Project Manager Digitisation, Teylers Museum
Sandra Fauconnier, Volunteer, Wikimedia Nederland
Mission
In perpetuation of the ideals of the Enlightenment, Teylers Museum wishes to serve society by stimulating people to discover the world for themselves and to find pleasure in art and science. -Teylers Museum-
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.That's our commitment. -Wikimedia- https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Vision
Oval Room Teylers Museum (1784) = Wikipedia 18th century
Why a competition?
• Inspiring example: Wright Challenge: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Derby/Multilingual_Challenge
• Long tradition of Essay Competitions Teyler Societies http://www.teylersmuseum.eu/teylersuniversum/index.php?m=narratio&id=39&nvlng=en
• Competition could attract new volunteers for Wikimedia
The Challenge
Project Timeline
21 Jan 2012: New Year’s reception WMNL at Teylers; Kickoff with guided tour + Speed dates curators
28 April: edit-a-thon
16 June: award ceremony Photo: CC-BY-SA Ziko van Dijk
Kickoff
Prizes
Photo Requests
Inspiring Examples
• Contributions from all over the world • Active Catalan community around 17 year
old student DavidPar • Online Discoveries: letter of John Adams
on medal in Teylers collection: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Georg_Holtzhey
• Original Articles of scientific value • Better use of online museum resources
New Contributors
Some Statistics
At the end of the Challenge: ca. 600 articles on Teylers related subjects in 13 different language wikipedias = 100% increase in article coverage (300 > 600)
Translations
Lessons learned
• Competition does work! • Discussion within Wikimedia NL
community: Conflict of Interest ? • Difficult to attract and retain new
volunteers/editors • Specialized topics > few contributors • Significant media coverage
Museum Experience
Editathon, Wikipedians and curators working together
• Kickoff: new visitors; great atmosphere • Challenge eases decision on CC-0 use images for WikiCommons • Difficult to get curators to actually work as Wikipedia editors!
What’s next?
• Wikipedian in Residence? • Follow-up in correspondance with
Rembrandt exhibition > Wiki loves Rembrandt??
• No COI but a new mode of collaboration between GLAM institutions & Wikimedia
First Prize for Lodewijk Gelauff; second prize for DavidPar - Sent by mail to Barcelona!
