Let's use Wikipedia to promote our collection! | DCDC14
1. Introducing customer experience
Let’s useWikipedia to promote our collection! No, let’s contribute our collection toWikipedia, so others can share it!
Digital Resources Division29/10/2014
3. “Getting content intoWikimedia is not a matter of infiltration:
it’s an opportunity to celebrate and draw attention to the
content and to the organisation that contributes it.”
Martin Poulter
Contributing
http://bit.ly/18cRjcQ
“We should pursue our andWikimedia’s shared goal of bringing
knowledge and culture to a mass audience, and avoid the pitfall
of thinking ofWikimedia in marketing terms.”
10. Daily view statistics for every page onWikipedia are publicly available through the stats tool
Available through APIs: for example the BaGLAMa tool: counts monthly hits on images from
organisations
Usage
http://stats.grok.se/en/
12. Wikipedia and its associated marks are official trademarks of the Wikimedia Foundation in the United States and other countries.
These marks are being used under license by the Wikimedia Foundation. [This project] is not endorsed by or affiliated with the
Wikimedia Foundation.
Jisc’s Spotlight Guide: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/guides/make-your-digital-resources-easier-to-discover
Blog of the Jisc’s Wikimedian Ambassador, including summary of project outcomes and lessoned learned:
http://wikiambassador.jiscinvolve.org/wp/
Article by Martin Poulter on Jisc’s digitisation and content blog: http://bit.ly/18cRjcQ
LSE blog article on publishing journals on Wikipedia: http://bit.ly/1zAjCz5
How to engage withWikimedia around uploading collections:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Participation_by_academic_projects
Commons partnerships: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Partnerships
Batch uploading onto commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Batch_uploading
Contact: p.findlay@jisc.ac.uk (from 10 November: peter.findlay@jisc.ac.uk)
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