This is a role I've been performing since the inception of TMIG in January 2011. I was approached by Liam Wyatt ( Wittylama) who asked if I would be "interested in compiling a monthly "this month in GLAM" report".
It started small the plan was for it to only be a single page affair. But as the GLAM movement has grown, so too has our newsletter (and I consider it to be "ours" I merely press various buttons once a month). We've gone from 3 headings to almost 20 different reports on GLAM activities all over the globe. As I wrote in the first editor's letter in February 2011, the look and feel of TMIG was originally adapted from that of the Signpost and Bugle. I've had the pleasure of steering it from a tiny publication to something that is, I feel, important for the GLAM movement as a whole. I shan't provide a retrospective of how the newsletter has evolved over the last almost-two-years (I wrote something like this at the beginning of this year read it here). I feel that I have contributed all that I can in this the role of editor I wanted to leave while it is still something I enjoy doing. I am leaving the editing of the newsletter in the more than capable hands of User:Foxj and User:Romaine who I have confidence will continue to help TMIG grow and expand over the coming years.īritish Library Wikipedian in Residence Andrew Gray helps a new editor I shall continue to be involved both in the newsletter and in the movement, just not as editor of this newsletter. On 19 October, Wikimedia UK organised an edit-a-thon at the library of the Royal Society in London. The main part of the event was an editing session focused on creating articles about women in science, particularly Royal Society Fellows. In the evening a panel discussion on women in science was organised to give more context to the issues of women's participation.ĭuring the edit-a-thon, 20 articles were created or significantly expanded in addition to 14 that were created before the day. 20 editors were present, almost all of whom were new, and 25 more participated remotely. It was widely covered, with reports in Nature, the Guardian, and the Telegraph There were 8 DYKs from contributions made at the event and 7 more, and a GA created by remote participants.
The list of scientists produced for the event is still available, and hopefully will help provoke further work. On the following Friday, a second editathon in Oxford was held on the same theme, organised by the Radcliffe Science Library.įrom 23 to 26 October, the British Library hosted a four-day editing event for the International Dunhuang Project.
During the event, Wikipedians, the project staff, and visiting students created and expanded a wide range of articles on Central Asian history and archaeology. Portrait of la Baronne de Crussol painted by Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun and uploaded by the staff of Musée des Augustins.ĭuring the summer Wikimedia France with its staff and volunteers have conducted two workshops in museums to help the staff to contribute to Wikimedia projects. In August M0tty and Adrienne went to the the Mundaneum (Museum at Mons in Belgium) to teach the museum staff how they can contribute to Wikipedia.The tutorials were specific to help the staff with their future projects on Wikimedia projects. On September 11th, two members of the chapter, also sysops on Wikimedia Commons, spent the morning in the Musée des Augustins de Toulouse to tutor and help the staff of the museum to contribute to Wikimedia Commons.Since this tutorial session, the museum staff has been improving the contents related to their area of expertise in order to use this contents with QRcodes during its exhibition about the History of Internet (starting on October 9th, 2012).
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