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Touring
NARA
during the WikiX DC event.
During January, there have been plenty of events.
Coinciding with Wikipedia's 10th anniversary, the
Derby Museum
announced that they were starting a collaboration with Wikipedia. To celebrate this cooperation, there will be a
Backstage Pass
and GLAMWIKI on April 9, 2011 at the
Derby Museum and Art Gallery
. This marks the first
regional GLAMWIKI in the UK
. The museum have been eager to see that articles about their artifacts be written in other languages than English. Read more about the project
here
Also, during the Wikipedia 10 years celebration, an
Edit-a-thon
was held at the
British Library
. Read more about it at the event page
on Wikimedia UK wiki
and ongoing collaboration page
on Wikipedia
GLAM fellow Liam Wyatt let Richard McCoy
guest blog
about the fact that Indianapolis museum students have written Wikipedia articles in class. Together the students created the
WikiProject about Public art
and uploaded hundreds of images to FlickR.
The end of November saw the GLAM-WIKI:UK 2010 with a lot of prominent guests. Now the slides and audio from the conference have been published
on the Wikimedia UK wiki
The
WikiX DC
event was held on January 22 at
NARA
(USA national archives). It included a Backstage Pass tour, Lightning talks and a mini conference. See the
full schedule
for more details and the extensive
w:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2011-01-24/WikiXDC Wikipedia Signpost
coverage.
Briefly
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Brooklyn Museum's
exhibition incorporating Wikipedia
has been prononounced success.
The
GLAM-WIKI:Fr 2010
event was held in Paris on December 4-5.
Popular museum critic and author of "The participatory museum" Nina Simon writes a post in her blog
Museumtwo
Want to get your content out there? Put it in Wikipedia.
Technology
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Hack-a-ton
was held in Amsterdam on Friday 14th 2011. See Wikipedia editor
TheDJ
's
blog post
. Results of the event included:
Europeana are taking part in Translatewiki. For more information see
GerardM's blog post
or
the stats
video upload button
from Open Beelden to Commons.
An iPhone photo upload application was written, called
WikiSnaps
The pywikipedia framework is now supported at
translatewiki.net
, Messages left by a bot may now be properly in the language of the wiki.
Content donations
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Amsterdam Museum
have donated 50,000 images to the public sphere via Wikimedia Commons.
See Gerard M's blogpost for more information.
The
State Library of Queensland
have
donated
50,000 images - see the
project page
for more information
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