Benutzer:Wuselig/WP:Schreibwerkstatt "Alles nur geklaut?"
Should the following be too confusingly formated, follow this single link: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Wuselig/Baustelle#Application_Wikimania_2019
Participated in the following GLAM-Activities in Germany: 02.-03.04.2018
- I especially emphasized Wikidataprojekt Sum of all paintings and the need to use the Artwork-Template when uploading images of artwork at GLAM events, which unfortunately is not common practice with all participants.
11.-13.05.2018
- Contributed the following images: Category:Files_by_User:Rainer_Halama/GLAM_on_Tour_Sounds_Witten
- Organized a corresponding Regional Wikipedian Meet-up (see below)
- Acted as local liason between the museum and the GLAM-organization of WMDE
24.-26.08.2018
- Contributed the following images: Category:Files_by_User:Rainer_Halama/GLAMonTour_Colonia_Ulpia
21.-23.09.2018
- Contributed the following images: Category:Files_by_User:Wuselig/GLAMonTour/Jagdschloss_Grunewald
- Also cleaned up the images that had been put into this category by sorting the paintings into subcategories corresponding to each painting.
01.-03. Februar 2019
- I will organize an Edithaton in cooperation with the GLAM Institution LWL-Industriemuseum. They have incorporated the theme "Wikipedia" into their current special exhibition .
- Later in the year I will help the local museum at my hometown in Southern Germany to set up a small special exhibition about the development of encyclopedias from the Margarita_philosophica, whose author Gregor Reisch was born in this town to Wikipedia. We will also organize a GLAM on Tour event to the town, because the town also houses a unique museum about weights and balances.
Participated in the 28th Wikipedia:Schreibwettbewerb with the article Wildensteiner Altar
18.-22.07 2018 Participated in Wikimania 2018
- At the Pre-Conference I had hoped to participate at the "Decolonizing the Internet conference", but obviously they thought there was no need for an old, white male from the Global North. I joined "Learning Days" instead. The interchange with participants from smaller Wikis was the most beneficial part for me. The problem one sees in organizing Projects in our priviledged settings, suddendly become rather small. I only participated the first day, because I wasn't challenged by the format to warrant spending a second day.
- I decided for myself on the second pre-confernce day that it would be a shame to travel around half the globe to just spend my time in a conference center. So I went walkabouts in Capetown. First with a group of other participants, but in the afternoon alone to the Castle of Good Hope. There I came across an intriging exhibition that reflected the theme of the Wikimania very well. How the image and history of the Colonialized South was shaped by the Colonizers. But how the first presentation of this collection in Capetown started the protests that finally culminated into the Anti Apartheit Movement. Of course my GLAM-ambitions also got triggered, so I documented the Wiliam_Fehr_Collection.
- At the conference proper I concentrated on GLAM and Wikidata Themes, but also on talks and presentations on and about Wikis from the Non-Global North.
- Since Wiki Loves Monuments in Germany didn't have a working organization to get running in September, we formed a team at Wikimania and subsequently got Wiki Loves Monuments running in Germany.
Wiki loves Monuments Germany
- Trying to make it happen wasn't an unselfish task, since I did have ambitions myself. From my entries (Files_by_User:Rainer_Halama/WLM2018) I placed 6th in the National Compition, with three more images in the Top-100.
15.-17.02.2019
- For 2019 we decided to organize early.
- Kick-off Workshop WLM 2019-DE
- I volunteered to be the Coordinator of the Team. In Germany we are faced with the irony to be the largest numerical contributor within the Internal Contest in most years on the one hand, but still can not organize our national monuments into coherent lists. The reason for this is the federal division of the administration of cultural heritage and therefore there are sixteen different legislations, organisation of lists and even different approaches to open access to these lists. So there is an effort within Wikipedia to administer our lists, to create a working upload format to suit all 16 eventuallities. We need to get the cooperation of volunteers from Wikipedia, Commons and Wikidata to work together on a common goal. But we also need to make our lobbying clout heard within the political institutions and in some non profit foundations engaged in the protection of historical monuments. We won't be done by September, but it also doesn't make sense to continue on our old paths.
It is not only at events sponsered and organized by Wikipedians that I document artwork. At nearly every visit to a museum I photograph systametically, usually resulting in a large backlog of images.
These I managed to move to Commons in the last year:
- Category:Files_by_User:Wuselig/GLAMonTour/Stuttgart/Staatsgalerie
- Category:Files by User:Wuselig/GLAMonTour/LWL Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte
- Category:Files_by_User:Wuselig/GLAMonTour/Art_Institute_of_Chicago
- Category:Files_by_User:Wuselig/GLAMonTour/Smithsonian_American_Art_Museum (These last two were still a follow-up from a trip thru the USA following Wikimania 2017 in Montreal. Processing and proper description and categorizing is no one-day job.
What’s something great that happened as a result of these activities?
BearbeitenOur GLAM work is a collaborative work. What I have done does not have a single impact, but I pride myself in the fact that this collaborative work has changed the view of Cultural Institutions towards Wikipedia. It is now also them approaching us for collaboration as much as we looking to find partners for our work with them. On a local level of course I as a single individuum become the talking partner for the local institution. Here it is I who is responsible for the success or failure of an individual collaboration. With the LWL-Museum Group in North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany I must have done well enough so far. They are finding every more new projects for collaboration.
What collaborations with other Wikimedians or Wikimedia organizations are you most proud of?
BearbeitenThat by our collective effort we did manage to make Wiki Loves Monuments happen in Germany last year. That most people didn't even realize that it almost didn't happen. That we have started to make Wiki Loves Monuments something more than just a picture contest this year in Germany. This could be described either quantitatively or qualitatively, and could impact either online or offline.
How do you usually share your experiences (or things you’ve learned) with your community?
BearbeitenIt is usually on project discussion pages that I make my input. I think the most profund one could be found here.
It has resulted in the fact, that we did start our planning for Wiki loves Monuments in Germany early this year. I have taken it upon myself to be the coordinator for this this year. We will be using Asana this year to get the task done.