Grants:PEG/Metro/Institutional Growth and Community Fellow/Report/Interim

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Mid-Grant Report for Grants:PEG/Metro/Institutional Growth and Community Fellow

3-month Period I report for: Grants:PEG/Metro/Institutional Growth and Community Fellow, completed by Dorothy Howard and the Metropolitan New York Library Council.

Grant dates: July 14, 2014 – January 12, 2015

Period I: July 14 2014 – October 14, 2014

Period II: October 14, 2014 – January 12, 2015

Scope

Ongoing NYC GLAM-Wiki Institutional Communication

New Institutional Activity

Edit-a-thons/ Events

Jozef Pilsudski Institute of America – Training with institutional volunteers (7/17/14)
Westchester County Edit-a-thon at BriarCliff Manor Public Library (8/24/14)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Edit-a-thon on Museum Architecture. (10/7/14)
"One Year of Wikipedia at METRO" – Wikipedia reception and networking event + 'State of the Wiki' address at the Metropolitan New York Library Council (10/16/14)

Upcoming Events

3 Part METRO Wikipedia Webinar Series:

Youtube Webcast: Reference and Citation on Wikipedia and the Library (10/27)
Youtube Webcast: Wikipedia and Education (11/24)
Youtube Webcast: Wikipedia and Medicine (12/8)

Train-the-Trainer Edit-a-thon at CUNY Graduate Center co-run with Wikipedia ArtandFeminism group. (10/27).

Development of day-of lesson plan curricula.

Pratt Institute Manhattan, Edit-a-thon on Pratt History and Libraries (11/1)
Training in coordination with the main branch of the Westchester Library System (early, 2015)

NYC GLAM-Wiki Project Developments

Outreach Strategy

Email blasts to METRO members and targeted event invitations
Event announcements, event recaps, blogging, announcement of WMF Grant and continuing partnership
Use of Wikipedia mailing lists on and off Wiki, to inform and include local Wikipedians.

Qualitative Results

Big Picture

Continued interaction and event coordination with Wikimedia NYC, and membership, attendance at Wikimedia NYC meetings and meetups.
Professional Development for METRO members: Several Institutional Partners who have been working with us since fall, winter, and spring, 2013, who have now begun to present on Wikipedia to their own communities.
Increasing Awareness of Wikimedia Projects and the Open Knowledge / Free Content Movement
Increasing Participation of Content Experts in Open Knowledge Projects
Increasing Skills for editing/contributing
Increasing Volunteer motivation and commitment
Increasing perceptions of credibility and/or quality about Wikipedia
Effort to improve categorization of institutional images related to or containing images from METRO members and local GLAMs.

Documents Created

Edit-a-thon Sign-in sheet + opt-in Wikimetrics consent form.
Beginner's Edit-a-thon lesson plan.

Media

Wikipedia Signpost interview: “Improving the visibility of digital archival assets using Wikipedia.” (08/20/14)
OpenGLAM Blog post: “New York Cultural Heritage and Open Access Update.” (09/12/14)
Regular updates on “This Month in GLAM” Newsletter:

Hosted September U.S. GLAM-Out (09/04/14)
Tweeting about grant activities at: @DorothyR_Howard
Commons institutional pages created for METRO members, and categorizes created for METRO members with GLAM-Wiki initiatives, to help trace collections and institutional contributions on Wikimedia Commons.
Affiliate William Blueher blogs about Wikipedia. “Watson Library Collaborates with Wikipedia.” (07/30/14)

Press/Calendars

New York Archives Week 2014 Events Calendar: "Wikipedia Edit-a-thon for Museum Architecture at the Guggenheim." (10/14)
Guggenheim Edit-a-thon featured in: “This Week in New York.” Art in America Magazine. (10/07/14)
“Wikipedia Edit-a-thon with the Guggenheim Museum Library and Archives.” By Sarah Haug. (10/02/14)
“Go Gugg-a-thon: How we Collaboratively Edited Architecture Pages on Wikipedia.” Rebecca Mir. (10/17/14)

Quantitative Results

Totals

5 new meetings with potential institutional partners
3 new training/edit-a-thon events
3 upcoming public Wikipedia events
3 upcoming fall/winter Wikipedia webinars
2 blog articles written
2 new GLAM Project pages
8 on-going, supervised GLAM institutional partners in the New York City area.

Wikimedia Commons Institutional Images Uploaded

1445 images contributed by Jozef Pilsudski Institute
73 images contributed by the Frick Collection
Creation or regional library branch categories RE: Commons:Category:Queens Borough Public Library branches.

Edit-a-thon Stats

Gathered for the Westerschester County Edit-a-thon, Mount Sinai Edit-a-thon and Guggenheim Edit-a-thon, using Wikimetrics.

Circa 63 in attendance at Edit-a-thons thus far.
27 pages created by event attendees.

Westchester County Edit-a-thon at BriarCliff Manor Public Library (8/24)

Event page

Circa 13 attendees.

1 Day after event

Bytes Added by attendees: 98,097 bytes added
Number of Edits: 275 edits made
Pages Created: 15 pages

30 days after event

Bytes Added by attendees: 1,816,277
Number of Edits: 3380
Pages Created: 248

Guggenheim Museum Edit-a-thon on Museum Architecture (10/7)

Event page

24 in attendence

1 Day after event

Bytes added: 50,679
Number of edits: 211
Pages created: 5

1 Week after event

Bytes added: 444,136
Number of edits: 602
Pages created: 16