Hyvää päivää!

(Good day!)

[[Hay Kranen]]

  • First Wikipedia edit in 2005
  • Board member of Wikimedia Netherlands 2007 - 2010
  • GLAM partnerships coordinator / advisor
  • Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums
  • Wiki Loves Art (2009)

The first Dutch Wikipedian in Residence

(the 47th in the world)

The next 30 minutes...

  • Something about being a Wikipedian in Residence
  • Something about GLAM's
  • Something about Wikipedia
  • Something about stories

What about maps?

Amsterdam around 1688, by Frederik de Wit

Wikipedian in Residence

Making content from the National Library and Archive available on the world's most visited work of reference

So, what does a WiR do?

  • Giving courses (1 in 5 employees has participated, 100 people)
  • Coordinating content donations
  • Organizing activities (like the Wikimedia new year's reception

Pretty straightforward, huh?

Nope

  • Change agent
  • Things 'normal' for Wikipedians are weird for GLAM's
  • Things 'normal' for GLAM's are weird for Wikipedians

Teaching 200-year old institutes the lessons of a 13-year old website

Most used source under Dutch population

  • Wikipedia: 52%
  • Books and libraries: 1%

January 2014: 29 visits on kb.nl

January 2014: 17.067 visits on nl.wikipedia

21 visits

20.287 visits

1.764 visits

2.401 visits

Opening up GLAM's

Logo's under CC-BY-SA

Helping Wikipedians

Wikipedia reading club, huh?

  • Library closes 16.00 on saturday
  • No lending
  • No public space to discuss
  • Bad luck if you're under 17

"De Draad"

Visitors after being placed on Main Page

Suddenly our stuff is on Commons...

8.344 images from the ANEFO set...

Archive tools

But is Wiki(m)(p)edia open enough?

Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment.

Giving a hard time to newcomers


			{{redirect|Helsingfors|the village in Västerbotten County, Sweden|Hälsingfors}}
			{{for|the 2009 Finnish film|Hellsinki}}
			{{Infobox Finnish municipality
			|name                   = Helsinki
			|official_name          = {{lang|fi|Helsingin kaupunki}}
{{lang|sv|Helsingfors stad}} |native_name = {{lang|fi|Helsinki}} – {{lang|sv|Helsingfors}} |nickname = Stadi, Hesa{{cite web|url=http://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/handle/10315/2924|title=Place Names in the Construction of Social Identities: The Uses of Names of Helsinki|last=Ainiala|first=Terhi|year=2009|publisher=Research Institute for the Languages of Finland|accessdate=22 September 2011}} |settlement_type = City |motto = |image_skyline = HelsinkiMontage NoEffects.jpg |imagesize = 300px |image_caption = From top-left: [[Helsinki Cathedral]], [[Suomenlinna]], [[Senate Square, Helsinki|Senate Square]], [[Aurinkolahti]] beach, City Hall |image_flag = |image_shield = Helsinki.vaakuna.svg |image_dot_map = |dot_x = |dot_y = |dot_map_caption = |dot_mapsize = |pushpin_map = Finland

Treating newcomers

Giving data back

API

The usefulness of chapters

Back to maps

The first Dutch Wikipedian in Residence...

We've got six WiR's right now in the Netherlands

Find a common project to work on...

Maps!

Kiitos!

(Thanks!)


  • @hayify
  • hay@wikimedia.nl

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