Wikipedia:GLAM/British Library (2012–2013)

British Library archived project page
	This page has been created to act as a focal point for contributors improving articles related to the British Library. From May 2012 to April 2013, the BL hosted a Wikipedian in Residence, Andrew Gray (talk · contribs). The page about the more recent residency can be found here.

This task force is believed to be semi-active.

Although activity is slower than it once was, anyone is welcome to participate in the project.

Remove the |Semi-active parameter from this template if activity resumes or if this tag was changed in error. If almost no activity occurs in this task force, consider replacing this tag with {{WikiProject status|Inactive}}.

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WP:GLAM/BL

Activities

8 October 2016 Europeana Sounds edit-a-thon at the British Library
AHRC podcasts on the Wikipedian in Residence project and how to use and contribute to Wikipedia
Wikipedia:Participation by academic projects - guidance on how research projects can engage with & use Wikipedia
request some digitised books! - now superseded by the Mechanical Curator collection on Commons.
Articles relating to the British Library
Training workshops - now completed
Events - now completed
One on one collaborations - currently inactive, but get in touch!

Tools and templates

{{User:Rock drum/BL stub button}}
{{User:Rock drum/BL button}}
{{BritishLibrary-stub}}
{{BLCAT}} (a simple link to the BL integrated catalogue or a particular record)
{{IDP}} (links to a record on the IDP database)
{{User:Fae/Userboxes/GLAMBL}}

GLAM / British Library project contributor

{{User:Fæ/Userboxes/GLAMBL barnstar}}
Recent changes to British Library articles: Special:RecentChangesLinked/User:Mike_Peel/BLlist or use the Wikiproject Watchlist tool
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/bl.uk (useful for showing where people are visiting from and search engine queries going to BL)
Example tineye image search to show where an image is used http://www.tineye.com/search/7bc7007cc0021cc88da5e170f9f05e30e7387646/
Links to bl.uk as shown on Linkypedia

On other Wikimedia projects

Wikimedia Commons category
Portal:British Museum on Wikisource (includes BL-related books)

Press coverage

January 2011
- Ian Douglas (10 January 2011). "A collaboration of Wikipedians to gather at the British Library". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 15 January 2011.
- "British Library hosts 2-day Wikimedia Editathon". British Library. 10 January 2011.
- Mention in IT Pro article, 14 January 2011.
- Darren Allan (15 January 2011). "Wikipedia is 10 years old today". TechWatch.
- blog post by Tom Morris, a participant at the Editathon
- Laura O'Brien (15 January 2011). "Wikipedia celebrates its 10th birthday". Silicon Republic.
June 2011
- Wikimedia UK blog post by Fæ on 28th May announcing the English and Drama editathon.
- Editathon-ing away, the Victorians rule the waves! 6th June, Judith Flanders' blog post about the editathon experience.
- Lauren Collins (29 August). "Nerd Out". New Yorker. About the English and Drama editathon held on 11 June.