Wikipedia:GLAM/US/New York

GLAM/New York is a compilation of information about GLAM-Wikimedia partnerships in the state of New York.
Cultural professionals: Use the resources below to connect with local Wikipedians who can help you get started on a project.
Wikimedians: Please add GLAM-Wikimedia projects and news as needed.

Local contacts

GLAM-Wiki contacts

• Richard Knipel (email Richard) in New York City
  • President, Wikimedia New York City, Wikipedian in Residence (2011), Museum of Modern Art, Wikipedia administrator.
• Dorothy Howard (email Dorothy) in New York City.

  Wikipedian-in-Residence at the Metropolitan New York Library Council.

Wikimedia NYC

• Wikimedia New York City
• Planning the Wikimedia US Conference, Spring 2014.
• Hosted a Free Culture Conference April 20-21, 2013 with the Free Culture Alliance NYC.
• Regular activ

ity with the Free Culture Alliance

Education Program

Campus Ambassadors

For the Campus Ambassador program, New York is located in U.S. Region 2 (Metropolis)

Regional Ambassador: Richard Knipel (email Richard)

Announcements

New York GLAM-Wiki partnerships

• Museum of Modern Art

  The MoMA WikiProject is dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City.

  Hosted "MoMA Wikipedia 'Talk to Me (exhibition)' Edit-a-thon in 2011. The edit-a-thon was centered around filling in articles about their exhibition Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects which showed July 24 to November 7, 2011

  Contacts on Wikipedia: User:Pharos (Richard Knipel).

• New York Public Library

  The New York Public Library WikiProject is intended to facilitate the sharing of resources from the New York Public Library with the Wikimedia community. NYPL’s mission to inspire lifelong learning, advance knowledge and strengthen our communities aligns closely with Wikipedia’s goal to provide “free access to the sum of all human knowledge.”

  Contacts on Wikipedia: User:Pharos (Richard Knipel).

  Held edit-a-thon "Wikipedia the Musical!" Edit-a-thon at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

  Holsted edit-athon- ¡Wikipedia con Sabor Latino! Latin-American music at LPA

  Hosted edit-a-thon Wikipedia Goes to the Movies at LPA

  Hosted edit-a-thon April 2012: Wiki-Gangs of New York Editathon at SASB / Recap by Carmen Nigro

  Hosted Wikipedian-in-Residence, at NYPL Library of the Performing Arts, Music Division

• Brooklyn Museum

• American Folk Art Museum

• Queens Library Central Branch

  Queens Library is starting a GLAM project.

  Hosting Edit-a-Thon on Queens History on December 6, 2013.

• Metropolitan Museum of Art

  The Thomas J. Watson Library has been adding references to its collections to increase coverage of the library materials on Wikipedia.

  Several hundred links have been added on Wikipedia to the MMA publications Digital Collections on the Museum site. Now, over 50% of the traffic going to the library's Digital Collections is referred by Wikipedia.

• Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

  Wikipedia citation code placed at the bottom of pages on the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum.

• Frick Collection, Frick Art Reference Library

  Incorporating editing activities into workflow.

  Frick GLAM Page

• Center for Jewish History (CJH)

  Hosted a Wiki staff training/ Edit-a-thon, January 2013.

  Uploaded finding aid metadata to SNAC (Social Networks and Archival Context).

• Consumer Reports in Yonkers

  Consumer Reports has a Wikipedian in Residence. Wikipedia:WikiProject Consumer Reports

• Guggenheim Museum

  Guggenheim GLAM Page

  Hosted Wiki Staff training, March 2014

  Adding links to digital catalog

  Citing references to archived material

  Improving existing Guggenheim-related biographies including notable artists, scholars, researchers, cultural figures, and organizations, especially those from under-represented populations

  Improving existing Guggenheim-related articles including exhibitions, global initiatives, affiliate museums

• National Book Foundation

  NBF GLAM Page

  The NBF will be hosting a Wikipedian in Residence for 2024, working to fill gaps in Wikipedia’s coverage of American literature, share and upload materials from the NBF archives with the Wikimedia community, and connect and collaborate with other GLAM institutions and literature-related WikiProjects.

  The NBF is also looking to potentially host some events and edit-a-thons as part of these efforts.

  Contacts on Wikipedia: User:Waterfelt.

Projects

• Wikipedia Loves Art

  Wikipedia Loves Art

  Brooklyn Museum, Jewish Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, New-York Historical Society, Film Society of Lincoln Center

• Cultural Embassy

  Jewish Museum, Guggenheim Museum, United Nations Photo Library, UN OCHA Office, Geographicus, Girl Scouts National Historic Preservation Center,

• Wikipedia Loves Libraries

  The Wikipedia Loves Libraries program was initiated by Wikimedia NYC.

Press for New York GLAM-Wiki partnerships

• New York Times story on "Wikipedia! The Muscial!", an “editathon” at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts to improve Wikipedia’s musical-theater-related entries.

Professional organizations

• Metropolitan New York Library Council

See Also

• WikiProject New York (state)
• Wikipedia and Open Access LibGuide