Prezi logo
Log in
Loading…

Guggenheim Wikipedia Initiative

Button to report this contentButton to embed this content on another site
ML

Mikayla Lynch

Transcript

Guggenheim Wikipedia Initiative

Peggy Guggenheim Collection

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Screenshot of Richard Armstrong Article Changes Spreadsheet, 2013.

Screenshot of Guggenheim Helsinki Plan Article (Word doc), 2014.

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Guggenheim Abu Dhabi

In the beginning

How?

Similar Missions:

Museum Architecture: October 2014

Women in Architecture: October 2015

Guggenheim Collection: May 2015

Wikimedia Foundation:

To empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally.

  • Forced to rely on an expert Wikipedian to execute a large quantity of my edits, the process was labor-intensive and inefficient.

  • Streamlining this effort meant that more minds needed to contribute consistently: staff, interns, student volunteers, and members of the Wikipedia community.
  • To secure institutional buy-in, I gave presentations to key stakeholders and held frank one-on-one conversations.

  • I framed the Guggenheim Wikipedia Initiative as a project in line with our institutional mission: it serves as a tool for sustained global collaboration while also ensuring large-scale access to art and architecture-related information.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation:

Committed to innovation, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation collects, preserves, and interprets modern and contemporary art, and explores ideas across cultures through dynamic curatorial and educational initiatives and collaborations.

With its constellation of architecturally and culturally distinct museums, exhibitions, publications, and digital platforms, the foundation engages both local and global audiences.

Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at the Guggenheim: Women in Architecture, featured two public programs including a panel of architectural historians. Photo: Kristopher McKay, October 2015.

Screenshot of collections images donated to public domain.

Dorothy Howard, former Wikipedian-in-Residence and Open Data Fellow at the Metropolitan New York Library Council, leads a Wikipedia training. Photo: Kris McKay, October 2014.

Contemporary Chinese Art: December 2016

Contemporary Artists from the Middle East and North Africa: May 2016

Guggenheim Wikipedia Initiative

A mission-driven project that ensures free access to art- and architecture-related information through sustained local and global collaboration.

Collaborators: Wikipedians, scholars, students, Guggenheim staff members and interns, artists

The Built, Unbuilt, and Unbuildable panelists discuss art and architecture in the greater Middle East. Photo: Mikayla Lynch, May 2016.

New and experienced Wikipedia editors get to work during our most recent edit-a-thon. Photo: Kris McKay

WHY WIKIPEDIA?

Grrrrrrrrrrr!!, Oil and Magna on canvas, 68 x 56 1/8 inches (172.7 x 142.5 cm). Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

How is the mission realized?

  • Through Wikipedia edit-a-thons, trainings, and free public programming, we are teaching new editors skills related to HTML coding, writing, research, and copyright law.

  • The Guggenheim also systematized Wikipedia trainings and educational projects for our seasonal interns and local university students. Now every intern walks away from the Guggenheim as a proud Wikipedian.