Europeana Awareness project by Wikimedia Sverige

"We're doing the same thing, for the same reason, for the same people, in the same medium. Let's do it together."

– Liam Wyatt, former Wikipedian in Residence at the British Museum

Wikimedia and Europeana

General public

Contests

An international photo contest in May 2013 in Austria, Israel, Finland, Spain and Sweden

Wikipedians and Wikimedians

9,000 images uploaded during the contest by 225 participants

Four types of volunteers:

Writers

Photographers

Developers

Outreach

GLAM staff

and experts

Hackathons

where programmers meet to develop new tools and improvements

GLAMwiki 2013 hackathon

in London

Fixed a bug for an upload tool for images from Europeana

- now easier

to get Europeana's material to Wikimedia Commons

People invited to help develop GLAMwiki tools

Wikimedia Hackathon Netherlands 2013

in Amsterdam

Digikult Conference

in Gothenburg

Conferences

Cultural heritage conference + hackathon for

100 participants mostly from GLAMs

Images

A great way to get GLAM material used on Wikipedia

GLAM-WIKI 2013 Conference

Image 1: Affisch skrivstuga WWI.jpg. Photo by: Laura Tuononen. CC-BY-SA.

Image 2: WWI edit-a-thon in Sweden 2013. Photo by: John Andsersson. CsC-BY-SA.

Image 3: Editing Wikipedia articles (8579423695).jpg. Photo by: Erwin Verbruggen. CC-BY-SA.

Image 4: Europeana Fashion Editathon 2013 11.jpg. Photo bsy: Artild Vågen. CC-BY-SA.

Image 5: Tadeusz Mazowiecki - Europeana - Viewing Exhibition.jpg. Photo by: Neil Bates. CC-BY-SA.

Image 6: Portret - Zelfportret? - van Carel Jacobus Behr.jpg. Photo by: ?. PD.

Image 6: Geer Oskam (Europeana) at the GLAM WIKI UK 2013 Conference - Flickr - Sebastiaan ter Burg.jpg. Photo by: Sebastiaan ter Burg. CC-BY-SA.

Image 7: Digikult hackathon.jpeg. Photo by: André Costa. CC-BY-SA.

Image 8: Maarten Zeinstra, Maarten Brinkerink and Maarten Dammers at the GLAM WIKI UK 2013 - Flickr - Sebastiaan ter Burg.jpg. Photo by: Sebastiaan ter Burg. CC-BY-SA.

Image 9: Wikimedia Hackathon 2013 - Day 3 - Flickr - Sebastiaan ter Burg (34).jpg. Photo by: Sebastiaan ter Burgz. CC-BY-SA.

Image 10: Wikilovespublicart 4.svg. Photo by: AlphaZeta. CC-BY-SA.

Image 11: Ricardo Bofill (Ricard Bofill Leví), Les quatre barres de la senyera catalana 8 DSC09517.jpg. Photo by: Coldcreation. CC-BY-SA.

Image 12: Aino patsas Lahden Kartanopuisto.jpg. Photo by: Kartanofoto. CC-BY-SA.

in London

Edit-a-thons

International conference bringing together Wikimedia

and GLAMs

Three accepted presentations about our cooperation:

• Working with hundreds of GLAMs at once – a Wikimedia-Europeana cooperation
• Wiki Loves Public Art – The next big thing?
• Open Database of Public Art in Sweden

Europeana1989

Collection Days

in Poland

Nine new articles created plus 15 existing expanded in five different languages. Nine of the 26 uploaded images were used.

WWI

in Sweden, UK, Greece, Serbia, Belgium, the Netherlands and Australia

A series of events in 7 countries on the 29th of June 2013, with a Europeana Challenge to use as many Europeana pictures as possible

A first in a series of edit-a-thons with Europeana Fashion

Fashion

Pilot in Stockholm in 2012: The added images are viewed around 300,000-400,000 (!) times per month

1864

in Copenhagen

and Stockholm

in Stockholm

47 people participated – a majority women

62 images used in 84 articles

Eleven articles in three languages were created, and 13 articles were expanded. Five of the eight uploaded images are now used in Wikipedia

Conferences