Wikipedia:GLAM/Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa/Wikipedian in Residence
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Te Papa regularly brings in Wikimedians from the community to work on projects to make our collections, data, and research useful to various parts of the Wiki ecosystem.
Work with Te Papa
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Previous projects
[edit]Research Expeditions
[edit]User:Ambrosia10 trialled the research expeditions schema for Wikidata, creating and enriching items about expeditions conducted by Te Papa and its predecessors. This work was supported by Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand.
Outputs included:
- 120 Wikidata items for expeditions
- Internal and public topical editathons
- Presentations to staff. For example this presentation to the Te Papa natural history team.
- A Wikidata-driven infobox for articles: {{Infobox_expedition/Wikidata}}
- A detailed report on the project, including recommendations for best practice and institutions looking to reproduce the work
WikiProject Te Papa Research Expeditions
Natural History team
[edit]User:Giantflightlessbirds worked during autumn 2023 to share information about our natural history staff and their research throughout the life of Te Papa and its predecessors.
Several detailed Wikidata items and Commons categories were created, providing helpful groundwork for articles.
Articles improved include:
- Patrick Brownsey (Start-class article created, Wikidata improved, publications disambiguated)
- Nancy Tyson Burbidge (expanded with link to Pat Brownsey)
- Aciphylla (Significantly expanded with species list, citing 3 Te Papa blog posts)
| Task | About |
|---|---|
| Add researchers to Wikidata | Including biographical information and identifiers such as ORCID |
| Find and add all available research publications | Link each to its author(s)
Create Scholia publications list and graphs |
| Create Commons categories for each researcher | Populate with openly-licensed images from Te Papa archives and other sources, including field and lab photos
Add a profile photo to Wikidata items Relevant images added to a Research at Te Papa category |
| Add researcher images to suitable articles and Wikidata items | Create monthly report to measure impact of additions |
| Create articles about current researchers that meet notability threshold | Use material already published/online as well as in Te Papa’s archives that can be cited (and published to Wikisource if possible) |
| Expand articles relevant to research at Te Papa with summaries and citations | Aim to summarise and cite the work of each researcher in at least one article |
| Look into creating other relevant articles | For example, research sites or newly-described species |