GLAM Project/Joint Event

From Wikimedia Hong Kong, the Local Wikimedia Chapter in Hong Kong

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Backstage Pass

Wikimedians as a rule are very interested in knowledge, at a level that can go beyond what is available to see in museum displays. Wikimedians also frequently have specific interests in certain objects, which may not be commonly on display, that they have been researching and writing Wikipedia articles about.

Tours, either within the institutions or behind the scenes, are a great way to engage wikimedians in the contents of your collections, and a useful way to give them knowledge about items that can then be spread online via Wikipedia articles and freely reusable images. This is especially true if a large part of your collection is not commonly publicly displayed.

A Backstage Pass event aims to share the expertise of real-world institutions with our wiki-expertise. Principally this involves an organisation or interest group hosting a private tour for the benefit of local Wikimedians and in reciprocation we help improve the content on Wikipedia/Commons that is relevant to that organisation.

GLAM-WIKI

GLAM-WIKI is an event allows representatives from the cultural sector came together with representatives from the Wikimedia community for a two-way dialogue to determine how to use the two communities' strengths to a mutual advantage.

• why and how cultural institutions could work with Wikimedia projects; and
• what Wikimedia needs to do to make collaboration easier and more effective.

The first GLAM-WIKI was held by Wikimedia Australia in August 2009, and similar events will be held in London and Paris in 2010.

 

Hong Kong Loves Wikipedia

Hong Kong Loves Wikipedia can be a scavenger hunt and free content photography contest running in museums and cultural institutions across the Hong Kong. The aim is to increase the number of pictures available to illustrate Wikipedia articles, and to inspire new articles. As photography is generally not allowed in GLAM institution, negation for such approval from insinuation may need beforehand.