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British Museum project page Wikipedia and galleries, libraries, archives, & museums (GLAMs) ought to do more together: they have shared interests in presenting and making historical and cultural information available to the public. This page is intended to help coordinate some experimental metrics systems from Wikipedia that can be useful to GLAMs. In particular, this page shows the outcomes from the British Museum's pilot "Wikipedian-in-residence" program in June 2010. Witty lama was the inaugural resident. The June 2010 "Wikipedian in residence" pilot project is now concluded. Events Wikipedia:GLAM/BM/Ice Age Event - October 13, 2011 - please sign up there, only 20 places! To do edit to do list Articles with {{citation needed}} tags: British Museum Crystal skull Exhibitions of artifacts from the tomb of Tutankhamun The Great Wave off Kanagawa Museum Street Hoa Hakananai'a Admonitions Scroll Chatsworth Head Crouching Venus Elgin Marbles Jennings Dog Empress pepper pot Ribchester Helmet Babylonian Map of the World Mechanical Galleon Cuerdale Hoard Lewis chessmen Sutton Hoo Swimming Reindeer John Payne Collier Allan Octavian Hume Edward Seymour, 12th Duke of Somerset Leonard Woolley Henry Hook (VC) Charles Konig Noel Annan, Baron Annan Karen Armstrong Heneage Finch, 4th Earl of Aylesford Joseph Banks Antony Gormley John Kendrew G. M. Young Articles with dead links: Exhibitions of artifacts from the tomb of Tutankhamun Secretum (British Museum) Terracotta Army Unlucky Mummy Elgin Marbles Charles Townley Vale of York Hoard Patience Wheatcroft, Baroness Wheatcroft David M. Wilson Liz Forgan Amartya Sen Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford Outcomes Featured Holy Thorn Reliquary Good Articles Vindolanda tablets Did you knows Nimrud Ivories (15 March 2011, 13,500 views) Joseph and Potiphar's Wife (etching) Other articles created 2010 collaboration Major Activities Backstage Pass tour (see Results of the day) Feature Article Prize - 5x£100 giftshop voucher prize for new Featured Articles related to BM collection in any language. See link for details, including the winners. One on one collaborations - for where individual Wikipedians are working with curators on a particular topic. Photos requested listings "Hoxne challenge" - project to focus effort on one article with all resources made available School translations project - project to have highschool students in France translate the opening section of high importance articles, before coming to visit the museum A History of the World in 100 Objects - crowdsourcing the creation of articles about each object in the list before it's appearance on the BBC radio series of the same name. In-house presentations/training (ongoing): Wikimedia presentations given to departments of: Asia; Greece & Rome; Prints & Drawings; Prehistory & Europe; Portable Antiquities;... Other discussions held with: Legal department (re. copyright); British Museum Company (image sales & shop) (re.commercial re-use of WP content); Community outreach department (re. engagement with digital visitors); IT department (re. MediaWiki)... Visits to other institutions: The V&A; The British Library; JISC & Culture 24 sponsored workshop[1];Nordiska Museet and industry workshop, Stockholm[2];... Reporting Mainstream Press Cohen, Noam (4 June 2010), "Venerable British Museum Enlists in the Wikipedia Revolution", New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/05/arts/design/05wiki.html  Nat Torkington, Oreilley Radar, 12 March Four short links Paul Reynolds on "Afternoons with Jim Mora" Radio New Zealand [3] NMDC June mailout, headline notice, "British Museum appoints first 'volunteer Wikipedian in residence'"[4] Cohen, Noam (11 July 2010), "How Can Wikipedia Grow? Maybe in Bengali", New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/12/business/media/12link.html  Blogposts Outcomes Collaboration on Hoxne Hoard during the Hoxne Challenge event. Featured Hoxne Hoard – featured on the main page on 16 November 2010 57,400 views Lindow Man – featured on 26 December 2010, 47,600 views Royal Gold Cup – featured on 10 July 2010, 13,400 views (incomplete stats) Rosetta Stone – featured on 14 September 2010, 100,000 views Sweet Track Good Articles Burney Relief Gebelein predynastic mummies Parthenon Frieze Seax of Beagnoth Book of the Dead Current candidates: Did you knows Minoan Bull-leaper (10 June 2010, 4,800 views) Seax of Beagnoth (10 June 2010, 3,800 views) Nereid Monument (11 June 2010, 1,300 views) Holy Thorn Reliquary (13 June 2010, 504 views), FA in 2011 Ship's chronometer from HMS Beagle (13 June 2010, 266 views) Hedwig glass (16 June 2010, 6,700 views) Lothair Crystal (16 June 2010, 3,400 views) Bassae Frieze (16 June 2010, 730 views) John Henning (1771–1851) (16 June 2010, 612 views) Harpy Tomb (18 June 2010, 5,500 views) Royal Gold Cup (23 June 2010, 7,200 views), later FA Little Thetford flesh-hook (1 July 2010, 3,500 views) Hoxne Hoard (3 July 2010, 1,900 views), later FA Ormside bowl (5 July 2010, stats unavailable) Empress pepper pot (7 July 2010, stats unavailable) Isabella Brant (drawing) (9 July 2010, stats unavailable) Frome Hoard (13 July 2010, 8,800 views) Shrewsbury Hoard (19 July 2010, 2,800 views) Tregwynt Hoard (28 July 2010, 3,200 views) Copper Bull (29 July 2010, 9,800 views) Seated Buddha from Gandhara (2 August 2010, 2,900 views) Ain Sakhri lovers (4 August 2010, 13,500 views) Chairman Mao badge (6 August 2010, 3,900 views) Broighter Gold (7 August 2010, 2,100 views) Mechanical Galleon (7 August 2010, 10,500 views) Milton Keynes Hoard (10 August 2010, 7,400 views) Winchester Hoard (17 August 2010, 12,400 views) Swimming Reindeer (18 August 2010, 30,000 views) Rock gong (21 August 2010, 2,400 views) Admonitions Scroll (23 August 2010, 5,500 views) Witham Shield (28 August 2010, 4,800 views) Ipswich Hoard (30 August 2010, 3,700 views) Dunstable Swan Jewel (30 August 2010, 7,000 views) John Thomas Smith (1766-1833) (1 September 2010, 1,400 views) Double-headed serpent (6 September 2010, 4,900 views) Kakiemon elephants (16 September 2010, 8,200 views) Lycurgus Cup (19 September 2010, 2,400 views) Penrith Hoard (25 September 2010, 2,100 views) Ribchester Helmet (25 September 2010, 3,500 views) Waterloo Helmet (26 September 2010, 9,500 views) Meyrick Helmet (27 September 2010, 7,000 views) Feathered Helmet (30 September 2010, 3,300 views) Akan Drum (4 October 2010, 10,400 views) Wandsworth Shield (7 October 2010, 5,000 views) Throne of Weapons (8 October 2010, 13,500 views) Russian Revolutionary Plate (11 October 2010, 2,400 views) Tree of Life (Kester) (28 October 2010, 11,500 views) Paracas Textile (31 October 2010, 12,200 views) John Henry Keen (26 November 2010, 1,200 views) Guisborough Helmet (26 November 2010, 8,200 views) List of Book of the Dead spells (17 December 2010, 2,100 views) Andrea Crestadoro (22 December 2010, 1,600 views) Other articles created Briggs Enigma Ethnography at the British Museum Herculean Sarcophagus of Genzano Ian Jenkins (curator) Oxborough dirk Tomb of Payava Valerie Flint Other Improvement of all articles in "high importance/stub quality" Links back from the British Museum catalogue to Feature articles [27][28] Two Wikipedians working on-site to improve articles with the Asia and Prints departments respectively. Hundreds of images added from the Portable Antiquities Scheme pictures added here i.e. where license allows. Webcitation reports 741% increase in traffic for A History of the World in 100 Objects ... oh and 1,500,000 % traffic increase for another BM article Qualitative The quality matrix as it stood on 1 June, 2010 British Museum-related articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 1 3 3 1 8 GA 3 4 2 9 B 2 8 5 6 21 C 1 11 30 15 57 Start 1 15 54 49 119 Stub 11 22 1 34 List 2 1 1 4 NA 18 18 Assessed 5 40 109 96 18 2 270 Unassessed 5 5 Total 5 40 109 96 18 7 275 One goal of this experimental project is to use a WikiProject-tag-like system via the template {{BM-related}} to generate an assessment matrix for British Museum-related articles as known through Wikipedia's category for the British Museum. To prevent problems associated with conflict of interest (since these metrics are intended for people at the museum), subcategories for people employed at the museum are excluded. Quantitative Note: To make a more readable graph, "pageviews" have been dropped down by two orders of magnitude. This now clearly shows an average ratio of pageviews to clickthroughs of 100:1. This data is generated using the Treeview tool. This combines the pageviews for articles in any given category/categories into a total number. For some months the data did not fully compile and has been extrapolated. The specific search criteria being tracked as the main measurement is listed as one of the two example searches for the tool. Specifically, this is en.wp only, searching Category:British Museum with all subcategories, but excluding the subcategories "British Museum directors", "Employees of the British Museum" and "Trustees of the British Museum". This matches the criteria used in the qualitative measurement. When running the same script across all languages the numbers for May increase to 586 919 [29]. Before the assessment of all British Museum related articles (see "qualitative") many articles were not listed in British Museum categories. As a result of this comprehensive assessment many new BM related articles were discovered, added to the categories and therefore counted in the quantitative survey. The results gave a significant increase in pageviews reported. For example, under the initial schema the combined pageviews for March 2010 were thought to be 350,340. After the comprehensive survey this figure increased to 513,049 - an increase of 32% June 2010 June 2010 is the month during which the "Wikipedian in Residence" project took place. Due to continued focus on many BM-related articles and the creation and DYK featuring of a dozen new articles, this month represents the single largest month of organically generated pageviews and clickthroughs (only beaten by the abberation of the release of the Crystal Skull Indiana Jones film in July 2008). No new Feature Articles were created in this month but several will appear in the subsequent months increasing this total further. September 2010 The Treeview figures have been typically of the order of 500,000 each month although Augusts is missing. The figure for September (on the 28th) was 789 808. That is 50% or so up on the summer figures. (It could be seen as double the March figure previously reported, but if that is remeasured using today's categories then its figure is also now c. 500,000) Victuallers (talk) 08:46, 28 September 2010 (UTC) Multimedia Commons:Category:British Museum has 3194 images of which 1355 are in use (as of August 2010)[30] These images are used in 1,114 pages in the English language edition of which the most viewed is "England" (which uses two images). All pages with BM related images were viewed 14,617,720 times on the English language edition in May 2010 and 23,083,071 over all languages.[31] The individual images most used are File:Greek_pottery.png (2,240 times) and File:Cameo August BM Gem3577.jpg (1,260 times) - both used in templates. Ongoing To Do list Redlink suggestions using highlights, A History of the World in 100 Objects and common clickthroughs to the BM: Tanit stelae[32], Copper Bull (Ubaid)[33], Kurlil statue (Ubaid)[34], Stelae of Nabonidus[35]... {{British-Museum-stub}} was deleted after discussion at Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion/Log/2011/January/3, follow-up may be needed to check on any tidy-up or to challenge the deletion discussion (which only had one opinion expressed).