Wikipedia:GLAM/Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa/Staff Contribution Policy and Editing Help
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Identifying as Te Papa Staff[edit]
Te Papa staff must disclose their affiliation with the Museum on their user page before editing. Use the Te Papa user page template
Te Papa staff should also add the category [[Category:Wikipedia:GLAM/TP participants (staff)]] to their user page.
Te Papa Staff Editing Policy[edit]
The following policy statements communicate Te Papa’s expectations for its staff who make any contributions to Wikimedia Foundation projects. Te Papa is aware of and transparently handling any potential conflicts of interest in (paid) staff editing.
These statements are based on the work of the Auckland War Memorial Museum and the United States National Archives, (CC BY-SA).
Equality[edit]
Te Papa staff participate in Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and other Wikimedia Foundation projects on equal footing with all other editors, by using individual rather than institutional accounts.
Like any editor, Te Papa staff recognise that they don’t own their contributions, and they may be contested or changed.
Neutrality[edit]
Te Papa staff must disclose their affiliation with the Museum on their user page before editing. Use the Te Papa user page template
Te Papa staff will not edit Wikipedia articles about the Museum as an institution or other Te Papa staff as this can be viewed as a conflict of interest and has significant reputational risk. Staff can propose edits on article talk pages.
- For help finding others who can make the needed edit, try the Wikipedia User Group of Aotearoa New Zealand (on twitter @WikiprojectNZ), or talk to Victoria Leachman, Head of Collection Access.
When editing articles, Te Papa staff will always use an impartial voice as they are writing for an encyclopedia, not acting as a spokesperson for Te Papa.
Use of Te Papa material[edit]
When contributing Museum assets (such as digital collection images or text from Te Papa publications), Te Papa staff must understand and correctly apply the license that applies to that material. If clearance is required, check with Te Papa's Rights team.
When referencing Te Papa material, do link back to the specific source on Collections Online or another permanent page.
Guidelines for Te Papa staff editing Wikipedia, Wikidata, or Wikimedia Commons[edit]
The Wikimedia Foundation projects of Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons are different from most other social-media channels used by Te Papa.
Wikipedia is a community-written encyclopedia and members of the public are free to write about Museum collection items, current and former employees, or Te Papa itself. Being an encyclopedia, Wikipedia is a tertiary source that does not publish original information or original research (i.e. information for which no independent secondary source exists).
Wikidata is the central storage space for the structured data of its Wikimedia sister projects including Wikipedia, Wikisource and others. It is a knowledge base that can be read and edited by both humans and machines. Like Wikipedia it is a tertiary source that does not publish original information or original research. Referencing the source of statements is a significant contribution to the value of this dataset. A basic knowledge of SPARQL coding language is helpful when considering extracting information from Wikidata.
Wikimedia Commons is the Wikimedia Foundation project that permits contributions of freely usable media files. When adding content to this media repository copyright statements for both the United States and New Zealand should be added to any contributed file. Any reuse of images from Wikimedia Commons should be correctly credited. To avoid duplication of effort, talk with the Digital Channels Outreach Manager before uploading any collection images as they may already have a bulk upload planned.
Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons contributors, including staff, do not own their contributions; contributions are licensed openly; and contributions may be contested or changed by other editors. When contributing to any of the Wikimedia Foundation projects you are part of a community and are expected to respect the community norms. This includes referencing and citing your sources.
Editing Guidance and Help for Te Papa Staff[edit]
There are a number of tutorials available for Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons
Setting up an account and editing Wikipedia[edit]
When setting up your account as a Te Papa staff member you must:
- add a conflict of interest statement to your user page. Copy and paste this text into your user page and then fill it in. {{Te Papa user page | name = | title = | email = }}
- add this category to your user page by copying and pasting this text [[Category:Wikipedia:GLAM/TP participants (staff)]]
- add your user name to the user list below
Some editing resources are:
- A useful introductory video on editing Wikipedia YouTube video – How to Edit Wikipedia – a 2018 tutorial (47:44)
- This includes
- How to create and set up your account (00:00)
- Looking at an example page (04:07) including the Talk page (10:50) and View History (11:25)
- Drafting an article and using your Sandbox (13:00) including having a minimum of 50 to 100 words with three high quality, reliable, secondary sources (13:50), drafting content and editing tools in visual editor (16:25), adding citations (19:02), adding images from Wikimedia Commons (26:10), adding an info box (28:24), categories (30:35)
- Your own talk page (33:25) including adding a new editor badge
- Moving drafted content to Wikipedia's livespace (39:23)
- A timelapse of drafting and publishing a new article on Wikipedia (44:23)
- This includes
- Learn to edit Wikipedia in under an hour! The Wikipedia Adventure
- A training manual developed by the State Library of Queensland can help Te Papa staff develop their Wikipedia editing skills.
- Another useful guide (with videos) can be found at Wikipedia:GLAM/Beginner's guide to Wikipedia.
- An older but still useful manual
Editing Wikidata[edit]
Here are a number of useful introductory videos on Wikidata and why it's great. They are ranked by complexity and depth of information.
- YouTube video – Wikidata and Why You Should Care. (7 min 37 sec)
- YouTube video – How to manually edit Wikidata. (2 min 15 sec)
- YouTube video – An Introduction to Wikidata. (22 min 34 sec) and the slide deck from this presentation.
- YouTube video – A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners including non-techies! (3 hrs 4 min 32 sec)
- This last video is three hours long so use these time markers to skip to the sections you are interested in.
- What is Wikidata? The basic concept. (00:00)
- Live Demo: Anatomy of items on Wikidata (37:40)
- Live Demo: How to contribute a new statement to a Wikidata item (1:09:38)
- Live Demo: How to a reference to a new Wikidata statement (1:14:09)
- Live Demo: How to create an entirely new item on Wikidata (1:27:07)
- Live Demo: How to embed Wikidata into pages on other wikis (1:52:54)
- Live Demo: Tools like the Wikidata Game (1:39:20)
- Live Demo: Article Placeholder (2:01:01)
- Live Demo: Reasonator (2:54:15)
- Mix'n'Match (2:57:05)
- Live Demo: How to Query Wikidata (including SPARQL examples) (2:05:05)
- This last video is three hours long so use these time markers to skip to the sections you are interested in.
Staff participating in this Wikiproject[edit]
- Einebillion (talk)
- Stitchbird2 (talk)
- Avocadobabygirl (talk)
- Cameocreme (talk)
- Nukteris (talk)
- Mordreth007 (talk)
- Amylouedits (talk)
- Porrhothele (talk)
- Thom Linley (talk)
- Friskyfrisbeedisc (talk)
- TreeReader (talk)
- 3treehouses (talk)