Dr
Mike Dickison was employed as Lincoln University Wikipedian in Residence at
Lincoln University, New Zealand, from November–December 2019. This placement was a proof-of-concept to develop a Wikipedia strategy for the University for implementation in 2020. (Unfortunately budget constraints and the impact of COVID-19 stopped this from happening.)
Resources
Mike was assisted by LTL staff Deborah Fitchett, Eunju Jung, Anisha Thomas, and Craig Murray. The project was organised through a Google Doc,
Lincoln University WiR To Do list. In the spirit of Wikimedia, anyone is welcome to help fill in the gaps. The following resources will be useful.
Create a To Do list of articles and categories to improve (
done)
Bulk upload of some images – Lincoln CC BY copyrighted or public domain – that can be used to illustrate articles on the university, the town Lincoln, and other New Zealand articles. (done)
Attempt to release staff profile pictures to accompany Wikidata items. (done) for Entomology
Begin Wikidata and Wikicite projects with a selection of
Lincoln University (Q1048626) researchers and publications (done)
Improve the Lincoln Wikipedia article to US or UK standards, and monitor analytics (not done; the article has been much improved, but needs some dedicated work involving other volunteers)
Create a long-term Wikipedia strategy for Lincoln (done)
On December 9, Wikipedia volunteers
Schwede66 and
Podzemnik came out to Lincoln from Christchurch and spent an hour photographing campus buildings for upload to
Category:Buildings of Lincoln University. We added 180 images of buildings and 40 of public artworks and created 20 new categories.
Worked with Entomology Department archives to select, scan, and bulk-upload photos representing staff, field trips, and research; created Commons
Category:Entomology at Lincoln University.
Added images of those holotypes to Wikipedia articles, in multiple languages where possible: for example, the Anoteropsis cantuaria photo is now used in the articles in
English,
Italian,
Dutch,
Swedish,
Vietnamese,
Cebuano, and
Waray.
Performed
author disambiguation on Entomology Department authors, including Rowan Emberson, Mike Bowie, John Marris, and Graham Osborne, to make the publications in Wikidata use the author Wikidata item, instead of a name string.
Developed a metadata template for Blackmore photos, using the
Ruth Burns photo as an example
Uploaded 255 scanned negatives from the Blackmore Collection to Commons as
Category:Photographs_by_Ron_C._Blackmore: a mixture of building projects, class photos, University staff, and official visits during Blackmore's time as Visual Aids Officer, 1947–1966. About 70 photos added to subcategories of Buildings of Lincoln University, supplementing the ones newly-added by volunteers.
Lincoln University (New Zealand) had received in 2019
28,263 page views (a daily average of 86), and had had 12 edits by 9 editors. It was a 14.4 KB, C grade article. There were currently articles on Lincoln University in 11 language Wikipedias.
Dr
Mike Dickison was employed as Lincoln University Wikipedian in Residence at
Lincoln University, New Zealand, from November–December 2019. This placement was a proof-of-concept to develop a Wikipedia strategy for the University for implementation in 2020. (Unfortunately budget constraints and the impact of COVID-19 stopped this from happening.)
Resources
Mike was assisted by LTL staff Deborah Fitchett, Eunju Jung, Anisha Thomas, and Craig Murray. The project was organised through a Google Doc,
Lincoln University WiR To Do list. In the spirit of Wikimedia, anyone is welcome to help fill in the gaps. The following resources will be useful.
Create a To Do list of articles and categories to improve (
done)
Bulk upload of some images – Lincoln CC BY copyrighted or public domain – that can be used to illustrate articles on the university, the town Lincoln, and other New Zealand articles. (done)
Attempt to release staff profile pictures to accompany Wikidata items. (done) for Entomology
Begin Wikidata and Wikicite projects with a selection of
Lincoln University (Q1048626) researchers and publications (done)
Improve the Lincoln Wikipedia article to US or UK standards, and monitor analytics (not done; the article has been much improved, but needs some dedicated work involving other volunteers)
Create a long-term Wikipedia strategy for Lincoln (done)
On December 9, Wikipedia volunteers
Schwede66 and
Podzemnik came out to Lincoln from Christchurch and spent an hour photographing campus buildings for upload to
Category:Buildings of Lincoln University. We added 180 images of buildings and 40 of public artworks and created 20 new categories.
Worked with Entomology Department archives to select, scan, and bulk-upload photos representing staff, field trips, and research; created Commons
Category:Entomology at Lincoln University.
Added images of those holotypes to Wikipedia articles, in multiple languages where possible: for example, the Anoteropsis cantuaria photo is now used in the articles in
English,
Italian,
Dutch,
Swedish,
Vietnamese,
Cebuano, and
Waray.
Performed
author disambiguation on Entomology Department authors, including Rowan Emberson, Mike Bowie, John Marris, and Graham Osborne, to make the publications in Wikidata use the author Wikidata item, instead of a name string.
Developed a metadata template for Blackmore photos, using the
Ruth Burns photo as an example
Uploaded 255 scanned negatives from the Blackmore Collection to Commons as
Category:Photographs_by_Ron_C._Blackmore: a mixture of building projects, class photos, University staff, and official visits during Blackmore's time as Visual Aids Officer, 1947–1966. About 70 photos added to subcategories of Buildings of Lincoln University, supplementing the ones newly-added by volunteers.
Lincoln University (New Zealand) had received in 2019
28,263 page views (a daily average of 86), and had had 12 edits by 9 editors. It was a 14.4 KB, C grade article. There were currently articles on Lincoln University in 11 language Wikipedias.