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The last two years of our Wiki
Workplan (20-21 and 21-22) have been affected by the COVID pandemic, particularly the lockdowns that staff at the Museum experienced during 2020 and 2021. This resulted in us pivoting away from in-person engagement to supporting Museum staff with work they could do from
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Knowledge is different from most other social-media channels used by the
Auckland Museum. Knowledge is a community-written encyclopedia and members of the public are free to write about Museum objects, current and former employees, or the Museum itself. Being an encyclopedia, Wikipeida is a tertiary
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By doing this the Museum is seeking to increase engagement on various
Wikimedia platforms focusing on local and global communities, both online and on-site. The end goal is to pivot towards a strategic approach that contributes Museum collections and expertise to increase engagement and contributes
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in July 2021 and sporadic meet-ups. Staff at the Museum continued to edit and enhance
Knowledge pages with content sourced from Museum research and open collection imagery. We also created ISA Tool campaigns to provide work for Visitor Hosts who we unable to work at the Museum due to lockdowns. In
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If Museum staff edit articles about the Museum as an institution, other users may perceive a conflict of interest. Simple factual changes (e.g.: personnel updates or outdated statistics) may likely be made without contention, but more substantive changes should be proposed first using discussion
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These guidelines communicate the Museumâs expectations of staff engaging in editing
Knowledge articles and provide a public-facing explanation of the editing methodology of Museum staff, and also acknowledge that the institution is aware of and dealing with any potential conflicts of interest in
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as we sought input from the Wiki community itself about how to best engage with the Wiki ecosystem. The report covered a number of areas: the coverage of museum building, staff and collections on
Knowledge; Wikimedia Commons image uploads; Wikimedia Commons licensing; Wikidata engagement; Museum
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The other project investigated how we could use
Knowledge as a resource for the upcoming compulsory Aotearoa NZ Histories Curriculum, and settled on editing and enhancing Auckland suburb articles that can be used as resources for teachers and students in the local history component of the new
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Where staff are contributing Museum assets (i.e., digitised images of collection items that are in copyright, or photographs taken by the Museum) to
Wikimedia Commons, they must: have Museum authorisation to release the specific files; use the appropriate license; and apply the Museum's
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Since 1852, Auckland War
Memorial Museum TÄmaki Paenga Hira has been amassing a world-class, encyclopaedic collection, which now comprises some three million objects and countingâeach telling a story that helps interpret, understand, and illuminate the history of
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source that does not publish original information (i.e. information for which no independent secondary source exists). Knowledge contributors, including staff, do not own their contributions; contributions may be contested or changed.
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and have a download button, or be Public Domain/Out of
Copyright. If the image does not meet these requirements it should not be uploaded to Commons. "No known copyright restrictions" is not necessarily sufficient.
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In 2020 Auckland Museum began a more active strategic approach to its engagement with Wikimedia, Knowledge and Wikidata, with a new Wiki Workplan that enables it to work towards the organisation's
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The Museum's annual Workplans have been informed by both the recommendations of this report and research into Knowledge and Wikidata best practice. Previous years Workplans can be found
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Images in Auckland Museum's collections can fall under a range of Copyright restrictions. If an image is to be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons it needs to be licensed under
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265:⢠Restart monthly edit-a-thons for the Auckland Knowledge community. These will be a mix of in person and online events, focusing on particular themes or skill-sharing.
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is biographical database established to commemorate those who have served in the armed forces for New Zealand. It contains information on more than 140,000 people.
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Museum staff must disclose their affiliation with the Museum on their user page before editing. Templates are available on the Museumâs Participants project page.
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research and publications; Museum photography and documentation, and the relationship with the Wikimedia community. In total there were 56 recommendations.
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total 11 campaigns were run, and 15 participants added 34,136 tags to Museum content on Wikimedia Commons. Staff also contributed to
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curriculum. To test whether this would be feasible, we applied for and undertook a WMF Research project from May 2021-March 2022
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319:⢠Add images to Knowledge Commons used in Records of Auckland Museum, if they are out of copyright or have CC-BY licenses.
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