Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/Share Your Knowledge/Step/3

A guiding path that makes the collaboration among cultural institutions and Wikipedia easier. It has been created for WikiAfrica and gives its contribution to the GLAM project.

Share Your Knowledge

Step 1

Step 2

Step 3

third step: check out the path edit

It takes 1 week

1 - fill in the form

15 minutes

Fill in the form. Share Your Knowledge evaluation form guides you in evaluating the project impact, observing the situation and steping forward. Fill in the form regularly.

After 1 month (since you've given the authorization for contents use)
After 3 months
After 6 months
After 1 year.

The results of the fulfilled forms are used to evaluate Share Your Knowledge.

2 - which are the questions I have to ask myself?

15 minuti

How does the institution staff work?
- Do the new institution contents have the free licenses? If not, why?
  - → Check out the first step: put the license on your contents
- Does the institution staff regularly add contents on Wikipedia? If not, why?
  - → Check out point 1.2 - get staff, collaborators, partners and audience involved.
- Have the necessary rights for CC license release been acquired?
  - Have acquittances, bids, appointment letters, partnerships been updated?
  - → Check out point 1.3 - acquire the rights needed for the license CC release
- Have special events been promoted to improve collaboration? (such as seminaries, meetings, workshops on how to write articles, etc...)
- Have collaborators and external partners been informed? Which feedback did they give?
Which has been the impact on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects up today?
- How many articles have been created by now? How many of them are “quality articles” or “featured articles”? Are the trends rising?
- How many images have been uploaded? Are they used within articles? → Check Wikimedia Commons partnerships page
- Which and how many are the entries on other Wikipedia editions (i.e. Wikipedia in Spanish, French, Italian...)?
- Which and how many are the entries in other Wikipedia “sister” projects (like texts on Wikisource, lessons in Wikiversity)?
- Did the community discuss about it? Which were the hints?
- Have there been any external feedback on the media (newspapers articles, specialized press, sector blogs, etc...)?
- Have the contents on Wikipedia been used also by other subjects and in other fields (i.e. school, other websites, etc...)?
Is the CC BY-SA license clear and is it in any page/document?
- → Check out first step: Add the license on the contents
Has the authorization for the contents use chosen by the institution been told to Wikipedia?
- → Check out the second step: Communicate the license to Wikipedia
How has your institution press office worked till now?
Do the contents provided by the institution seem really interesting for an encyclopedia?
- → Check out the first step: Choose which contents can be shared
Did the institution really provide all the available contents, or are there other contents that weren't yet released under free license?
- → Check out the first step: Choose which contents can be shared and put the license on your contents.
- → Get collaborators and external partners creating contents for your institution involved.
- How many other contents of the institution heritage could you use? (i.e. existing texts or images to be turned in a digital format).
Increase Wikipedians community involvement:
- → Check out Step 2: "Share the contents with Wikipedia" and in particular "get the community involved"
Create a special event to increase the collaboration level among human resources and Wikipedians (i.e. an open meeting where you can discuss how to improve articles and do it live)
- → Get back to Step 2: "Plan an event"

When necessary, get back to the previous steps. authorize the contents use or Share the contents on Wikipedia