Wikipedia:GLAM/Lincoln

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.

Living Heritage Tikaka Tūku Iho, Lincoln's repository of publications, images, video, and news.
- The Ron Blackmore collection (3000 photographs taken by the university's Visual Aids Officer 1947–1966).
Research@Lincoln, an open-access repository of Lincoln research papers and theses, with permalinks
Data@Lincoln, a collection of data, figures, and images used in publications
Te Ara biographies, e.g. Malcolm Burns

Presentations to staff

Wikipedia as an outreach tool: talk for Lincoln staff (see outline here).
Mon 9 Dec, 12:00–1:00, Ivey building L114.
Introduction to Wikidata: workshop for library staff (University of Canterbury to be invited).
Thu 12 Dec, 1:30–4:00, Ivey Building L206.

Goals

Begin a partnership with the Christchurch Wikipedia community (done): see Buildings photography volunteers
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)

Media

Lincoln University. (4 December 2019). "Wikipedian in Residence first for Southern Hemisphere university" Lincoln University News and Events.

Lincoln University

Created a Commons Institution template for Lincoln
New Wikidata item for Ruth Burns (Q76486240), and improved Malcolm Burns (Q6742505). Uploaded photos of both to Wikidata and created new Commons categories Ruth Burns and Malcolm Burns
Created Ruth Burns Court (Q76673521) and Joan O'Loughlin (Q77978807)

Ruth Burns
Ruth Burns in 1993
Malcolm Burns in 1952
Malcolm Burns in 1950s
Ruth Burns Court

Lincoln University buildings

Created/improved Wikidata items and Commons categories for main campus buildings:

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.

Young Farmers Club Hall by User:Schwede66
Hudson Hall by User:Podzemnik
The Lodge by User:Schwede66
Forbes Building by User:Podzemnik
Ivey Hall shield by User:Podzemnik

Trees of Lincoln University

Created publications Lincoln University campus – a guide to some of the trees currently growing there (Q76545713) and Some Trees at Lincoln College (Q76487673)
Created a Cradle template for individual trees, with 26 properties
Added the individual trees Lincoln University sugar maple (1958) (Q76575957), Lincoln University scarlet oak (1976) (Q76575183), Lincoln University mulberry (1974) (Q76574776), Lincoln University McAlpine cedar (1984) (Q76573415), Lincoln University tulip tree (West) (Q76659920), and Lincoln University California walnut (1954) (Q76570270); these are likely the best-documented individual trees on Wikidata
Photographed them and added them to a new category, Trees of Lincoln University, New Zealand

Sugar maple (1958)
Scarlet oak (1976)
Mulberry (1974)
Golden cedar (1984)
Tulip tree (1961)
California walnut (1954)

Lincoln University Art Collection

Created item for Lincoln University Art Collection (Q76758407) and wrote the article Lincoln University Art Collection
Nominated the article for Did You Know? on Wikipedia's main page
Began photographing or locating already-existing photographs of artworks; these had to be available under NZ Copyright Act (1994) Freedom of Panorama provisions (sculptures permanently mounted in a public place), or in the public domain; added them to Category:Lincoln University Art Collection
Worked with other Wikipedians to create Wikidata items for the works Joy of Living (Q77980583) Jug-Skin Fence (Q78013878), Oversight (Q78218638), and Te Paepaetapu a Rakaihautu (Q78232394) (this could and should be done for the entire art collection, whether the works have photos in Commons or not)

Te Paepaetapu a Rakaihautu (1997), Chris Booth
Joy of Living (1992), Llew Summers
Jug-Skin Fence (2009), Cheryl Lucas
H₂O (2005), Neil Dawson
Overview (2013), Graham Bennett

Lincoln University Entomology Research Collection

Created or improved Wikidata items for people connected with the Entomology Department:

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.

A. D. Lowe
Bruce Chapman
Lewis Morrison
Chuck Hoyt and Susan Timms
Entomological Society 21st anniversary
Graham Osborne
Hirofumi Hayakawa
Pat Campbell
1980 Fiordland field trip
Roy Harrison
Rowan Emberson
Peter Pottinger
John Waller
Rodger Welsh
Karen Armstrong
Carol Muir
David Ferro

Created reference The Department of Entomology Lincoln University (1st ed.) (Q77036317) by Marnie Barrell (Q77035693)
Created articles for four holotypes in the Lincoln collections: Anoteropsis cantuaria, Creophilus rekohuensis, Coptomma marrisi, and Amychus manawatawhi (and improved the corresponding Wikidata items)
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.

Anoteropsis cantuaria
Creophilus rekohuensis
Amychus manawatawhi
Coptomma marrisi

Created Wikidata item Lincoln University Entomology Research Collection (Q22110609) and the article Lincoln University Entomology Research Collection
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.

Ron Blackmore photos

Created Ronald Charles Blackmore (Q77858144)
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.

1962 Degree 2 class
Bulk lime spreader
Harrowing a field (1948)
Best Corriedale Ram Hogget in Show (1947)
Lord Bledisloe visits

Photos were used to illustrate Wikipedia articles on agricultural lime, fertilizer, wheat, barley, disc harrow, List of agricultural machinery, and seed drill, which together have about 70,000 readers a month. All these articles need substantial improvement and would be good Wikipedia assignments to set Lincoln students.
Improved Wikidata, article, and added image for Thomas William Walker (Q7795172)

Baseline (2019-11-26)

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.
Lincoln University (Q1048626) had 14 identifiers and 12 properties (and was using the wrong logo)
Category:Lincoln University had 14 images, most just of one earthquake-damaged building
41 Wikipedia pages cited sources from at Research@Lincoln, and 13 linked to content at Living Heritage (source: Deborah Fitchett)