Wikipedia:GLAM/Thinktank/Diary

Summary of tasks undertaken.

Note: This page does not list the many internal meetings, provisional discussions with potential collaborators, nor general wiki-gnoming.

Listed by month, in reverse order:

June 2015[edit]

Training event; three attendees. Articles:
- Christopher Wray Lighting works
- Velocette Viceroy
- Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (improved)
- Michael Kaiser (improved)

May 2015[edit]

Wrote Thinktank section of UK's April report for Wikimedia community's monthly GLAM newsletter
Created and populated:
Second editathon, at Birmingham Museum Collection Centre
- New articles:
- Improved:

April 2015[edit]

[Two weeks away]

Spoke about the residency during WikiArabia in Monastir, Tunisia
Categorising image uploads from the first editathon; see commons:Category:Files from 2015 Thinktank residency
Created and populated:
Launched page for our second editathon: Wikipedia:GLAM/Thinktank/Event 2
Set up commons:Category:Files from 2015 Thinktank residency/Reports/index
Wrote Thinktank section of UK's March report for Wikimedia community's monthly GLAM newsletter
Launched regular Wikidata report for Wikimedia community's monthly GLAM newsletter
Article on the Smethwick Engine now in Arabic: ar:محرك سميثويك
More uploads of donated images; and adding metadata to the respective pages
Created and populated:

March 2015[edit]

Wrote Thinktank section of UK's February report for Wikimedia community's monthly GLAM newsletter
Created Commons:Commons:Thinktank, Birmingham
Added accession numbers to Wikipedia (e.g. [1]) and Commons (e.g. [2])
Made commons:Template:Object available as a redirect for commons:Template:Artwork, and added new parameters, to allow museum objects to be better described, with structured metadata, on Commons.
Started upload of donated images (see commons:Category:Images donated by Birmingham Museums Trust) with first 29 pics
Editathon!
- New articles:
- Articles improved:
- New templates:
  - {{Infobox historic engine}}
  - {{Thinktank, Birmingham}}
- New category:
  - Category:Collection of Thinktank, Birmingham
- Articles etc. created in follow-up activity
- Articles etc. improved in follow-up activity
  - Bank of England note issues
  - Cataract (beam engine)
  - Elsecar Heritage Centre
  - Engineering Heritage Awards
  - Fairbottom Bobs
  - Old Bess (beam engine)
  - Resolution (beam engine)
  - Six-column beam engine
  - Soho Manufactory
  - Sun and planet gear
  - Thomas Newcomen
  - Timeline of steam power
  - Watt steam engine
  - Whitbread Engine
  - Template:Steam engine configurations
  - + many more minor edits, links, navboxes & categories added, etc.
Cleanup and further expansion of new & related articles from editathon
Added all new articles from editathon to Wikidata
Cleanup (categories, etc.) of image uploads from editathon
- Created commons:Category:Files from Thinktank editathon 2015-03-07
Marked closure of former coach park (now a construction site) on OpenStreetMap
Cleaned up Wikidata items for the Trust's sister museums.

February 2015[edit]

First training session for eight (8) staff and volunteers.
- Articles:
  - Jigginstown Castle (new)
  - Master of the Annunciation to the Shepherds (new)
  - William Ick (new)
  - Almonry Museum and Heritage Centre (new)
  - Bewdley Museum (new)
  - Weoley Castle (house) (improved)
  - Chad Valley (toy brand) (improved)
  - Rolls-Royce Griffon (improved)
  - British Plant Gall Society (improved)
- Images uploaded:
- Articles created subsequent to training:
  - Minworth Greaves
  - Middle Littleton Tythe Barn
Created Commons:Institution:Museums Collections Centre, Birmingham
Recorded and uploaded audio files of engines
Wrote Thinktank section of UK's January report for Wikimedia community's monthly GLAM newsletter
Made and populated commons:Category:Murray engine (Thinktank)
Made Commons:Template:GLAM Thinktank
First training session for eight (8) staff and volunteers.
- Articles:
  - Thimblemill Library (new)
  - George Edward Hunt (jeweller) (new)
  - Birmingham Museum Collection Centre (new)
  - The Real Junk Food Project (new)
  - Chad Valley (toy brand) (further improvements)
  - Anchor telephone exchange (improved)
  - Longstone Lighthouse (improved)
Took photos of Commons:Category:Curzon Street wall, Birmingham
Received training in the museum's cataloguing system
- Added accession numbers to articles, Wikimedia Commons categories, Wikidata
Created Wikidata items for exhibits, which though significant, have no Wikipedia article (e.g. the Spitfire & Hurricane; tram)
Created Commons:Template:Birmingham Museums Trust accession

January 2015[edit]

Induction
setting up IT, email account, etc.
Started project page
Notified relevant pages, projects & mailing lists
Added coordinates of various features, to Birmingham Corporation Tramways
Preliminary visit to the Museum collection Center (stores)
Created and populated Commons:Category:Collection of Thinktank, Birmingham
Created and populated Commons:Category:Thinktank museum (exterior)
Made Commons:Institution:Thinktank, Birmingham
Arranged upload of over 400 open-licence images from Flickr (thanks, Fæ, Ellrbrown)
- Reviewed and categorised images
Started list articles to write/ improve
Created and populated Commons:Category:Thinktank, Birmingham (Science Garden)
Created and populated Commons:Category:Lanchester petrol-electric car
Created and populated Commons:Category:Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company
Created and populated Commons:Category:Chad Valley toys
Arranged and promoted 7 March editathon