GLAM/Case studies/Archived/Archives of American Art
From May to October 2011, Wikipedian and George Washington University Museum Studies Masters student Sarah Stierch served as Wikipedian-in-Residence at the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art. Stierch was the first Wikipedian-in-Residence at the Smithsonian Institution and received college internship credits for her work.
Galleries • Libraries • Archives • Museums
Get Started • Model Projects and Case Studies • Evaluating Projects • Contact Us
For the GLAM-Wiki Community: Connect • Discussion • Calendar • Newsletter • Resources • Volunteers • Other pages
This page includes resources for each of the completed projects that took place in the period of the Archives's Wikipedian in Residence collaboration.
Project successes edit
- The project started with 538 articles related to the Archives of American Art. To date, the project now has 601 articles related to the Archives.
- These articles were viewed 6,018,450 times between May and October 2011. (Compared with 4,096,588 last year during that time.)
- The most viewed article is Jackson Pollock.
- Compare the starting project statistics here.
- Wikipedia serves as the second most popular direct back to the Archives of American Art, behind Stumble Upon.
- Between May and October 2011 Wikipedia brought 16,929 hits to the AAA website (up 15.6% from 2010), with an average visit time of 2:16 minutes (up 10% from 2010). These visitors viewed on average 3.16 pages during their visits, and 75% of the visitors were new to the website.
- The most popular Wikipedia page that delivered visitors to the AAA website is Sam Wagstaff, followed by Wayne Thiebaud, and Erwin Panofsky.
- 36 new English articles were created utilizing Archives resources.
- 14 English articles translated into Spanish.
- 2 articles translated into French.
- 2 articles translated into Catalan.
- 12 English articles were expanded.
- 2 articles was expanded in Spanish.
- 5 articles were featured on the front page as "Do You Knows...?"
- 1 article was awarded Good Article status.
- 256 high resolution photographs were donated by the Archives to Wikimedia Commons.
- 4 documents were transcribed for WikiSource.
- 39 E-Volunteers participated in the project.
- 3 staff members participated as Wikipedians in the project.
Specific Archives of American Art case studies edit
- A collaboration between the Wikipedian-in-Residence and archivists to handpick image collections and work with Wikimedian e-volunteers to upload them to Commons.
- The Archives worked directly with regional Wikimedians who visited the Archives and worked with digital and offline collections to create and expand content about subjects related to the Archives holdings.
- E-volunteer Wikimedians remain an essential part of increasing content on Wikimedia projects related to the Archives holdings.
- The methods that the Wikipedian-in-Residence carried out to slowly build enthusiasm among staff in order to establish a long-term relationship with and understanding of Wikimedia.