Wikipedia:GLAM/British Museum

Add at top of list. Filled manually - may well be incomplete, especially after about 2015.

2021

1. Lewis Charles Powles

2020

2019

2018

1. Leslie Webster (art historian)
2. Ghisi Shield

2017

1. John Doubleday (restorer)
2. Guilden Morden boar
3. Nicolas Barker

2016

1. Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal
2. Sutton Hoo helmet
3. Nigel Williams (conservator)

2015

1. Icon of the Triumph of Orthodoxy
2. Assyrian lion weights

2014

1. Waddesdon Bequest
2. Kang Hou Gui
3. Benin Pendant Mask
4. George Witt (collector)
5. Buddhapad Hoard
6. Codex Waecker-Gotter
7. Tromsø Burial
8. Lilleberge Viking Burial
9. Strickland Brooch
10. Petelia Gold Tablet
11. Great Torc from Snettisham
12. Lochar Moss Torc
13. Bergamo Treasure
14. Uerdingen Hoard
15. Xanten Horse-Phalerae
16. Bursa Treasure
17. Folkton Drums
18. Breadalbane Brooch
19. Bell Shrine of St. Cuileáin
20. Canterbury Treasure
21. Belluno Treasure
22. Priene Inscription
23. Artres Treasure
24. Sutri Treasure
25. Domagnano Treasure
26. Saint-Denis Crystal
27. Capheaton Treasure
28. Paramythia Hoard
29. Beaurains Treasure
30. Lampsacus Treasure
31. First Cyprus Treasure
32. Carthage Treasure
33. Asclepius of Milos
34. Apollo of Cyrene
35. Vaison Diadumenos
36. Sanchi Yakshi Figure
37. Klang Bell
38. Huixian Bronze Hu
39. Amran Tablets
40. Luzira Head
41. Uruk Trough
42. Reliquary of St. Eustace
43. Seated Luohan from Yixian
44. Meroë Head
45. Amitābha Buddha from Hancui
46. Hamadab Stela
47. Shebna Inscription
48. Orense Torcs
49. Cordoba Treasure
50. Punic-Libyan Inscription
51. Bronze Head of Queen Idia
52. Isis Tomb, Vulci
53. Statue of Idrimi
54. Statue of Ashurnasirpal II
55. Aegina Treasure
56. Satala Aphrodite
57. Wardak Vase
58. Chatuzange Treasure
59. Caubiac Treasure
60. Arcisate Treasure
61. Kulu Vase
62. Sarcophagus of Seianti Hanunia Tlesnasa
63. Oscan Tablet
64. Chaourse Treasure
65. Mâcon Treasure

2013

February to April:

1. Sir Charles Hercules Read ==> DYK in Jan
2. Barber Cup and Crawford Cup in May
3. Borradaile Triptych
4. Wernher Triptych
5. East India House Inscription
6. Kells Crozier
7. Mainz Gladius
8. Braganza Brooch
9. Basse Yutz Flagons (Object No 28) ==> DYK in Nov.
10. Bronze Head from Ife (Object No 63) ==> DYK in Dec
11. Maj. Gen. Sir Robert Murdoch Smith ==> DYK in Dec
12. Lion of Knidos ==> DYK in Dec
13. Demeter of Knidos
14. Thomas Athol Joyce ==> DYK in Dec
15. John Grandisson Triptych ==> DYK in Dec
16. Statue of Tara ==> (Object No 54) DYK in Dec (> 50,000 views. 8-9th highest ever for a DYK)
17. Totem Pole (British Museum)
    ==> DYK in Dec
18. Balawat Gates ==> DYK in Dec
19. Chinese Tang tomb figures
    (Object No 55) ==> DYK in Dec
20. Zemi Figures from Vere, Jamaica
21. Sintra Collar another from Jono Victuallers (talk) 23:32, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
22. Esquiline Treasure
23. Amaravati Marbles Victuallers (talk) 23:09, 22 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Plus improvements to:

1. Franks Casket
2. Richard Popplewell Pullan

British Museum project page

Wikipedia and galleries, libraries, archives, & museums (GLAMs) ought to do more together: they have shared interests in presenting and making historical and cultural information available to the public. This page is intended to help coordinate some experimental metrics systems from Wikipedia that can be useful to GLAMs. In particular, this page shows the outcomes from the Witty lama was the inaugural resident. The June 2010 " Wikipedian in Residence " pilot project is now concluded.

Shakespeare: staging the world

We have been offered a tour of the critically acclaimed major BM exhibition Shakespeare: staging the world on September 13th at 9 a.m, followed by a meeting with a curator. Dora Thornton, the lead curator for the exhibition was able to collect the group after the tour for the editing session.

The tour was organised by Johnbod.

Attendees

• Johnbod (talk) 11:46, 28 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Andrew Gray (talk) 09:36, 3 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Maximiliankleinoclc (talk) 18:13, 27 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• KTo288 (talk) 13:47, 16 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Andrew Davidson (talk) 13:54, 4 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Katherine Bavage (WMUK) (talk) 10:59, 6 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• +3: JL-C, NeilG, FS, Johnbod (talk) 13:32, 7 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Nicholas Garcia (talk) 15:34, 7 September 2012 (UTC) - apologies, flu.[reply]
• Charles Matthews
• +4: SF, AV, AS-L, AW Johnbod (talk) 21:57, 9 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• +3: MC, FA, Johnbod (talk) 16:24, 11 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Smerus (talk) 20:03, 11 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Hasina Khatun (WMUK) (talk) 15:31, 12 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

One of the aims of the tour was to take pictures of the objects that are poorly represented on Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons. The list of target objects was prepared. Some objects where we either have several good photos already, or which are unlikely to ever have their own articles, were omitted. Of course this excludes loaned objects & those not normally on display & is only a fraction of the total number of objects in the exhibition.

Shakespeare photos needed

This list was originally prepared, although when the objects went into the public exhibition it was not possible to photograph them any more.

• There didn't seem to be enough time to fully digest the exhibition but the excellent breakfast in the staff canteen certainly hit the spot. I plan to have a go at some particular exhibits but, for now, have made a start on umbrella articles for the main topic:

• Shakespeare: Staging the World
• World Shakespeare Festival

Andrew Davidson (talk) 16:50, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Thanks! I've started Blacas Cameo and we talked in particular about doing the Robben Island Bible and the early attempts at a British flag - not sure how to title that. Johnbod (talk) 23:00, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

To do

Articles with {{citation needed}} tags:

Articles with dead links:

• Wikipedia:GLAM/BM/Ice Age Event - October 13, 2011

Featured

• Holy Thorn Reliquary

Good Articles

Did you knows

Joseph and Potiphar's Wife (etching)

Other articles created

• Backstage Pass tour (see Results of the day)
• Feature Article Prize - 5x£100 giftshop voucher prize for new Featured Articles
  related to BM collection in any language. See link for details, including the winners.
• One on one collaborations
  - for where individual Wikipedians are working with curators on a particular topic.
• Photos requested
  listings
• "
  Hoxne challenge
  " - project to focus effort on one article with all resources made available
• School translations project - project to have high school students in France translate the opening section of high importance articles, before coming to visit the museum
• A History of the World in 100 Objects - crowdsourcing the creation of articles about each object in the list before its appearance on the BBC radio series of the same name.
• In-house presentations/training (ongoing):
  • Wikimedia presentations given to departments of: Asia; Greece & Rome; Prints & Drawings; Prehistory & Europe; Portable Antiquities;...
  • Other discussions held with: Legal department (re. copyright); British Museum Company (image sales & shop) (re.commercial re-use of WP content); Community outreach department (re. engagement with digital visitors); IT department (re. MediaWiki)...
  • Visits to other institutions: The
    Nordiska Museet and industry workshop, Stockholm[2]
    ;...

• Cohen, Noam (4 June 2010), "Venerable British Museum Enlists in the Wikipedia Revolution", New York Times
• Nat Torkington, Oreilley Radar, 12 March Four short links
• Paul Reynolds on "Afternoons with Jim Mora" Radio New Zealand [3]
• NMDC June mailout, headline notice, "British Museum appoints first 'volunteer Wikipedian in residence'"[4]
• Cohen, Noam (11 July 2010), "How Can Wikipedia Grow? Maybe in Bengali", New York Times

Blogposts

Featured

Hoxne Hoard – featured on the main page on 16 November 2010 57,400 views

Lindow Man – featured on 26 December 2010, 47,600 views

Royal Gold Cup – featured on 10 July 2010, 13,400 views (incomplete stats)

Rosetta Stone – featured on 14 September 2010, 100,000 views

Sweet Track – featured on 3 June 2012, 43,000 views

Good Articles

Burney Relief

Gebelein predynastic mummies

Parthenon Frieze

Seax of Beagnoth

Book of the Dead

Cyrus Cylinder

Current candidates:

Did you knows

Other articles created

Other

• Improvement of all articles in "high importance/stub quality"
• Links back from the British Museum catalogue to Feature articles [27][28]
• Two Wikipedians working on-site to improve articles with the Asia and Prints departments respectively.
• Hundreds of images added from the Portable Antiquities Scheme pictures added here i.e. where license allows.
• Webcitation reports 741% increase in traffic for A History of the World in 100 Objects ... oh and 1,500,000 % traffic increase for another BM article

Qualitative

British Museum-related articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	1	4	4	10		1	20
GA		4	7	5			16
B	3	12	9	8		1	33
C	1	19	49	34		9	112
Start	1	20	70	155		22	268
Stub			4	37		7	48
List			2	3		3	8
Disambig					2		2
NA			1	3	42		46
Assessed	6	59	146	255	44	43	553
Unassessed						2	2
Total	6	59	146	255	44	45	555
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 2,207			Ω = 4.44

One goal of this experimental project is to use a WikiProject-tag-like system via the template {{BM-related}} to generate an assessment matrix for British Museum-related articles as known through Wikipedia's category for the British Museum. To prevent problems associated with conflict of interest (since these metrics are intended for people at the museum), subcategories for people employed at the museum are excluded.

Quantitative

Note: To make a more readable graph, "pageviews" have been dropped down by two orders of magnitude. This now clearly shows an average ratio of pageviews to clickthroughs of 100:1.

This data is generated using the Treeview tool. This combines the pageviews for articles in any given category/categories into a total number. For some months the data did not fully compile and has been extrapolated. The specific search criteria being tracked as the main measurement is listed as one of the two example searches for the tool. Specifically, this is en.wp only, searching Category:British Museum with all subcategories, but excluding the subcategories "British Museum directors", "Employees of the British Museum" and "Trustees of the British Museum". This matches the criteria used in the qualitative measurement. When running the same script across all languages the numbers for May increase to 586 919 [29].

Before the assessment of all British Museum related articles (see "qualitative") many articles were not listed in British Museum categories. As a result of this comprehensive assessment many new BM related articles were discovered, added to the categories and therefore counted in the quantitative survey. The results gave a significant increase in pageviews reported. For example, under the initial schema the combined pageviews for March 2010 were thought to be 350,340. After the comprehensive survey this figure increased to 513,049 - an increase of 32%

June 2010

June 2010 is the month during which the "Wikipedian in Residence" project took place. Due to continued focus on many BM-related articles and the creation and DYK featuring of a dozen new articles, this month represents the single largest month of organically generated pageviews and clickthroughs (only beaten by the abberation of the release of the

September 2010

The Treeview figures have been typically of the order of 500,000 each month although Augusts is missing. The figure for September (on the 28th) was 789 808. That is 50% or so up on the summer figures. (It could be seen as double the March figure previously reported, but if that is remeasured using today's categories then its figure is also now c. 500,000) Victuallers (talk) 08:46, 28 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Multimedia

• Commons:Category:British Museum has 3194 images of which 1355 are in use (as of August 2010)[30]
• These images are used in 1,114 pages in the English language edition of which the most viewed is "England" (which uses two images). All pages with BM related images were viewed 14,617,720 times on the English language edition in May 2010 and 23,083,071 over all languages.[31]
• The individual images most used are File:Greek_pottery.png (2,240 times) and File:Cameo August BM Gem3577.jpg (1,260 times) - both used in templates.

• Redlink suggestions using highlights,
  Copper Bull (Ubaid)[33], Kurlil statue (Ubaid)[34], Stelae of Nabonidus[35]
  ...
• {{British-Museum-stub}} was deleted after discussion at Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion/Log/2011/January/3, follow-up may be needed to check on any tidy-up or to challenge the deletion discussion (which only had one opinion expressed).