Wikipedia:GLAM/Connect

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GLAM Connect is a space where cultural professionals can find Wikimedians who can assist with GLAM-WIKI partnerships. Cultural professionals: Browse the below sections to see who might be the best fit for your project. Wikimedians: Sign up in the sections that relate to your interests or help by creating an information page for your country.

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Additional ways to connect

Join the GLAM mailing list for the United States, GLAM-US.
Contact glamwikimedia.org to start planning your organization's Wikipedia engagement.
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Read the online newsletter, This Month in GLAM.

Monthly GLAMout

Join the monthly video-chat: the GLAMout, May 3, 2013.

Before you start

Looking for basic information? See GLAM:About.
Don't have a project in mind yet? See GLAM:Contribute
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Information by country

We encourage cultural professionals to see what resources are available in your country. This list will connect you with:

WikiProjects (and Wikipedia volunteers) associated with your country
Local organizations who have carried out partnerships
Local Wikipedia Campus Ambassadors (student volunteers)

Online Volunteers

The following Wikimedians are willing to assist with coordinating cooperative projects online, either leading in a project or offering various support (basic questions, template creation, upload and category management, WikiProject maintenance.)

For general questions, you can join new editors and friendly hosts in the Teahouse.
Teahouse is a forum to ask questions about editing Wikipedia and a space to get support from peers and experienced editors.

Username	Skills	Interests
Preston Stone (Email)	Technical/web development, project planning, copy editing	American literature, poetry, science history, American history, classical languages
PKM (talk) (Email)	WikiProject setup, project and Commons templates, light image manipulation, categorization, research, citations.	Textiles, costume, Elizabethan England, Pre-Raphaelites, illustration, typography, Arthuriana
Nyttend (talk) (Email)	See the outreach volunteers section above.	See the outreach volunteers section above.
[majestic titan] (email )	Just about anything on-wiki.	Naval history, especially in the early 20th century; the Second World War; the Roman Empire; other miscellaneous things.
Werdna (email)	Apparently I know things about putting the word out to specific regions with geo-targetted watchlist notices.	I work with the Wikimedia Foundation doing techy things.
Sadads(email)	I have done a lot of stuff, but taking a break from off-wiki stuff, but more than willing to respond to emails and content requests :)	Historian and Literary critic by training, Wikipedia contributions have been in almost every field but computer science and hard sciences, particularly enjoy working with literary criticism, literature and odd historical phenomena on wiki. I have helped with several GLAMs in the past on getting their content up :)
Another Believer (email!)	Categorization, citations, Commons, content creation (articles, DYK, lists, portals, templates), research, WikiProject construction and maintenance, etc.	Architecture, current events, local history, monuments, music, National Register of Historic Places, parks, performing arts, politics, public art, science, etc.

Note: This list is US-focused. For information on global volunteers and projects see...

Wikimedia volunteers global list
GLAM Contact Page, global list of Wikipedians, by continent

Institutional contacts

The following is a list of institutional contacts willing to answer questions about their work with Wikipedia. If you are a GLAM professional that has worked closely with Wikipedia and would be willing to be contacted by prospective GLAM partners, please add yourself to the list below!

Organization	Name	Title	Contact information
United States National Archives and Records Administration	Pamela Wright	Chief Digital Access Strategist and interim Social Media Manager	socialmedianara.gov
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis	Angie McNew	Director of Web & Emerging Media	angelamchildrensmuseum.org (Email)
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution	Sara Snyder	Webmaster	snyderssi.edu
The Walters Art Museum	Dylan Kinnett	Manager of Web and Social Media	dkinnettthewalters.org
OCLC Research	Merrilee Proffitt	Senior Program Officer	proffitmoclc.org
Israel Museum, Jerusalem	Allison Kupietzky	Collections Database Manager	allisonimj.org.il
Ladd Observatory, Brown University Department of Physics	Michael Umbricht	Observatory Curator	michael_umbrichtbrown.edu

Professional organizations

The US Professional Organizations Contacts
page lists national, regional, and state-based organizations within the USA that already have a contact with the GLAM-Wiki community. If your professional organization has a listed contact, we encourage you to reach out to that individual. If you are interested in being a contact, please add yourself to the list. Professional Organizations Contacts

For GLAM projects worldwide, many of which are based around partnerships with GLAM professional organisations, see Wikipedia:GLAM/Projects.

Further Resources

Looking for Basic Information?

Learn about current projects with the GLAM One-Pager.

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Looking to Contribute?

Learn about the ways you can contribute.

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Looking for Resources?

Find resources that you can use to get started on a project.

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