Viquiprojecte:BMVB/fase2

Context

Our first contact with the Wiki World was in 2011. After a workshop in Museu Picasso where Àlex Hinojo was explaining his experience as a Wikipedian in Residence, we invited him to see our museum and explore our possibilities. We drafted a wikiproject to develop the wiki side of our museums, the Biblioteca Museu Víctor Balaguer and also to introduce 50 artworks usually on display on the main hall of our museum. With a selection of the best paintings and some sculptures, we thought we could give a general idea of what was our XIX century museum about. That was our first step.

We could notice at once how important it was to be present in Wikipedia: we started to receive new information about the artworks and we could see how many things were translated to other languages by users. It was like the pieces included in Wikimedia Commons just had made their appearance into the world.

Unfortunately everything remained like this for a long period, because we are a very small team, so we had no time to be working more hours to increase our Wikipedia project.

Until September 2013, when 3 different young students choosed our museum to do their practical work (without scholarship). They asked me what kind of work related to the Museum and its collections could be suitable for them. This was the chance. One came from a Museology Master Degree of Barcelona University. She wanted to put QR in the halls (but we had no Wifi, because we have no money to invest on technology improvements anywhere). The other one had already finished her studies in Humanities but had no proper job, so she wanted to be useful in her hometown museum. The third one is still studying Art History. For me it was clear: open more windows in Wikipedia. So I persuaded all three of them to concentrate all the energy in this project. Fortunately they beleived in the project. And they have really made a team.

Goals

Main purpose: Collections on line

Our web site is very simple. We can not afford a proper data base on it. Our economical situation is so terrible now that we have less team than 2011 (we have lost two members of technical staff), less budget, and no temporary exhibition program. So we can just work with a free environment as Wikipedia and with voluntary staff. So, we just can take advantage of all the work done during the last decades over the collections and the documents related. Now it is time to make it public and easy accessible.

How we did it

We started all together (Museum staff, Amical Wikipedia and the students) writing down the first easy aims to achieve of the wikipedia project: upload to Wikimedia Commons all the pictures from the objects in the permanent exhbition area. Starting by art. Afterwards, we made a list of all the authors in the collection, they filled all the missing ones, and they linked all that was possible with the ones that had already an article. They are also observing the evolution of all our pieces, if they have been used to illustrate any other articles, if they have been captured by Wikipedia from other countries, and trying to fill all the gaps.

To do so, they come to our offices at least 4 times a week. They have a computer for everyone -although our Internet connection is not working as fast as they wish-. We have a weekley meeting - with directon and 2 curators- to interchange impressions, study pros and cons, and help them to keep on if they have any problem with contents. And once a month the Amical Wikipedia coordinator, Àlex Hinojo, comes to the Museum, so we can also solve technical problems, and follow the advise over Wikipedia performance.

Now we are going further on. We are choosing different plays to make every one write a Featured Article. That would mean for them a kind of more serious research in some of our artworks and their history.

3 Wikipedians are better than 1

Marina Padilla, a student of 4th degree in Art, Montse Medina, a master student in Museology, and Elisenda Almirall, who have recently completed a Master in Comparative Studies of Art, Literature, and Philosophy, are three residents Wikipedians in the Víctor Balaguer Museum.

By different ways, we arrived in the Museum, where we could speak with the director, Mireia Rosich, who appointed us in this project. Even if we had no idea of how it would be developed, we soon realized that becoming part of that was very interesting. We've had the opportunity to work directly with the background information and the artworks displayed and we also have learned a lot from our practice in museum studies: for example, we've known the daily life of a cultural institution or we've been shown documentation that was only available to very few people.

We believe that there are different factors that have influenced our growing motivation for this project:

• First of all, being three wikipedans than only one. Often the task of wikipedian is autonomous and solitary but sharing information is interesting and enriching to realize that the opinion and knowledge of the others may be rewarding for an article. Moreover, working as a team allowed us to apply the philosophy of Wikipedia: Thanks to the collaboration of everybody we all can create a free encyclopedia, everyone can improve it and any kind of help is welcome. What's more, working together has facilitated the sharing of the tools we achieve and we use, so that has been useful to increase our view of each of the stages of the process.

• Another key to success is the opportunity of working beside technicians who have welcomed us with open arms. We have received from every one of the department all the support and help not only sharing their knowledge with us, which is very important, but also taking care of us on a personal level. We thank Mar and Ignasi for all the moments they've been teaching us the programs or answering the different questions we had as well as the cakes and sweets that they have brought us for breakfast. The atmosphere of comradeship they created is an essential part of the success.

• Finally, the support we've received from Amical Wikipedia and the wikipedian community is another factor we need to highlight. There are hundreds of questions that appear when you're rookie and while you're surfing the information sea, where everything is connected, where everything can be a window which connects you with lots of concepts.

Program evaluation

• Reach
• Press
• Content
• Results

Stats

Actualment, el 2013 el Museu i Amical Wikimedia han fet un pas més enllà i inicien un nou projecte, encaminat a continuar posant a l'abast de la societat coneixement lliure sobre la col·lecció del museu. És per això que durant els propers mesos el museu comptarà amb l'ajuda de 3 viquipedistes residents que ajudaran a dinamitzar aquesta tasca.

Avui, 30 d'abril del 2024, la Viquipèdia en català té:

Objectius

1. Col·leccions en línia
   1. Wiki: Incloure a la wiki l'obra exposada al museu.
   2. Commons: Pintura de la pinacoteca (Llegat Balaguer) pendent de penjar i afegir tags.
   3. Commons: pintura del llegat-56 (col·lecció Plandiura) de tots els autors en domini públic i tags.
2. Wiki: Crear i/o ampliar entrada dels pintors amb obra a la col·lecció (prioritzant vilanovins)
3. Wiki: Crear i/o ampliar entrada de les obres destacades de la col·lecció (p.ex: Obra de Susterman)
4. Commons: Escultura exposada al Museu
5. Commons: Resta de col·leccions: Egipte, Filipines, Pre-colombí, oriental, ceràmica, vidre, arqueologia
6. Commons: Incloure col·leccions que estan desades a les reserves (pintura, escultura, altres...)
7. Wiki: Buidatges dels butlletins de la Biblioteca per referenciar articles

Coordinació

• Museu Víctor Balaguer: Mireia Rosich (cordinació projecte)
• Museu Víctor Balaguer: Mar Pérez i Ignasi Soler (ignasi82) (coordinació viquipedistes)
• Amical Wikimedia: Kippelboy

Viquipedistes residents

• Elisenda Almirall Fuster (elaf) (1988) de Vilanova i la Geltrú. Graduada en Humanitats: amb menció en Cultura Contemporània, per la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Màster en Estudis Comparatius d’Art, Literatura i Pensament (en modalitat recerca) a la Pompeu Fabra i Màster en Formació de Professorat d’ESO, Batxillerat i Cicles Formatius a la Universitat Internacional de la Rioja. Amb ganes d’aprendre i deixar-me sorprendre pel món dels museus i totes les noves propostes de difusió del Coneixement i l’Art.

• Montse Medina Binimelis (Montsemedina) (Barcelona, 1990) . Graduada en Història per la Universitat Rovira i Virgili, especialitzada en Història i Política de les Societats Contemporànies. Actualment estudiant de segon curs del Màster en Gestió del Patrimoni Cultural. M'interessa tot el relacionat amb l'art contemporani, la comunicació cultural i polítiques culturals. Al meu blog, montsemedinab.wordpress.com vaig escrivint sobre tots aquests temes.

• Marina Padilla Duran (Radiokul). (Mallorca, 1990). Cursant 4rt del Grau de Història de l'art a la Universitat de Barcelona. Interessada en l'art en general però sobre tot en la seva disciplina d'arts visuals.

Altres participants

• Jordiperez1977

Calendari

• 12/11/2013 - Reunió de formació amb Viquipedistes residents
• 14/11/2013 - Penjades a Commons tota la pintura exposada a la Sala Pinacoteca
• 15/11/2013 - Creació de llistat d'artistes amb obra al museu
• 15/11/2013 - Nova versió de viquiprojecte
• 17/11/2013 - Definició d'objectius del projecte
• 22/11/2013 - Penjades a Commons tota la pintura exposada, d'autors dels quals han expirat els drets d'autors, de l'anomenat "Llegat 56"

Programats:

• 12/12/2013 - Reunió de seguiment: Avaluació prèvia, dubtes tècnics, generació d'estadístiques, com incorporar-ho al web del museu.

Feina a fer

Artistes amb obra al museu

• Llista d'artistes amb obra al Museu Víctor Balaguer

Artistes vilanovins

• Carles Albet Olivella, Pere Brull Carreras, Joaquim Budesca Català, Joaquim de Cabanyes i Ballester, Josep Antoni Cabanyes i Ballester, LLorenç de Cabanyes i d'Olzinelles, Alexandre de Cabanyes i Marquès, Joan Calvet Ràfols, Pau Carbonell, Armand Cardona Torrandell, Agustí Claramunt Martínez, Manuel Cusí Ferret, Oscar Estruga, Joan Ferrer i Miró, Francesc Fontanals i Rovirosa, Josep Gargallo Guerrero, Alexandre de Grau Figueras, M. Hurtodó, F. Ibern, Joan Juncosa Morlans, Joan Llaverias i Labró, Ramon Lopez Redondo, Salvador Masana i Mercadé, Joaquim Mir Trinxet, Gaspar Miró i Lleó, Iu Pascual Rodés, Pedro Durán, Bonaventura Pollés Vivó, Salvador Pujadas Casellas, Josep Francesc Ràfols i Fontanals, Josep Lluís Ràfols i Gassó, Enric Cristòfor Ricart i Nin, Pau Roig Estradé, Rafael Sala Marco, Josep Salvany Juncosa, Josep Sugrañes Florit, Manuel Tomàs Bertran, Damià Torrents Brunet, Martí Joan Torrents Brunet, Alfons Vinyals i Roig.

Estadístiques

Global

Concepte	Inici	Novembre	Desembre	Gener14	Abril14	Juny14	Set14
Generals	8	12	13	14	14	14	16
Quadres	62	62	62	63	63	63	63
Pintors vilanovins	7	26	26	27	27	27	27
Impressions	-	178.756	175.917	419.846	653.745

2014

Wikimedia Commons	Source	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	2014
Uploaded files	[1]	281	292	292	292	293	294	296	298
Distinct images used	[2]	141	150	150	151	151	151	150	150
Total image usages	[3]	421	453	455	458	460	461	463	465
Impressions	[4]	419.846	631.322	754.393	653.345

Imatges més populars

Per usos (set14)

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Per visualitzacions (gen14)

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Bibliografia

• MESTRES, Francesc X. Puig Rovira amb la col·laboració de Judith Barbacil. Diccionari biogràfic de Vilanova i la Geltrú : dones i homes que han fet història. Vilanova i la Geltrú: Ajuntament de Vilanova i la Geltrú, 2003.
• OSSORIO Y BERNARD, Manuel. Galeria biográfica de artistas españoles del siglo XIX. Madrid: Ediciones Giner, 1975. ISBN: 84-7273-084-0.
• TRULLÉN, Josep Maria. Bibliotea Museu Víctor Balaguer. Guia de les col·leccions del museu. Vilanova i la Geltrú: Organisme Autònom Biblioteca Museu Víctor Balaguer, 2001.

Cobertura de premsa

• 13 de desembre: La Viquipèdia, per ser al món, Diari de Vilanova
• 5 de desembre De lectora a editora en un clic, Amical Wikimedia Blog