GLAMportals/Events/Example
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Events
- Participation in Wikimedia NYC edit-a-thons and hack-a-thons
- Wikipedia Asian Month Edit-a-thon @ The Met, held at Uris Center on November 19, 2017
- Metropolitan Museum of Art Edit-a-thon: Met Open Access Initiative, held at Watson Library on May 21, 2017
- Met Open Access Artworks Challenge, held globally online from May 15 - June 30, 2017
- Met staff workshops with Wikimedians to increase their awareness and use of Met resources in article-writing
- Met Weekly Challenge, seven-day collaborations with Wikipedians, starting September 2017
- Open Access Anniversary Event @ The Met, held at Uris Center on February 13, 2018
- Category:Metropolitan Museum of Art meetups, most recently the virtual MetFashion II on September 26, 2020
Global campaigns
- Partner for online edit-a-thons in multiple languages with groups like Women in Red, Wikipedia Asian Month, and Art+Feminism.
Content development
- Curator-Wikimedian collaborations on selected artworks in the Met collection (e.g. Armor of Ferdinand I, Mérode Altarpiece.)
- Encouragement of Wikipedia articles on individual artworks and art genres by broader community
- Artwork metadata donation and further amplification on Wikidata, for Wikimedia and The Met shared use (try a visual query!)
- The sharing and use of Met multimedia on Commons, increasing visibility and utilization of collections throughout Wikimedia
- Development of the {{Mbabel}} specialized tool to enable new models of volunteer participation
Create an event
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How to use the tool?
Since this tool is built as a gadget, you need to enable this tool in your gadget preferences
- Go to Preferences
- Go to Gadgets Tab
- Scroll down to Browsing gadgets
- Look for campaignEventPages
- Check the box, then click Save
- Using mobile or prefer to create your event page the old fashioned way? Enter the title of your event in the box below.